nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: inductor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin inductor, from Latin induco. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌkt/, [ɪnˈdʌktʰ], /ɪnˈdʌktɚ/, [ɪnˈdʌktʰɚ] ~ [ɪnˈdʌktʰɹ̩] 1. A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit. Example: The receiver on a locomotive passing over the inductors on the track on the approach side of a distant or multiple-aspect signal 2. An evocator or an organizer. 3. One who, or that which, inducts. Example: In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations. Example: He should take all efforts to see that a personal link is well established and he should shape the person in a very healthy way. The success of this lies in the capability of the inductor also who should be able to draw out the interests of the inductees.
Word: component Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin compōnēns, compōnēntis, present participle of compōnō (“assemble, put together”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈpəʊ.nənt/, /kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/, /kəmˈpoʊ.nɪnt/ 1. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device. Example: A CPU is a component of a computer. Example: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. 2. A connected subgraph that is not part of any larger connected subgraph.
Word: component Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin compōnēns, compōnēntis, present participle of compōnō (“assemble, put together”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈpəʊ.nənt/, /kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/, /kəmˈpoʊ.nɪnt/ 1. Making up a larger whole. Labels: not-comparable Example: a component word 2. Made up of smaller complete units in combination. Labels: not-comparable Example: a component stereo
Word: ice cube Part of Speech: noun 1. Any small piece of ice used for cooling drinks, larger than crushed ice, and regardless of their shape. Example: The new freezer in our kitchen makes round ice cubes! 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cube.
Word: hydraulics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hydraulic 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 hydraulics From hydraulic + -ics. Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪks/, /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪks/ 1. The engineering science that deals with practical applications where liquid is in motion and transmits energy. Labels: uncountable Example: applied hydraulics Example: The engineer specialized in fluid mechanics and hydraulics. 2. The hydraulic system of a vehicle or other machine. Labels: uncountable Example: hydraulics system Example: The brakes work on the principle of hydraulics.
Word: distant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Latin stō Latin distō Latin distānsder. Old French distantbor. Middle English distaunt English distant Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstənt/ 1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally). Example: We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me. Example: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair. 2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings. Example: Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me. 3. Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty). Labels: not-comparable Example: Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […] Example: Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.
Word: distant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Latin stō Latin distō Latin distānsder. Old French distantbor. Middle English distaunt English distant Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstənt/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: heterogeneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερογενής (heterogenḗs, “of different kinds”), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare hetero- and -ous. Pronunciation: /ˌhɛt.(ə.)ɹəˈd͡ʒiː.nɪəs/, /ˌhɛt.(ə)ˈɹɒd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/, /ˌhɛt.(ə.)ɹəʊˈd͡ʒiː.nɪəs/, /ˌhɛt.(ə.)ɹəˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/, /ˌhɛt.(ə)ˈɹɑd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/ 1. Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts. Example: He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books. Example: With a vague curiosity I began to trace the outline of some of the heterogeneous impressions, trying meanwhile to curb the flights of macabre fancy which the place and its memories suggested. 2. Incommensurable because of different kinds. 3. Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process. 4. Visibly consisting of different components. 5. Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.
Word: sailboat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sail + boat. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/, /ˈseɪlˌboʊt/ 1. A boat propelled by a sail. 2. A playing card with the rank of four. Labels: slang
Word: sailboat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sail + boat. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/, /ˈseɪlˌboʊt/ 1. To travel by sailboat.
Word: nous Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek νοῦς (noûs) or νόος (nóos, “mind”). Pronunciation: /naʊs/, /nuːs/ 1. The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional. Labels: uncountable Example: I feel the will to roam, to learn By test, experience, nous, That fire is hot and ocean deep, And wolves carnivorous. 2. The divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation. Labels: uncountable 3. Common sense; practical intelligence. Labels: uncountable Example: to demonstrate nous Example: There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originality lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous.
