nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: unsaponifiable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English saponifiable English unsaponifiable From un- + saponifiable. 1. lipids (such as steroids) that are not glycerides and thus cannot be saponified Labels: especially, plural
Word: ergativity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ergative Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English ergativity From ergative + -ity. Pronunciation: /ɜː(ɹ)ɡəˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ 1. The property of a grammar's (or, by extension, a language's) being ergative; the attribute of possessing a grammatical pattern such that the object of a transitive verb is treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive one, while the subject of the transitive verb is treated differently. Labels: uncountable Example: We can speak of ergative/absolutive organization whenever intransitive subjects pattern with transitive objects (to the exclusion of transitive subjects). So defined, ergativity is independent of case marking and has many linguistic manifestations, some being observable in any given language. At the same time, ergativity competes with accusativity even in languages where it represents the predominant pattern. Example: Ergativity is thus complementary to the familiar grammatical pattern of accusativity, in which one case (nominative) marks both intransitive and transitive subject, with another case (accusative) being employed for transitive object.
Word: glyceride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek γλῠκερός (glŭkerós) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus French -in Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -am Old French -e French -e French -ine French glycérine English glycerine Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English glyceride From glycerine + -ide. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɪsəɹaɪd/ 1. An ester of glycerol and one or more fatty acid; they are the major constituents of lipids.
Word: syntactician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English syntactic Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English syntactician From syntactic + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən/ 1. One who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly. Example: Thus, Jackendoff's analysis of Aspectual Auxiliaries as Specifiers which expand V-bar into V-double-bar seems to have some empirical support (though we should point out that by no means all X-bar syntacticians are happy to treat Aspectuals as Specifiers which expand V-bar into V-double-bar: some prefer to treat them as Verbs which head their own VP, for reasons which you can work out for yourself when you come to Exercise VII).
Word: intercom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of intercommunicator. 1. An independent, telephonic communication system, set up around and throughout a building, complex, or residence, typically for access control. Example: emergency intercom Example: talk on the intercom
Word: intercom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of intercommunicator. 1. To communicate (with) by intercom. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: slot-car Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of slot car. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Cecilia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Caecilia, feminine form of Caecilius, a Roman family name possibly derived from the byname caecus (“blind”). Popularized by Saint Cecilia, third century Roman martyr, the patron saint of music. Doublet of Sheila. Pronunciation: /sɪˈsiːli.ə/, /sɪˈsɪli.ə/ 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise / At bright Cecilia's name, their lays! Example: ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey. ‘Then he has no business to do it,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Tell him he mustn’t. Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?’
Word: coupling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌplɪŋ/ 1. The act of joining together to form a couple. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids. 2. A device that couples two things together. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The degree of reliance between two or more software modules. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The lack of coupling means that the elements of our system are better isolated from each other and from change. This isolation makes it easier to understand each element of the system. 4. A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An act of sexual intercourse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The biggest film of March 1992 was “Basic Instinct,” an erotic thriller featuring an established movie star in explicit onscreen couplings with a sexy up-and-comer. 7. A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It seems just as likely, though, that it simply never occurred to him to think about crime as something so tightly tied to place. Literary theorists and bridge engineers and police chiefs struggle with coupling.
Word: coupling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌplɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of couple Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: PVT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of pressure, volume, temperature. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of position, velocity, time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of private (“soldier”). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Initialism of psychomotor vigilance task/test. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of polyvagal theory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: heartening Part of Speech: adj 1. Cheerfully encouraging.
