nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: undercreep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undercrepen, equivalent to under- + creep. 1. To creep secretly or imperceptibly. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: undercry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undercryen, equivalent to under- + cry. 1. To cry out. Labels: obsolete
Word: underhole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + hole. 1. To cut away or mine out the lower portion of a coal seam or a part of the underlay so as to win or get the overlying coal.
Word: rense Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of rinse. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: First, you must get up every morning at six a clock, and wash your hands and face, then rense your mouth, and rub your teeth, and then you must go into your chamber and pray […]
Word: oyl Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of oil. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Near to the Iſland Hainan are caught Whales,after the ſame manner as the Hollanders and Engliſh in the North about Greenland, whereof they make Oyl which ſerves for ſeveral uſes. Example: ...into the glands that separate the oyl abovesaid.
Word: oyly Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of oily. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: ...there should be plac'd many glands, to separate an oyly matter, wherewith to lubricate the joints and tendons in action.
Word: succedaneous Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hence the cure of the gout, by our artificial oyls, analogous and succedaneous to the natural.
Word: podagric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin podagricus, from Ancient Greek ποδαγρικός (podagrikós, “gouty”). 1. Of or relating to gout. Labels: obsolete
Word: podagric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin podagricus, from Ancient Greek ποδαγρικός (podagrikós, “gouty”). 1. A person suffering from gout. Labels: obsolete Example: And at best the podagric, when in health, is but a criple, the joints being defrauded of due unction.
Word: podagrics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of podagric Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kittened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of kitten Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plating carrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the plates, shaped like a credit card with a raised airline name, formerly used when paper tickets were issued. 1. The airline that a ticket has been issued on behalf of.
Word: fervescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -escent. 1. Growing hotter. Labels: archaic Example: Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels?
Word: with any luck Part of Speech: phrase 1. Hopefully; with a modicum of good fortune. Labels: colloquial Example: With any luck, we'll be able to finish our assignment before the deadline.
Word: coast guards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coast guard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squib kick Part of Speech: noun 1. A play in American football whereby the team performing the kick-off kicks the ball so that it will bounce instead of going deep downfield.
Word: squib kicks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squib kick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: onside kick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of on-side kick. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: onside kicks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of onside kick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shanachie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of seannachie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: multi-party Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of multiparty. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fulgurator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fulgurator. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌl.ɡjʉˌɹeɪ.tə/, /ˈfəl.ɡ(j)əˌɹeɪ.dəɹ/, /ˈfʊl.ɡ(j)əˌɹeɪ.dəɹ/ 1. Somebody who predicts the future using lightning. Labels: historical Example: As the same person might be both extispex and fulgurator, it is not astonishing to find them both called haruspices.
Word: chole- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). 1. Bile. Labels: morpheme 2. Bile duct. Labels: morpheme 3. Bile pigment. Labels: morpheme
Word: simplicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of simple + complicate. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.plɪ.keɪ̯t/, /ˈsɪm.plɪ.kæɪ̯t/, /ˈsəm.plə.kæɪ̯t/, /ˈsɪm.plɪ.ket/, /ˈsɪm.plɪ.keːʈ/ 1. To make a system more complex so that the use of the system is easier or simpler. Example: Our audience is getting younger and less educated, so despite the additional fabrication costs, we must simplicate the new model of this machine to improve ease of use.
Word: covaledictorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + valedictorian. 1. A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student Example: In the words of covaledictorian and weekender Jim Tudor at the May 22 commencement: "For the most part the Day students have moved directly from high school to college, play loud music, and give hard-hitting graduation speeches filled with constructive criticism for the school; while the Weekend students, like myself, have had their education interrupted, enjoy periods of silence, and give emotional graduation speeches filled with gratitude for the school."
Word: unsmug Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + smug. 1. Not smug Labels: not-comparable Example: It would be nice to have them go out unsmug.
Word: cosustainer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + sustainer. 1. Someone who sustains something together with someone else Example: Students, coinquirers in class, are […
Word: cogovernor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + governor. 1. Someone who governs something together with someone else Example: Students[…] are cogovernors in the Assembly of Shimer College (which sets policy under the board of trustees and is constituted as "a participatory democracy"), and cosustainers of the college's day-to-day operations.
Word: cogovernors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cogovernor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Proto-Italic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From proto- + Italic. 1. Hypothetical prehistoric Indo-European language, ancestor of all Italic languages.
