nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gerbil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɝbl̩/, /ˈdʒɜːbl̩/ 1. To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking. Labels: intransitive 2. To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth). Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: coverb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English verb English coverb From co- + verb. 1. Any of a class of words in various languages including Chinese and Hungarian whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions, and postpositions of other languages.
Word: preverb Part of Speech: noun 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 verb English preverb From pre- + verb. 1. A separable verb prefix or a particle that precedes a verb. 2. Any of a class of words in the Chinese language whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions, and postpositions of other languages. 3. A verbal prefix in the Algonquin languages whose function is analogous to the adjective of other languages.
Word: postposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English position English postposition From post- + position. Pronunciation: /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/, /ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ 1. A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun. 2. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. Example: the postposition of the nominative case to the verb
Word: postposition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English position English postposition From post- + position. Pronunciation: /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/, /ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ 1. To be placed after a the word that it modifies. Example: Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form.
Word: coconut milk Part of Speech: noun 1. A thick white liquid produced by soaking the white inner flesh of the seed of the coconut in water and straining. It is traditionally used in Southeast Asian cuisine in curry and other gravy. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: lingam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit लिङ्गम् (liṅgam, nominative singular of लिङ्ग (liṅga, “sign, mark”)). 1. The aniconic phallic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. Example: Then we have the very numerous lingams (conventional representations of the male organ) to be seen, scores and scores of them, in the arcades and cloisters of the Hindu Temples - to which women of all classes, especially those who wish to become mothers, resort, anointing them copiously with oil, and signalizing their respect and devotion to them in a very practical way. Example: Caylus presents Pan in the act of pouring water upon the male member; that is, invigorating the creative power by the application of the prolific element upon which it acted. In India, it was customary to pour sacred water from the Ganges upon the Lingam, the symbol of Siva. 2. The penis. Example: Then when his lingam is erect he should touch her with his hands in various places, and gently manipulate various parts of the body. Example: This compound, when applied to the lingam, results in sexual dominance.
Word: circumference Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“to carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang. Pronunciation: /sɜːˈkʌmfɹəns/, /səˈkʌmfɹəns/, /sɚˈkʌmfɹəns/, /səˈkamfɹəns/ 1. The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure. 2. The length of such a line. 3. The surface of a round or spherical object. Labels: obsolete 4. The length of the longest cycle of a graph.
Word: circumference Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“to carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang. Pronunciation: /sɜːˈkʌmfɹəns/, /səˈkʌmfɹəns/, /sɚˈkʌmfɹəns/, /səˈkamfɹəns/ 1. To include in a circular space; to bound. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Nor is the vigour of this great body included only in itself, or circumferenced by its surface
Word: brett Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for Brettanomyces. 1. Alternative letter-case form of Brett (“Brettanomyces”). Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: The brewery produces a series of wild brett beers called Cases of the Mondays, a name inspired by the movie Office Space. Example: “Wild Wild Brett,” an early experiment of all-brett beers based on the color spectrum is now a part of the Crooked Stave lore, too. 2. A fault in wine caused by Brettanomyces yeast. Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: brett Part of Speech: noun 1. A britchka; a kind of horse-drawn carriage. Labels: archaic
Word: SCART Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /skɑːt/ 1. A French-originated standard and associated 21-pin connector for connecting audiovisual equipment.
Word: housebreak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/ 1. To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle. Labels: US, transitive 2. To break into a house, typically to burgle it. Labels: US, intransitive
Word: housebreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/ 1. Synonym of housebreaking.
Word: sheeple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of sheep (“likened to sheep in a herd that follow without independent thought”) + people. Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːpəl/ 1. People who are perceived as conforming unquestioningly to authority or mainstream beliefs. Labels: derogatory, plural, plural-only, slang Example: War protesters . . . did appear along Mr. Rumsfeld's path carrying signs saying "Bush is a Liar" and "Wake Up, Sheeple". Example: [F]ormer MP Garth Turner’s new book . . . is entitled Sheeple, a term apparently applied to people who often take on the characteristics—curly white hair covering most of the body, fondness for grazing, tendency to do as told—of sheep.
