nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: subordinate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”). Pronunciation: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/, /səˈbɔɹdɪnət/, /səˈboːdɪnət/ 1. One who is subordinate. Labels: countable 2. A hyponym.
Word: subordinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”). Pronunciation: /səˈbɔːdɪneɪt/, /səˈbɔɹdɪneɪt/, /səˈboːdɪnæɪt/ 1. To make subservient or secondary. Labels: transitive 2. To make subservient or secondary. Labels: transitive 3. To treat (someone) as of less value or importance. Labels: transitive
Word: subservient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”). 1. Useful in an inferior capacity. 2. Obsequiously submissive. Example: Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.
Word: subservient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”). 1. A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate. Example: James Harrison, the tenant, was one of his subservients, chosen by him in consequence of his austere piety, and great influence with his sect […]
Word: duplicate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/, /ˈd͡ʒʉwplɪkət/ 1. Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original. Labels: not-comparable Example: This is a duplicate entry. 2. In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players. Labels: not-comparable Example: duplicate whist Example: duplicate Scrabble
Word: duplicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒʉwplɪkɛjt/ 1. To make a copy of. Labels: transitive Example: If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much? Example: Can you duplicate this kind of key? 2. To do repeatedly; to do again. Labels: transitive Example: You don't need to duplicate my efforts. 3. To produce something equal to. Labels: transitive Example: He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.
Word: duplicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/, /ˈd͡ʒʉwplɪkət/ 1. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is a duplicate, but a very good replica. Example: July 20, 1678, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. 2. An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Sir, I hope you will excuse what I am going to say; but having observed that you frequently pledge similar goods to these at our shop, which are afterwards taken out by other persons, I take for granted you are in the habit of selling the duplicates;[…]" 4. The game of duplicate bridge. Labels: uncountable Example: The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships[…] 5. The game of duplicate Scrabble. Labels: uncountable 6. A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.
Word: toponymy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From topo- + -onymy. Pronunciation: /təˈpɒ.nɪˌmi/ 1. Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The nomenclature of anatomical regions. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: head butt Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of headbutt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: head butt Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of headbutt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: two-stroke Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to a design of internal combustion engine, the working cycle of which is completed during two strokes of the piston. Labels: not-comparable Example: This motorbike has a two-stroke engine.
Word: two-stroke Part of Speech: noun 1. A two-stroke engine. 2. A vehicle or machine powered by a two-stroke engine. 3. The fuel used in a two-stroke engine. 4. Coca-Cola. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: onomastics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *ónomã Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós)bor. English onomastic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English onomastics 1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name). Pronunciation: /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪks/, /ˌɑː.noʊˈmæs.tɪks/, /ˌɑː.nəˈmæs.tɪks/ 1. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Her father had long been a student of onomastics, and loved to unpack the names of people they encountered as children. Example: From the point of view of onomastics, proper names fulfill many functions (individualizing, localizing, differentiating etc.).
Word: butterface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her face, great body but her face, among other phrases, under the influence of butter (perhaps also with connotation of “plainness”, grease, etc.) and buttface. Compare summerteeth. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌ.təˌfeɪs/, /ˈbʌ.təɹˌfeɪs/ 1. A person who has an attractive body but an unattractive face. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: I can’t even look at her, she’s such a butterface. Example: Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface... 2. An unattractive face. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: I can’t even look at her, she’s got such a butterface. Example: Her friend had a hot figure and a butterface — great body, but her face — and they were talking about Greyhound's most recent dating fiasco.
Word: doctoral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From doctor + -al, probably modelled on Latin doctorālis. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒktəɹəl/, /ˈdɒktɹəl/, /ˌdɒkˈtɔɹəl/, /ˈdɑktəɹəl/, /ˈdɑktɹəl/ 1. Relating to a doctorate. Labels: not-comparable 2. Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician. Labels: not-comparable Example: We have no need of doctorall consultations or collegian interpretations. Our senses tell us where it is and what it is.
