nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: viceroy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French vice-roy, from vice- + roy (“king”). Compare viscount. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪsˌɹɔɪ/ 1. One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch. Example: Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Example: The Viceroy's on board - tends to liven things up. 2. A zongdu. 3. An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
Word: interrupt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ 1. To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking. Labels: ambitransitive Example: A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting. Example: Do not interrupt me in my course. 2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of. Labels: transitive Example: The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill. 3. To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled. Labels: transitive Example: The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
Word: interrupt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/, /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/ 1. An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition. Example: The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
Word: fractious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fraction (“discord”) (now obsolete) + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæk.ʃəs/ 1. Given to troublemaking. Example: 1835 James Kirke Paulding: The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan Now when the fractious little Beau Napperty heard that Bull had sent over his tenantry to commit trespass upon his marshes, he fell into one of the greatest passions ever known, and swore that Parson Fred should rue the hour he came over into his pastures. 2. Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome. Example: 1841 Western Farmer and Gardener, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural Economy. Ed. Thomas Affleck. vol. II. Oct. 1840 to Sept. 1841. Fractious boys should be taught to govern their own tempers before they have the full control of oxen; and fractious men should remember that he who controls his own spirit is mightier than many who govern whole cities. Example: […] to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.
Word: vicinity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vicine + -ity, from Latin vīcīnitās (“neighborhood”) (compare French vicinité), from vīcīnus (“neighbor”) (compare French voisin), from vīcus (“village”). Pronunciation: /vɪˈsɪnɪti/, /vəˈsɪnəti/ 1. Proximity; the state of being near. Example: There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear. Example: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition. 2. Neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area. Example: There is a hurricane in the vicinity of the Bahamas. Example: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To this well-nightingaled vicinity? 3. Approximate size or amount. Example: I weigh in the vicinity of 80kg.
Word: ongoing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on. Pronunciation: /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡəwɪŋ/, /ɑnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡəʉ.ɪŋ/ 1. Continuing, permanent, lasting. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says. 2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ongoing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on. Pronunciation: /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡəwɪŋ/, /ɑnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡəʉ.ɪŋ/ 1. Something that is going on; a happening. Example: We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.
Word: ongoing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on. Pronunciation: /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡəwɪŋ/, /ɑnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ɔnˈɡəʉ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of ongo Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present, rare
Word: vicious circle Part of Speech: noun 1. A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one. Example: Meanwhile street congestion grows worse and the vicious circle tightens of private motor-cars which impede L.T.E. buses in Central London and of exasperated bus travellers who therefore take to using their own cars. 2. A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
Word: vicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʃəs/ 1. Violent, destructive and cruel. 2. Savage and aggressive. Example: He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose. 3. Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity. Labels: archaic Example: We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious. Example: Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof
Word: viciousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English viciousnesse; equivalent to vicious + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being vicious. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “It is hard. And there is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience, but this isn’t supposed to be easy. My father and this administration intends to be transformative, and we want to do big, bold things and we’re looking to change the status quo. So I didn’t expect it to be easy. I think some of the distractions and some of the ferocity was — I was a little blindsided by on a personal level,” she said.
Word: crown fire Part of Speech: noun 1. Fire that spreads through a forest at the crown or canopy level, without the need for a fire at ground level to ignite the trees. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ear tunnel Part of Speech: noun 1. A round piece of jewelry with a hole in the middle, which fits into a stretched earlobe. Labels: idiomatic
Word: interfere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French entreferir, from entre- + ferir (“to hit, to strike”), itself from the Latin verb ferio. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/, /ˌɪn.təˈfɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance. Labels: intransitive Example: I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs. Example: I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch. 2. Of waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed. Labels: intransitive Example: Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering. Example: Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise. 3. Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs. 4. To sexually molest, especially of a child. Labels: intransitive Example: The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.
