nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: genital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/ 1. Of or relating to biological reproduction. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to the genitalia. Labels: not-comparable Example: In countless Hollywood movies we see the story of two soldiers or sailors on leave; for them the pursuit of women is simply a way of relieving a genital pressure. 3. Of or relating to psychosexual development during puberty. Labels: not-comparable
Word: genital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/ 1. A genital organ. Labels: rare Example: ( b ) the masturbation [...] served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet") Example: David told of his fears of castration and his concern that his genital was not as large as another boy's on the ward, and perhaps would never be.
Word: whinge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a northern variant of Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinisōn (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”). Pronunciation: /(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do. Example: I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.
Word: whinge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a northern variant of Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinisōn (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”). Pronunciation: /(h)wɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A cry. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them. 2. A peevish complaint. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!
Word: moronic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From morolic acid (the exocyclic hydroxy form), from mora (“tree of genus Mora”), morolic acid having been extracted from the species Mora excelsa. 1. A triterpenoid organic acid that is found in Pistacia resin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 2001, J. L. C. H. van Valkenburg, Ludivina S. De Padua, N. Bunyapraphatsara, Roeland Hendrikus Maria Julien Lemmens, Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, Part 2, page 471, Two major anti-HSV compounds, moronic acid and betulonic acid, were isolated from the herbal extract using ethyl acetate at pH 10. Moronic acid was quantitatively the major anti-HSV compound in the ethyl acetate-soluble fraction. Example: 2008, Amanda J. Norbutus, thesis, Technical Investigation of the Materials and Methods Utilized in a Copy of a 17ᵗʰ Century Dutch Genre Painting: Gerrit Dou's Man Interrupted at His Writing (1635), page 23, However, a previous analysis of Steen's Supper at Emmaeus revealed that his varnish contains more moronic acid than other 17ᵗʰ century varnishes.⁴⁹
Word: triterpenoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + terpenoid or triterpene + -oid. 1. a terpenoid having a C₃₀ skeleton
Word: triterpenoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tri- + terpenoid or triterpene + -oid. 1. of, or relating to a triterpene or triterpenoid Labels: not-comparable
Word: transect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tran- + sect. Pronunciation: /tɹænˈsɛkt/, /tɹɑːnˈsɛkt/ 1. To divide something by cutting transversely. Labels: transitive
Word: transect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tran- + sect. Pronunciation: /tɹænˈsɛkt/, /tɹɑːnˈsɛkt/ 1. A path along which a researcher moves to count and record observations or collect data. Example: The AOT methodology employs the concept of a ‘transect’, the essential idea of which is to collect data taken along a line or series of lines that cross a certain space. Collecting data via transects is a commonplace in biology, being regularly used for such purposes as monitoring butterfly numbers or estimating the size of bird populations. But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds, determining levels of anti-rabies vaccinations in village dogs, and examining ecological factors under the canopy of trees growing in agricultural areas.
Word: transverse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal. 1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas. Labels: not-comparable Example: The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car. Example: Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating. 2. Made at right angles to the long axis of the body. Labels: not-comparable 3. (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .) Labels: not-comparable 4. Not in direct line of descent; collateral. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: transverse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal. 1. Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame. 2. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
Word: transverse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal. 1. To lie or run across; to cross. Labels: transitive 2. To traverse or thwart. Labels: transitive 3. To overturn. Labels: transitive Example: And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing? 4. To alter or transform. Labels: transitive Example: In love, it is said, all stratagems are fair, and many little ladies transverse the axiom by applying it to discover the secrets of their friends. 5. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.
Word: cryogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cryo- + -genic. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹaɪoʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/, /ˌkɹaɪəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/ 1. Of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures. Example: Quick as a mongoose, the man with the glass eye darts in, yanks the aluminum case out of the cryogenic cylinder, tosses it to Y.T.
Word: cryogenically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English cryogenic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English cryogenically From cryogenic + -ally. 1. Carried out at very low temperatures, near absolute zero.
Word: cryogenics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cryogen Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English cryogenics From cryogen + -ics. 1. The science and technology of the production of very low temperatures. Labels: uncountable 2. The scientific study of low-temperature phenomena. Labels: uncountable
Word: yuppie food stamp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Like yuppie flu, the term originally connoted (and may still connote) contempt by working-class people for others who are perceived as rich, undeserving, and soft. The stereotype-laden imagery is that a yuppie throws twenties around like a poor person might throw food stamps around, neither one wholly deserving the resource that they are profligately consuming. Class antagonism is implicit in both directions, upward and downward. 1. A $20 bill, as dispensed from an ATM. Labels: slang Example: We need change, but all I have is a yuppie food stamp.
