nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: nosebleed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nose + bleed. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊzˌbliːd/, /ˈnoʊzˌblid/, /ˈnoʊsˌblid/ 1. Haemorrhage from the nose (usually, blood flow exiting the nostrils that originates from the nasal cavity). Example: Its pricing is highly volatile — and therefore highly risky. For all its nosebleed ascents, bitcoin also has had some gut-punching plunges. Between November 2021 and November 2022, for example, the price of bitcoin dropped 75%, from $64,455 to $16,196, according to data on coinmarketcap.com. 2. Nerd; geek; dork. Labels: US, obsolete, slang 3. Mental overload (usually attained as a result of having to comprehend new and/or complex concepts or languages that one is not particularly skilled with). Labels: Philippines, figuratively, slang 4. Ellipsis of nosebleed seat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: epistaxis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis, “nosebleed”): ἐπί (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”) + στάζω (stázō, “to drip (from the nostrils)”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪˈstæksɪs/ 1. Nosebleed.
Word: networks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of network Labels: form-of, plural Example: The Internet is a large network of networks.
Word: networks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of network Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: oww Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of ow. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative spelling of aww, indicating affection or disappointment Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative, regional
Word: piping hot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English. First attested circa second half of 14th century, from the similarity between the sizzling sound of food cooking in a frying pan and that of musical pipes, from Canterbury Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383 by Geoffrey Chaucer: :: "He singeth brokking¹ as a nightingale. / He sent her piment, mead, and spiced ale, / And wafers² piping hot out of the glede³: / And, for she was of town, he proffer'd meed." :: ¹ quavering, ² cakes, ³ coals Pronunciation: /ˌpaɪ.pɪŋ ˈhɒt/, /ˌpaɪpɪŋ ˈhɑt/ 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piping, hot: very hot in a way that involves sizzling, crackling, or similar noises. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: boiling hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming, baking hot; see also Thesaurus:hot Example: Don't touch the pie! It's piping hot, straight out of the oven. 2. Very hot. Labels: broadly, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Watch out — that curling iron is still piping hot. Example: You will see that my breakfast is piping hot, And rub the clothes to a snowy whiteness
Word: repentance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested circa 14th century, from Middle English repentance, repentaunce, from Old French repentance. More at repent. By surface analysis, repent + -ance. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɛntəns/, /ˈɹɛpəntəns/, [ˈɹep.ən.tʰənsʰ] 1. The action of repenting, an instance of it, atonement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Christine Cooper: It's not wrong to sin. Christ came into this world for the sinners. 2. The condition of being repentant, penitent, a state of feeling regret or remorse for having done wrong. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period God hath denied me repentance. His words gives me no encouragement to believe. Example: And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Word: remorse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment, vex”, literally “to bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“to bite”). More at remord. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/, /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/ 1. A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In criminal proceedings, empirical studies have shown that remorse plays an important role in observers’ judgments of defendants. Example: Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid. 2. Sorrow; pity; compassion. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: This is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
Word: remorse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment, vex”, literally “to bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“to bite”). More at remord. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/, /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/ 1. To experience remorse or sorrow; to regret. Labels: intransitive Example: And if we look abroad, to take a view of men as they are, we shall find that they remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by. Example: When they have accepted their advice and have some upleasant experience then they remorse.
Word: élite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French élite. 1. Alternative spelling of elite. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Ben-Gurion’s legacy has been an enduring one. The projection of a national consensus, the domination of the state over other political actors, and the hegemony exercised over decision-making by a largely Ashkanazim élite remain features of Israeli politics today. Example: Over time, though, a class system emerged; now revisions made by infrequent contributors are much likelier to be undone by élite Wikipedians.
Word: élite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French élite. 1. Alternative spelling of elite. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A hush had fallen over the élite in the ballroom, as a broad path was cleared for the throne. Lepold sat on it now, hands solidly on its arms, head high, face frozen.
Word: frying pan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan. 1. A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food. Example: And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.