Word: coinquiry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + inquiry. 1. Collective inquiry into something Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Obviously sometimes this system of coinquiry doesn't work, when the students don't do the reading or don't do it well, and as a result the faculty member does too much talking.
Word: coinquirer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + inquirer. 1. A participant in coinquiry; someone who inquires together with someone else Example: Students, coinquirers in class, are cogovernors in the Assembly of Shimer College […
Word: coinquirers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coinquirer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: run the gauntlet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a corruption of run the gauntlope, run the gantelope. More at gantlope. 1. To undergo a series of tests or challenges. Labels: idiomatic Example: Run the gauntlet north and south March on up to the cannon's mouth And say I can do any goddamn thing I want
Word: gamuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gamut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bldg Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of building. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: prolongued Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of prolonged. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: quaternionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quaternion + -ist. 1. One who studies or promotes the use of quaternions. Example: Now I can imagine a quaternionist (unless prejudiced) admitting the simplicity of establishment and of operation, and the convenience of the notation, and its sufficiency for practical requirements up to a certain point; and yet adding the inquiry whether there is not, over and above this vector analysis, a theory of Quaternions which is overlooked.
Word: quaternionists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quaternionist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cadr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of car of the cdr. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdə/, /ˈkɑdɚ/, /ˈkeɪdə/, /ˈkeɪdɚ/ 1. Car of the cdr in Lisp. The second element in a list. Example: If we let x denote the tree (1 2 3), then the car of x is 1, the cdr of x is (2 3), the cadr of x is 2, the caddr of x is 3, and the cdddr of x is nil.
Word: caddr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of car of the cdr of the cdr. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdədə/, /ˈkɑdədɚ/ 1. Car of the cdr of the cdr in Lisp. The third element in a list. Example: Following the SEL in the control list are two elements (the cadr and caddr of the C list), both of which are themselves lists of instructions. Example: For example, in a procedure that manipulates a list data stream, we might know that the mode of the car of the list (that is the current message) is the same mode as the cadr (second message), caddr (third message), etc.
Word: cddr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of cdr of the cdr. Pronunciation: /ˈkʊdədə/, /ˈkʊdədɚ/ 1. Cdr of the cdr in Lisp. The remainder of a list if the first two elements are removed.
Word: gallicas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gallica Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genuflector Part of Speech: noun 1. One who genuflects.
Word: AJE Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Al Jazeera English. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AJ Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of apple juice. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AJ Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Al Jazeera. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Alternative form of Ajay. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: bush planes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bush plane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Khwarshi Part of Speech: name 1. A Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan region of Russia.
Word: gomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin gomor in the Vulgate, from Ancient Greek γομόρ (gomór) in the Septuagint, from Hebrew עומר ('ómer, “sheaf; unit of dry measure”). 1. Alternative form of omer: a former Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, historical Example: On the morrow, the 16th, after having offered to God the homer, they began eating the corn of the country; and the 17th the manna ceased to fall from heaven. What supports this calculation is, that the gomer, or sheaf, was offered the 16th of Nisan, in broad day-light, though pretty late.
Word: gomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Louis-Gabriel de Gomer, the French artillery officer who invented the design. Attested in English since the early nineteenth century. 1. A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars. Example: [Table] of dimensions of howitzers, stone and Gomer mortars, vol. 1. p. 250. Example: All iron mortars now in use have gomer chambers and brass ones conical.
Word: gomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely from the oafish fictional character Gomer Pyle from the 1960s American sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. 1. A stupid, awkward, or oafish person. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: “Lordy Jeezus,” he said out loud. When did he become such a gomer? Example: Okay, you wanted to go to the Big Apple, but didn't want to sit in traffic or feel like a country hic, as you stare up at all 'dem big buildins'. Try Universal Studios Florida's version of New York, where you can stare at all the fake big buildings all you want and not feel like a total Gomer. 2. An inept trainee or serviceperson. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: These recruits were given such sobriquets as moron, idiot, or Gomer (after the television marine Gomer Pyle). There were constant comparisons between wayward recruits and animals or vegetables. 3. An opponent in combat or in training. Labels: US, slang Example: We were almost invisible in our tiger stripes and ghillie suits. However, as the unit marched by, a lone gomer broke rank and ventured into the high, wet saw grass that concealed our position. 4. A male animal (cattle, swine, horse mainly) used to arouse a female or detect, through her induced behavior, her hormonal availability for reproduction. Also called a teaser, a gomer may or may not be neutered, unless this element draws the line between those two synonyms. This particular meaning could also be the originator of the Gomer Pyle entry and not be a derivative.
