nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: malar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪlə/ 1. The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
Word: malic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French malique, from Latin mālum. Pronunciation: /ˈmælɪk/ 1. Pertaining to apples. Labels: not-comparable Example: The fruit tastes very tart and has a green apple/malic flavor that is more pronounced than any berry type flavors. 2. Of or pertaining to malic acid or its derivatives. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Nichole Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Nicole. 2. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Nicholas.
Word: malkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malde, an early form of Maude or Matilda + -kin (diminutive ending). Compare grimalkin. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːlkɪn/ 1. A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Labels: archaic, regional Example: Ȝe ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth. You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than Malkin from her maidenhood, which no man desires. Example: We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.] 2. A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven. Labels: regional Example: "She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one Peter Grospetter, whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his Maulkin (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath." 3. A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon. Labels: obsolete 4. A scarecrow. Labels: archaic, regional Example: [A] straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.] 5. A cat. Labels: archaic Example: Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her malkins. 6. A hare. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.
Word: malversation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari (“behave badly”). Compare Spanish malversación (“embezzlement”). Pronunciation: /mælvəˈseɪʃən/ 1. Corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the euyl exempil of ther maluersatione prouokyt the pepil til adhere to vice & to detest vertu. Example: The Decreet was for Sallary, and it was offered to be proven, that Rue (for his Malverſation) was by warrand from General Monk, excluded from Collection that year.
Word: marginalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English marginal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English marginalize From marginal + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz/, /ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/ 1. To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise. Labels: transitive Example: The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised. 2. To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution. Example: Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.
Word: mammetry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mawmetrie, from Anglo-Norman maumeterie, a reduced form of mahumetterie (“idolatry, heathendom”), from Mahumet (“Muhammad”), ultimately from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (see Muhammad for more). Equivalent to mammet + -ry. Pronunciation: /ˈmæmɪtɹi/ 1. The religion of Muhammad: Islam. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 2. Idolatry; paganism. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: mammothrept Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin mammothreptus (“kept at the breast too long”), from Koine Greek μαμμόθρεπτος (mammóthreptos, “brought up by one’s grandmother”), from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē, “grandmother”) + θρεπτός (threptós) verbal adjective from τρέφω (tréphō, “to bring up”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaməθɹɛpt/ 1. A spoiled child. Labels: archaic Example: O, you are a meere mammothrept in judgement, then. Why, doe you not obserue how excellently the dittie is affected in euerie place? Example: She concludes, "you better apologize." The day I apologize to you, you contumacious mammothrept, there will be two moons in the sky.
Word: dissolving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dissolve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dissolving Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something dissolves. Example: For example, the only manifestation of solubility is dissolving, and being immersed in liquid is its only circumstances of manifestation. Perhaps there are some differences between particular immersions or dissolvings, but they must be similar enough […]
Word: mancia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mancia. Pronunciation: /ˈmænt͡ʃə/ 1. tip, gratuity Example: Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip. Example: We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. ‘That is too much. A mancia of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia.’ ‘You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia.’ Neither of them thought that funny.
Word: carrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of carol (“small closet or enclosure”), from Middle English carole (“round dance with singing; group of people dancing and singing in a circle; circular thing; braid, chain (?); stall for study or writing; writing table; etc.”) (possibly referring to the fact that the item encloses or surrounds the person using it): see further at carol. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəl/, /ˈkɛɹəl/ 1. Alternative spelling of carol (“a small closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a monastery's cloister, to sit in for study”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: And in every wyndowe iij Pewes or Carrells, where every one of the old Monks had his carrell, severall by himselfe, that, when they had dyned, they dyd resorte to that place of Cloister and there studyed upon there books, every one in his carrell, all the after nonne, unto evensong tyme. […] All there pewes or carrells was all fynely wainscotted and verie close, all but the forepart which had carved wourke that gave light in at ther carrell doures of wainscott. And in every carrell was a deske to lye there bookes on. Example: Carol, or Carrel. A little pew, or closet, in a cloister, to sit and read in. They were common in greater monasteries, as Duram, Gloucester, Kirkham in Yorkshire, &c.; and had their name from the carols, or sentences inscribed on the walls about them, which often were couplets in rhyme. [Carola, Low Latin.] 2. A partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library. Labels: broadly Example: Near-synonym: cubicle (sometimes synonymous) Example: He was busy writing his report in a small library carrel.
