nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Pyongyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 평양(平壤) (Pyeong'yang, literally “flat land”), from the McCune–Reischauer (MR) romanisation P'yŏngyang, a Sino-Korean word from 平壤. Pronunciation: /ˌpjɔŋˈjæŋ/, /ˌpjɑŋˈjɛŋ/, /ˌpjʌŋˈjɑŋ/, /ˌpjɒŋˈjæŋ/, /ˌpjʌŋˈjɑːŋ/ 1. The capital city of North Korea. Example: Within less than twenty days after landing at Fusan, Konishi, and Kato, Commander of the Second Contingent of the Japanese Army, occupied Seoul, and the Korean King fled to Pyongyang. The Japanese generals did not stop long in Seoul. Kato marched into the province of North Hamkyong and went as far north as Hoilyong on the Manchurian border, while Konishi pursued the King to Pyongyang, which town he occupied on July 16, that is only fifty-four days after he had set foot in Korea. Example: Forty-seven countries host a North Korean embassy, while 24 have an embassy in Pyongyang. Most of the countries that do not have an embassy in North Korea handle their diplomatic affairs with the country from their embassies in neighboring China or South Korea. 2. The North Korean government. Labels: metonymically Example: The US State Department said it welcomed talks between Pyongyang and Seoul on North Korea’s participation in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, despite a US lawmaker’s call for America to boycott the Games. Example: The sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has lambasted South Korea’s foreign minister for casting doubt over Pyongyang’s claim that the country has no coronavirus cases. North Korea closed its borders in January to avoid a spread of the virus and has insisted that it has had no cases.
Word: catechism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin catechismus, from Ancient Greek *κατηχισμός (*katēkhismós), from κατηχίζω (katēkhízō, “to catechize”), a later extended form of κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “to catechize, instruct, teach by word of mouth”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἠχέω (ēkhéō, “to sound, resound”). Pronunciation: /ˈkætɪˌkɪzəm/ 1. A book, in question and answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity. 2. A basic manual in some subject. 3. A set of questions designed to determine knowledge. Example: ...the walls were covered with paper, whose original colour and pattern had long since merged in a dingy brown; over this were hung up some unframed drawings, and some shelves on which were ranged all the old school books, grammars, Pinnock's catechisms, and one or two French novels that had belonged to a former governess. Example: Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Word: tranche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”). Doublet of traunch and trench. Pronunciation: /tɹɑ̃ʃ/, /tɹɑ̃nʃ/, /tɹɑ̃nt͡ʃ/, /tɹænt͡ʃ/, /tɹɑːnʃ/ 1. A slice, section or portion. Example: Servants, carrying huge baskets suspended before them in which were huge tranches of bread, speedily distributed the contents; and they were followed by others bearing huge cans of milk, hot and cold. Example: Habeck said he was planning to announce a first tranche of climate protection measures by Easter, and a second by the end of the summer, to come into force by 2023. 2. A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments. 3. A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules. 4. One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.
Word: tranche Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”). Doublet of traunch and trench. Pronunciation: /tɹɑ̃ʃ/, /tɹɑ̃nʃ/, /tɹɑ̃nt͡ʃ/, /tɹænt͡ʃ/, /tɹɑːnʃ/ 1. To divide into tranches. Labels: transitive
Word: sordid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin sordēs Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin sordeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin sordidusder. Middle English sordid ▲ Latin sordiduslbor. French sordideder. English sordid From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus. Alternatively from French sordide. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔː.dɪd/, /ˈsɔɹdɪd/ 1. Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible. Example: The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice. Example: The politician was involved in a sordid money laundering scheme. 2. Dirty or squalid. Example: They rented a sordid apartment together. 3. Morally degrading. Example: He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world. Example: I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues. 4. Grasping; stingy; avaricious. 5. Of a dull colour. Example: Leaves sordid-tomentulose beneath
Word: rookie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Thought to be an alteration of recruit + -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) + -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʊki/ 1. An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces. Example: Corbett is convinced it was a systemic failure: "The Thames Train was driven by a rookie driver who had only just come into the job. It is, in fact, difficult to run through a red light, because you have to cancel the Automatic Warning System (AWS) and so on. But he continued for 700 yards and he accelerated, which no one understands why. 2. A novice. 3. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players. 4. A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks. Labels: UK
Word: rookie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Thought to be an alteration of recruit + -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) + -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʊki/ 1. Non-professional; amateur Example: The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake. Example: the rookiest of rookie mistakes
Word: rookie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Thought to be an alteration of recruit + -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) + -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʊki/ 1. To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization. Labels: intransitive Example: In 1977 he rookied as a smokejumper with the International Forest Fire Systems, a private firm that contracted smokejumping services to Canada's Northwest Territories. Example: As they go ton the stretch of road that ran between the park and the 5 Freeway, Stu said 'Schoelkopf gave me the kind of lecture I haven't heard since I rookied. […]' 2. To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual. Labels: transitive Example: Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez." Example: There is none of that 'rookying stuff' but they don't pay any attention to you either, and that is worse.