Word: olla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish olla, from Latin ōlla, aulla; akin to Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “pot”), and probably also Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒlə/, /ˈɔjə/ 1. A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries. Example: On top of the counter were three clay jars or ollas. Two of them were empty but the third was covered with the tin lid from a lardpail and the lid was notched to accommodate the handle of an enameled tin dipper. 2. A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America. 3. An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation. Example: An olla (which literally means “pot”) is a round, unglazed terra cotta clay pot with a long neck that you fill with water and bury next to your plants. It irrigates in the ground. 4. A cinerary urn. Labels: Ancient-Rome
Word: defective Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛktɪv/ 1. Having one or more defects. Example: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted. 2. Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person. 3. Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء). Labels: Arabic 4. Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write. 5. Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.
Word: defective Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛktɪv/ 1. Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out. Labels: not-comparable Example: For the sake of comparison, note the distribution of these spellings in some other Hebrew sources: in the MT the vowel o after the first consonant of the root is written defective in approximately 3,600 cases as against 850 cases of plene spelling.
Word: defective Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛktɪv/ 1. A person or thing considered to be defective. Example: It is an offence, subject to the exception mentioned in this section, for a person to procure a woman who is a defective to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world. Example: There were many more kinds of mental institutions at mid-century, ones for "mental defectives and epileptics" and the mentally retarded, psychiatric wards in veterans hospitals, as well as "psychopathic" and private mental hospitals. 2. A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels). Example: Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.
Word: defect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin facio Latin dēficiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin dēfectusbor. English defect Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”). Pronunciation: /ˈdiːfɛkt/ 1. A fault or malfunction. Example: a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment Example: Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. 2. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short. Example: and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture. 3. A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
Word: defect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin facio Latin dēficiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin dēfectusbor. English defect Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛkt/ 1. To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party. Labels: intransitive Example: Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.” 2. To desert one's army, to flee from combat. 3. To join the enemy army. 4. To flee one's country and seek asylum. Example: Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.
Word: coat of arms Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cote of armes, from Old French cote a armer, cote d'armes, originally a tunic embroidered with heraldic arms. Pronunciation: /kɔʊːt ʌv ˈɑɹmz/, [kʰɔʊ.ɾəv ˈɑɹmz] 1. Hereditary designs and symbols depicted on an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of a heraldic achievement, such as a helm, crest, crest coronet, torse, mantling and supporters; described by a blazon.
Word: loma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From λῶμα (lôma, “fringe, hem”). 1. A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
Word: loma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish loma (“hill”). 1. singular of lomas Labels: form-of, singular Example: In the central Andes, such villages are generally associated with a loma, a fog oasis or well - delimited zone in which specific topographical , weather, and soil conditions prevail because fogs from the ocean condense water there. […] The human settlement extended over some 10 km on the slopes of the lower ridges of the Andes, all along the lower section of a fog oasis, with ponds and marshes still alive between the loma and the beach. Example: Apart from the loma, there is contracted vegetation […]
Word: crêpe Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɹɛp/, /kɹeɪp/, [kʰɹɛjp], [k(ʰ)ɹeːp], [kɹɛ(ː)p] 1. Alternative spelling of crepe. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Wallace’s crêpes are plain, with just powdered sugar and strawberries on the side.
Word: crêpe Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɹɛp/, /kɹeɪp/, [kʰɹɛjp], [k(ʰ)ɹeːp], [kɹɛ(ː)p] 1. Alternative spelling of crepe. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: combine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English combynyn, from Middle French combiner, from Late Latin combīnāre (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + bīnī (“two by two”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈbaɪn/ 1. To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite. Labels: transitive Example: Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl. Example: I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip. 2. To have two or more things or properties that function together. Labels: transitive Example: Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician. 3. To come together; to unite. Labels: intransitive Example: two substances that easily combine Example: You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design. 4. In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. 5. To bind; to hold by a moral tie. Labels: obsolete Example: I am combined by a sacred vow.