Word: doctorate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin doctōrātus. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/, /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/ 1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
Word: doctorate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin doctōrātus. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/, /ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/ 1. To make (someone) into a doctor. Labels: archaic Example: He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated. Example: Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.
Word: colonial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colonial From colony + -al. Pronunciation: /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/, /kəˈloʊ.njəl/, /kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a colony. 2. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony. Example: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away. Example: India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world. 3. Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism. 4. Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA. Labels: US 5. Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution. Labels: US 6. Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
Word: colonial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colonial From colony + -al. Pronunciation: /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/, /kəˈloʊ.njəl/, /kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/ 1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another. Example: None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials. Example: The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials. 2. A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England. Labels: US 3. A coin or postage stamp issued by a colony. Example: This simple soul, who possesses a talent not inferior to that of Cavino at his best, has for many years turned his hand to the not unprofitable occupation of forging rare Greek and Roman coins. As a collector and student of certain Greek colonials and a specialist in forgeries I have been familiar with Stelli's workmanship for years.
Word: censor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Latin cēnsor (“magistrate; critic”), from cēnseō (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”) + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit शंसति (śaṃsati, “to declare”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnsə/, /ˈsɛnsɚ/ 1. One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical Example: The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors. Example: And Nobly nam'd, ſo twice being Cenſor, / Was his great Anceſtor. 2. A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials. Labels: Ancient-China, historical 3. An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media. Example: The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied. Example: There being a censor of public morals I will refrain from giving that worthy warrior's reply when he had digested this astounding piece of information; it is sufficient to say that it did not encourage further conversation, nor did it soothe our hero's nerves. 4. A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution. Example: During his [Theophilus Higgons's] reſidence in the ſaid houſe [Christ Church, Oxford], he was eſteemed a Perſon to be much ſtained with Puritaniſme, and to be violent againſt all ſuch that were ſuſpected to favour the Romiſh See. When he was Cenſor alſo, he was ſo zealous as to ſaw down a harmleſs maypole ſtanding within the precincts of the ſaid houſe, becauſe forſooth he thought it came out of a Romiſh Foreſt. 5. One who censures or condemns. Labels: obsolete Example: Why that character [of the English Revolution] was so peculiar is sufficiently obvious, and yet seems not to have been always understood either by eulogists or by censors. 6. An algorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc. Example: I tried using a dirty word as my user name for the online game, but the censor rejected it.
Word: censor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Latin cēnsor (“magistrate; critic”), from cēnseō (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”) + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit शंसति (śaṃsati, “to declare”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnsə/, /ˈsɛnsɚ/ 1. To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive). Labels: transitive Example: The people responsible for censoring films have seen some startling things in their time. Example: Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance 2. To partially obscure an observation. Labels: transitive Example: Early dropout is one cause of right-censoring.
Word: censor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an incorrect translation of German Zensur (“censorship”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnsə/, /ˈsɛnsɚ/ 1. A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind. Labels: transitive
Word: phrontistery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek φροντιστήριον (phrontistḗrion), from φροντιστής (phrontistḗs, “a thinker”), from φρονέω (phronéō, “to think”). 1. A place for thinking. 2. An establishment devoted to education or study.
Word: ditto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography. The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtəʊ/, /ˈdɪtoʊ/, [ˈdɪɾoʊ] 1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise. Example: [...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…] Example: […]a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners:[…] 2. The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated. 3. A suit of clothes of the same color throughout. Labels: historical, in-plural 4. A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced). Labels: uncommon Example: Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students. Example: Mr. Zappadia gave each student a ditto of a black-and-white cow. 5. A copy; an imitation. Labels: broadly Example: "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans. Example: Last year, Argenta-Oreana blanked the Chiefs 23-0 in a second-round game Dee-Mack coach Jim McDonald said was "pretty much a ditto" of what transpired Saturday.
Word: ditto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography. The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtəʊ/, /ˈdɪtoʊ/, [ˈdɪɾoʊ] 1. As said before, likewise. Labels: not-comparable Example: The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank. Example: Some of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts. Ditto many members of staff.