Word: heartening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hearten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accommodationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum 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 Latin commodō Latin accommodō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accommodātiōnembor. French accommodationbor. English accommodation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English accommodationist By surface analysis, accommodation + ist, or, by surface analysis, accommodation(ism) + -ist. 1. Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one. 2. Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
Word: tropism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From -tropism (suffix meaning ‘growth towards; movement, turning’) (possibly based on geotropism and heliotropism), from Latin tropus + English -ism (suffix forming nouns of action, process, or result). Tropus is derived from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn; a manner, style, way; figure of speech, trope; etc.”), from τρέπω (trépō, “to turn; to divert; to rotate or change orientation”) (from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of result or abstract nouns of action). Sense 1 (“turning of an organism or part of an organism towards or away from a stimulus”) is modelled after German Tropismus. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊpɪz(ə)m/, /ˈtɹoʊˌpɪzəm/ 1. The turning of an organism (chiefly a plant) or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: uncountable Example: Orientation and tropism are synonymous expressions; that gatherings [of Paramecium] take place is a consequence of the orientation, and therefore throws no light whatever upon the tropisms. (Gatherings, however, are not always indicative of a tropism, i.e., of an orientation, but may be due to kinesis […] Example: Phototropic orientation of an embryo plant in zero gravity […] On earth, a germinated seedling can be placed in any position and the radicle will invariably turn the embryo plant "downward" and the hypocotle "upward". This is because positive root tropism toward gravity and negative stem tropism away from gravity. In the absence of gravity, will the plumules and the stem of the embryo plant reacting positively to phototropism guide the entire plant including the root system for its directional orientation? 2. A capability or tendency for a pathogen (chiefly a virus) to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism. Labels: broadly, countable Example: host tropism tissue tropism Example: Studies similar to those describe above for cells cultivated in vitro were performed using homogenates of tissues and organs from humans and rhesus monkeys to investigate tissue tropisms in susceptible species […] McLaren (personal communication) found an excellent correlation between poliovirus tissue tropisms and presence or absence of receptor activity in human and rhesus tissues and organs. 3. Of a person: an instinctive predilection or tendency; also (generally), a liking, a preference. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: It is reasonable to suppose that tropism will be less conspicuous in animals which are endowed with intelligence than in others; but well-marked tropisms are still to be found among the higher animals. Gregarious animals have a positive tropism toward the members of their own flock; the dog has a negative tropism toward his own kind and a positive tropism toward mankind.
Word: wet dream Part of Speech: noun 1. An erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm. Example: His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream. 2. The orgasm in such a dream. Labels: broadly 3. An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs. Labels: figuratively Example: Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream. Example: The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.
Word: wet dream Part of Speech: verb 1. To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way). Labels: intransitive Example: He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […] Example: […] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them, 2. To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually. Labels: transitive Example: […] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box. Example: […] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.
Word: bad boy Part of Speech: noun 1. A man whose rebellious nature makes him dangerous or attractive. Example: Yeah, I fit the profile all right. Perfect made-to-order malcontent. Let's sign this bad boy up and sic him on somebody fast, before the foam dries on his mouth. Example: Among the 'students' receiving below average marks was 22-year-old Vsevolod Raube from Bobruisk, who was considered the 'bad boy of the party'. 2. A male criminal. Labels: slang 3. An undesirable or difficult task. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: Let's get this bad boy done! 4. A powerful or impressive product or item. Labels: slang Example: Many school music teachers and directors are not primarily clarinetists and, knowing little of the subtle intricacies of this "bad boy" of instruments, can teach little more than the fingering. Example: […] he groaned as he twisted his arm over his head to follow the groove to the right wheel well, "if this bad boy connects right there, then it can't be a light." 5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, boy.
Word: bain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”). Pronunciation: /beɪn/ 1. Ready; willing. Labels: dialectal 2. Direct; near; short; gain. Labels: dialectal Example: That is the bainest way. 3. Limber; pliant; flexible. Labels: dialectal
Word: bain Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”). Pronunciation: /beɪn/ 1. Readily; willingly. Labels: dialectal 2. Nearby; at hand. Labels: dialectal
Word: bain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bayne~baine, from Old French bain, from Latin baneum, variant of balneum. Doublet of bagnio, balaneion, and banya. Pronunciation: /beɪn/ 1. A bath. Labels: obsolete Example: THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene /[…]/ So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber / and there whyles Gouernail and Heles attendyd vpon Tramtryst
Word: ballon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French ballon. Doublet of balloon. Pronunciation: /bəˈlɒn/ 1. The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career. 2. Synonym of balloon (“type of glass for wine etc”). Labels: countable, usually
Word: ebonics Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /iˈbɑnɪks/, /ɪ̈-/, /ɛ-/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Ebonics. Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: But with exotic dancers, binge-drinking, tooth-ripping, show tunes, time travel, ebonics and murder, it's an approach not usually seen onstage.
