nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: bulimic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Hellenic *gʷous Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs) Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós) Ancient Greek βούλῑμος (boúlīmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)lbor. English bulimia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English bulimic From bulimia + -ic. Pronunciation: /bəˈlɪmɪk/, /bəˈliːmɪk/, /bjʊˈlɪmɪk/, /bjʊˈliːmɪk/ 1. Suffering from bulimia nervosa. Example: My sister was bulimic and consequently had a number of health problems. 2. Of, or relating to, bulimia nervosa. Example: The woman had displayed a number of bulimic symptoms, prompting her family to stage an intervention.
Word: bulimic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Hellenic *gʷous Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs) Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós) Ancient Greek βούλῑμος (boúlīmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)lbor. English bulimia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English bulimic From bulimia + -ic. Pronunciation: /bəˈlɪmɪk/, /bəˈliːmɪk/, /bjʊˈlɪmɪk/, /bjʊˈliːmɪk/ 1. A person suffering from bulimia nervosa. Example: The hospital strictly monitored the advertising materials the bulimics and anorexics were allowed to see.
Word: brung Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps by analogy with other strong verbs, but compare also the Old English past forms brunge, brungon and past participle variant brungen (“brought”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌŋ/, /bɹʊŋ/, /bɹʊŋɡ/ 1. simple past and past participle of bring Labels: colloquial, dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: I had enough left for coffee and two orders of beans and bread, the second of which I made sandwiches from and brung them back for my brother Bill. Example: Who's the pretty filly you brung along?
Word: poor man's steak Part of Speech: noun 1. Fried meatloaf. 2. Bread dipped in gravy. Labels: colloquial
Word: brang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly inherited from Old English brang (also brong), alternative first and third person singular past indicative of bringan (“to bring”), although no Middle English intermediary is attested, and it may have been formed in more recent times by analogy with sing/sang instead, like its cognate Scots brang (“brought”) was. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæŋ/, [ˈbɹʷæŋ], /ˈbɹeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈbɹʷeɪ̯ŋ] ~ /ˈbɹɛ̃ŋ/, [ˈbɹʷɛ̃ŋ] 1. simple past of bring Labels: colloquial, dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, past
Word: bloc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block. Pronunciation: /blɒk/, /blɑk/ 1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals. Example: But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf. Example: How that impacts Asia’s most stable democracy will become clearer only in the weeks ahead. Sunday’s vote was a mid-term election for the less powerful, upper house of the legislature. And the Sanseito party, while surging, is still only the fourth-largest bloc in that chamber. 2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance. Example: military bloc Example: trading bloc
Word: tackie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Thought to derive from Dutch or Afrikaans, or may be derived from tacky (“slightly sticky”), which the rubber shoes might seem to be. 1. A canvas shoe with a rubber sole. Labels: South-Africa 2. Another word for trainers or runners. Labels: Ireland 3. The tyre of a car or other vehicle. Labels: South-Africa, slang Example: The hot rod had fat tackies.
Word: angora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”). Pronunciation: /æŋˈɡɔːɹə/ 1. A Turkish Angora cat. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The hair of angora rabbits or angora goats, used to make textiles. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The fabric made from the hair of angora rabbits or angora goats. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: stompie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Afrikaans stompie, diminutive of stomp (“stump”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɒmpi/ 1. A cigarette butt. Labels: South-Africa Example: I must get outside because the stink of stale brandy and piss and old stompies will not let me breathe and the sides of my head are too tight. Example: Bigger boys were known to stand at street corners, smoking stompies of cigarettes and rolls of dagga.
