nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: fictive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fictif. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪktɪv/ 1. A headmate who is in some way a character from a fictional work, whether in inspiration, form, or identity. Originally popularized with soulbonds, and also used for fictional introjects and dissociative identity disorder. Labels: Internet Example: 1999, " Who ARE these people/things?" (FAQ from website "Subreality Central") https://web.archive.org/web/19990830153823/http://www.subreality.com/sc.htm the fictives -- These are the characters from the stories for whom the Cafe was created, and thus are the most common barflies there. If you watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," you might get an idea of what fictives are like "off duty." They're like cartoon characters; they can't really die, it only looks that way in stories, but it can sure tick them off! The only thing a fictive truly fears is his/her writer and readers giving up on their story, thus letting them fade away into non-existence again. Note that while some fictives get along with their writers, some don't... Example: 2011, "Plurality for Skeptics" (FAQ from website "Ex Uno Plures") https://www.exunoplures.org/main/articles/medicalisation/skeptics/ On the matter of “fictives,” or members of systems who share identities with characters from fictional media, my hypothesis is that their identities are subconscious psychological connections to those characters. I don’t believe that the characters literally jumped from their “source” to someone else’s head; I think that it’s a matter of identity formation that ties someone’s consciousness to that source.
Word: shoots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ʃuːts/ 1. plural of shoot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoots Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃuːts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shoots Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʃuːts/ 1. Alright; ok; of course. Labels: Hawaii, not-comparable, slang Example: Johannis and Marcella took a yellow cab downtown and asked the driver to stop in front of First National City Bank. —“Shoots!”—he answered. Marcella looked at Johannis with question marks in the eyes. —Ok! It means ok Marcella.
Word: shoots Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ʃuːts/ 1. Goodbye. Labels: Hawaii, slang Example: The concierge began talking on the phone in the local pidgin. “Eh, anikala Moki, diz Rodney at work, howzit? I get one winnah for you today. Diz guys like go Miloliʻi … no kidding uncle, four poʻe ipukea kane, come now. Shoots.”
Word: pen-friend Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of penfriend. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: penfriend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pen + friend. 1. A person, often in a foreign country, with whom one exchanges friendly correspondence but whom one never or rarely meets. Example: I would like a penfriend, not for financial support or headgames, but just for a caring conversation.
Word: peewit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic; for the pronunciation /ˈpjuːɪt/ and corresponding form pewit, compare leeward, Seward, steward. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːwɪt/, /ˈpjuːɪt/ 1. Any of several birds: 2. Any of several birds: 3. Any of several birds: 4. Any of several birds: Labels: Australia Example: A hawk came swooping down near tree-level to be immediately assailed by screeching pee-wits. 5. The sound of the call of one of these birds.
Word: preventive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/ 1. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to. Example: ...and I sometimes think whether, like the ancient king, it would not be prudent to make an offering to destiny, and throw my set of emeralds into the lake." Emily could not but deprecate the emeralds being destined to any such preventive service;... 2. Carried out to deter military aggression. 3. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic. Example: Physick is either curative or preventive. 4. Going before; preceding. Labels: obsolete Example: Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
Word: preventive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/ 1. A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to. Labels: dated Example: Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […] 2. A thing that slows the development of an illness. Labels: dated Example: A good preventive against heart disease is a healthy lifestyle. Example: Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever. 3. A contraceptive, especially a condom.
Word: prespecified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English specified English prespecified From pre- + specified. 1. specified in advance.
Word: poinciana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modern Latin: after M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the Antilles + -ana. 1. A tropical tree, of species Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant. Example: [I]n disturbed areas, like East Point, exotic trees like poinciana and "coffee bush" invade the edges. 2. A tropical shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, with bright orange-red flowers, originally native to the Americas and now widely cultivated as an ornamental.
Word: pediculosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pēdiculus (“louse”) + -osis. By surface analysis, pedic(u)le + -osis. 1. Infestation with head lice. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: pocked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pock Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pocked Part of Speech: adj 1. pockmarked Example: Similar to an extended deposition he gave in 2015 to Kentucky state lawyers, Dr. Sackler offered testimony largely pocked with faint or absent recollections, terse statements and deflections to his legal team.
