nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: downward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English down Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English downward From down + -ward. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnwɚd/, /ˈdaʊnwəd/, /ˈduːnwɐd/ 1. Moving, sloping or oriented down. Labels: not-comparable Example: He spoke with a downward glance. Example: But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar, Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave, Ne’er saw the beauteous livery that he wore; 2. Located at a lower level. Labels: not-comparable Example: In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves, And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves. Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies, The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods, And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods; Example: 1793, Thomas Taylor (translator), The Phædo in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato, London: Benjamin and John White, p. 235, […] often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
Word: revery Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of reverie. Labels: alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable Example: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee, / And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few.
Word: reverie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French rêverie. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛvəɹi/ 1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion! Example: we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […] 2. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .
Word: reverie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French rêverie. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛvəɹi/ 1. To daydream. Labels: intransitive Example: By this time the mouth begins to feel uneasy—I pick another cheroot from Cotton’s last box, and walk up and down reverie-ing as before. Example: So now the dream of all my life is realized, and I have seen snow mountains! When I was quite a little child of eight years old I used to reverie about them, and when I heard the name of the snow-covered Sierra de la Summa Paz (perfect peace) the idea was completed; and I thenceforth always thought of eternal snow and perfect peace together, and longed to see the one and drink in the other.
Word: reverie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛvəɹi/ 1. A caper, a frolic; merriment. Labels: archaic
Word: industrialize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *dó univ. Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dó Old Latin endo Latin indu Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréweti Proto-Italic *strowō Latin struō ? Latin industrius Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin industrialbor. French industrie French -iel French industriel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izārebor. Old French -iser French -iser French industrialiserbor. English industrialize Borrowed from French industrialiser. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌstɹiəlaɪz/ 1. To develop industry; to become industrial. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US 2. To organize along industrial lines. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US
Word: pars Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɑːz/, /pɑɹz/ 1. plural of par Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pars Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɑːz/, /pɑɹz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of par. Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: acid anhydride Part of Speech: noun 1. A class of organic compounds having two acyl groups bonded to the same oxygen atom. They react with water to give carboxylic acids.
Word: acyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *akēō Latin aceō Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English acyl Ultimately from Latin ac(eō) + -yl. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.sɪl/, /ˈeɪ.saɪl/ 1. Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid. Example: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
Word: acyl anhydride Part of Speech: noun 1. An acid anhydride.
Word: anhydride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der. English an- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English hydride English anhydride From an- + hydride. Compare anhydrous and -ide. 1. Any compound formally derived from another (or from others) by the loss of a water molecule, especially acid anhydrides.
Word: ionic liquid Part of Speech: noun 1. any salt that has a relatively low melting point; they are used as solvents where water or traditional organic solvents cannot be used.
Word: ionic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Hellenic *éimi Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der. English ion Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English ionic From ion + -ic. Pronunciation: /aɪˈɒnɪk/ 1. of, relating to, or containing ions Labels: not-comparable
Word: auf Wiedersehen Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from German auf Wiedersehen (“goodbye”). 1. Used to express farewell. 2. Until we see each other again; goodbye.
Word: quinquagenarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin quinquāgēnārius (“containing 50”) + -an, either directly or via French quinquagénaire, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīnquāgintā (“five tens, fifty”). Cognate with quinquagenary. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒəˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ 1. Synonym of pentecoster: an officer who commands 50 men. Labels: obsolete, rare 2. Synonym of fiftysomething: a person between 50 and 59 years old.
Word: quinquagenarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin quinquāgēnārius (“containing 50”) + -an, either directly or via French quinquagénaire, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīnquāgintā (“five tens, fifty”). Cognate with quinquagenary. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒəˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ 1. Of or related to command over 50 men. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare 2. Of or related to fiftysomethings. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Sunderland Part of Speech: name Etymology: From sunder + -land (see Wikipedia article for further etymological information). Pronunciation: /ˈsʊndələnd/, /ˈsʌndələnd/, /ˈsʌndɚlənd/ 1. A place in England: 2. A place in England: 3. A place in England: 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States: 6. A place in the United States: 7. A place in the United States: 8. A community in Brock township, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. 9. A surname.