Word: carrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably borrowed from Middle French carrelé (“type of fabric”), probably from carrelé (“having checks”), an adjective use of the past participle of carreler (“to pave; to tile”) (modern French carreler), from carrel + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Carrel is a variant of carreau (“square; tile”), from Old French quarel (“square block of stone”), from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Latin quadrus (“square”, adjective), probably from quattuor (“four”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”)) + -us (suffix forming adjectives). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəl/, /ˈkɛɹəl/ 1. A type of fabric used in the 16th and 17th centuries. Labels: obsolete
Word: carrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a variant of quarrel. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəl/, /ˈkɛɹəl/ 1. Synonym of quarrel (“a square-headed arrow”). Labels: obsolete
Word: manometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French manomètre, formed from Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + μέτρον (métron), equivalent to mano- + -meter. Pronunciation: /məˈnɒmɪtə/, /məˈnɑmɪtɚ/, /məˈnɑmədəɹ/ 1. An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids. Example: As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined […] Example: Pökler helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.
Word: under the weather Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under the weather bow (“affected by bad weather; seasick”); weather bow is a nautical term referring to the side of a ship exposed to bad weather. Pronunciation: /ˈʌndə ðə ˈwɛðə/, /ˈʌndɚ ðə ˈwɛðɚ/ 1. ill or gloomy, especially from a cold or flu. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: […] I met a stranger, a quiet little man, who also had been under the weather from malaria. 2. Somewhat intoxicated or suffering from a hangover. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: I was a bit under the weather last night: out with a party of friends, you know. Dare say we all had a bit more than we could carry. 3. Experiencing adversity. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable, obsolete Example: The Hawkinses are under the weather now, but their Tennessee property is millions when it comes into market.
Word: stuff up Part of Speech: verb 1. To ruin or harm. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Don't drink tonight, because it'll stuff you up before your business trip. 2. To make a big mistake. Labels: Australia, UK, intransitive, slang Example: We lost the match because of the goalkeeper stuffing up. 3. To cause (the nasal passages) to be blocked. Labels: transitive Example: My nose is all stuffed up so I'm speaking funny.
Word: spilt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spill + -t. Pronunciation: /spɪlt/ 1. That has been spilled. Labels: not-comparable Example: Don't cry over spilt milk; tears won't put it back in the glass.
Word: spilt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spill + -t. Pronunciation: /spɪlt/ 1. simple past and past participle of spill Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: sickie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sick + -ie, from sick leave. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪki/ 1. A day, or time, off work due to (supposed) illness. Labels: UK, slang Example: Sickies are when one really is sick, but, y’know, probably not to the extent that merits a day off. It’s the exaggerated head cold. It’s the sore throat overdramatised by a theatrical croak. 2. A person who is unwell. Labels: slang Example: I'll tell you why, because I'm a sickie! But I'm getting cured.
Word: bickie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of biccy (“a biscuit”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bicky Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of biccy (“a biscuit”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rub it in Part of Speech: verb 1. To add insult to injury; to emphasize one's strengths or another's weaknesses in a manner that degrades another. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Not to rub it in, but I'm working from home. So I took a swim this morning and have been thoroughly enjoying the beautiful weather. 2. To labour the point. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: "Of course it wasn't worth while rubbing it in before young Hollyer, but, as a matter of fact, every single man carries the life of any other man—only one, mind you—in his hands, do what you will."
Word: rub off Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, off. 2. To clean by rubbing. Example: He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron. 3. To be transferred with little or no effort. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: I hoped that, if I hung out with the popular kids, some of their charisma might rub off on me. Example: Over time, I noticed various exercises I did with Woebot rubbing off in my daily life. Woebot taught me how to set SMART goals — specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-limited.