Word: cute hoor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cute (“sly/clever, shrewd or perceptive”) and whore. Pronunciation: /kjut huɹ/ 1. A shrewd scoundrel, especially in business or politics. Labels: Ireland, slang
Word: sheople Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare form of sheeple. Labels: form-of, plural, plural-only, rare
Word: embiggen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + biggen or big + em- -en, possibly analogous to belittle. The morphology parallels that of enlarge (en- + large) or embolden (em- + bold + -en). The verb's first recorded use is in an 1884 edition of the British journal Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc. by C. A. Ward (see quotation below). The word’s current popularity follows its deployment as an intentionally ungainly form by television writer Dan Greaney for The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” in 1996. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɪɡən/, /ɛmˈbɪɡən/ 1. To enlarge; to make or become bigger. Labels: ergative, humorous, nonstandard, usually Example: Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? ἀλλ’ ἐμεγάλυνεν αυτοὺς ὁ λαός, but the people magnified them, to make great or embiggen, if we may invent an English parallel as ugly. After all, use is nearly everything. Example: A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Word: cannibal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Cariban *kariponader. Spanish caribeder. Spanish caríbalder. Spanish caníbalbor. English cannibal Borrowed from Spanish caníbal, from Taíno caniba, the Taíno form recorded by Christopher Columbus for the Caribs, who were greatly feared. From an Arawak language, probably Taíno, and ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Doublet of Carib, caribe, Garifuna, Carijona, Kari'na, and Caribbean. Pronunciation: /ˈkænɪbəl/ 1. An organism which eats others of its own species or kind, especially a human who consumes human flesh. Example: These insects were not uncommon beneath stones. I found one cannibal scorpion quietly devouring another. Example: Up the cave I went, and after me came the others, and after them thundered the whole crowd of cannibals, mad with fury at the death of the woman. 2. Ellipsis of cannibal boat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete, slang
Word: cannibalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Cariban *kariponader. Spanish caribeder. Spanish caríbalder. Spanish caníbalbor. English cannibal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English cannibalism From cannibal + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈkanɪbəlɪz(ə)m/ 1. The act of eating another of one's own species. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice. Example: Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial. […] Considered globally, cannibalism should be less a moral issue than one of custom. I like Marmite, but then I have been raised on the stuff. 2. An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually 3. In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: prion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist and biochemist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːɒn/, /ˈpɹaɪən/ 1. A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue. Example: Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for. Example: Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans.
Word: prion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Prion (former genus name), from Ancient Greek πρίων (príōn, “saw”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪən/ 1. A petrel of the genera Pachyptila and Halobaena.
Word: haem Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hiːm/ 1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of heme. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Haem is ubiquitous, abundant and necessary for energy metabolism. Most bacteria have a haem biosynthesis pathway, but nevertheless, since haem is a major source of iron (an essential metal), microbes take up exogenous haem to retrieve iron.
Word: tesseract Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛ.səˌɹækt/ 1. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (analogously to the way a cube is bounded by six squares). Example: Hence the cube determined by these axes is the face of the tesseract which we now have before us. Example: […]then it would trace out a higher cube, or tesseract, and each of the six surrounding cubes, carried on in the same motion, would trace tesseracts also,[…]. 2. Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe. Example: "I shall just sit down for a moment and pop on my boots and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." Example: When the Tesseract's energy levels spiked, Selvig proved unable to stop it and Loki arrived on Earth via a Tesseract-created portal.
Word: Zaza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Zazaki Zaza. There are different hypotheses for the etymology of the word. It may be: * an exonym meaning stuttering or speaking unintelligibly, as the term Zaza is considered derogatory. * the clipping of the term Zawzan al-Akrad, as argued by K. Kurdoyev, * an exonym of non-Iranian substrate (possibly Northwest Caucasian or Northeast Caucasian) origin * stemming from the name of a Kurdish tribe called “Ekrad-i Zaza”, 1. A member of an ethnic minority of Iranian origin in eastern Turkey.