Word: goof around Part of Speech: verb 1. To fool around. Labels: slang
Word: stylised Part of Speech: adj 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stylized. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: stylised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of stylise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: picked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɪkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of pick Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: picked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɪkt/ 1. Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word) Labels: often 2. Chosen; selected. Example: For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their faith. 3. Played by picking the strings 4. Having a pike or spine on the back. Example: the picked dogfish 5. fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty Labels: obsolete Example: He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it. Example: Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries: 6. pointed; sharp Labels: obsolete Example: […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold. Example: A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.
Word: GFX Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of graphics. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal, plural, plural-only
Word: apparati Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apparatus Labels: form-of, hypercorrect, plural
Word: Trojan War Part of Speech: name 1. A mythological war and siege as described in Homer's Iliad. Labels: Greek Example: For the greater part of three thousand years since the date of the Trojan War, the imagination of poets and dramatists has been busy with its story. Example: The poems of the Epic Cycle are now lost. But what we know about them from ancient evidence is extremely important for our understanding about myth of the Trojan War. The poems of the Epic Cycle share the same mythological tradition with the famous Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and in fact the Epic Cycle is even more representative of the Trojan War tradition than the Homeric poems.
Word: motor factors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of motor factor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: motor factor Part of Speech: noun 1. A retail supplier of car parts and accessories. Labels: Ireland, UK, in-plural
Word: wind sock Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of windsock. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ENT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of ear, nose and throat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. An otorhinolaryngologist; an ear, nose and throat doctor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sibilant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sībilāns, present active participle of sībilō (“to hiss”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənt/, /ˈsəb.ə.lənt/ 1. Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack. Example: She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound. "S-s-s Grace," she said, "it's just like I was telling Brother Hutson the other day. 'S-s-s Brother Hutson,' I said, 'looks like we're fighting a losing battle, a losing battle.' I said."
Word: sibilant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sībilāns, present active participle of sībilō (“to hiss”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənt/, /ˈsəb.ə.lənt/ 1. A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack. Example: Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants.
Word: airing cupboard Part of Speech: noun 1. A clothes storage cupboard built around a house's hot water system, using the heat to dry damp clothes.
Word: yahoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes. Pronunciation: /ˈjɑːhuː/ 1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual. Labels: derogatory 2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas. Example: 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.
Word: yahoo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Expressive. Pronunciation: /jəˈhuː/ 1. Exclamation of joy or enjoyment. Example: "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!" 2. Battle cry.
Word: yahoo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Expressive. Pronunciation: /jəˈhuː/ 1. To give a cry of yahoo. Labels: informal, intransitive, transitive
Word: yahoo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yahoo!. 1. Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo. Labels: alt-of Example: Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead! Example: In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).
Word: torch song Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From to carry a torch for (“to harbor feelings for”). 1. A song, often sentimental, lamenting an unrequited love; normally sung by a woman. Example: “Take Me Away” is a torch song about wanting to fall in love and be taken far from an immoral urban environment.
Word: implausible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English im- English plausible English implausible From im- + plausible. 1. Not plausible; unlikely; dubious. Example: Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.
Word: torch singer Part of Speech: noun 1. A singer, most often a woman, of torch songs. Example: 'It was my day for a singing lesson. He's trying to make a torch singer out of me.'
Word: assertive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive. Pronunciation: /əˈsɝtɪv/ 1. Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive. Example: Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose. 2. Pungent. Example: an assertive taste or odor
Word: esky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Esky (“brand name”), a brand name originally owned by Malley's Ltd, of Sydney, Australia, from 1952; since genericised. From Esk(imo) + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈɛs.kiː/ 1. An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool. Labels: Australia Example: The rear of the cab was stacked with boxes of soft drinks and ‘Eskis’. Example: Instructions followed for the package to be covered with clean ice in a six-pack esky (which should be big enough), and stored in a cool room at the hotel or the butcher shop, until the arrival of the mail plane.
Word: chilly bin Part of Speech: noun 1. An insulated picnic cooler, using refrigerated blocks to keep food cool. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: CLP Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /siːɛlˈpiː/ 1. Initialism of Constituency Labour Party. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Word: PSNI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Police Service of Northern Ireland, created in 2001 as a successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Labels: Northern-Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Byrne was already facing pressure after a major data breach from the PSNI last month. Personal data of all serving members of the PSNI was mistakenly published in response to a freedom of information request.