Word: eaves Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *upér From Middle English eves (“projecting lower edge of a roof”) [and other forms], from Old English efes, yfes, *ofes (“edge of a roof”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubisu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *ubiswō (compare Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa), Old High German obasa (“hall; porch; roof”)), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”) (whence over). Pronunciation: /iːvz/, /ivz/ 1. The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Him that you term'd Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo, / His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops / From eaues of reeds: […] Example: Thus night oft ſee me in thy pale career, / Till civil-ſuited morn appeer, / […] / Or uſher'd with a ſhower ſtill, / When the guſt hath blown his fill, / Ending on the ruſsling Leaves, / With minute drops from off the Eaves. 2. Something that extends over or projects beyond. Labels: broadly, plural, plural-only Example: But after many strains and heaves / He got up to the Saddle eaves. Example: The mystic glory swims away; / From off my bed the moonlight dies; / And closing eaves of wearied eyes / I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray: […]
Word: eaves Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eave + -s, from a misinterpretation of the -s ending of eaves as forming a plural. Pronunciation: /iːvz/, /ivz/ 1. plural of eave Labels: form-of, plural
Word: referendum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin referendum (“that which ought to be announced”), from refero (“to announce”). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛndəm/ 1. A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment. Example: a referendum on … Example: In some cases, a referendum on the proposed bond issue must be held. 2. An action, choice, etc., which is perceived as passing judgment on another matter. Example: My father is taking my decision on whether to go to university as a referendum on his performance as a parent, and it's very stressful.
Word: plebiscite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sense 1 (“referendum”) is borrowed from French plébiscite, from Latin plēbiscītum, plēbis scītum, plēbī scītum (“law of the common people or plebs”), from plēbis (the genitive singular of plēbs (“common people, plebeians”)) + scītum (“decree, ordinance, statute”). Sense 3 (“law enacted by the common people”) is a learned borrowing from Latin plēbiscītum: see above. It is attested earlier than English plebiscitum. Cognates * Italian plebiscito * Middle French plebiscite (modern French plébiscite) * Middle Low German plebiscīt (“ordinance”) * Spanish plebiscito, plebisçito (obsolete) Pronunciation: /ˈplɛbɪsaɪt/, /-sɪt/, /ˈplɛbəˌsaɪt/ 1. A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy. Example: A political result, we may also say aim, of the frumentarian plebiscite of Gaius was to disattach the city populace from its conservative moorings and to enlist it in the service of reform. Example: Then something changed, and Mr. Mitterrand said he thought it would be a good idea if the Constitution allowed plebiscites, on the recommendation of the President, on issues involving personal freedoms. 2. An expression of the public's views on an issue, whether legally binding or not. Labels: broadly 3. Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”). Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical
Word: diplomat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French diplomate, a back-formation from diplomatique (“diplomatic”), ultimately from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, “double-folded document”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪp.lə.mæt/ 1. A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations with other governments or international organisations Example: The French diplomat negotiated the peace treaty. Example: A career as a diplomat requires cultural awareness and patience. 2. Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people. Labels: figuratively
Word: Esdras Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Esdrās, from Ancient Greek Ἔσδρᾱς (Ésdrās), from Hebrew עזרא (Ezra). Doublet of Ezra. 1. any of four books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Bible.
Word: vermiculite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vermiculus (“wormlet”), for its fibrous nature and tendency to expand into worm-like shapes when heated. 1. A hydrated silicate mineral which expands on heating; it is used in insulation and as a medium for planting. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vermicompost Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis Proto-Italic *wormis Latin vermisbor. English vermi- English compost English vermicompost From vermi- (“worm”) + compost. 1. To employ worms to break down organic waste into soil or humus
Word: vermicompost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis Proto-Italic *wormis Latin vermisbor. English vermi- English compost English vermicompost From vermi- (“worm”) + compost. 1. the product of worm composting; worm castings
Word: chicken wire Part of Speech: noun 1. A mesh of wire, usually galvanized, with a hexagonal pattern, generally used for making fences, especially for enclosures for small farm animals and pets. Labels: uncountable Example: "You'll recall that normally any old hen had sense enough not to run or fly into a chicken wire fence, but the same old hen at the sight of a hawk would lose all judgment about fences, and plunge headlong into it." 2. A type of such material, differentiated by material, coating, wire thickness, width, and mesh size. Labels: countable
Word: broken-down Part of Speech: adj 1. Which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order. Example: And a broken-down train and the severe weather temporarily shut the line between Dawlish and Exeter St Davids. 2. Not properly maintained; neglected. 3. Ruined in character or strength. Example: We looked our last upon them and the indescribable rosy glow in which they lay, and then with hearts far too heavy for words we left them, and crept thence broken-down men - so broken down that we even renounced the chance of practically immortal life, because all that made life valuable had gone from us, and we knew even then that to prolong our days indefinitely would only be to prolong our sufferings.