Word: letten Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of let Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: letten Part of Speech: adj 1. Let; demised, leased. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare
Word: sexless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sex + -less. Compare sexful. 1. Without sexual activity. Labels: not-comparable Example: They have a sexless marriage. Example: They’re sexually active and eager throughout the first nine seasons, so this isn’t like the show breathing life into a sexless sitcom couple from the 1950s. 2. Without physical or behavioral sexual distinction. Labels: not-comparable 3. Provoking or showing no sexual desire. Labels: not-comparable Example: A small child is sexless. Example: The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face. 4. Without sex appeal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: eschewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of eschew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sneller Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of snell: more snell Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: suited Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English suit Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English suited From suit + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːtɪd/, /ˈsjuː-/, /ˈsutɪd/ 1. Suitable. Labels: usually Example: Particular Forms suited to particular occasions, I have endeavour’d to provide in this Treatise, for general ones, Morning and Evening, you may use these which follow. Example: In saying that London is more suited to me than Birmingham, I mean more suited to me as a missioner; therefore it would absorb my time in mission etc work, while Birmingham does not. 2. Having the specified kind or number of suits. Labels: in-compounds Example: a three-suited hand 3. Of the same suit. Example: Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind 4. Wearing a suit. Labels: not-comparable Example: Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’. Example: “Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.
Word: suited Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English suit Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English suited From suit + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːtɪd/, /ˈsjuː-/, /ˈsutɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of suit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: declined Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈklaɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of decline Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: declined Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈklaɪnd/ 1. Directed obliquely.
Word: murdered Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmɝ.dɚd/, /ˈmɜːdəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of murder Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: murdered Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈmɝ.dɚd/, /ˈmɜːdəd/ 1. That has been murdered. Labels: not-comparable Example: They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.
Word: requested Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkwɛstɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of request Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: contributed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈtɹɪbjuːtɪd/, /ˈkɒntɹɪˌbjuːtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of contribute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: depended Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɛndɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of depend Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: appealed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈpiːld/ 1. simple past and past participle of appeal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gasped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡæspt/, /ɡɑːspt/ 1. simple past and past participle of gasp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: termed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɝmd/, /tɜːmd/ 1. simple past and past participle of term Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: strengthened Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛŋθənd/, [ˈstɹeɪŋ(k)θənd] 1. simple past and past participle of strengthen Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: systematically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English systematic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English systematically From systematic + -ally. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/, [ˌsɪs.təˈmæɾ.ɪ.kli] 1. In a systematic manner; organizedly or methodically. Example: Taxonomy seeks to systematically name all living organisms; each species has one name and everyone can figure out what that name is. Example: 'Something political, I'm pretty sure, sir. A lot of those Sinn Feiners are out to make trouble systematically just now. And you'd be surprised to find who are more or less in with them—all sorts of people.'
Word: lurked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lurk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sterilization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sterile + -ization or sterilize + -ation. 1. The process of treating something to kill or inactivate microorganisms. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable Example: Heat sterilization is used during canning so the food can be safely stored for long periods. 2. A procedure to permanently prevent an organism from reproducing. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable Example: Spaying a cat is a form of sterilization to limit the population growth. Example: One the most chilling parts of the film, which is available online, involves an appearance by Adolf Hitler. Ferrari shows how America’s sterilization policies inspired Nazi Germany’s leaders to launch their own eugenics program, which later led to genocide. 3. An instance of a sterilization procedure. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, countable Example: The vet performed several sterilizations this week. Example: One of the most shocking aspects of the Chinese occupation is the forced sterilization of Tibetan women. In an article on this subject, the ICLT used my photograph of a nomadic woman with her herd of goats in the Ngari region of western Tibet. In many ways this is one of the more idyllic photographs I have taken. It is a wonderfully warm image that captures the woman in the late-day sun while in the distance yak-hair tents are scattered across a dramatic Tibetan landscape. The accompanying text shatters Shangri-la like a bullet through a stained-glass window: “Gross violations of women’s reproductive freedom are not uncommon in Tibet. Some of the most disturbing reports are of ‘blitz’ campaigns of mobile family planning teams, which have gone into remote villages of Tibet and carried out forced abortions and sterilizations of virtually every woman of child bearing age, regardless of the number of children, age, or health. These barbaric practices, says the Chinese Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Dharamsala, ‘constitute an immediate threat to the survival of Tibetans as a distinct people.'" 4. A monetary policy operation used to offset a foreign exchange intervention. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable Example: The Federal Reserve is responsible for foreign exchange sterilization. 5. The process of permanently rendering a planet like Earth completely uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, leading to their complete extinction. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable Example: In about 1 billion years, the increasing heat from the Sun as it gradually ages, by triggering a runaway greenhouse effect that will boil away the oceans, will lead to the complete sterilization of all life on Earth.
