nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: desoxyoligonucleotides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desoxyoligonucleotide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desoxyribonucleosides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desoxyribonucleoside Labels: form-of, plural
Word: destainers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of destainer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desulfurications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desulfurication Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desulfurylases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desulfurylase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desulphations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desulphation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desulphonations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desulphonation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desulphurications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desulphurication Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wilkinsonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Wilkinson + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Pertaining to the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, or to the Society of Universal Friends. Example: She began to preach, announcing herself as "the Publick Universal Friend," and soon [...succeeded] in organizing groups of Wilkinsonian celibates at New Milford, Conn., and at East Greenwich and South Kingston, R.I. Example: J. Hagadorn Wells, who was born in Kingston (Little Rest) in 1817, recalled in his reminiscences, recorded in 1897: "[…] more than once I joined a raiding party of young fellows, to ransack the empty apartments, scare up the ghosts of generations of rural gentry and Wilkinsonian saints, dead; but never omitting a less romantic visit to the pear trees." 2. Pertaining to any of a large number of other people with the surname Wilkinson, Example: A retreat was not to be thought of, and in case any craven spirit should exist amongst the four thousand, (save one,) breasts animated with Wilkinsonian ardour, (perhaps as James has it "as an additional stimulus to glory") a picked man was […] Example: I have a Wilkinsonian admiration for T. F. Powys, ranking him in English literature with Bunyan, Swift and Blake.
Word: Wilkinsonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wilkinson + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. A follower of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend; a member of the Universal Friends. Example: The Wilkinsonians are equally to the present point. They lived, for the most part, not more than twenty- five miles from Manchester, New York, the town in which Mormonism was first preached; […] Example: Yet Wilkinsonians (or the Universal Friends, as they dubbed themselves), despite their obscurity, provide a crucial case study. The prophetic and supernatural claims of the Wilkinsonians preceded all their contemporaries, but […] 2. A supporter of any of a number of other people named Wilkinson. Example: If Mr. Doulton does not know what consistency is, teach him, and place Mr. Wilkinson at the head of the poll. That was regarded as "vituperation," and the St. Giles's poet was called into play. This was the shot he fired at the Wilkinsonians […] Example: Pagitt proceeds to discriminate the varieties of the Separatists. In addition to Brownists, there are Barrowists, Wilkinsonians, Johnsonians, Ainsworthians, Robinsonians, and followers of John Smith and Thomas Lemar.
Word: Wilkinsonians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Wilkinsonian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: CEMB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Center for Applied and Molecular Biology. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BRG Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of British racing green. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: Cleopatraesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Cleopatra + -esque. 1. Reminiscent of Cleopatra. Example: It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.
Word: hotelwards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hotel + -wards. 1. Toward a hotel. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Buckenham Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Old English personal name Bucca + hām (“homestead”). 1. A small village in Strumpshaw parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3505) Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Wilkinsonite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wilkinson + -ite. 1. Synonym of Wilkinsonian (“supporter of someone named Wilkinson”). Labels: uncommon Example: But the solicitor calmed her by degrees, and so litigation began. There were a good many preliminary skirmishes. Topham society got wind of what was goin on, and divided itself with much fervour into Macphersonites and Wilkinsonites. Example: After all, we are a strange people. The established church won the battle with the reformed congregation in Pomfret, but only because its pastor had an unquenchable thirst and no discretion. It kept the Rogerenes and the Wilkinsonites from ...