Word: ruinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ruynous, from Old French ruinos, ruineus, from Latin ruīnōsus. By surface analysis, ruin + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː.ɪnəs/ 1. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous. 2. Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin. Example: They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense. Example: We are rapidly reversing the economic calamity we inherited from the previous administration, including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation, inflation like we've never had before. 3. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Word: rundown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from run down. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌndaʊn/ 1. A rough outline of a topic or situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Could you give me the rundown on the new rules? 2. A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […] Example: I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento. 3. A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score. 4. A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,
Word: rundown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from run down. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌndaʊn/ 1. Alternative form of run-down. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: barbering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From barber + -ing. 1. The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair. Labels: uncountable Example: The trades of barbering and surgery have long been linked, as evidenced by the barber's red and white striped pole. Example: After several days in the bush, he had grown lax with his barbering and needed a good shave before he was presentable again. 2. The practice among pets of overgrooming each other, leaving bald patches. Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: frictive Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
Word: frictive Part of Speech: noun 1. Any substance which increases friction. Example: The candler also offers his knowledge of various frictives and lotions that enhance and facilitate successful fornication.
Word: environmentalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English environmental 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 environmentalist From environmental + -ist. 1. One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention. Example: The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast. Example: This tension is familiar in the lives of most environmentalists. Some own cars; some still eat meat. 2. One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group. Example: As we remarked once before, there are two extreme views with respect to life, one attributing everything to the environment, the other to inherent abilities. If, for example, an unusual number of distinguished men are born and reared in the same locality, the environmentalists assert that the causes for their appearance were entirely external and that had their parents changed habitats with those residing elsewhere the result would have been the same, except that the family names of these eminent men would have been different.
Word: environmentalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English environmental 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 environmentalist From environmental + -ist. 1. Of, or relating to environmentalism. Example: The environmentalist explanation would be that tropical environment retards or depresses culture through its physiological effect on the human organism.
Word: recrudescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin recrūdēscō (“to become raw again”); from re- + crūdēscō (“to become harsh or raw”). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛsənt/, /ˌɹikɹu(ː)ˈdɛsənt/ 1. Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression. Labels: not-comparable Example: This seems to be a recrudescent strain of the plague rather than a wholly new disease. 2. Growing raw, sore, or painful again. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: raffish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From late 18th century raff (“persons among the lowest class in society”) + -ish, still retained in contemporary English with riffraff. From Old French raffer (“to wear away”), of Germanic origin. Compare German raffen. Compare rip (“to tear”), rap (“to snatch”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæfɪʃ/ 1. Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish. Example: Billie Eilish wants you to know she is in charge, brash and self-assured enough to scrap the raffish image that helped garner her a world of fans in favor of something a little more … adult. Example: The smokers' most raffish outsider, Comstock, appeared to do nothing but smoke; Chris had never seen him inside the building. 2. Low-class; disreputable; vulgar. Example: I had met the man before this in the village, and detested him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish in his looks and ways that raised my gorge; […] Example: He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral’s education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman.
Word: raillery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French raillerie. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪləɹi/, /ˈɹæləɹi/ 1. Good-natured banter, jest, or ridicule. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Flip [Lady Flippant]. I love, of my life men ſhould deal freely vvith me; there are ſo fevv men vvill deal freely with one— / Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. Are you not a Fireſhip? a Punk, Madam? / Flip. VVell, Sir, I love Raillery. / Sir Sim. Faith and troth I do not railly, I deal freely. Example: It is so indeed—Charles—they give into all the substantial Luxuries of the Table—and abstain from nothing but wine and wit—Oh, certainly society suffers by it intolerably—for now instead of the social spirit of Raillery that used to mantle over a glass of bright Burgundy their conversation is become just like the Spa water they drink which has all the Pertness and flatulence of champaine without its spirit or Flavour.