Word: spaying Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference to performing the operation on a female. Example: The veterinary surgeon carries out spayings almost every day.
Word: spaying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spay Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shrinking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shrink + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of shrink Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shrinking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shrink + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/ 1. Shy and retiring.
Word: shrinking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shrink + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away. Example: […] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […] Example: The notion of a gently-nurtured girl being at the mercy of that fiend incarnate […] was one which caused me tangible shrinkings of the body.
Word: smithy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge. Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪði/, /ˈsmɪθi/ 1. The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works; a forge. Example: Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary. Example: The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
Word: smithy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe, smythe (“the workshop of a smith, forge”)). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates. Partially displaced by English forge. Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪði/, /ˈsmɪθi/ 1. To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods. Labels: uncommon Example: "That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […] Example: So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. […] So they weighed six stone of iron and smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."
Word: shareholder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English share Proto-Germanic *haldaną Proto-West Germanic *haldan Old English healdan Middle English holden English hold Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English holder English shareholder From share + holder. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/, /ˈʃɛɹˌhoʊl.dɚ/, /ˈʃeːˌhəʉl.də(ɹ)/, /ˈʃeːˌhɐʉl.də(ɹ)/, /ˈʃeəˌhɐʉl.də(ɹ)/ 1. One who owns shares of stock in a corporation. Example: Shareholders are the real owners of a publicly traded business, but management runs it. Example: Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.
Word: niggerball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nigger + ball. 1. A large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy). Labels: South-Africa, countable, dated, offensive Example: 1972, Contrast, Volume 8, South African Literary Journal Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny. When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can't bite them until you've sucked them small or you'll chip your teeth. Example: That the words of Jeremy Taylor's Ag Pleez, Deddy have been changed to suit the times? No longer " … how we miss niggerballs and licorice … " but " … how we miss bullseyes and … " Ag pleez, Jeremy. 2. The sport of basketball. Labels: US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable Example: It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves. Example: […] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]
Word: pocketbook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒ.kɪt.bʊk/, /ˈpɑ.kɪtˌbʊk/ 1. A purse or handbag. Labels: US 2. A wallet for paper money. Labels: dated 3. One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford. Labels: figuratively 4. A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art). Example: The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series. Example: The pocket books are in trouble. A creeping extralegal censorship threatens to bowdlerize the product[…] 5. A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art). Labels: Philippines, broadly
Word: Norma Part of Speech: name Etymology: Coined name of an imaginary Celtic priestess in Bellini's opera Norma (1831). Sometimes explained as Latin norma (“pattern, model”), or as a feminine form of Norman. 1. A female given name originating as a coinage. Example: I wish I could remember that girl's Christian name. Something connected with a song...Thora? Speak to me, Thora, Thora, Thora. Something like that, or Myra? Myra, oh Myra my love is all for thee... Norma? Or do I mean Maritana? Norma - Norma Restarick. That's right, I'm sure.
Word: Norma Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square”). 1. An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.
Word: norma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin norma. Doublet of norm. 1. A norm. 2. A template. 3. A square for measuring right angles.
Word: negligent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English necligent, negligent, from Old French negligent, from Latin negligēns. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛɡ.lɪ.d͡ʒənt/ 1. Careless or inattentive. Example: grossly negligent Example: negligent behavior 2. Culpable due to negligence. Example: prove someone negligent
Word: merrily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English myriely, from Old English myriġlīċe; equivalent to merry + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɹɪli/ 1. In a cheerful or merry way. Example: go merrily along Example: sing merrily
Word: carpenter's square Part of Speech: noun 1. A tool used to measure out right angles.