Word: ditto Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography. The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtəʊ/, /ˈdɪtoʊ/, [ˈdɪɾoʊ] 1. To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc. Labels: transitive Example: The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police. 2. To make a copy using a ditto machine. Labels: US, ambitransitive Example: But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee. Example: I was going to join a commune of my friends. I sort of issued a declaration of independence which I dittoed up and put in everybody's mail box in the department.
Word: ditto Part of Speech: intj Etymology: First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography. The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtəʊ/, /ˈdɪtoʊ/, [ˈdɪɾoʊ] 1. Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed. Example: I'm really busy today! —Ditto! Example: "Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?" "Ditto," said Tweedledum. "Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.
Word: municipal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”). Pronunciation: /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government). Labels: not-comparable Example: More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks. 2. Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: municipal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”). Pronunciation: /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/ 1. A financial instrument issued by a municipality. Example: “This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.
Word: adventitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns). Pronunciation: /ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/, /ˌæd.vɛnˈtɪʃ.əs/ 1. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. 2. Accidental, additional, appearing casually. Example: In a triad of verbs that admits nothing adventitious, Judah sees, takes, and lies with a woman; […] Example: The discovery of the art of making pottery was probably in all cases adventitious, the clay being first used for some other purpose. 3. Not congenital; acquired. 4. Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source. Example: The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;
Word: adventitiously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English adventitious Middle English -ly English -ly English adventitiously From adventitious + -ly. 1. in an adventitious manner; sporadically.
Word: adventitiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English adventitious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English adventitiousness From adventitious + -ness. 1. The degree to which a thing is adventitious. Labels: uncountable
Word: Taylor Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Latin tālea Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin tāliō Old French taillierder. Old French tailleorder. Anglo-Norman taillourbor. Middle English taillour English tailorder. English Taylor From tailor. Doublet of Tailor. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.lə/, /ˈteɪ.lɚ/, /ˈtæɪ.lə/ 1. An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation; variant form Tailor. Example: One of the Louisville detectives who fatally shot Breonna Taylor during a botched raid is appealing his termination this week. 2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname; variant form Tayler. Example: "I wanted to call her Taylor, but my husband said no," Sweetie was telling one of the Christmas party guests. "Taylor means a tailor," I said. "It seems inauspicious. Like calling her Cobbler." "That's a kind of drink," said Nani. Example: The highly anticipated all-American matchup between Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe — marking the first US Open semifinals between two US men in nearly 20 years — will cost you quite a few Honey Deuces to attend. 3. A surname from Irish Táilliúir (“tailor”) [in turn originating as an occupation]. Labels: rare
Word: Taylor Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Latin tālea Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin tāliō Old French taillierder. Old French tailleorder. Anglo-Norman taillourbor. Middle English taillour English tailorder. English Taylor From tailor. Doublet of Tailor. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.lə/, /ˈteɪ.lɚ/, /ˈtæɪ.lə/ 1. A placename 2. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for architect Florence Mary Taylor. 3. A district municipality in Peace River Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; named for trapper Herbert Taylor. 4. Numerous places in the United States: 5. Numerous places in the United States: 6. Numerous places in the United States: 7. Numerous places in the United States: 8. Numerous places in the United States: 9. Numerous places in the United States: 10. Numerous places in the United States: 11. Numerous places in the United States: 12. Numerous places in the United States: 13. Numerous places in the United States: 14. Numerous places in the United States: 15. Numerous places in the United States: 16. Numerous places in the United States: 17. Numerous places in the United States: 18. Numerous places in the United States: 19. Numerous places in the United States: 20. Numerous places in the United States: 21. Numerous places in the United States: 22. Numerous places in the United States: 23. Numerous places in the United States: 24. Numerous places in the United States: 25. Ellipsis of Taylor County Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 26. Ellipsis of Mount Taylor Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: hot potato Part of Speech: noun 1. A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires. Labels: uncountable 2. An unwanted problem that is awkward or delicate. Labels: countable, idiomatic Example: The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement. Example: How do you handle the work of a woman out on leave, yet not lose a valuable employee down the road? At the same time, companies know this is a hot potato, and they have to do something.