Word: English Plus Part of Speech: name 1. A movement that encourages English-only speakers to learn other languages in order to promote cultural diversity and acceptance. Labels: US
Word: lota Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi लोटा (loṭā) / Urdu لوٹا (loṭā). (person who switches loyalties): From the fact that the lota pot has a tendency to fall over and roll around, as it is not stable sitting on its base. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊtə/ 1. A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass. Labels: South-Asia Example: She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water. 2. A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another, engaging in lotacracy.
Word: motard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French mot(o) Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Frankish *-hardbor. Old French -art Middle French [Term?] French -ard French motardbor. English motard Borrowed from French motard. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ̯ˌtɑːd/, [ˈməʊ̯ˌtʰɑːd], /ˈmoʊ̯ˌtɑɹd/, [ˈmoʊ̯ˌtʰɑɹd] 1. A supermotard.
Word: motard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moto (“motivated, gung-ho marine”) + retard. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ̯ˌtɑːd/, [ˈməʊ̯ˌtʰɑːd], /ˈmoʊ̯ˌtɑɹd/, [ˈmoʊ̯ˌtʰɑɹd] 1. In the United States Marine Corps, one who expresses his/her motivation for the Marine Corps to the point of obnoxiousness. Labels: US, slang
Word: roastnear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From roasting ear. 1. An ear of corn or corn on the cob. Labels: US, slang
Word: vicariance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vicariant + -ance. 1. The separation of a group of organisms by a geographic barrier, resulting in differentiation of the original group into new varieties or species. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such an old origin for parts of Sulawesi would explain its unique biota and high species richness; species would have rafted along on these fragments from worlds since long lost (a process known as vicariance). 2. The geological event which produces such a barrier (volcano, earthquake, etc) Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of experiencing an event by proxy through an empathic link with the person who is experiencing the event firsthand. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: virgate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virgāta, "yard" compared to "virga" as a measuring rod. Doublet of vergée. Pronunciation: /vɜɹˈɡeɪt/, /ˈvɝɡət/, /ˈvɜːɡət/ 1. The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ¹⁄₄ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres. Labels: historical
Word: virgate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virgātus. Pronunciation: /ˈvɝɡət/, /ˈvɜːɡət/ 1. Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, (particularly botany) the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches. Labels: not-comparable 2. Finely striped, often with dark fibers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: spinster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spynnestere (“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread for a living. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪnstə/, /ˈspɪnstɚ/ 1. A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: If […] a woman be named spinster, she may abate […]the same [writ]. Example: Iola Boylen is Mama's longtime friend and neighbor, a spinster who lives with her never-seen domineering mother. 2. One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister. 3. Someone whose occupation was spinning thread. Labels: obsolete Example: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. 4. A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. Labels: obsolete 5. A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread. Labels: dialectal, rare
Word: utterance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English utteraunce, outeraunce; equivalent to utter + -ance. Pronunciation: /ˈʌtəɹəns/ 1. An act of, or the process of, uttering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: at length gave utterance to these words Example: July 1857, The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review Mathematics and Poetry are … the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. 2. An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. Example: To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus. 3. The ability to speak. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mrs. Weston kissed her with tears of joy; and when she could find utterance, assured her, that this protestation had done her more good than any thing else in the world could do. 4. A manner of speaking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He has a good utterance. Example: They [...] began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5. A sale made by offering to the public. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The clothemakers[…] had great profite and good utterance of the sayd cloth 6. An act of putting in circulation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes
Word: utterance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English outraunce, utteraunce, from Old French outrance (see outrance). Pronunciation: /ˈʌtəɹəns/ 1. The utmost extremity, especially of a fight; bodily harm or death. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Among champions and such as strive for the masterie in feats of activitie, we count those for their adversaries and concurrents onely, who professe and practise the same kinde of game or exercise; for those that goe to it with fists and buffers, are commonly friends good enough to such sword-fencers as fight at sharpe to the utterance, and well-willers to the champions called Pancratiastae. Example: To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to th' utterance.