Word: gomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps the same as, or influenced by Etymology 3, above. It is frequently claimed that the word is an acronym for "grand old man of the emergency room", or for "Get Out of My ER", the latter story popularized by the 1978 novel The House of God by Samuel Shem. John Algeo (1991) notes that various people claim the word is an acronym or is borrowed from Hebrew גמר (G-M-R, “finish; complete”), but suggests that these accounts are dubious. He concludes that a connection to Gomer Pyle or to the "stupid, awkward person" sense of the word is the most likely source. The Oxford English Dictionary online (2003) likewise treats the "undesirable patient" and "stupid person" senses as uses of the same word. 1. An undesirable hospital patient, or a patient who does not need medical care. Labels: derogatory Example: That patient is a total GOMER. Turf him and let's get some lunch. Example: Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously. At Bayview, gomer was the preferred term 2. A dirty, senile, or otherwise unpleasant patient. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: It was 3:00 a.m. and an elderly homeless person had just been admitted to the emergency room. [...] One resident seemed tired and angry and said, "I can't believe we got beeped out of bed for this gomer." Example: As a consequence of their loss of their personhood, the medical subculture has coined a lexicon of pejorative, cynical, and insulting names for demented patients, the most common of which is "gomer." 3. A patient who does not respond to medical treatment. Labels: informal, slang Example: The number of problems the two groups of patients presented to physicians was comparable; however, the pattern of their hospital stays contrasted dramatically. Gomer patients remained in the hospital longer than other patients, and had more consultations for diagnosis and therapy, and posed more diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas for the physicians who cared for them.
Word: Aeolian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Aeolus + -ian or Aeolis + -an. Piecewise doublet of aeolian. 1. Relating to Aeolus, the Greek god of wind. Labels: not-comparable 2. Designating the Aeolian mode or scale; the name of the minor key in modal theory. Labels: not-comparable Example: And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]
Word: Aeolian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Aeolus + -ian or Aeolis + -an. Piecewise doublet of aeolian. 1. Clipping of Aeolian mode. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
Word: halitus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin halitus. 1. A vapour. Example: She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.
Word: hamatum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hamatum. 1. The hamate bone.
Word: hastile Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of hastate (“spear-shaped”).
Word: crack a book Part of Speech: verb 1. To open up one's books, especially in order to study. Labels: informal Example: You had better crack the books if you want to have any chance of graduating this year. Example: Of course he didn't even know that the Partition happened in the 1940s, let alone any details of cross-border disputes since then. It's not like that guy ever cracks a book.
Word: cracked a book Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of crack a book Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cracks a book Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of crack a book Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cracking a book Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of crack a book Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hard nut to crack Part of Speech: noun 1. A problem that is challenging to solve. Labels: idiomatic Example: He saw the dilemma. . . . It was a hard nut to crack. He could see no way out of it. Example: Germany's inflation proves a hard nut to crack. 2. A situation, person, group, etc. which is difficult to overcome or deal with. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: The coast lad found the veteran Mike McTigue a hard nut to crack and judging from the look on the Californian's face when the final bell sounded, he was mighty happy that the fight was over. Example: "But Belarus is a hard nut to crack, and it has used these methods to slip out of these East-West pincers before," says Alexander Klaskovsky. 3. A place, opportunity, etc. to which it is difficult to gain entry. Labels: idiomatic Example: The next day Archie, with Andrew Macpherson and Cluny Campbell, made their way through the woods until within sight of the castle. . . . "It would be a hard nut to crack, Sir Archie," his lieutenant said. "Unless by famine, the place could scarce be taken." Example: Durango, however, may be a hard nut to crack, as it is strong strategically and is reported guarded by 4000 rebels. 4. An amount that is difficult to finance. Labels: idiomatic 5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, nut, crack.
Word: hard nuts to crack Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hard nut to crack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wiseling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wise + -ling. 1. One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre. Example: This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne. Example: This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.