Word: inequality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inequalite, from Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequālitās, from Latin inaequālis (“unequal”), from in- (“not”) + aequālis (“equal”). Morphologically inequal + -ity and in- + equality. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/, /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, [ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ɾi] 1. Absence of equality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have-nots rebelled. Example: The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his. 2. Absence of equality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The inequality x is less than y, together with that ylt;z, allows us to deduce the inequality xlt;z. Example: I then specify a set of new tight Bell inequalities for arbitrary event spaces -- the "even/odd" inequalities -- which have a straightforward interpretation when expressed in terms of multideviations. 3. Absence of equality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, upon which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been levelled by worms.
Word: labored Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of laboured. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: labored Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of labor Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dispulsion Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpʌl.ʃən/, /dɪsˈpʊl.ʃən/ 1. The act of dispelling (e.g. myths or rumors), or the state of being dispelled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The dispulsion of rumors is a difficult process. 2. Negative propulsion; reduction in propulsion; deceleration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A braking system is used for the dispulsion of a motor vehicle.
Word: lankiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lanky Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lankiness From lanky + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈlæŋ.kɪ.nɪs/ 1. The state or condition of being lanky. Labels: uncountable Example: In his civil dress his lankiness and length of limb gave him an awkward appearance, but on horse-back, with his lean, gaunt face looking out from his steel cap, his breastplate and buff jacket filling out his figure, and his high boots of untanned leather reaching to the centre of his thighs, he looked the veteran man-at-arms.
Word: landward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English landward From land + -ward. 1. Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] the enclosure in which Bulan resided lay on a landward slope a quarter of a mile from the shore, and so divided from it by lofty trees, that, unless when the inhabitants sought the coast for fishing, they took little heed of what was passing at sea. Example: Ninefold deep to the top of the dykes the galloping breakers stride, And their overcarried spray is a sea—a sea on the landward side. 2. Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural. Labels: Scotland, not-comparable Example: […] they recommend to all ministers within the bounds, magistrates of towns, and heritors of landward parishes, to exert themselves, and use every prudent and reasonable method in getting their respective congregations to be taught properly, as occasion shall offer. Example: 1790, John Naismith, Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry Pursued in Scotland, Edinburgh: self-published, Book III, Chapter 2, pp. 331-332, Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people.
Word: landward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English landward From land + -ward. 1. Toward the land. Labels: not-comparable Example: The seamen furl the canvas, strike the mast, Then dip their nimble oars, and landward haste. Example: ’Twas the returning tide, that afar from the waste of the ocean, With the first dawn of the day, came heaving and hurrying landward.
Word: landward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English landward From land + -ward. 1. The side facing land. Labels: uncountable Example: The Generall then being at supper, and hearing that call, and looking out to landward, sawe those savage people comming after [Fernan Veloso], and presently imagined they meant him harme, and therefore forthwith he commaunded the whole to put themselves in battaile araye, and he himselfe with certaine others, went to landward without anye weapons, deeming verely that those blacke men meant him no harme, nor would offer annye force […] Example: The Town is large, containing about five hundred well-built Houses, built with Dutch-Brick, and the meanest not valued under one hundred Pounds; to the landward it is encompassed with a Wall of a good thickness, and fortified at the entrance of the River, so as to command any Ship which passeth that way, by a Fort, called James-Fort […]
Word: legman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leg + -man, modelled after legwork, in reference to the walking such a person does. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛɡˌmæn/, /-mən/ 1. A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner. Example: During the nine-month Great Lakes shipping season, the ore hogs—shovelers, "larry" car weighers, bulldozer operators, car pushers and "leg" men—unite in this miracle of supply that stock-piles enough iron ore to last through the winter. The leg man on a Hulett iron-ore unloader must possess a special blend of brawn, brains and a "go for broke" attitude. He must also be conscious of the safety of fellow workers below him as he deftly maneuvers a 75-ton vertical ramrod and iron-jawed grab bucket. Example: [W]ell, anyway, he sent a chap who acts as his confidential ‘leg-man’ and ‘Man Friday’. 2. A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story. Example: [page 136] This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. [...] [page 140] City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations. Example: Morris Cramm was night legman for a columnist and worked from seven in the evening to five in the morning.