Word: rub off on Part of Speech: verb 1. To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure. Labels: idiomatic, transitive, usually Example: The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado. Example: I had hoped that if I went out with Jackie, then some of that elder-stateswoman dignity would rub off on me, but of course without Phil she didn't have any.
Word: cut out Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To sever from something larger, with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument. Example: Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster. 2. To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something). Labels: informal, transitive Example: He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon. Example: She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out. 3. To remove; to omit. Labels: transitive Example: If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits. Example: Help me find a sharper knife I need to cut you out my life 4. To oust; to replace. Labels: transitive Example: […] cut him out in the affections of his lady-love! 5. To separate (an animal) from the herd. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, US Example: There was little fear that the navigator of the captured Osprey, the man who had lived in Chile and "cut out" cattle on the Carrum Plains, would prove lacking in knowledge of riding, seamanship, or Spanish customs. 6. To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. Labels: intransitive Example: It was around then that the engine suddenly cut out. Example: Can you say that again? You keep cutting out. 7. To leave suddenly. Labels: intransitive Example: He must have cut out of the party. Example: 'True. I told you to take it home with you. It's still there?' 'Yes, sir.... But I could cut out and be back under the hour—time to do these letters for the post.' 8. To arrange or prepare. Example: He has his work cut out for him. 9. To intercept. Labels: transitive Example: As lax as the visitors' defence was, Blackpool's backline was solid. In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post. 10. To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore. 11. To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines. Labels: Australia, intransitive, slang 12. To spend (money). Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: After the flicks, Les and I cut out what was left of the cone money on a milkshake.
Word: cut out Part of Speech: adj 1. Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose. Labels: idiomatic Example: I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites. Example: We've got our work cut out for us.
Word: Jesus H. Christ Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unknown. An extension of Jesus Christ with a fantastical middle initial, perhaps derived from a reading of ΙΗΣ (IĒS) (sometimes ΙΗϹ (IĒS), using a lunate sigma), a Greek-alphabet abbreviation for Jesus (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ) as three initials in Latin letters. See "Christogram" at Wikipedia. The earliest use of the phrase is unknown, although according to Mark Twain (1835–1910) it was already common in the region of Hannibal, Missouri, when he was a boy. 1. An expression of surprise, shock, etc. Example: Near-synonyms: Christ almighty; good God; Jesus, Mary and Joseph Example: In passing along the street we heard a man, who was expressing a very decided opinion, say, “By Jesus H. Christ it is so.” Since that time we heard an individual who had “stubbed his toe” against the end of a plank cry, “By John D. God, I’ll sue the City.”
Word: carry out Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English caryen out, equivalent to carry + out (adverb). Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ 1. To hold while moving it out. Labels: transitive Example: We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop. Example: And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house. 2. To fulfill. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: She finally carried out her lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster. Example: The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders. 3. To execute or perform; to put into operation; to do. Labels: transitive Example: For the entire last summer they were carrying out their plan to renovate the living room. Example: Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
Word: combine harvester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into one, doing several jobs: a reaper component doing the reaping, a thresher component doing the threshing, and a winnower component doing the winnowing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmˌbaɪn ˈhɑɹvəstəɹ/ 1. A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.
Word: head to head Part of Speech: adv 1. In a very close one-on-one situation. Labels: not-comparable 2. In the same level as someone else. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable, usually Example: comparing head to head 3. Against, in direct opposition. Labels: not-comparable Example: competing head to head
Word: consumptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Latin cōnsūmptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -ive Middle English consumptive English consumptive From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ive, from Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō. Pronunciation: /kənˈsʌmptɪv/ 1. Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful. Example: a long consumptive war Example: [O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition. 2. Of or relating to consumption. 3. Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis. Example: consumptive cough Example: The lean, conſumptive, wench, with coughs decay'd, / Is call'd a pretty, tight, and ſlender maid.
Word: consumptive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Latin cōnsūmptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -ive Middle English consumptive English consumptive From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ive, from Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō. Pronunciation: /kənˈsʌmptɪv/ 1. A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. Example: The consumptive has managed to shake the servant from her side and walks alone, striving to make it look easy.
