nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: motivations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of motivation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob. Pronunciation: /nʌb/, /nʊb/ 1. The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon. Labels: obsolete 2. A small knob or lump. 3. The essence or core of an issue, argument etc. Example: What do you think is the nub of the problem? Example: Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a nub, point, snapper, or whatever you like to call it. 4. The clitoris. Labels: euphemistic, slang, vulgar Example: “ — and then rub her nub with the bridge of your nose, right where the nerve will drive her straight to the ceiling!” Example: When he used his fingers to rub her nub, he didn't have to wait anymore. She exploded for the second time that morning,... 5. A pointing stick. Labels: colloquial 6. A passage of Shakespearean blank verse. Example: A nub is a passage of blank verse that Shakespearean actors have sometimes relied upon when they forget their lines. It doesn't have to make any sense, but it must sound plausible. To alert the other actors on stage that the speaker is in difficulty, the word nub is used in the first line. Example: To an audience a clever nub can pass for Shakespeare himself. 7. The genital tubercle. Labels: informal Example: nub theory
Word: nub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob. Pronunciation: /nʌb/, /nʊb/ 1. To hit the ball weakly. 2. To push; to nudge. 3. To beckon. 4. To extemporize a passage of Shakespearean blank verse Example: In Shall we Shog?, Globe artistic director Mark Rylance hilariously found himself having to nub the Quarto version of Hamlet's speech to the players.
Word: nub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant spelling of noob. Pronunciation: /nuːb/, /nub/ 1. Alternative spelling of noob. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative Example: He can’t even make himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? What a nub.
Word: pull my finger Part of Speech: verb 1. A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which someone is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the ensuing expulsion of gas. Example: Bob: "Oh, how do you play this game?" Example: Charlie: "Well, Bob, just pull my finger."
Word: Latvians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Latvian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Letton Part of Speech: name 1. A hamlet in Walford, Letton and Newton parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3770). 2. A small village and civil parish in west Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3346). 3. A surname.
Word: moral objectivism Part of Speech: noun 1. The position that certain acts are objectively right or wrong, independent of human opinion. Labels: uncountable
Word: I never did Part of Speech: intj 1. An exclamation of great surprise. Labels: dated, idiomatic Example: 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit ‘Why, good gracious, Amy, what ever brought you here?’ ‘I wanted to see you, Fanny dear; and as I am going out all day to-morrow, and knew you might be engaged all day to-day, I thought—’ ‘But the idea, Amy, of you coming behind! I never did!’ Example: "Well, I never did!" she exclaimed in a scandalized whisper. "Trying to set fire to the 'ouse — oh, fie".
Word: well, I never Part of Speech: intj 1. An exclamation of great surprise. Labels: idiomatic
Word: dovish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *dūbaną? Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ Proto-West Germanic *dūbā Old English *dūfe Middle English douve English dove Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English dovish From dove + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌvɪʃ/ 1. Pertaining to a dove; dove-like. 2. Peaceful, conciliatory. Labels: figuratively Example: According to Kathleen A. Francovic, director of surveys for CBS News, it was the “war and peace” issue that seemed to separate the sexes in 1980, with women predictably perched on the dovish side. Example: Doubtless an expression of frustration at the UN secretary general, who has long been too dovish for Bush administration tastes. 3. Disfavoring increasing interest rates; inclined against increasing interest rates. Example: The Federal Reserve's statement on recent inflation was interpreted as dovish by the market. Example: A dovish policy keeps unemployment close to 6 percent and lets the price level swing more widely to absorb economic shocks.
Word: tarnation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn. Pronunciation: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/ 1. The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell. Labels: archaic, countable, regional, uncountable Example: What in tarnation is going on? Example: I am Offul maazed. Wheer in tarnations es that theer plaguy girl? 2. Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT. Example: I felt sort of odd all over, and I hadn't the least notion what could ail me; it warn't a very tedious feeling, though, but it seemed as if I was a dreaming yit, and all about that tarnation little Miss Miles.
Word: tarnation Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn. Pronunciation: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/ 1. Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. Labels: archaic Example: "Tarnation! You all right?" "Hell, no, I ain't all right!" Example: “They contain the precise description of the place where the nuggets are hidden.” “Tarnation! Is that true?"