Word: preside Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French presider, from Latin praesidēre (“preside”), from pre- (“before”) + sedere (“to sit”). Displaced Old English foresittan, which might have been a calque of the Latin. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈzaɪd/ 1. To act as president or chairperson. Labels: intransitive 2. To exercise authority or control. Labels: intransitive Example: The firſt day of November was dedicated to the angel preſiding over fruits, ſeeds, &c. and was therefore named la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit, and being pronounced lamasool, the English have corrupted the name to lambswool, a name they give to a compoſition made on this eve of roaſted apples, ſugar, and ale. Example: When all this was sailed through, there still remained the toolroom—a most efficient department presided over by a quiet man who was an expert on astronomy as well as jigs, tools and fixtures. 3. To be a featured solo performer. Labels: intransitive Example: I’ll preside at the organ.
Word: present-day Part of Speech: adj 1. In existence now; current or contemporary. Labels: not-comparable Example: Antlers and horns have been the insignia of devils and black magicians from time immemorial, and are worn by present-day witch doctors. Example: As for the present diesel main line units of 2,000 to 2,300 h.p. on the London Midland and Western Regions, they can offer little more than the maintenance of present-day schedules - well below modern European speed standards - [...].
Word: plural marriage Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of polygamy formerly practiced by Mormons.
Word: punched card Part of Speech: noun 1. A punch card (especially one that has had holes punched in it).
Word: jackshit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jack shit. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: goosander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of goose + gander. The oldest known use is by Drayton (1622). 1. A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere, that consume fish and are common on lakes and rivers. Example: As they above the rest were Lords of Earth and Ayre. The Gossander with them, my goodly Fennes doe show His head as Ebon blacke, the rest as white as Snow,
Word: jack shit Part of Speech: noun 1. Nothing; (a lack of) anything (i.e., of value). Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: I [won't/will] do jack shit for you if you get lost. Example: Oh, you're in charge? Well, I got some bad news for you Dwayne, from up here it doesn't look like you're in charge of jack shit.
Word: haut gout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French haut goût, from haut (“high”), goût (“taste”). 1. A slight taint of decay, particularly in wild game meat, that used to be considered desirable; approximately, gaminess. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: In a word, Joseph had the same taste for a full-blooded cuffee, that an epicure has for the haut gout of a stale partridge, and was in ecstasies at my extrication. Example: The merchants began to snuff the cadaverous haut goût of lucrative war; the freighting business never was so lively, on account of the prodigious taking up for transport service: great orders for provisions of all kinds, new clothing for the troops, puts life into the woollen manufactures. 2. A strong, desirable flavor to be relished; piquancy. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: Grecism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French grecisme (modern French grécisme), from Medieval Latin graecismus, from Classical Latin graecus + -ismus. Compare Middle English Gryscysme (“Graecismus by Eberhard of Béthune”). Doublet of graecismus. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːsɪzəm/ 1. A word or idiom of the Greek language used in another language, especially for literary effect. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 2. The style, spirit or other characteristics of Greek arts and culture, or an imitation of that style. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: imago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin imāgō. Doublet of image. Compare typologically a Russian term for coordinate larva: личи́нка (ličínka) (akin to лик (lik)). Pronunciation: /ɪˈmeɪɡəʊ/, /ɪˈmɑːɡəʊ/, /ɪˈmeɪɡoʊ/, /ɪˈmɑɡoʊ/ 1. The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis. Example: ‘But still,’ he said to himself, drawing the metamorphoses of a red admiral, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and imago on his pad, ‘what shall I say to him when we meet?’ 2. An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.
Word: é Part of Speech: character 1. Found chiefly in words borrowed from other languages. When it occurs as the last letter of the word, it indicates that the e is not silent. Labels: letter Example: café, resumé, animé Example: For details and for less common usage, see the entry for the acute accent, ⟨◌́⟩.
Word: mediate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the 1440s in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmidieɪt/ 1. To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. Labels: transitive Example: Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire. 2. To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement. Labels: intransitive Example: "Nay," replied Charles, gravely, "this is carrying your anger too far. Allow me to mediate between you. I must entreat, nay, I command, the Lady Francesca's presence." 3. To divide into two equal parts. Example: Then, Meaſuring Land, by vvalking over it, they ſtyled a Double-ſtep (i.e. the Space from the elevation of one Foot, to the ſame Foot ſet dovvn again, mediated by a ſtep of the other Foot) a Pace, equal to 5 Foot; a Thouſand of vvhich Paces made a Mile, vvhich is a Meaſure ſerving for any diſtance on Earth, and even for the Height of the Sphears. 4. To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey. Example: He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter. Example: [A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme. 5. To act as a spiritualistic medium. 6. To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
Word: mediate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the 1440s in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmidieɪt/, /ˈmidi.ət/ 1. Acting through a mediating agency, indirect. Example: The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented. Example: Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought. 2. Intermediate between extremes. Example: soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd 3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition. Example: mediate positive proof Example: The attempt of members of a society to observe and preserve mediate phases of acts in recurrent situations brings about the perpetuation of a mediate field in their society, in which a complex series of abstracted implements are prepared or premediated in advance of future acts.
