nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: strut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of sense 1 of the noun (“beam or rod providing support”) is unknown; it is probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”): see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Icelandic strútur (“hood jutting out like a horn”), Low German strutt (“rigid, stiff”), Norwegian strut (“nozzle, spout”), Swedish strut (“paper cornet”). The verb is derived from sense 1 of the noun. Sense 2 of the noun (“act of strutting”) is derived from the verb: see above. Pronunciation: /stɹʌt/, [stɹɐt], [stɹʊ̈t], /stɹət/, /stɹʊt/ 1. A beam or rod providing support. Example: This alteration will obviate the necessity for the injudicious iron struts which are now introduced between the backs of the columns and the face of the pilasters, and which, in a practical point of view, afford little or no advantage, except against a direct shock; and even in many such cases they have failed in that object; for in such of them as have been struck, permanent alteration of the strut has taken place, which now has the effect of holding those portions of the shaft with which they are connected out of their places. Example: Replacing and Aligining Wing-tip Float Struts. Loosen the brace wires and stagger wires on the wing-tip float. Remove the bolts or pins from the strut fittings, both on the float and on the wing surface; then lift the strut out. Carefully replace the strut in a like manner. This is a very simple operation but care must be taken to align the strut with the one in the rear and the one opposite. 2. An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
Word: strut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of sense 1 of the noun (“beam or rod providing support”) is unknown; it is probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”): see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Icelandic strútur (“hood jutting out like a horn”), Low German strutt (“rigid, stiff”), Norwegian strut (“nozzle, spout”), Swedish strut (“paper cornet”). The verb is derived from sense 1 of the noun. Sense 2 of the noun (“act of strutting”) is derived from the verb: see above. Pronunciation: /stɹʌt/, [stɹɐt], [stɹʊ̈t], /stɹət/, /stɹʊt/ 1. To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: Masonry flying arches strutting the retaining walls in Chorley cutting, Manchester-Blackpool line, L.M.S.R. 2. To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle. Labels: intransitive
Word: strut Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably an archaic past participle of strut (“to (cause something to) bulge, protrude, or swell”), now replaced by strutted: see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /stɹʌt/, [stɹɐt], [stɹʊ̈t], /stɹət/, /stɹʊt/ 1. Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen. Labels: obsolete 2. Drunk, intoxicated; fou. Labels: Scotland, obsolete
Word: speaks Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspiːks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of speak Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: speaks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspiːks/ 1. plural of speak Labels: form-of, plural Example: They went to one of their speaks.
Word: unit of measurement Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of unit of measure.
Word: types Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /taɪps/ 1. plural of type Labels: form-of, plural
Word: types Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /taɪps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of type Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: struts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: struts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of strut Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: straat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans straat. Doublet of street. 1. A valley between dunes. Labels: South-Africa Example: The "straate" are generally level and have a fairly hard surface often broken by protruding boulders of limestone. Example: Dune veld consists for the most part of rolling sand hills with wide or narrow straaten running in between the rows of sand hills.
Word: afflicts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of afflict Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: topmost Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English top Proto-Germanic *-umô Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istHos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-Germanic *-umistaz Old English -mest Middle English -mest ▲ Middle English [Term?]influ. Middle English -most English -most English topmost From top + -most. Pronunciation: /tɒpˈməʊst/, /tɑpˈmoʊst/ 1. At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest. Labels: not-comparable Example: Well! well! ^([sic]) cried I, as the coachman turn’d in at the gates, I find I shall do very well : and by the time he had wheel’d round the court, and brought me up to the door, I found myself so much the better for my own lecture, that I neither ascended the steps like a victim to justice, who was to part with life upon the topmost, nor did I mount them with a skip and a couple of strides, as I do when I fly up, Eliza! to thee, to meet it. Example: When he has defended THE TRIPLE FORTRESS of Religion, Morality, and Literature, from it's^([sic]) foundation to the topmost battlements, must he be left on the field without the common honours of a common soldier? 2. Of greatest status, esteem, or prestige; best. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: If Aeschylus’ art at its topmost excellence is to be seen only in the trilogy of indissolubly connected parts, it is not true, as is sometimes maintained, that his art is to be judged exclusively on the basis of the three-part drama.