Word: tarnation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn. Pronunciation: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/ 1. Bothersome; devilish. Example: Now you go 'long back to the house, Marm Winthrop, and if riding 'longside of a popish priest don't speerit me into the bottomless pit, I'll be blamed if I don't go some day into his church and find out what all that tarnation lingo means. Example: It started over nothing, and would have come to nothing but for that tarnation liquor. 2. Generic intensifier. Example: Some time in the month o' August, I think it wur, I found myself in London wi'out a tarnation cent. Example: My love the strongest, a tarnation sight.
Word: tarnation Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn. Pronunciation: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/ 1. Very; extremely. Example: He was so tarnation black you couldn't see him except in the middle of the day. Example: Since Britannia ruled the waves, I guess it's a tarnation queer thing that she didn't rule 'em straighter.
Word: vetted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vet Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vetted Part of Speech: adj 1. Having undergone an investigation and been approved. Labels: not-comparable Example: Only vetted nominees make it to committee hearings.
Word: varsity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the mid 17th century. Clipping of univarsity, reflecting an archaic pronunciation of university. Pronunciation: /ˈvɑː.sɪ.ti/, /ˈvɑɹ.sɪ.ti/, [ˈvɑɹsɪɾi] 1. university Labels: attributive, countable, often, uncountable Example: […] and then to lyrically proclaim that, not only was it a way they had in the Varsity to drive dull care away, but that the same practice was also pursued in the army and navy for the attainment of a similar end. 2. The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.) Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen. Example: A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?
Word: NIFOC Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of naked in front of computer. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: Moses basket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Moses + basket, after the biblical story of Moses being placed in a basket and set afloat on the Nile (Exodus 2:1-10). 1. A basket for holding a newborn, a kind of bassinet designed to be set upon a stand.
Word: hit a snag Part of Speech: verb 1. To encounter an unexpected problem or delay. Labels: idiomatic Example: Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day. Example: Ms. Harris opted for buying hair and getting a beautician to make it into a two “forever wigs,” right for her face and head measurements. Even so, she hit several snags. When her wigs arrived, one was just too full.
Word: unseasonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English un- French a- Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *sísh₁eti Proto-Italic *sizō Latin serō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin satiōnem Old French saison French saison Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French assaisonnerbor. English season English -al English seasonal English unseasonal From un- + seasonal. 1. Not normal, appropriate, or expected for the season or time of year. Example: An unseasonal rainstorm took everyone by surprise.
Word: unseasonally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English un- French a- Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *sísh₁eti Proto-Italic *sizō Latin serō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin satiōnem Old French saison French saison Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French assaisonnerbor. English season English -al English seasonal English unseasonal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English unseasonally From unseasonal + -ly. 1. Not in keeping with the season; not expected, normal, or usual for the time of year. Example: They had an unseasonally warm winter and everything seemed to bloom early that year.
Word: shan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from shand (“worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps of Romani origin. 1. unfair, harsh Labels: Geordie Example: Here man! that's pure shan that like 2. poor, low-quality Labels: Scotland
Word: allometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From allo- + -metry. Pronunciation: /ˈæləˌmɛtɹɪ/ 1. Disproportionate growth of a part of a living organism in relation to the whole. Labels: uncountable Example: Some organs may grow faster than the rest of the body so that their size increases not only in absolute terms, but also relatively to the rest of the body, which is positive allometry; or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body, and so decrease in relative size, which is negative allometry. 2. The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism. Labels: uncountable
Word: organ pipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organ + pipe. 1. A tuned metal or wooden tube connected mechanically or electrically to an organ console. Example: In an inner mountain land where none hath come he hath carved his organ pipes out of the mountains, and there when the winds, his servants, come in from all the world he maketh the melody of Limpang-Tung. 2. An organ pipe cactus.
Word: timesheet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From time + sheet. 1. A document that allows for the recording of hours worked on various tasks that is used as input for payroll, project accounting or client billing processes.
Word: organ pipe cactus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From its resemblance to organ pipes. 1. A cactus (family Cactaceae) (Stenocereus thurberi, syn. Glandulicereus thurberi), widespread in Mexico.
Word: organ console Part of Speech: noun 1. The manuals, the pedals and associated stops of an organ, especially a pipe organ.
