nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: kingly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English kyngly, from Old English *cyninglīċ (“kingly, royal”), equivalent to king + -ly. Cognate with Dutch koninklijk (“kingly, royal”), German königlich (“kingly”), Swedish kunglig (“kingly”). Compare also Old English cynelīċ (“kingly, royal, public”). 1. Of or belonging to a king or kings; exercised by a king. Labels: not-comparable Example: O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile / In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch / A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell? Example: 1701, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, Chapter IV, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, edited by John Nichols, London: J. Johnson, 1801, Vol. 2, pp. 328-9 https://books.google.ca/books?id=fN4NAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false But in Sparta, which was called a kingly government, though the people were perfectly free, yet because the administration was in the two kings and the ephori, with the assistance of the senate, we read of no impeachments by the people; 2. Characteristic of kings, majestic, regal; as befits a king, in the manner of a king. Example: 1580s, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, London: Simon Waterson, 1613, Book 2, p. 159, https://books.google.ca/books?id=a0XVv0Gubt8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false For then she sets foorth the liberty of his mind, the high flying of his thoughts, the fitnesse in him to beare rule, the singular loue the subiects bare him; that it was doubtful, whether his wit were greater in winning their fauours, or his courage in imploying their fauours: that he was not borne to liue a subiect-life, each action of his bearing in it Maiestie, such a kingly entertainement, such a kingly magnificence, such a kingly heart for enterprises: especially remembring those vertues, which in successor are no more honored by the subiects, then suspected of the Princes. Example: Tho' trouble-tried, and torture-torn, / The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
Word: kingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English kyngly, from Old English *cyninglīċe (“kingly, royally”), equivalent to king + -ly. Compare Old English cynelīċe (“kingly, royally, publicly”). 1. In a royal manner.
Word: ith Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From i + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /aɪθ/, [aɪ̯θ] 1. Occurring at position i in a sequence. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pitman ess and ish, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. Pronunciation: /ɪθ/ 1. The letter having an appearance like ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound (/θ/) in Pitman shorthand.
Word: kiosk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Earlier kiosque, from French kiosque, from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Classical Persian کوشْک (kōšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk). Pronunciation: /ˈkiːˌɒsk/, /ˈkiˌɑsk/ 1. A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc. Example: I remember that one time I went to the kiosk next door to buy condoms, it was raining, she appeared. 2. A similar but unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc; an e-kiosk. Example: Not only has the infamous upgrade gone by the wayside, but cashiers at fast-food restaurants are becoming increasingly uncommon. McDonald's started rolling out ordering kiosks at its US locations in 2015, and the chain hasn't looked back since: by 2020, most of its 14,000 locations will have kiosks installed. 3. A public telephone booth. Example: "'Course I do. I was in the yard office before I came on here. And you don't need a number for police; you—" "That's all right, lad. Slip down into the High Street as quick as you can cut and put that through from the nearest kiosk. Here's a couple of pennies—" 4. A Turkish garden pavilion.