Word: myalgic encephalomyelitis Part of Speech: noun 1. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Labels: uncountable
Word: narcosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek νάρκωσις (nárkōsis). By surface analysis, narco- + -osis. Pronunciation: /nɑɹˈkoʊ.sɪs/, /nɑːˈkəʊ.sɪs/ 1. Unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: stress fracture Part of Speech: noun 1. A small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress.
Word: masturbator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From masturbate + -or. 1. Someone who masturbates. Labels: derogatory, sometimes 2. A sex toy used to complement and help stimulate its user's erogenous zones during masturbation, and often designed to simulate an erotic body part (of an imaginary partner).
Word: ethics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English etik, from Middle French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ἠθική (ēthikḗ), from ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛθ.ɪks/, /ˈeθ.ɪks/ 1. Morality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her decision was guided by her strong personal ethics. 2. The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The professor teaches a course on business ethics. Example: Medical ethics require doctors to prioritize patient welfare. 3. The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ethics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English etik, from Middle French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ἠθική (ēthikḗ), from ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛθ.ɪks/, /ˈeθ.ɪks/ 1. plural of ethic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hurray Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /həˈɹeɪ/ 1. Alternative form of hooray. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hurray Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /həˈɹeɪ/ 1. To cheer with a "hurray". Labels: ambitransitive
Word: confide Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity. Pronunciation: /kənˈfaɪd/ 1. To have confidence in someone. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: I confide in her judgement in this matter. Example: You can confide in him doing the right thing. 2. To have confidence in someone. Labels: intransitive Example: I could no longer keep this secret alone; I had to confide in my brother. Example: She confided in me about her plan to rob the bank. 3. To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone. Labels: dated, transitive Example: I confide this mission to you alone. 4. To say (something) in confidence. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman. Example: She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.
Word: superintendent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop. Pronunciation: /ˌsjuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/, /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/ 1. A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something. 2. A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent. Labels: Commonwealth Example: “No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.” 3. The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. 4. The head of a Sunday school. 5. In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district. 6. A janitor. Labels: US 7. An administrator of a school district, a local government body overseeing public schools. Labels: US
Word: superintendent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop. Pronunciation: /ˌsjuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/, /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/ 1. Overseeing; superintending. Labels: not-comparable
Word: christening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cristenynge, from Old English cristnung; compare christen + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪs.ə.nɪŋ/ 1. The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name. 2. Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.
Word: christening Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cristenynge, from Old English cristnung; compare christen + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪs.ə.nɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of christen Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wuss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1976–1981 in US college slang. Perhaps abbreviated from wussy, or blend of wimp and puss. Compare earlier wussy. Pronunciation: /wʊs/, /wʉs/ 1. A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person. Labels: derogatory, mildly, slang Example: 1976, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, Campus Slang typescript Nov. 6 Come on you wuss, hit a basket..! John's a wuss. Example: You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy
Word: wuss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1976–1981 in US college slang. Perhaps abbreviated from wussy, or blend of wimp and puss. Compare earlier wussy. Pronunciation: /wʊs/, /wʉs/ 1. Only used in wuss out
Word: baptized Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbæptaɪzd/ 1. Of a person, who has been subjected to the rite of baptism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: baptized Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbæptaɪzd/ 1. simple past and past participle of baptize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: baptised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of baptise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: baptised Part of Speech: adj 1. Who has been baptised.
Word: condesending Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of condescending. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: glowered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of glower Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: revere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”). Pronunciation: /ɹə.viːɹ/ 1. To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. Labels: transitive Example: a highly revered musician 2. To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol. Labels: also, transitive
Word: revere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”). Pronunciation: /ɹə.viːɹ/ 1. A revers.
Word: Java Sea Part of Speech: name 1. A sea north of the island of Java in Indonesia and south of Borneo.
Word: K2 Part of Speech: name Etymology: Designated by Thomas Montgomerie in 1856 during the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India, for being the second of the two most prominent peaks in the Karakoram range visible to him from Mount Harmukh. Pronunciation: /keɪˈtuː/ 1. A mountain on the border between Pakistan and Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams. Example: Here we have K², the highest mountain at present open to Europeans to attempt, only 750 feet lower than Mount Everest.² Example: On the morning of July 31, the mountain rose spangled in the summer sun 2,300 feet above Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli. Strapping on three oxygen tanks, the two men faced toward K2's last fastness.