Word: Wilkinsonites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Wilkinsonite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unsubstantiate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + substantiate. 1. To prove false; to disprove or discredit. Example: With this evidence, in addition to the findings of previous research, showing conclusively that it is not the pattern of courses followed by the student in the high school but his scholastic aptitude which determines his success in the college program, only one additional type of evidence is needed to completely unsubstantiate the reverence of colleges for entrance prescriptions. Example: Confirming rules substantiate or unsubstantiate the presumption diagnosis and therefore are not unavoidable. 2. To officially categorize (an allegation) as unsubstantiated. Example: Stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether or not there was a relationship between specified factors and the decision to substantiate or unsubstantiate sexual abuse cases. Example: In a memo dated, February 24, 1993, the Department of Social Services instructed its workers to "unsubstantiate" a case if the following were thought to be true: 3. To call into question; to create doubt about. Example: You bring down the high economy of heaven to the standard of human convenience. You pull the fabric of God's moral government to pieces; and unsubstantiate all the solemnity of His proclaimed sayings—all the lofty annunciations of the law, and of the prophets—all that is told of the mighty apparatus of the day of judgment—all that revelation points to, or conscience can suggest, of a living and a reigning God, who will not let Himself down to be affronted or trampled upon by the creatures whom He has formed. Example: And when they can really pick any hole in such characters, and unsubstantiate them, what a pleasure it is ! 4. To make insubstantial or abstract; unsubstantialize. Example: Shakespeare's tendency to generalise, spiritualise and unsubstantiate was as great as his capacity to particularise and substantiate. Example: He has been the powerful and effective organ of our Church; and when he goes, no wonder that many feel a void and blank which seems to unsubstantiate their Church, and make it no longer a home to them.
Word: unsubstantiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + substantiate. 1. Lacking substance; insubstantial. Example: He thought of his parents and Mary with the tenderness of separation, and felt ashamed because he had neglected his mother's letter for this unknown, unsubstantiate Martha's. Example: He steps over from Divinity unsubstantiate to spiritual substance just as he once descended into the world of matter. 2. Unsubstantiated; unproven. Example: This, however, was a case where the defendant (described in the file as a possible “fly-by-nighter”) made a quite unsubstantiate claim for the goods he was selling. Example: The unsubstantiate slanders made by Teng Hsiao-p'ing can only expose his rapacious design of trying to reverse verdicts, settle accounts and carry out restoration.
Word: unsubstantiates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unsubstantiate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unsubstantiating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unsubstantiate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Chinley Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0482).
Word: human services Part of Speech: noun 1. An interdisciplinary field of study with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention and remediation of problems. Labels: uncountable
Word: Glenwhilly Part of Speech: name 1. A location in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, formerly in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NX1771).
Word: unsuffocate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + suffocate. 1. To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances. Example: And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: Example: But here is an honest attempt to unsuffocate the central part of the city, which was like a plumpish woman with a pair of diabolical tight corsets cutting into her waist.
Word: unsuffocates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unsuffocate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unsuffocating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unsuffocate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unsuffocating Part of Speech: adj 1. Not suffocating; allowing freedom and ease. Example: Overhead the air is free and unsuffocating. Example: By the 1990s, while still championing active government, he aligned himself publicly with the prevailing orthodoxy that 'African countries [should] promote a strategy of privatesector led growth with government mainly concerned with providing the hospitable environment and unsuffocating regulatory framework.
Word: unsmother Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + smother. 1. To release from smothering. Example: A tale, a very tale, Angelo ! enter for the love of heaven! enter and unsmother me! Example: Write out a conversation of " smothered thoughts . " Then " unsmother ” them .
Word: unsmothers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unsmother Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unsmothering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unsmother Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unsmothering Part of Speech: adj 1. Not smothering. Example: He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy. Example: Ferguson could never let go of his mother, his unsmothering mother whose love was the source of all life for him, and merely to see her frown at him with that sad look in her eyes was a devastation, a bullet in the heart.