Word: drop kick Part of Speech: noun 1. A kick made by dropping the ball on the ground and kicking it as it bounces up. Labels: Canadian Example: Yes, we lifted the World Cup in 2003 (I can still effortlessly visualise Jonny's drop kick), but the Boks have won four, the Kiwis three and the Aussies two. Our women, thank God, are so much better. 2. An insignificant, contemptible or unfashionable person; a loser; used as a general insult. Labels: Australia, derogatory, slang Example: ‘I asked you to look after her for me, you drop-kick, not poison her.’ Example: ‘Of course not, you drop kick,’ says Jen. “Ectoplasmic” means “like a ghost”. An ectoplasmic elephant would be invisible. So how could you see one anyway?’ 3. A kick to the opponent made by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground. Example: 1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article AND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - ! Example: Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick
Word: drop kick Part of Speech: verb 1. To drop (a ball) and kick it after it hits the ground. Labels: transitive 2. To charge towards (an object or person) and jump to attack the target with both legs extended. Labels: informal, transitive 3. To perform such a charge and jump. Labels: intransitive Example: 2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 19 seconds Official William Shatner Page I thought, I'll dropkick... onto these guys, did I ever tell you that?
Word: stab pass Part of Speech: noun 1. A kick passing the ball to a teammate made so the ball travels low and fast through the air.
Word: torpedo punt Part of Speech: noun 1. A kick of the football made whereby the pointy ends of the ball are oriented lengthwise along its trajectory, thereby aiding aerodynamics. Some spin about the lengthwise axis is imparted to help keep that orientation in flight.
Word: derrière Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French derrière. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛɹiˈɛə(ɹ)/ 1. Bottom, bum, backside. Labels: humorous Example: As for high-heels, they hoist the derrière and make the gait more feminine and physically attractive.
Word: derrière Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from French derrière. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛɹiˈɛə(ɹ)/ 1. Performed at or to the back. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Australian rules Part of Speech: noun 1. Ellipsis of Australian rules football. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Jim remained in Shepparton where he played Australian rules and trained teams there and in Wangaratta until his health failed.
Word: digestive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus. Doublet of digestif. Pronunciation: /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/ 1. Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion. 2. That causes or promotes digestion. Example: While the doctor and the natives were taking a digestive nap after dinner, I strolled forth to have a peep at the country which could produce so generous a meal.
Word: digestive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus. Doublet of digestif. Pronunciation: /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/ 1. A substance that aids digestion. 2. A digestive biscuit. Labels: Canada, Ireland, UK Example: I bought a packet of chocolate digestives. Example: I made a mistake and bought plain digestives instead of chocolate ones.
Word: neds Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /nɛdz/ 1. plural of ned Labels: form-of, plural Example: 2007 (Scotland), RecordView in Daily Record, 14 Feb 07, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, p. 8, The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk.
Word: guilder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch gulden (“golden”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪldə/, /ˈɡɪldɚ/ 1. The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents. Example: [N]one ſhall be choſen to be a Commiſſioner in the Court at Amſterdam, vnleſſe he put ſix thouſand gilders ſtocke of his owne in the ſaid Companie; [...] Example: On the Spuy is a good Dutch Inn, called the Hoff van Utrecht. The Price is a Gilder a Day, or a Shilling for the Dinner only. 2. The former currency unit in Suriname, divided into 100 cents. 3. The current currency unit in the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
Word: guilder Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪldə/, /ˈɡɪldɚ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of gilder (“one who gilds”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: A lady ſhould, indeed, ſtudie her face, when wee thinke ſhee ſleepes: nor, when the dores are ſhut, ſhould men bee inquiring, all is ſacred within, then. [...] you ſee guilders will not worke, but inclos'd. They muſt not diſcouer, how little ſerues, with the helpe of art, to adorne a great deale.
