nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: microaerophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + aerophile. 1. An organism, especially an aerobic bacterium, that lives and thrives in environments low in oxygen.
Word: posse comitatus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin posse comitātūs (“force of the county”, literally “power of the county”). 1. The able-bodied men over 15 in a given county who can be summoned by the sheriff to help keep the peace, or arrest a felon; also a group of men so gathered. Labels: historical Example: They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. 2. Any band of men, especially armed or hostile. Labels: figuratively Example: With him retired his ‘posse comitatus,’ / The attorney last, who linger'd near the door / Reluctantly […]
Word: microaerophilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From micro- + aerophilic. 1. Of or relating to a microaerophile or to microaerophily. Labels: not-comparable 2. Able to thrive in an environment low in oxygen. Labels: not-comparable
Word: optima Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of optimum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crotanaldehyde Part of Speech: noun 1. an unsaturated aliphatic aldehyde, 2-butenal, CH₃.CH:CH.CHO; it is used in the manufacture of sorbic acid, and to denature alcohol Labels: uncountable
Word: sorbic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin sorbum (“the rowan or serviceberry”). 1. an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH₃.CH:CH.CH:CH.COOH, found in Rowan berries, and used as a preservative Labels: uncountable
Word: back into Part of Speech: verb 1. To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost. Labels: idiomatic Example: The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs. 2. To be forced into a situation by circumstances. Labels: idiomatic Example: I didn't have any other options, I was backed into it. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, into. Example: I like to back into parking spots.
Word: cardinal bishop Part of Speech: noun 1. A cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who is bishop of one of the cardinal ("hinge") dioceses of the Province of Rome. 2. A cardinal who is a bishop anywhere.
Word: thermophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thermo- + -phile. 1. An organism that lives and thrives at relatively high temperatures; a form of extremophile; many are members of the Archaea.
Word: thermophilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der. Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der. English thermo- English -philic English thermophilic From thermo- + -philic. 1. Of or relating to a thermophile; living and thriving at relatively high temperatures.
Word: pika Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French, from an Evenki word which Peter Simon Pallas transcribes as piika or peeka, but which cannot be found in modern dictionaries. Probably ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare typologically German Pfeifhase (< pfeifen (+ Hase) << Latin pīpō), Czech pišťucha, Russian пищу́ха (piščúxa) (akin to пища́ть (piščátʹ), писк (pisk)). Pronunciation: /ˈpiːkə/, /ˈpaɪkə/ 1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the genus Ochotona, from the mountains of North America and Asia.
Word: hardwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hard + wood. The term refers to the seed coat of the tree's seeds; it does not refer to the degree of hardness of the tree's wood, but it seems to do so and is usually assumed to do so by speakers not well informed about trees and timber. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹdˌwʊd/ 1. The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness. Labels: countable Example: Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood. 2. (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness. Labels: countable Example: Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods. Example: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold. 3. The tree or tree species that yields the preceding. Labels: countable Example: This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here. 4. A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which. Labels: uncountable Example: You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk. 5. The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: hardwood Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hard + wood. The term refers to the seed coat of the tree's seeds; it does not refer to the degree of hardness of the tree's wood, but it seems to do so and is usually assumed to do so by speakers not well informed about trees and timber. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹdˌwʊd/ 1. Made of interlocking hardwood boards. Labels: not-comparable
Word: MICR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of magnetic ink character recognition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: softwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From soft + wood. The term refers to the seed coat, or absence thereof, of the tree's seeds; it does not refer to the degree of softness or hardness of the tree's wood, but it seems to do so and is usually assumed to do so by speakers not well informed about trees and timber. 1. The wood from any gymnosperm, without regard to its softness. Labels: uncountable Example: The bodies are sheeted in softwood, a double layer of ⅝-in. boards on the quarters, with a single thickness lining inside the steel ends. 2. Wood of this kind, but limited to those that are commercial timbers. Labels: countable 3. The tree or tree species that yields this wood. Labels: countable Example: SYP is a softwood, but it is harder than many hardwoods. Example: This softwood has been planted extensively throughout Scotland. 4. Any commercial timber. Labels: uncountable Example: You should have used softwood for the frame of this shed, instead of overbuilding it like this.