Word: kipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon. 2. A male salmon after spawning. 3. A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air. Example: Kipper, I discovered, was airman's slang for a fishing boat. The chief function of this particular station was the escorting of convoys and fishing fleets, and the section which had the latter duty to perform was known as the ‘Kipper Patrol’. Example: Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels. 4. A torpedo. Labels: UK, slang Example: As she was only crawling along I aimed my first ‘kipper’ just a fraction ahead of her bows. Example: I evaluate its firing power at eighteen torpedoes—I think kipper is a distressing piece of naval slang—in thirty minutes. 5. An Englishman who has moved to Australia. Labels: Australia, slang Example: 1 Kipper, Englishman Example: An able seaman on a kipper warship called the Eagle. 6. A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood. Labels: Australia Example: With these weapons the natives invest their young men at the age of from fourteen to sixteen years... These young men are then called kippers, and for the first time enjoy the privilege of taking an active part in the fight. Example: Around us sat ‘Kippers’, i.e. ‘hobbledehoy blacks’. 7. An English person. Labels: Canada, slang 8. A fool. Example: Don't push so, 'Liza; you're a-knockin' my 'at off, yer silly kipper!' Example: 'Marriage during the Emergency isn't for me. I think of Alyson Carew. But carrying on with another officer's wife, well, separated wife; won't it affect my career?' 'Don't be a silly kipper.' 9. A child or young person. Labels: endearing Example: Half-a-dozen dreadfully common young bicyclists were commenting on her discomfiture with delighted exclamations of ‘Giddy old Kipper’, ‘Sweet Seventeen’, ‘Cheero, Maudie—you'll win!’ Example: If you're enterprizing enough to climb one of the trees christened by usage ‘The Kipper's Tree’, which hardly needs to be translated into plainer terms. 10. The vagina. Labels: UK, slang
Word: kipper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking. Example: There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis[…] 2. To damage or treat with smoke. Labels: broadly Example: "Your own fault. Did you imagine I was going to live on a gasring, because you wouldn't have your chimney repaired?" Then Diva got a tenant in spite of the kippered bathroom, and moved to a dilapidated hovel close beside the railway line, which she got for half the rent which she received for her house. Example: “When I was in 23 Squadron,” Mayo said,”we had a pilot who could blow smoke through his ears.” “That doesn't make him dotty,” Goss said. “It might have kippered his brains,” Jimmy Duncan suggested. 3. To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate. Example: She was the daintiest and most exquisite little figure imaginable, never did she stir out of doors without layers of veil to protect her from the kippering effects of sun and wind, and she preserved untouched by unguents or “mess” the complexion of a girl, smooth and soft and unwrinkled. Example: The beach was littered with palm-thatch umbrellas and half-naked, kippering bodies, and the Marina packed with seagoing craft of every description. 4. To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication. Example: No man should appear at his day's labors unless well kippered. May I kipper you, madam ” Example: Come over and have a drink. […] I'm half kippered myself. 5. To punish by spanking or caning. Example: Where of old, with awful mysteries and diabolic din, They “kippered” adolescents in the presence of their kin Example: He's liable to get himself kippered on something hairbrained. 6. To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble. Example: As for Mr. Mowbray you must know that he is not only the chief plotter, inventor, and spreader abroad of all these base calumnies, but he did also, like a fool, vent before his going home, to one whom he though had not been my friend, that he had taken notes of all words spoken by me in Scotland, and that he would construct and relate them to the Marquis of Hamilton, and so kipper me at the King's hands, that I should have no more pension. Example: (see title) 7. To utterly defeat or humiliate. Example: Were the missing crewmen kippered by a squid? Example: while clearly holding a banana in front of the proposed kippering victim if he replied with a straight answer to the question then he had been "kippered", and the correct response of the kipperer was to adopt a dramatically pained expression and look away while exhaling heavily, usually following up with the phrase, "Ooh, kippered him a treat.
Word: kipper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. Out of season. Labels: especially Example: These were kipper salmon, and an acquaintance of mine living at Burton Rowbottom who was trolling for pike at Yoxall, near to King's Bromley, got a run, five years ago, and caught a beautiful salmon weighting 25 lbs. Example: the milner of Brignall for that he doth usually keep in the back beck a fishlock in the river called Gill Beck, below his mill and the forebeck of another fishlock [sic] above the mill, whereby he taketh and destroyeth much fish, to wit —routs, at his pleasure, and taketh, etc. divers fish when they are kipper and out of season; 2. Very wide, shaped like a kipper. Example: Blades initiated a regeneration in modern British tailoring that from the mid-sixties began by flirting somewhat uneasily with the hippie style -- its most flamboyant exponent being Michael Fish, who opened premises in Piccadilly in 1966, introducing the kipper tie , Russian-style side-fastening tunics, see-through shirts and mini skirts for men. Example: The trousers became more flared, the ties more kipper, and, the crowning glory (at least I thought so), was thatI was the first in my department to sport a pink shirt.
Word: kipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short form of UKIP + -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party). Labels: UK, humorous, informal, often
Word: kipper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. lively; chipper; nimble. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Thus he goes on, from morn till eve, from season to season, year in and year out, semingly impervious to the weather, being altogether too kipper and grievous to be taken with anything worse than a ' snivelly cold . ' Example: There's others won't come up so kipper if they daon't easy orf a bit.