Word: discarnate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Renaissance Latin discarnatus, alteration of Classical Latin dēcarnātus. Compare decarnate. 1. Stripped of flesh. Labels: archaic, not-comparable 2. Having no physical body or form; disembodied. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Sho," she muttered, allowing soft, discarnate voices to articulate and move on. Example: But there are latent powers within man alone that are not yet fully understood and [...] we cannot definitely state what is, and what is not, due to the interference or influence of discarnate intelligences.
Word: rapacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”) + -acious. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈpeɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Voracious; avaricious. Labels: also, figuratively Example: To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. Example: Relations between the Waveney Valley Railway and the E.C.R. [Eastern Counties Railway] soon became strained, because of the rapacious attitude adopted by the latter, and to the mismanagement which it displayed in working the smaller company's line. 2. Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy. Example: A Prince […] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way. 3. Subsisting off live prey. Example: Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for […] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place[…]
Word: fire company Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪˌə(ɹ)kʌmpəni/ 1. An organization whose purpose is to extinguish fires. Labels: US 2. A single emergency response unit and its personnel within a fire department Labels: US
Word: voir dire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Anglo-Norman for “to say the truth”, from Old French voir (“true, truth”) + dire (“to say”), from Latin vērum + dīcere. Pronunciation: /ˈvwɑː ˌdɪə/, /ˈvɔɹ ˌdaɪɹ/, /ˈvɔɹ ˌdɪɹ/, /ˈvwɑɹ ˌdɪɹ/ 1. The preliminary phase of a jury trial in which the jurors are examined and selected. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 2. A preliminary hearing without a jury in order to determine whether the evidence meets the test for admissibility to go to a full hearing at a criminal trial, in the legal systems of England and Wales, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Labels: Australia, England, New-Zealand, US, Wales, countable, uncountable 3. A hearing in the context of a larger trial to determine some specific issue relevant to that trial, such as the admissibility of a piece of evidence or the competency of a witness to testify. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: extinguish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ 1. To end (something). Labels: transitive 2. To end (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison Example: The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds. 3. To end (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive 4. To end (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: She extinguished all my hopes. Example: They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers 5. To end (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment. 6. To end (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive 7. To end (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575 Example: If the amnesty becomes law as expected this month or in June, it promises to extinguish the charges Puigdemont faces of disobedience and misuse of public funds. 8. To die out. Labels: intransitive, reflexive
Word: juror Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English jurour, jurrour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jurour and Old French jureor, from the verb jurer (“to swear”), or possibly from Latin iūrātor, iūrātōrem, whence the English doublet jurator. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹə/, /ˈd͡ʒʊɹɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒʊɹˌoɹ/, /ˈd͡ʒɝɚ/ 1. A member of a jury. Example: While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'. Example: The jurors listened carefully while Eidem portrayed Fern Sankey as an archconspirator who drove her husband into crime and was intimately involved in all major details of Charlie Boettcher's abduction.
Word: NCO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of numerically controlled oscillator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of non-commissioned officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: There was for some reason a shortage not only of regular private soldiers but of officers and NCOs. Example: For Sgt Kudrya, an NCO who has found himself commanding a company because of a lack of officers, this low-level war means a constant struggle with the elements, paper work (he is under constant pressure from above to account for each litre of petrol and round of ammunition), and the erosion of discipline born of boredom.
Word: bawdrick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of baldric. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: inimical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kəl/ 1. Harmful in effect. Example: Slaves knew that some of the treatments worsened problems and, perhaps most important, they realized that a master's interest in their fitness for work was sometimes inimical to their health. Example: She doesn’t want to touch it, and indeed every particle of her screams against doing so because it is somehow inimical to her. 2. Unfriendly, hostile. Example: Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
Word: inscrutable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + scrūtō (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable Pronunciation: /ˌɪnˈskɹuːtəbl̩/ 1. Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret. Example: His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science. Example: The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
Word: inscrutable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + scrūtō (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable Pronunciation: /ˌɪnˈskɹuːtəbl̩/ 1. One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.