Word: doggy bags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doggy bag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doggie bag Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of doggy bag. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bags Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bæɡz/, /bæːɡz/ 1. plural of bag Labels: form-of, plural 2. A large quantity. Example: No need to rush: there's bags of time. Example: Please take as many coat hangers as you like. I've got bags. 3. A game similar to beanbag toss, cornhole. Example: It may have many names, but depending on where you reside it only has one. ‘Cornhole’ or ‘Bags’ has been in the middle of discussions when it comes to what the popular bag toss game is called. 4. Trousers. Labels: slang Example: ‘Emerson, you beast, you've got on my bags.’ 5. A woman's breasts. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: bags Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bæɡz/, /bæːɡz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bag Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bags Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”). Pronunciation: /bæɡz/, /bæːɡz/ 1. To reserve for oneself. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day. Example: Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
Word: bags Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”). Pronunciation: /bæɡz/, /bæːɡz/ 1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'. Example: Bags I sit in the front seat!
Word: doggie bags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doggie bag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hot short Part of Speech: adj 1. Of metal: brittle at high temperatures. Example: hot-short iron
Word: plod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”). Pronunciation: /plɒd/, /plɑd/ 1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. Labels: uncountable Example: We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod. Example: Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.
Word: plod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”). Pronunciation: /plɒd/, /plɑd/ 1. To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). Labels: intransitive Example: The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me, Example: I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow; 2. To trudge over or through. Labels: transitive Example: Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph? Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers. Example: 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451, […] Speed thou to Lombard-street, Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet, 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread, 3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. Labels: intransitive Example: On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job. Example: 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low, which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe, He must be still familiar with the skyes, which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes; 4. To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets. Labels: transitive
Word: plod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”). Pronunciation: /plɒd/, /plɑd/ 1. A puddle. Labels: obsolete
Word: plod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From PC Plod. Pronunciation: /plɒd/, /plɑd/ 1. the police, police officers Labels: UK, derogatory, mildly, uncountable, usually, with-definite-article 2. a police officer, especially a low-ranking one. Labels: UK, countable, derogatory, mildly, usually
Word: upbeat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From up- + beat. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈbit/ 1. Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat. Example: The notes are easy, but it's an upbeat tune and should be played fairly quickly. 2. Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc. Example: Though he had bad news, he ended with an upbeat forecast for the future. Example: He sounded upbeat when I talked to him.
Word: upbeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + beat. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpˌbit/ 1. An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase. Example: The conductor said: I give you three beats for nothing and then you come in on the upbeat.
Word: maquis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula. Pronunciation: /ˈmakiː/, /maˈkiː/ 1. Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. Labels: uncountable Example: The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs. 2. The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country. Example: For many weeks after I finished Bodyguard of Lies, Alan Turing stuck in my mind. He seemed so incongruous a figure to be mixed up with the cut-throat maquis and sinister double-agents who populated the rest of the book.
Word: strawberry tree Part of Speech: noun 1. A cane apple, an evergreen shrub or small tree (Arbutus unedo), in family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland, which bears fruits which resemble strawberries. 2. A cane apple, an evergreen shrub or small tree (Arbutus unedo), in family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland, which bears fruits which resemble strawberries. 3. A cane apple, an evergreen shrub or small tree (Arbutus unedo), in family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland, which bears fruits which resemble strawberries. 4. A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura), in the family Malvaceae, native to the American tropics 5. A Chinese strawberry tree (Myrica rubra), in the family Myricaceae
Word: Beere Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Moos Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: cacuminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /kəˈkjuːmɪnəs/ 1. Having a pyramidal top. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ. Example: [A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]
Word: carrom Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of carom. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Jonny watches me powder his varnished carrom board.
Word: carrom Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of carom. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: carom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Sanskrit कर्मार (karmā́ra)der. Marathi करंबळ (karambaḷ)der. Malay karambalbor. Portuguese carambolabor. Spanish carambolabor. French caramboleder.? English carom Probably derived from French carambole (the red ball in billiards). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəm/ 1. A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. Labels: countable 2. A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter. Labels: uncountable Example: He loved playing carom in his free time.