Word: unstrangle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + strangle. 1. To undo a constriction of the air passages, or restore to life after death by strangulation. Example: After you are seated and help your wife unstrangle herself out of her cloak and pick up her opera glass bag seven or eight times, and say, "O, my God, can't you hang on to anything?" Example: That might be all right for Shorty, who is short, but, if that long- feared "Pride of Saskatchewan," Brother Sid Neville, ever got tangled up in a knot like that it might require medical aid to unstrangle him. 2. To release from something that squeezes tightly around. Example: Sores and blisters were one introduction to the world of work, and slashing at Clematis to unstrangle whippy shoots of beech, which slapped the face and stung the eyes in defiance, has left little affection for the creeper and a stoical appreciation of this irksome task. 3. To free from the stranglehold of excessive constraints. Example: Those who are afraid to unstrangle the judge, and allow him to comment on the facts, contribute more than all others to the inefficiency of the jury today. Example: No more strangleholds! No more strangleholds! Ungag our souls!! Unstrangle our souls!! Unsmother our souls!! 4. To free up (something) that has become choked up; unblock. Example: He promised to unstrangle Houston's "miserable transportation system," to "get started rebuilding the inner city" and to "change attitudes" in the police department. Example: Speak the truth again: from the madhouse of your mother came a Jenny full of hot life and a lot of love, who learned to unstrangle and is still unstrangling all the chokeholds that were put on you. 5. To relax from constricting tension. Example: He drew a hand across his neck, as if to unstrangle his voice. Example: Mrs. Kane said, trying to unstrangle her voice. “Or better still—” she wet her lips and tried again, “or better still, why not ask Marlene? I bet Marlene would love to go with you.”
Word: unstrangles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unstrangle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unstrangling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unstrangle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: concasséd Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of concassé Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: wait around Part of Speech: verb 1. To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Looks as if we were all sold out. But if you'll wait around till the old man comes along maybe he can put his hand on it. Example: "A terrible organization!" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. "If you could see how the delegates behave! […]. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting."
Word: STE Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of suite (STE is preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Ste. and ste.) Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of Example: SHARON ARANA 12900 PARAMOUNT BLVD STE B DOWNEY, CA 90242
Word: TANF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The authors' research -- which included data analysis and interviews with ultrapoor families in four regions -- found that many families weren't even aware of TANF. Example: Sadly, structural issues allow—and even incentivize—states to exploit and manipulate the TANF program. Moreover, waste, fraud, and abuse are occurring, undermining the program and diverting already limited resources. The lack of attention to these issues by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which administers TANF at the federal level, adds to the program’s inefficiencies.
Word: pre-dead Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + dead. 1. Not yet dead. Labels: not-comparable Example: As always Mullen speaks for the dead, the pre-dead, and the after-dead: 2. Not yet dead. Labels: not-comparable Example: Garbage removal in and around private pre-dead rats initially low. Example: The anchors that hold him to earth pull loose, a common phenomenon among the pre-dead. 3. Not yet dead. Labels: not-comparable Example: he had enough time to marry and rear children, but that given statistics and his lengthy family history, life beyond 45 seemed unlikely. After 40, he began to view his life as "pre-dead." Example: I wanted to produce a straightforward, unsentimental view of a place that has been shrouded in mystery, to offer the human face of these men, the pre-dead. 4. Not yet dead. Labels: not-comparable Example: Then the man told Mamet what he fed the anaconda: "pre-dead chickens." Example: That statement presupposes that everyone in the world agrees with the nonsensical "pre-born human." Why not say "pre-dead human" since we are all going to die at some point?
Word: predead Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + dead. 1. Alternative form of pre-dead. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Ads that had created the most visually sophisticated audience on earth: the American TV viewer. For such an audience, Radler knew, the shows being churned out by the networks were . . . predead. Example: In sum, the fact that beings are neither Being nor capable of nonbeing is chastening — but sadness would seem considerably alleviated by the realization that (contra Sartre's No Exit) inability to exist in every way as in our predead days we wanted to exist is no block to awareness, choice, and change for the better, the natural.
Word: predead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + dead. 1. Alternative form of pre-dead. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only Example: The antifemale violence implicit in such targettings of the sex appeal of the inorganic is made explicit in the everyday identification of fashion victim as zombie, the predead or undead (one of the recurrent "signatures" both of the serial killer and his victims). Example: He asked after the hand mirror and in the mirror he learned his eyes were shoe black and his stitched face gaunt and worn down as the predead.