Word: K2 Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of kinder two. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: withal Part of Speech: adv Etymology: PIE word *wí The adverb is derived from Middle English withal, with-al, withalle (“against, in opposition to; in association with, together with; by means of”), from with (“against; close to, near; directly opposite to; in the company of, together with; on, upon; within; etc.”, preposition) + al (“total number in a group, all, everyone, everything”). The word displaced Old English mid ealle. The postposition is derived from the adverb. Pronunciation: /wɪˈðɔːl/, /wɪˈðɑl/, /-ðɔl/ 1. Together with the rest; besides; in addition. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: [T]hey not onely damne [William] Tyndals tranſlacion [of the Bible], (wherein ther is good cauſe) but ouer that doe damne al other, and as though a ley manne wer no chritſen manne, wyll ſuffer no leye manne haue any at all. But whan they fynde any in his keping, they laye hereſye to hym therefore. And thereupon they burne vp the booke, and ſometime the good manne withall, […] Example: Loue he ſaied to be the occupacion or buſineſſe of idle folkes, that had nothinge els to ſet them ſelues on werke withall. 2. All things considered; nevertheless. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Modest, yet withal an Elf / Bold, and lavish of thyself, […] Example: But I found myself continually returning to the countenance, and I still think I could have modelled a better face out of putty. […] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme. 3. Synonym of therewith (“with this, that, or those”). Labels: archaic, not-comparable, obsolete Example: Thys boke we haue deuysed, / […] / In hope that no man shall / Be myscontent withall. Example: And forſo much as the aulter of burnofferynges was vnhalowed, he [Judas Maccabeus] toke aduyſement, what he might do withall: ſo he thought it was beſt to deſtroye it (leſt it ſhulde happen to do them eny ſhame) for the heithen had defyled it, & therfore they beate it downe.
Word: withal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *wí The adverb is derived from Middle English withal, with-al, withalle (“against, in opposition to; in association with, together with; by means of”), from with (“against; close to, near; directly opposite to; in the company of, together with; on, upon; within; etc.”, preposition) + al (“total number in a group, all, everyone, everything”). The word displaced Old English mid ealle. The postposition is derived from the adverb. Pronunciation: /wɪˈðɔːl/, /wɪˈðɑl/, /-ðɔl/ 1. The means; the wherewithal. Labels: uncountable Example: She didn’t have the withal to pay the fee.
Word: withal Part of Speech: prep Etymology: PIE word *wí The adverb is derived from Middle English withal, with-al, withalle (“against, in opposition to; in association with, together with; by means of”), from with (“against; close to, near; directly opposite to; in the company of, together with; on, upon; within; etc.”, preposition) + al (“total number in a group, all, everyone, everything”). The word displaced Old English mid ealle. The postposition is derived from the adverb. Pronunciation: /wɪˈðɔːl/, /wɪˈðɑl/, /-ðɔl/ 1. with. Labels: archaic Example: What ſhall hit proffet a man, yf he ſhulde wyn all the whoole worlde: ſo he looſe hys owne ſoule? Or els what ſhall a man geve to redeme hys ſoule agayne with all? Example: Tam[burlaine]. Tis braue indeede, my boy, wel done, / Shoote firſt my Lord, and then the reſt ſhall follow. / Ther[idamas]. Then haue at him to begin withal.