Word: kitbag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kit + bag. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪtbæɡ/ 1. A large cylindrical holdall. Labels: UK Example: Besides, whilst he had been in hospital, practically the whole of his equipment had disappeared from his kitbag – including Sylvia's two pair of sheets! – and he had no money with which to get more. Example: Others have abandoned their vehicles and have set off back towards the Russian border on foot, lugging their weapons and kitbags, videos suggest.
Word: kit bag Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kitbag. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: knickers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of knickerbockers. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkəz/, /ˈnɪkɚz/ 1. Knickerbockers. Labels: US, colloquial, plural, plural-only, rare Example: Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […]. Example: He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers. 2. Women's underpants. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only Example: The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?
Word: knickers Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Clipping of knickerbockers. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkəz/, /ˈnɪkɚz/ 1. A mild exclamation of annoyance. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial
Word: knickerbockers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/, /ˈnɪkɚbɑkɚz/ 1. Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect. Example: […] and some gems that represent the tasseled garment that the leader wears show it in a distinctly religious connection. On a gem from Zakro it [the sistrum] is being being carried by a man who does not wear the loin-cloth, but a baggy kind of knickerbockers like the Moslem trousers of to-day.
Word: panties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of panty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: panties Part of Speech: noun 1. Underpants for women and girls. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules. Example: Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.
Word: knitting needle Part of Speech: noun 1. A long, thin, pointed rod, used in pairs to knit yarn.
Word: behind the arc Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Outside the three-point line. Labels: informal Example: The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc.
Word: knitting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knyttynge; equivalent to knit + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of knit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: knitting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knyttynge; equivalent to knit + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted material. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I find knitting very relaxing. 2. Material that has been, or is being knitted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She put down her knitting and went to answer the phone. Example: At Kiwi, 40 miles from Nelson [New Zealand], eight women installed themselves in the goods shed, taking with them their knitting, and a supply of food and magazines. The demolition crew was unable to pull the building down without injuring them. 3. overhead electrification wires, OHLE Labels: UK, countable, informal, uncountable Example: Fair point. Instead of tearing down the knitting and using diesel, tear down the knitting and use turbines. Example: It also helps, if: [...] the knitting is aligned with the track below, or rather vice versa, something else that went after 1996.
Word: touché Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch. Pronunciation: /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/, /tuːˈʃeɪ/ 1. An acknowledgement of a hit. 2. An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion. Example: Duckie: You know what an older woman does for me? Iona: Changes your diapers? Duckie: Touché.
Word: knitwear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English knit Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti Proto-Germanic *wazjaną Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan Old English werian Middle English weren English wear English -wear English knitwear From knit + -wear. 1. knitted garments Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: knobby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English knob Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English knobby From knob + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈnɒbi/, /ˈnɑbi/ 1. Resembling a knob. Example: They appeared, upon section, like wedge-shaped, knobby formations, penetrating into the placenta fetalis, and were thus found in three places ; the smallest was 3 mm. and the largest was 15 mm. in diameter. Example: The baby kicked energetically. She caressed a knobby knee or elbow. 2. Having many knobs or knob-like projections. Example: The large open leaves and large knobby leaves were picked out by hand, and formed the finest sort of "hyson skin" (known commercially as pretty good bloom, brightish hyson kind mixed, knobby leaf); the remaining leaves were hyson. Example: Knobby Creek rises in the center part of Union Township, flowing north where it empties into the Osage River. Name suggested by the "knobby" character of the surrounding country, i.e. full of "knobs" or low hills. Sometimes called Beaver Creek, from the animal found here in early days.
Word: gol Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gul. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: egg salad Part of Speech: noun 1. A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: goil Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of girl. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: “You goils ain't gonna be flyin' today.” Our cab driver was Maxwell Solomon, Hack Number 30756M.
Word: remission Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + mission. 1. To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission. Labels: transitive Example: The Strykers have been remissioned, actually, to a mission of road security that actually takes advantage of the mobility that they provide. Example: Their original mission was reestablished. That is what happens to people who will allow God to remission their lives through His blood cleansing them.
Word: traveling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: . Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/, /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of travel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: traveling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: . Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/, /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/ 1. A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it. 2. The action of the verb travel.