Word: immeasurable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English inmesurable, ynmesurable; equivalent to im- + measurable. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/, /ɪˈmɛʒɹəbəl/ 1. impossible to measure Labels: not-comparable Example: Give me your hand, and in a few minutes we shall be in my own dwelling, amid those immeasurable deserts where only my story may be communicated. Example: There is also the former Great Central main line which, though it climbs to an almost equal altitude at Dunford, has the immeasurable advantage of electric traction. 2. vast Labels: not-comparable Example: "His contribution has been immeasurable," Bush said in a statement. "I value his judgment, and I treasure his friendship." Example: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Word: immeasurable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inmesurable, ynmesurable; equivalent to im- + measurable. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/, /ɪˈmɛʒɹəbəl/ 1. anything that cannot be measured Example: And inspiring good relationships is all about immeasurables: it is about inspiring purpose, compassion and attentiveness.
Word: Black Russian Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to Black Russia. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.
Word: Black Russian Part of Speech: noun 1. A cocktail containing vodka and a coffee-flavoured liqueur such as Kahlúa. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian. Example: I had met Yelena Khanga (Lily Golden's daughter) in Chicago when we were both on a panel about blacks and Russia in the early 1990s. Her book, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865–1992, had just come out, and she was ...
Word: balaclava Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the city of Balaklava in Crimea, from Ottoman Turkish بالقلاوه (modern Turkish balıklava), alteration of بالقلاغه (balıklaga, “fishing ground”). During the Crimean War the British troops suffered from cold due to improper clothing. When the news spread in the home front after the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, the people began knitting warm clothing for the soldiers, including woollen caps to be worn under the helmet, which were named balaclavas by the troops. Pronunciation: /ˌbæl.əˈklɑː.və/, /ˌbɑː.ləˈklɑː.və/ 1. A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool. 2. A ski mask with holes for the eyes and, sometimes, the nose and mouth, which may be rolled up and worn like a toque or pulled over the face for greater protection. Labels: Canada, UK Example: George Ronald Waite, 33, known as Balaclava Bill because of the dark blue woollen hood he wore while robbing seven banks of $46,200 over the past two years, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in Kingston Penitentiary.
Word: windlass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnd.ləs/ 1. Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights 2. A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course. Example: With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out. 3. An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
Word: windlass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnd.ləs/ 1. To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass. Example: A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals. 2. To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means. Example: He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.
Word: vespillo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vespillo. 1. One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Labels: Ancient-Rome Example: Like vespilloes or gravemakers. 2. A wasp from the genus Vespillo in the family Vespidae.
Word: longish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English long Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English longish From long + -ish. 1. Somewhat long. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html "How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!) Example: She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.
Word: vertiport Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of vertical + airport. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː.tɪˌpɔːt/, /ˈvɝ.tɪˌpɔɹt/ 1. An airport for VTOL aircraft.
Word: versatilist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English versatile Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English versatilist From versatile + -ist. 1. A versatile specialist who can switch to a new discipline if needed.
Word: value-added network Part of Speech: noun 1. A communications network with additional functions such as error correction, protocol conversion and message storing.
Word: virility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From virile + -ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās. Pronunciation: /vəˈɹɪlɪti/ 1. The state of being virile. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility. 2. Manly character, quality, or nature. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The ability of a man to procreate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
Word: vapour density Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of the density of a gas to the density of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure.