Word: carom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Sanskrit कर्मार (karmā́ra)der. Marathi करंबळ (karambaḷ)der. Malay karambalbor. Portuguese carambolabor. Spanish carambolabor. French caramboleder.? English carom Probably derived from French carambole (the red ball in billiards). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəm/ 1. To make a carom (shot in billiards). Labels: intransitive 2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound. Example: [T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America […] while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs. Example: His head hit the side of the iron banisters and then, a twisting wheel of arms and legs, he disappeared over the edge, down into the well. There was a short crash as he caromed off some obstacle, then a pause, then a mingled thud and crack as he hit the ground. Then silence.
Word: carom Part of Speech: noun 1. Ajwain. Labels: uncountable
Word: non-smoker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English non- English smoke Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English smoker English non-smoker From non- + smoker. 1. Somebody who does not smoke tobacco. Example: The smaller saloon is reserved for non-smokers in both cases. 2. A railway carriage where smoking tobacco is not permitted.
Word: line conch Part of Speech: noun 1. A spiral marine shell (Cinctura lilium), found in Florida and the Caribbean.
Word: fumitory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English fumyter (with remodelling of suffix), from Old French fumeterre, from Latin fūmus terrae. 1. Any plant of the taxonomic genus Fumaria of annual herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to temperate Europe and Asia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Elster Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Elster. 1. A surname from German.
Word: line breeding Part of Speech: noun 1. Breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother. Labels: uncountable
Word: cross the line Part of Speech: verb 1. To overstep a boundary, rule, or limit; to go too far or do something unacceptable. Labels: idiomatic Example: I can tolerate a lot, but they really crossed the line when they broke the equipment. Example: I don't even know her But I feel a responsibility to do what's upstanding and right It's kinda like a code, yeah And you've been getting closer and closer, and crossing so many lines 2. To finish a race. 3. To achieve completion of something. 4. To cross the equator, as a vessel at sea. 5. To film from the opposite side of an imaginary axis on set in order to view the actors from the opposite direction.
Word: line of fire Part of Speech: noun 1. A direction in which a weapon fires. 2. A position that is vulnerable to attack. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: It is a difficult balancing act because Maguire might not wish to be taken out of the line of fire and such are United's current struggles that Solskjaer may feel he needs his leader going in to battle for him.
Word: line of dip Part of Speech: noun 1. A line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon
Word: Gunter's line Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Gunter + -'s + line, from the surname of the English clergyman, geometer, and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1628), the inventor of the Gunter’s scale. Pronunciation: /ˌɡʌntəz ˈlaɪn/, /ˌɡʊn-/, /ˌɡʌntɚz ˈlaɪn/, [-ɾɚz-] 1. A logarithmic line on a Gunter's scale, which is used to perform the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically with only dividers.
Word: lined gold Part of Speech: noun 1. Gold foil (thin sheet) having a lining of another metal. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: line engraving Part of Speech: noun 1. Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, usually cut with a burin upon copper or similar material. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A plate or picture produced by printing from such an engraving. Labels: countable
Word: line of battle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: line + battle 1. The position of troops arranged in their usual order without any determined maneuver. 2. The line or arrangement formed by warships in an engagement. Labels: historical
Word: line of centers Part of Speech: noun 1. A line joining centers of figures. 2. A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. 3. A line which determines a dead center.