Word: Lillian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”). 1. A female given name from Latin, of American usage; variant form Lilian (UK). Example: Your mother's name was Lillian, Minnie Lee, Her other name I never heard, until I stood within the church and saw her wed So she is ever Lillian Lee to me. Example: Lillian Russell was christened Helen Louise Leonard. Tony Pastor gave her the name Lillian Russell, for the very practical reason, I believe, that it had so many "l's" in it, and consequently would look well on a bill-board.
Word: BRS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of booking reservation system. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of bus rapid service. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: self-satisfied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English satisfied English self-satisfied From self- + satisfied. 1. Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant. Example: He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression. Example: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
Word: center punch Part of Speech: verb 1. To create a small hole or indentation in a workpiece as a guide in preparation for drilling. Labels: US
Word: center punch Part of Speech: noun 1. A tool used to create a small indentation in preparation for drilling a hole. Labels: US, countable 2. The small indentation created by such a tool. Labels: US, countable
Word: workpiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From work (noun) + piece (noun), a calque of German Werkstück (“piece of work; object being worked on”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːkpiːs/, /ˈwɜɹkˌpis/ 1. A partially finished object (often composed of a raw material) which is subjected to various operations, worked on with tools, etc. Example: Make sure the workpiece is properly secured in the chuck before turning on the lathe. Example: Scantling s[ubstantive] (prescribed dimension of a work[-]piece).
Word: anagnorisis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις (anagnṓrisis), from ἀναγνωρίζειν (anagnōrízein, “to recognise, discover”). Pronunciation: /ˌænəɡˈnɒrɪsɪs/ 1. The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators.
Word: cooler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cool 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 cooler From cool + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈku.lɚ/, /ˈkʉː.lə(ɹ)/ 1. Anything which cools. Example: If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case. 2. An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping. Example: While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan. Example: Two women were found unresponsive in a car along with the likely culprit – four coolers of dry ice – Friday morning in Pierce County, Washington, CNN affiliate KOMO reports. 3. A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue. Example: He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him. 4. A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice. Labels: Canada, South-Africa, countable, uncountable Example: They served wine coolers in the afternoon. 5. samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls) Labels: Philippines, countable 6. Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis 7. A prison. Labels: US, slang Example: About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap. 8. A bouncer or doorman. Labels: US, slang 9. A cold deck. Labels: colloquial 10. A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips. 11. A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water. Labels: obsolete, slang 12. A cooling swim or dip in the water. Labels: archaic, slang Example: That night this ungainly urchin, taking a cooler in one of the big irrigation canals, got laid hold of by an alligator and raised the most unearthly screech […]
Word: cooler Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cool 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 cooler From cool + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈku.lɚ/, /ˈkʉː.lə(ɹ)/ 1. comparative form of cool: more cool Labels: comparative, form-of Example: He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.
Word: zaftig Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Yiddish זאַפֿטיק (zaftik), cognate to German saftig (“juicy”). Doublet of sappy. Pronunciation: /ˈzæf.tɪɡ/, /ˈzɑf.tɪɡ/ 1. Having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large. Labels: US, colloquial Example: By his description the same broad. A zaftige piece too, in a mink stole. Example: Sportcasters are drawn from three different talent pools. Some are professional media people, others are ex-coaches and the most zaftig lot are ex-players.
Word: ardor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti Proto-Italic *āzēō Latin āreō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin āridus Latin ārdus ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin ārdeō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin ārdorbor. Old French ardur Anglo-Norman ardourbor. Middle English ardour English ardor From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Old French ardur, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːdə/, /ˈɑːɹdɚ/ 1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished. 2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 3. Intense heat. Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: ardour Part of Speech: noun 1. UK, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished. Example: The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.