Word: backstab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + stab. Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌstæb/ 1. To attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. Labels: transitive
Word: backstab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + stab. Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌstæb/ 1. An act of backstabbing. Example: After this conversation I was shocked; he asked me to leave the car so he would stay with her alone. Everything fell on me, I felt my body heavy and my heart beating very fast. It was such a backstab that it still hurts today.
Word: kodomo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 子供(こども) (kodomo, literally “children”). 1. Japanese manga or anime specifically made for children Labels: attributive, uncountable
Word: banana republic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901 in his short story Money Maze, set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896–97 stay in Honduras. 1. A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic Example: At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria. Example: The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.
Word: hepatica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hepatic. 1. Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica. Example: Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.
Word: hepatica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hepatic. 1. Medicines to treat the liver. Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only
Word: birthright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From birth + right. Compare West Frisian berterjocht (“birthright”), Dutch geboorterecht (“birthright”), German Geburtsrecht (“birthright”). Compare also Icelandic frumburðarréttur (“birthright”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɝθ.ɹaɪt/, /ˈbɜːθ.ɹaɪt/ 1. Something a person is entitled to due to the circumstances of their birth, such as an inheritance or citizenship. Example: Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse. Example: Though it's the birthright of man to unify and live his life as one / A whisper of the word will let you soar with your soul
Word: materia medica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin māteria (“material”) + medica (“curative, medical”). 1. Synonym of pharmacology, particularly its development in early modern Europe. Labels: archaic, historical, uncountable Example: Later on, in the Middle Ages, medical knowledge advanced to such an extent that textbooks on materia medica and germane subjects often treated this area of erotica.
Word: materia medica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin māteria (“material”) + medica (“curative, medical”). 1. Synonym of medicine: the substances so used, particularly traditional cures prepared from animals and plants such as herbal medicines but inclusive of early drugs. Labels: archaic, historical, plural, plural-only Example: CHIAN earth, in pharmacy, one of the medicinal earths of the ancients, the name of which is preſerved in the catalogues of the materia medica but of which nothing more than the name has been known for many ages in the ſhops... Example: Mary Reynolds could list her physician-owner's entire materia medica (the common term for pharmacological supplies) for slaves in one breathː "Dr. Kilpatrick gave sick [slaves] ipecac and asafoetide and oil and turpentine and black fever pills."
Word: cracking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crakynge. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/ 1. The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline. 2. The formation of cracks on a surface. 3. The production of a crack sound. Example: the crackings of whips
Word: cracking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crakynge. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/ 1. That cracks; that produces a sharp sound as of something splitting or breaking. Example: From the spot where the body lay came a fierce fizzing and cracking sound, which ceased, however, before the fumes had cleared away. 2. Great; excellent. Labels: colloquial Example: Near-synonym: crackerjack Example: The race started at a cracking pace. 3. Enjoyable. Labels: colloquial Example: We had a cracking time. Example: Near the back of the concourse is a piano, [...]. Explains Reeve: "It was donated by a lady who had written to me. My Duty Manager at the time had a qualification and so was able to restore it to full working order. I've heard some cracking tunes on it."
Word: cracking Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crakynge. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/ 1. Very, usually associated with praise. Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: It was a cracking good show.
Word: cracking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crakynge. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of crack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: renditioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rendition Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: renditioning Part of Speech: noun 1. The ability of a television or monitor to display all colours and grey tones accurately. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The practice of removing a suspect to a foreign country for interrogation (such that the original countries laws do not apply). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blast from the past Part of Speech: noun 1. Something or someone that a person has not seen for a long time that evokes nostalgic feelings. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: Now there's a golden oldie, a blast from the past, when the heavyweight division was still strong and vibrant and unified (...) Example: In the process, he managed to make the Republican tax cut sound like a blast from the past.
Word: houseplant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + plant. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊsˌplænt/ 1. A plant that is grown indoors in places such as a house or office for decorative purposes. Example: Herbert thought that adding some houseplants would brighten up his desk. 2. A variety of plant that is especially suited to such cultivation, or that is frequently grown in such settings. Example: "I always thought a begonia was a houseplant!" exclaimed Sue, staring at the towering tropical specimen.