Word: satyriasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin satyriasis, from Ancient Greek σατυρίασις (saturíasis). Pronunciation: /ˌsatɪˈrʌɪəsɪs/ 1. Excessive sexual desire, found in a man. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The indulgence of illicit pleasures, says Dr. S. Pancoast, sooner or later is sure to entail the most loathsome diseases on their votaries. Among these diseases are […] Satyriasis (a species of sexual madness, or a sexual diabolism, causing men to commit rape and other beastly acts and outrages, not only on women and children, but men and animals, as sodomy, pederasty, etc.), […] Example: An early physician, a certain Baldassar Timoeus [...] adds that a preparation of nitre, dissolved in aqua nymphae, cured a chronic case of satyriasis. 2. The quality of excessive sexual passion in a male. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: haughtily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English haughty Middle English -ly English -ly English haughtily From haughty + -ly. 1. In a haughty manner; with excessive or unwarranted pride. Example: He haughtily demanded the best table, even though people looked and wondered who he was. Example: "I don't know what you mean," she said haughtily.
Word: disdainful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From disdain + -ful. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈdeɪn.fəl/ 1. Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy. Example: He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back. Example: She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.
Word: hurrah Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unknown. Possibly adopted from German hurra, itself of uncertain origin, or possibly an alteration of huzzah. Pronunciation: /həˈɹɑː/ 1. Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. Example: Oh, she's speaking to me! Hurrah.
Word: hurrah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly adopted from German hurra, itself of uncertain origin, or possibly an alteration of huzzah. Pronunciation: /həˈɹɑː/ 1. A cheer; a cry of hurrah!.
Word: hurrah Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Possibly adopted from German hurra, itself of uncertain origin, or possibly an alteration of huzzah. Pronunciation: /həˈɹɑː/ 1. To give a hurrah (to somebody). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Boys’ basketball boosters say something is missing in the stands at away games, cheerleaders resent not being able to meet their rivals on the road, and even female basketball players being hurrahed are unhappy.
Word: typing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, type + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpɪŋ/ 1. Assignment or classification by type. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: classifying, categorizing; classification, categorization; sorting 2. Assignment or classification by type. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of one who types on a keyboard. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."
Word: typing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, type + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of type Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unsuccessful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English successful English unsuccessful From un- + successful. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfl̩/ 1. Failed, not successful. Example: His unsuccessful attempt earned him sympathy, condolences, and an occasional good-natured ribbing. Example: For example, an unsuccessful men's deodorant was successfully remerchandised by repackaging, heavier advertising, a higher price and new brand name 'Brut'.
Word: truant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”). Cognates * Breton truc (“beggar”) * Irish trogán, trogha (“destitute”) * Middle Dutch trawant, trouwant, truwant * Occitan truan * Portuguese truão * Scottish Gaelic trudanach (“vagabond”), truaghan (“wretched”) * Spanish truhan * Welsh tru, truan (“wretched”) Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːənt/, /ˈtɹuənt/ 1. Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ham[let]. And vvhat in faith make you from VVittenberg? / Hora[tio]. A truant diſpoſition good my Lord. Example: [W]ee are not to imitate them; nor to diſtruſt God in the removal of that Truant help to our Devotion, vvhich by him never vvas appointed. 2. Of a student: absent from school without permission. Labels: not-comparable, specifically Example: He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement. Example: […] I fell desperately in love with a little daughter of the squire's about twelve years of age. This freak of fancy made me more truant from my studies than ever. 3. Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: truant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”). Cognates * Breton truc (“beggar”) * Irish trogán, trogha (“destitute”) * Middle Dutch trawant, trouwant, truwant * Occitan truan * Portuguese truão * Scottish Gaelic trudanach (“vagabond”), truaghan (“wretched”) * Spanish truhan * Welsh tru, truan (“wretched”) Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːənt/, /ˈtɹuənt/ 1. An idle or lazy person; an idler. Example: For my part I may ſpeake it to my ſhame, / I haue a truant beene to Chiualrie, […] Example: You loiter, vvhile the Spoils are born avvay: / Our Ships are laden vvith the Trojan Store, / And you like Truants come too late aſhore. 2. A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty. Labels: specifically Example: [S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately. Example: […] I knovve you are no truant, / But vvhat is your affaire in Elſonoure? 3. Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel. Labels: obsolete Example: Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in him to be truly toucht vvith loue, if he be ſadde, he vvantes money.
