nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cease and desist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cease (“stop”), and desist (“to not do again”). The noun sense can be viewed synchronically as an ellipsis of cease-and-desist order. 1. A written demand that a party stops and does not resume a certain behavior, such as copyright infringement, slander, or libel, threatening legal action if the recipient fails to do so. Labels: attributive Example: She received a cease-and-desist from his solicitors soon after the podcast. 2. An order by a government agency, sanctioned by a court, that one must stop and not resume a certain (usually illegal) behavior. Labels: US, attributive Example: His remarks did not stop the courts from issuing the cease-and-desist order.
Word: touch base Part of Speech: verb 1. To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand. Labels: literally 2. To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate. Labels: Canada, US, broadly, colloquial, idiomatic, usually Example: Touch base with your boss before you start work to make sure you understand the project. Example: I had met with Dr. Todd right before dinner. He had wanted to touch base with me about my ongoing treatment.
Word: consult Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultum, from cōnsultus, from cōnsulō. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnsʌlt/, /kənˈsʌlt/, /ˈkɑnsʌlt/ 1. A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation. Labels: US, countable 2. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […] 3. The result of consultation; determination; decision. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke. 4. A council; a meeting for consultation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: a consult of coquettes 5. Agreement; concert. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: consult Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultum, from cōnsultus, from cōnsulō. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnsʌlt/, /kənˈsʌlt/, /ˈkɑnsʌlt/ 1. To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise. Labels: intransitive Example: Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. Example: 1661 (written), published in 1681, Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. 2. To advise or offer expertise. Labels: intransitive Example: Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. 3. To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm. Labels: intransitive 4. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person) Labels: transitive Example: If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations. 5. To refer to (something) for information. Labels: transitive Example: Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage. Example: Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries. 6. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. Labels: transitive Example: We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. 7. To deliberate upon; to take for. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. 8. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
Word: octophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English octo- Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English octophobia From octo- + -phobia. 1. The irrational fear of the number eight. Labels: uncountable Example: Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively. Example: People with octophobia experience anxiety when they think about or see the number 8.
Word: flowing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/, /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flowing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/, /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb to flow Example: the flowing of the river
Word: flowing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/, /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/ 1. Tending to flow. 2. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. Example: a flowing dress Example: flowing prose
Word: snapshot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From snap + shot. Pronunciation: /ˈsnæpʃɒt/ 1. A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity. Example: He carried a snapshot of his daughter. 2. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time. Example: The article offered a snapshot of life in that region. Example: I hope you've enjoyed reading this series. As usual, it's just a snapshot because there's so much to say but only so many words can make it into print. 3. A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state. Example: This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed. 4. A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot. Example: Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out. 5. A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights. Example: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
Word: snapshot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From snap + shot. Pronunciation: /ˈsnæpʃɒt/ 1. To take a photograph of. Labels: transitive Example: As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him. 2. To capture the state of, in a snapshot. Labels: transitive Example: Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.
Word: snapshot Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsnæpʃɒt/ 1. simple past and past participle of snapshoot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: give the time of day Part of Speech: verb Etymology: According to some, the expression originally literally referred to greeting someone with the obsolete greeting "good time of day", or other greeting appropriate to the time of day (e.g., good morning, good afternoon, good evening), and only later acquired an association with telling someone the time, along with its idiomatic sense. 1. To acknowledge someone; to give someone respect or attention; to tip one's hat. Labels: idiomatic Example: If you're lucky, she might give you the time of day. Example: But meet him now, and be it in the Morne, / When euery one will giue the time of day, / He knits his Brow and ſhewes an angry Eye, / And paſſeth by with ſtiffe vnbowed Knee, / Diſdaining dutie that to vs belongs. 2. To not acknowledge someone; to snub someone; to disrespect someone; to ignore someone. Labels: idiomatic Example: He won't give the time of day to someone like you or me. Example: I tried to say "hi", but she wouldn't give me the time of day. 3. To tell someone the time of day by looking at one's wristwatch, etc. Labels: dated, literally
Word: sulfate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sulfate, from New Latin sulphatum, taken from the expression acidum sulphatum (“sulfuric acid”), from sulphatus, from Latin sulphur (“sulfur”). The term was first used in 1787 by the French chemist L. B. G. De Morveau. Equivalent to sulf(ur) + -ate (“salt or ester”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlfeɪt/ 1. Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid. Example: Another type, also common in the Taipei area has more chlorides than sulfates, and while it is also hot, its flavor is more salty than sour. The springs at Chinshan on the north coast are typical of this type. Example: Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.