Word: glitterbilly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of glitter + hillbilly. 1. Someone who wears cowboy-style clothing which is dressy and made of flashy materials rather than true work clothes, especially one who plays country music. Example: It was he, for instance, who brought the song "The Highwayman" to the joint venture of Cash, Nelson, Jennings and Kristofferson which became an album and a touring act under that name, and he who persuaded Manuel the tailor to move to Nashville, thus accelerating the re-glitterbilly-fication of modern country which he saw, correctly, as […] Example: This authoritative yet entertaining look at "glitterbillies", rodeo girls, & rhinestone cowboys features everything that helped Western wear captivate the entire world.
Word: glitterbillies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glitterbilly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Beyhive Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Beyoncé + beehive. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːhaɪv/ 1. The singer Beyoncé's online fanbase. Labels: slang Example: And I have a hazy memory of members of the Beyhive, Beyoncé's fandom, posting disobliging commentary about my byline photo following a podcast discussion in which I was judged to have committed some forgotten act of lèse-majesté.
Word: Trumpster fire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Trump + dumpster fire, an analogy to the way a dumpster fire causes everybody to focus on the flames and to the destructive qualities of a fire. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌmpstəˈfaɪ(.)ə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɹʌmpstɚˈfaɪəɹ/ 1. Donald Trump's use of controversy to distract the public from the perceived disastrous state of the government. Labels: US, derogatory, informal Example: How you feel about Donald Trump and this “news”letter is how I feel about the raging Trumpster fire raging through my party and my country: Would that we could spare time to talk about something else. Example: And considering how thoroughly the Trumpster fire has humiliated political soothsayers this cycle, it seems unwise to offer a single, definitive answer.
Word: Portpatrick Part of Speech: name Etymology: From port + Patrick, after St Patrick's Church or earlier chapel. 1. A coastal village and harbour in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NW9954).
Word: dilly bean Part of Speech: noun 1. A pickled green bean, usually with dill and garlic for flavoring but often with other spices. Labels: US
Word: dilly beans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dilly bean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deSUMOylases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deSUMOylase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desupersaturations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desupersaturation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: detailed balances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of detailed balance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: determinisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of determinisation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dethiolases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dethiolase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dethiolations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dethiolation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deuterosomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deuterosome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonfatals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonfatal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Newton Stewart Part of Speech: name Etymology: The Scottish town was laid out in 1677 by William Stewart, son of the 2nd Earl of Galloway. 1. A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NX4055). 2. An unincorporated community in Orange County, Indiana, United States.
Word: Sonning Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish on the River Thames in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7575).
Word: xia suay Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of sia suay. Labels: Singapore, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Word: New Romney Part of Speech: name 1. A small town and civil parish with a town council on the edge of Romney Marsh in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0624).
Word: High Brooms Part of Speech: name Etymology: Believed to be named for the prevalence of broom plants in the area. 1. A suburb of Tunbridge Wells in Southborough parish, Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5941)
Word: Mostyn Part of Speech: name Etymology: Of Welsh origin. 1. A village in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1580). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A habitational surname from Welsh. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Twerton Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7264).
Word: Brackley Part of Speech: name Etymology: The community in Prince Edward Island is named after settler Arthur Brackley (d. 1776). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæk.li/ 1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5837). 2. A community and rural municipality in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Word: Ruddington Part of Speech: name 1. A large village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5732).
Word: Ennew Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Packham Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Flax Bourton Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5069).
Word: thousand-headed cabbage Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of Brussels sprout.
Word: Hubberts Bridge Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Frampton parish, Boston borough, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2643).
Word: Digbeth Part of Speech: name 1. An inner city area in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0786).
Word: Brent Cross Part of Speech: name 1. A suburban area, shopping centre, and major road interchange in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2387).
Word: like a million pounds Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Synonym of like a million dollars. Labels: UK
Word: choice words Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choice word Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Thornton-in-Craven Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD9048).