Word: don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: teach grandma how to suck eggs Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested circa 18th century, from Spanish: see quotation. 1. To tell an expert how to do things. Labels: idiomatic Example: Madam, reply’d Joler, you would have me teach my Grandame to ſuck Eggs, or ſet up for a Lent Preacher.
Word: androphobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *anḗr Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr Proto-Hellenic *anḗr Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νδρός (ăndrós)der. English andro- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English androphobia From andro- + -phobia. Pronunciation: /ˌændɹəʊˈfəʊbiə/, /ˌændɹoʊˈfoʊbiə/ 1. Fear of or aversion to men or boys. Labels: uncountable Example: In the case of androphobia, a reaction can occur when exposed to men or masculinity, in anticipation of such experiences, or even hearing words related to the male sex.
Word: -et Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -et, from Old French -et, from Late Latin -ittus, -ettus. 1. Used to form diminutives, loosely construed. Labels: morpheme
Word: -et Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps ultimately related to Middle English -ten, -eten, from Old English -ettan; possibly reinforced by Old Norse -ta. 1. Used to augment verbs, largely monosyllabic, to form verbs with a frequentative or imitative force. Labels: morpheme Example: fidge + -et → fidget Example: jig + -et → jigget
Word: perse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach. Pronunciation: /pɜːs/, /pɝs/ 1. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A cloth of this colour. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: perse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach. Pronunciation: /pɜːs/, /pɝs/ 1. Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.
Word: perse Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of pierce. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: SCSI Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈskʌ.zi/, /ˈsɛk.si/, /ˈsək.si/, /ˈsɒk.si/ 1. Initialism of Small Computer Systems Interface. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: ISCSI Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈaɪˌskʌzi/ 1. Initialism of Internet SCSI, a storage transport protocol that transmits SCSI I/O traffic over a TCP/IP connection. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TCP/IP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a standard for computer network communication, used in particular for the Internet. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: vive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vivus. Compare French vif. See vivid. Pronunciation: /vaɪv/ 1. lively, animated Labels: obsolete Example: 1890, Samuel Harvey Reynolds, Introduction The Essays of Francis Bacon the French King, when by a vive and forcible persuasion he moved him to a war upon Flanders
Word: pingas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably derived from the Danish penge (“money”). 1. money Labels: New-Zealand, slang, uncountable
Word: pingas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pingers. 1. MDMA; ecstasy. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: pingas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an Internet meme and YouTube Poop sample of a line in the television series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, spoken by the character Dr. Robotnik: "Snooping as usual, I see?" 1. A penis. Labels: Internet, dated
Word: cryo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κρῠ́ος (krŭ́os, “ice, icy cold, chill, frost”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌɪəʊ/, /ˈkɹaɪoʊ/ 1. cold, freezing Labels: morpheme 2. cryonics Labels: morpheme
Word: kan Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɑːn/ 1. Archaic form of khan. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: kan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 貫 (kan). Pronunciation: /kɑːn/ 1. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 8.267 lb. Example: After having subtracted the bad and uncollectable debt above, the net property was around 32000 kan of silver […]
Word: kan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 斤 (gan¹). Pronunciation: /kɑːn/ 1. A catty, legally defined as 0.60478982 kilograms. Labels: Hong-Kong
Word: kan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 槓 (kan). Pronunciation: /kɑːn/ 1. A set of four identical tiles. Labels: Japanese 2. A call declaring the formation of such a set. Labels: Japanese
Word: well-to-do Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌwɛltəˈdu/ 1. Rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable. Example: Some philosophers aver that the well-to-do should be taxed at a higher rate than poorer people. Example: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
Word: mata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit माता (mātā), nom.sg. of मातृ (mātṛ, “mother”). Doublet of mater and mother. 1. A respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader. Labels: India 2. A Hindu goddess. Labels: India Example: While possession is usually limited to Bhilala men, the mata entered women too, endowing them with the power of clairvoyance, enabling them to identify the evil spirits or daakans in their midst. The mata spoke through the possessed, forecasting the future, directing people and events for her proper propitiation. 3. A mother (also used as a term of address for a woman). Labels: India
Word: meta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology 1, adjective sense 1 is a back-formation from meta- (prefix). Etymology 1, adjective sense 2 is derived from noun etymology 1, noun sense 1. The noun senses are clippings of various terms beginning with meta (prefix). Folk etymology for noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 also suggests an acronym for most effective/efficient tactic available. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛɾə] 1. Clipping of metagame. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs. Example: The phrase, “tank meta”, is one that carries a lot of weight when it comes to MOBAs. These metas are generally characterized by tanky, unkillable behemoths dominating the meta and leaving any character that isn’t focused around raw DPS in the dust. 2. Clipping of metagame. Labels: Internet, broadly, countable Example: Each video sharing platform's community has a meta on how long videos should be. Example: I remember interviewing PewDiePie a few years ago, and he was sort of telling me about this time where it was like edgy videos were being really rewarded, so everyone was kind of chasing like edgy humor and edgy memes, and sort of trying to figure out where the edge was. And then YouTube changed the meta, and suddenly, it wasn't good to be edgy, you weren't going to make as much money or get as many views. 3. Clipping of metaoidioplasty. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal 4. Clipping of metamour. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal 5. Clipping of metanalysis: metanalysis or metacommentary focused on media, fandom, or related topics, typically presented as an essay or dialogue. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang Example: Many metas on Tumblr incorporate GIFs of scenes they are referencing as well as screencaps. Example: Fans create their own stories and media representation through fan fiction. They challenge the feminism in the [Sarah J. Maas] books through discussions and metas.