Word: dump job Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of moving a corpse from the place of death and abandoning it in a deserted area, typically to conceal a murder. 2. The abandonment of an unfinished task for which the abandoner might be expected to take responsibility, especially in a fashion that makes it likely that one or more colleagues will take on its completion. 3. A dump truck.
Word: sephirah Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɛfɪɹɑː/, /səˈfiɹə/ 1. Alternative spelling of sefirah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pipe organ Part of Speech: noun 1. The largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console. The organ produces its sound by sending air through organ pipes- either reed pipes or flue pipes, which are seated on wind chests. The valves controlling each pipe may be actuated electronically or using long wooden poles called trackers.
Word: Bandersnatch Part of Speech: name Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1863 (see quotation). Pronunciation: /ˈbændə(ɹ)snæt͡ʃ/ 1. An obscure fictional creature mentioned in two of Lewis Carroll's poems. Example: Beware the jabberwock, my son. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch
Word: DCAA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Defense Contract Audit Agency. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Shan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam. Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/, /ʃæn/ 1. A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people. Example: The Thai proper are related to the Shans of Burma, the Siamese of Thailand and the Lao of Indochina. The Chinese segment of the Thai ethnic group is settled in Yünnan Province, where it numbers 580,000. It constitutes the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Autonomous Chou in the southern part of the province and shares the Tehung Autonomous Chou in the west with the Chingpo (Kachin). The Thai of the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Chou speak the Lü dialect, those of the Tehung Chou are more closely related to the Shans of northern Burma. Example: Although holding mainly high upland territory in Burma, the Shan themselves live only in the valleys and in stretches of plain. The surrounding hill country is occupied by relatively primitive hill peoples living in economic symbiosis with the Shan, but there is no clear genetic distinction between the Shan and their neighbours. With minor exceptions modern Shan communities are Buddhist. Most Shan are cultivators of rice; they have a characteristic species of feudal political structure. Shan culture probably diffused southward and westward from west-central China from Han times (c. 200 B.C.) onward.
Word: Shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam. Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/, /ʃæn/ 1. The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family. 2. A state of Myanmar.
Word: Shan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam. Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/, /ʃæn/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝／陕 (shǎn). Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/, /ʃæn/ 1. The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.
Word: obliquity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus (“oblique”). Corresponding to oblique + -ity. Pronunciation: /əˈblɪkwɪti/, /oʊˈblɪkwɪti/ 1. The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities Example: Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah’s room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung. 2. Axial tilt. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Calculating by spherical trigonometry, and assuming the same obliquity, I obtain 3 dundas and 40 pulas for the ascensional arc, giving a difference in time of 3 pulas, or about one of our minutes; an error so small, that even were the Indian astronomer aware of its existence he would disregard it, satisfied that the practical purposes which his labours subserve, are, notwithstanding, carried out with sufficient accuracy. 3. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Habitually living with the elements and knowing little more of the land than as a beach, or, rather, that portion of the terraqueous globe providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a "fiddlers'-green," his simple nature remained unsophisticated by those moral obliquities which are not in every case incompatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability. Example: Whereas Reef's "friends," business and personal, were mostly no strangers to trouble, nor that complicated to understand, Stray's, apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp. 4. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was entirely out of verbal obliquities; to go further would be to lie, and that I would not do; so I simply sat still and suffered,—sat mutely and resignedly there, and sizzled,—for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes.
Word: sourness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness. 1. The condition or quality of being sour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […] Example: Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.
Word: beneficial owner Part of Speech: noun 1. The person who takes all or most of the returns of a property's equity or monetary gains.
Word: MOTD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of message of the day. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: When I connected to the IRC server, the MOTD included an apology for the recent downtime.
Word: MOTD Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Match of the Day: a British football-themed television programme introduced in 1964. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: 55 years in, save for the odd hiatus when ITV rather rudely claimed the exclusive top-flight highlights rights, MOTD represents the then, now and seemingly forever for the free-to-air armchair football fan.
Word: boricua Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē. 1. Puerto Rican. Labels: US, colloquial Example: She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.