Word: combine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English combynyn, from Middle French combiner, from Late Latin combīnāre (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + bīnī (“two by two”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑm.baɪn/, /ˈkɒm.baɪn/ 1. Ellipsis of combine harvester. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud. Example: When those combine wheels stops turnin' And the hard days work is done Theres a pub around the corner It's the place we 'ave our fun 2. A combination. Example: The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges. Example: [In the decades before the First World War] In the USA and Germany in particular, huge manufacturing combines were being created and were developing a very powerful economic and increasingly political presence at home and on international markets. 3. A combination. Example: His grandmother worked in the stamping plant of the sheet and tin combine. 4. A combination. 5. Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 6. A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team. Example: If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine or pro-day test. Example: In 2008, a study was published that examined the ability of the NFL combine to predict football playing performance in the NFL (Kuzmits and Adams, 2008).
Word: combination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English combinacioun, combynacyoun, from Old French combination, from Late Latin combīnātiō. Morphologically combine + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒmbɪˈneɪʃən/, /ˌkɑmbɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: combinations of colors Example: These guidelines should be followed in combination with those given last week. 2. An object formed by combining. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The chef experimented with new flavor combinations. Example: Certain drug combinations can be dangerous. 3. A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The combination to their safe was the date of birth of their first child. 4. One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An association or alliance of people for some common purpose. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A motorcycle and sidecar. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An advantageous sequence of forcing or nearly forcing moves, often initiated with a sacrifice. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Synonym of combinations (A one-piece suit of underwear). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: foreigner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English forner, foreyner, foroner, forenere, augmentation of earlier forein (“foreigner”), from the adjective. Equivalent to foreign + -er. Use of the -er suffix may be due to analogy with Middle English straunger (“stranger”). Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪ.nə(ɹ)/, /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/, /ˈfɔɹ.ə.nɚ/, /ˈfɑɹ.ɪ.nɚ/ 1. A person from a foreign country. Example: By the existing law of Great Britain all foreigners have the unrestricted right of entrance and residence in this country; and while they remain in it are, equally with British subjects, under the protection of the law; nor can they be punished except for an offence against the law, and under the sentence of the ordinary tribunals of justice, after a public trial, and on a conviction founded on evidence given in open court. No foreigners, as such, can be sent out of this country by the Executive Government, except persons removed by virtue of treaties with other States; confirmed by Act of Parliament, for the mutual surrender of criminal offenders. Example: For a student of American history and a foreigner like myself, it is easier to understand all these extremisms of conscience. 2. A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
Word: crepe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp and crape. Pronunciation: /kɹeɪp/, /kɹɛp/ 1. A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While the mixture is very similar to crepe batter, when you confine it to deep, narrow, muffinlike molds, the surface of the batter sets and the air is trapped, so that the pastry has nowhere to go but up and out, creating a gravity-defying bubble. Example: Aside from their pierogis, their menu also includes Ukrainian borscht soup, nalysnyky crepes and uzvar, a traditional drink made out of dried fruits and honey. 2. A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Rubber in sheets, used especially for shoe soles. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The policeman wore crepe-soled shoes. 5. A death notice printed on white card with a background of black crepe paper or cloth, placed on the door of a residence or business. Labels: Ireland, countable, uncountable
Word: crepe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp and crape. Pronunciation: /kɹeɪp/, /kɹɛp/ 1. To cover in crepe. Labels: transitive 2. To crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper Labels: transitive 3. To frizz (the hair). Labels: transitive
Word: chapter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/, /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/ 1. One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book. Example: Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter. Example: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum. 2. One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book. Example: CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books. Example: At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics, 3. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law) 4. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law) 5. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law) 6. A section of a social body. 7. A section of a social body. Example: If the By-Law which admits honorary members is silent upon their rights, they may perhaps be determined by a consideration of which of these classes was intended by the Chapter in admitting them 8. A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders. 9. A chapter house 10. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue. Example: 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I, "You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home." Example: […]she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again. 11. A location or compartment. Labels: obsolete Example: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? 12. A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
Word: chapter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/, /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/ 1. To divide into chapters. 2. To put into a chapter. 3. To use administrative procedure to remove someone. Example: If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad. Example: "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army." 4. To take to task. Labels: transitive
Word: crossword puzzle Part of Speech: noun 1. A crossword. Example: Humans are not so different, she argues: “We have these incredibly huge brains but we use them to do crossword puzzles – that’s not something that is evolutionarily selected for.”