Word: truant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English truaunten (“to obtain alms fraudulently; to behave like a rogue or scoundrel; to neglect a duty; to be idle or lazy”), and then partly: * from Old French truander (modern French truander (“to cheat, to con”)), from truand (noun) (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and * from Middle English truaunt (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːənt/, /ˈtɹuənt/ 1. Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant. Labels: intransitive Example: The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high. Example: VVhat made the Gods ſo often to trevvant from Heauen & mych [much] héere on earth, but beautie? 2. To idle away or waste (time). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I dare not be the Author / Of trevvanting the time then, neither vvill I.
Word: truant officer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of truant + officer. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʊənt ˈɒfɪsə/, /ˈtɹuːənt ˈɔfɪsɚ/ 1. An official responsible for investigating people who may be truant and compelling their attendance. Example: The truant officer called at the home to see why the student hadn't arrived. Example: Every town the size of Maycomb had families like the Ewells. No economic fluctuations changed their status—people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression. No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.
Word: swimmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swimmere, equivalent to swim + -er. The dumplings are so called because they are often served in stew. Pronunciation: /ˈswɪm.ə/, [ˈswɪm.ə], /ˈswɘm.ɘ/, [ˈswɘm.ɘ], /ˈswɪm.ɐ/ 1. One who swims. Example: The swimmer who is an expert does not exhibit his muscular force by violent movements, but exhibits some power which is invisible and which shows itself in perfect grace and reposefulness. Example: In the summer of 1992, eight beaches were closed and swimmers were warned away because of colliform bacteria, caused by boaters emptying toilets directly into the lake or onto nearby shores. Park officials may soon supply the lake with floating waste disposal systems. 2. A protuberance on the leg of a horse. 3. A webfooted aquatic bird. Example: The number of species of birds at present known from the various islands of the Molluccan group is 265, but of these only 70 belong to the usually abundant tribes of the waders and swimmers, indicating that these are very imperfectly known. 4. A sperm. Labels: colloquial, in-plural 5. A Norfolk dumpling. Labels: UK, informal
Word: swims Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swim Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swims Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of swim Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: survival Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti Proto-Italic *gʷīwō Latin vīvō Latin supervīvereder. English survive English -al English survival From survive + -al. Pronunciation: /səˈvaɪ.vəl/, /səˈvʌɪ.vəl/, /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ 1. The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die. 2. Of, relating to or aiding survival. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: persecution survival plan Example: His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness. 3. The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […] Example: "Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival." 4. A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus, if some old rhyme or saying has in one place a solemn import in philosophy or religion, while elsewhere it lies at the level of the nursery, there is some ground for treating the serious version as the more original, and the playful one as its mere lingering survival. Example: Another survival of marriage by capture is discovered among the Ceylonese, where it is common at royal marriages for the king and queen to throw perfumed balls and squirt scented water at each other.
Word: expiring Part of Speech: adj 1. Ending, terminating, dying. Labels: not-comparable
Word: expiring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of expire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: divestiture Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/, /daɪ-/, /-tə-/, /-t͡ʃʊɹ/, /-tjʊɹ/ 1. The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…]. Example: And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics. 2. The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit.