Word: sulfate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the above noun, through -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlfeɪt/ 1. To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide. Labels: US, transitive 2. To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.
Word: sulphate Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.feɪt/ 1. Alternative spelling of sulfate. Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: sulphate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.feɪt/ 1. Alternative spelling of sulfate. Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: keep an eye peeled Part of Speech: verb 1. To look out (for something) attentively. Labels: idiomatic Example: Keep an eye peeled, you never know when the ice-cream truck will pass by.
Word: injuria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iniuria. Doublet of injury. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʒʊəɹi.ə/ 1. injury; invasion of another's rights
Word: snaggletoothed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From snaggle + toothed or snaggletooth + -ed. 1. Having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise damaged or disorderly teeth. Example: One part of me wanted that voyage never to end. But end it did. Kentish Queen slid into Dover's snaggletoothed twin sister over the mucky water, Ostend, the Lady of Dubious Virtue. Example: “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”
Word: hepatitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- + -itis. Pronunciation: /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/ 1. Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hepatitises B and C are the most important chronic viral infections of humans.
Word: walleye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from walleyed. 1. One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes. 2. An unusually pale eye. 3. A gamefish of species Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
Word: crosseyed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cross-eyed. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nephros Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”). 1. A kidney-like organ.
Word: nephritis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Internationalism. From nephr- + -itis. Pronunciation: /nɪˈfraɪtɪs/ 1. Inflammation of the kidney.
Word: nephritic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English neufretic, from Medieval Latin nefreticus; compare Classical Latin nephrīticus; equivalent to nephritis + -ic = nephr- (“kidney”) + itis (“inflammation”) + -ic (“related”). Pronunciation: /nɛfˈrɪ.tɪk/, /nɪf-/ 1. Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis or nephritic syndrome. 2. Of or relating to the kidneys. Labels: archaic
Word: nephritic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English neufretic, from Medieval Latin nefreticus; compare Classical Latin nephrīticus; equivalent to nephritis + -ic = nephr- (“kidney”) + itis (“inflammation”) + -ic (“related”). Pronunciation: /nɛfˈrɪ.tɪk/, /nɪf-/ 1. Someone with nephritis.
Word: nephric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛf.ɹɪk/ 1. Relating to or connected with a kidney. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tuan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan. 1. A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
Word: tuan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatuan Malay tuanbor. English tuan Borrowed from Malay tuan. 1. Lord; master. Labels: South-Asia, obsolete Example: "It gives you the Tuan touch. You learn to clap your hands to summon your coloured servants, instead of yelling...to drink stengahs, instead of plain whisky, to speak of lunch as tiffin...God help us!" He chuckled deeply.
Word: navigator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/ 1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft. Example: The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy. At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group. 2. A sea explorer. Example: He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain. 3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile. 4. A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind. Example: Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […] 5. A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy. Labels: obsolete
Word: termination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio). Pronunciation: /tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At all terminal stations, where running speeds are low, fixed termination simple catenary equipment has been installed. 2. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An end in time; a conclusion. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An end in space; an edge or limit. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An outcome or result. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Long indeed did that morning appear to Francesca—the longer as her anxiety was unexpressed; for it certainly does shorten a period of waiting not a little to spend it in talking over its various probabilities of termination, wondering what will happen, while we are consoled by the strong sympathy we excite in the listener. 6. The last part of a word. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1. Some adjectives of the third declension have three terminations in the nominative singular,—one for each gender; some two,—one for the masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter; and some, only one for all genders. 1. Verbs whose terminations are alike, are said to be of the same conjugation. 2. Latin verbs are divided into four conjugations. Example: Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […] 7. An induced abortion. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A word, a term. Labels: countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. Example: 1808, Humphry Davy, The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and on the Exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general Nature of alkaline Bodies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part 1, p. 32. [O]n this idea, in naming the bases of potash and soda, it will be proper to adopt the termination which, by common consent, has been applied to other newly discovered metals... Potasium and sodium are the names... 9. The ending up of a polypeptid chain. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: decipher Part of Speech: verb Etymology: As decypher, but not retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cipher. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪfə(ɹ)/ 1. To convert a code or cipher to plain text. Labels: transitive 2. To read text that is almost illegible or obscure. Labels: transitive 3. To make sense of a complex situation. Labels: transitive Example: Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within. 4. To find a solution to a problem. Labels: transitive