Word: wiselings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wiseling. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wiselike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wiseli, wisliche, from Old English wīslīc (“wise, sagacious, prudent”), equivalent to wise + -like. 1. Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious; sensible. Labels: Scotland, dialectal
Word: wise-like Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of wiselike. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: darshan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit दर्शन (darśana, “vision”), from a root दृश् (dṛś, “to see”). 1. Hierophany, theophany; being in the presence of the divine or holy (as a person or object). Labels: Hinduism, countable, uncountable Example: A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity. Example: Hindus take darshan of a holy person, object, or place, believing that its mere presence, particularly the sight of it, conveys blessings.
Word: darshan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דַּרְשָׁן (darshán). 1. An exegete. Labels: Judaism 2. A preacher. Labels: Judaism
Word: incanescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin incanescens, present participle incanescere (“to become gray”). 1. hoary or grey; canescent. Labels: dated
Word: metemorphothe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετεμορφώθη (metemorphṓthē), third person singular passive aorist of μεταμορφόω (metamorphóō, “to transform”) (thus meaning "he was transformed"). 1. The Transfiguration of Christ. Labels: uncountable
Word: Synoptics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Synoptic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sunyata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit शून्यता (śūnyatā), from शून्य (śūnya, “zero, nothing”) + ता (-tā, “generalizing suffix”). Cognate with Pali suññatā. 1. Emptiness, the absence of an intrinsic essence or nature which is stable and separable from other things. Labels: Hinduism, Jainism, countable, uncountable Example: 1993, Sunyata, Emptiness and Self-emptying, Kenosis by Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma published in Buddhist - Christian Dialogue London, 27th March However since emptiness empties itself and so cannot itself be an object of attachment, dynamic 'sunyata' empties itself out as just the things themselves. 2. Emptiness, in terms of a meditative state; an Eastern concept of a high meditative state of calm and freedom from distraction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1975, Herbert V. Guenther, Chögyam Trungpa, The Dawn of Tantra, 2001, Shambhala Publications, pages not numbered, Shunyata can be explained in a very simple way. […] In the shunyata experience, the attention is on the field rather than on its contents. Example: 1986, White Lotus Sutra - Unchecked by Sangharakshita; STUDY LEADERS SEMINAR 1986 Padmaloka. all dharmas were reducible to sunyata. So in a sense you have got a sort of merging of the particular in the universal.
Word: inconsummate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Latin incōnsummātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Not consummated; unfinished; incomplete. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: inconsummate machination
Word: Śūnyatā Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sunyata. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: If there is one teaching that is peculiar to Buddhism alone among all the world's religions, I would say it is the principle of Śūnyatā (Voidness or Emptiness). Example: Accordingly, when one awakens to Śūnyatā in everything one is emancipated from the substantialization of and attachment to everything and realizes the independent relationality of everything including oneself.
Word: épater la bourgeoisie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French épater (“amaze”) la (“the”) bourgeoisie (“middle class”). 1. Alternative form of épater le bourgeois. Labels: alt-of, alternative, literary
Word: superoleophobic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + oleophobic. 1. Very oleophobic.
Word: cheiromancy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪ.ɹə(ʊ).mæn.si/, /ˈkaɪ.ɹoʊ.mæn.si/ 1. Alternative form of chiromancy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The Lines upon the palm, or creases formed in closing the hand, differ a little in different persons. In former times, when men were addicted to the arts of divination, and thought more about the connection between the physical world and the world of spirits, and strove, by a close observation of the former, to penetrate the mysteries of the latter, much attention was paid to these lines. They were named with the names of the Planets and the signs of the Zodiac; and a science grew up akin to Astrology and Physiognomy. Cheiromancy was the name given to it; and numerous and voluminous treatises were written upon it.
Word: obeisancy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of obeisance. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The attitude of obeisancy to seniors and of insolency to juniors sits not well upon a gentleman.
Word: Eastern Bloc Part of Speech: name 1. The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually Eastern Europe and especially in the Cold War era. Labels: historical Example: Holonyms: Soviet Bloc (sometimes loosely synonymous) < Second World < world, World
Word: obeisancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of obeisancy Labels: form-of, plural Example: In 1648 he was again taken to the bar of the House, and for refusing to kneel or make any other obeisancies he was fined £1000 and his Hensol estate was sequestrated.
Word: Káthmándú Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Kathmandu. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon Example: The total distance from Káthmándú to Pekin, according to the Káji, is 1,268½ kós; according to the Chountra, 1,250 kós ...