Word: meta Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology 1, adjective sense 1 is a back-formation from meta- (prefix). Etymology 1, adjective sense 2 is derived from noun etymology 1, noun sense 1. The noun senses are clippings of various terms beginning with meta (prefix). Folk etymology for noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 also suggests an acronym for most effective/efficient tactic available. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛɾə] 1. Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level. Labels: informal Example: Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish. Example: Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is. 2. Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay. Example: I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.
Word: meta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mēta. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtə/, [ˈmiːɾə] 1. Boundary marker. 2. Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus. Labels: historical
Word: well-heeled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originally American English, from a literal use in cockfighting: a well-heeled cock was provided with sharp spurs and could inflict maximum damage. From this developed the American frontier slang sense of being well-equipped, and thence the modern sense of being well supplied with money. 1. Affluent, prosperous, or even (of the highest degree) rich. Labels: colloquial Example: Near-synonyms: well-endowed, wealthy; see also Thesaurus:wealthy Example: But their number had fallen off since the militants and the riots and it was mostly well-heeled blacks who got out of cabs and expensive cars tonight in front of the canopied entrance.
Word: multipack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English pack English multipack From multi- + pack. 1. A form of packaging containing multiple individual packages of a single product. Example: a multipack of tins of baked beans Example: Hostess has recalled the multipack boxes, with nine cakes in each, in response to a recall by Blommer Chocolate Co., which produced the confectionery coating used on the holiday Twinkies.
Word: badness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈbæd.nəs/ 1. The quality or degree of being bad. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […] Example: It is easy to assess whether a sentence is acceptable or not: This is just how “good” or “natural” the sentence sounds to a group of fluent speakers of a language. The assessment that the badness is likely due to the grammar is a more complex inference.
Word: loony van Part of Speech: noun 1. An ambulance used to take a mental patient away to an institution. Labels: slang
Word: filmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From film + -ic. Doublet of filmy. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪlmɪk/ 1. Of or relating to movies; cinematic.
Word: play possum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From play + possum (“from opposum”), from the behavior of the Virginia opossum, which feigns death when threatened. First use appears c. 1807. 1. To feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lie low. Labels: idiomatic Example: Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us. Example: The soldier played possum, fooling the sniper. 2. To feign sleep, illness, etc. Labels: idiomatic Example: When we used to get home late at night, I would play possum so my daddy would carry me inside and put me in bed. 3. To dissemble or to feign ignorance; to disguise or conceal something in order to deceive. Labels: dated, idiomatic Example: Though, as it afterwards turned out, the Yankee had money enough about him, and was merely playing the ’possum all the while. Example: Never imposing upon any one myself, I suffered no one to play the possum with me.
Word: filmically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English filmic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English filmically From filmic + -ally. 1. In a filmic manner.
Word: brainiac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of brain + maniac, with influence from ENIAC, the name of an early computer. The term was coined as the name of the fictional supervillain Brainiac in the Superman series and first appeared in Action Comics comic book #242 in July, 1958. By surface analysis, brainy + -ac. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪniæk/ 1. A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person. Labels: derogatory, slang, sometimes Example: With all the brainiacs in the world ... you'd think somebody would come up with a sunblock for ice cream. Example: With nearly 900,000 Twitter followers, Popova is a member of a rare pantheon of “influencers” for the brainiac crowd. Miraculously, she makes a living writing a blog about science, literature, philosophy, feminism and whatever else takes her voracious and generous fancy.