Word: woolyback Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of woolly back. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: charged Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒd/, /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/ 1. simple past and past participle of charge Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
Word: charged Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒd/, /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/ 1. Arousing strong emotion. Example: a charged issue in American politics 2. Showing or having strong emotion. Example: an emotionally charged plea 3. Fraught with emotion; tense. Example: It was an emotionally charged moment when President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress for the first time during his administration. It was also a charged moment because of failing economies in the US and around the world. Congress and the public waited to hear how he proposed to help solve the problem. President Obama suggested several strategies[…] Example: Eva approached me , and her closeness made my senses come alive. There was a charged moment where words seemed superfluous. She finally broke the silence. "So, Killian, why did you really want me here on stage? You insisted that I didn't need to audition. Was this even about the music?" 4. Having electricity. Example: charged particles Example: a charged phone
Word: thusly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel, with a false inference that thus is not an adverb. Pronunciation: /ˈðʌs.li/ 1. thus (in this way). Labels: not-comparable, proscribed Example: Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem! Example: His course can only be akkounted for thusly: 2. thus (therefore) Labels: not-comparable, proscribed Example: Lately, they [the prison authorities] came up with a new excuse. Seems like they consider owning a Gay publication is an expression of a person's sexuality and would thusly identify the person as a homosexual which would then subject him to assault or pressures.
Word: flamboyant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery. Pronunciation: /flamˈbɔɪ.ənt/, /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/ 1. Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious. Example: When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case. Example: 1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness, But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] . 2. Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Example: S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance. Example: The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533). 3. Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris. Example: Ancient swords were frequently “flamboyant,” or with waved edges; more especially those used for purposes of state. The Dukes of Burgundy bore a two-handed sword of this form. Indeed, “flaming swords,” as they were called, were worn down to the times of our Charles II., and perhaps later.
Word: flamboyant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery. Pronunciation: /flamˈbɔɪ.ənt/, /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/ 1. The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar. Example: The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
Word: royal poinciana Part of Speech: noun 1. A tropical tree, Delonix regia, grown for its bright red flower clusters; native to Madagascar but grown in many other tropical regions; the flamboyant.
Word: cluster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal) * Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”) * Low German Kluuster (“cluster”) * Swedish kluster (“cluster”) Pronunciation: /ˈklʌstə/, /ˈklʌstɚ/ 1. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Example: a cluster of islands Example: A cluster of flowers grew in the pot. 2. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Example: The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars. Example: My fellow biotic: You have been selected to receive this transmission because of our shared plight. Few understand us, fewer tolerate us. We must stand together. We must build our own new world. Come. Join us in the Hawking Eta cluster. Only as one body can we right the wrongs done to our kind. 3. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Labels: physical 4. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Example: A computer cluster is a collection of two or more computers used to execute a given problem or section. Typically, in a computer cluster, the interconnection network tying the computers together is a local area network (LAN). […] The computers in the cluster communicate among themselves and among the shared memory. 5. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. 6. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Example: A leukemia cluster has developed in the town. 7. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Example: examples of clusters would include in accordance with, so far, and the results of 8. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. 9. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Labels: US 10. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. 11. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Example: The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants. 12. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. 13. A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm. Example: VVe lou'd him, / But like Beaſts / And Covvardly Nobles, / Gaue vvay vnto your Cluſters, vvho did hoote / Him out o' th' Citty. Example: [T]hey all alight, and then they go to the ſecond gate, and if peraduenture they cannot get in, they ſit there vvithout, as Bees doe in the Sunne, all in a cluſter. 14. Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”). Labels: euphemistic, form-of, slang
Word: cluster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal) * Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”) * Low German Kluuster (“cluster”) * Swedish kluster (“cluster”) Pronunciation: /ˈklʌstə/, /ˈklʌstɚ/ 1. To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1). Labels: transitive Example: The consciousness of such an action will give her features a nobler life on this illustrious day, than all the jewels that can hang in her hair or can be clustered in her bosom. Example: Not less the bee would range her cells, / The furzy prickle fire the dells, / The foxglove cluster dappled bells. 2. To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters. Labels: transitive Example: The sea is clustered with islands. 3. To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather. Labels: intransitive Example: The children clustered around the puppy. Example: [T]he fruite cluſtereth togyther lyke to ſmal grapes, which in the beginning is greene, and afterwarde when it is ripe, al blacke.
Word: lesbiana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lesbiana. 1. A Latina lesbian.