Word: Lipsko Part of Speech: name 1. Several locations in Poland 2. Lipsko (a town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland). 3. A village in the Gmina of Zamość, Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. 4. A village in the Gmina of Narol, Lubaczów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
Word: Lotus Sutra Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a calque of Sanskrit सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्र (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra). 1. "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra", a popular Sanskrit treatise which forms the basis of many forms of Buddhism. Labels: Hinduism
Word: ladyish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lady + -ish. 1. Characteristic of a lady; ladylike. Example: Do you think it was a ladyish, afternoon call, another-cup-of-tea-please apparition that visits your Professor Cranks and that journalist chap you are always talking about? Example: She is an innocent young thing, after all--younger than I ever was--for all her fine dresses and her grand ladyish way.
Word: slaphappiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slaphappy + -ness. 1. Condition of being slaphappy Labels: uncountable Example: Although there are traces of improv-comedy slaphappiness here and there, Langer has thought through his thesis and his different levels of reality carefully. Example: The premiere of Billy Siegenfeld's Getting There, however, does get there: these dancers seem real people on the streets whose emotions run the gamut from trepidation to snappy slaphappiness.
Word: wise-hearted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wise + hearted. 1. Wise; knowing; skilful. Example: Of all missionary work this was the one which necessarily kept most under the surface; they could not talk about it as they did of many other things; the whole custom and tradition of the place was against them, and many of their wisest-hearted missionary ladies knew that they could not precipitate matters, counting converts by baptism, and saying they repressed the work which was being done. Example: The great argument in favor of the inspiration of Genesis is the absolute impossibility of its classification with works of mere human origin. The sublime simplicity and the unfailing accuracy of its narration of the beginnings of creation, and of the early history of man, is such as could have come only: through infinite wisdom. The knowledge displayed in it is such as still to outreach the highest attainments of scientific research. Its inspiration is self-convincing to the most impartial and wisest-hearted reader.
Word: sylvian fissure Part of Speech: noun 1. A fissure in the brain which divides the frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe below.
Word: theologization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From theologize + -ation. 1. The practice, an act, or a result of theologizing. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: otoscopies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of otoscopy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taleful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tale + -ful. 1. Abounding with stories. Example: The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic. Example: To see the houshold flock around the fire, The children listening to the taleful Sire, To hear the song— harmless sports to join, Live o'er past days, and call these blessings mine!
Word: talebook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tale + book. 1. A storybook. Labels: rare
Word: talebear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from talebearer. 1. To tell or spread tales. Example: So I write that of course there were others, as if it were so natural to talebear that my gossipy betrayal was inevitable, customary, doubtless witty, even right.
Word: intravasations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intravasation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sanctum santorum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See sanctum sanctorum. 1. Misspelling of sanctum sanctorum. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, uncountable Example: […] he observed the great and good man standing near the door of his sanctum santorum, smiling sweetly and blandly upon the assembled multitude, and giving a most gracious hearing to each applicant. Example: Then doors of the sanctum santorum close with a crash. We are left drained, stunned and stupefied in the dark. Silence seeps back. The ritual is over.
Word: oh my Goddess Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From oh my God. 1. Said in excitement, shock, awe, dismay, or supplication. Example: Oh my Goddess, I cannot believe that just crawled out of the sink! Example: Chronic dieting is self-absorption taken to an art form. And, oh my Goddess, can it make us sanctimonious! Dieters are worse than people who've found religion: We have seen the Lite, and it is Weight Watchers' ranch dressing. […] Women are starving in Africa, North Korea, the Balkans, and even the US.
Word: santorum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the surname of former US Senator Rick Santorum (born 1958). After Santorum made statements comparing homosexuality to bestiality and opining that mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts, US columnist Dan Savage gathered input from his readers and held a contest for definitions to "memorialize the scandal". Savage set up a website which defined the term, and helped to promote it. See Campaign for the neologism "santorum" for further information. Rick Santorum's surname, in turn, comes from Italian; see Santorum for more. Pronunciation: /sanˈtɔːɹəm/, /sænˈtɔɹəm/ 1. A frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter as an occasional byproduct of anal sex. Labels: neologism, slang, uncountable Example: She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her ass, and throws it under the cot. Example: In the “for what it's worth” department, the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex is called santorum. Safety Warning #6: Be particularly cautious where this santorum goes. As previously noted, you don't want to get any fecal matter in the vaginal area. Bad safety risk. 2. Shit: rubbish, worthless matter, nonsense, bull. Labels: derogatory, neologism, slang, uncountable Example: a lying sack of santorum. Example: I think this is a load of santorum.