Word: AC/DC Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈeɪsiˌdisi/ 1. Able to operate with either alternating current or direct current. Labels: not-comparable 2. Bisexual. Labels: comparable, slang Example: Most everyone is AC/DC / Bisexuals on a loving spree Example: I'm AC/DC and seek a gentle, full of energy, mid-30's gentleman who is also seekin companionship and knows the meaning of "LIFE," and is able to share it.
Word: write out Part of Speech: verb 1. To write at full length or in expanded form. Labels: transitive Example: Don't use abbreviations; write out words! 2. To write or fill out (a ticket or citation). Labels: transitive 3. To exclude from a narrative or history. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name. Example: Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. 4. To remove (a character in a fictional series such as a TV show) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: “Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday. 5. To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing. Labels: intransitive
Word: ecce Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin ec- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Italic *ke Latin -ce Latin eccebor. English ecce Borrowed from Latin ecce. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksi/, /ˈɛkeɪ/, /ˈɛtʃeɪ/ 1. an interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold! Example: DEAR SIR, — Ecce my notes on the sermon. Example: Ecce the rise of literature in the modern vernaculars, even the mother tongue
Word: calcio- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of calci- (“calcium”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: regimen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/, /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ə.mən/, /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/, /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ə.mən/ 1. Orderly government; system of order; administration. Example: In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens. 2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation. Example: Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…] Example: ...and, having an excellent constitution, regularly attributed any temporary ailment of her daughters to carelessness, for which she prescribed "water gruel, and keeping in bed," being certain that under so safe a regimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn to keep well also." 3. Object. Example: (3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object … (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....] Example: Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object or regimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object or Regimen of Verbs. 4. A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government. 5. Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons. Labels: dated
Word: incorporated company Part of Speech: noun 1. a company that has been granted a charter legally recognizing it as a separate entity having its own privileges, rights, and liabilities distinct from other businesses and persons. Labels: US
Word: Dacian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”). Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪsɪən/, /ˈdeɪʃən/ 1. a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia. Labels: historical 2. a Dane, Denmark having been known as Dacia in Medieval Latin. Labels: obsolete 3. a Romanian. Labels: poetic, rare
Word: Dacian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”). Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪsɪən/, /ˈdeɪʃən/ 1. An extinct Indo-European language spoken by the people of Dacia. 2. An age from 5.332 ± 0.005 to 3.600 ± 0.005 million years ago, a subdivision of the Pliocene.
Word: Dacian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”). Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪsɪən/, /ˈdeɪʃən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to Romania or Romanians. Labels: not-comparable, poetic, rare 3. Of or pertaining to Denmark or the Danes. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: Dacia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Dacia, from Ancient Greek Δάοι (Dáoi), Δάκοι (Dákoi). Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪsɪə/, /ˈdeɪʃə/ 1. An ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them. 2. An automobile company based in Romania, Dacia.
Word: teleseminar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- English seminar English teleseminar From tele- + seminar. 1. A seminar conducted over a telephone, set up as a conference call.
Word: margarine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization. Pronunciation: /ˌmɑː.d͡ʒəˈɹiːn/, /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹɪn/, /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiːn/, /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹɪn/, /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒəˌɹin/ 1. A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc. Labels: dated, uncountable, usually
Word: margarine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization. Pronunciation: /ˌmɑː.d͡ʒəˈɹiːn/, /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹɪn/, /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiːn/, /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹɪn/, /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒəˌɹin/ 1. To spread or cover (something) with margarine. Labels: transitive Example: Putting the finishing touches on her party dinner, this attractive hostess does the last minute job of margarining her rolls to serve piping hot to her guests. Example: She is margarining a slice of bread, rubbing the grease carefully into the crumb.
Word: outre Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of outré. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [Tracey] Emin is so outre in some ways, so conventional in others.