Word: top note Part of Speech: noun 1. The most volatile parts of a perfume which are immediately perceived upon its application. Example: In those days I didn't buy perfumes, and initially thought Chamade was two fragrances: I would smell the drydown on passers-by and find it wonderful, but it took me months to connect it to the nondescript floral green top note. 2. The highest note that can be produced by a certain instrument or singer. 3. The best that a person can do; one's finest achievement. Labels: broadly Example: "If you all want to see it through I am with you. It's dooced interestin', and no mistake about that. I've had my share of adventures in my life, and as many thrills as most folk, but I'm endin' on my top note."
Word: top notes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of top note Labels: form-of, plural
Word: middle note Part of Speech: noun 1. The characteristic parts of a perfume that emerge only after a waiting period.
Word: base note Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪsnəʊt/ 1. The heavily volatile and thus most-lasting parts of a perfume, often of ligneous, resinous or animalic nature.
Word: base notes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of base note Labels: form-of, plural
Word: middle notes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of middle note Labels: form-of, plural
Word: head note Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of top note (“most volatile parts of a perfume”). 2. Alternative spelling of headnote (“a summary or remark at the beginning”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: head notes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of head note Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heart note Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of middle note.
Word: heart notes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heart note Labels: form-of, plural
Word: debt obligation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From debt + obligation. Pronunciation: /dɛt ɑb.ləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ 1. A duty by which a party to an agreement is legally bound to pay the maturity of a debt at a time and in a manner as is stipulated within a given contract or promissory note. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: you see Part of Speech: intj 1. Used to indicate that the speaker hopes the listener understands what is being said. Example: I know that I am spoiling your life that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant[sic] even write this properly.
Word: Broughty Ferry Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb in the City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4631).
Word: octopoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of octopoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: East Linton Part of Speech: name 1. A village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5877).
Word: Nizhegorodian Part of Speech: adj 1. of, from, or relating to Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Labels: not-comparable
Word: Nizhegorodian Part of Speech: noun 1. a native or resident of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Word: octopusal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopus + -al. 1. Octopuslike. Example: Instead of being so ruthless and octopusal as most of us are so thoughtlessly prone to characterize such corporation it merely worships at the shrine of that fair and gracious goddess, Science, […] Example: For 20 years, the Kollege Klub was practically on the doorstep of the Memorial Library. Then the octopusal arms of a creeping university encircled the area. So in November, 1972, the KK relocated […]
Word: octopusian Part of Speech: adj 1. Octopuslike. Example: And when a concern of such octopusian proportions as the American Bicycle Co. makes so many varying statements about its product it would seem that the thing to do would be to shut one's eyes and take the first bicycle that came along. Example: […] point out where the government at Washington had made the most glaring mistakes, and where, if he had been able to impress his opinions upon the minds of the national legislators, the “octopusian” trusts would be working […]
Word: Pembrey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh. 1. A village in Pembrey and Burry Port Town community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4201). 2. An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
Word: Burry Port Part of Speech: name 1. A small coastal town in Pembrey and Burry Port Town community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4400).
Word: New Inn Part of Speech: name 1. A hamlet in Shebbear parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4408). 2. A village in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4736). 3. A hamlet in Devauden community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4800). 4. A village and community near Pontypool, Torfaen borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST3099). 5. A village in County Cavan, Ireland. 6. A village in County Galway, Ireland. 7. A hamlet in County Laois, Ireland. 8. A village in County Tipperary, Ireland, possibly also spelt Newinn.
Word: Blagoje Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Blagoje (Благоје). 1. A male given name from Serbo-Croatian.
Word: vagarist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vagus (“wandering”) + -ist. By surface analysis, Latin vag(us) + -arist. 1. One whose thought wanders in many directions. Example: The men who call themselves philosophers, may look with pride upon their speculations; but true philosophy is nothing more than the art of being happy; and a woman contented to cull the flowers of the moment, in the modest vale of female enjoyments, has more true philosophy than the vagarist, who loses his way to bliss in wandering through the clouds, or who, madman like, hazards life, happiness, every thing, for a bubble, or for a name. Example: In journeying through the fine land of memory one is apt to become a most unconscionable vagarist, for that curious faculty of the mind, which often seems dead but only slumbers, when once set in motion travels far and refuses to recall one scene or incident without recalling also a hundred others which preceded or followed it.