Word: soteriology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σωτηρία (sōtēría, “salvation”) + -ology, from σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “savior”). Pronunciation: /səʊtɪəɹɪˈɒləd͡ʒi/ 1. The study or doctrine of salvation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: BY the Soteriology of the Bible we mean the Doctrine of the Messiah's mediatorial work for man's salvation, as gradually revealed in Holy Scripture. Example: All our theology, all our Christology, all our soteriology, all our doctrine of sin and salvation, of sacrifice, of atonement, of priesthood, of prayer, of worship, of world redemption, are colored through and through with Jewish concepts and bear upon them the inextinguishable evidence of their debt to those whose genius for religion justifies their title to be in a very real sense the chosen people of God.
Word: paradox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/, /ˈpæɹ.əˌdɑks/, /ˈpɛɹ.əˌdɑks/ 1. An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "This sentence is false" is a paradox. Example: The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes. 2. A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty. Example: The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. 3. A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox. Example: How quaint the ways of Paradox! / At common sense she gaily mocks! / Though counting in the usual way years twenty-one I've been alive, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / I am a little boy of five! 4. A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A person or thing having contradictory properties. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party. Example: You are a paradox of bitch and angel. 6. An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old? 7. A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof. Example: they contended to make that Maxim, that there is no faith to be held with Infidels, a meere and absurd Paradox [...]. 8. The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing. Labels: uncountable Example: The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language. 9. A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself. Labels: uncountable Example: Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox. 10. The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription.
Word: ramification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ramification, or its source, Medieval Latin rāmificātiō. By surface analysis, ramify + -ication. Pronunciation: /ɹæmɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, /ˌɹæməfəˈkeɪʃən/, [ˌɹɛəməfəˈkeɪʃən], /ɹæməfɪˈkæɪʃən/, /ɹɛməfəˈkæɪʃən/ 1. A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The character of trees may be studied to advantage […] in winter, when the forms of the ramification can be seen in the naked boughs […] Example: From the left chamber or ventricle of the strong muscular mass, the heart, a large tube arises, called the aorta; and by a continued division or ramification, opens a way for the bright scarlet blood to the very minutest part of the living frame […] 2. An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation. Labels: countable, figuratively, in-plural, often, uncountable Example: The treachery of some of the Jacobite agents (Rashleigh among the rest), and the arrest of others, had made George the First's Government acquainted with the extensive ramifications of a conspiracy long prepared, and which at last exploded prematurely […] Example: What, then, is my Scheme? It is a very simple one, although in its ramifications and extensions it embraces the whole world. 3. An arrangement of branches. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Sephardi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סְפָרַדִּי (s'faradí). 1. Of or relating to Jews of Iberia and their traditions, customs, and rituals. Their traditional vernacular is Ladino. Example: Their claim is at least so far acknowledged by the Jews all over the world that the first rank is allowed by them to the Sephardi congregation in Jerusalem. 2. Of or relating to the Jews following the Sephardic law and customs; essentially, all non-Ashkenazi Jews in Israel, including those not of Iberian origin. Labels: Israel
Word: Sephardi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סְפָרַדִּי (s'faradí). 1. A Jew of Iberian ancestry, whose traditional language is Ladino. Example: In a move aimed at avoiding the mistakes made by many of the Jewish institutions in which students have grown up, the guidebook encourages students creating new Jewish organizations to ensure that “JOCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) feel included and comfortable,” to maintain a “[s]upportive network of closed spaces for marginalized people,” and to directly“[a]cknowledge and confront Ashkenormativity.” 2. Any Jew following the Sephardic law and customs, instead of the Ashkenazic. Labels: Israel
Word: Iberian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Iberia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Iberian From Iberia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪˈbɪə.ɹi.ən/ 1. Native to Iberia. 2. Of or pertaining to Iberia. Example: The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers the needle onto shimmering black vinyl, and dreams of Jewish shepherd boys plucking their lyres on starlit Iberian hillsides.