Word: astronomical unit Part of Speech: noun 1. 149,597,870,700 metres, the approximate mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system. Example: Now this big quarter of a Jupiter mass planet is in an orbit about Zeta 2 Reticuli which lasts 18.9 days and has a Semi-Major Axis of 0.14 Astronomical Unit (AU). For comparison Mercury has a Semi-Major Axis of 0.387 AU equal to 36 million miles and Earth has a Semi-Major Axis of 1.00 AU equal to 92.9 million miles. Now if we assume that this newly discovered planet, which we will name Reticulum 1 in accordance with Bob Lazar’s convention, is the closest one to Zeta 2 Reticuli (it’s hard to imagine a closer one), then following Bode’s Law (the law which states each planet is about twice the distance from it’s sun as its inner neighbor) Reticulum 2 should be at 0.28 AU, Reticulum 3 should be at 0.56 AU and, INTERESTINGLY, Reticulum 4 would be at 1.12 AU in between the Earth’s 1.00 AU and Mars’s 1.52 AU, well within the “life-zone” of a G class star! Example: Gagarin Station is the largest deep space station built by humanity, a "Bernal Sphere" designed with a 500-meter-diameter habitable area. It was constructed beyond Pluto, nearly 80 Astronomical Units (12 billion kilometers) from Sol. Moving crew and materials to this location bankrupted most of the backers.
Word: AU Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of almost uncirculated. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: AU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of alopecia universalis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of astronomical unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Tuntau is an enormous, low-density terrestrial planet, with a thick atmosphere of methane and helium. Despite being nearly 20 AU from Phoenix, the star's great heat and the insulating thickness of the atmosphere make the surface surprisingly temperate. 3. Initialism of angstrom unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of alternate universe or alternative universe. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable 5. Initialism of arbitrary unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of animal unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: AU Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of African Union. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Age of Ultron. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: boob job Part of Speech: noun 1. A breast augmentation (or, less commonly, a breast reduction). Labels: slang Example: Do you reckon that celebrity's had a boob job? 2. An act of mammary intercourse. Labels: slang
Word: kick ass Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɪk æs/, [kʰɪk æs] 1. To win decisively. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar Example: Did you win? We didn't just win, we kicked ass. 2. To be very impressive. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, stative, vulgar Example: The soundtrack to this film really kicks ass! 3. To beat to a pulp; beat up Labels: ambitransitive, informal, vulgar Example: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. Example: Whoa... it's like a postcard! 'Dear Sarge: kicking ass in outer space, wish you were here.'
Word: kick ass Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /kɪk æs/, [kʰɪk æs] 1. Used to express happiness or a feeling of accomplishment. Labels: slang, sometimes, vulgar Example: Kick ass! I just got my friend to stop playing that stupid song!
Word: lose one's rag Part of Speech: verb 1. To become angry. Labels: UK, slang Example: 1928, Ethel May Dell, The Gate Marked "Private", G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 248, […] he could not have said wherefore. “She was dressed as a bride if you must know,” he said. “But I don’t know what you’ve got to lose your rag about. She’s nothing to you.” Example: c'''1934, in Famous Plays of 1933–1934, page 449, Doll: Well, I’ll be trotting along. Sorry I lost my rag with […]
Word: get one's kit off Part of Speech: verb 1. To undress or be naked. Labels: UK, slang Example: The woman in this film is not shy about getting her kit off, is she?
Word: leg it Part of Speech: verb 1. To run away, to flee. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang Example: After snatching my handbag he just legged it. 2. To hurry. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang Example: As soon as I heard about the fire I legged it over here as fast as I could.