Word: lesbiana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lesbian + -ana. 1. Things (artifacts, literature, etc.) related to lesbians or lesbianism. Labels: uncountable Example: The "conference vision and goals" discussion included the question of whether the gathering should be a "lesbo expo" ― with crafts and other lesbiana. Instead, the group decided on a "lesbian conference with related events."
Word: GLBT Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: Gayglers include the company's GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual) employees.
Word: rugose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin rūgōsus (“wrinkled”). Pronunciation: /ɹʊˈɡəʊs/, /ˌɹuːˈɡoʊs/ 1. Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation. 2. Rugged, rough, unrefined. Labels: figuratively, rare 3. Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. "rugose-veined" or "rugose-leaved". Example: Petraea foliis rugosis ovatis. The oval, rugose-leaved Petraea. The root is brachiated; the shrub rises to ten feet high: the leaves are three inches long, an inch and a half broad, even at the edges, and very rough to the touch: (Note: In modern nomenclature, the plant in question probably is Petrea rugosa, as the spelling "Petraea" does not seem to match any extant genus,) Example: The original leaves were flat and very rugose, and almost hid by the numerous single-stemmed flowers; while the leaves produced in the umbellate state were larger, more upright, and less wrinkled. 4. Describing fossil corals of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), that have horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges. 5. Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
Word: CDE Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Common Desktop Environment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CDE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of coastal depositional environment. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: excitement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English excitement, from Old French excitement, equivalent to excite + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ 1. The state of being excited (emotionally aroused). Labels: uncountable Example: to get caught up in the excitement Example: By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. 2. Something that excites. Labels: countable
Word: gleed Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of glede (“live coal”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rejoinder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rejoinder, rejonder, rejoynder, from Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French. Doublet of rejoin. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪndɚ/ 1. The defendant's answer to the replication. 2. A response that answers another response. Example: "76. ... P-R8(N) mate! Certainly not 76... P-R8(Q), though threatening mate on the move in seven different ways--as 77 Q-N5 mate would have been the painful rejoinder." 3. A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question. Example: I have passed perhaps more time than any other man of my age and country in visits and assemblies, where the polite persons of both sexes distinguish themselves; and could not without much grief observe how frequently both gentlemen and ladies are at a loss for questions, answers, replies, and rejoinders. Example: "I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet." I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly. 4. Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement. Labels: US
Word: rejoinder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rejoinder, rejonder, rejoynder, from Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French. Doublet of rejoin. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪndɚ/ 1. To issue a rejoinder. Labels: intransitive 2. To say as a rejoinder. Labels: transitive
Word: trot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread. Pronunciation: /tɹɑt/, /tɹɒt/ 1. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run. Example: Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. 2. A brisk journey or progression. Example: We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach. Example: In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4. 3. A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together). Example: Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop. Example: The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[…]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot. 4. A toddler. Example: 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories. 5. A moderately rapid dance. 6. A young animal. Labels: obsolete 7. An ugly old woman, a hag. Labels: archaic, derogatory 8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up. Labels: Australia, obsolete 9. A run of luck or fortune. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon. Example: It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there. 10. Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid) Labels: dated, slang 11. Diarrhoea. Labels: informal Example: He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
Word: trot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread. Pronunciation: /tɹɑt/, /tɹɒt/ 1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run. Labels: intransitive Example: I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop. Example: The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side. 2. To move at a gait between a walk and a canter. Labels: intransitive 3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. Labels: transitive 4. To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods. Labels: UK, archaic, slang, transitive Example: A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.
Word: trot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre. Pronunciation: /tɹɑt/, /tɹɒt/ 1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. Labels: uncountable
Word: trot Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹɑt/, /tɹɒt/ 1. Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The problem is that the likes of Shapps and his boss Boris Johnson are eager for a fight with the unions. They are being deliberately provocative, so they can portray railway workers as 'troublesome trots'.
Word: hollow rail Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of curtain rail having a slit along the length at the bottom in which gliders attached to pliable curtains can slide.