Word: Iberian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Iberia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Iberian From Iberia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪˈbɪə.ɹi.ən/ 1. A native of modern-day Iberia (the European peninsula): a person native to Spain, Portugal, Andorra, or Gibraltar,. Labels: countable 2. An ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BCE. Labels: countable, historical, in-plural, uncountable 3. A Georgian (person from the country in Eurasia). Labels: countable
Word: Iberian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Iberia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Iberian From Iberia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪˈbɪə.ɹi.ən/ 1. An extinct language isolate that was spoken in the Iberian peninsula. Example: Whereas the presence of Etruscan [in southern France] was likely the result of Etruscan traders settling in the area relatively recently, Iberian appears to have been the prevalent language, at least in the southwesternmost parts of what is now the French Mediterranean coast.
Word: Sephardic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Sephardi Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Sephardic From Sephardi + -ic. 1. Of or relating to the Sephardi Jews. Labels: not-comparable Example: A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. ... The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers the needle onto shimmering black vinyl, and dreams of Jewish shepherd boys plucking their lyres on starlit Iberian hillsides. Example: The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.
Word: goner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒnə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡɔːnɚ/ 1. Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon. Labels: informal Example: I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work. Example: You'll be a goner if I hit you with this gun. 2. A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run. Labels: slang
Word: goners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goner (persons who are in a desperate strait or doomed) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aureole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/, /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/ 1. A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint. Example: The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head. Example: They sat quietly, side by side, without speaking. Philip enjoyed having her near him. He was warmed by her radiant health. A glow of life seemed like an aureole to shine about her. 2. Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something. Labels: broadly Example: It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […] Example: The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […] 3. A corona. 4. A ring around an igneous intrusion. Example: Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation. 5. Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aureole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/, /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/ 1. To surround with, or as if with, a halo. Labels: transitive
Word: symbolism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From symbol + -ism, sense 2 being a semantic loan from French symbolisme. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmbəˌlɪzəm/ 1. Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The undeveloped or mysterically confused thought which exists in savages is fully exemplified in the childish or crazy atavistic anthropomorphism and symbolism so prevalent among degenerates. 2. An art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The cross-fertilization of Elizabethan drama with French symbolism gave rise to the "Princess Maleine", a new species if there ever was one, Shakespearean in form and incident, most un-Shakespearean in everything else. Example: The rise of French symbolism towards the end of the 'seventies was a symptom of a changed temper of thought and feeling traceable in some degree throughout civilized Europe. Roughly, it marked the passing of the confident and rather superficial security of the 'fifties into a vague unrest, a kind of troubled awe. 3. A combining together of parts or ingredients. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: magnanimous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin magnanimus, from magnus (“great”) + animus (“soul, mind”). Displaced native Old English miċelmōd (literally “big-minded”). Pronunciation: /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/ 1. Noble and generous in spirit. Example: She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […] Example: First, our friendship began at that early time when alone it is unalloyed and sincere; secondly"—and here, in spite of her vivacity, Marie's voice trembled—"you are associated with the only being in the world I ever really loved; and thirdly, I have behaved exceedingly ill to you, and, consequently, feel it quite magnanimous not to hate you, which is the established rule on such occasions.
Word: consanguineous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin consanguineus (with English -ous), from con- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from sanguis (“blood”). Equivalent to con- + sanguineous. Pronunciation: /kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪni.əs/, /kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnjəs/, /kɑnsæŋˈɡwɪni.əs/, /kɑnsæŋˈɡwɪnjəs/ 1. Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Labels: not-comparable Example: Am not I consanguineous? am I not of her blood? Example: 2002, B. Modell and A. Darr, "Science and society: genetic counselling and customary consanguineous marriage," Nature Reviews: Genetics, vol 3. no. 3 (Mar.), p. 225, Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.