Word: line of march Part of Speech: noun 1. The arrangement of troops during a march. Labels: historical 2. The course or direction taken by marching soldiers. Labels: historical
Word: line of operations Part of Speech: noun 1. That portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. Example: As a general rule, a line of operations should- be directed upon the centre, or one of the extremities of the enemy's line of defence; unless our forces be infinitely superior in number,
Word: palmistry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English palmestrie. Equivalent to palm + -ist + -ry. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːmɪstɹi/, /ˈpɑːməstɹi/, /ˈpɑ(l)məstɹi/, /ˈpɔ(l)məstɹi/ 1. Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry. Example: And those fayre hands within whose louely palmes, Fortune diuineth happie Augurie, Those straightest fingers dealing heauenly almes, Pointed with pur’st of Natures Alcumie, Where loue sits looking in loues palmistrie. 2. A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. Labels: countable, usually Example: No living palmistries can spell The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand Example: Both the composition and the transmission of this palmistry must be taken in the context of the medieval Christian world, in which the life on earth was still secondary to the life in the hereafter; even so, texts such as these palmistries do make the unreadable mysteries of one’s relationship to the world seem more familiar and more accessible. 3. A dexterous use or trick of the hand. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually Example: 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2, No. 130, 30 July, 1711, London: J. and R. Tonson, 12th edition, 1739, p. 182, In the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.
Word: line of life Part of Speech: noun 1. A line on the palm of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.
Word: line of sight Part of Speech: noun 1. A straight line along which an observer has a clear view. Example: in my line of sight 2. The line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.
Word: line of sight Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of line-of-sight. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: line tub Part of Speech: noun 1. A wooden tub in which the towline aboard a whaleboat is coiled.
Word: civil disobedience Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental. Labels: uncountable Example: We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked in earnest on preparations for mass action.
Word: Mason-Dixon Line Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after English astronomers Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779). 1. The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run (1764–1767) by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, that, before abolition, defined part of the northern boundary of states in which slavery was permitted. Labels: historical Example: I am indebted to you for a topic to deny to the Pensylvania claim to a line 39 complete degrees from the equator. As an advocate I shall certainly insist on it; but I wish they would compromise by an extension of Mason & Dixon's line. — They do not agree to the temporary line proposed by our assembly. Example: The Virginia gentlemen offer to divide exactly the 40th degree with us, […] Perhaps we would be as well off with Mason and Dixon's''' line continued. 2. The boundary between the free and slave states at the time of the American Civil War, or between states with different segregationist policies in the Jim Crow era. Example: […] and he tell'd me Georgia would go for me, arter^([sic]) the Gineral^([sic]), as soon as any north of mason and dickson^([sic]). Example: The epistles are not dated far apart; and in the second, the writer, who dwelleth near ‘Mason and Dixon,’ descants upon the awful climate hereabout in the summer months.
Word: Mason-Dixon line Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of Mason-Dixon Line. Labels: alt-of
Word: Mason and Dixon line Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Mason-Dixon Line. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: on the line Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. On a level with the eye of the observer, as of a picture hung in on a wall. 2. At risk, as in a contest or enterprise. Labels: figuratively Example: The survival of the company is on the line with this project. Example: I have a stalker. My life is on the line! 3. Currently calling on the telephone. Example: I have John on the line for you. 4. On one of the lines marked on a playing field or court; (by extension) within bounds. Example: The ball was on the line but the umpire ruled it out.
Word: line of force Part of Speech: noun 1. An imaginary line in a field of force, whose tangent at any point gives the direction of the field at that point and whose number through unit area perpendicular to the field represents its intensity.
Word: line of beauty Part of Speech: noun 1. A curved line that is supposedly inherently beautiful. It is represented in different ways by different authors, although usually as a kind of elongated S (like the one in William Hogarth’s painting in this entry). Example: Every line is the line of beauty; it is only fumble and bungle which cannot draw a line. This only is ugliness. That is not a line which doubts and hesitates in the midst of its course.
Word: water-line model Part of Speech: noun 1. a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to the water lines as shown in the plans and laid upon each other to form a solid model Example: Assuming the body-plan to be already swept in by the diagonal lines, (it matters not for our present purpose whether they are swept in the half-breadth,) we may now divide the body-plan into sections parallel to the base-line, as high as the load-line of flotation; and on those assumed water-lines take the half-breadths, the same as we would were we laying down a water-line model, or laying down the water-lines, which in fact we would be. Example: The larger the boat, the more can these dimensions be exaggerated, and we are afraid that a model to scale would be very "crank." A 20-in. water-line model of the design given could not comfortably carry more than 400 sq. ins., and it would be advisable to drop the keel another inch to make the draught about 4½ ins.