Word: boricua Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē. 1. A Puerto Rican. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: blip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /blɪp/ 1. A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen. Example: When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again. Example: At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away. 2. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated. Example: Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end. Example: The most popular event is Joel's computer-based biofeedback game. […] The goal is to move the balloons skyward while avoiding the rockets that the computer shoots toward the balloons. You dodge the rockets by consciously adjusting your muscle tone between relaxation and tension. […] The little "blip" sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. "Blip" "Damn!" "Blip" "Damn!" "Blip" "Damn!" 3. A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal. Labels: broadly Example: There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment. Example: As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium. 4. An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework. Labels: Internet, historical Example: When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips. Example: Although the wiki-like editing capabilities of Google Wave represent a valuable feature, there is some debate about whether participants should edit other participants' blips or their own blips.
Word: blip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /blɪp/ 1. To make a short beep sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through. 2. To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator. Example: And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway, just one more set of red and yellow lights streaking along amid a current of red and yellow lights that blipped, blipped, blipped through an unremarkable Sunday dusk. 3. Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”). Labels: transitive Example: […] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape. 4. To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.
Word: cochlear implant Part of Speech: noun 1. A surgically implanted electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
Word: Bellard's formula Part of Speech: name Etymology: Discovered by Fabrice Bellard in 1997. 1. A formula used to calculate the nth digit of pi in base 2.
Word: love life Part of Speech: noun 1. An individual's amorous or sexual relationships. Example: Marigold and Dale have a very active love life. I am encouraging them to invest in a new bedframe. Example: William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them.
Word: brown eye Part of Speech: noun 1. an eye of which the iris is brown 2. the anus Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: Arkhangelsk Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Арха́нгельск (Arxángelʹsk). 1. An oblast in northwestern Russia. 2. A city, the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, in northwestern Russia, on the White Sea.
Word: poutine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * a variant of French pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or * from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified. The Canadian French word is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957. Pronunciation: /puːˈtiːn/, /pʉwˈtɪjn/, /puˈtin/, /puˈtɪn/, /pʉːˈtiːn/ 1. A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada. Labels: Canada, countable, uncountable Example: Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine. 2. Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish. Labels: Canada, countable, uncountable Example: In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.
Word: Rosicrucianist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Rosicrucian 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 Rosicrucianist From Rosicrucian + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌɹəʊ.zɪˈkɹuːʃənɪst/, /ˌɹoʊ.zɪˈkɹuʃənɪst/, /ˌɹɑzɪˈkɹuʃənɪst/ 1. a member of any modern group or organization, e.g. Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis (A.M.O.R.C.), formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.
Word: deleted scene Part of Speech: noun 1. A scene removed from, or replaced by another scene in, the final version of a motion picture or television program episode.
Word: director's cut Part of Speech: noun 1. A specially edited version of a piece of media, especially a film, that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit of the media, and is released some time after the original release of the media.
Word: greenscreen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From green + screen. 1. The alternate version of bluescreen, having the background green instead of blue. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The display of an IBM 3270 or similar monochrome monitor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: greenscreen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From green + screen. 1. To film a subject in front of a greenscreen. Labels: transitive Example: Chroma-keying, often called "bluescreening" or "greenscreening", is the process of filming actors, set pieces, and other foreground elements in front of a large solid green or blue-colored screen. 2. To remove the background from a video and replace it with a different image or scene; to composite. Labels: transitive Example: In this tutorial I will be showing you how to do greenscreening in Blender’s Compositor. Example: Fünke shows off an action-packed highlight clip addressed to Howard that emphasizes his imagined versatility, greenscreening him into scenes where he’s being fired out of a cannon, brandishing dual assault rifles, ineptly playing pick-up football, going Western as a cowboy sheriff and riding a tiger – all set to an aggressive dubstep soundtrack.
Word: copy and paste Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of copy-paste. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: copy and paste Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of copy-paste. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Note that the console listings are straight copy and pastes from the machines used to actually run this exploit—you see exactly what I saw while I ran it. Example: The log should include links, screenshots, or copy and pastes of the specific commands you ran as well as a short explanation for why you did this.
Word: copy-and-paste Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of copy-paste. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: We mention XCOPY here because it is the command-line way of basically doing a copy-and-paste of the files you want to move. Example: I am not arguing for a copy-and-paste of Orkney future-making practices to urban centers of design and innovation.