Word: exigence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French exigence. 1. Exigency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house. One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than the usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to the garden gate. Example: Most fortunately the exigence of despair prompted Georgiana to instant action—she seized the letter and thrust it under the bed-clothes, at the moment the door was opened,...
Word: trifling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, trifle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪfliŋ/ 1. Trivial, or of little importance. Example: […] It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα [autourgeîn hápanta], ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters. Example: However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed. 2. Frivolous. Example: For, really, as it is a trifling Age, ſo nothing but Trifles are valued in it. Men read none but trifling Authors, purſue none but trifling Amusements, and contend for none but trifling Opinions. A trifling Fellow is prefer'd, a trifling Woman admir'd. 3. Good-for-nothing; shady or lazy; scrub. Example: You trifling good for nothin’ type of brother. Example: My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]
Word: trifling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, trifle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪfliŋ/ 1. The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.
Word: trifling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, trifle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪfliŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of trifle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lovingkindness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loving + kindness. The word arises in the King James Version of the Bible as a translation of Hebrew חסד (ḥeseḏ, “grace, kindness, love; chesed”). Pronunciation: /lʌ.vɪŋˈkʌɪnd.nɪs/, /-nəs/, /ˌlə.vɪŋˈkaɪn(d).nɪs/ 1. Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy. Labels: uncountable Example: But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that hee vnderſtandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exerciſe louing kindneſſe, iudgement, and righteouſneſſe in the earth: for in these things I delight, ſaith the Lord. Example: […] My loving kindneſſe, my mercifull diſposition is a great bond, but my faithfulneſſe ſhall binde me also, I will be content to ingage my ſelfe to you, to ingage all that I am, and all that I have to you, that you may certainly confide in me, ſo as you may not onely expect it from my love, but challenge it from my faithfulneſſe.
Word: vaca Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈveɪkeɪ/ 1. Alternative spelling of vacay. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: cha-ching Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the movie Wayne's World (1992) and by an advertisement in 1992 featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Pronunciation: /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/ 1. Score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money. Labels: informal, slang Example: Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.
Word: cha-ching Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the movie Wayne's World (1992) and by an advertisement in 1992 featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Pronunciation: /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/ 1. Money, cash. Labels: informal, slang Example: 2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207, They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching. Example: […]but the majority of hotels see guests′ phone calls as a major cha-ching opportunity and charge ridiculously inflated rates.
Word: cha-ching Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the movie Wayne's World (1992) and by an advertisement in 1992 featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Pronunciation: /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/ 1. To make the noise of a cash register or slot machine. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure. 2. To make the noise of coins falling. Labels: informal, intransitive
Word: tumbledown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from tumble down. 1. In disrepair; poorly maintained. Example: They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods. Example: The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
Word: ramshackle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1830, a back-formation from ramshackled, from ransackled, past participle of ransackle (“to ransack”), frequentative of Middle English ransaken (“to pillage”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæmˌʃæk.əl/ 1. In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles. Example: They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach. Example: Steady old Curés come jolting past, now and then, in such ramshackle, rusty, musty, clattering coaches as no Englishman would believe in;[…] 2. Badly or carelessly organized. Example: So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. Example: The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
Word: ramshackle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1830, a back-formation from ramshackled, from ransackled, past participle of ransackle (“to ransack”), frequentative of Middle English ransaken (“to pillage”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæmˌʃæk.əl/ 1. To ransack. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: upkeep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up + keep. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpkip/ 1. Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I would enjoy having a swimming pool, but I don't want to deal with the upkeep. Example: […] it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.
Word: upkeep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up + keep. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpkip/ 1. To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair. Labels: UK, transitive Example: Do you know how to upkeep a boat? Example: As for the city's buildings, it mostly resembled a town of white spires and cobblestone streets lined with flowerbeds that were upkept by magical means.
