nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: confabulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem. Pronunciation: /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/ 1. A casual conversation; a chat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning. Example: The schoolroom piano broke into all gruesome fancies; and when that failed there were confabulations in corners, with a sequel of one of them going out in the highest spirits in order to “come in” as something new. 2. A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For Örulv and Hydén, confabulation is ‘world-making’ (669). What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206). Example: Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.” 3. An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: congeries Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin congeriēs (“a heap, mass, pile”), from congerō (“to carry together, heap”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒndʒəɹiːz/, /kənˈdʒɪəɹiːz/, /ˈkɑːnd͡ʒəɹiːz/ 1. A collection or aggregation of disparate items. Example: And when the Newtonian philosophy gained ground in Europe, it was the opinion of Cotes rather than that of Newton that became most prevalent, till at last Boscovich propounded his theory, that matter is a congeries of mathematical points... Example: The world has seen the postal system developed from a congeries of independent and exclusive services into a well-ordered union, of which all countries enjoy the manifold benefits.
Word: conurbation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin con- (“together”) + urbs (“city”) + -ation. Coined by Scottish biologist, sociologist, and geographer Patrick Geddes in 1915. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnəˈbeɪʃən/, /ˌkɑnɚˈbeɪʃən/ 1. A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
Word: coruscate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin coruscātus, perfect passive participle of coruscō (“to flash, gleam”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹəskeɪt/, /ˈkɔːɹəskeɪt/ 1. To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle. Labels: intransitive Example: Then He [Death himself] clapped spurs to his steed and it sprang into the air, sparks coruscating from its hooves. 2. To exhibit brilliant technique or style. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: For truth and tenderness do more / Than coruscating metaphor.
Word: vim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Latin vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power, strength; (New Latin) energy, force”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”); compare English vis); but perhaps a modern expressive formation. Pronunciation: /vɪm/ 1. Ready vitality and vigour. Labels: uncountable Example: But he was, doubtless, totally unconscious that he was to be the chief personage in this most important story, or he would have acted out his real nature with all the vim and pathos which heroes always manifest in like circumstances. Example: The Yankees fought with pluck to the last, but the vigor and vim of the attack was too much for them. They were Michigan men, and were quite indignant at being called "Yankees."
Word: cosset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cottage”) (Modern English cot (“cottage”) (archaic)) + -sǣta (“-sitter”); compare coscet. Compare German Hauslamm (literally “house lamb”), Italian casiccio. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒsɪt/, /ˈkɑsɪt/, /ˈkɔsɪt/, /ˈkɒsət/, [ˈkɔ̟sət] 1. To treat like a pet; to overly indulge. Labels: transitive Example: The car cossets its occupants in comfort. 2. To fondle; to touch or stroke lovingly. Labels: transitive Example: The foam cossets your skin. 3. To benefit; to make life easy for. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: An independent oversight body is just setting up, but at full strength it will have a core team of just five. This is a state of affairs that cossets and enriches bailiffs at the expense of families who’ve fallen into debt.
Word: cosset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cottage”) (Modern English cot (“cottage”) (archaic)) + -sǣta (“-sitter”); compare coscet. Compare German Hauslamm (literally “house lamb”), Italian casiccio. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒsɪt/, /ˈkɑsɪt/, /ˈkɔsɪt/, /ˈkɒsət/, [ˈkɔ̟sət] 1. A pet, usually a pet lamb. 2. Someone indulged or cosseted.
Word: cosset Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cossid (“courier or messenger”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: glance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenchen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; of a person: to turn quickly aside, dodge”) [and other forms], a blend of: * Old French glacier, glachier, glaichier (“to slide; to slip”) (whence also Middle English glacen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; to glide”)), from glace (“frozen water, ice”) (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin, + -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and * Old French guenchir, ganchir (“to avoid; to change direction; to elude, evade”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wankijan (“to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bend”). The noun is derived from the verb. The sense "to look briefly (at something)" is probably due to partial conflation with Middle English glenten (“to look askance”)—the ancestor of English glint—in the Middle English period. This conflation may also have reinforced the medial -n-. See English glint Pronunciation: /ɡlɑːns/, /ɡlæns/, [ɡɫeəns] 1. A brief or cursory look. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To wound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour. Example: Hard to ſeeme wonne: but I was wonne my Lord / With the firſt glance; […] 2. A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The ayre here is freſh and ſweet in the morning and towards Sunſet, but in the Sunnes perpendicular glances, wee found it hot and raging: […] Example: [E]ach Creek & Bay / With Frie innumerable ſwarme, and Shoales / Of Fiſh that with thir Finns and ſhining Scales / Glide under the green Wave, […] ſporting with quick glance / Show to the Sun thir wav’d coats dropt with Gold, […] 3. A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: an act of rapidly touching the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 6. An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic. Labels: countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable Example: [W]hen Marcus Philoſophus came in, Sylenus was grauelled, and out of countenance, not knowing where to carpe at him, ſaue at the laſt, he gaue a glaunce at his patience towards his wife. Example: [A]lbeit in that brief diſcourſe I made concerning the Red ſea and Carmania where I made mention of the Burial-place of Erythreus there are ſome glances at it; I ſhall nevertheleſs (as in the moſt proper place) ſpeak a little further upon that ſubject.