Word: traveling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: . Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/, /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/ 1. That travels (with one). Labels: not-comparable
Word: double dribble Part of Speech: noun 1. A violation committed by dribbling for a second time without giving up possession of the ball.
Word: foul out Part of Speech: verb 1. To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught. Example: He fouled out to lead off the third. 2. To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls. Example: The center has fouled out with only two points.
Word: foul out Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of fouling out. Example: A foul out was recorded on the scorecard. 2. An instance of fouling out. Example: His foul out sat poorly with the crowd.
Word: layup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lay + up. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪˌʌp/ 1. A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away. Example: Rockledge's Shanikqua Smith goes for a layup during Tuesday's game against Titusville. 2. A relatively easy task. Labels: colloquial Example: Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk. 3. The state of being laid up. Example: The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month. 4. A track used to store train cars. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed. Example: The City Hall station on the BMT line [...] has a lower level that was never put into service. Yet the platforms have been maintained, are well illuminated, and serve as a layup and storage area for the MTA. 5. A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight. Example: Though I knew we shouldn't be there, she pulled me out of the tunnel and into the dark layup, its floors still grubby from the morning commute many hours ago. Example: A nonmoving empty train, or a layup, was easiest to pin down at night or on weekends when trains would park on the dormant stretches of express tracks. 6. The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material. Example: Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup. Example: In addition to employing flax fibres for polymer-coated sutures, more recently, flax fibres have been proposed for reinforcing polymer composites, such as hand layup laminated scaffolds in tissue engineering.
Word: reverse layup Part of Speech: noun 1. A running in which the shooter dives under the basket and shoots the ball straight away from the basket.
Word: lay-in Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈleɪˌɪn/ 1. A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim. 2. Permission to sleep in late, typically for health reasons and granted by a doctor or nurse. 3. An instance of sleeping in. Labels: informal
Word: scoop shot Part of Speech: noun 1. A shot taken underhanded from an unusually low position (as though scooping up the ball).
Word: held ball Part of Speech: noun 1. A situation in which players of opposing teams both hold the ball, with neither clearly possessing it outright.
Word: corundum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tamil குருந்தம் (kuruntam, “ruby, sapphire”) First attested in the early 18th century. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹʌn.dəm/ 1. An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al₂O₃, that occurs in the form of the gemstones sapphire and ruby; it is used as an abrasive. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: knock down Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit or collide with Labels: transitive Example: As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it. Example: He was out tomcatting one night / When he started a big fight / And a big policeman came and knocked him down. 2. To hit or collide with Labels: transitive Example: We knocked down the garden shed when we moved. 3. To hit or collide with Labels: informal, transitive Example: They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it. 4. To hit or collide with Labels: transitive Example: The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required. 5. To acquire money, especially illicitly Labels: transitive 6. To acquire money, especially illicitly Labels: transitive 7. To drink or party Labels: informal, transitive Example: I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager. 8. To drink or party Labels: Australia, slang, transitive 9. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: transitive Example: They click their glasses and knock down the toast. 10. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: archaic, transitive 11. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, transitive 12. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: transitive Example: The judge knocked the award down to a half-million. 13. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: transitive 14. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: transitive Example: The picture was knocked down for £50. 15. To choose, declare or approve. Labels: transitive Example: She had to wait for the end of the sale before these matters were put up, and as the auctioneer was in a hurry to get the sale over, and most of the bidders had left, she got a full set of servant's bedroom furniture knocked down to her for five pounds[.] 16. To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point. Labels: dated 17. To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt. Labels: transitive
Word: crossover dribble Part of Speech: noun 1. A maneuver in which a dribbling player rapidly switches the ball from one side to the other in order to move around a defender.
Word: knockdown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knock + down. 1. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An overwhelming blow. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Very strong ale or beer. Labels: obsolete, slang, uncountable 4. A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown. 8. A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent. 9. A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: knockdown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From knock + down. 1. To employ the knockdown technique
Word: knockdown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From knock + down. 1. Powerful enough to overwhelm. Labels: not-comparable Example: a knockdown argument Example: a knockdown blow 2. Reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer. Labels: not-comparable 3. Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. Labels: not-comparable Example: knockdown furniture 4. To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. Labels: not-comparable
Word: knoll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”). Pronunciation: /nəʊl/, /nɒl/, /noʊl/ 1. A small mound or rounded hill. Example: grassy knoll Example: On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak. 2. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
Word: knoll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative, or variant of knell. Pronunciation: /nəʊl/, /nɒl/, /noʊl/ 1. A knell.