Word: steadfastness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stedfastnesse, stedefastnesse, from Old English stedefæstnes (“steadfastness”), equivalent to steadfast + -ness. 1. Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A steadfast resolution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
Word: steadfast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English stedefast, from Old English stedefæst, from Proto-Germanic *stadifastuz, equivalent to stead (“place; spot; position”) + fast (“firm; fixed”). Cognate with Middle Dutch stedevast (“steadfast”), Icelandic staðfestur (“steadfast”), Danish stedfast (“firmly attached, secured”), Danish stadfæste (“to confirm; ratify”), Norwegian Nynorsk stadfesta (“confirm, ratify; establish”), Swedish stadfästa (“to confirm; establish”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɛdfɑːst/, /ˈstɛdfæst/, /ˈstɛdfəst/ 1. Fixed or unchanging; steady. 2. Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving. Example: steadfast support Example: steadfast commitment
Word: ENIAC Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈɛniæk/, /ˈiːnɪak/ 1. Initialism of Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, one of the first electronic digital computers. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism Example: The first problem assigned to the first working electronic digital computer in the world was the hydrogen bomb. […] The ENIAC ran a first rough version of the thermonuclear calculations for six weeks in December 1945 and January 1946.
Word: electric guitar Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈlɛk.tɹɪk ɡɪˈtɑːɹ/ 1. A guitar which requires electronic amplification to produce sufficient sound. Example: He's playing the electric guitar and she's playing the drums!
Word: threnody Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare the New Latin thrēnōdia. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɛn.ə.di/ 1. A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy. Example: The fifer actually knew but one tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—and did not know that well. But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call. . . . I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason. Example: […] in the case of the well-circumstanced narration of the contest at Salamis and of the choral ode, which[…] is, in its panoramic marshalling of the conquests of Darius, a threnody on the ruin of his sea empire.
Word: theremin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Russian inventor Léon Theremin (1896–1993). Theremin is a French version of his Russian name, Ле́в Терме́н (Lév Termén). Pronunciation: /ˈθɛ.ɹə.mɪn/, /ˈθɛə.ɹəˌmɪn/ 1. An electronic musical instrument that generates sound of varying pitch and volume depending on the proximity of the musician’s hands to two antennas mounted on the instrument.
Word: desperado Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate. Pronunciation: /dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/ 1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West. Example: The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch. Example: Surely this was the face of a desperado. 2. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc. Labels: colloquial Example: The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game. 3. A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship. Labels: colloquial 4. A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
Word: doggerel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡəɹəl/ 1. Of a crude or irregular construction. Labels: not-comparable Example: True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt. Example: [I'll] haſten Og and Doeg to rehearſe, / Tvvo Fools that Crutch their Feeble Senſe on Verſe; / VVho by my Muſe to all ſucceeding times, / Shall live in ſpight of their ovvn Dogrell Rhimes.
Word: doggerel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡəɹəl/ 1. A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra). Example: As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie." 2. Any writing of crude composition. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: It is very rare to find good, personal analysis of events that does not degenerate into chest-beating, pettiness, pomposity, or political doggeral ^([sic]).
Word: ciliated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having cilia. Example: a ciliated leaf 2. Endowed with vibratory motion. Example: the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe
Word: sullied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sully + -ied (suffix forming participial adjectives and past participal forms of verbs ending in -y). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌliːd/, /ˈsʌlid/ 1. Stained, soiled. 2. Defiled, tainted. Labels: figuratively Example: O that this too too ſallied fleſh vvould melt, / Thavv and reſolue it ſelfe into a devve, […]
Word: sullied Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sully + -ied (suffix forming participial adjectives and past participal forms of verbs ending in -y). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌliːd/, /ˈsʌlid/ 1. simple past and past participle of sully Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: captious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English capcious, from Middle French captieux, or its source, Latin captiōsus, from captiō. Pronunciation: /ˈkæpʃəs/ 1. That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical. Labels: obsolete Example: […]I know I loue in vaine, ſtriue againſt hope : Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue I ſtill poure in the waters of my loue And lacke not to looſe ſtill[…] Example: A captious queſtion, Sir, and your’s is one, Deſerves an anſwer ſimilar, or none. 2. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky. Example: ...not an irritable word had escaped him; and as every captious conclusion and petulant observation had been in days past always attributed, very justly, by Isabella either to the dyspepsia, brought on by his grief for Margarita, or the fever he sustained from the climate,... Example: But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.
Word: suffuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin suffundō. Pronunciation: /səˈfjuːz/ 1. To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe. Labels: transitive Example: The entire room was suffused with a golden light. 2. To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The warmth suffused his cold fingers. Example: Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look. 3. To pour underneath. Labels: transitive
Word: suffuse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin suffundō. Pronunciation: /səˈfjuːz/ 1. Suffused; diffuse. Example: This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent. Example: Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.