Word: palliate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb was inherited from Middle English palliaten (“To palliate (a disease), relieve the symptoms of (a patient); to extenuate (an offense); to conceal, hide”), the adjective and participle from its participle palliat(e); further borrowed either from Middle French pallier or directly from Latin palliātus, perfect passive participle of palliō (“to cover with a cloak”)), from pallium (“a cloak”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpælieɪt/ 1. To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate. Example: And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London. 2. To hide or disguise. Labels: obsolete 3. To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies. Labels: figuratively Example: April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard We extenuate not our guilt : whatever we sin , we condemn it as mortal : they palliate wickedness , with the fair pretence of veniality Example: The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to excuse or palliate. 4. To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify. Labels: obsolete Example: "Ah, dearest!" replied he, "your spirits are exhausted,—perhaps unconsciously oppressed with the idea of that future whose pain and whose peril I have rather heightened than palliated." Example: If, mindless of palliating circumstances, we are bound to regard the death of the Master-at-arms as the prisoner's deed, then does that deed constitute a capital crime whereof the penalty is a mortal one? 5. To placate or mollify. Example: Bradly stopped dead, too confounded to be appalled. Young Podson! Impossible! He had last seen young Podson, a bank clerk, on the seat of a pub verandah in an inland town ninety miles away, Bradly's last painting town. A noosance, young Podson, only to be palliated on a pub verandah after dinner. Example: [Gordon] Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say). 6. past participle of palliate (all senses) Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: [the] most helpful method of its Cure, which yet if palliate and imperfect would onely make way to more fatal Sickness
Word: palliate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The verb was inherited from Middle English palliaten (“To palliate (a disease), relieve the symptoms of (a patient); to extenuate (an offense); to conceal, hide”), the adjective and participle from its participle palliat(e); further borrowed either from Middle French pallier or directly from Latin palliātus, perfect passive participle of palliō (“to cover with a cloak”)), from pallium (“a cloak”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpælieɪt/, /ˈpæliət/ 1. Hidden, concealed. Labels: obsolete 2. (of a cure) superficial or temporary. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: All his industry and sales, did in your estate make but a palliate cure.
Word: oneiric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oneir- + -ic, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀνείρειος (oneíreios). Pronunciation: /oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/, /əʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to dreams. Example: Dreams contain oneiric images and oneiric symbols. Both of them are, in fact, 'distorted' manifestations of a latent content which resides in the dreamer's unconscious. 2. Resembling a dream; dreamlike. Example: Rather, novelist Louise de Vilmorin, whose popular novel Madame de had been recently filmed by Max Ophuls, joined Malle in reworking Denon's novella and updating it into a combination of a modern comedy of manners and a daring, even oneiric love story that played with and defied many conventions of the romance genre. Example: […] The Memory Palace [is] Edward Hollis's idiosyncratic tour of a series of historical interiors that have all disappeared or been dismantled. […] Hollis might have done far more with literature's unique contribution to our sense of domestic space as both commemorative and creative. […] [A]mid all the palaces with their dreamlike interiors, there is puzzlingly no place for the many oneiric palaces of poetry.
Word: nonage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman nounage, corresponding to non- + age. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊnɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈnoʊnəd͡ʒ/ 1. The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor. Example: His vvarlike vvife Simeramis, her huſband being dead, / And ſonne in nonage, faining him ſhe ruled in his ſtéede: / Delating in a males attire the Empire nevve begonne: / The vvhich, his yeares admitting it, ſhe yealded to her ſonne. Example: In him there is a hope of government, / That in his nonage council under him, / And in his full and ripen'd years himself, / No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.