Word: glance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English glaunce (compare glaunce-ore (“type of ore; lead ore used for glazing pottery (?)”)), borrowed from Middle High German glanz (“(adjective) gleaming, glittering, sparkling; (noun) a gleam, glitter, sparkle”), from Old High German glanz (“bright”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlend-. Pronunciation: /ɡlɑːns/, /ɡlæns/, [ɡɫeəns] 1. Ellipsis of glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 2. Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: copper glance silver glance Example: The Oxides, Pyrites, Glances, and Blendes, might be so termed; thus we should have Tungstic Iron Oxide (usually called Tungstate of Iron), Arsenical Iron Pyrites (Mispickel), Tetrahedral Copper Glance (Fahlerz), Quicksilver Blende (Cinnabar), and the Metals might be termed native, as Native Copper, Native Silver.
Word: unshift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English shift English unshift From un- + shift. 1. To release the shift key on a computer or typewriter keyboard. Labels: intransitive 2. To add an item to the beginning of an array. Labels: transitive
Word: copier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English copy Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English copier From copy + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpɪə/, /ˈkɑpiɚ/ 1. A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator. 2. A person who copies documents. 3. A program or process that copies. Example: a file copier; a disk copier
Word: womanhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊmənhʊd/ 1. The state or condition of being a woman. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood. Example: "I swear, even in this most holy hour of completed Womanhood, that I will abandon Evil and cherish Good." 2. All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world! Example: […]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were. 3. The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect - and in a way more spiritual - than ever woman was before. Example: From the kitchen comes the even murmur of their voices. Mother and daughter: the protocols of womanhood being passed on, generation to generation. 4. The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The female genitalia, especially the vulva. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.
Word: womanliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English womanly Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English womanliness From womanly + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊmənlɪnəs/ 1. The condition of being a woman; femininity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Word: woodcut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wood + cut. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdˌkʌt/ 1. An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form. Labels: countable 2. A method of printmaking from such a block. Labels: uncountable 3. A print produced with this method. Labels: countable
Word: wooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English woded (“concealed by trees”), equivalent to wood + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdɪd/ 1. Covered with trees. Example: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles. Example: Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels. 2. Aged in wooden casks.
Word: wooded Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of wood Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woodsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From woods + -man. Compare earlier woodman. 1. A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman. 2. Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and firemaking. Labels: attributive
Word: coxcomb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cokke’s comb. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒks.koʊm/ 1. The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe. Labels: historical 2. The fleshy red pate of a rooster. 3. A foolish or conceited person; a dandy. Labels: broadly Example: Thanks to my stars, I once can see / A window here from scribbling free! / Here no conceited coxcombs pass, / To scratch their paltry drabs on glass; / Nor party-fool is calling names, / Or dealing crowns to George and James. Example: [F]or tho' I am afraid the Doctor was a little of a Coxcomb, he might be nevertheleſs very much of a Surgeon.