Word: vagarists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vagarist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vagrantize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From vagrant + -ize. 1. To wander freely, with no goal. Example: I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again. Example: The ladies and children were about taking leave of him— his long stick in hand and his face turned towards the mountains where he is to vagrantize for the summer—when it occurred to him to turn and inquire, whether, in that closely-tied and yet unexamined bundle, there happened to be a coat. 2. To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home. Example: though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables into the yard, locked the door, and set off to the next justice of the peace, for the purpose of getting the whole set vagrantized. Example: But the criminal status of other groups was vague; criminals were initially vagrantized bandit groups that then became more and more marginalized as more effective policing” made banditry difficult, if not impossible.
Word: vagrantizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vagrantize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vagrantizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vagrantize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vagrantized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vagrantize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vagrantise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of vagrantize. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It is utterly impossible for artists, either vocal or instrumental, to do themselves justice in these harum-scarum vagrantising peregrinations—no time is afforded for essential regular practice or preparation, the excitement of one performance necessarily produces reaction in the next--strange places and associates reduce their certain effects to matters of chance -- weariness produces languor and indifference, and they finally gain a contempt for the very persons who receive their efforts with indulgence. Example: for, all the world knows, or ought to know the old over-growh and moth-eaten axiom that no spiritual visitor vagrantising upon the earth, can presume to attempt the passage of the liquid element in its onward march to the ocean—but as Macduff said to Macbeth —"despair thy charm!"
Word: vagrantises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vagrantise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vagrantising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vagrantise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vagrantised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vagrantise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: yum yum sauce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely arose from the descriptive nature of the phrase, essentially meant to convey its deliciousness and encourage its consumption. 1. A sauce made from mayonnaise and various spices. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Blagojevic Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Blagoyevich. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Blagoyevich Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Blagojević (Благојевић). 1. A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Word: Blagojevich Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Blagoyevich. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Signing the pardon in the Oval Office, Trump described Blagojevich as a “very fine person” and said it was time to “let him have a normal life.”
Word: Blagoyevic Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Blagoyevich. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In the Balkans, many individuals suspected of war crimes against Muslim populations have been sent to the ICTY in The Hague by NATO. For instance, Radislav Krstic, sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment, has been officially convicted for "genocide against the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica". […] The same applies to Vidoye Blagoyevic, Momir Nikolic and others.
Word: octopusy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopus + -y. 1. Resembling an octopus; octopuslike. Example: A Robber? No; his scheme was free Of aught octopusy or sharky; He planned, as far as I can see, An Altruistic Oligarchy; […] Example: "Sting rays?" Dodson chuckled. "They scram when they see you. And that little shark wouldn't hurt a baby." "It looks octopusy." she said. "They never get big around here." "Morays, then?" Dodson laughed.
Word: octopusish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopus + -ish. 1. Resembling an octopus; octopuslike. Example: Plain slabs of fibreglass are unfriendly enough, but when topped off with a protrusion here and a herniation there, the whole house takes on a frighteningly octopusish effect, reminiscent of the painting of the warted, welted man you used to […] Example: A little beer mixed with soggy tobacco or pot oozes out of one can near Ken's bare, hairy feet. He just sits there, hunched over, while air explodes in-out his mouth, and beer spreads in an octopusish pattern.
Word: octopusial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopus + -ial. 1. Octopoid; octopuslike. Labels: rare Example: We always did say that the octopusial arrangements that have tentacled nearly the whole of the city would constantly be giving trouble, in some form or another, and behold! we were right. Example: These politicians are convinced that if the big newspapers and periodicals of this country are compelled to print a list of their stockholders there will be an amazing display of Standard Oil and J. P. Morgan and Steel Trust and other octopusial ownership.