Word: point of view Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French point de vue. 1. A position from which something is seen. Example: From the operator's point of view, there is a large blind spot on one side of the machine. Example: From an economist's point of view, business is all about money. 2. An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs. Example: Near-synonyms: slant, bias Example: His point of view is that there is only one true religion. 3. The perspective from which a narrative is related. Example: The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator. Example: Therefore, there may be no overt indication of viewpoint, either because the speaker fails to mark his or her viewpoint, or because he or she takes a neutral point of view. 4. The perspective from which a narrative is related.
Word: bricoleur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bricoleur; apparently a borrowing from the work of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. 1. A person who constructs bricolages; one who creates using whatever materials are available. Example: The engineer has science to guide him; the bricoleur has intuition. Significantly, while the bricoleur can only classify perceived differences, the engineer's scientific system enables him to classify things not yet seen. Example: The bricoleur’s awareness of constructivism and historicity helps her point out these omissions and their effects on the knowledge-production processes. In this context critical hermeneutics facilitates bricoleurs’ attempts to identify socially oppressive forms of meaning-making and research processes.
Word: disavowal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disavow + -al or dis- + avowal. Pronunciation: [dɪsəˈvaʊ(ə)ɫ] 1. A denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Whatever pleas may be urged for a disavowal of engagements formed by diplomatic functionaries in cases where by the terms of the engagements a mutual ratification is reserved, or where notice at the time may have been given of a departure from instructions, or in extraordinary cases essentially violating the principles of equity, a disavowal could not have been apprehended in a case where no such notice or violation existed, where no such ratification was reserved, and more especially where, as is now in proof, an engagement to be executed without any such ratification was contemplated by the instructions given, and where it had with good faith been carried into immediate execution on the part of the United nations. Example: Last week, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected as “condescending” President Trump’s proposal for a more merit-based immigration policy, she provided a metaphor not just for the shattered condition of Washington’s governance of immigration, but also for the Democratic Party’s ideologically rigid disavowal of all principles of immigration constraint.
Word: bees and honey Part of Speech: noun 1. money Labels: Cockney, slang, uncountable
Word: blooter Part of Speech: noun 1. A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool. Labels: slang Example: A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind. Example: ‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’ 2. A hard, often wild kick of a ball. Labels: slang Example: He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers. 3. A ball kicked in such a way. Labels: slang 4. An unattractive woman. Labels: Scotland, slang
Word: blooter Part of Speech: verb 1. To do poor work, to botch (a job). Labels: slang Example: There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it. 2. To talk foolishly, to babble. Labels: obsolete, possibly Example: Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’ 3. To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner. Labels: obsolete, possibly Example: The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo. 4. To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner. Labels: slang Example: We'd blooter the ball into the terracing. 5. To smash; to bludgeon. Labels: slang Example: A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.
Word: sternway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stern + way. 1. Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel. Example: The mass of iron fell half in-board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.
Word: flambé Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French flambé. 1. Being, or having been, flambéed. Labels: not-comparable 2. Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides. Labels: not-comparable
Word: flambé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French flambé. 1. A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 2. A flambéed dish.
Word: flambé Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French flambé. 1. To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. Example: “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”
Word: encampment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *h₁én From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt/, /ɛn-/, /ɪŋ-/, /ɛŋ-/, /ɪnˈkæmpmənt/ 1. A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite. Labels: countable, often, uncountable Example: As ſoon as he came to the top of thoſe Hills he plainly diſcovered the Creek or Harbour vvhere the Pyrate Ships lay, and vvhere they had form'd their Encampment on the Shore. Example: One of the greatest dangers that beset the travellers in this part of their expedition, was the vast number of rattlesnakes which infested the rocks about the rapids and portages, and on which the men were in danger of treading. They were often found, too, in quantities about the encampments. 2. A place where people or things stay temporarily. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: This was an ancient lobster's house, / A lobster of prodigious nous, / So old that barnacles had spread / Their white encampments o'er its head,— […] Example: The Swannekke Island protesters’ camp lies on the mainland between a beach and a marshy lagoon. ... Tatty tents, rainbow-sprayed camper vans, and trailer homes look like unwanted gifts the Pacific dumped there. A strung banner declares: planet against seaboard. ... White toddlers tanned brown as leather paddle in the lazy shallows; a bearded apostle washes clothes in a tub; a couple of snaky teenagers kiss in the dune grass. Luisa locks her VW and crosses the scrub to the encampment. 3. An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 4. A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 5. A meeting of Freemasons. Labels: broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable 6. The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp. Labels: uncountable Example: Mars Triumphant; or London's Glory: Being the whole art of encampment, with the method of embattling armies, marching them off, posting the officers, forming hollow squares, and the various ways of paying the salute with the half-pike; […] Example: [F]rom the fate of vvar they vvere once more obliged to forſake culture for encampment, the ſvveets of rural life for their ſhocks of battle.