Word: copy-and-paste Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of copy-paste. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Image and filter sequences were composed using Photoshop layers and then copy-and-pasted onto Director’s Internal Cast palette. Example: But instead of designing new work for this new offering, Hirst, do-nothing artist of our time, simply copy-and-pasted his old stuff.
Word: choking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, choke + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/ 1. The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children. Example: The study found that 29 percent of nonfood-related chokings were caused by latex balloons. 2. The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings. Example: The chokings, which now always succeed every epileptic sleep, are violent beyond description, and last a long time. 3. The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered. Example: This particular man was a small, wiry , athletic Negro who had confessed to many chokings and rapings of young women. 4. The result of something being choked. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This feature has been found effective in reducing injector trouble, resulting either from the clogging of sieves or the choking of the annular orifices of the injectors by fine particles of coal.
Word: choking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, choke + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of choke Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: LXX Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Medieval Latin LXX, a calque of Koine Greek οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the 70”), used as an abbreviated title for the Septuagint, q.v. 1. Abbreviation of Septuagint. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: roughshod Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rough + shod. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌfʃɒd/, /ˈɹʌfʃɑd/ 1. Of a horse: having hooves shod with horseshoes that have calks or projecting parts to prevent slipping. Labels: not-comparable Example: The horses fell down three times, the roads being slippery, and we walked three miles to Linlithgow. There we waited two hours, to have the fresh horses roughshod. Example: Those who have followed a French army well know that their horses are always rough-shod. [...] Horses can bear cold when properly fed, and if they had not been rough-shod there were farriers attached to the army. 2. Brutal or domineering. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: She proved to be completely defenseless against her husband, both because of her own culture that demanded abject submission to the male, and because of her fearful reaction to his roughshod behavior toward her. Example: In the roughshod horny world of boys, I had studied my companions closely to make sure that I wasn't being too "queer" for them.
Word: Japonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Japon + -ian. 1. Synonym of Japanese (“of or relating to Japan”). Labels: obsolete Example: This appeared at Frenoiama, a famous Vniuerſitie of thoſe Bonzij, nine miles from Meaco, wherein eight hundred yeares paſt, a Iaponian King had erected three thouſand and eight hundred Temples, with houſes adioined for the Bonzij: […] Example: Induſtrious of the needle and the chart / They run full ſail to their Japponian Mart: […]
Word: Japonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japon + -ian. 1. Synonym of Japanese (“a native or inhabitant of Japan”). Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he ſayd gunnes beeing able to hurt but a ſmall diſtance off, and the Iaponians being furniſhed with bꝛazen oꝛdinance vnknowen vnto the Corayans, they pꝛeſently dꝛaue them from their walles, […] Example: And the Iaponians, are longer liv’d, than the Chineſes; […]
Word: lenns Part of Speech: adj 1. unfair Labels: Geordie, not-comparable Example: Giv'is back me kets man, that's propa lenns that is!
Word: Lindenbaum Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Lindenbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. 1. A surname from German.
Word: halla Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of challah. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: weddings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wedding Labels: form-of, plural
Word: weddings Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wedding Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: athel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English athel, ethel, hathel (“noble; nobleman, hero”), from Old English æþele (“noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *aþulī, from Proto-Germanic *aþulijaz (“of noble birth, noble”), from *aþalą (“nature; nobility”). Cognates Akin to Saterland Frisian eedel (“noble”), Oadel (“nobility”), West Frisian eal (“noble”), Dutch adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), German Adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), Yiddish אַדל (adl, “nobility”), איידל (eydl, “noble”), Elfdalian aðel (“noble; nobility”), Faroese aðal (“noble; nobility”), Icelandic aðal (“speciality, hallmark, characteristic”), aðall (“nobility”). Middle English form hathel due to conflation with Old English hæleþ (“hero”). See heleth. Pronunciation: /ˈæθəl/, /ˈeɪθəl/ 1. noble, highborn Labels: obsolete 2. excellent, splendid, fine Labels: obsolete 3. genuine, sincere, devout Labels: obsolete
Word: athel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English athel, ethel, hathel (“noble; nobleman, hero”), from Old English æþele (“noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *aþulī, from Proto-Germanic *aþulijaz (“of noble birth, noble”), from *aþalą (“nature; nobility”). Cognates Akin to Saterland Frisian eedel (“noble”), Oadel (“nobility”), West Frisian eal (“noble”), Dutch adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), German Adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), Yiddish אַדל (adl, “nobility”), איידל (eydl, “noble”), Elfdalian aðel (“noble; nobility”), Faroese aðal (“noble; nobility”), Icelandic aðal (“speciality, hallmark, characteristic”), aðall (“nobility”). Middle English form hathel due to conflation with Old English hæleþ (“hero”). See heleth. Pronunciation: /ˈæθəl/, /ˈeɪθəl/ 1. A chief or lord. Labels: obsolete Example: To tell of his deir weid war doutles delite, And alse ter for to tell the travalis war tight. His name and his nobillay wes noght for to nyte; Thair wes na hathill sa heich, be half ane fute hicht. Example: Proclamation in that place, was plainely declared, That every hatell should him hie, in hast that he might, To Bolton in Geldowre, all in godly haste.