Word: deign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English deinen, deynen (“to consider (something) suitable to one’s dignity or worth, condescend; to appear worthy; to condescend to grant (something), permit, vouchsafe; to regard (someone) as worthy; to consecrate, dedicate (something)”), from Old French daigner, degnier, deigner, deignier (“to condescend, deign”) (modern French daigner), from Latin dignāre, the present active infinitive of dignō (“to deem fitting, suitable, or worthy; to condescend, deign”), from dignus (“fitting, suitable, worthy; worthy of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to perceive; to take”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs). cognates * Italian degnare * Occitan deinar, denhar Pronunciation: /deɪn/ 1. To consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe. Labels: transitive Example: Nor vvould vve deigne him buriall of his men, / Till he diſburſed, at Saint Colmes ynch, / Ten thouſand Dollars, to our generall vſe. Example: [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe. 2. To consider it appropriate or worthy to accept or take (something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reprove / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne. Example: Go, go, be gone, to ſaue your Ship from vvrack, / VVhich cannot periſh hauing thee aboarde, / Being deſtin’d to a drier death on ſhore: / I muſt goe ſend ſome better Meſſenger, / I fear my Iulia vvould not daigne my lines, / Receiuing them from ſuch a vvorthleſſe poſt. 3. Often followed by of: to consider (someone) as worthy of something; to dignify. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: VVill you not daigne his Majeſty vvith an Anſvver? 4. To consider it appropriate or worthy to do something, often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to think fit, to vouchsafe. Labels: intransitive Example: He didn’t even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him. Example: For Edvvard vvill defeind the Tovvne, and thee, / And all thoſe friends, that deine to follovv mee.
Word: adiposity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From adipose + -ity, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). 1. Obesity; the state of being fat. Example: "Why this sudden concern about adiposity?" asked Hardman. 2. The condition of being adipose; adipose tissue.
Word: B-unit Part of Speech: noun 1. A locomotive with an engine, generator, and traction motors, but without a control cab.
Word: parley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabolō, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παρά (pará, “beside”) with βολή (bolḗ, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːli/, /ˈpɑɹli/, /ˈpaɾle/ 1. A conference, especially one between enemies. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Example: Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it [...]
Word: parley Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabolō, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παρά (pará, “beside”) with βολή (bolḗ, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːli/, /ˈpɑɹli/, /ˈpaɾle/ 1. To have a discussion, especially one between enemies. Labels: intransitive Example: [...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ſhot, fled amaine and left us [...] Example: "That is droll. Listen yet one time. You are very spiritual. Can you make a honorable lady of Her?" / "Don't be so malicious," says Mr. Bucket. / "Or a haughty gentleman of Him?" cries Madamoiselle, referring to Sir Leicester with ineffable disdain. "Eh! O then regard him! The poor infant! Ha! ha! ha!" / "Come, come, why this is worse Parlaying than the other," says Mr. Bucket. "Come along!"
Word: truce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true. Pronunciation: /tɹuːs/, /tɹus/, /ˈtɹʉs/ 1. A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties. Example: An uneasy truce Example: [I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms. 2. An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time. Example: He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days. Example: They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.
Word: truce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true. Pronunciation: /tɹuːs/, /tɹus/, /ˈtɹʉs/ 1. To come to an agreement to cease fighting. Labels: intransitive Example: Only undaunted Henry de Tracey […] held up the cause; trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.
Word: interlocution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English locution English interlocution From inter- + locution. 1. Discussion or conversation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]wo actors were introduced to sustain fictitious characters and carry on a dialogue in such manner that the songs of the chorus and the interlocution of the actors formed a continuous piece. Example: Contrary to Storra's hope, however, the conversation between Flinx and his new visitor was going very well indeed. ¶Experienced in the ways of political intrigue, if not interspecies interlocution, Treappyn had settled himself into a comfortable squat. 2. An intermediate decree before final decision. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: orgasmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek. The historically "correct" form is orgastic. Nouns from Ancient Greek that end in -sm regularly form adjectives ending in -stic: for example, enthusiasm / enthusiastic, sarcasm / sarcastic. By way of counterexample, the ahistorical -mic also appears in the terms protoplasmic and cataclysmic (instead of *protoplastic and *cataclystic). Pronunciation: /oɹˈɡæz.mɪk/ 1. Of or relating to orgasms. Labels: not-comparable 2. Prone to or capable of having orgasms. Labels: comparable Example: Seemingly every year, another study announces that married women are more orgasmic than single women. Example: They've helped non-orgasmic women become orgasmic, they've helped orgasmic women become more orgasmic, and they've helped many women experience their first multiple orgasms (we'll talk about that later!). 3. Very exciting or stimulating. Example: It must be an orgasmic experience to be an astronaut and see the Earth as a little, colourful marble surrounded by blackness.
Word: orgastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From orgas(m) + -ic (with t as in spastic) or -astic (as in e.g. sarcastic, pleonastic). Pronunciation: /ɔːˈɡæstɪk/, /ˈoɹ.ɡæstɪk/ 1. Orgasmic (exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm). Example: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. Example: There is surely no more orgastic torture for children than the cries of another child being punished.