Word: foremast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore + mast. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mɑːst/, /-məst/, /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæst/ 1. The mast nearest the bow, on a sailing ship with more than one mast or a non-sailing ship with any masts; the second-tallest mast on a full-rigged ship.
Word: foresail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + sail. Compare Dutch voorzeil, German Vorsegel, Danish forsejl, Swedish försegel. 1. The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast 2. A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel. 3. A triangular sail set forward of the foremast: forestaysail.
Word: rowlock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration, based on row, of earlier oarlock, from Old English ārlōc, equivalent to oar + lock. Pronunciation: /ˈɹoʊˌlɑk/, /ˈɹɑlək/, /ˈɹʌlək/, /ˈɹɒlək/, /ˈɹəʊˌlɒk/ 1. A usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock. Labels: UK Example: I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night. Example: Everything smelled salt and there was no noise except the swishing of water and the clop-clop of water against the sides and the splash of the oars and the jolting noise of the rowlocks. 2. A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically with its tallest but slimmest side facing down, and its shortest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that it is taller than it is wide).
Word: oakum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English okom, okome (“oakum”) [and other forms], from Old English ācumba (“oakum”, literally “that which has been combed out, off-combings”) [and other forms], from ācemban (“to comb out”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (from Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-, *ūd- (“out; up”), or *h₂ew- (“away from, off”)) + *kambijaną (“to comb”) (ultimately from *ǵómbʰos (“row of teeth; tooth; peg”), *ǵembʰ- (“nail; tooth; to gnaw through; to pierce”)). See also out and comb. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊkəm/, /ˈoʊk(ə)m/ 1. Coarse fibres separated by hackling from flax or hemp when preparing the latter for spinning. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 2. Fibres chiefly obtained by untwisting old rope, which are used to caulk or pack gaps between boards of wooden ships and joints in masonry and plumbing, and sometimes for dressing wounds. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: [W]ho should it be but Mr. Daniel, all muffled up, and his face as black as the chimney, and covered with dirt, pitch, and tarr, and powder, and muffled with dirty clouts, and his right eye stopped with okum. He is come last night at five o'clock from the fleete, with a comrade of his that hath endangered another eye. Example: It vvas reſolved hovvever to proceed on our Voyage, vvhich vve did for ten Days, in hopes by the Oakums ſvvelling the Leak might grovv leſs; but to our great Surpriſe, after very hard VVeather near Porto Bello, and not being able to reach it, it increaſed to double the Quantity.
Word: freeboard Part of Speech: noun 1. The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel, or the vertical distance from the waterline up to the top of the gunwale (of an open boat). Example: By the time the whole team and all its equipment were loaded on board, there wasn't much freeboard anymore, and if the weather had been worse we might have had to postpone the trip. 2. The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam). 3. The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
Word: freeboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From being a skateboard with an additional degree of freedom of movement (yaw) and some additional rocking (roll) movement. 1. A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.
Word: campsite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From camp + site. Pronunciation: /ˈkæmpˌsaɪt/ 1. A place where one or more tents may be pitched for an overnight stay in an outdoor area.
Word: jurymast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jury + mast. From the early 17th century. 1. A temporary mast constructed when a vessel has been dismasted, usually in heavy weather.