Word: baptize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English baptisen, baptizen, from Old French baptiser, batisier, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptizāre, from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse, plunge, baptize”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæptaɪz/, [ˈbæp.tajz], [bapˈtajz] 1. To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US Example: I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament. 2. To Christianize. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, figuratively Example: Ample evidence for this transfer of divine imagery can be found in early Christian times, when the Mother of God took over the titles, shrines, iconography and power of the great mother goddess of the Mediterranean world. This "baptizing" of pagan imagery was a successful missionary strategy that allowed Christianity to attract peoples accustomed to female deities while still maintaining faith in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit 3. To dedicate or christen. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US 4. Of rum, brandy, or any other spirits, to dilute with water. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, slang Example: There's a good tavern nearby where they don't baptize liquor! Example: In 1833 Charles Kingsley wrote of the Royal Victora Hall in the Waterloo Road as 'a licensed pit of darkness'. The darkness remained unrelieved until, in 1880, Miss Emma Cons took over the lease and baptized the drinks that were served at the bar and the songs that were sung on the stage. 5. To ensure proper burning of a joint by moistening the exterior with saliva. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, slang 6. To extinguish the life of. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, slang Example: Nigga actin tough on the net, Imma baptize him, .223 shells and he’s shot like I am Mad Ryan Put him in a coffin, hold him one year, he is no longer Fucking on an opp nigger, bitch he sayin “go longer!” Example: I'm on frontstreet over them sides Catch an opp lackin', leave him baptised Bro up the Glock, don't freeze Big rambo, inject with ease (Wet that)
Word: intricate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English intricat(e) (“entangled, intricate”), from Latin intrīcātus, perfect passive participle of intricō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/ 1. Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity. Example: The architecture of this clock is very intricate. Example: As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.” 2. Difficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure. Labels: archaic Example: The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; Nor ſees with how much Art the Windings run, Nor where the regular Confuſion ends. Example: His style of writing […] was […]fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding […]with the utmost clearness.
Word: intricate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: As for Etymology 1; from Latin intrīcātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.keɪt/ 1. To become enmeshed or entangled. Labels: intransitive Example: […] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound. 2. To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate. Labels: transitive Example: But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.
Word: drugget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French droguet, from drogue (“cheap”), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌɡɪt/ 1. An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A floor covering made of drugget. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was the handsome carpet, new on the occasion of Mr. Gooch's marriage, but it was carefully covered with a drab drugget; the curtains were of a pretty pink damask, but they were enveloped in brown holland bags, by which same material the chairs and sofas were covered. Example: This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room[…]
Word: bannister Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of banister. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: uh oh Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of uh-oh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: for the most part Part of Speech: adv 1. In most aspects; mostly; generally. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: For the most part, the crowd was orderly. Example: The sky is overcast for the most part.
Word: experiences Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ən.sɪz/, /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪən.sɪz/ 1. plural of experience Labels: form-of, plural
Word: experiences Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ən.sɪz/, /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪən.sɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of experience Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pioneer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess). Pronunciation: /ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪə(ɹ)/, /ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/, /ˌpaɪ.əˈniɹ/ 1. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow. 2. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress. Example: Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization. Example: Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform. 3. A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper. Example: [King of] Fess. What thinks your greatnes beſt to be atchieu’d In purſuit of the Cities ouerthrow? Bai[azeth]. I wil the captiue Pioners of Argier, Cut off the water, that by leaden pipes Runs to the citie from the mountain Carnon, […] 4. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol. 5. A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself. 6. Alternative letter-case form of Pioneer (“A Singaporean born on or before 31 December 1949, who is entitled to various healthcare and social support schemes.”). Labels: Singapore, alt-of Example: Perhaps the pioneer generation, having experienced unity in solidarity, will show the rest of Singapore the way. Example: A fenceless open-air museum […] that captures the spirit and struggles of Singapore's pioneer generation.
Word: pioneer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess). Pronunciation: /ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪə(ɹ)/, /ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/, /ˌpaɪ.əˈniɹ/ 1. To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow. Labels: transitive Example: The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.