Word: optimize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos ? Latin optimus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French optim(isme) ▲ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French optimistebor. English optimistbf. English optimize Back-formation from optimist. First attested in 1844. Pronunciation: /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/, /ˈɒptɪmaɪz/ 1. To act optimistically or as an optimist. 2. To make (something) optimal. Labels: transitive Example: We need to optimize the supply chain to reduce costs. Example: As I have taken pains to point out, AI's goals and instructions may be quite different from the ones it reports it's using, instructions that may also be quite different from the ones we've given it. It may also be optimizing its "rewards" by masking its operations even from those who believe they're "controlling" the AI. 3. To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program. Labels: transitive Example: The website was redesigned to optimize user experience. Example: He used software to optimize the performance of his computer. 4. To become optimal. Labels: intransitive
Word: optimized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of optimize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eques Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”). 1. A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical
Word: programmabilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of programmability Labels: form-of, plural Example: Fully CMOS compatible capacitive differential pressure sensors with on-chip programmabilities and temperature compensation. Example: Almost all of the cardiac pacemakers available today have multiple programmabilities that should be considered during the longevity prediction.
Word: principle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English principle, from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from prīnceps (“first”). By surface analysis, prīmus (“first”) + -ceps (“catcher”); the former ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”); see also prince. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/, [ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pɫ̩], /ˈpɹɪn.sə.pəl/, [ˈpɹɪn.sə.pɫ̩] 1. A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief. Example: We need some sort of principles to reason from. Example: Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept my dog is asleep on __ to the object the floor (see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence. Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses. Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this. 2. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem. Example: The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs. Example: Mr. Genachowski proposed codifying the new principles with four existing principles issued several years ago by the F.C.C. They say that network operators cannot prevent users from accessing lawful Internet content, applications and services of their choice, nor can they prohibit users from attaching nonharmful devices to the network. 3. Moral rule or aspect. Example: I don't doubt your principles. Example: You are clearly a person of principle. 4. A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied. Example: Bernoulli's principle Example: The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state. 5. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality. Example: Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle. 6. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality. Example: the active principle Example: Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna. 7. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. Example: The soul of man is an active principle. 8. An original faculty or endowment. Example: those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering 9. Misspelling of principal. Labels: alt-of, misspelling 10. A beginning. Labels: obsolete Example: Doubting sad end of principle unsound.
Word: principle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English principle, from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from prīnceps (“first”). By surface analysis, prīmus (“first”) + -ceps (“catcher”); the former ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”); see also prince. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/, [ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pɫ̩], /ˈpɹɪn.sə.pəl/, [ˈpɹɪn.sə.pɫ̩] 1. To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct. Labels: transitive Example: Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
Word: back-formation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back- + formation. Coined by British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary James Murray in 1888. Pronunciation: /ˌbæk.fɔːˈmeɪ̯.ʃən/, /ˌbak.fɔːˈmeɪ̯.ʃən/, /ˌbæk.foɹˈmeɪ̯.ʃən/, /ˌbæk.foːˈmæɪ̯.ʃən/, /ˌbɛk.foːˈmæɪ̯.ʃən/ 1. The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar. Labels: uncountable 2. A word created in this way. Labels: countable Example: Back-formations, such as tambour (for “play the tambourine”), are a staple of comedic wordplay.
Word: positive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French positif, from Latin positivus, from the past participle stem of ponere (“to place”). Compare posit. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑzɪtɪv/, /-ɾɪv/ 1. A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. Example: rating Positives by their Privatives 2. A favourable point or characteristic. Example: Not a bad situation when we weigh all the positives. 3. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge. 4. A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. 5. An adjective or adverb in the positive degree. 6. A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements. 7. The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. 8. A positive result of a test.
Word: dittohead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ditto + -head, coined by callers to The Rush Limbaugh Show (a conservative talk radio show) who begin their remarks with "Ditto!" or "Dittoes!" to concur with a previous comment without restating it. 1. A devotee of Rush Limbaugh, his radio program, or his opinions. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: Being a dittohead means you think that Rush is the beginning, middle, and end of political knowledge and information, and that that knowledge and information always show that Republicans are right, liberals (and everyone else) wrong. Dittoheads believe “if only you understood politics, you'd be a Republican.” 2. Someone who mindlessly agrees with an idea, especially one who agrees only as a supporter of the person who expressed it. Labels: US, derogatory, slang
Word: elixir of life Part of Speech: noun 1. A substance which when drunk brings immortality: eternal life, eternal youth.