Word: perseverance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia. Pronunciation: /ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/, /pəˈsɛvəɹəns/, /ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/, /pɚˈsɛvəɹəns/ 1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Word: analogies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of analogy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Darius Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Dārīus, from Ancient Greek Δᾱρεῖος (Dāreîos), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 (Dārayauš), shortened form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (Dārayavaʰuš), see it for more. Pronunciation: /ˈdæɹi.əs/, /ˈdɑɹi.əs/, /dəˈɹaɪ.əs/ 1. Any of several kings in Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, 6th to 4th century BCE. Example: And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. 2. A male given name from Old Persian. 3. A surname.
Word: folksonomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of folk + taxonomy. 1. The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Labels: Internet, uncountable 2. A user-generated taxonomy. Labels: Internet, countable Example: We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.
Word: happy slapper Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who practises happy slapping. Labels: informal
Word: fontanel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fontanelle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fontanelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“fountain, spring”) + -elle, from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from font- + -ānus. By surface analysis, font + -an + -elle. 1. A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones. 2. A structural component of some woodwind instruments, such as recorders and shawms, resembling a barrel with holes bored into it, designed to protect the keywork and to allow the sound to project.
Word: federalisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós Proto-Italic *feiðos Latin foedusder. French fédéralder. English federal English -isation English federalisation From federal + -isation. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of federalization. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard, uncountable, usually
Word: federalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós Proto-Italic *feiðos Latin foedusder. French fédéralder. English federal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English federalization From federal + -ization. 1. The unification of states to form a federal union. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable 2. The assumption of control or authority by a federal government. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable Example: These were the days before Elon Musk’s tiff with a Delaware judge raised the prospect of the federalization of corporate law.
Word: tropins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tropin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ghetto house Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of house music from Chicago, featuring drum machines and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics. Labels: uncountable
Word: tropin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tropic Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English tropin From tropic + -in. 1. any of the tropic hormones; one that is secreted by an endocrine gland and targets another such gland 2. Alternative spelling of tropine. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tropine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tropane Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English tropine From tropane + -ine. 1. A poisonous alkaloid (3-endo)-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-ol obtained by the hydrolysis of atropine
Word: ger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger)/ᠭᠡᠷ (ger). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛə(ɹ)/ 1. A yurt. Example: The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers. Example: In weather conditions that hit -20 degrees or lower, people in the poorer areas of the city have no access to running water, no access to bathroom facilities, often living in little “yurts” or “gers” on dirt roads.
Word: ger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּר (ger). 1. A male convert to Judaism; a Jewish proselyte. Labels: Judaism
Word: blivit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈblɪv.ɪt/ 1. A gadget. Labels: US, slang
Word: blivit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Pronunciation: /ˈblɪv.ɪt/ 1. Something useless or impossible. Labels: US, slang
Word: oss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unclear. Middle English ōssen had a rather different meaning, "to reveal, to prophesy", but the OED suggests it could nonetheless be the same verb. The origin of the Middle English verb is itself obscure, but it may be a variant of halsen, from Old English hālsian, although this too had a rather different meaning, "to beseech, entreat; to exorcise; to imprecate". Pronunciation: /ɒs/ 1. To set about, or intend be inclined to set about (doing something). Labels: dialectal Example: JENNET. [...] Soa yee see Ise ossin towart hausekeepin. SARAH. Whya nowt but weel. Wees nit hev the weddin an kirsenin at yaa time, that's a cumfort. JENNET. Hed Sammy ivver offerd onny thing that's mismannerd to me, awr courtship wod sean hae[…] Example: "Dun you know if the glasses is ossing to sattle?" 2. To offer (to do something). Labels: dialectal Example: an' nobody ossin' to do it Example: They owe fer cannels, an' meyle, an' nivver oss to pay.