Word: adipose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊs/, /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊz/, /ˈæd.ɪ.poʊs/ 1. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty. Example: They will attack the problem specifically at key sites in the brain, digestive system, and adipose organs. 2. Slightly overweight; chubby. Example: This was a statue of a slightly adipose child in a bath hat with its nappy round its ankles.
Word: adipose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊs/, /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊz/, /ˈæd.ɪ.poʊs/ 1. Animal fat stored in the tissue of the body. Labels: uncountable Example: As reviewed in this volume, adipose function is mechanistically linked to diseases such as arthritis, asthma, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Word: space docking Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of two spacecraft docking. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tiara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin. Pronunciation: /tiˈɑːɹə/, /tiˈɑɹə/, /tiˈæɹə/, /taɪˈɛəɹə/ 1. The three-tiered papal crown. 2. An ornamental coronet. Example: I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand. Example: [T]heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]
Word: tiara Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin. Pronunciation: /tiˈɑːɹə/, /tiˈɑɹə/, /tiˈæɹə/, /taɪˈɛəɹə/ 1. To adorn as a tiara. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Brilliants tiaraed her head. Example: Small platters of various provender succeed each other rapidly; fish, pastry, creams, then perhaps stews again of goose, turkey, peacock, vegetables, and then sweets again, without any regard to the programmes recommended by the English or French professors of the divine art. A pyramid of pilauf literally crowns, or rather tiaras the feast. 2. To adorn with a tiara. Labels: rare, transitive Example: He tiaraed her head. Example: Old Dandolo! and where are they who learned / To feel the fire with which thy bosom burned, / The sons, who caught from thee the spark divine, / And made their country worthy to be thine; / Laid conquered regions at her feet, and all / Tiaraed her with nations; that her pall / Was one vast universe of gorgeous things; / Her very vassals, arbiters of kings.
Word: granulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from granulation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, granule + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn.juːl.eɪt/, /ˈɡɹæn.jul.eɪt/, /ˈɡɹæn.jəl.eɪt/ 1. To segment into tiny grains or particles. Labels: transitive 2. To collect or be formed into grains. Labels: intransitive Example: Cane juice granulates into sugar.
Word: granulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English granule Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English granulate From granule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn.juːl.ət/, /ˈɡɹæn.jul.ət/, /ˈɡɹæn.jəl.ət/ 1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular. 2. Having numerous small elevations, like shagreen.
Word: albeit Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From the Middle English expression al be it (that), itself shortened from althagh it be that (“although it be that”), and thus composed from al (“completely, entirely”) + be (3rd person singular present subjunctive of been (“to be”)) + it. Pronunciation: /ɔːlˈbiː.ɪt/, /ɔlˈbi.ət/, /ɑlˈbi.ɪt/ 1. Although, despite (it) being. Example: VVho are you? tell me for more certainty, / Albeit Ile ſvveare that I do knovv your tongue. Example: The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men’s mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.
Word: nonetheless Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A modification of natheless after none, from Middle English natheles, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs. By surface analysis, none + the + less. Pronunciation: /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/ 1. Nevertheless. Labels: conjunctive, not-comparable Example: And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless. Example: That's proof to Freire that the party has room for moderate Republicans who are nonetheless loyal Republicans.
Word: notwithstanding Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation. Pronunciation: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/, /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/ 1. Nevertheless, all the same. Labels: not-comparable Example: He, notwithstanding, persisted in his inquiries. Example: But notwithstanding, man, I'll do you your master what good I can;
Word: notwithstanding Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation. Pronunciation: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/, /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/ 1. Although; despite the fact that; even though. Example: Notwithstanding I was provoked, I ought not to have reacted so violently. Example: After this, Amy told her, That notvvithſtanding I vvas angry vvith her, and had uſed her ſo hardly, for ſaying ſomething about her of the ſame kind; yet there vvas an abſolute Neceſſity of ſecuring her, and removing her out of the VVay; […]
Word: notwithstanding Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation. Pronunciation: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/, /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/ 1. In spite of, despite. Example: Notwithstanding personal preferences, the school district's rules on the topic govern our decision. Example: Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.
Word: notwithstanding Part of Speech: postp Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation. Pronunciation: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/, /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/ 1. In spite of, despite. Example: in accordance with school district rules on the topic, personal preferences notwithstanding Example: The lack of a catalog notwithstanding, it was a very interesting exhibit.