Word: decipher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: As decypher, but not retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cipher. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪfə(ɹ)/ 1. A decipherment; a decoding. Example: I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]
Word: naïve Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French naïve, feminine of naïf. 1. Alternative spelling of naive. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: But it is this naïve man—and philosophers for the greater part of their lives are naïve men—who makes the unrecognized introspective observations with which we are here concerned. It is the naïve man who divides the Real into the Beautiful, the True and the Good. Example: According to the prevailing Danish rationale, Greenlanders were naïve and childlike, in need of protection and incapable of governing themselves. 2. Feminine of naïf. Labels: feminine, form-of, rare Example: He has his own definite qualities of composition: a naïf grace, a deft handling of forms, and the introduction of variations into landscapes, figures, or the eyes of American sailors. […] In this room, blue as a tunnel with stagnant smoke, naïve girls dance with the directors of musical reviews. Example: The passages are alike because (1) the person who is supposed to be writing is illiterate; and because (2) she or he is naïf and engagingly childish. […] Gertrude Stein may be falsely naïve, but what are two realistic satirists of American types, like Anita Loos and Ring Lardner, doing in such a category?
Word: naïve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French naïve, feminine of naïf. 1. Alternative spelling of naive. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Joyce Part of Speech: name Etymology: Medieval (Middle English) given name from Old French Josse, name of a seventh century saint Latinized as Iodocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh (“lord”), from Proto-Celtic *yowdos. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɔɪs/ 1. An English and Irish surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee. 2. A female given name from the Celtic languages, associated by folk etymology with joy and rejoice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "It's a curious name," remarked Captain Levison. "Joyce - Joyce! I never heard such a name. Is it a Christian name or a surname?" "She was baptised Joyce. It is not so very uncommon. Her name is Joyce Hallijohn. She has been with us several years." Example: You call me mother, and I remember my mother again, somewhere in greater Boston, dying. I remember we named you Joyce so we could call you Joy. 3. An unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington, United States, named after founder Joseph M. Joyce. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nephrosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós) English nephro- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor. New Latin -ōsislbor. English -osis English nephrosis From nephro- + -osis. 1. A non-inflammatory disease of the kidneys that is characterised by the leaking of blood protein into the urine, swelling or oedema, and degenerative lesions. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oedema Part of Speech: noun 1. Standard spelling of edema. Example: 2004, Waltari, "What I Really Know", Rare Species. Crazy Angelina / Is eating her own oedema / And I'm not here to take it anymore Example: However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
Word: nephrotic syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. nephrosis Labels: uncountable
Word: nephrotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
Word: nephrotic Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who has nephrosis.
Word: nephropathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós) English nephro- Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ieder. Middle English -ie Middle English -y English -y English -pathy English nephropathy From nephro- + -pathy. 1. Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys. Example: The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).
Word: Kuiper Belt Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of Kuiper belt. Labels: alt-of
Word: cross-eyed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having both eyes oriented inward, especially involuntarily. Labels: UK
Word: induction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English induction, from Old French induction, from Latin inductiō, from indūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, induct + -ion or induce + -tion. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌkʃən/ 1. An act of inducting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. Example: These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope. 2. An act of inducting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing ^([sic]) military induction as a conscientious objector. 3. An act of inducting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: orientation 4. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation. 5. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Meronym: abstraction Example: For the most part they contented themselves with repeating a few familiar facts or adding a few fresh theories ; they did not attempt a wide induction on the basis of a systematic collection and classification of the evidence. 7. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An act of inducing. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. An introduction. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.