Word: laboured Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bɚd/, /ˈleɪ.bəd/ 1. Expressive of strenuous effort. Labels: UK Example: At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted. Example: At Par, 150207 is the unit for the 1416 to Newquay. It is quite tatty and lacks tables - but does have plug sockets. It sounds laboured as it leaves, and while it sounds like it's struggling as it tackles Luxulyan, it's not losing time. 2. Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production. Labels: UK, figuratively
Word: laboured Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bɚd/, /ˈleɪ.bəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of labour Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: drifted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪftɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of drift Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: matzo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: When stressed on the first syllable, from Yiddish מצה (matse), from Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá); pronunciations stressed on the second syllable are borrowed directly from Hebrew. Pronunciation: /ˈmætsə/, /ˈmætsəʊ/, /ˌmɑːˈtsɑː/, /ˈmɑtsə/, /ˈmɑtsoʊ/ 1. Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. Labels: uncountable Example: Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover. Example: Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night. Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup. 2. A piece of the above bread. Labels: countable Example: [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
Word: ghoulish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English ghoul Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English ghoulish From ghoul + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/ 1. Of or pertaining to ghouls. Example: Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers. 2. Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing. Example: We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery. 3. Fascinated by corpses; morbid. Example: We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration. Example: At times it seemed almost an afterthought, during an extended trial subject to ghoulish fascination, that Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died terrible deaths.
Word: DipIT Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of Diploma in Information Technology. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: spritely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English sprite Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English spritely From sprite + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈspɹaɪtli/ 1. Of or relating to a sprite. 2. Alternative spelling of sprightly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Many of Porter's lyrics display a charming, playful irony, a sense of amused mischief and the insight of an outsider, a romantic observer. All that and more is cleverly and meticulously wedded to inventive music and rhythms, a unique blend of spritely intelligence and artful craftsmanship.
Word: spritely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sprite + -ly (adverb suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈspɹaɪtli/ 1. In a manner reminiscent of a sprite.
Word: calligraphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλλιγραφικός (kalligraphikós). Pronunciation: /ˌkælɪˈɡɹæfɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to calligraphy. 2. Written in an artistic style or manner, as calligraphy.
Word: Leo Minor Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. From Latin leō, a "lion" + minor, "lesser" 1. A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a small lion. It lies north of the constellation Leo and south of Ursa Major.
Word: lacertus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). For the semantics, compare muscle from mūsculus (“little mouse”), derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice. Pronunciation: /ləˈsɝː.təs/ 1. A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.
Word: close in on Part of Speech: verb 1. To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse. Labels: idiomatic Example: Sometimes it feels like the walls are closing in on me. 2. To catch up with in a chase; to near the end of a pursuit. Labels: idiomatic Example: The police closed in on the suspect. 3. To near a goal or completion. Labels: idiomatic Example: I think we are closing in on the end of this project.
Word: pizzazz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably originally college or showbusiness slang in the United States, then popularized in the American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar in the 1930s: see the quotation. Pronunciation: /pɪˈzæz/ 1. Flair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor. Labels: uncountable Example: The show had a lot of pizzazz, with glittering costumes and upbeat music. Example: Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of function; as, for instance, adding Scotch puts the pizazz into a drink. Certain clothes have it, too. 1. There's pizazz in this rust evening coat, swinging wide in back, jutting crazily over the shoulders, clasped with a cord at the throat.
Word: pizazz Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pizzazz. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of function; as, for instance, adding Scotch puts the pizazz into a drink. Certain clothes have it, too. 1. There's pizazz in this rust evening coat, swinging wide in back, jutting crazily over the shoulders, clasped with a cord at the throat.
Word: mustard gas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Senfgas. 1. A highly cytotoxic vesicant, C₄H₈Cl₂S, used in World War I that is known to cause skin burns, blisters, inflammation, edema, and potentially other respiratory effects. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. Example: The necessarily elaborate precautions taken to decontaminate vehicles and trains which have been in contact with mustard gas were shown, and examples of the board's breakdown and ambulance vehicles were available for inspection.
Word: Summer Triangle Part of Speech: name 1. A bright asterism of the northern summer sky. Its corners are the three 1st-magnitude stars Altair (α Aql), Deneb (α Cyg), and Vega (α Lyr).