Word: demagogue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French démagogue, from Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós, “popular leader, mob leader”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”). By surface analysis, dem- + -agogue. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛməɡɑɡ/, /ˈdɛməɡɔɡ/, /ˈdɛməɡɒɡ/ 1. A political orator or leader, especially in a democratic system, who gains favor by pandering to or exciting the passions and prejudices of the audience rather than by using rational argument. Labels: derogatory Example: 1938, O'Neill, translating The Knights by Aristophanes, 424 BC, lines 191-193, A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. Example: If the majority of our fellow-citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue. 2. A leader of the people. Labels: historical
Word: demagogue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French démagogue, from Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós, “popular leader, mob leader”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”). By surface analysis, dem- + -agogue. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛməɡɑɡ/, /ˈdɛməɡɔɡ/, /ˈdɛməɡɒɡ/ 1. To speak or act in the manner of a demagogue; to speak about (an issue) in the manner of a demagogue. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: c. 1938, Maury Maverick, The New York Times, quoted in 1970, Richard B. Henderson, Maury Maverick: A Political Biography, page 183, I never demagogued on our serious questions and stood for civil liberties. Example: On the subject of foreign aid, although it is a relatively unimportant economic category, it is an area of expenditure that has frequently been demagogued and has been a favorite target of politicians during tough times in the domestic economy.
Word: nota bene Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Classical Latin notā bene (“note well”). Pronunciation: /ˌnəʊtə ˈbɛneɪ/, /ˌnoʊtə ˈbɛneɪ/, /ˌnoʊ.tə ˈbɛ.ni/, /ˌnoʊ.tə ˈbi.ni/, /ˌnoʊ.tə ˈbeɪ.ni/ 1. Take special note; used to add an aside or warning to a text. Labels: imperative
Word: nota bene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Classical Latin notā bene (“note well”). Pronunciation: /ˌnəʊtə ˈbɛneɪ/, /ˌnoʊtə ˈbɛneɪ/, /ˌnoʊ.tə ˈbɛ.ni/, /ˌnoʊ.tə ˈbi.ni/, /ˌnoʊ.tə ˈbeɪ.ni/ 1. An instance of the phrase nota bene or its variant spellings. Also, by extension: Labels: informal, rare 2. An instance of the phrase nota bene or its variant spellings. Also, by extension: Labels: informal, rare
Word: contemptuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin contemptus (whence contempt) + -ous. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛm(p).tʃu.əs/, /kənˈtɛm(p).tʃəs/, /kənˈtɛm(p).tju.əs/, /kənˈtɛmp.t͡ʃu.əs/ 1. Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect. Example: I don't know that guy, but he just gave me a contemptuous look. Example: Sir George burst into a loud fit of contemptuous laughter. 2. Worthy of contempt; contemptible. Labels: rare Example: Rep. Noble told GCN that she, however, had deep concern "regarding the scandalous sexual exploitation and abuse of young children by adults." Noble has called on the community to "support the efforts of the Suffolk County District Attorney's office in unraveling this contemptuous situation.
Word: in spite of Part of Speech: prep 1. Despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding. Labels: idiomatic Example: No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which—and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet—there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness. Example: The railway is still vital to Jordan's export trade, but in spite of the poor quality of the road, diesel lorries are gradually robbing it of freight traffic, and anyone who can afford to fly does so rather than face the long desert journey by rail.
Word: detect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere (“to uncover or disclose”), from de- + tegere (“to cover”); see tegument, tile, thatch. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛkt/ 1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing. Labels: transitive Example: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death. Example: Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...]. 2. To work as a detective. Labels: intransitive, rare
Word: detect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere (“to uncover or disclose”), from de- + tegere (“to cover”); see tegument, tile, thatch. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛkt/ 1. Detected. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: detect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from detective. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛkt/ 1. To work or solve cases as a detective. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid to detect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination. Example: Let me introduce myself: Mike MacAdam, hotel detective. / H-how d-’you do? / Mind if I begin detecting?
Word: detach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtæt͡ʃ/, /dəˈtæt͡ʃ/ 1. To take apart from; to take off. Labels: transitive Example: to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment Example: The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table—the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial. 2. To separate for a special object or use. Labels: transitive Example: to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment 3. To come off something. Labels: intransitive Example: Now that the zipper has detached, my winter coat won't keep me very warm.