Word: Mafiosi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mafioso Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indecent exposure Part of Speech: noun 1. The crime of intentionally exposing one's genitalia in public, sometimes also including female nipples or acts of public urination and defecation. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Mafioso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu. Pronunciation: /ˌmɑfiˈoʊˌsoʊ/ 1. A member of the Mafia. Example: Phil put his arms around him. Drew him in close, pressed his cheek to Dane's the way the Mafiosi in the fifties would kiss somebody right before they punched his ticket. Example: “Sometimes, I swear you have no idea about the concept of money. Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.” 2. A member of the Mafia. Example: The widow of one murdered Mafioso gave her son the bloody jacket that her husband had been killed in. […] So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own. Example: Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia.
Word: tracheitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₂gʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰréh₂gʰ-us Proto-Hellenic *tʰrākʰús Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîă)bor. Late Latin trāchīa Medieval Latin trāchēader. Middle English English trachea Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor. New Latin -itisder. English -itis English tracheitis From trachea + -itis. 1. Inflammation of the trachea. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Attic faith Part of Speech: noun 1. inviolable faith Labels: uncountable
Word: GAFB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Goodfellow Air Force Base. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of George Air Force Base. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Glasgow Air Force Base. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Grissom Air Force Base. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: barring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable 2. The act of fitting or closing something with bars. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The exclusion of someone; blackballing. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: barring Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. Unless (something) happens; excepting; in the absence of. Example: Barring any further red tape, we will finally be able to open the restaurant. Example: Barring any sudden storms, the plane should arrive on time.
Word: barring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of bar Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: barring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of barr Labels: form-of, gerund, obsolete, participle, present
Word: vesica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/ 1. A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder. 2. The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.
Word: white dwarf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Dutch astronomer Willem Luyten in 1922. 1. The dim, highly dense core remnant that is the final stage in the evolution of a star of low or medium mass, after nuclear reactions have ceased. Example: In these stellar pairings, if the two stars are close together, the white dwarf will siphon mass away from its companion and have an outburst called a nova. And when the white dwarf accumulates too much mass, it will collapse and explode in a supernova. […] When white dwarfs explode, they create heavy elements that could exist around J1249+36.
Word: urinary bladder Part of Speech: noun 1. An elastic, muscular sac situated in the pelvic cavity, into which urine from the kidneys is temporarily stored prior to disposal by urination. Urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the urethra.
Word: lacy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English lace Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English lacy From lace + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.si/ 1. Made of lace or decorated with it. Example: lacy lingerie 2. Looking like lace.
Word: Arthurian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Arthur Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Arthurian From Arthur + -ian. Pronunciation: /ɑːˈθjʊəɹɪən/, /ɑɹˈθʊɹi.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of the Britons, and his court at Camelot. Example: A reminder of the Arthurian legends comes with the next station, Camelford, where passengers alight for Boscastle and Tintagel with their fine coast scenery, and near to which is Slaughter Bridge, where King Arthur is supposed to have fought his last.
Word: pathetic fallacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by British cultural critic John Ruskin in 1856 in his work Modern Painters. Here, fallacy does not refer to a logical fallacy but should be understood as “a falsehood, something that is untrue”, while pathetic here means “caused by an excited state of the feelings”; thus, “emotional misrepresentation”, not “contemptible illogic”. 1. The attribution of human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects. Example: Taking, therefore, this wide field, it is surely a very notable circumstance, to begin with, that this pathetic fallacy is eminently characteristic of modern painting. For instance, Keats, describing a wave, breaking, out at sea, says of it Down whose green back the short-lived foam, all hoar, Bursts gradual, with a wayward indolence. Example: The next generation of AI will put the pathetic fallacy on steroids.
Word: lay off Part of Speech: verb 1. (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package. Labels: US, idiomatic, transitive Example: Four months after arriving in Denver, I was laid off when the pandemic hit. I took on freelance work, whatever I could get, to cover my expenses and stay afloat. 2. To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk. Labels: transitive 3. To cease, quit, stop (doing something). Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Lay off the singing, will you! I'm trying to study. Example: When are you gonna lay off smoking? 4. To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive Example: Just lay off, okay! I've had enough! Example: Things have been better since the boss has been laying off a little. 5. In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks. Labels: ambitransitive Example: At any pro paint shop ask for laying off brushes. These are natural bristle, wide, thin brushes designed for tipping off, not for holding a paint load. (Sourced from a web forum exchange) Example: He shows me how to lay off the paint — and moves his paintbrush across the section he had already painted, again and again. 6. To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart. Labels: transitive
Word: lay off Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of lie off Labels: form-of, past
Word: bookmaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bokmakere, boke maker, equivalent to book + maker. The gambling term came from the archaic phrase make book or make a book, used in 19th century England. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊkmeɪkə/, /ˈbɵkmɛjkə/, /ˈbʊkmeɪkɚ/, /ˈbuːkmeɪkə/, /ˈbʉkmekəɾ/ 1. A person who prints or binds books. 2. A person who compiles books from the writings of others. 3. A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.