Word: octopusesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopus + -esque. 1. Octopuslike; resembling an octopus. Labels: rare Example: It's the only serial with no sugar. buncha octopusesque hooters, it used ter be nabisco, wot are a snappy whassname of national biscuit company or […] Example: With its spider web-like installations, octopusesque Buddha hands, corpses floating in pools, smashed mirrors and menacing flower gardens, you would be forgiven for thinking that this year's Biennale was particularly macabre, […]
Word: octopodian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopod + -ian. 1. Resembling an octopus; octopuslike. Example: Once the Russians had installed themselves at Merv, and drawn within their octopodian arms the Tekkes, the Salors, and part of the Saruks, they thereby established just the shadow of a specious claim to the suzerainty of all the Turkomans, ... Example: ... farther than could have been supposed — suddenly let go, and, having passed out of the city, we found ourselves gliding through a landscape of surpassing loveliness which gave no hint of the nearness of the octopodian monster. 2. Resembling an octopod (an organism with eight feet or legs); eight-legged, eight-footed. Example: On the 16th some of the ticks cast their skin for the first time, and are now at the stage of octopodian nymphae, for now they have four pairs of legs. Example: Centipedes hastened past, legs moving in agitated undulations; tiny red spiders pounced, like octopodian tigers from another, microscopic world, on prey so infinitesimal that it was impossible to see whether it crawled or flew.
Word: octopodean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopod + -ean. 1. Resembling or pertaining to an octopus; octopuslike. Example: In the spaces which are thus left in a semi-countrified condition between these octopodean arms, there is much to be seen in a half-hour's ramble which may remind one of the country which is farther away from town. Example: […] But this is to overlook the semiotician's octopodean ambitions. Implicit in Saussure's dream of a unified field of communication lay the totalizing possibility (substantially realized by Barthes and others) of claiming the whole world ...
Word: peach fuzz Part of Speech: noun 1. The fibrous material covering the skin of a peach fruit, e.g. as opposed to the fuzzless skin of a nectarine. Labels: literally, uncountable 2. Lightly or sparsely grown hair, especially facial hair. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: If she was slightly more attractive, I believe that the peach fuzz on the bottom of my nut sack would have tingled just slightly then, watching her cry like that.
Word: octopal Part of Speech: adj 1. Octopuslike. Labels: uncommon Example: Textron, with 1970 sales of $1.6 billion, is a fast-growing new conglomerate with octopal interests: textiles, aircraft and parts, electronic equipment, iron and steel castings, bathroom fixtures, machine tools, plastic products, car parts, ... Example: This octopal reach by the oil companies had been several years in the making.
Word: octopodic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octopod + -ic. 1. Resembling an octopus; octopuslike. Example: […] congenial to creative thinking of any kind that does not concern high finance and octopodic expansion. Example: Mr. Ellis continued his campaign for amendments in legislation and H. J. Lawson, having bought the winning car for a very large sum, extended his octopodic activities.
Word: tiefling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German tief (“deep, low”) + -ling; coined for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːflɪŋ/ 1. A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic/devilish ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons. Example: That left me with either a human female paladin or a tiefling warlord. Example: I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.
Word: tieflings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tiefling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shot across the bows Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shot across the bow. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: President [Franklin] Pierce, like a great war ship, fired two shots across the bows of the Congress, to bring matters to. Example: Scientists considered collectively are remarkably single-minded in their views about what is important and what is not. If a graduate student gives a seminar and no one comes or no one asks a question, it is very sad, but not so sad as the question gallantly put by a senior or a colleague that betrays that he hasn't listened to a word. But it is a warning sign, a shot across the bows.
Word: shots across the bows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shot across the bows Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dexamethazones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dexamethazone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dextrases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dextrase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dextrocardiograms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dextrocardiogram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dextrotorsions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dextrotorsion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dextropositions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dextroposition Labels: form-of, plural
Word: DFCs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of DFC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cambourne Part of Speech: name Etymology: A portmanteau of Cambridge and Bourn, a village to the south. 1. A new settlement and civil parish with a town council in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3259).
Word: Burn Naze Part of Speech: name 1. A residential and industrial area between Fleetwood and Thornton, Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3343).
Word: Forest Gate Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a gate erected in the late 17th century; see Wikipedia. 1. A suburb in the borough of Newham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4085).