Word: water line Part of Speech: noun 1. The outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water. 2. Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines. 3. Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded. Example: The water line is to that Bend or place she should swim in when she is loaded. Example: […] Jonah throws himself into his berth, and finds the little state-room ceiling almost resting on his forehead. The air is close, and Jonah gasps. Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship’s water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels’ wards. 4. The line corresponding to the surface of the water touching any submerged object or body. Example: Not far away, off our weather bow, there was a little iceberg which had such a queerness about it that the captain and three men went in a boat to look at it. The ice was mighty clear ice, and you could see almost through it, and right inside of it, not more than three feet above the water-line, and about two feet, or maybe twenty inches, inside the ice, was a whopping big shark, about fourteen feet long,—a regular man-eater,—frozen in there hard and fast. Example: The Lily Lake beaver house, in which the old beaver spent the drouthy winter, was a large roughly rounded affair that measured twenty-two feet in diameter. It rose only four feet above the normal water-line. 5. The level at which water meets land along the shore of a body of water. Example: Little creeks ran into [the river] in the wet season, but now their dry mouths hung clear above water-line. Example: The shore along which they rowed was, at first, wooded to the water line. 6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, line.
Word: line up Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /laɪnˈʌp/, /lɑenˈɐp/, /laɪnˈɐp/, [lɑe̯nˈɐp] 1. To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. 2. To put things in a line. Labels: transitive 3. To put things in a line. Labels: colloquial, transitive 4. To get into a line; especially, so as to wait one's turn. Labels: intransitive Example: For the steam services, passengers with reserved seats are assembled behind the appropriate notice boards in the centre cab road, which is barred to motor traffic on summer Saturdays. Unreserved passengers line up behind other boards, which merely display destinations and not departure times. 5. To start a game in a certain position on the playing field. Labels: intransitive Example: The Nigerian forward lined up on the left of a front three with Keane in the middle and Frederic Piquionne on the right, and it was from Keane's lay-off that the former Portsmouth striker curled a shot straight at Ben Foster on 20 minutes. 6. To make arrangements for an event. Example: A number of famous actors and musicians have been lined up for the celebrations. Example: OK, with this guy being so great, the best offensive lineman in football, we lined up an interview. We showed up at Redskin Park in suburban Washington, D.C., near Dulles Airport, on a beautiful morning for a chat with this Jim Lachey. 7. To support a group or movement. Example: The final vote between Hollande and Sarkozy now depends on a delicate balance of how France's total of rightwing and leftwing voters line up. 8. To agree or correspond. Example: Fury Road is a long way away from being a political tract, but it is a story about heroic women overcoming the influence of a predatory, proprietary, evil man, and I do think that matters. In any case, I’ve been doing my best to enjoy politically repellant action movies for my entire life, and I can’t even tell you how great it is that my favorite action movie of all time happens to have ideas about life that line up with my own. That’s one of Fury Road’s many miracles. 9. To have switches set so the train is capable of moving along its correct route.
Word: line up Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/, /ˈlɑen.ɐp/, /ˈlaɪn.ɐp/, [ˈlɑe̯n.ɐp] 1. Nonstandard spelling of lineup. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard 2. A haircut where the front region of a person's hair is shaved to form a crisp line between their hair and the shaved region, sometimes coordinated to create a smooth transition between their hair and beard.
Word: battle ship Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of battleship. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: all your base are belong to us Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Mistranslation of Japanese 君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた (literally “we (CATS) have taken all of your bases”). This grammatically incorrect "Engrish" phrase originated in the English subtitles of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the 1989 Japanese arcade game Zero Wing and became a catchphrase and meme on the Internet in the early 2000s. 1. Used to tout victory over an opponent, or simply as a humorous catchphrase. Labels: Internet, humorous
Word: line of battle ship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: line of battle + ship 1. A ship of the line or battleship. Labels: obsolete Example: I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre; it was commonly said that two masts, a bowsprit and a swivel gun would have transformed our dwelling into a line-of-battle ship[.]