Word: urea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-der. Ancient Greek οὐρέω (ouréō) Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron)der. French uréeder. New Latinder. English urea From New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”). Pronunciation: /jʊˈɹiːə/, /ˈjʊəɹɪə/, /jʊˈɹiə/, /ˈjurɪjɑ/, /jʊˈrɪjɑ/ 1. A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. Labels: uncountable Example: Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia. […] Over the past week, the price of urea sold in Egypt, a market that economists track closely, climbed more than 35 percent. 2. Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄). Labels: countable
Word: cycling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cycle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cycling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/ 1. The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...) Labels: uncountable 2. The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...) Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles. Labels: uncountable Example: In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this. 4. Any cyclic action or process. Labels: countable Example: The cycling of the water softener in the basement was faintly audible from the kitchen.
Word: cycling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/ 1. That undergoes a cyclic motion or process. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bicycling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bicycle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bicycling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of riding a bicycle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted. Example: It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
Word: groupetto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of Italian grupetto after group. 1. Alternative form of gruppetto. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I used to be a master of the groupetto, but it has been many years since I’ve been forced to ride in a bona fide, terminally dropped group. It’s strange to be back. Riding in the groupetto requires a different mentality and skill set.
Word: peleton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton. 1. A small pellet or ball. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: […] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […] 2. Misspelling of peloton. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: It is a tribute to the past of bicycle racing and is full of antique equipment, faded photographs and videos of sprints and peletons past.
Word: breakaway Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From break + away, a deverbal from break away. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪkəweɪ/ 1. Having broken away from a larger unit. Labels: not-comparable Example: The breakaway republic is slowly establishing order and civil society. Example: 1946, William Brown, Hansard, 19 November, 1946, Trade Unions Closed Shop, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ Nor is it true, although it has been suggested as true, that I am in favour of breakaway or splinter unions 2. Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure. Labels: not-comparable Example: a breakaway wall Example: In Hollywood, rehearsing for his show, Red Skelton plunged headlong into a "breakaway" door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock. 3. Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun) Labels: not-comparable Example: 2016, Scott Feschuk, "Counting down the most annoying in video review, by sport," sportsnet.ca, 10 July, 2016, http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/counting-annoying-video-review-sport/ In a league starved for scoring, the challenge ensures that some super-sweet breakaway goals will be overturned because a dude was three microns offside. 4. Enjoying rapid popular success. Labels: not-comparable Example: The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act. Example: In that season, NBC added another first-year breakaway hit, Friends.
Word: uric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French urique. By surface analysis, urine + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈjʊɹɪk/ 1. Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine. Labels: not-comparable
Word: macromanagement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Proto-Hellenic *makrós Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der. French macro-der. English macro- Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Latin manus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izāre Vulgar Latin *manizāre Old Italian maneggiareder.? Old French manegebor. Middle English *manage English manage Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English management English macromanagement From macro- + management. 1. The day-to-day management of macroprojects that are completed and operational. Labels: uncountable 2. The management of long-term or large-scale aspects of a strategy game. Labels: uncountable
Word: Freon Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of freon. Labels: alt-of, uncountable
Word: gall bladder Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑl.blæɾɚ/ 1. A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum. Example: Giraffes, oddly, sometimes have gall bladders and sometimes donʼt.