Word: puttoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of putto Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: Gisby Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: McCourt Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of McCord. 1. A surname.
Word: Hanborough Part of Speech: name 1. A civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, which includes the villages of Church Hanborough and Long Hanborough.
Word: Currock Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria, England, now in Cumberland district (OS grid ref NY4054).
Word: windstrength Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wind + strength. 1. The strength of the wind; the amount of force with which the wind blows. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In principle, the windiness map permits estimating the windstrength of a place, where the windiness value is W., by multiplying that by the measured wind at Observatory Hill. Example: Therefore, fluctuations in the windstrength may be a possible cause for changes in the Ti/Al record as proposed by Shimmield & Mowbray (1991).
Word: windstrengths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of windstrength Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Coseley Part of Speech: name 1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9494).
Word: Ditton Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English dīċ (“ditch, trench, moat”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”); compare the doublet Deighton. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtən/ 1. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable
Word: Humpherson Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: winability Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of winnability. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: This differs considerably from the literature outlined above that argues that there are voices, some military and some outside the military establishment, advocating various stances on strategic arms policy and that they do not believe in the winability of nuclear war. Example: The 'winability' of a case, cost etc, appear to be major factors in the DPP's decision as to whether or not a case will go to court.
Word: Teviot Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic abhainn Tìbhiot, probably from the same ultimate source as the river Thames, which see. 1. A river in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, which joins the Tweed at Kelso. 2. A river in Otago, New Zealand, which flows into the Clutha River at Roxburgh. 3. A farming locality in Otago, New Zealand.
Word: Baveystock Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: winterward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From winter + -ward. 1. Toward winter. Example: After the sunny week, when Nellie Crane had her custard pies, the weather turned a sharp corner — back winterward. Example: You may believe I went into November and looked winterward with a load off my soul, when now the General's health was come back; and with it his temper to wrangle and clash with me.
Word: winterward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From winter + -ward. 1. Approaching winter or during the approach of winter; Example: One by one the summer resident birds depart; the migrants come through in a rush, the peak of each species' wave reached nearly in a week from the first one seen; the other or winterward side of the wave declines more slowly. Example: Oh, dear God, how lovely this flower, this strange youngness is the last-born wilding of the winterward grass. 2. Becoming wintry. Example: It had a dying sweetness, a funereal majesty, a winterward regret. Example: O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?
Word: winterwards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From winter + -wards. 1. Alternative form of winterward. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed. Example: At eight that evening we looked our last on the pleasures of our voyage, the brightness of Corfu, and the glorious Albanian hills ; said, " Grood-bye summer," and sailed winterwards all that night, arriving at Brindisi at 8 a.m. on the 24th, a miserable, lowering, tempestuous day, with a lurid, stormy sky, and a heavy, tossing sea.
Word: winterwards Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From winter + -wards. 1. Alternative form of winterward. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That first tree in the garden must be climbed / and a new landscape from its branches limbed, / a life surveyed from its winterwards foliage / for I am now the spring, I am now my age. Example: The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.
Word: take the initiative Part of Speech: verb 1. to take action first or on one's own; to make the first move Labels: idiomatic
Word: seize the initiative Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of take the initiative. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: takes the initiative Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of take the initiative Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: taking the initiative Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of take the initiative Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: took the initiative Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of take the initiative Labels: form-of, past
Word: taken the initiative Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of take the initiative Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Rosewell Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. 2. A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2862). 3. An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
Word: wrongdo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wrong + do. 1. To do something wrong; to break a rule or offend. Labels: rare Example: Some offenders were called to judgment where offences were technical and unaccompanied by any intention to wrongdo, whereas hardened offenders were sometimes let off with less than their deserts. Example: To overdo can be as hard on allergies as to wrongdo, so you'll not want to take on too many activities at once.
Word: wrongdoes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wrongdo Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wrongdid Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of wrongdo Labels: form-of, past
Word: wrongdone Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of wrongdo Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: window-shops Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of window-shop Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: window-shopped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of window-shop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Postwick Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Postwick with Witton parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2907).