Word: RFP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of request for proposal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Some of the changes include: re-formatting the RFP to increase visual accessibility, overhauling the project proposal deliverables, increasing the “bite” of material compliance deductions associated with the Materials Notebook, placing a minimum freeboard design constraint on the canoe itself, re-introducing the calculations appendix, restricting the format of presentation slides, restricting the use of pigments and stains, tweaking the final product display, imposing a maximum unit weight requirement, and completely overhauling the scoring system. 2. Initialism of request for production. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SOA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SOA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of state of the art. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of safe operating area (“the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of search-oriented architecture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of service-oriented architecture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of statement of account. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of super output area. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of sudden-onset aggression Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: EA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of executive assistant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of estate agent. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of enrolled agent. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of educational assistant. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of ethyl acetate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: For copolymers of ethylene, the other comonomer can be an alkene such as propene, butene, hexene or octene, or a compound having a polar functional group such as vinyl acetate (VA), acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acetate (EA), methyl acrylate (MA) or vinyl alcohol (VOH). 6. Initialism of environmental assessment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: After the EA is issued, a public hearing and associated public comment period will be held to again solicit public input and to create an administrative record. 7. Initialism of enterprise architecture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of evolutionary algorithm. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of effective altruism. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: […] Christine Emba’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “The trouble with ‘longtermism,’ ” countered this philosophy’s occasional fanaticism with glib reductiveness. Moreover, she tarred with the same brush the spirit of the entire effective altruism (EA) movement — the giveaway at the start is that EA is derided for being “obsessed with ‘doing good better.’ ” Example: This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires. 10. Initialism of effective altruist. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: In November, 2022, when ChatGPT was released, [Sam] Bankman-Fried, the richest and most famous effective altruist, was unmasked as a generational talent at white-collar crime. Many E.A.s now disavow the label: I interviewed people who had attended E.A. conferences, lived in E.A. group houses, and admitted to being passionate about both effectiveness and altruism, but would not cop to being E.A.s themselves.
Word: EA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Environment Agency. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Eid al-Adha. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of East Africa. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Electronic Arts. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.
Word: EDI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of electronic data interchange. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually 2. Initialism of equity/equality, diversity, and inclusion. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
Word: namaste Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, literally “salutation to you”). Pronunciation: /nə.məs.t̪eː/, [nɐˈmɐs.t̪eˑ], /ˈnʌm.ə.steɪ/, /nəˈmʌs.teɪ/ 1. A greeting in contexts relating to Indian culture or the New Age movement. Example: First of all, Namaste to you! It is my sincere hope that the words of this book will assist you in living with full appreciation for all the moments of your life. Remember that each one is special and brings something to your life[…] Example: I shuffled from one foot to the other outside the room, as I delayed going in. Finally, I took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and knocked on the door. 'Come in.' It seemed that Vimla was expecting me. 'Namaste.' She said, and gestured for me ... 2. Thank you (via a misunderstanding of the meaning of the associated gesture). Labels: proscribed
Word: namaste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, literally “salutation to you”). Pronunciation: /nə.məs.t̪eː/, [nɐˈmɐs.t̪eˑ], /ˈnʌm.ə.steɪ/, /nəˈmʌs.teɪ/ 1. The traditional greeting when saying the word namaste, with folded hands and a slight bow. Example: Krishnan introduced one of the girls as his sister. She was a small, frail-looking girl with a pretty smile. She clasped her hands, made a namaste and said, “Hello, nice meet you. My name is Karishma.” “Hello, Karishma,” said Natascha. 2. In yoga, the pose associated with this word, usually with the flat hands held palms together, fingers up, in front of the heart and a slight bow.
Word: namaste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, literally “salutation to you”). Pronunciation: /nə.məs.t̪eː/, [nɐˈmɐs.t̪eˑ], /ˈnʌm.ə.steɪ/, /nəˈmʌs.teɪ/ 1. To utter "namaste". Labels: intransitive Example: The yoga instructor namasted, and the class began.
Word: VBA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Visual Basic for Applications. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: WRC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of water recycling center. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: WRC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of World Rally Championship. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of World Ringette Championship. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: runcible spoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1871, coined by Edward Lear with no definition, but was applied to the following by 1926. 1. A fork-like spoon that has a cutting edge. Example: They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; Example: But the Baudelaires accepted their bowls of ceviche, as well as the strange utensils Friday handed them, which were made of wood and looked like a combination of a fork and a spoon. "They're runcible spoons," Friday explained. "We don't have forks or knives in the colony, as they can be used as weapons."
Word: SME Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of small and medium-sized enterprise or small- to medium-sized enterprise. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The ban on destroying unsold goods will be among the longer lead times: large businesses have two years to comply, and SMEs have been granted up to six years. 2. Initialism of subject-matter expert. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SME Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DWH Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of data warehouse. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: atriopore Part of Speech: noun 1. a hole in a lancelet through which water exits the body
Word: spring chicken Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spring + chicken. First appears c. 1765 in The Public Advertiser. 1. A chicken for eating while it is still young. 2. A person who is still young. Labels: informal Example: It is a special day for you indeed, for both of us, bodies incorporeal, receptive always to life's joys appreciative in any way I can, you like to remind me were both getting old; I'd remind you that, at fifty-five, you're still a spring chicken.