Word: homemade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From home + made. 1. Made at home. Example: a homemade chicken casserole Example: [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground. 2. Made by oneself. Example: Near-synonyms: homebrew, handmade Example: a homemade bomb 3. In a simple style as if made at home. Example: Near-synonym: homespun Example: a homemade aphorism
Word: blotch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot + botch. Pronunciation: /blɒtʃ/, /blɑt͡ʃ/ 1. An uneven patch of color or discoloration. Example: 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […] Example: Since the day in which this reformation began, by how many strange and critical turns has it been perfected and handed down, if not, entirely without spot or wrinkle,—at least, without great blotches or marks of anility. 2. An irregularly shaped area. Example: At Coleman's Hill, the upper beds consist of yellowish, soft, gritty sandstone, containing some small calcareous fragments, a few pebbles of quartz, blotches of red shale, and fragments of sandstone with impressions of stems of plants. Example: His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck. 3. Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain. Labels: figuratively Example: 1921, Warren G. Harding, Inaugural address, in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: from George Washington to Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1989, There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. 4. Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots. Example: The fungus causing blotch lives through the winter in the cankers which it has developed on twigs, water sprouts, and fruit spurs. Example: Blue mold and the black rot fungus are most Commonly found associated with blotch in this way. 5. A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality. Example: Characteristics of blotches are that they seldom appear at the same spatial location in consecutive frames, they tend to be smooth (little texture), and they usually have intensity values that are very different from the original contents they cover. Example: Films corrupted by blotches are often restored in a two-step approach. The first step detects blotches and generates binary detection masks that indicate whether each pixel is part of a blotch. The second step corrects pixels by means of spatio-temporal interpolation. 6. A dark spot on the skin; a pustule. 7. Blotting paper. Labels: slang
Word: blotch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot + botch. Pronunciation: /blɒtʃ/, /blɑt͡ʃ/ 1. To mark with blotches. Labels: transitive Example: 1770, Arthur Young, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258, Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the pieces which pass under the name of Bassan. Example: A straight-edge is placed upon the chalk lines, with the edge next the line slightly raised, and the brush, well filled with colour, drawn along it, just touching the wall, the pressure being never increased, and the brush refilled whenever it is near failing; but great care must be taken that it be not too full, as in that case it will be apt to blotch the line, or drop the colour upon the lower portions of the wall. 2. To develop blotches, to become blotchy. Labels: intransitive Example: 1878, Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas, Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166, […] when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them […] It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that won’t cross lines, because where they cross they are apt to blotch and then it’s hard to tell what the brand is and who the animal belongs to. Example: Our waistline will extend a few more inches at least, and our aging skin will blotch and sag.
Word: pubic symphysis Part of Speech: noun 1. A cartilaginous joint between the two bones of the pubis.
Word: autopsia Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of autopsy. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.
Word: sublet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English let English sublet From sub- + let. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbˈlɛt/ 1. To grant a sublease out of property held under a lease. Labels: transitive
Word: sublet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English let English sublet From sub- + let. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbˈlɛt/ 1. Synonym of sublease. Labels: informal
Word: treating Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiːtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of treat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: treating Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiːtɪŋ/ 1. Treatment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold; at any rate, it was at about that time that he entered upon that memorable series of potations and treatings which is still one of the cherished traditions of the San Juan Smith country […] 2. The practice of men providing young women ("charity girls") with entertainment outings, gifts, etc. in exchange for companionship and intimate activity. Labels: historical, uncountable 3. The electoral offence of offering an inducement such as food, drink or entertainment to a voter. Labels: Commonwealth, UK, uncountable Example: In the ensuing year [ 1804 ], in the Middlesex case, Mr. Mainwaring was charged with treating - by means of victuals supplied at an inn, at Brentford, by the order of persons proved to be his agents, and for which other persons, also proved to be his agents, had promised to pay. Example: Where such a combination does not exist, any amount of bribery, treating, and intimidation may be carried on with perfect impunity
Word: effected Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɛktɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of effect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: effected Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɛktɪd/ 1. Modified by effects. Labels: not-comparable Example: Their palette was covered with heavily effected guitars, synthetic loops and samples, electronic drums, and cold industrial sound effects.