Word: work out Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌwɜːk ˈaʊt/, /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ 1. To calculate. Labels: transitive Example: Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me? Example: Can you work out how to get to the university by car? 2. To make sense of. Labels: transitive Example: I can't work these instructions out. 3. To decide. Labels: transitive Example: I can't work out if I like him or not. 4. To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: hash out, hammer out Example: I think we can work out a compromise. 5. To resolve; to find a solution for. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: straighten out, sort out Example: They managed to work out their differences. 6. To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: plan out, lay out Example: to work out a plan 7. To smooth or perfect. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: iron out, smooth out Example: This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks. 8. To conclude with the correct solution. Labels: intransitive Example: Near-synonym: add up Example: These figures just don't work out. 9. To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation. Labels: intransitive Example: Near-synonym: pan out Example: Are you still seeing John? – No, it didn't work out. 10. To exercise, especially by lifting weights. Labels: intransitive Example: John won't be here for a while because he's working out. Example: Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out? 11. To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise. Labels: transitive Example: To work out your core Example: Hot, worked-out body and a creative mind possessed by this hunky, handsome, married guy. 12. To earn a wage working away from one's farm. Labels: US, intransitive Example: The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer they worked out together. Example: […] with them good wages, maybe a fella can get hisself a little piece a land an’ work out for extra cash. 13. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand. Example: He works out of a small office shared with three others. 14. To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited. Example: The gravel pit had been worked out. Example: A worked-out chalk pit or quarry
Word: puffed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From puff + -ed. Pronunciation: /pʌft/ 1. simple past and past participle of puff Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: puffed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From puff + -ed. Pronunciation: /pʌft/ 1. Inflated or swollen. 2. Gathered up into rounded ridges. Example: The dress had puffed sleeves. 3. Expanded by the use of steam. 4. Consisting of a puff; exhaled or produced in puffs. Example: the puffed smoke of a cigar
Word: puffed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Shortened from puffed out. Pronunciation: /pʌft/ 1. Synonym of puffed out (“panting from exercise”). Labels: colloquial
Word: junction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/ 1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined. Example: Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas. 2. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet. Example: Turn left at the next road junction. 3. A place where two or more railways or railroads meet. Example: The two rail lines meet at a major junction. Example: In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another. 4. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals. 5. The place where a distributary departs from the main stream. 6. A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts. Example: Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example. Example: Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions. 7. A kind of symbolic link to a directory. 8. In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator. 9. electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Word: junction Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/ 1. To form a junction. Labels: figuratively Example: critical junction Example: symbolic junction
Word: puffed out Part of Speech: adj 1. Inflated. Example: He had his cheeks puffed out as if his mouth was full of water. 2. Panting because of having exercised. Labels: colloquial
Word: puffed out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of puff out Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: psychology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanist Marko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expression dē animā (“on the soul”) in titles. Pronunciation: /saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/, /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /sɑɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/ 1. The study of the human mind. Labels: uncountable Example: Idleness is the beginning of all psychology . 2. The study of human or animal behavior. Labels: uncountable 3. The study of the soul. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: Alcinous in Didascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul from Timaeus 69c–72c […] to lead into a dedicated discussion of psychology. 4. The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity. Labels: countable Example: For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood... Example: In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
Word: pain in the arse Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪn ɪn ði ˌɑːs/ 1. Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: You really are a pain in the arse, aren't you (laugh track)? The PM is going up the wall! Hitting the roof! You can't go around making speeches like that.
Word: pap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk. Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. Labels: uncountable Example: Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water. 2. Pablum or nonsense. Labels: colloquial, uncountable 3. Porridge. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable Example: Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai. 4. A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet Labels: Africa, Nigeria, West, countable, uncountable 5. Support from official patronage. Labels: countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable Example: Treasury pap 6. The pulp of fruit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple. Example: A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple.
Word: pap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk. Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. To feed with pap. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !
Word: pap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”). Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. A female breast or nipple. Labels: archaic Example: But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd […] Example: they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps [translating tetins] and buttocks[…]. 2. A man's breast. Labels: archaic Example: Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him. 3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak. Example: the paps of Jura
Word: pap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of Pap smear. Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”). Labels: alt-of
Word: pap Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1. Pronunciation: /pap/, /pæp/ 1. Weak, feeble; lacking substance. Labels: South-Africa, slang Example: His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to. 2. Spineless, wet, without character. Labels: South-Africa, slang Example: He is so pap and boring. 3. Flat. Labels: South-Africa, slang Example: I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
Word: pap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of paparazzo. Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. Clipping of paparazzo. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way. Example: We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.
Word: pap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of paparazzo. Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent. Labels: informal Example: Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again! Example: The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).