Word: pull-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from pull up. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/ 1. An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction. Example: DeWitt compared the average number of pullups college men can do grasping the bar with palms toward the face (supinated) and palms away from the face (pronated), and with kicking and kipping while raising the body. The subjects averaged 2.08 more pullups with the palms supinated than with the palms pronated.
Word: pull-up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Deverbal from pull up. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/ 1. To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly. Example: 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns. With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week Example: 2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]
Word: pull-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Genericized trademark: from the Pull-Ups brand of training pants sold by Huggies. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/ 1. Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).
Word: pull-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/ 1. A pull-up resistor.
Word: chin-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chin + up, but not a deverbal, unlike pull-up. The chin-up and the muscle-up as variations of pulling oneself upward were named later than the pull-up, with influence from its name. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɪn.ʌp/ 1. (US) An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. It can be defined more restrictively on criteria like the arms starting at lock-out, or the chin requiring contact with the bottom of the bar, or touching the neck to the bar. Palms may be facing in any direction. Example: Compare the actions of the humerus during the performance of a chin-up with supinated grip with those during the performance of a chin-up with pronated grip. Are the chin-ups alike or different with respect to muscle involvement?
Word: Sextans Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690. From Latin sextans, a "sextant" (nautical measuring implement) 1. A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a sextant. It lies south of the constellation of Leo.
Word: push-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from push up. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/ 1. Supporting the breasts to increase their apparent size. Labels: not-comparable Example: Talk about lucky stripes: This push-up top features pads to provide oomph and make sure the girls stay sunny-side up. Example: I paused to say, “Good,” then returned to breathing and vocalizing while I repeatedly bent over, stretched, and rolled up slowly, warming up my spine—and ignoring the way the wires of my push-up corset poked and squeezed me. 2. Designed to be worn rolled up. Labels: not-comparable Example: Season's most popular blouses feature push-up sleeves, little- boy collars, dainty ties. Example: These intriguing outfits feature harem pants with long draped front-panel belts, slinky, sleeveless coats, flowing dresses that cling, trousers with push-up legs and deep-cut pants that reveal a whole lot of slim, smooth belly- button and all!
Word: push-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from push up. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/ 1. An exercise done to improve upper body strength, performed by resting on one's toes and hands and pushing one's weight off the floor. Example: 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage. 2. A push-up bra. Example: Push-ups give girls with smaller breasts an extra bit of lift and shape.
Word: push-up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Deverbal from push up. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/ 1. To perform a push-up, or to lift oneself off the ground in a push-up–like manner. Example: Jenk kept off to the side, but joined the class as they started their push-ups.[…] Jenk push-upped, eyes on the ground.
Word: sextans Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sextāns, from sex (“six”). 1. A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as. Labels: Ancient-Rome
Word: Berber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːbə/, /ˈbɝ.bɚ/ 1. A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to Western North Africa. 2. A kind of traditional rug manufactured by the Berber people. Example: Berbers are the best example of looped carpet […]
Word: Berber Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːbə/, /ˈbɝ.bɚ/ 1. A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.
Word: Berber Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːbə/, /ˈbɝ.bɚ/ 1. Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lay the groundwork Part of Speech: verb 1. To create a foundation; to provide the basics or fundamentals. Labels: figuratively, idiomatic Example: The introductory mathematics courses will lay the groundwork for all your subsequent engineering studies. Example: Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
Word: daily grind Part of Speech: noun 1. The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more. Example: “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.
Word: not on your life Part of Speech: adv 1. Absolutely not; under no circumstances. Labels: idiomatic Example: Do you think I will ever go back after that? Not on your life!
Word: no way Part of Speech: adv 1. In no way; not at all; under no circumstances. Labels: not-comparable Example: No way would he ever do such a thing. Example: No way will I ever go there.
Word: no way Part of Speech: intj 1. Absolutely not; under no circumstances. Labels: idiomatic Example: Touch that weird rock over there, I dare you! —No way! 2. Indicates astonished disbelief. Labels: idiomatic Example: You failed your exam again? No way! Example: He's hitting 400 for two months? Uh-uh! No way!