Word: deckle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Deckel, diminutive of Decke (“covering”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkəl/ 1. A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper. 2. A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage 3. The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle. Labels: Jewish
Word: deckle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German Deckel, diminutive of Decke (“covering”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkəl/ 1. To give deckles to (paper). Labels: rare, transitive
Word: outré Part of Speech: adj Etymology: French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”). Pronunciation: /uˈtɹeɪ/ 1. Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant. Example: I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her! Example: He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly. 2. Very unconventional. Example: 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261, To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.
Word: decoction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decoctiō, from decoquō (“to boil down”), from de- + coquō (“to cook”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɒkʃən/ 1. An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar. Example: The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. 2. The process of boiling something down in this way. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.
Word: whatnot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Germanic *hwat Proto-West Germanic *hwat Old English hwæt Middle English what English what Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-West Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-u Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Indo-European *-osinflu. Proto-Germanic *aiwaz Proto-West Germanic *aiw univ. Proto-West Germanic *naiw Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *wékʷtisder.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰtisder.? Proto-Germanic *wihtą Proto-West Germanic *wiht Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht Old English nāwiht Old English *nōht Middle English nought Middle English not English not English whatnot From what + not. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒt.nɒt/, /ˈwʌt.nɑt/, /ˈʍʌt.nɑt/ 1. A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural). Labels: countable Example: Storage boxes—catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs—are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home. Example: Do not be distracted by the various novelty bags and whatnots of which Chanel is so fond; instead, prove your aforementioned sensible credentials by buying a boxy rectangular quilted shoulder bag with a chain strap, in black, ideally. 2. Other related objects or ideas. Labels: uncountable Example: At the lexicography club, we welcome all discussion of words and whatnot. Example: All of the cakes and whatnot have been laid out, ready for the children's birthday party this afternoon. 3. A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere. Example: On a whatnot in a corner which had been devoted to the child's belongings were Franky's paint-box and some of his toys. Example: Herbert[…] made an elaborate inspection of the chimney-piece, the whatnot, the piano-top.
Word: desiderate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”). The verb is a doublet of desire. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/ 1. To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for. Labels: transitive Example: Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […] Example: it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
Word: desiderate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”). The verb is a doublet of desire. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/ 1. desired, wished or longed for Example: O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
Word: penises Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpiːnɪsɪz/, /ˈpinɪsɪz/ 1. plural of penis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desipience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin desipientia, from desipere (“to be foolish”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪpɪəns/ 1. silliness, folly Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming.
Word: dessiatine Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dessiatina. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dessiatina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian десяти́на (desjatína, “tenth, tithe”). Pronunciation: /dɛsjəˈtiːnə/ 1. A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares. Example: The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth. Example: I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term.
Word: dhikr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr). Pronunciation: /ðikɹ/ 1. A Sufi Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually. Example: When all had eaten and prayed the first night prayer, they began to recite their dhikr, then they began the musical recital. Example: We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.
Word: zikr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr). Pronunciation: /zikɹ/ 1. Alternative form of dhikr. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: diapason Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn), that is διά (diá, “through”) + πασῶν (pasôn, “all”) (χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”. Pronunciation: /daɪəˈpeɪzən/, /daɪəˈpeɪsən/ 1. The musical octave. Example: 2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason 2. The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument. Labels: broadly, literary Example: The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon—forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain. Example: the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light […] 3. A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ. 4. One of the lowest strings on an archlute, theorbo, chitarrone, or similar bass lute-family instrument, usually unfrettable. 5. A harmonious outpouring of sound. Example: That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair musick that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good. Example: he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]
Word: confronts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of confront Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: confronting Part of Speech: adj 1. Causing distress; upsetting.
Word: confronting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of confront Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diastasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin diastasis, from Ancient Greek διάστασις (diástasis, “separation, standing aloof”), from δια- (dia-) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Compare diastema. Pronunciation: /daɪəˈsteɪsɪs/ 1. A separation between two parts, such as separation of a bone, without fracture. 2. The property of being diastatic, i.e. having germinated.