Word: get with the program Part of Speech: verb 1. To become organized, current, or aware; to adopt the prevailing viewpoint. Labels: US, idiomatic, informal Example: When the student was behind on his vocabulary, the teacher said, "get with the program!" 2. To work productively toward the objective of a shared enterprise, especially after the objective or the environment has changed. Labels: US, idiomatic, informal Example: Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program. Example: In the first season of Stranger Things, no character was more extra than Steve Harrington — Nancy Wheeler’s frequently possessive, largely confused, often douchey boyfriend. Though he eventually got with the program and helped fight some monsters, he wasn’t exactly what you’d call the pick of the litter. 3. To comply with the norms of a social group, especially a shared enterprise; to comply with the accepted or prevailing way of doing things. Labels: US, idiomatic, informal Example: Dude, get with the program! We don't do casual Fridays any more.
Word: ditty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dite, ditee, from Old French ditie or dité, from ditier, from Latin dictāre (participle dictatus). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪti/ 1. A short, simple verse or song. Example: religious, martial, or civil ditties Example: And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing. 2. A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated. Example: O, too high ditty for my simple rime. 3. Ellipsis of ditty bag. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: ditty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dite, ditee, from Old French ditie or dité, from ditier, from Latin dictāre (participle dictatus). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪti/ 1. To sing; to warble a little tune. Labels: archaic, intransitive, obsolete Example: Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes.
Word: ditty bag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Suggested to be a clipping of commodity bag, a British naval term. 1. A small bag used to carry one's personal effects or toiletries while traveling. 2. A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; a housewife. 3. A Girl Guide's bag to hold dishes and cutlery, usually made of mesh fabric or sewn dishtowel. 4. A bag used to hold costume pieces that do not hang on hangers, such as socks or gloves. 5. A cameraman's bag containing various small tools.
Word: jingle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/, /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/ 1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself. Example: He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen. 2. A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played. Example: Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached. 3. A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial. Example: That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song. Example: The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” 4. A carriage drawn by horses. Example: They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel. 5. A brief telephone call. Labels: slang Example: Give me a jingle when you find out something. 6. A jingle shell. 7. Coin money. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out. 8. Pee, urine. Labels: Philippines, colloquial
Word: jingle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/, /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/ 1. To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. Labels: intransitive Example: The beads jingled as she walked. Example: I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding. 2. To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. Labels: transitive Example: She jingled the beads as she walked. 3. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: jingling street ballads 4. To pee, to urinate. Labels: Philippines, colloquial
Word: toiletries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toiletry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toiletry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French toilettebor. English toilet Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye English -ry English toiletry From toilet + -ry. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔɪlɪtɹi/ 1. Any item used for personal hygiene or grooming (for one's toilet).
Word: ablutions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ablution Labels: form-of, plural Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ablutions. 2. A building that houses bathing and toilet facilities on a military base.
Word: ablutions Part of Speech: noun 1. The location or building where the showers and basins are located. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only
Word: competent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English competent, conpetent, from Old French competent (modern French compétent), from Latin competens, competentem, present participle of competō (“coincide, be equal to, be capable of”). Compare Dutch competent (“competent”), German kompetent (“competent”), Danish kompetent (“competent”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpətənt/ 1. Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications. Example: He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder. Example: I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter. 2. Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question. Example: For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court. Example: judicial authority having competent jurisdiction 3. Adequate for the purpose. Example: For if they [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been ſo big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them, and ſo every body would have had the wit to catch the Old one. 4. Functionally in order; functioning adequately. Example: a competent sphincter; a competent cervix; a competent immune system 5. Permeable to foreign DNA. 6. Resistant to deformation or flow.
Word: qualifications Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃənz/, /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃənz/ 1. plural of qualification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: longevous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin longaevus, from longus (“long”) + aevum (“age”). Pronunciation: /lɒnˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/, /lɒŋˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/, /lɑnˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/, /lɔnˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/ 1. Long-lasting, especially of life. Labels: rare Example: Grandfather was incredibly longevous: he lived to be 105 years old. Example: And they are dangerous because when worn they make their wearer look ridiculous and contemptible to those not enthralled by the same fashion; and when their moment has passed they take up precious closet space, taunting you and making you lament of money that should have been spent on something more longevous.