Word: refulgent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin refulgentem, accusative singular of refulgēns, present active participle of refulgeō, from re- (“back”) + fulgeō (“shine”). By surface analysis, re- + Latin fulg(ere) + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈfʌld͡ʒənt/ 1. Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly. 2. As if giving off light or warmth. Labels: figuratively Example: She had a refulgent smile.
Word: gustatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin gustātus, participle of gustō (“to taste”), + -ory. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstəˌtɔɹi/, /ˈɡʌstətəɹi/, /ˈɡʌstətɹi/ 1. Of, or relating to, the sense of taste. Example: WHERE TO DINE—Well, Mary Ward, our courageous gustatory investigatress, has finally completed her rounds of the eateries and, with her last despairing effort, dashed off this report on the road houses: […] Example: The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.
Word: gawping Part of Speech: adj 1. That gawps or gawp. Labels: UK Example: gawping faces
Word: gawping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gawp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gawping Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of the verb gawp. Labels: UK
Word: sable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since 1275, from Middle English sable, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable marten”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel, whence German Zobel); ultimately from a Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*samōr). Pronunciation: /ˈseɪbəl/, /ˈseɪbɫ/ 1. A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur. Labels: countable 2. Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). Labels: countable 3. A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Ye must avenge my sister's son's death; I will sables and martins bestow." Example: Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables. 4. An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush. Labels: countable 5. A black colour on a coat of arms. Labels: uncountable 6. A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Black garments, especially worn in mourning. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: I ſee its Sables wove by Deſtiny. Example: […]a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands. 8. The sablefish. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attested since 1275, from Middle English sable, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable marten”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel, whence German Zobel); ultimately from a Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*samōr). Pronunciation: /ˈseɪbəl/, /ˈseɪbɫ/ 1. Sable-coloured, black. Example: When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white Example: Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. 2. In blazon, of the colour black. 3. Made of sable fur. 4. Dark, somber. Example: She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter. 5. Dark-skinned; Black. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long. Example: Ethnologists are in the wrong / About our sable brothers[.]
Word: encrust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French incruster, from Latin incrustare, from in- (“in”) + crustare (“to cover with a crust”). By surface analysis, en- + crust. Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɹʌst/ 1. To cover with a hard crust. Labels: transitive Example: iron encrusted with rust Example: a doughnut encrusted with sugar 2. To form a crust. Labels: intransitive 3. To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. Labels: transitive Example: The jeweller encrusted the ring with gems.
Word: morgan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for Thomas Hunt Morgan. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔɹɡən/, /ˈmɔːɡən/ 1. A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome.
Word: trans-equatorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trans- + equatorial. 1. On the other side of, or crossing the equator. Labels: not-comparable Example: Birth of Hurricane Agnes—Triggered by the Transequatorial Movement of a Mesoscale System Into a Favorable Large-Scale Environment -Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 177–179
Word: transferable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From transfer + -able. Compare inferable, deferrable. Pronunciation: /trɑːnsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, /ˈtrɑːnsf(ə)rəbl̩/, /trænsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, /ˈtrænsf(ə)rəbl̩/, /trænsˈfɝrəbl̩/ 1. Able to be transferred. Labels: not-comparable Example: To start a new career, you need transferable skills. Example: The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
Word: transferal Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈfɝəl/, /tɹɑːnsˈfɜːɹəl/, /tɹænz-/ 1. A transfer. 2. A transfer.
Word: transferase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin trānsferōder. English transfer Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-) Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs) English diastase English -ase English transferase From transfer + -ase. 1. Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a functional group, such as amine or phosphate from one molecule to another.
Word: transferee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin trānsferōder. English transfer English -ee English transferee From transfer + -ee. 1. A person who is transferred. 2. A person to whom title or ownership is conveyed.
Word: transferrin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English ferr- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English transferrin From trans- + ferr- + -in. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈfɛɹɪn/ 1. A glycoprotein, a beta-globulin, in blood serum that combines with and transports iron. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transfigure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French transfigurer. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈfɪɡjɚ/, /tɹænsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/, /tɹɑːnsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/ 1. To transform the outward appearance of; to convert into a different form, state or substance. Labels: transitive 2. To glorify or exalt. Labels: transitive
Word: transfiguration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English transfiguracioun, from Old French transfiguracion, Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, and Latin transfigūrātio. 1. A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A change that exalts or glorifies. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transfigurative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English transfigure Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English transfigurative From transfigure + -ative. 1. of, relating to, or causing transfiguration.