Word: atrabilious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”) (āter (“dark, black”) + bīlis (“bile”)) + -ous (“full of”), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.tɹəˈbɪl.i.əs/ 1. Having an excess of black bile. Labels: obsolete Example: [I] could see nothing in the evidence which did persuade me to think them other than poor, melancholy, envious, mischievous, ill-disposed, ill-dieted, atrabilious constitutions. Example: In like manner, all the atrabilious diſeaſes require a regimen, nearly ſimilar, during the interval of the fits, to alter the atrabilious conſtitution which gives riſe to them all; but each requires a ſpecial method of cure, peculiarly adapted to the organ on which the fluxion falls after the fit is formed. Thus, e.g. the piles require a treatment different from a fit of the gout; and ſo of the others. 2. Characterized by melancholy. Example: But the torch of taste has for the moment fallen into the hands of little men, anæmic and atrabilious, with neither laughter nor pity in their hearts. Example: Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey [sic] is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. 3. Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous. Example: Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament, and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile, as is said to have happened to Heracles among the heroes? For he appears to have been of this nature, wherefore epileptic afflictions were called by the ancients 'the sacred disease' after him. That his temperament was atrabilious is shown by the fury which he displayed towards his children and the eruption of sores which took place on Mount Oeta; for this often occurs as the result of black bile. Example: Fen was in an atrabilious mood. "You've been the devil of a time," he grumbled as Lily Christine III got under way again.
Word: atrabiliousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English atrabilious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English atrabiliousness From atrabilious + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˌæt.ɹəˈbɪl.i.əs.nəs/ 1. The state or quality of being atrabilious. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Furthermore, the urine of some was both profuse and pale, autopsies showed that the dead had very swollen liver, blackened heart emitting a pale yellow liquid and later, black blood, black and semiputrefied spleen and lungs; atrabiliousness could be seen in their blood vessels, the dry stomach and the rest of the body, wherever it was dissected, was extremely pale. Example: The fruits are small oranges and are used in mixtures serving as preservative, antidote to bacteria, softening of the heat effects of diseases, atrabiliousness, debility, and infirmity. 2. The state or quality of being atrabilious. Labels: uncountable Example: Of his [Samuel Johnson's] works; though they have little of originality, and his ſtyle has a certain atrabiliouſneſs, and his tiſſue of paragraphs an unpleaſing quaintneſs, it must be confeſſed that his Dictionary, Rambler, and the two imitative translations of tranſlations of Juvenal, &c. are very excellent; […] Example: Drummond, whose gorge had risen at these evidences of hopeless incapacity and utter shiftlessness, was not relieved by the presence of Mrs. Reed – a soured, disappointed woman of forty, who still carried in her small dark eyes and thin handsome lips something of the bitterness and antagonism of the typical "Southern rights" woman; nor of her two daughters, Octavia and Augusta, whose languid atrabiliousness seemed a part of the mourning they still wore.
Word: musical chairs Part of Speech: noun 1. A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated. Labels: uncountable 2. Any activity which results in repeated, pointless shuffling of people or objects. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: They were married though they needn't have married, and though both had sworn they never would be. It is hard to explain—in that game of musical chairs—why they should have stopped, finally, at each other. Example: The job market last year and earlier in 2022 was like musical chairs, offering record opportunities for hopping from seat to seat. Now many feel that the music is about to stop.
Word: aubade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *albʰós Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”). Pronunciation: /əʊˈbɑːd/, /-ˈbæd/, /oʊˈbɑd/ 1. A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning. Example: And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near. Example: Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream. 2. A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning. Labels: specifically 3. A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.