Word: disembogue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Spanish desembocar, from des- + embocar (“run into a creek or strait”), from boca (“mouth”). Pronunciation: /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbəʊɡ/, /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈboʊɡ/ 1. To come out into the open sea from a river etc. Example: The ships disembogued from the harbour. Example: No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic. 2. To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space. Example: You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule. Example: The river of Behut, near the pergunnah of Shoor, unites with the Chinaub, and then after running twenty-seven coss, they disembogue themselves into the river Sinde, near Ooch.
Word: divaricate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1788; borrowed from Latin dīvāricātus, perfect passive participle of dīvāricō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + vāricō (“to straddle, to stretch (the legs) apart”), from vāricus (“straddling”). Pronunciation: /daɪˈvæɹɪkeɪt/ 1. To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: divaricate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1788; borrowed from Latin dīvāricātus, perfect passive participle of dīvāricō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + vāricō (“to straddle, to stretch (the legs) apart”), from vāricus (“straddling”). Pronunciation: /daɪˈvæɹɪkeɪt/ 1. Having wide angles between the branches.
Word: divaricated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈvæɹɪkeɪtɪd/ 1. Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem. Example: The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans.
Word: divaricated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈvæɹɪkeɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of divaricate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pannus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne and pane. 1. A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis). 2. A type of accessory cloud, looking like shreds either attached to, or separated from, the main cloud formation; mainly associated with nimbostratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus. 3. A tent for a wound. 4. A birthmark on the skin.
Word: -ista Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Spanish -ista in Sandinista (1930s). Doublet of -ist. Pronunciation: /-ˈiːstə/, /-ˈɪstə/ 1. Forms nouns denoting one who follows a principle; an adept. Labels: morpheme Example: fashion + -ista → fashionista Example: Marx + -ista → Marxista
Word: widgie Part of Speech: noun 1. A female bodgie. Labels: Australia, slang Example: The bodgies and widgies represented a new teenage culture, with an emphasis on fashion (long hair styles for the boys, gabardine skirts for the girls), street presence, dancing, and rock and roll music. From 1950 to 1959, the phenomenon of the bodgies and widgies captured the imagination of the media. Example: In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society. 2. A penis. Labels: Northern-England, slang
Word: dolichophallic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dolicho- + phallic. Pronunciation: /dɒlɪkəʊˈfælɪk/ 1. having a long penis
Word: cybersex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + sex. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪbɚsɛks/ 1. A virtual sexual encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely by means of a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages simulating a sexual experience. Labels: uncountable Example: He went to his office and logged online to have cybersex for more than six hours.
Word: cybersex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cyber- + sex. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪbɚsɛks/ 1. To exchange explicit sexual experiences online by means of text or multimedia. Labels: intransitive 2. To engage in sexual activity, usually masturbation, while communicating online with another person. Labels: intransitive
Word: bodgie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bodg(er) + -ie. 1. A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a teddy boy. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: I comb my hair as best I can. It is in a crew-cut ordered by the chief warder. He must have read that bodgies wear their hair long and decided to do his bit in the fight against juvenile delinquency. Example: Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie groups. Bodgies, he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted.
Word: doucet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English doucet, from Old French doucet, diminutive of dous (“sweet”). Doublet of dulcet and dolcetto. Pronunciation: /ˈduːsɪt/ 1. A sweetened dish. 2. Deer testicles. Labels: in-plural
Word: doxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒksi/ 1. A sweetheart, a prostitute, a mistress or kept woman. Labels: archaic Example: He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched, and pilfered when and where they could, a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror. Example: Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
Word: doxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒksi/ 1. A defined opinion. Labels: colloquial Example: Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Word: doxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping. From deoxy-. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒksi/ 1. Clipping of doxycycline. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable Example: I know one patient who couldn't take the tabs but could tolerate liquid doxy.
Word: doxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of dachshund + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒksi/ 1. A dachshund. Labels: informal