Word: freon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A genericization of the Chemours trademark "Freon." According to Flood, the name was formed from freeze and the arbitrary suffix -on. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːɒn/ 1. Any of several nonflammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 3. A chlorofluorocarbon. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: fatwah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fatwa. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fatwah Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of fatwa. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: feeding frenzy Part of Speech: noun 1. A wild, turbulent situation in which multiple sharks or other predatory fish attack one or more edible creatures simultaneously, in competition with each other. Example: When the terrified, bleeding cow was washed overboard into the river, the hungry piranhas entered a feeding frenzy, turning the water red with blood. 2. A voracious competition among would-be purchasers, etc. for limited resources. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: The manager hesitated to open the doors to the thronging holiday crowds, knowing that a feeding frenzy would soon ensue near the display of coveted toys. 3. An event in which participants erratically grab and eat food. Labels: informal Example: Karen's new students thought treat day was a feeding frenzy and horded the snack table.
Word: feel-bad Part of Speech: adj 1. Creating a feeling of anxiety or despair. Labels: not-comparable Example: Yes, you get to see Cruise having a fight in his underpants, and doing another of his hanging-off-a-plane routines, but even so, it could be the feel-bad film of the summer.
Word: culpable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpābilis (“blameworthy”), from culpō (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“a fault, crime, mistake”). Compare also culprit. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlpəbəl/, /ˈkɐlpəbəl/ 1. Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty. Example: I am culpable for stealing your money. Example: It would be […] impossible to list all the reasons why one might keep their sexuality hidden, and by no means is it culpable for a person to fear for their job or their family's esteem
Word: feel-good Part of Speech: adj 1. Creating a feeling of happiness. Example: Brilliant independent feature from first-time director Rose Troche, Go Fish is a feel-good movie aimed directly at lesbians but which has achieved an astonishing crossover appeal to straight audiences. Example: Personally, I think all of this upgraded, feel-good language is a further sign of America's increasing uncertainty about itself.
Word: feel-good factor Part of Speech: noun 1. The collective feeling of well-being (or otherwise) of an electorate, a high one supposedly favouring the incumbent party in an election.
Word: neolithic Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /nioʊˈlɪθɪk/ 1. Alternative spelling of Neolithic. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding which was, in his opinion, more fitted to the stone cabin of a neolithic savage than to the serious attention of one who represented the accumulated culture and wisdom of the human race. 2. hopelessly outdated Labels: informal Example: What am I supposed to do with this neolithic piece of machinery?
Word: zydeco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Louisiana Creole zydéco, compare French zarico; possibly from a metanalysis of French les haricots (“beans”) as French le zarico (“beans”) in a dance-tune title. Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪdɪˌkəʊ/, /ˈzaɪdiːˌkəʊ/, /ˈzaɪdəˌkoʊ/, /ˈzaɪdɪˌkoʊ/, /ˈzaɪdiːˌkoʊ/ 1. A form of Louisiana Creole music, characteristically performed by accordion and washboard bands, that combines Cajun and Creole roots music with elements of African-American music. Labels: uncountable Example: Sunpie—in real life, a park ranger and an accordionist who leads a good zydeco band—taunted Harrison […].
Word: feminazi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987). Pronunciation: /ˌfɛmɪˈnɑːtsi/ 1. Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views, or a female chauvinist. Labels: derogatory
Word: feminazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987). Pronunciation: /ˌfɛmɪˈnɑːtsi/ 1. A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men. Labels: derogatory Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.
Word: acciacatura Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of acciaccatura. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: acapnia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin acapnia, from Ancient Greek ἄκαπνος (ákapnos, “without smoke”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”). Pronunciation: /əˈkæp.ni.ə/, /eɪˈkæp.ni.ə/ 1. The state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood and tissue is significantly lower than normal. Labels: uncountable
Word: halogenate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English halogen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English halogenate From halogen + -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To treat with, or react with, a halogen or a hydrohalic acid. Labels: transitive
Word: halogenation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, halogenate + -ion, or, by surface analysis, halogen + -ation. 1. The reaction of a halogen with something, especially the replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a halogen one. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: quercitron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blend of Latin quercus + French citron, coined by an English speaker, Edward Bancroft (1745-1821), with translingual applicability for international scientific vocabulary. 1. A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The bark from which the dye is made. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The tree from which the bark is obtained, the black oak, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Phaistos Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φαιστός (Phaistós). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛstɒs/ 1. An ancient city in southern Crete prefecture, in modern Greece.
Word: space-time Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of spacetime. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: A mass effect drive core decreases the mass of a bubble of space-time around a ship. This gives the ship the potential to move quickly, but does not apply any motive power. Example: Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way.