Word: NTSB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of National Transportation Safety Board. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The finding is one of the first pieces of information that have emerged as the NTSB works to investigate the disaster in which 67 people are thought to have been killed. 2. Initialism of National Transport Safety Board. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BBQ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pseudo-acronym of barbecue, by phonetic similarity of the letter names. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːɹbəkjuː/, /biːbiːkjuː/ 1. Abbreviation of barbecue. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: BBQ Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Pseudo-acronym of barbecue, by phonetic similarity of the letter names. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːɹbəkjuː/, /biːbiːkjuː/ 1. Abbreviation of barbecue. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, informal
Word: AID Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of artificial insemination by donor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: Here is the first book to thoroughly look at topics such as the social and personal aspects of lesbian motherhood; the implications of AID; and how children feel about growing up with lesbian mothers.
Word: AID Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Agency for International Development. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: The first such title, according to a review by Christopher Sagers, a law professor at Cleveland–Marshall College of Law, was the 1950 Act for International Development, or AID.
Word: barbeque Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable Example: She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food, from slow-roasted barbeque beef sandwiches at the Young Life booth to Bavarian bratwurst at the Mount Baker Barbershop Singers’ grill. Example: ‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’
Word: barbeque Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of barbecue. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes Example: When they arrived, Masha and Natasha joined the other girls in the kitchen, and Pasha scurried Seth out into the great outdoors with the men to barbeque shashliki, a delicious Russian marinated meat.
Word: POTD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of picture of the day. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of propaganda of the deed. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: tidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tide + -al. Probably a hybrid formation within English. Alternatively it might be from an unattested British Medieval Latin *tīdālis, derived from rare tīda, from Old English tīd. The usual Latin word for “tidal” is aestuālis. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪ.d(ə)l/ 1. Relating to tides. Labels: not-comparable Example: Since then, the length of an Earth day has slowed to its present 24 hours due to the fact that the moon's gravitational pull "steals" some of energy Earth uses to spin, in addition to causing tidal friction, according to the Institute.
Word: make love Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Calque of Old Occitan far amor, Middle French faire l'amour. 1. To engage in sexual intercourse. Labels: euphemistic Example: I caught them making love on my couch. Example: She takes just like a woman, yeah she does / She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does 2. To make amorous approaches (to); to woo, romance, court. Labels: archaic Example: So from thenceforth, when loue he to her made, / VVith better tearmes ſhe did him entertaine, / VVhich gaue him hope, and did him halfe perſvvade, / That he iunb time her ioyaunce ſhould obtaine. Example: [S]carcely had they passed the sweep-gate and joined the other carriage, than she found her subject cut up–her hand seized–her attention demanded, and Mr. Elton actually making violent love to her: availing himself of the precious opportunity, declaring sentiments which must already be well known, […]
Word: aolbonics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of AOLbonics Labels: alt-of, rare, uncountable
Word: besom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”). Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.zəm/, /ˈbɛ.zəm/ 1. A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft. Example: As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets. Example: At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms. 2. A troublesome woman. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, derogatory Example: "Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !" Example: Janet's eyes began to look dim, and I had to frown at her very hard; then I had to turn my frown on Jean ... and Janet, the besom, took advantage of my divided attention. 3. Any cleansing or purifying agent. Example: "The march of an army through a conquered country supposing it to be a highly civilized one, is a besom of destruction, whose havoc, moral and material, it would take at least a century to recover."
Word: besom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”). Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.zəm/, /ˈbɛ.zəm/ 1. To sweep. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Prichard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linolium, retired, and Mr Prichard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant...
Word: libertarian socialism Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a group of political philosophies dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, prominent examples being capitalism and the State; especially one that encourages the direct seizure by the people of the means of production with the aim of moving toward the creation of a radical direct democracy. Labels: uncountable
Word: graffito Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)bor. Italian graffire Italian graffitobor. English graffito Borrowed from Italian graffito. Pronunciation: /ɡɹəˈfitoʊ/, [ɡɹəˈfiɾoʊ̯] 1. An informal inscription, as by a worker or vandal. 2. A single instance of graffiti in the art/vandalism sense. Labels: rare Example: One officer got out to inspect the graffito.