Word: knoll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative, or variant of knell. Pronunciation: /nəʊl/, /nɒl/, /noʊl/ 1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. Labels: transitive 2. To sound (something) like a bell; to knell. Labels: ambitransitive Example: If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church. Example: For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...] 3. To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc). Labels: transitive Example: Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church. Example: The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]
Word: knoll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture. Pronunciation: /nəʊl/, /nɒl/, /noʊl/ 1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
Word: knell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”). Pronunciation: /nɛl/, /nel/ 1. To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll. Labels: intransitive Example: I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee, And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing, Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […] Example: “[…] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!” 2. To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell. Labels: transitive Example: Let thy friends be as the dead in doom, And build to them a final tomb; Let the starred shade that nightly falls Still celebrate their funerals, And the bell of beetle and of bee Knell their melodious memory. Example: The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills. 3. To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell. Labels: transitive
Word: knell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”). Pronunciation: /nɛl/, /nel/ 1. The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death). Example: […]he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. Example: I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. 2. A sign of the end or demise of something or someone. Labels: figuratively Example: But at the close of the war there was less thought of what [Britain] had retained than of what she had lost. She was parted from her American Colonies; and at the moment such a parting seemed to be the knell of her greatness. Example: At Ballymacarrett, the main line diverges to the right on its way to Newcastle. All services were discontinued on it in 1950, and the abandonment order finally rang the knell of faint hopes that services would be restored as far as Comber, […].
Word: reorganization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English organization English reorganization From re- + organization. 1. The act or process of rearranging. See reorganize. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The end result of such an act. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: knotweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knot + weed. 1. Any of several plants of the genus Polygonum, with jointed stems and inconspicuous flowers
Word: Japanese knotweed Part of Speech: noun 1. A large, herbaceous perennial plant, Fallopia japonica, native to Asia; it is a highly invasive colonizer outside of its native territory. Labels: uncountable Example: "We got into this because we were looking at invasive species at the roadside, such as Japanese knotweed. A lot of rail embankments have been solidified by knotweed because the roots are so strong.
Word: knowing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From know + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/, /naːɪn/, /ˈnoʊɪŋ/ 1. Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. Example: The knowing and intelligent part of the world. 2. Deliberate, wilful. 3. Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning. Example: a knowing rascal 4. Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic. Labels: archaic Example: ‘I was a raw boy from College, and fancied it very knowing to marry a girl that all the young fellows of my acquaintance reckoned so confounded handsome.’ Example: Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it. 5. Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding. Example: Jon and Tyrion greet each other with the words that have been used against them as weapons, sharing a knowing smile. Example: As family entertainment, it’s all perfectly fine. There are plenty of callbacks to the original to delight young fans (including a catchy new song from Shakira’s Gazelle) and plenty of knowing jokes for the adults in the audience.
Word: knowing Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From know + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/, /naːɪn/, /ˈnoʊɪŋ/ 1. Given my knowledge about someone or something. Example: Knowing you, you would try not to be late for school.
Word: knowing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From know + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/, /naːɪn/, /ˈnoʊɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of know Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: knowing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From know + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/, /naːɪn/, /ˈnoʊɪŋ/ 1. The act or condition of having knowledge. Example: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
Word: zeedonk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of zebra + donkey. Pronunciation: /ˈziːˌdɒnk/, /-dɔːnk/, /ˈziˌdɑnk/, /-dɔnk/ 1. A cross between a zebra and a donkey. Example: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals. Example: One might have imagined that it could only have been Dr. Seuss who had thought up and named the zedonk—the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey!
Word: zorse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of zebra + horse Pronunciation: /zɔɹs/, /zɔːs/ 1. The offspring of a male zebra and a female horse.