Word: benched Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /bɛnt͡ʃt/ 1. Fitted with a bench, or benches.
Word: benched Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɛnt͡ʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of bench Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cuttie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cut + -ie. 1. A cutback. Labels: slang 2. A T-shirt that has had the sleeves removed. Labels: colloquial 3. Alternative spelling of cutty (“someone or something common and short or small”). Labels: Scotland, alt-of, alternative 4. A hare. Labels: Scotland, archaic 5. The black guillemot. Labels: Scotland, archaic
Word: cuttie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cut + -ie. 1. Alternative spelling of cutty short, shortened or small. Labels: Scotland, alt-of, alternative
Word: no spring chicken Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the description of a young person as a spring chicken. 1. Said of a person who is no longer particularly young. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: They expect me to carry this box myself while climbing the stairs to the seventh floor? I don't know about that — I'm no spring chicken. Example: You know the world. You are no spring chicken. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, spring, chicken.
Word: skitter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction”) (Scotland, Northern England). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈskɪtɚ/, [ˈskɪɾɚ] 1. To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle. Labels: intransitive Example: I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness. Example: Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down. 2. To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering. Labels: intransitive Example: Both "Dark Snow" and "Aurelia" [by AFI] feature subtle washes of brittle piano à la Decemberunderground, while "She Speaks The Language" boasts a skittering electronic underbelly, and eerie synths are suspended like low clouds in "Above The Bridge." 3. To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite. Labels: transitive Example: "Skittering," continued the Professor, "is practiced with a strong line about the length of the rod, to which is affixed a small trolling-spoon, a minnow, or a piece of pork-rind cut in the rude semblance of a small fish. The boat is poled along, as in ‘bobbing,’ but farther out in the stream, when the angler, standing in the bow, ‘skitters’ or skips the spoon or bait over the surface just at the edge of the weeds.
Word: skitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction”) (Scotland, Northern England). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈskɪtɚ/, [ˈskɪɾɚ] 1. A skittering movement. Labels: also, figuratively Example: A skitter of activity. A skitter of gooseflesh. Example: I had seen an aerial helix of raptors, hawks and harriers riding a thermal, and below them a skitter of ringed plover and other waders, together with more kingfishers than I had ever seen before.
Word: skitter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From skite (“to defecate”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈskɪtɚ/, [ˈskɪɾɚ] 1. To cause to have diarrhea. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, transitive Example: "[…] I'd like you to give the calves two heaped tablespoonfuls [of Epsom salts] three times a day." / "Oh 'ell, you'll skitter the poor buggers to death!" / "Maybe so, but there's nothing else for it," I said. 2. To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive Example: As a symptomatic phenomenon, Diarrhœa is skittering, i.e., the discharges are composed of water, intermingled with particles of imperfectly digested food; from two to six or eight discharges may thus take place, and it is an invariable precursor of constipation. Example: And when health problems struck, as they inevitably would, no matter how attentive the farmer, the tree had to be nursed until it was better. […] Jeez, and I'd thought mothering week-old orphan calves back in Scotland had been a headache! Still, at least a tree couldn't skitter diarrhoea down the front of your jeans, or bellow to be bucket-fed warm milk in the middle of the night, so that was a bonus.
Word: skitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From skite (“to defecate”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈskɪtɚ/, [ˈskɪɾɚ] 1. Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, uncountable Example: I can't give it my immediate attention, as the cow has the skitter (diarrhoea) and I'm waiting on the Vit (vet). Example: Shaking but making herself stand there while skitter ran down the inside of her legs. She learnt German early from Anna. Durchfall easier to spell than Diarrhoea. Falling liquid brown.
Word: OLAP Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈoʊlæp/ 1. Acronym of online analytical processing. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: barbaric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more. Pronunciation: /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪk/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛɹɪk/ 1. of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth Example: a barbaric attack on a doctor in a hospital
Word: SMTP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a de-facto standard for email transmission. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The objective of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is to transfer mail reliably and efficiently.
Word: POP3 Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Post Office Protocol version 3, a standard for receiving Internet email. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: ACME Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a generic company name. Labels: alt-of
Word: ACME Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format. Labels: alt-of, uncountable
Word: triradius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + radius. 1. A group of three ridges forming a Y shape at the base of each finger on the palm of the hand.