Word: oss Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of 'oss. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: visar Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of visor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: give away Part of Speech: verb 1. To make a gift of (something). Labels: transitive Example: I didn't like that book, so I gave it away. Example: Some people gave away their savings, assuming that, within a few years, money would be useless or everyone on Earth would be dead. 2. To sell very cheaply. Labels: broadly, informal, transitive Example: This was dramatically illustrated by the market for commercial real estate in New York during 1993, which was said to be "so bad that they're giving it away". 3. To relinquish control over. Labels: transitive Example: This issue marks a first of its kind for St. Louis Magazine: We've given away our cover feature.[…] In early summer, our editors[…] posed a collective question: What if we asked some[…] citizens what the future should look like? We'll give each of them[…] 200 words of space in the magazine[…]. 4. To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father. Labels: transitive Example: Who giveth away this woman to this man in Holy matrimony? 5. To unintentionally reveal a secret or divulge undisclosed information; to betray or expose someone. Labels: reflexive, sometimes, transitive Example: He gave himself away with a stupid lie. Example: He gave away his hiding place when he accidentally sneezed. 6. To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc. Labels: transitive Example: Despite giving away twenty pounds in weight, the challenger found a knock-out blow in the second round. 7. To concede. Example: England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.
Word: tropic hormone Part of Speech: noun 1. A hormone that regulates the activity of the endocrine glands
Word: kunoichi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese くノ一(いち) (kunoichi). Pronunciation: /ku.noʊˈi.t͡ʃi/ 1. A female ninja.
Word: shiro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Amharic or Tigrinya ሺሮ (širo, “chickpea flour”) 1. A stew of Ethiopia and Eritrea origin whose primary ingredient is powdered chickpeas or broad-bean meal. Labels: uncountable
Word: shiro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of Japanese origin, either 城 (shiro, “castle”) or 白 (shiro, “white”) (see quotation below). 1. A mass of hyphae constituting the mycelium of certain fungi. Example: Another commonly used Japanese term in matsutake literature is "shiro". As a Japanese noun, it means castle or domain (fruiting place) of a mushroom. As an adjective, it means white. More specifically, a shiro is the dense mat of fungal filaments ("hyphae" or collectively "mycelium") that matsutake species form in the soil. Example: ‘Shiro’ refers to the dense mat of fungal filaments that Tricholoma Matsutake forms in soil in association with pine roots and soil particles. It is considered that the amount of mycelia in T. matsutake shiros is closely related to the amount of emerged T. matsutake fruiting body.
Word: livet Part of Speech: noun 1. A good diet. Labels: humorous
Word: rejuvenation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rejuvenate + -ion, cf. Latin reiuvenatiō. 1. The process of rendering young again. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation. 2. The process of producing beneficial changes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the rejuvenation of the city center Example: The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
Word: kokoro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”). Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊkəˌɹoʊ/ 1. A heart. Labels: no-plural, slang Example: Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.
Word: pangram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pan- + -gram. Pronunciation: /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/ 1. A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet. Example: Higher in the scale range the Cadmean curiosities of the Pangram, Lipogram, and Anagram. The first of these must contain the entire alphabet, and claims the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of the Prophet Ezra as its most noted example. Example: Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people. 2. A crossword puzzle in which every letter appears in the completed grid. Example: A pangram (or, as some manage, the triple pangram, with at least three of every letter) restricts the options, directing the setter away from habits and repetition and towards a fresher puzzle. Example: I've always wanted to make an anti-pangram pangram puzzle - the NYT would never run something so self-mocking!
Word: tabula rasa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rāsa (literally “erased tablet”), where the collocation comprised tabula (“wax-covered writing tablet”, noun) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)”, participial adjective). Pronunciation: /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/, /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹeɪzə/ 1. A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc. Example: Near-synonym: clean slate Example: We all admit now that the Child does not come into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even prophetic quality, in the child-nature, are due to the harmonization of these racial inheritances in the infant, even before it is born; and that after birth the impact of the outer world serves rather to break up and disintegrate this harmony than to confirm and strengthen it. 2. Anything which exists in a pristine state. Example: Near-synonyms: clean slate, blank slate Example: In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.
Word: apraxia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-k-yé-ti Proto-Hellenic *prā́ťťō Ancient Greek πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek πρᾶξῐς (prâxĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾱ (ăprāxĭ́ā)der. English apraxia From Ancient Greek ἀπραξία (apraxía, “inaction”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “activity”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, a- + -praxia. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹæksɪə/ 1. Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The state of total inaction caused by holding global skepticism. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: But how does the skeptic live without knowledge or at least belief? It seems that the skeptical challenges, though theoretically unimpeachable, have objectionable practical consequences. Call this the apraxia problem for skepticism.