Word: zeehorse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of zebra + horse. 1. A zorse. Labels: rare
Word: ZIP Code Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Trademark of United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963. 1. Uncommon form of zip code. Labels: form-of, uncommon
Word: zippy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zip (“to move in haste; to make (something) move quickly”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’). Pronunciation: /ˈzɪpi/ 1. Energetic and lively. Labels: informal Example: Fun is the doughboy's pal—that's why he wrote and sings "K-K-K-Katy"—the song of songs, with a zippy, catchy melody and those beautifully simple words stammered by Katy's tongue-tied beau. Example: [T]he rising wind, cool and zippy from the far ice floes of Bering Straits— [...] 2. Quick, speedy. Labels: informal Example: Apart from anything else, the zippier Northern cadences meant the radio stations could pack in three or four commercials in the time it would take the average Southerner to clear his throat. Example: He had pored over the websites of the different European car manufacturers, wooed at first by the Beemers, Audis and Saabs before admitting we had a restricted budget. He eventually chose an economical but zippy Renault hatchback.
Word: zoophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of biophobia. 1. An unusual fear of non-human animals. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.
Word: zoological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English zoology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English zoological From zoology + -ical. Pronunciation: /zəʊəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/, /zuːəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/, /zoʊəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/, /zuəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/ 1. Of, or relating to, animals. 2. Of, or relating to, zoology.
Word: zoom lens Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /zu(ː)m lɛnz/ 1. A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly. Example: Now I’m looking at a flashback Sunday. Zoom lens feelings just won’t disappear. Close-up darkroom sweet-talk in my ear.
Word: clodhopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of clod + hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper. The term originated in the 17th century as a derogatory name for a farm laborer—someone who "hopped" (stomped) over "clods" of earth; attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century. While originating in Britain, the term survives most strongly in Southern/Appalachian speech. Pronunciation: /ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/, /ˈklɒdˌhɒpə/ 1. A strong shoe for heavy-duty use; a boot. Example: ...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails. 2. Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly. Labels: US Example: We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now 3. United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots. Labels: slang Example: Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard." Example: […] now a book is no greater rarity than bacon and greens in Virginia; and the clodhopper of this country returns from his daily labours to a book […] 4. To refer to generally big feet or the foot of a clumsy person. Labels: broadly 5. A clumsy or foolish person. Labels: UK Example: All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper. 6. A peasant or yokel (countryperson). Labels: derogatory, historical Example: Near-synonyms: bumpkin, hick 7. A peasant or yokel (countryperson). Labels: derogatory, historical, obsolete 8. Wheatear: any of various passerine birds. Example: ...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper," are not unappropriate names.
Word: convergence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From converge + -ence (after Latin convergentia). Pronunciation: /kənˈvɜːd͡ʒəns/, /kɒnˈvɜːd͡ʒəns/, /kənˈvɝd͡ʒəns/, /kənˈvøːd͡ʒəns/ 1. The act of moving toward union or uniformity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In that sense there has been, and there will be, a steady convergence of the West and the East, including China. Every factory built in some isolated Chinese town reduces the time, the cultural, the economic, and the social gap between, let us say, Chikurting and Chicago. But the question is, does it reduce the political difference? 2. A meeting place. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We built a homestead at the convergence of two rivers 3. The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chiarivari Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of charivari. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pull a Homer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pull (“to copy or emulate the actions associated with”). Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe. 1. To succeed despite idiocy. Labels: humorous, slang
Word: parp Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /pɑːp/, /pɑɹp/ 1. Representing the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind. Labels: informal
Word: parp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /pɑːp/, /pɑɹp/ 1. The sound of a horn or breaking wind. Labels: informal
Word: parp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /pɑːp/, /pɑɹp/ 1. To sound a horn. Labels: informal, transitive 2. To make the sound of a horn. Labels: informal, intransitive 3. To break wind. Labels: informal, intransitive 4. To talk nonsense. Labels: informal
Word: tig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick. Pronunciation: /tɪɡ/ 1. To touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally. Labels: dialectal
Word: tig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick. Pronunciation: /tɪɡ/ 1. A light touch; a tap or pat. Labels: dialectal 2. The children's game of tag. Labels: Ireland, Scotland Example: One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.