Word: polytope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from German Polytop, originally coined by German mathematician Reinhold Hoppe in 1882, and first used in English by British mathematician Alicia Boole Stott in her 1910 paper Geometrical deduction of semiregular from regular polytopes and space fillings. By surface analysis, poly- (“many”) + -tope (“surface”), from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “region; area”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlɪˌtəʊp/, /ˈpɒliːˌtəʊp/, /ˈpɑliˌtoʊp/ 1. A geometric shape (of any number of dimensions) which is fully enclosed and has flat sides, making it a member of the generalized class of shapes which includes the two-dimensional polygon and three-dimensional polyhedron; (formally) a finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes. Example: As is well known, the theory of linear inequalities is closely related to the study of convex polytopes. Example: This polytope is mapped into a Cartesian force polytope (resp. torque polytope) in the Cartesian space. Such a polytope represents the exact force (resp. torque) that can be produced on the vehicle main body.
Word: hypercube Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English cube English hypercube From hyper- + cube. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.pə.kjuːb/, /ˈhaɪ.pɚ.kjuːb/ 1. A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n. 2. Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract. 3. A data cube with more than three dimensions. 4. A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.
Word: conservative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/, /kənˈzɜːvətɪv/, /kənˈsɝvətɪv/ 1. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo. Example: During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…] 2. One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions. Example: If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them. 3. One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative). Labels: Canada, US, especially
Word: conservative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/, /kənˈzɜːvətɪv/, /kənˈsɝvətɪv/ 1. Cautious, moderate. Example: The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish. 2. Tending to resist change or innovation. Example: The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative. Example: India is a conservative land. The gods do not change. 3. Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side. Example: At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year. 4. Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism. Labels: Canada, US Example: Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel. Example: George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny. 5. Relating to the Conservative Party. Labels: UK Example: We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party. 6. Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity. Labels: not-comparable 7. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. Example: Without the conservative organs, the body would receive no nourishment; and without nourishment, it would soon decay and perish. 8. Relating to Conservative Judaism. Labels: Judaism 9. Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense. 10. Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment) Example: Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports. 11. Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties. Example: While innovative in its verbal system, Sardinian is the most conservative Romance language in its vocabulary and phonology. Example: In spite of the vague evidence, I think that we may conclude that ME ǭ, like ME ę̄, had two pronunciations during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a more advanced pronunciation with close [oː], and a more conservative one with the ‘intermediate vowel’ [ɔː] […] 12. That is the gradient of a function.
Word: conservationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English conservation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English conservationist From conservation + -ist. 1. A person who maintains natural areas or protects threatened species. 2. Someone who advocates for these actions. Example: Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction.
Word: status quo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statū) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”). Pronunciation: /ˌsteɪ.təs ˈkwəʊ/, /ˌstæt.əs ˈkwoʊ/, [ˌstæɾ.əs ˈkwoʊ], /ˌsteɪ.təs ˈkwoʊ/, [ˌsteɪ.ɾəs ˈkwoʊ] 1. The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs. Example: “As a black woman,” Jemisin tells me, “I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful, the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. With epic fantasy there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative, in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”
Word: four-dimensional Part of Speech: adj 1. Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth). Labels: not-comparable Example: We live in a four-dimensional universe.
Word: petrolhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From petrol + -head. 1. A person who is overly reliant on the use of their car, resisting any suggestion to use other means of transport. Labels: colloquial 2. A bogan who is overly fond of their car or motorbike and enjoys showing it off and making noise with it. Labels: Commonwealth, colloquial, derogatory Example: 2000, Chris Baker, Kokopu Dreams, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 87, There were four of them, old-style petrolheads, with greasy jeans and leather jackets. Each had a rifle trained on the pair. They looked barely out of their teens. 3. A person involved in motor racing as either participant or dedicated spectator. Labels: Commonwealth, colloquial 4. A car enthusiast. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: 2009, Stuart Prebble, Grumpy Old Drivers: The Official Handbook, unnumbered page, In the early years it had been very much a series for people I believe are known by the curiously unappealing term ‘petrolheads’. Since most petrolheads are probably out in the evenings, burning up the rubber or the tarmac or whatever it is that petrolheads do, the show had a fairly limited audience.