Word: counting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/, /ˈkaʊ.nɪŋ/, /ˈkuːn.tɪn/ 1. A count. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act by which something is counted. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: counting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/, /ˈkaʊ.nɪŋ/, /ˈkuːn.tɪn/ 1. present participle and gerund of count Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mansuetude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via Middle French mansuetude or directly from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō (“to tame”), from manus (“hand”) + suēscō (“become accustomed”). Pronunciation: /ˈman.swɪ.tjuːd/, /mænˈsuət(j)ud/ 1. Gentleness, tameness. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. Example: Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
Word: manumit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English manumitten, from Latin manūmittere, from pre-Classical Latin manū ēmittere (literally “send out from one’s hand”). Pronunciation: /ˌmænjʊˈmɪt/, /ˌmænjəˈmɪt/ 1. To release (someone) from slavery; to free. Labels: transitive Example: […]Lungs, I will manumit thee from the Fornace; / I will reſtore thee thy complexion, Puffe, / Lost in the embers; and repayre this brayne, / Hurt with the fume o'the Mettalls. Example: Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.
Word: backswing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + swing. 1. The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
Word: backswing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + swing. 1. To swing backward.
Word: manumission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English manumissioun (“(uncountable) release by a feudal superior or slaveowner from servitude, freedom from servitude; (countable) an instance of this; document granting such freedom; (figurative) Jesus’s redemption of humankind”), from Anglo-Norman manumission and Middle French manumission, and from their etymon Latin manūmissiō (“emancipation of a slave, manumission”), from manūmiss- (the perfect passive participle stem of manūmittō (“to emancipate, free, release”)) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Manūmittō is derived from manū (the ablative singular of manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)) + mittō (“to discharge, release; to send”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to release; to send; etc.”)). Pronunciation: /ˌmænjʊˈmɪʃn̩/, /ˌmænjəˈmɪʃən/ 1. Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; (countable) an instance of this; an act of manumitting. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual. Example: The most important law of Augustus, was the lex oelia sentia, deserving of all praise, which related to the manumission of slaves.
Word: wetsuit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wet + suit. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛtˌs(j)ut/ 1. A close fitting, insulating garment usually made from neoprene or similar material designed to keep one warm during activities on or under water.
Word: neoprene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: US, 1930s; genericized trademark for DuPont brand of polychloroprene. neo- (“new”) + isoprene (dropping the iso-), the latter from terpene. Originally called duprene (blend of DuPont and isoprene); the “new” is because neoprene was the first mass-produced general-purpose synthetic rubber. Pronunciation: /ˈniɵpɹin/ 1. A synthetic rubber, a polymer of chloroprene, commonly used in wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces, electrical insulation, liquid and sheet-applied elastomeric membranes and flashings, car fan belts, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tracksuit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From track + suit. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹækˌsut/ 1. A garment, usually consisting of a top and trousers (commonly known as tracksuit bottoms) worn as an outer layer by participants in sporting events such as athletics. The tracksuit is usually designed to be easily removed or replaced, before or after competing. Tracksuits have also been adopted in some cultures as leisurewear. Example: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
Word: maquette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French maquette. Pronunciation: /mæˈkɛt/ 1. A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture. Example: His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette. Example: And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me[…]
Word: maquette Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French maquette. Pronunciation: /mæˈkɛt/ 1. To prepare a maquette (of). Labels: ambitransitive, rare
Word: marae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori marae and Tahitian marae, from Proto-Oceanic *malaqe. Pronunciation: /məˈɹaɪ/ 1. A Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure. Labels: archaic Example: The path ended down by the sea at a crumbling ‘ingot’ of black coral, twenty yards in length & in height two men. ‘A marae, this is called,’ Mr Wagstaff informed me. ‘All over the South Seas you see ’em, I’m told.’ 2. The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house, seen as a cultural and spiritual focal point; (by extension) the buildings and people around it; a spiritual or cultural centre. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: margrave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch marcgrāve (modern Dutch markgraaf), cognate with Old High German marcgrāvo (modern German Markgraf), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”) + *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at mark, graft. Compare marchion, marquis, landgrave. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːɡɹeɪv/, /ˈmɑɹɡɹeɪv/ 1. A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area. Labels: historical Example: 1973: Among pulverised heads of stone margraves and electors, reconnoitering a likely-looking cabbage patch, all of a sudden Slothrop picks up the scent of an unmistakable no it can’t be yes it is it’s a REEFER! — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow 2. A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess. Labels: historical Example: The Margrave of Bruges was their head.