Word: guillotine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French guillotine, named after the French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), who proposed its use for capital punishment. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪlətiːn/, /ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/, /ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/, /ˈɡɪləˌtin/, /ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/ 1. A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine. Labels: also, figuratively, historical Example: For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s. 2. A device or machine with a cutting blade. Labels: broadly 3. A device or machine with a cutting blade. Labels: broadly 4. A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously. Labels: UK, broadly, informal Example: The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it? That is the case; they ran a guillotine on that Bill, and there was a very limited amount of time allowed for debate and scrutiny, yet he complains about that happening here. 5. A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture. Labels: US, broadly, informal
Word: guillotine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French guillotiner (“to execute with a guillotine, to guillotine”), from guillotine (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪlətiːn/, /ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/, /ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/, /ˈɡɪləˌtin/, /ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/ 1. To use a guillotine (on someone or something). Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution. Example: Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it. 2. To use a guillotine (on someone or something). Labels: transitive 3. To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure. Labels: UK, informal, transitive 4. To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture. Labels: US, informal, transitive 5. To end anything abruptly. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Forgetting Solitaire, he almost dragged Bond through the door. At the last moment he remembered the girl and seized her with his other hand and pulled her in too, banging the door shut with his heel so that Mrs Stuyvesant's 'I hope you have a happy...' was guillotined before the 'stay'.
Word: fulsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fulsom, equivalent to full + -some. The meaning has evolved from an original positive connotation "abundant" to a neutral "plump" to a negative "overfed". In modern usage, it can take on any of these inflections. See usage note. The negative sense "offensive, gross; disgusting, sickening" developed secondarily after the 13th century and was influenced by Middle English foul (“foul”). In the 18th century, the word was sometimes even spelled foulsome. Pronunciation: /ˈfʊlsəm/ 1. Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive. Example: [T]he Weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a River that was near. He conſented, and I immediately ſtripped myſelf ſtark naked, and went down ſoftly into the ſtream. It happened that a young Female Yahoo ſtanding behind a Bank, ſaw the whole proceeding, and enflamed by Deſire, as the Nag and I conjectured, came running with all ſpeed, and leaped into the Water within five Yards of the Place where I bathed. [...] She embraced me after a moſt fulſome manner; [...] Example: You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie. 2. Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity). Example: And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!" Example: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs [...] 3. Characterised or marked by fullness; abundant, copious. Example: The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits. Example: These extra services before Christmas Day were in addition to fulsome train facilities on the day, with many companies running a Sunday service. 4. Fully developed; mature. Example: Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.
Word: surely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English surely; equivalent to sure + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɔːli/, /ˈʃʊəli/, /ˈʃʊɹli/, /ˈʃɔɹli/, /ˈʃɝli/ 1. Without fail. Example: slowly but surely 2. Certainly, undoubtedly. Example: Surely, you must be joking. Example: You don’t suppose we're going to pay for you, surely? 3. With confidence. Example: His feet were planted surely on the ground. Example: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us[…].
Word: quadragenarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin quadrāgēnārius (“containing 40”) + -an, either directly or via French quadragénaire, from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Cognate with quadragenary, quadragenarious, and quadragene. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌkwɒdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ 1. Synonym of fortysomething: a person between 40 and 49 years old.
Word: quadragenarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin quadrāgēnārius (“containing 40”) + -an, either directly or via French quadragénaire, from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Cognate with quadragenary, quadragenarious, and quadragene. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌkwɒdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ 1. Of or related to fortysomethings. Labels: not-comparable
Word: requests Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkwɛsts/, /ɹəˈkwɛsts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of request Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: requests Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkwɛsts/, /ɹəˈkwɛsts/ 1. plural of request Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Freitag Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from the Germanic languages.
Word: go the way of the dinosaurs Part of Speech: verb 1. To go extinct or become obsolete; to fall out of common use or practice; to become a thing of the past. Labels: idiomatic Example: Washboards went the way of the dinosaurs when washing machines became commonplace. Example: It is good for man to try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish / Not to go down the dinosaur's way until all his capacities have been explored