Word: nocturne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French nocturne (literally “nocturnal”), from Latin nocturnus. Doublet of notturno. Pronunciation: /ˈnɒktɜːn/, /(ˌ)nɒkˈtɜːn/, /ˈnɑkˌtɝn/, /ˈnɑktɚn/ 1. A work in a genre of piano music of moderate tempo with a highly-decorated, improvisatory melody. Example: “My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: “I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I’d rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don’t like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…].” Example: For all its grace, charm, and apparent simplicity, [Frédéric] Chopin’s Nocturne in E♭ major, Op. 9, No. 2, poses fundamental problems on close inspection. The fact that so many analyses of the piece – including those of Heinrich Schenker and Felix Salzer – fail to explain certain idiosyncratic aspects, in particular an unusual distribution of structural weight, gives some indication of the Nocturne’s complexities at a profound level. 2. A work of art relating or dedicated to the night. Example: He [James Abbott McNeill Whistler] was then asked for his definition of a Nocturne: “I have perhaps, meant rather to indicate an artistic interest alone in the work, divesting the picture from any outside sort of interest which might have been otherwise attached to it. It is an arrangement of line, form, and colour first, and I make use of any incident of it which shall bring about a symmetrical result. Among my works are some night pieces; and I have chosen the word Nocturne because it generalises and simplifies the whole set of them.” Example: When John Ruskin, a sort of pope among the art critics of the time, was faced with [James Abbott McNeill] Whistler’s canvases at the opening exhibition of The Grosvenor Gallery in 1877, he was so outraged that he attacked Whistler in a review, charging him with wilful imposture for “flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.” It seems that Ruskin's main target was Whistler’s Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875).
Word: rubber stamp Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of rubber or similar material with a design or text carved or molded for the purpose of transferring ink or dye to imprint that design on another object. Labels: literally Example: The library had a rubber stamp to imprint the due date. 2. A person or organization that approves, routinely or as a formality, matters decided by some other person or organization. Labels: figuratively Example: During the Roman principate, the senate largely served as a rubber stamp for the emperor.
Word: rubber stamp Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a person, organization, or process, making decisions or approving matters routinely or without real power. Labels: attributive, figuratively Example: rubber stamp politics Example: rubber stamp parliament
Word: rubber stamp Part of Speech: verb 1. To process, approve or decide matters routinely rather than through careful consideration. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: They usually just rubber stamp orders under $100.
Word: bedaub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- (“thoroughly, extensively”) + daub, from Old French dauber (“to plaster, whitewash”), from Latin dealbō (“whiten over, plaster”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈdɔːb/, /bɪˈdɔb/, /biˈdɔb/, /bɪˈdɑb/, /biˈdɑb/ 1. To smear upon; to soil. Labels: transitive Example: In this 6 mile we Crosst several miring branches in which we were all terribly bedaubed … Having almost spent the day in this toilsome tho short Journey. 2. To ornament garishly; to overdecorate. Labels: transitive
Word: pull the plug Part of Speech: verb 1. To unplug or cut power to a machine. Labels: intransitive Example: Shut off the machine and pull the plug. Example: He put an end to the loud music by pulling the plug. 2. To turn off life support. Labels: informal, intransitive 3. To commit suicide. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: 1981, The Jim Carroll Band, People Who Died Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug / On twenty-six reds and a bottle of wine Example: "The Times said it was suicide," said Knight. "He burned himself out. There wasn't anything left." The Dean leveled his eyes at Reid, searching for more, wanting more, not wanting more, and Reid continued, "So he pulled the plug." "Pulled the plug? The paper said it was cyanide," his voice filled with curiosity. 4. To cease to support; to halt. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: It's a wonder the director didn't pull the plug on that project months ago. Example: "We have a deal that stopped me pulling the plug on services. But only just. I was hours from having to stop the Underground and buses from running in this, the greatest city on Earth. How insane is that? How could that even be allowed to happen? "I waited until five to midnight on the day when I would have had to pull the plug for the next day, before I got the letter from the Government on an interim funding settlement. 5. To cease production or publication. Labels: informal, intransitive