Word: sore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”). Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soɹ/, /so(ː)ɹ/, /soə/ 1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. Example: Her feet were sore from walking so far. 2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. Example: Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy. 3. Dire; distressing. Example: The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood. 4. Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered. Labels: informal Example: Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers. Example: “God damn it.” He was sore as hell. He was really furious. 5. Criminal; wrong; evil. Labels: obsolete Example: […]and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
Word: sore Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”). Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soɹ/, /so(ː)ɹ/, /soə/ 1. Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad). Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done this thing. Example: But on that day when Lancelot fled the lists, / His party, knights of utmost North and West, / Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles, / Came round their great Pendragon, saying to him / 'Lo, Sire, our knight thro' whom we won the day / Hath gone sore wounded, and hath left his prize / Untaken, crying that his prize is death.' 2. Sorely. Labels: not-comparable Example: But he was paying the penalty laid on His father's crime; for one time, cutting trees Alone among the hills, he spurned the prayer Of the Hamadryas Nymph, who, weeping sore, With earnest words besought him not to cut The trunk of an oak tree, which, with herself Coeval, had endured for many a year. Example: And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, […]
Word: sore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”). Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soɹ/, /so(ː)ɹ/, /soə/ 1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. Example: They put ointment and a bandage on the sore. 2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. Example: I see plainly where his sore lies.
Word: sore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”). Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soɹ/, /so(ː)ɹ/, /soə/ 1. To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait. Labels: transitive 2. To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions. Labels: intransitive
Word: sore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sor (“sorrel”), from Old French sor (“sorrel; reddish”). Compare French saur (“(archaic) reddish-brown; describing a young bird of prey”). Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soɹ/, /so(ː)ɹ/, /soə/ 1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year. Example: Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly 2. A young buck in its fourth year. Example: Some say a Sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting. The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting. If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.
Word: dynasty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪnəsti/, /ˈdaɪnəsti/ 1. A series of rulers or dynasts from one family. Example: Habsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty Example: A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery. 2. A family considered over time, with its ancestors and descendants Example: To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long. 3. The polity or historical era under the rule of a certain dynasty. Example: During the Ming dynasty, China was ruled by the Zhu family. 4. A team or organization which has an extended period of success or dominant performance.
Word: maven Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn, “connoisseur, expert, know-it-all”), from Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”), from הֵבִין (hevín, “to understand”). The word is said to have been popularized by its use in an advertising campaign for Vita Herring launched in the United States in 1964, which had a character called the “beloved [herring] maven” promoting the product. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪvn̩/, /ˈmeɪv(ə)n/ 1. An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado. Labels: US Example: Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says [Malcolm] Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about. Example: Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.
Word: ferry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, travel”), whence English fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-. The noun is from Middle English ferie (“place of crossing, ferry”), which was derived from the above verb under influence of Old Norse ferja, from Proto-Germanic *farjǭ, itself also from the verb. False cognate of Latin ferō. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹi/, /ˈfeɹi/, /ˈfɛɾe/, /ˈfɛɾɪ/, /ˈfɛɾi/ 1. To carry; transport; convey. Labels: transitive Example: Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety. Example: We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock. 2. To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly. Labels: transitive Example: Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant. Example: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. […] This would also let high-speed trains skirt cities as moving platforms ferry passengers to and from the city centre. 3. To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores. Labels: transitive 4. To pass over water in a boat or by ferry. Labels: intransitive Example: They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.
Word: ferry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, travel”), whence English fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-. The noun is from Middle English ferie (“place of crossing, ferry”), which was derived from the above verb under influence of Old Norse ferja, from Proto-Germanic *farjǭ, itself also from the verb. False cognate of Latin ferō. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹi/, /ˈfeɹi/, /ˈfɛɾe/, /ˈfɛɾɪ/, /ˈfɛɾi/ 1. A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. Example: Near-synonym: ferryboat Example: Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry. 2. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. Example: It can pass the ferry backward into light. Example: to row us o'er the ferry 3. The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service. Example: In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete. 4. The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry. Example: granted a ferry to Example: In 1794, the county court of Mason, granted a ferry to Benjamin Sutton, who owned two lots on the front of water street. In 1801, the same privilege was re-granted to him by the court. In 1797, a ferry was granted to Edmund Martin, by the county court. In 1808, a ferry was granted, by the county court, to Jacob Boon. In 1818, a ferry was granted, by the court, to J. K. Ficklin, and in 1823, another ferry was granted, by the court, to Benjamin Baylies. Bonds with security, were executed by the grantees respectively. The ferrys of Ficklin and Baylies have not been in operation for two or three years past. Those of Sutton, Martin and Boon, have been in operation ever since their establishment. Boon and Martin are both dead. Sutton sold his lots and ferry to Armstrong. Powers and Campbell, who attended to the ferrys granted to Boon and Martin, live in the state of Ohio. Armstrong resides in Maysville.