Word: NP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of National Party. Labels: South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Nacionalista Party. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NP Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of no problem. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of now playing. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of notary public. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of nurse practitioner. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of national park. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of noun phrase. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of nanoparticle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Abbreviation of nondeterministic polynomial, the complexity class of computational problems that a nondeterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time. 7. Abbreviation of nosocomial pneumonia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: -head Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hed, -hede English -head From Middle English -hed, -hede, attested from the 12th century, continuing a hypothetical Old English *-hǣdu (“-hood”), from Proto-Germanic *haidį̄ (“state, condition”), related to Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“manner, character, quality, state”). Doublet of -hood, which see. 1. Used to create nouns indicating a state; -hood. Labels: morpheme, uncountable
Word: -head Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English headder. English -head Combining form of the noun head. 1. Used to form words for people who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject, activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way. Labels: derogatory, morpheme, sometimes Example: motor + -head → motorhead Example: pot + -head → pothead 2. Used to form words to describe people who are dedicated fans of something, especially music. Labels: morpheme Example: jazz + -head → jazzhead Example: metal + -head → metalhead 3. Used with other words to form generic insults or epithets to indicate stupidity. Labels: derogatory, morpheme Example: block + -head → blockhead Example: shit + -head → shithead
Word: pisshead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piss (“alcohol”) + -head. 1. A person who regularly overindulges in alcoholic drink. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar 2. A stupid or obnoxious person. Labels: US, derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: Sergeant Eller faced him. "Take a swing at me, I don't have a knife! Go ahead, you oversized pisshead!" "Who you calling a pisshead?" the man demanded. "You, you ugly pisshead!" Sergeant Eller declared. The large convict swung a ham-like fist!
Word: cokehead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cocaineclip. English coke substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English headder. English -head English cokehead From coke + -head. 1. A cocaine addict. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: […] she knew that a closeted cokehead would always be in the WC. Example: Lira baselessly branded Ukraine's leader a "cokehead," and described the Russian operation as "one of the most brilliant invasions in military history."
Word: dopehead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dope (“drugs”) + -head. 1. An individual who frequently uses illicit, narcotic, or psychoactive drugs and suffers from a drug addiction. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: giblets Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English giblets, from Old French gibelet (“game bird stew”), probably from gibier (“birds hunted for sport”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪbləts/, /ˈɡɪbləts/ 1. The internal organs of poultry birds, used as food. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: pothead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First sense appears c. 1957 in the writings of Jack Gelber. Third sense appears c. 1639. 1. A person who smokes cannabis frequently, or to excess. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: That pothead Shane has a nasty bong. Example: With the exception of college campuses — where I suspect you’ll be able to find Bob Marley posters for as long as dorms exist — it feels as if the old stoner subculture, the classic pothead aesthetic, has been almost eliminated from mainstream consciousness. 2. An electric motor's terminal connection or wiring box. Labels: Canada 3. A stupid individual; a fool. Labels: derogatory, obsolete, slang
Word: smackhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smack (“heroin”) + -head. 1. A person who regularly uses heroin. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang
Word: dope fiend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dope + fiend. 1. A person who abuses drugs. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Of course you know how prohibition works in many places and how the law is beaten. The dope fiends seem to be doing the same thing with this law. Example: That's the trouble with ya New York dope fiends. Ya got a rotten attitude.