Word: erdvark Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of aardvark. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: stempels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stempel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lateral sulcus Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of sylvian fissure.
Word: Republika Srpska Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Republika Srpska. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpʊblɪkə ˈsɜː(ɹ)pskə/ 1. A polity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. Example: In 1995, corralled into an airbase in Dayton, Ohio, their leaders agreed to a complex set of formulae that ended the conflict but left Bosnia with an awkward political legacy, formally splitting it into the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) and a federation of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats.
Word: angel investor Part of Speech: noun 1. An investor to a start-up, especially one who invests very early or during the company's initial forming, often with a slim chance of a return on investment. Example: Near-synonym: venture capitalist
Word: thrice-monthly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thrice + monthly. 1. Occurring three times every month. Labels: not-comparable Example: Unions had argued the thrice-monthly furlough days ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger beginning in February 2009 were breaches of the governor's authority, but the court ruled in favor of the governor. 2. Published three times per month. Labels: not-comparable Example: Venezuela al Día, a thrice-monthly tabloid ...
Word: hwat Part of Speech: det 1. Deliberate misspelling of what. Labels: alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling Example: ermmm hwat the sigma is bro blabbering on about 2. Pronunciation spelling of what representing speech without the wine-whine merger. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Now hwat in tarnation...
Word: office boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of office boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: puccalo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of pucker + piccolo. 1. the highest level of human oral mouth whistling. Labels: uncountable Example: Different from casual whistling, puccalo is considered a musical instrument that players can master to perform many kinds of music—from classical and jazz to blues and rock.
Word: FRET Part of Speech: noun 1. Förster resonance energy transfer Labels: countable, uncountable 2. fluorescence resonance energy transfer, which is a type of the Förster phenomenon where one or both of the partners in the energy transfer are fluorescent chromophores Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 2010, DeRocco et al., "Four-color single-molecule fluorescence with noncovalent dye labeling to monitor dynamic multimolecular complexes", BioTechniques, vol 49, no 5, pg. 807. FRET interactions among four dyes on DNA have been recorded with a confocal microscope using photodiodes for single point detection.
Word: hyperarousal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + arousal. 1. A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Hyperarousal after a traumatic experience is normal. It occurs when a person's brain believes that person is at risk again because it misreads an external signal or trigger. Example: A feeling of restlessness and an urge to move in your arms, legs or torso is a state of hyperarousal and can keep you from a good night’s sleep, she said.
Word: smFRET Part of Speech: noun Etymology: from sm (single-molecule) + FRET (Förster resonance energy transfer) 1. single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer Example: 2010, DeRocco et al., "Four-color single-molecule fluorescence with noncovalent dye labeling to monitor dynamic multimolecular complexes", BioTechniques, vol 49, no 5, pg. 810. We confirmed that the same sample when measured with our two-color smFRET microscope yielded consistent FRET efficiency results (0.31) when using γ specific for that instrument (0.94).
Word: aporetical Part of Speech: adj 1. Tending to doubt.
Word: aporetically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From aporetic + -ally. 1. In an aporetic way.
Word: submarine fan Part of Speech: noun 1. A shallow marine sediment beyond the opening of a large river etc.
Word: majority draw Part of Speech: noun 1. an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where the majority of judges (usually two out of three) agree that neither fighter won, while the third judge indicates one fighter being the clear winner on his/her scorecard.
Word: majority decision Part of Speech: noun 1. A decision that gains the acceptance of the majority of voters in a decision-making body, such as a parliament, municipal council or shareholders' meeting. 2. An outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges agree on which fighter won the match, while the third judge indicates that neither fighter won (i.e., a "draw").
Word: split decision Part of Speech: noun 1. A decision that is not unanimous made by a panel of decision-makers, such as an appellate court. Example: In a four-to-four split decision, with one concurring and four dissenting written opinions, the Second Circuit denied rehearing en banc. Example: Fiji assessors find sedition accused not guilty, in split decision. A panel of assessors in Fiji has found 16 people accused of sedition not guilty, in a split majority decision. The verdict was handed down in the Lautoka High Court this afternoon, with three assessors finding the accused not guilty, while two said they were guilty. 2. an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges score for the same fighter as the winner, while the third judge scores for the other fighter.