Word: athel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic أَثَل (ʔaṯal). Pronunciation: /ˈæθəl/, /ˈeɪθəl/ 1. A kind of tamarisk native to northern Africa and the Middle East, Tamarix aphylla, planted widely elsewhere as a shade tree and a windbreak due to its tolerance of heat and of alkaline soils, but tending to become invasive outside of its native range.
Word: sloths Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /slɑθs/ 1. plural of sloth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cooking with gas Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: To cook with natural gas fuel has been occurring since at least the 19th century when the petroleum industry came into being and new products and markets were developed. The idiomatic phrase entered the popular lexicon as part of an advertising slogan in late 1930s or early 1940s, for American Gas Association. The slogan "Now you're cooking with gas!" was coined by Deke Houlgate, an employee of AGA, who worked with Bob Hope to insert the phrase into his comedy routines as subtle product placement. The initial idea was to compete with the increasing popularity of electric stoves in the 1930s. However by 1940 it came to have a broader idiomatic usage and figurative meaning because of the way it was used by Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny and even a Daffy Duck cartoon, eclipsing its original intent as advertising. The slogan was repeated throughout the 1941-1942 radio season by many radio stars. Also used by jazz musicians to praise a performance. 1. Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.' The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. That's good,' he said. 'Sure. You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn't think you could. But you can, can't you? You're cooking with gas now. You know what I'm saying? We're really going to have us something here in a minute. How's the old arm?' he said. 'Put some people in there now. What's a cathedral without people?' Example: With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas.
Word: now you're cooking Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Derives from a version of the advertising slogan Now you're cooking with gas!, that entered the popular lexicon in the 1930s. See also cooking with gas. 1. Used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made. Labels: idiomatic Example: Alice: "Why are you still using that old software? You should try out the new version." Example: Bob: "Hey, this is really nice; much better than that crusty stuff we were using before."
Word: confidable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English confide Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English confidable From confide + -able. Pronunciation: /kənˈfaɪdəbəl/ 1. Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information. 2. Able to keep silent concerning other's secrets, or private information.
Word: now you're talking Part of Speech: phrase 1. A phrase indicating agreement with a previously stated suggestion to change a course of action. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: Alice: "I think we should stop coding and go grab a couple of pints." Example: Bob: "Now you're talking!"
Word: domineer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch domineren, from Middle French dominer. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːm.ɪnˌɪɹ/ 1. To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize. Labels: transitive
Word: piss like a racehorse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An emphatic form of the earlier expression piss like a horse, due to the great volume of urine produced by horses every four hours or so. 1. To urinate profusely, especially in reference to a profound need to do so. Labels: idiomatic, vulgar Example: Pull over as soon as you can. I need to piss like a racehorse!
Word: Judahite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Judah Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Judahite From Judah + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.də.aɪt/ 1. A descendant of Judah (the patriarch). 2. A descendant or member of the tribe of Judah. 3. An inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Judah.
Word: Judahite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Judah Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Judahite From Judah + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.də.aɪt/ 1. Of or pertaining to Judah (the patriarch), to the tribe of Judah, or to the ancient kingdom of Judah, or its inhabitants.