Word: avolition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-influ. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition English avolition From a- + volition. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪvəˈlɪʃən/ 1. Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy. Labels: uncountable
Word: laziness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lazy 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 laziness From lazy + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.zi.nəs/ 1. The quality of being lazy Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “It is thine own laziness, thou false English blood, that doest nothing but drink and sleep,” retorted the page, “and leaves that lither lad to do the work, that he minds as little as thou.” Example: Generalizing harshly and broadly but implying “you know which ones I mean” is an intellectual and rhetorical laziness that is not allowed to pass anywhere else in these communities.
Word: piebald Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”). Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.bɔːld/, /ˈpaɪ.bɔld/, /ˈpaɪ.bɑld/ 1. Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white. Example: […] she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel. Example: This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots. 2. Of mixed character, heterogeneous. Labels: figuratively Example: And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy. Example: Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.
Word: piebald Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”). Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.bɔːld/, /ˈpaɪ.bɔld/, /ˈpaɪ.bɑld/ 1. An animal with piebald coloration. Example: Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring. Example: “She always performs really well,” she says, showing me TikToks of her lip-syncing next to Luna, an elderly, noble-looking piebald with mournful brown eyes.
Word: facticity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814). Pronunciation: /fækˈtɪsɪti/, [-ɾi] 1. The quality or state of being a fact. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: [F]rom the earliest times down to the middle of the last century the writers of the Jewish and Christian Churches, with the exception of the Deists in England and of some isolated views, unanimously held fast the facticity of the events recorded in this book [the Book of Jonah in the Bible]. 2. In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over. Labels: specifically, uncountable, usually Example: For as sure as the absolute knowledge (in the infinite facticity—actual existence—of each single knowledge) is only in the absolute form of the For-itself, so sure each knowledge goes also beyond itself; or, viewed from another point, is in its own Being absolutely outside of itself, and encircles itself entire. Example: In particular, we cannot choose the circumstances of our birth and our entire bodily condition. These "facticities" appear to us as having no foundation or justification. Why is one person born blind and another born with perfect vision? Facticities are thus contingent, they present themselves as simply "there." 3. A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation. Labels: countable, usually Example: Near-synonyms: given, axiom, postulate Example: It is important for those to ascribe to [Jean-Paul] Sartre a crude theory of "absolute freedom" to notice that he does acknowledge the existence of facticities which I did not originate and which I cannot change (e.g., the date of my birth). [...] [W]hile I can change some of my facticities (e.g., I can move to another city, I can get glasses, I can even, perhaps, get a sex-change operation), it is nonetheless true that these acts are all possible for me only insofar as I now, in fact, live in Chicago, have certain abilities and disabilities of eyesight, and am male. Freedom, then, always presupposes facticity, and a free act cannot occur, nor can the idea of a free act even be rendered intelligible, except against a background of facticity.
Word: ski mask Part of Speech: noun 1. A warm cap shielding the neck and head, often made out of wool and used in skiing, or stereotypically while committing a robbery.
Word: heya Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 部屋. 1. the so-called "stable" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains
Word: heya Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of hiya. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Related to scribe. 1. To describe; to draw a line with a pointed tool.
Word: dickweed Part of Speech: noun 1. A contemptible person. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar Example: You got anything else you want to say about my friend, Dickweed?
Word: gambol Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæm.bəl/ 1. To move about playfully; to frolic. Labels: intransitive Example: The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled. Example: At our old pastimes in the hall ⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence ⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all. 2. To do a forward roll. Labels: UK, West-Midlands
Word: gambol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæm.bəl/ 1. An instance of running or skipping about playfully. Example: Heere hung those lipps, that I haue kist I know not how oft. VVhere be your Iibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore? Example: When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted. 2. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. Example: There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols. Example: The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?
Word: swell organ Part of Speech: noun 1. A section of a pipe organ in which the pipes are enclosed in a swell box
Word: swell box Part of Speech: noun 1. A box or chamber in an organ that contains the reeds or a set of pipes and has shutters that open or shut usually by means of a pedal in order to regulate the volume of musical tone.
Word: Venetian swell Part of Speech: noun 1. A swell organ with blinds patterned on Venetian blinds closing the swell box.
Word: voicing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōcem Anglo-Norman voizbor. Middle English voys English voice English -ing English voicing From voice + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of voice Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: voicing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōcem Anglo-Norman voizbor. Middle English voys English voice English -ing English voicing From voice + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/ 1. The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A sound made by the voice; vocalization. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Shrill voicings of seagulls Example: Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
Word: chancel organ Part of Speech: noun 1. A division of a pipe organ for accompanying a choir.