Word: molinology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin molina + -ology note on coinage The Portuguese molinologist Dr. João Miguel dos Santos Simões was the first to use and define the term "molinology" as: : "The description and the study of mills or other mechanical devices, using the kinetic energy of moving water or wind as a motive power for driving, grinding, pumping, sawing, pressing and fulling machines. More particularly, molinology aims at the knowledge of those traditional engines which have been condemned to obsolete by modern technical and economic trends, thus being a chapter in the History of Technology and part of the History of Civilization" (May 15, 1962, see Transactions 1st Symposium Molinology, Cascais 1965, p. 41). "Today we consider muscle-powered mills to be part of molinology as well". 1. The study of mills. Labels: uncountable
Word: offal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English offal, offall, offalle (“offal, refuse, scrap waste”), equivalent to off- + fall. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oufal (“offal”), West Frisian ôffal (“offal”), Dutch afval (“waste, refuse”), German Low German Offall (“offal”), German Abfall (“waste, refuse”), Danish affald (“waste, refuse”), Swedish avfall (“waste, refuse”), Old English offeallan (“to cut off”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒfəl/, /ˈɔfəl/, /ˈɑfəl/ 1. The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1817, John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political in Sixty-One Numbers, Baltimore: John M. Carter, No. 32, Indian Corn, p. 96, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and will fatten on them as well. Example: Our standard wheat flour contains only the endosperm and represents practically a 75 per cent. extraction. The remaining 25 per cent. is known in the trade as grain offal or mill-feed, and is used largely as a concentrated food for live stock, being prized in the feeding of dairy cattle. 3. A dead body; carrion. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: heme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from hemoglobin. Pronunciation: /hiːm/ 1. The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The binding of oxygen to the iron molecule causes the hemoglobin molecule to undergo conformational changes that affect the binding of oxygen to other heme sites. Example: Impossible's breakthrough was in discovering that meat's essence comes from heme—the iron-rich molecule in blood that carries oxygen and is responsible for the deep-red color.
Word: mace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”). Pronunciation: /meɪs/ 1. A heavy fighting club. Example: The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword. 2. A ceremonial form of this weapon. Example: I am a king that find thee; and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl 3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. 4. An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority. Example: On the left were the Commons with their Speaker, attended by the mace. The southern door opened: and the Prince and Princess of Orange, side by side, entered, and took their place under the canopy of state. 5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it. Example: In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace. 6. A flail. 7. A billiard cue. Labels: archaic
Word: mace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”). Pronunciation: /meɪs/ 1. To hit someone or something with a mace.
Word: mace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macys as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir. Doublet of macir. Pronunciation: /meɪs/ 1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg. Labels: uncountable Example: I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
Word: mace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1). Pronunciation: /meɪs/ 1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun, spraying people in the face with bear mace and aiming a loaded handgun at a crowd, prosecutors said.
Word: mace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1). Pronunciation: /meɪs/ 1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. 2. To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. Labels: informal Example: When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.
Word: mace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean". Pronunciation: /meɪs/ 1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael. 2. An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams. Example: The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, fǎn, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.
Word: n-dimensional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English n- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin mētior Latin dīmētior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīmēnsiōder. English dimension Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English dimensional English n-dimensional From n- (“number”) + dimensional. 1. Having an arbitrary number of dimensions. Labels: not-comparable Example: We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
Word: dope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną. “Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen. Unrelated to dopamine. Pronunciation: [dəʊp], [doʊp] 1. To affect with drugs. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. "Talk is cheap," said Long Bill Hodge. "What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night." Example: Now, suppose another veterinarian should come along with another medicine, named “Goine;” and that a quart of it would make a horse go twice as fast, and you should dope the horse with both medicines […] 2. To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). Labels: transitive 3. To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). Labels: transitive Example: Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom. 4. To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions. Labels: intransitive Example: The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use. 5. To judge or guess; to predict the result of. Labels: dated, slang, transitive
Word: dope Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną. “Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen. Unrelated to dopamine. Pronunciation: [dəʊp], [doʊp] 1. Amazing; cool. Labels: slang Example: That party was dope! Example: The dope conceptual beauty of the Jungle Brothers is the upful spin they put on black consciousness music, showing that being pro-black can be as much about hot fun in the summertime as gearing up for the next time.
Word: north by northeast Part of Speech: noun 1. North-northeast, the compass point between north and northeast. Example: Next go north by northeast to the nose of a beast. Example: Ruling out any areas that have been bombed, we have decided to head north by northeast.
Word: east by northeast Part of Speech: noun 1. East northeast, the compass point between northeast and east.
Word: chewing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chewynge, chewand, from Old English *ċēowende, from Proto-Germanic *kewwandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kewwaną (“to chew”), equivalent to chew + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of chew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The goat is chewing on your shirt!
Word: chewing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chewyng, chewynge, from Old English ċīwung, ċȳwung, ċēowung (“chewing”), equivalent to chew + -ing. 1. The act by which something is chewed on; mastication. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And while the dog and the cat buses suffered considerable damage from the trapped animals' excretions, clawings, and chewings, the bus with the skunk was declared unsalvageable. 2. The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek. Labels: countable, uncountable