Word: Chinese fire drill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from the World War I era, from the former Western use of Chinese as an ethnic and racial slur; now used only as a festive exclamation. 1. A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red light, and where each passenger, including the driver, shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, each taking a different seat. Labels: US 2. A silly, pointless exercise. Labels: US, derogatory
Word: virtually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English vertually; equivalent to virtual + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/, /ˈvɝt͡ʃuəli/, /ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəli/, /ˈvɜːt͡ʃəli/, /ˈvɜːt͡ʃʉəli/ 1. Almost but not quite. Example: With our Medicare supplemental insurance plan, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. (Advertisement) Example: By surviving the first six minutes Hargreaves matched the total amount of playing time he had managed previously in virtually three years - and by scoring his first goal since April 2008 he set the hosts on their way to a fifth win of the season in all competitions. 2. In essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically. Example: virtually a member of the family 3. Of a subgroup of finite index. Example: In this case W has a diagram with 2 vertices and one edge labelled ∞, and is therefore the infinite dihedral group. Thus W is virtually ℤ. Example: In this paper, we are mainly concerned with homogeneity in the class of finitely generated virtually free groups, i.e. finitely generated groups with a free subgroup of finite index. 4. Of a covering space of finite degree. Example: Another class of small manifolds consists of those that are not virtually Haken (a manifold is virtually Haken if it is finitely covered by a Haken manifold). Example: We call a hyperplane Y in a VH-complex X virtually clean if there exists a finite-sheeted covering map p : X̂ → X and a connected component Y ⊆ p⁻¹Y such that the hyperplane Ŷ of X̂ is clean. 5. By computer or in cyberspace.
Word: billingsgate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the London, England fishmarket Billingsgate: "Billingsgate is the market where the fishwomen assemble to purchase fish; and where, in their dealings and disputes they are somewhat apt to leave decency and good manners a little on the left hand." (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811). 1. Profane, abusive language; coarse words. Example: You wouldn't have believed the billingsgate which poured forth from that boy's mouth. Example: These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.
Word: billingsgate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the London, England fishmarket Billingsgate: "Billingsgate is the market where the fishwomen assemble to purchase fish; and where, in their dealings and disputes they are somewhat apt to leave decency and good manners a little on the left hand." (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811). 1. To use profane, abusive language towards. Labels: transitive Example: On the other hand, the Englishman has the satisfaction of Billingsgating to his heart's content the highest officials: they accept objurgation with spaniel fawning.
Word: coming out of someone's ears Part of Speech: verb 1. Occurring or proliferating in great or excess quantity. Labels: informal Example: If you plant sixteen tomato plants, you will have tomatoes coming out of your ears by July! Example: There will be tomatoes coming out of your ears.
Word: bravura Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian bravura (“skill”), from bravo (“good, skilful”). Compare bravado. Pronunciation: /bɹəˈvjʊəɹə/ 1. A highly technical or difficult piece, usually written for effect. 2. A display of daring. Example: Yet just as, in opposition to the majority, I admired Fosse's Nightsongs and The Girl On The Sofa, so I found myself absorbed by this 70-minute play; and, whatever it may mean, there is no denying the production's visual bravura.
Word: bravura Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Italian bravura (“skill”), from bravo (“good, skilful”). Compare bravado. Pronunciation: /bɹəˈvjʊəɹə/ 1. Highly showy; ostentatious. Example: Look closely, and the minute interconnectedness of her novels is a bravura achievement. Example: But that won't stop the breakout star of the A&E reality series Dallas Three Ways from delivering one of his bravura, impromptu mini-lectures on the subject of Murphy's history of homophobic stand-up comedy.
Word: compost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“a mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land, also a condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, composite, and kompot. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pɒst/, /ˈkɑm.poʊst/, /ˈkɔːm.poːsʈ/, /kəmˈpoːsʈ/ 1. The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure. Example: And do not spread the compost on the weeds / To make them ranker. 2. A medium in which one can cultivate plants. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: Once the seed tray is filled with compost, insert the seeds spaced 3 cm apart from one another. Example: [T]he term 'compost' is commonly used to mean the material used to fill pots, seed trays and containers. 3. A mixture; a compound. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.