Word: no way Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, way.; not any possibility. Labels: uncountable Example: There is no way that I would trust him. Example: There's no way I'm going through the thorn bushes dressed like this!
Word: packages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of package Labels: form-of, plural
Word: packages Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of package Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rattletrap Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rattle + trap. 1. Mechanically unreliable or in disrepair. Labels: not-comparable Example: 2006, Paul McGeough, Bush 'palace' shielded from Iraqi storm, theage.com.au, August 26, http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bush-palace-shielded-from-iraqi-storm/2006/08/25/1156012740594.html, All services for the biggest embassy in the world will operate independently from the rattletrap utilities of the Iraqi capital. (speaking of the new US Embassy in Baghdad) Example: Every cultural instinct and previous experience tells you that when you travel this far you should find, at the very least, people on camels. There should be unrecognizable lettering on the signs, and swarthy men in robes drinking coffee from thimble-sized cups and puffing on hookahs, and rattletrap buses and potholes in the road and a real possibility of disease on everything you touch—but no, it's not like that at all.
Word: rattletrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rattle + trap. 1. A mechanical device, particularly an automobile, that is worn out, run down, or mechanically unreliable as indicated by noises it makes in operation. Labels: informal Example: Mom always worried about our safety in my friend's rattletrap. I told her not to worry, as it can't go fast enough to be dangerous. 2. Any piece of miscellaneous equipment or junk. Labels: dated Example: And they tumbled about the rattletraps under the cupboard, and rummaged the drawers in search of the sacred volume. 3. A type of noisemaker in which the teeth of a gear repeatedly bend and release a stiff tongue. 4. A person's mouth. Labels: dated, derogatory, slang Example: Shut your rattletrap!
Word: take the heat Part of Speech: verb 1. To take the blame; to be the focus of anger or scrutiny; to take the consequences. Labels: informal Example: If this decision turns out to be a bad one, I'll take the heat for it. Example: For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, heat. Example: I can take the heat, baby, best believe That's the moment I shine
Word: chew out Part of Speech: verb 1. To lecture, scold, reprimand, or rebuke, especially in an angry tone of voice. Labels: US, slang Example: His dad chewed him out after seeing his poor grades. Example: I had trouble speaking to other people. I couldn’t think of any research ideas and lost all interest in what I was studying. One of my supervisors chewed me out for rolling my eyes at her during meetings.
Word: 10q Part of Speech: phrase 1. thank you. Labels: Internet
Word: 10x Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A homoglyphic form of 10× that is easy to type on a keyboard without going out of one's way for the non-keyboard character. In trivial homoglyphic use as math notation for many decades but not particularly common adjectivally as /ˈtɛnˌɛks/ until the 21st century. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnˌɛks/, /ˈtɛnˌtaɪmz/ 1. Ten times' worth. Labels: not-comparable Example: We're expecting to get 10x productivity out of this process once we upgrade the equipment to a next-generation setup.
Word: 10x Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the similarity in pronunciation of ten + /ks/ to thanks. Pronunciation: /θæŋks/ 1. Alternative spelling of thanks. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative
Word: 224 Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of today, tomorrow, forever. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: 2mrw Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of tomorrow. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: 4tw Part of Speech: intj 1. Abbreviation of for the win. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Example: "Andrew" wrote in news:h4JIf.43735 $mf2....@newsfe6-win.ntli.net: >> >> its to show u who is boss, state power 4tw >> >> if they were really worried […]
Word: X-junction Part of Speech: noun 1. A non-linear strand of DNA where certain cruciform binding proteins can compete for binding. Example: Linear molecules containing the same sequences are not bound, and one X-junction successfully competes with another for binding whereas linear duplexes do not compete.
Word: middle of the road Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, especially politically. Labels: idiomatic Example: A typical middle of the road compromise is to leave the problem as it is. Example: Despite her massive mandate, [Jacinda] Ardern's agenda will be resolutely middle of the road [title] 2. Of a type of melodic popular music that has wide appeal. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: Damon Albarn has disappointed fans expecting the third Adele album to take a drill’n’bass direction by saying that the tracks he has heard are “very middle of the road”.