Word: degenerate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/ 1. Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal. 2. Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt. Example: faint-hearted and degenerate king Example: But what can Cato do Againſt a World, a baſe degenerate World, That courts the Yoke, and bows the Neck to Cæſar? 3. Having lost functionality in general. Example: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted. 4. Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range. Example: The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons. 5. Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class. Example: A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point. Example: We now apply the geometrical construction explained in the appendix to the degenerate triangle ABC. 6. Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors. 7. Having the same quantum energy level.
Word: degenerate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dégénéré. Pronunciation: /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/ 1. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person. Example: In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy. 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.
Word: degenerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin degenerō + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Italian degenerare, French dégénérer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, degener). By surface analysis, de- + generate. Pronunciation: /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪt/ 1. To lose good or desirable qualities. Labels: intransitive Example: His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital. Example: Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music. 2. To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. Labels: transitive
Word: desirable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French desirable. Morphologically desire + -able. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/, [dɪˈzaɪ(j)əɹəbəɫ], /dɪˈzaɪɹəbəl/, [dɪˈzaɪɹəbəɫ], [dɪˈzaɪɹəbɫ̩] 1. Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable. Example: This applicant has almost all desirable properties. Example: It has long been recognised that complete segregation of control of the respective services provided by the two undertakings, and of the power supply, signalling, and tracks relating to each was desirable. 2. Sexually attractive. Example: The desirable Miss Moneypenny, M's all-powerful private secretary, gave him an encouraging smile and he walked through the double doors.
Word: desirable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French desirable. Morphologically desire + -able. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/, [dɪˈzaɪ(j)əɹəbəɫ], /dɪˈzaɪɹəbəl/, [dɪˈzaɪɹəbəɫ], [dɪˈzaɪɹəbɫ̩] 1. A thing that people want; something that is desirable. Example: There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
Word: geekasm Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of geekgasm. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 2002, May 21st, MIT professor Alex Slocum, Scientific American Frontiers When they build a machine, if they do the calculations right, the machine works and you get this intense... uhh... just like a geekasm, from knowing that what you created in your mind and on the computer is actually doing what you told it to do.
Word: denizen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/ 1. An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place. Example: The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep. Example: […] adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel, and those who are no longer their own governors, and the denizens of their own free independent state, must crouch before strangers. 2. One who frequents a place. Example: The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort. Example: He was well known to the sallow denizens of the lane; for such of them as were on the look-out to buy or sell, nodded, familiarly, as he passed along. 3. A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent. Labels: UK, historical Example: 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, London, The xiiii yere, Then by commaundement wer all Fre[n]chemen and Scottes imprisoned and the goodes seazed, and all suche as were denizens were commaunded to shewe their letters patentes […] Example: A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both. 4. An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat. Example: The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state. 5. A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.
Word: denizen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/ 1. To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize. Labels: UK, historical, transitive Example: He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country. Example: [The Horse-Chessnut] was first brought from Constantinople to Vienna, thence into Italy, and so France; but to Ʋs from the Levant more immediately, and flourishes so well, and grows so goodly a Tree in compe[te]nt time, that by this alone, we might have ample encouragement to Denizen other strangers amongst us. 2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. Labels: transitive Example: 1849, Joseph Dalton Hooker, “Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India” in William Jackson Hooker (editor), Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, Volume 1, p. 85, There were a few islets in the sand […] . These were at once denizened by the Calotropis, Argemone, Tamarix, Gnaphalium luteoalbum and two other species […] .
Word: resolution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1412, as Middle English resolucioun (“dissolution”), either from Anglo-Norman resolucion or directly from Latin resolūtiō (“a loosening, solution”), from resolvō (“to loosen”), itself from the intensive prefix re- + solvō (“to loosen”). By surface analysis, recognizably related to resolve and -tion. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɹɛzəˈl(j)uʃ(ə)n/ 1. A firm decision or an official decision. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A strong will; the state of being resolute. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish. 3. A statement of intent, a vow. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By February, most New Year’s resolutions are forgotten. Example: My resolution is to cut back on the fast food this year. 4. The act of discerning detail. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. 5. The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Printing at higher resolution will cause a reduction in performance. 6. The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This monitor's maximum resolution is 1600 × 1200. 7. The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: name resolution Example: link resolution 8. The act or process of resolving: solving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: evaluation, calculation Example: the resolution of an equation 9. An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra). Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The resolution was passed by a two-thirds majority. 11. The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc). Labels: countable, uncountable 12. The degree of fineness of such a separation. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: dénouement 15. In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Holonyms: immunity, recovery, healing