Word: compost Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“a mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land, also a condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, composite, and kompot. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pɒst/, /ˈkɑm.poʊst/, /ˈkɔːm.poːsʈ/, /kəmˈpoːsʈ/ 1. To produce compost, let organic matter decay into fertilizer. Example: If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil.
Word: bumptious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from bump, on the pattern of words like fractious or presumptious. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpʃəs/ 1. Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme. Labels: UK Example: [… Example: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
Word: calumny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English calumnīe (“false accusation, slander; (law) objection raised in bad faith”), borrowed from Old French calomnie (“slander, calumny”) (modern French calomnie), or directly from its etymon Latin calumnia (“false statement, misrepresentation; false accusation, malicious charge”), perhaps also related to calvor (“to deceive”). The English word is a doublet of challenge. The verb is derived from French calomnier (“to slander”), from Late Latin calumniāre, from Latin calumpniārī, calumniārī (“to blame unjustly, misrepresent, calumniate; (law) to accuse falsely, bring false information against”), from calumnia (see above) + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈkæləmni/ 1. A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing. Labels: countable Example: He [Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk] mentioned to her [Elizabeth I of England] the rumour, which was ſpread of his marriage with the Scotch Queen [Mary, Queen of Scots]; he complained of it as a groundleſs calumny; and diſclaimed all thoughts of that kind, with many expreſſions full of contempt, both for Mary's character, and dominions. Example: To publish all malicious calumnies against an individual with an intent to defame him, is a wrong on the part of the calumniator, and an injury to the individual, for which the law affords redress. To write or print these calumnies is such an aggravation of the crime, as to constitute an offense against the government, and the author of the libel is subject to the additional punishment which may be inflicted under an indictment. 2. Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another. Labels: uncountable Example: Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money. Example: Thus have I frielie, in reverence and love, schewit my opinion in this matter, and that privatlie to your self alone, to consider it mair deiplie, without bitternes or upbraiding calumnie to thame who sie and hes socht out this mater mair warelie, whose harts I trust ze sal find far from calumnie or seiking praise to them selfs by reproche of uthers,[…]
Word: calumny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English calumnīe (“false accusation, slander; (law) objection raised in bad faith”), borrowed from Old French calomnie (“slander, calumny”) (modern French calomnie), or directly from its etymon Latin calumnia (“false statement, misrepresentation; false accusation, malicious charge”), perhaps also related to calvor (“to deceive”). The English word is a doublet of challenge. The verb is derived from French calomnier (“to slander”), from Late Latin calumniāre, from Latin calumpniārī, calumniārī (“to blame unjustly, misrepresent, calumniate; (law) to accuse falsely, bring false information against”), from calumnia (see above) + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈkæləmni/, /kəˈlʌmni/ 1. To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate. Labels: formal, transitive Example: His [Dominieus Dietrich's] memory has been basely calumnied by many German historians. Example: However, the Priests of the idols, not content with persecuting Christians, began to calumny them; the Philosophers, finding a Religion that preached humility unrewarding, joined their Priests. Ridicule and insults were showered […] on the new Sect from all sides.
Word: calumnious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin calumniōsus. 1. Possessing the traits of calumny. Example: ...they must be his companions in some humble abode, in some remote obscurity; for it was in virtuous privacy only that he could hope to find a shelter from an ill-judging and calumnious world.
Word: calumniously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English calumnious Middle English -ly English -ly English calumniously From calumnious + -ly. 1. In the manner of a falsification intended to discredit another.
Word: hit the hay Part of Speech: verb 1. To go to bed. Labels: slang Example: "Time to hit the hay," Dave yawned. The bartender called "Good-night" as Dingwell went out of the swinging doors.
Word: hit the sack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A reference to the manner in which farmers tend to sleep on sacks of hay. 1. To go to bed. Labels: slang Example: K.P. Arches—Like a housewife who spends a day on the range, a soldier gets tired feet and is eager to hit the sack.