Word: nonage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin nonagium, from nōnus (“ninth”). 1. A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: biosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Biosphäre, coined by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1875. By surface analysis, bio- + -sphere. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪəʊˌsfɪə(ɹ)/ 1. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life. 2. The totality of living organisms and their environment. Example: Patavig is the second of the Macedon system's giant terrestrial planets, and by far the more interesting. Most of the surface is covered by a vast sea of liquid ammonia, in which a unique aquatic ammonia-based biosphere has developed. While the frozen continents are largely bereft of life, a rich bounty of complex organisms — many larger than a human — flourish in the chilly, toxic seas.
Word: ecosystem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eco- + system. Coined by English botanist Arthur Tansley in 1935 in a paper titled The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts in the journal Ecology. Pronunciation: /ˈiːkəʊˌsɪstəm/, /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/ 1. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit. Example: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force. 2. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment. 3. A network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a natural ecosystem due to the complex interdependencies. Labels: broadly Example: The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors. Example: It [The Kashmir Files] is being described by the leftist “liberal” ecosystem as a movie that peddles bigotry against Muslims.
Word: misuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + use (noun). Pronunciation: /mɪsˈjuːs/ 1. An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
Word: misuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + use (verb). Pronunciation: /mɪsˈjuːz/ 1. To use (something) incorrectly. Labels: transitive 2. To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). Labels: transitive 3. To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone). Labels: transitive Example: “If that is true she would be the first case I have ever heard of, as most female captives are misused by the entire tribe.” 4. To abuse verbally, to insult. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, and misused to his face: but he laughed, as if it concerned him not […].
Word: dating Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪt.ɪŋ/ 1. A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Janet was surprised at how much casual dating had changed since she was last single. Example: We met on a popular dating app. 2. An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1922 (July), A. E. Douglass, "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". The Scientific Monthly 15(1): 5-21. A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating in 2,000 years shows an average counting error of 35 years, which is only 1.7 per cent. Example: Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree; 3. The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But C.O.D. datings are relatively rare. They are so disliked by buyers that they are used by sellers only when the latter are quite uncertain of a buyer's ability and willingness to pay. Example: Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" datings of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment datings lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best" datings of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late" datings).
Word: dating Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪt.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of date Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mounted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mount + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntɪd/ 1. On horseback. Labels: not-comparable Example: The mounted cavalry rode into town. 2. Furnished; supplied. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mounted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mount + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of mount Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: As soon as I was mounted, holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot... Example: the cross of the crucifixion or of Calvary, mounted on steps.
Word: threatened Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩d/, [ˈθɹɛʔ.n̩d] 1. simple past and past participle of threaten Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: threatened Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩d/, [ˈθɹɛʔ.n̩d] 1. At risk of becoming endangered in the near future. Labels: especially Example: It is particularly desirable to obtain photographs of rural stations, both with and without a train, in view of the threatened wholesale closure of unremunerative branches throughout the country. 2. Feeling insecure or vulnerable.
Word: Hugh Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Old French aristocratic and saint's name Hughe, brought to England by Normans, from a short form of Germanic names beginning with Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“heart, mind”), such as Hubert. Cognate with Old English hyġe (“mind, spirit, intellect”). More at high, how. Pronunciation: /hjuː/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Example: I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself. Example: Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain, / Saint Hugh be our good speed. / Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, / Nor helps good hearts in need. 2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: panda bear Part of Speech: noun 1. A giant panda.
Word: brune Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French brune. 1. Brunette. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon Example: By-the-way, we haven’t yet described our favorite Nettie. We will leave details to the reader’s imagination, and only say that she was neither blonde or brune, but a dangerous mixture of both, and able to wear pink or blue with impunity, and look bewitching in either. Example: When I read of Helen and Cleopatra and Lucretia, and all the beauties of old times, it was always with the notion that each one, blonde or brune, must have looked like Katie Stuart.
Word: brune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French brune. 1. A brunette. Labels: uncommon Example: This conclusion is dangerous in the extreme; for fashion, and the love of display are two of the most dangerous enemies to woman’s empire, By their imperious laws, the blond, and the brune, the blooming girl, the finished woman, and the widow un peu passee, are all compelled to wear the same livery, whether it be becoming or not. Example: Yes, I like Sunshine; it’s such fun to hear her talk. And you seem to like that dark-eyed sister of hers—eh, old boy? Well, she’s a very handsome girl, I grant you, but she’s too stately for me; besides, I don’t care for your brunes; tall women haven’t, generally, much fun in them.