Word: agnotology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Irish linguist Iain Boal in 1992, deriving from the Neoclassical Greek word ἄγνωσις (ágnosis, “not knowing”), compare ἄγνωτος (ágnōtos), and -λογία (-logía). 1. The study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. Labels: uncountable Example: Our interest here, though, is less in remediation than in what Nancy Tuana has called the "liberatory moment"—which brings us to a more subtle form of agnatology Example: Indeed, the think tanks and corporations that employ economists frequently explicitly seek to foster ignorance as part of their business plans: that is the postmodern phenomenon of agnotology.
Word: hickster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hick + hipster. 1. A hick who attempts to be hip (that is, to be a hipster). Example: Hawk-eyed bus-tour agents mounting watch at the intersections, flaunting printed signs tucked in the bands of their visored caps to advertise their business, claim they can spot the hickster nine times out of ten. Example: “You there, hickster! Stop gawking! We're on the clock here! Tick, tick, time is money in Gotham.
Word: unrips Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unrip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unripping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unrip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unripped Part of Speech: adj 1. Not ripped. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unripped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unrip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: untorn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English untorn, untorne, equivalent to un- + torn. 1. Not torn Labels: not-comparable
Word: unsulliable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + sulliable. 1. Not sulliable; incapable of being dirtied or degraded. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sulliable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sully + -able. 1. Capable of being sullied. Labels: not-comparable
Word: undermaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English undermaister, equivalent to under- + master. 1. An assistant master; a subordinate to the main master.
Word: undermasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of undermaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + man. 1. A defender in Australian rules football.
Word: backmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manual laborer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who performs manual labor Example: I hired a manual laborer to re-shingle my roof.
Word: belieber Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of believer. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: But brederen, de joy ob de belieber in Jesus be set forth in a figerative manner in de text. Example: Dem's de sort dat you neber see split into kinlins, fur it's de kind dat de true beliebers is made uf, and de righteous shill florish like de pam tree, he shill grow like de cedar in Libinum. 2. Alternative form of Belieber. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lovo Part of Speech: noun 1. A traditional earthen pit oven in Fiji. Example: The site of the old town of Lovo lies within the valley about two miles from its mouth. "Lovo" is the Fijian word for a cannibal-oven.
Word: Belieber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of believer + Bieber (“Justin Bieber”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈliːbə/ 1. A fan or supporter of Canadian singer Justin Bieber (born 1994); a Justin Bieber fanatic. Labels: informal Example: A Belieber is sustained by the hope of someday being followed by, and receiving a direct message from Justin on Twitter. Example: There is simply nothing you can say that could make me feel remorse. If Justin sings Christmas, then for the duration of the track I am a Belieber.
Word: schoolboy error Part of Speech: noun 1. A fundamental, simple mistake. Labels: UK, idiomatic, informal
Word: deesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δέησις (déēsis, “entreaty, petition, want”), from δέω (déō, “lack, miss”), δέομαι (déomai, “beg”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈiːsɪs/ 1. A call to witness. Labels: rhetoric 2. A vehement expression of desire, as in "think of the children!" or requests preceded by "for God's sake". Labels: rhetoric
Word: impetigines Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impetīginēs, nominative plural of impetīgō. 1. plural of impetigo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: second halves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of second half Labels: form-of, plural
Word: impunes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of impune Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: centrophilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From centro- + -philic. 1. (of a chromosome) Tending to cluster near the centre of a mitotic spindle.
Word: symplectomorphic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting symplectomorphism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: technigluons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technigluon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: meijin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 名人. 1. A master of go.
Word: defence diplomacy Part of Speech: noun 1. The peaceful application by a state of resources from across the spectrum of defence, for the purpose of achieving positive outcomes in the development of bilateral and multilateral relationships. Labels: uncountable
Word: meido Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese メイド (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid. 1. A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit. Labels: Japanese Example: I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido. Example: And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform! 2. A waitress at a maid café. Example: Actually, the two times I was there, it was really quite dull in terms of the people wandering around. The most excitement I saw was that one candidate for Prime Minister giving a van-top speech in front of Akihabara station. Oh, and a demonstration of some RC "Tokyo Drift" toy cars out on the street. No dancing in the streets, only a very few meido (some of questionable gender >__< ), and quite a few gaikokujin. Example: These meido attract customers by role-playing the part of a maid, complete with French maid-inspired outfits that are long on fantasy elements and typically short on skirt length.