Word: skeg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a dialectal term for a stump, branch, or wooden peg. Compare shaw and Swedish skog. Pronunciation: /skɛɡ/ 1. A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. 2. A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. 3. A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. 4. A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle. Labels: Australia, slang 5. A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)). Labels: obsolete Example: Some take them for Damascen plums, or rather for Bullois, Skegs, or such like wilde Plums. 6. A kind of oat. Labels: obsolete Example: SKEGS. A kind of oat, sometimes cultivated as a crop in Nottinghamshire. It is the Avena stipiformis of Linnaeus. 7. A look or glance. Labels: Northern-England
Word: vanillin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Spanish vainillabor. English vanilla English -in English vanillin From vanilla + -in. Pronunciation: /vəˈnɪlɪn/ 1. A chemical compound, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde, that is the primary constituent of vanilla. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A synthetic compound used as a substitute for the extract of the vanilla bean. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vanilla extract Part of Speech: noun 1. A liquid, technically a tincture, used in cooking, prepared by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Vanilla extract makes these cookies taste great, but the straight extract tastes bad because the alcohol hasn't evaporated yet.
Word: imitation vanilla Part of Speech: noun 1. Synthetically produced vanillin, used in place of vanilla extract from vanilla beans. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: breasts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɹɛsts/ 1. plural of breast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breasts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɹɛsts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of breast Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: healthful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful. 1. Beneficial to bodily health. Example: Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […] Example: The advertisement [published in 1856] concluded with the announcement that the excursion was being run "to afford the industrious classes the opportunity of enjoying the healthful and invigorating sea-breezes of Southport, and the luxury of sea-bathing, or the numerous objects of interest and amusement at Liverpool." 2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary. Example: She trusted it was a sign that his mind was recovering a more healthful state, that he was not obliged to refer to his imagination, and, by giving her an ideal existence, compel himself to love her as the representative of another; surely, if he could do so long without the real Margarita, and appear cheerful and happy as he used to do when in England, he might (now that death had really taken her, poor thing!) resign her entirely, and love his wife, […] Example: As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock. 3. Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”). Labels: archaic Example: His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
Word: let go Part of Speech: verb 1. To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on. Labels: intransitive, transitive, with-of Example: You're hurting him! Let him go! Example: Let go of the phone. 2. To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation. Example: You are supported, so you can just let go and relax. Inhale and slowly exhale. 3. To dismiss from employment. Labels: euphemistic Example: The secretary didn't work out, so her boss told her she was being let go. Example: Puel was let go in June despite leading Southampton to their first major final for 14 years and an eighth-place finish in the Premier League. But apparently his style was too boring and some players and many fans disliked his method, so he had to go – fair enough but look at them now. 4. To ignore (a comment, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Cora gave her shoulders a rebellious toss. "I'm sick of always getting oysters; I'd sooner come out with you." Bradly let that go. "You had enough money this week without getting oysters, didn't you?" 5. To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance. Labels: euphemistic, transitive 6. To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance. Labels: euphemistic, transitive Example: Wow, dude! You've really let yourself go this time! 7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go. Example: Please, Mom, can you let me go to her party? Example: We shan’t let our old car go to anyone for less than 15 grand.
Word: Mirandize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Miranda + -ize. The former refers to the US Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, after Ernesto Miranda. Pronunciation: /mɪˈɹændaɪz/ 1. To inform someone who has been arrested of their constitutional rights. Labels: US, transitive Example: 1981. Television program Hill Street Blues, Season 1, Episode 7, "Film At Eleven". Lt. Furillo: Be sure to Mirandize them, Ray. Example: [1997. New York State Bar Journal, "Volume 69" We credit Judge John G. Gabbert of California with the first reported usage of "Mirandize" […] ]
Word: DCXO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of digitally-compensated crystal oscillator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: This is a general description of the type of oscillator, whether it be a TCXO, OCXO, DCXO, rubidium, or cesium. Example: They are temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXO), oven controlled crystal oscillators (OCXO) and a few other variations such as digitally compensated crystal oscillators (DCXO).
Word: Brazilian Portuguese Part of Speech: name 1. The Portuguese language as spoken and written in Brazil, particularly when it differs from other regional varieties of that language.