Word: gallery organ Part of Speech: noun 1. a division of a pipe organ placed at the end of the nave in a gallery
Word: chamber organ Part of Speech: noun 1. a small pipe organ of a type suitable for domestic use as opposed to in a church or concert hall
Word: free reed Part of Speech: noun 1. A reed in a musical wind instrument whose edges do not overlap the edges of the opening over which it is fixed and that is used typically in the accordion, harmonium, concertina. Example: The appearance of a sheng in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century inspired the development of free reed instruments in Western Europe, including the harmonica, accordion, and symphonium (see next page).
Word: radarman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English radiotelegraphyclip. English radio Latin dētēctiōder. Latin dētēctiōnembor. English detection Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Germanic *andi Old English and Middle English and English and Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der. Proto-Celtic *reketi Gaulish *rekosbor.? Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *rinkanąder. Proto-Germanic *rankaz Frankish *rankbor.? Vulgar Latin *rencus Old French reng Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French rengierbor. Middle English rengen English range Middle English -ynge English -ing English ranging English RADAR English radar English -man English radarman From radar + -man. 1. A radar operator. 2. A person who operates all navigational and communications systems. Labels: US
Word: bank balance Part of Speech: noun 1. The amount by which a current account is in credit or deficit.
Word: income tax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From income + tax. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌkʌm tæks/ 1. A tax levied on earned and unearned income, net of allowed deductions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.
Word: spruik Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown, likely Germanic. Compare Dutch spraak (“speech”), spreek (“speak”), spreuk (“saying”), sprook (“a story, fiction, tale, or false idea”). First recorded in the late 1890s and early 1900s, suggesting a possible derivation from Afrikaans (i.e. brought back by soldiers returning from the Boer War). With the exception of a few early uses of sprook, the word's spelling has been fixed since it first entered the language. The uncommon ⟨ui⟩ digraph provides further evidence for an Afrikaans or Dutch origin. Pronunciation: /spɹuːk/ 1. To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally. Labels: Australia, transitive Example: There was no spruiking or showmanship, no flash shirts or ten-gallon hats. Example: Lennon spruiks laptop 28 years after his death [title]
Word: appalled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From appall + -ed. 1. Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant. Example: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online. Example: West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
Word: appalled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From appall + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of appall Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past and past participle of appal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: discs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disc Labels: form-of, plural
Word: discs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disc Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: all there Part of Speech: adj 1. Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane. Labels: idiomatic Example: Is he all there? Example: I don't think he's all there... 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, there.
Word: not cricket Part of Speech: adj 1. Unsportsmanlike. Labels: figuratively, humorous, idiomatic, not-comparable
Word: not have a bean Part of Speech: verb 1. To be destitute or penniless. Labels: intransitive
Word: treecreeper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree English creeper English treecreeper From tree + creeper. 1. Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Certhia which live in woodlands throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Word: turkey vulture Part of Speech: noun 1. A common New World vulture, Cathartes aura.
Word: haberdashery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haberdasher + -y (nominalizer). 1. Ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A shop selling such goods. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A shop selling clothing and accessories for men, including hats. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: truffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌf.l̩/, /ˈtɹʊf.l̩/ 1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut. Example: In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece. 2. Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: noticeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English notice Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English noticeable From notice + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊtɪsəbl̩/, /ˈnoʊtɪsəbl̩/ 1. Capable of being seen or noticed. Example: The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift. 2. Worthy of note; significant. Example: Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
Word: bell-bottoms Part of Speech: noun 1. Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, a characteristic style of the 1970s. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: After landing, Brody, wearing bell-bottoms and large green sunglasses, announced to assembled reporters that he would be giving away his $25 million fortune to ordinary people to spread love and “cure the problems of the world.”
Word: scatty Part of Speech: adj 1. Scatterbrained; flighty. Labels: Britain, Ireland, slang 2. Messy; filthy; disgusting. Labels: UK, slang
Word: scatty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of Scatophagus, the genus name 1. A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
Word: scatty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scat + -y; see scat (“brief shower of rain”). 1. Showery; rainy. Labels: dialectal
Word: nociceptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *noḱéyeti Proto-Italic *nokeō Latin noceō Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin recipiō Latin receptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin receptivusbor. Middle English receptive English receptive English nociceptive Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, from Latin noceō (“to do harm, to inflict injury”) + receptive. Pronunciation: /ˌnəʊ.sɪˈsɛp.tɪv/, /ˌnoʊ.səˈsɛp.tɪv/ 1. Relating to the perception or sensation of pain. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bell bottoms Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bell-bottoms. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only