Word: working Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/, /ˈwɝkɪŋ/ 1. Operation; action. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable 2. Method of operation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Be sure to check your working. 4. Fermentation. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Becoming full of a vegetable substance. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A place where work is carried on. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the abandoned mine workings 7. A train movement. Labels: countable Example: From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.
Word: working Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/, /ˈwɝkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of work Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Leave him alone; he’s working.
Word: working Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/, /ˈwɝkɪŋ/ 1. That is or are functioning. Labels: not-comparable Example: a working ventilator 2. That suffices but requires additional work; provisional. Labels: not-comparable Example: a working copy of the script Example: a working title 3. In paid employment. Labels: not-comparable Example: Working mothers have recently joined the factory's workforce. 4. Of or relating to employment. Labels: not-comparable Example: the working week 5. Enough to allow one to use something. Labels: not-comparable Example: have a working knowledge of computers 6. Used in real life; practical. Labels: not-comparable Example: The working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens. 7. Efficacious. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: You ſee my Lord, what woorking woordes hee hath. But when you ſee his actions ſtop ^([sic – meaning top]) his ſpeech, Your ſpeech will ſtay, or ſo extol his worth, As I ſhalbe commended and excuſde For turning my poore charge to his direction.
Word: evident Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol. Pronunciation: /ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/, /ˈɛv.ə.dənt/ 1. Obviously true by simple observation. Example: It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door. Example: The full extent of her injuries did not become evident until they tried to move her.
Word: oenophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English oeno- Proto-Indo-European *bʰil- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor. Latin -philalbor. English -phile English oenophile From oeno- + -phile. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.nəʊˌfaɪl/, /ˈiː.nəˌfaɪl/ 1. A person who has a fondness or appreciation for wine. Example: The oenophile had a large wine cellar stocked with bottles from around the world. Example: With this kind of experience and depth in the wine cellar, the servers can offer exotic flights and other temptations for oenophiles that few Orange County restaurants can equal.
Word: Orwellian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Orwell Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Orwellian From Orwell + -ian. Pronunciation: /ɔɹˈwɛli.ən/, /ɔːˈwɛli.ən/ 1. Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, surveillance and repression. Example: “But they soon find out that an enforced equality, without free individualism to temper it, becomes an Orwellian nightmare-version of the workers' paradise, in which ‘all are equal, but some are more equal than others.’” Example: “The Orwellian slogan that ‘War is Peace’ was, consciously or unconsciously, from the beginning adopted by both conflicting groups within the U.N.” 2. Resembling, or having to do with, George Orwell, and especially his novel 1984.
Word: Battle of Britain Part of Speech: name 1. A series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe during World War II for air superiority over southern England and the English Channel prior to any German invasion of the British Isles. Labels: historical
Word: bemoan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bemenen, bimenen, from Old English bemǣnan (“to bemoan, bewail, lament”); equivalent to be- (“about, concerning”) + moan. Alteration of vowel from Middle to Modern English due to analogy with moan. Pronunciation: /bɪˈməʊn/, /bɪˈmoʊn/ 1. To moan or complain about (something). Labels: transitive Example: He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn. Example: The losse of this erle was greatly bemoned by men of al degrees, for he was liberal, gentle, humble, and curteous to eche one […] 2. To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them. Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: Son. Was ever son so rued a father’s death? Father. Was ever father so bemoan’d his son? Example: Sure you take mee not to be made of flesh, or if so, yet not to be sensible that thinke me able to beare these burthens without bemoning my selfe.
Word: ridley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown origin. 1. Any of the marine turtles of the genus Lepidochelys, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.