Word: hokey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the verb hoke (“to give an artificial feel to”), from hokum. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊki/, /ˈhoʊki/ 1. Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality. Labels: US, colloquial Example: When asked for his book report, Chad came up with a series of hokier and hokier excuses. Example: I thought the windshield wiper blades were a little hokey when I saw their cheap packaging. 2. Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental. Labels: US, colloquial Example: Terry hated going to the cinema with Pat; she always chose hokey romantic comedies that made him want to gag. Example: After the chant, we bowed our heads and closed our eyes, as Bob administered the recitation, part prayer and part affirmation—an ever-changing hokey thing that he improvised on the spot.
Word: Judea Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Iūdaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaía), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒuˈdiːə/, /d͡ʒuˈdeɪ.ə/ 1. Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire. Example: In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt
Word: silver dollar Part of Speech: noun 1. A dollar coin, whether made from silver or not. Labels: US Example: In Las Vegas, many of the slot machines use silver dollars. Example: And the road goes on forever / And I've got one more silver dollar / But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no 2. A small pancake. Labels: US Example: Alice went to the diner and ordered a stack of silver dollars with butter and blueberry syrup. 3. Several species of tropical freshwater fish of the genus Metynnis, of the family Characidae or Serrasalmidae, of which Metynnis argenteus is one; popular for aquariums; so named from their shape and flashing silver color.
Word: silver dollars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of silver dollar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beg off Part of Speech: verb Etymology: beg + off 1. To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them. Labels: idiomatic Example: I wonder if I can beg off going to the meeting that day, since it will take me an extra two hours out of my way. Example: That's an issue that I have not discussed with the legal people. I don't know what authority we have to prevent insurance companies from setting criteria for those people that they would insure. Whether that rests with us or with the Commissioner of Insurance, I don't know. I'm going to have to beg off that question.
Word: medina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Aramaic מְדִינְתָּא (məḏīntā)bor. Arabic مَدِينَة (madīna)bor. English medina Borrowed from Arabic مَدِينَة (madīna, “town, city”). Pronunciation: /məˈdiːnə/ 1. The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town. Example: Although Hicham usually worked in the new town, he still lived in the medina.
Word: scribacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin scrībo + -acious. 1. Prone to excessive writing. Example: VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes vvere then not very ſcribacious, or not ſo pragmatical;[…])
Word: world religion Part of Speech: noun 1. An internationally widespread religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations. Example: Christianity is a world religion consisting of Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestants. Example: It is seen that religious evolution through the ages has been practically One thing - that there has been in fact a World-religion, though with various phases and branches.
Word: prostration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin prōstrātiō, from prōstrātus, past participle of prōsternō. Pronunciation: /pɹɒsˈtɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying face-down), as a sign of humility. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests, in which the ordinand lies prostrate in a gesture of submission to the will of God. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ordination ceremony includes a variety of rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., the prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, and sign of peace. — Diocese of Rochester, NY 3. The state of lying face down (prone). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. 5. A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Their faith can be seen in their mannerisms on the pitch – cupping hands in silent pre-kick-off prayer or prostration after hitting the back of the net.
Word: falling out Part of Speech: noun 1. A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel Labels: countable, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Since the falling out with his neighbor, they have kept their distance. 2. A culture-bound syndrome primarily reported in the southern United States and the Caribbean, described as a constricted consciousness as a psychological response to anxiety and stress. Labels: uncountable
Word: falling out Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fall out Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: silverback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From silver + back. 1. A mature male gorilla leading a troop, so named from the silver streaking on its back. Example: To be clear, there’s no reason to hate the actual Harambe. After the silverback gorilla was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016, people used “RIP Harambe” to… comment on the irony of why we mourn animals but are quick to blame humans? 2. A dominant or powerful older human male. Labels: broadly, informal Example: Courageously (given Ranger's status in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and his status as a silverback in North Atlantic Academe), Kriger dissents from their arguments. Example: "Have you met Professor Dolan, Bishop Blackie?" an Asian child with a beatifically innocent face asked me. "Is he that skinny silverback ape down on the first floor?" 3. Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma. 4. Any of species Rhodamnia cinerea of plants of southeastern Asia.
Word: Oregon grape Part of Speech: noun 1. An evergreen shrub (Berberis aquifolium, syn. Mahonia aquifolium) native to the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, having broadly serrated, glossy leaves and clusters of yellow flowers that develop into dark bluish-purple fruits. Labels: uncountable 2. Any of various related shrubs of the now often deprecated genus Mahonia. Labels: uncountable