Word: tig Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɪɡ/ 1. A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment. Labels: historical
Word: charivari Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French charivari. Pronunciation: /ʃɑːɹɪˈvɑːɹi/ 1. The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The marriage ceremony was given primordial significance over folkloric pre-marriage engagement rituals and wild charivaris. 2. Any loud, cacophonous noise or hubbub. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable
Word: pass away Part of Speech: verb 1. To die. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic Example: After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday. Example: Her great grandmother passed away yesterday. 2. To disappear; to cease to be; to be no more. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day. Example: And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 3. To spend; to waste. Labels: obsolete Example: Lest she pass away the flower of her age.
Word: restroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rest + room, from an earlier sense of "breakroom". Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛstˌɹum/ 1. A room containing a public toilet: a public lavatory. Labels: Philippines, US, euphemistic Example: Could you tell me where I can find the restroom? 2. A room (usually in a public building or workplace) set aside for rest and relaxation; breakroom. Labels: archaic, dated
Word: pass wind Part of Speech: verb 1. To break wind; fart. Labels: euphemistic Example: Did someone just pass wind?
Word: what's the matter Part of Speech: phrase 1. What is wrong? What's the problem? Labels: idiomatic Example: Why are you crying? What's the matter? Example: What's the matter with you? Why would you do a thing like that? 2. What's happening? What's the news? Labels: dated
Word: tooth-to-jowl Part of Speech: adv 1. Very close together Example: Most Latinos don’t live tooth-to-jowl because they love each other so much. In fact, new census data (again, statistics) show that Latinos in the Pajaro Valley have some of the highest crowding problems in the state. Example: Having no safe, private sanitation facilities in areas where people are living tooth-to-jowl means going the whole day without relieving oneself and then risking exposure at night.
Word: cheek by jowl Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From cheek + by + jowl (“cheek; jaw”) (or possibly jowl (“fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw; cheek”) or jowl (“(obsolete) head”)), suggesting people so close to each other that the cheek of one person is next to the jowl of another. Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃiːk baɪ ˈd͡ʒaʊl/, /ˌt͡ʃik baɪ ˈd͡ʒaʊl/ 1. In very close physical proximity; crowded together; side by side. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: Ile go vvith thee, cheeke by iovvle. Example: VVee ſee Marchants, countrie-Iuſtices, and Artificers to march cheeke by joll vvith our Nobilitie, in valour, and military diſcipline. 2. In very close or intimate association. Labels: UK, figuratively, idiomatic Example: [B]ooks have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy. Example: Exit and voice, social theorist Albert O[tto] Hirschman's famous dichotomous strategies, collided in the South Carolina countryside, where renewed commitment to the nation existed cheek by jowl with exit from it.
Word: cheek by jowl Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cheek + by + jowl (“cheek; jaw”) (or possibly jowl (“fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw; cheek”) or jowl (“(obsolete) head”)), suggesting people so close to each other that the cheek of one person is next to the jowl of another. Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃiːk baɪ ˈd͡ʒaʊl/, /ˌt͡ʃik baɪ ˈd͡ʒaʊl/ 1. Often in the form cheek-by-jowl: in very close physical proximity; crowded together; tightly packed. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: And 'tvvas not long, before ſhe found / Him, and his ſtout Squire, in the Pound; / Both coupled in Inchanted Tether, / By further leg behind together: / For as he ſate upon his Rump, / His head like one in doleful dump, / Betvveen his knees, his hands appli'd / Unto his ears on either ſide. / And by him, in another hole, / Afflicted Ralpho, cheek by Joul; […] Example: As we drove at breakneck speed through the streets, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the gaunt and desperate faces of the people, the endless squatter settlements of cheek-by-jowl, single-room shacks surrounded by ankle-deep mud, and the occasional glimpses of the rich apparently oblivious to the suffering around them.
Word: proximity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proxim(ate) + -ity, from Middle French proximité, from Latin proximitās, proximitāt-, from proximus. Pronunciation: /pɹɒkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/, /pɹɑkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/, [pɹɑkˈsɪm.ɪ.ɾi], /pɹɔkˈsɪm.ə.ti/, [pɹɔkˈsɪm.ə.ɾi] 1. Closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The proximity of the heat source allowed it to be detected by the sensor. Example: You and I live in close proximity.
Word: proximity fuze Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of proximity fuse. Labels: alt-of, alternative