Word: pap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare pa, papa, pop. Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. Pa; father. Labels: informal Example: Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.
Word: pap Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pæp/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”). Labels: Internet, alt-of
Word: correction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛkʃən/ 1. The act of correcting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A substitution for an error or mistake. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: As the facts of the case were investigated, it became apparent that before us was the story of a man whom the entire machinery of law enforcement and correction had conspired against from the beginning to the end. 4. An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have four T-80 tanks at grid Three-niner-niner-four-eight-eight, Correction: Grid Three niner-niner-four-eight-five. How copy? Over.
Word: paparazzi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian paparazzi, plural of paparazzo. Pronunciation: /ˌpæ.pəˈɹæt.si/, /ˌpa.pəˈɹat.sɪj/, /ˌpa.pəˈɹat.sɪ/, /-si/, /ˌpa.pəˈɾat.si/ 1. plural of paparazzo Labels: form-of, plural Example: A number of paparazzi had gate-crashed, as had a famous tennis-player and a couple of pop-singers. Example: A number of paparazzi were there to take pictures, clearly having received a further tip-off about the party’s movements.
Word: paparazzi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian paparazzi, plural of paparazzo. Pronunciation: /ˌpæ.pəˈɹæt.si/, /ˌpa.pəˈɹat.sɪj/, /ˌpa.pəˈɹat.sɪ/, /-si/, /ˌpa.pəˈɾat.si/ 1. Alternative form of paparazzo. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable Example: The job of a paparazzi is, roughly, to ‘reveal the truth’ about the rich and the famous. Example: A paparazzi is investigating the lives of a Royal couple. 2. Paparazzi taken as a group. Labels: uncountable Example: “Tell Page that PAPARAZZI is here, in my apartment. And then tell her that their offices are right across from us …” Example: Rather, the business paparazzi is armoring itself for a backlash campaign against the entrepreneurial big mouths.
Word: baptism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bapteme, baptesme, from Old French batesme or bapteme, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptisma, from Ancient Greek βάπτισμα (báptisma, “dipping, baptism”), from βαπτίζω (baptízō, “I dip in liquid”). Displaced native Old English fulwiht. Pronunciation: /ˈbæptɪzəm/ 1. A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The child’s baptism was held at the old church. Example: The ceremony of baptism symbolizes spiritual rebirth. 2. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The moment at which an object is first assigned a proper name. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: over there Part of Speech: adv 1. In that place; there (at some distance). Example: You see that house over there? That's where I used to live. Example: Shepard: I'm looking for an asari. Dr. Palon: Asari? Well, there's Dr. Iallis over there. Dr. Palon: There's also our guest, Lady Benezia. Captain Ventralis might know where she is. 2. To that place; thither (at some distance). Example: Let's head over there. 3. overseas to Europe (for military engagement), especially to the Western Front in France during World War I Labels: US, colloquial
Word: as well as Part of Speech: conj Pronunciation: /əz ˈwɛl æz/, /əz ˈwɛl əz/, /əˈzwɛlz/ 1. And, in addition; not forgetting Example: It is to be promoted as a leisure activity, as well as as a social distinction. Example: The moon as well as the stars was shining down on them. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, well. Example: As well as I recollect, he was about six feet tall. Example: She sings as well as she plays the piano.
Word: as well as Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /əz ˈwɛl æz/, /əz ˈwɛl əz/, /əˈzwɛlz/ 1. In addition to; further to. Example: As well as the obvious financial benefits, the merger will allow us some breathing room with regards to R&D.
Word: over here Part of Speech: adv 1. In this place.
Word: fortnightly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fortnight Middle English -ly English -ly English fortnightly From fortnight + -ly. 1. Occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fortnightly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English fortnight Middle English -ly English -ly English fortnightly From fortnight + -ly. 1. once in a fortnight; once every two weeks Labels: not-comparable Example: That's where my column appears, in the Greenville Herald, fortnightly.
Word: fortnightly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fortnight Middle English -ly English -ly English fortnightly From fortnight + -ly. 1. A publication issued fortnightly (once every two weeks).