Word: calli Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of callus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heterotypic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or involving a different type or types. Labels: not-comparable Example: Heterotypic continuity refers to the presence of one disorder at an early point in time predicting the presence of a different disorder later in life. 2. Relating to the first nuclear division in meiosis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: homotypic Part of Speech: adj 1. Said of a taxon name which shares the exact same type as a different name and thus must necessarily refer to the same taxon. Labels: not-comparable 2. Synonym of homotypal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: KBS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Korean Broadcasting System. Labels: South-Korea, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Kyoto Broadcasting System. Labels: Japan, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Kellogg Biological Station. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: KBS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Knowledge-based systems. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: maned wolf Part of Speech: noun 1. One of species Chrysocyon brachyurus, the largest canid of South America.
Word: canid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, an appellativization from Canid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names). Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪnəd/, /ˈkænəd/ 1. Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes). Example: The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.
Word: senso lato Part of Speech: phrase 1. Misspelling of sensu lato. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: senso stricto Part of Speech: phrase 1. Misspelling of sensu stricto. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: The direct effect of a treaty provision is usually defined senso stricto, as the creation of rights in favour of individuals which they can invoke before their national courts, without need for domestic measures of implementation.
Word: South American sea lion Part of Speech: noun 1. A sea lion, Otaria flavescens, found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan and Argentine coasts, with a very large head with an upturned snout.
Word: Norden Part of Speech: name Etymology: A loanword from Scandinavian languages, referring to the Nordic countries or to northern Europe. 1. Various places, including: 2. Various places, including: 3. Various places, including: 4. Various places, including: 5. Various places, including: 6. Various places, including: 7. A surname.
Word: Norden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A loanword from Scandinavian languages, referring to the Nordic countries or to northern Europe. 1. Ellipsis of Norden bombsight. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: Hirsch Part of Speech: name 1. A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Coalfields, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2. A surname from German. 3. A surname from Yiddish.
Word: aspic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colors and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatin was often molded in a shape similar to a coiled snake. Pronunciation: /ˈæspɪk/ 1. A meat or fish jelly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Put a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover the bottom ···“ 2. A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick. 3. An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt. Labels: countable, obsolete, poetic, uncountable Example: This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves. Example: (With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh, / Showing the aspic's bite. ) 4. A light cannon firing a two-pound ball. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: aspic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colors and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatin was often molded in a shape similar to a coiled snake. Pronunciation: /ˈæspɪk/ 1. Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt. Labels: not-comparable Example: Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?
Word: befuddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English fuddle English befuddle From be- + fuddle. Pronunciation: /bɪˈfʌdl/ 1. To perplex, confuse (someone). Labels: transitive Example: The explanation left him completely befuddled. Example: Slowly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed page, and as he read, the little bugs, for as such he always thought of the letters, commenced to run about in a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts. 2. To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol. Labels: transitive Example: […] to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
Word: gelatine Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/ 1. Alternative spelling of gelatin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: gelatine Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/ 1. Alternative spelling of gelatin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gelatin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French gélatine (“jelly, gel”), from Italian gelatina (“jelly, gel”), from gelare (“to freeze”), from Latin gelō (“to freeze”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/ 1. A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc. Labels: US, uncountable, usually 2. An edible jelly made from this material. Labels: US, uncountable, usually 3. A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects. Labels: US, uncountable, usually Example: For both images I placed a Kodak 4.0 neutral-density gelatin filter over the lens to reduce the Sun's brightness.
Word: gelatin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French gélatine (“jelly, gel”), from Italian gelatina (“jelly, gel”), from gelare (“to freeze”), from Latin gelō (“to freeze”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/ 1. To coat with gelatin. Labels: US, transitive
Word: postprandial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English prandial English postprandial From post- + prandial. Pronunciation: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/, /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/ 1. After a meal, especially after dinner. Labels: not-comparable Example: postprandial somnolence Example: As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.