Word: jib boom Part of Speech: noun 1. A spar attached to the outboard end of a bowsprit or flying jib boom with an additional stay to increase sail area.
Word: oxytone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.? Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s) Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *tónos Proto-Hellenic *tónos Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos) Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos)lbor. English oxytone Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos). Pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊn/, /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊn/ 1. Having the stress on the last syllable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: oxytone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.? Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s) Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *tónos Proto-Hellenic *tónos Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos) Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos)lbor. English oxytone Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos). Pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊn/, /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊn/ 1. A word with the stress on the last syllable.
Word: oxytones Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊnz/, /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊnz/ 1. plural of oxytone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anti-democratic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + democratic. 1. opposing the democratic process or democracy, especially by the use of force 2. enforcing views contrary to that of a majority of the public
Word: Adige Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Adige, from Latin Athesis. Pronunciation: /ˈadɪdʒeɪ/ 1. A river in South Tyrol, Italy.
Word: Olza Part of Speech: name Etymology: Polish Olza. 1. a right tributary of the Odra flowing through Poland and the Czech Republic 2. A village in the gmina of Gorzyce, Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Word: Angrapa Part of Speech: name 1. A river in Poland and Russia.
Word: -scopy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scopy From Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “to see”). Pronunciation: /-skəpi/ 1. observation, viewing Labels: morpheme
Word: hydrostatic skeleton Part of Speech: noun 1. a fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the soft bodies of certain invertebrates such as jellyfish
Word: hydrostatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek στᾰτῐκός (stătĭkós)der. Latin staticusder. English static English hydrostatic From hydro- + static. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪdɹəʊˈstætɪk/ 1. Of or relating to hydrostatics. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. Labels: not-comparable Example: [...] the electric fan drive and Drayton regulator temperature control employed on the prototypes have been superseded on the production version by Serck-Behr hydrostatic drive from an engine-driven pump with thermostatically controlled fan speed regulation.
Word: Radha Soami Part of Speech: name 1. An Indian philosophical or religious movement.
Word: Mogilev Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Могилёв (Mogiljóv). 1. A city in Belarus. 2. A region of Belarus.
Word: Ostrava Part of Speech: name 1. A city in the far east of the Czech Republic.
Word: thalassocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek θαλασσοκρατία (thalassokratía, “empire of the sea”), from θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”) + -κρατία (-kratía, “government, rule”). By surface analysis, thalasso- + -cracy. Pronunciation: /ˌθæləˈsɒkɹəsi/, /ˌθæləˈsɑkɹəsi/ 1. A state whose power derives from its naval or commercial supremacy on the seas. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Maritime supremacy. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dodecaphony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dodeca- + -phony. 1. Twelve-tone music, a form of composition using all twelve tones of the chromatic scale in such a way that they are equal, i.e. having no tonic, no dominant, no major key or minor keys, and no distinction between harmony and dissonance. Labels: uncountable
Word: clm Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of claim. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: intracule Part of Speech: noun 1. a mathematical function that gives the probability of observing two electrons in a given molecule with a given difference in position or momentum
Word: hot tub Part of Speech: noun 1. A large tub, often situated outdoors, filled with hot water and used for communal leisure bathing. Labels: US
Word: nearside Part of Speech: noun Etymology: near + side 1. The side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road. Labels: UK Example: An unhappy-looking "foreigner" on Beattock shed on August 18 was Class A2 No. 60529. It had taken the West Coast main line with an unidentified working, but failed at Lockerbie with a blown-out nearside cylinder; [...]. 2. The face of the Moon nearest the Earth. 3. A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side. Labels: US, historical
Word: real-time Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From real time. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːəltaɪm/, /ˈɹiːltaɪm/ 1. Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay. Labels: not-comparable Example: It will provide a wireless navigation service that can deliver turn-by-turn route guidance and real-time traffic and weather information. Motorola is the first company to create such a solution, […] Example: Audiences tolerate the idea of Roxy Hart turning from a “real-time” conversation with her husband or lawyer and launching into a song about her dreams and ambitions. And in the old days, movie audiences did the same: Judy Garland could ... 2. Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically in which the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous. Labels: not-comparable Example: The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]
Word: star ring Part of Speech: noun 1. a network topology consisting of a physical star and a logical ring.