Word: demaine Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of demesne. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: regional insourcing Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of delegating or assigning of procedures, functions or jobs from production within a business in one location to an internal entity that specializes in that operation in another location within a geographic region. Labels: uncountable
Word: piscicolous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pisci- + -colous. 1. Infecting or inhabiting fish. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Also the young stages of nematodes have been found in the coelom of this ophiuroid, believed by Mortensen (1927) to be young stages of some piscicolous nematode.
Word: pisci- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Italic *piskis Latin piscisder. English pisci- Derived from Latin piscis (“fish”). By surface analysis, Latin pisc- + -i-. 1. Related to fish. Labels: morpheme
Word: logarithmize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From logarithm + -ize. 1. To derive the logarithm of a number. 2. To convert into a logarithm.
Word: exonumist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exonumia + -ist. 1. Someone who collects exonumia. Labels: rare
Word: ombrophilous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ombro- + -philous. 1. Capable of thriving in areas of heavy rainfall Labels: not-comparable
Word: wait for it Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to draw attention to and build suspense, often ironically, for a remark to come. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: I just found out that my ex-wife, who never wanted children, now has two kids called, wait for it, Ludwig and Balthazar. Example: The National Museum of Crime and Punishment invites couples to "delight their dark side" this Valentine's Day weekend with -- wait for it -- stories of violence against romantic partners?
Word: institutional racism Part of Speech: noun 1. Racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of anti-black attitudes
Word: inservient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin inserviens, present participle of inservire. 1. Conducive; instrumental. Labels: obsolete Example: […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […] Example: […] if the discourse be touching Happiness it self, why should not Happiness or Pleasure be a greater Good than Virtue, since it is the End, to the attainment whereof Virtue is but inservient?
Word: equiprimordial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Coined by John Macquarrie in his 1960 The Scope of Demythologizing as equi- + primordial, translating Martin Heidegger’s German gleichursprünglich. Pronunciation: /ˌiːkwɪpɹaɪˈmɔːdɪəl/ 1. Existing together as equally fundamental ab initio; coöriginal. Labels: not-comparable Example: If what has been said above on the subject of language and existence has any truth in it, then we must look on the myth as an undifferentiated matrix of meaning. Only later were the various meanings sorted out, but they were all latent in the myth from the beginning. If we may borrow a favourite word of Heidegger, we may say that they are ‘equiprimordial’.
Word: inscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: much to be said Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows. Example: There is much to be said for a policy of caution. Example: The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.
Word: puppa Part of Speech: noun 1. papa; father Labels: Jamaica
Word: Megumi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese めぐみ (Megumi). 1. A female given name from Japanese.
Word: piraya Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of piranha. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: coöriginal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From co- + original. Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊəˈɹɪdʒənəl/, /ˌkoʊəˈɹɪd͡ʒənəl/ 1. Existing together ab initio; equiprimordial. Labels: not-comparable Example: It would doubtless be out of place to enter here into any investigation in regard to the origin of our ideas; but I think it will be apparent, that the notion of continuity is coöriginal with that of personal identity, and therefore, antecedent to argumentation[.] Example: Others again deny the evidence of consciousness to the equipoise of the subject and object as coördinate and coöriginal elements; and as the balance is inclined in favor of the one relative or the other, two opposite schemes of psychology are determined. 2. Originating from the same point in space. Labels: not-comparable Example: In operations on lines in space, it is convenient to substitute for some of the given lines other lines, equal, and therefore parallel, to the given ones, but passing through a point in space common to themselves and the other given lines; so that all the lines may be coöriginal.
Word: co-original Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of coöriginal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: cooriginal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of coöriginal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: lignum vitae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lignum (“wood”) vitae (“of life”). 1. guaiacum trees, of species Guaiacum officinale and Guaiacum sanctum. Labels: countable 2. The wood or resin from such trees. Labels: uncountable Example: The steamer Lee Yuen, when about 30 miles from Foochow, abreast of Fuhyan, on her passage from this port to Foochow, carried away the lignum vitæ bush in the stern tube. She was beached for one tide under the lee of Matsu Island, for temporary repairs, and then proceeded to Foochow, where she has gone into dock.