Word: sex- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sex- (“six”). 1. A form of sexa-, meaning six. Labels: morpheme
Word: tetration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *kʷetwóres From tetra- (prefix meaning ‘four’) + (itera)tion, from the fact that tetration is in fourth place after addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. The word was coined by the English mathematician Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985). Pronunciation: /tɛˈtɹeɪʃn̩/, /tɛˈtɹeɪʃən/ 1. The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ᵇᵃ denoting a to the power of a to the power of … to the power of a, in which a appears b times. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You don't ordinarily hear much about tetration because it is so powerful an operation that tetrating even very small numbers with each other produces inordinately large numbers. A tetration is worked out below. ⁴²#61;2#123;(2#123;(#123;2²#125;)#125;)#125; #61;2#123;(#123;2⁴#125;)#125; #61;2#123;16#125; #61;64,536 Example: Repeated exponentiation—called tetration—is so rare that a shorthand for it is hardly worth the trouble, appealing only to research mathematicians. Most professional engineers and scientists never encounter tetration, and the shorthand for it is seldom taught anywhere but in mathematics departments. But it doesn't stop there, and for the almost-unheard-of "multiple tetration" there is yet a stronger cousin operation, waiting in the wings.
Word: trigonometric function Part of Speech: noun 1. Any function of an angle expressible as the ratio of two of the sides of a right triangle that has that angle (e.g., sine), or that subtracts 1 from such a ratio or subtracts such a ratio from 1 (e.g., coversed sine).
Word: cotangent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- Proto-Italic *tangō Latin tangō Latin tangēns Latin tangentembor. English tangent English cotangent From co- + tangent. Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊˌtænd͡ʒənt/ 1. In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the tangent of an angle. Symbols: cot, ctg, or ctn
Word: cosecant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English secant English cosecant From co- + secant. Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊˌsiːkənt/ 1. In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the sine of an angle. Symbols: cosec, csc
Word: polynomial equation Part of Speech: noun 1. Any algebraic equation in which one or both sides are in the form of a polynomial.
Word: algebraic equation Part of Speech: noun 1. A mathematical equation having an algebraic expression on one or both sides, such as 2x + 7y = 3.
Word: algebraic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Partly from algebra + -ic and partly from French algébraïque. Pronunciation: /ˌæl.d͡ʒɪˈbɹeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌæl.d͡ʒɪˈbɹæɪ.ɪk/ 1. Of, or relating to, algebra. 2. Containing only numbers, letters, and arithmetic operators. 3. Which is a root of some polynomial whose coefficients are rational. 4. Whose every element is a root of some polynomial whose coefficients are rational. 5. Describing squares by file (referred to in intrinsic order rather than by the piece starting on that file) and rank, both with reference to a fixed point rather than a player-dependent perspective.
Word: arithmetic function Part of Speech: noun 1. Any function that is defined for all positive integers, and has values that are either real or complex.
Word: transmittable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English transmit Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English transmittable From transmit + -able. 1. Synonym of transmissible. Labels: not-comparable Example: Had it mutated? Was it contagious? Transmittable to humans?
Word: transmittal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From transmit + -al. 1. The act of transmitting a message; a transmission. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An item of correspondence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transmittance Part of Speech: noun 1. A transmission. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fraction of incident light, or other radiation, that passes through a substance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hummer Part of Speech: noun 1. An arrest on false pretexts. Labels: slang Example: The conspiracy rap was a hummer. Example: She mentioned the cute little Eyetalian cop that booked her on a hummer.
Word: hummer Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unknown 1. A euphemism for the devil or the infernal regions Labels: Cumbria, Yorkshire Example: To hummer! wi th' 'flittin! let's have a pint Example: Thoo gan ti hummer
Word: transmittant Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, or relating to a transmission. 2. That passes through a substance.
Word: transmitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English transmit 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 transmitter From transmit + -er. 1. One who or that which transmits something (in all senses). Example: Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters. Example: Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated recovery from depression, respectively. 2. An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna.