nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Thoth Part of Speech: name Etymology: Via Latin Thōth from Ancient Greek Θώθ (Thṓth), from Egyptian ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”, literally “he who is like the ibis”). Compare Coptic Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (Thōout). Pronunciation: /ˈθəʊθ/, /ˈθoʊθ/ 1. The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon. Labels: Egyptian 2. The first month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Thoth has been in roughly September. Example: To November 1 add 7, and the ſum will ſhew, that the ſeventh day of Thoth fell, that year, upon the eighth day of November. Example: Now the month of Thoth was the first of the Egyptian year, because this month begins a new period.
Word: cheekbones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cheekbone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ripshit Part of Speech: adj 1. Enraged or otherwise highly emotional. Labels: US, slang, vulgar Example: I couldn't understand it, but it was like Benny alternated between humbling himself and pleading, and then getting really ripshit furious and yelling with the red under his eyes glaring. 2. Drunk. Labels: US, slang, vulgar Example: “Hey, warm sun, cool ocean breezes, getting ripshit on ham.” [Laughs] “Might you say we're getting "hammered"?” “Oh! Nice one.” [Laughs] “This was a great idea, Frank. Great idea.” “This is 90-proof ham.”
Word: reductive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French réductif, from Late Latin reductivus, from the participle stem of Latin reducere (“to reduce”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdʌktɪv/ 1. Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. Labels: archaic 2. Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. 3. That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. Example: On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead. 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. 4. That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else. Labels: archaic, historical Example: But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken. 5. That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.
Word: Abbie Part of Speech: name 1. A unisex given name. Example: Whether at work or as the protective single mother to her teenage daughter, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), Margaret is a model of calculated control. 2. A unisex given name.
Word: anorthosite Part of Speech: noun 1. A phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock characterized by a predominance of plagioclase feldspar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The second, or Labrador series is characterized, as already remarked, by the predominance of great beds of anorthosite, composed chiefly of triclinic feldspars […]
Word: morasses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of morass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ROTFLOL Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing out loud. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: anthophyllite Part of Speech: noun 1. A dark brown amphibole mineral; a mixed silicate of iron and magnesium. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Anthophyllite is of a brownish colour, and glistening, pearly, pseudo-metallic lustre; it occurs massive, the mass consisting of crystals or crystalline fibres often disposed in a radiating form.
Word: pencil case Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnsəl ˌkeɪs/, /ˈpɛnsɪl ˌkeɪs/ 1. An object purposed to contain different stationery like pencil, rubber, correction fluid, etc. Example: I love you from the bottom of my pencil case / I love the way you never ask me why
Word: pencil box Part of Speech: noun 1. A container for stationery such as pencils, pens, rubber, correction fluid, etc.
Word: shied Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃaɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of shy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shirttail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shirt + tail. 1. The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail. Example: According to Linder, one of the rituals of the hunt entailed cutting off the shirttail of a hunter who shot at and missed a deer. Example: She looked like the same old Molly, only more so, wearing Levis and an old cotton shirt with the shirttail out; she had a clothespin in her mouth and three or four more in the shirt pocket. 2. The tail-end or periphery of something. Labels: broadly Example: There was something — did you ever catch hold of the shirttail of a dream and try to pull it back into your consciousness? Example: Well, here we are, living in a city right on the shirttail of the city, and you're still not satisfied. 3. A tenuous connection. Example: Although consumers' cooperatives have not yet been benefitted, the more they become tied on to the shirttail of the agricultural bloc, the more political power they are going to have. Example: And with the Papago Freeway tacked to the shirttail of a routine bond election, one of the great exercises of opinion-bending by an American newspaper went the full, furious distance. Nineteen seventy-three. 4. A distant kinship. Example: She belongs to the true sisterhood of the majestic five daughters born to America's inland Neptune, but she always has been regarded as a poor relation, a sort of shirttail cousin, by her big sisters. Example: I think we were related in a shirttail sort of way throuogh my father's family in Cordova. 5. A small portion Example: “What good's a one-horse farm, I ask you, a few acres of tobacco and a shirttail of corn and cotton—just enough to see a man through the winter and maybe buy seed to plant and get another run till the crops are in? Example: Other times I felt that there was enough of the real P. with me that we were both hanging on to the shirttail of the real her to keep her from destroying herself and escaping and there was a well little girl there that was strong enough that at times she wanted as much as I wanted for that little girl to dominate and crush out the sick one. 6. Something small and unimportant. Example: He can't get no further behind. He can sholy take care of this little shirttail of a farm while me and you are whupping them Japanese. Example: Granddaddy Bill Hogan signed up with the Glorious Cause when he won't but a shirttail of a boy, just 16 years old, and he come within a tomcat's whisker of not coming out alive.
Word: shirttails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shirttail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shockproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shock + -proof. 1. Made sturdily enough to withstand knocks and shocks without being damaged. Example: My shockproof watch stood up to everything it reasonably could be expected to and kept ticking; but dropping it down an elevator shaft is asking too much. 2. Protected from imparting electric shocks.
Word: shockproof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shock + -proof. 1. To protect from imparting electric shocks. Labels: transitive
Word: shivery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English shiver Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English shivery From shiver + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvəɹi/ 1. Given to shivering; tending to shiver. Example: The cold night made me all shivery. Example: Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay. 2. Easily broken; brittle, flaky. Labels: archaic
Word: shoddily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English shoddy Middle English -ly English -ly English shoddily From shoddy + -ly. 1. In a shoddy manner; lacking quality and done poorly, usually in a cheap and low quality way.
Word: lieve Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of lief. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic
Word: slipknot Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of slip knot. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: slipknots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of slipknot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: running knot Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of slip knot
Word: running knots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of running knot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: FORACS Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy Check Site, a facility for measuring the bearing and range accuracy of sensor systems on ships, submarines, and aircraft. Labels: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: The USN originally operated five FORACS ranges at Barking Sands, Hawaii, San Clemente Island, California, Fisher's Island, New York, Andros Island, Bahamas and St Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Word: spin-off Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from spin off. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪn.ɔf/, /ˈspɪn.ɒf/ 1. An offshoot. Example: We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitan spin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short. 2. An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off. Example: Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology. 3. A by-product. 4. A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect. Example: "Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers". Example: The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates. 5. The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
Word: benzocaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic لُبَان (lubān) Proto-Indo-European *yew- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *yéwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.? Proto-Austronesian *zawa Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.? Old Javanese jawa Old Javanese -i Old Javanese Jawi Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der. Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy) Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor. Catalan benjuíder. Middle French benjoinder. English benzoin Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English benzoic English -ate English benzo(ate) German Kokain German -kainbor. English -caine English benzocaine From benzo(ate) + -caine (“local anesthetic”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛn.zəˌkeɪn/ 1. A local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: benzules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benzule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: benzoates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benzoate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: benzoles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benzole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circle-A Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The symbol is an acronym of the slogan "Anarchy is order", coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. 1. A symbol consiting of an overstruck A surrounded by a circle, representing anarchism.
Word: heterocycles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heterocycle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: furans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of furan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trapezius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown but likely derived from Ancient Greek τράπεζα (trápeza). Pronunciation: /tɹəˈpiːziəs/ 1. A large vertebrate skeletal muscle divided into an ascending, descending, and transverse portion, attaching the neck and central spine to the outer extremity of the scapula; it functions in scapular elevation, adduction, and depression. Example: The trapezius muscle resembles a trapezium (trapezoid in American English), or diamond-shaped quadrilateral. The word "spinotrapezius" refers to the human trapezius, although it is not commonly used in modern texts. In other mammals, it refers to a portion of the analogous muscle.
Word: carotenoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carotenoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Berlín Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Berlín. 1. A town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
Word: serialization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English serial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English serialize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English serialization From serialize + -ation. 1. The process or action of converting something in a serial or into serial form. 2. The process of serializing.
Word: silty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From silt + -y. 1. Having a noticeable amount of silt. Example: The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable. 2. Resembling or characteristic of silt.
Word: sinuosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sinuous Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English sinuosity From sinuous + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪnjuˈɒsɪti/ 1. The property of being sinuous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, […] Example: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. 2. That which is sinuous. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: carotenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carotene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tetraterpenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tetraterpene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene Part of Speech: noun 1. isoprene Labels: IUPAC, uncountable
Word: cultivating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cultivate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: crocetin Part of Speech: noun 1. A natural carotenoid dicarboxylic acid that is found in the crocus flower. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: crocin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English crocus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English crocin From crocus + -in. 1. A natural carotenoid that is found in the flowers crocus and gardenia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: where the sun doesn't shine Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of where the sun don't shine. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tretinoin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English tr(ans)- English retino(ic acid) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English tretinoin From tr(ans)- + retino(ic acid) + -in. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈtɪn.əʊ.ɪn/, /tɹəˈtɪn.oʊ.ɪn/ 1. The all-trans isomer of retinoic acid that is applied to the skin to treat severe acne and reduce facial wrinkles, roughness, and pigmented spots. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: chloroplasts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːɹəʊˌplæsts/ 1. plural of chloroplast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ATRA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of all-trans retinoic acid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: all-trans retinoic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Tretinoin. Labels: uncountable
Word: impedance plethysmography Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique in which the volume of segments of the body can be continuously measured via electrical impedance; used to study the cardiovascular system and other physiological functions. Labels: uncountable
Word: intersubjective Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English subjective English intersubjective From inter- + subjective. 1. Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds. Labels: not-comparable Example: The search for certainty about the exact nature of colonial social arrangements — fascinating and important though it may be — is in many ways beyond the scope of my project, which is more concerned with the intersubjective processes of boundary making and marking than it is with objectifying social relations in a sociohistorical manner. 2. Accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects. Labels: not-comparable
Word: plethysmography Part of Speech: noun 1. The diagnostic use of a plethysmograph. Labels: uncountable
Word: plethysmograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 19th century: from Ancient Greek πληθυσμός (plēthusmós, “enlargement”) + -graph. Pronunciation: /plɛˈðɪz.məˌɡɹæf/, /pləˈðɪz.məˌɡɹæf/ 1. An instrument for measuring changes in volume within an organ or whole body (usually via fluctuations in the amount of fluid it contains).
Word: small-bore Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a small caliber. 2. insignificant or trivial. Labels: broadly
Word: proxy war Part of Speech: noun 1. A war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly. Example: With the enhanced insurgent firepower and with Russia steadily raising the number of airstrikes against the government’s opponents, the Syrian conflict is edging closer to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.
Word: plethysmographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plethysmograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proxy wars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proxy war Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fags Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fag Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: traductology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French traductologie. 1. The study of the theory and practice of translating and interpreting, especially in an academic context, combining elements of social science and the humanities. More commonly known as translation studies or translatology. Labels: uncountable
Word: halloa Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /hæˈloʊ/ 1. A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout. Example: Halloa! what's this? Example: "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
Word: halloa Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hæˈloʊ/ 1. To utter an exclamation of "halloa". Labels: intransitive
Word: pruinose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin pruīnōsus, from pruīna. 1. Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface. 2. Covered with a very fine whitish layer of wax particles.
Word: mutually assured destruction Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mutual assured destruction. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: mortifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mortify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mortifying Part of Speech: adj 1. Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
Word: mortifying Part of Speech: noun 1. mortification; abstinence Example: mortifyings of the flesh
Word: hatchet man Part of Speech: noun 1. A male professional killer or gunman. Example: The crime lord dispatched his favorite hatchet man to make sure the witness would not testify. 2. A male hatchet-wielding participant in a Chinese-American tong war. Labels: US, historical 3. A male who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: After the layoffs, he gained a reputation as a hatchet man and ended up eating lunches alone.
Word: paradoxical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English paradox Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English paradoxical From paradox + -ical. Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹəˈdɒksɪkəl/, /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl/ 1. Having self-contradictory properties. Example: It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident. Example: It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
Word: flavorubredoxin Part of Speech: noun 1. A flavoprotein that reduces nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N₂O) under anaerobic conditions. It is an oxygen sensitive nitric oxide reductase that contributes to resistance to nitrosative killing by macrophages. Labels: uncountable
Word: payslip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pay + slip. 1. A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of income earned and tax and insurance paid.
Word: preform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English form English preform From pre- + form. 1. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form. 2. The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool. 3. A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones. Example: Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original.
Word: preform Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English form English preform From pre- + form. 1. To shape something before some other operation.
Word: preform Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of perform. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: ammocoete Part of Speech: noun 1. A larva of a lamprey.
Word: up to one's neck Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: See up to here. 1. Synonym of up to here.
Word: circular parry Part of Speech: noun 1. a defensive move in fencing; a parry in which the blade moves in a circle to block an opponent's attack from the opposite side from which it started (sometimes called a contra- or counter-parry)
Word: doublé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French doublé. 1. A compound attack that deceives the opponent's attempted circular parry.
Word: false action Part of Speech: noun 1. false attack.
Word: Phoney War Part of Speech: name Etymology: Attributed to US senator William Borah. 1. During World War II, the period of limited military activity from the outbreak of hostilities on September 3rd, 1939 until Germany's attack on the Low Countries on May 10th, 1940. Labels: historical Example: Study of the Phoney War, especially on the Franco-German front, is still limited.
Word: deflagrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1727; borrowed from Latin dēflagrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin dēflagrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + flagrō (“to burn”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛfləɡɹeɪt/ 1. To burn with intense light and heat. 2. To burn with intense light and heat.
Word: deflagration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dēflagrātiō, from dēflagrāre. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen. Example: Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".
Word: deflagrating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deflagrate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deflagrating spoon Part of Speech: noun 1. A long-handled spoon with a cover, lowered into a glass vessel filled with a gas to demonstrate deflagration. Example: A piece of metal (sodium) of the size of a pea is placed in a deflagrating spoon, and heated in the blowpipe-flame to redness. Suddenly immersed into a jar containing half a pint of chlorine-gas, it burns with a bright yellow flame to chloride of sodium. Example: Take a deflagrating spoon. This is a little brass ladle, attached to the end of an iron wire. It is very commonly used for burning things in gases, for which purpose it is best to push the wire through a flat bung, protected on the lower side by a piece of tin-plate, which may prevent the gas from passing out of the bottle.
Word: deflector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deflect + -or. Pronunciation: /dɪˈflɛktə(ɹ)/ 1. Something which deflects something else, especially a stream of fluid or particles. Example: 1992 Nasa Patents Available for Licensing from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center The deflector assembly contains a plurality of vanes which change the direction of the solar energy to the vertical, while constantly keeping the same side of the deflector facing the sun. 2. A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion. 3. A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield. Example: The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them. Example: Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.
Word: deflowering Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of deflower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deflowering Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. The breaking of the hymen of a virgin. Example: Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […] Example: 2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.
Word: distorting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of distort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: distorting Part of Speech: adj 1. That distorts. Example: It's like looking in a distorting mirror at the fair. Example: However, the procedure has been applied only to those below the threshold and who might move up, and not to those just above, who might move down. This has had a very distorting effect on the distributions.
Word: adhesiotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French adhésionder. English adhesion Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)der. English -tomy English adhesiotomy From adhesion + -tomy. 1. The surgical procedure to divide or separate an adhesion.
Word: rassemblement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. The bringing together of both feet, with the body upright, in order to outreach an opponent.
Word: acropoleis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκροπόλεις (akropóleis), plural of ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis). Pronunciation: /æˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/ 1. plural of acropolis Labels: form-of, plural Example: The Cadmea, like almost all Greek acropoleis, was indeed surrounded by the city, and was situated within the walls; but from our historians, it is quite evident, that one side of the Cadmea touched upon the wall of the city, and upon this supposition alone the siege can be understood. Example: The ἀγορά mentioned by Thucydides. — I have already referred to the view that the saddle between the two Acropoleis was the site of the … and the most probable site for the agora is the level tract which lies between the two Acropoleis, and if this be so, continues some way towards the gate.
Word: high line Part of Speech: noun 1. The target area above the opponent's midriff.
Word: low line Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of underscore. 2. The target area below the opponent's midriff.
Word: megapoleis Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɛˈɡæ.pɒ.lɛɪz/ 1. plural of megapolis Labels: form-of, plural Example: Whether of time, value, the subject, etc., the axiom and the myth of a real or possible accumulation govern us everywhere, although we know that nothing is ever amassed and that stockpiles are self-consuming, like modern megapoleis, or like overloaded memories. Example: The theme “Integration of Indian territory” focuses on the dynamics of the Indian megapoleis and of secondary metropolises and medium-sized and small towns.
Word: surgical procedure Part of Speech: noun 1. A procedure in which one or more incisions are made into the body in order to repair damage or remove diseased tissue; an operation.
Word: -opsy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek -οψίᾱ (-opsíā, “sight, view”). 1. examination Labels: morpheme
Word: dilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English dill Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dilly From dill + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/ 1. Redolent of dill (the herb).
Word: dilly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/ 1. Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. Example: You're the most impossible man I ever met. And I've met some dillies. Example: Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.
Word: dilly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/ 1. A dilly bag. Labels: Australia
Word: dilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Somersetshire dialect; perhaps a blend of daft and silly. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/ 1. Silly; characteristic of a dill. Labels: Australia
Word: dilly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contracted from diligence. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/ 1. A kind of stagecoach. Labels: dated Example: So, down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying six insides. 2. A night cart. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: dilly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/ 1. Synonym of dilly net
Word: Sheetrock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sheet + rock. 1. Drywall; plasterboard; a building material comprising a layer of gypsum plaster sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings. Labels: uncountable 2. Any of the various thicknesses and grades of such material. Labels: countable 3. A wall made of this. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Sheetrock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sheet + rock. 1. To install and finish Sheetrock. Labels: transitive
Word: sandwiching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sandwich Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sandwiched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sandwich Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: banalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English banal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English banalize From banal + -ize. 1. To make banal or commonplace. Labels: transitive
Word: banally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English banal Middle English -ly English -ly English banally From banal + -ly. 1. In a banal, trite or boring manner.
Word: peninsulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English peninsula Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English peninsulate From peninsula + -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To make into a peninsula; to surround almost entirely with water. Labels: transitive
Word: historiographical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English historio- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English historiography Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English historiographical From historiography + -ical. 1. Related to historiography
Word: semiosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English semio- Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor. Latin sphaera Late Latin sphērader. Old French spherebor. Middle English spere English sphere English -sphere English semiosphere From semio- + -sphere. 1. The sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts; The domain of all signs that represent and define a culture. Example: 2003 Iu. M. Lotman, Edna Andrews - Conversations With Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition Lotman's conceptualization of the semiosphere was inspired by Vernadsky's and Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the biosphere and the noosphere. Example: The semiotic experience in the semiosphere, according to Lotman, precedes the production of discourses because it is one of their conditions. The semiosphere is above all the domain that allows culture to define itself and to situate itself, in order to be able to dialogue with other cultures; it is also a field whose dialogical functioning has as its principle task to regulate and resolve semio-cultural heterogeneities.
Word: expanded metal Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy that has expanded upon cooling. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: If the action is carried on at an elevated temperature, the adhesion is greater, because the contraction of the expanded metal binds the film more closely. 2. Sheet metal that has been slit and stretched at right angles to the slits to form a lattice; used for making screens etc and for reinforcing concrete. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]the in-fill is, alternatively, steel panels, reinforced concrete panels, and steel mesh (e.g., chain link, expanded metal, and fine mesh).
Word: captivator Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who captivates, or holds one captive. Example: Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.
Word: endogenize Part of Speech: verb 1. To develop (something) internally, especially a parameter within an economic model. Labels: transitive Example: First, the simultaneous system allows us to endogenize many economic variables that are likely to be generated in the same economic process, […] Example: A more realistic (and considerably more complicated) approach, however, would be to endogenize household size over the time horizon, […]
Word: methanal Part of Speech: noun 1. The IUPAC name for formaldehyde, rarely used in research or industry.
Word: Proustian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French Proust + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹuːstɪ.ən/, /ˈpɹusti.ən/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, or his works. Example: The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate. 2. Derived from personal memory, as it often happens in the works of Proust (for example, in the experience of the madeleine). Example: D'Costa's poems so far published also reverberate with an awareness of the past, and a gently Proustian pleasure, as in the elegiac “In Memorandum”.
Word: sound off Part of Speech: verb 1. To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner. Labels: informal, transitive Example: I'm sick of his sounding off about how he thinks this country should be run! Example: I would give anything to be at the hearing so that I could really sound off about this attempt to cram another liquor license into Jamaica Plain. I say kill it today. 2. Command instructing a person to speak up or acknowledge something. Example: Hartman: […] Do you maggots understand that? Recruits: Sir, yes, sir! Hartman: Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair. Recruits: SIR, YES, SIR! 3. Command instructing a person to confirm that they are present or that some other objective has been met. Example: Cyclops: […] X-men… Sound off … Man 1: Iceman, sounding off!Man 2: Fireman, sounding off! Man 3: Clothing-Man, sounding off! Man 4: Ability-to-Hop-Man, here! Example: Tagon: Sound off! Brad, do you have the Ambassador? Brad: Check! Tagon: Schlock, do you have our money? Schlock: Check! Tagon: Are we still being pursued? Creeth Soldiers: Check!
Word: reference variable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: reference + variable 1. A variable used for storing the address of another variable or structure, equivalent to a pointer. Example: The value of a reference variable is the memory address at which the data associated with the object is stored.
Word: steeplejack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From steeple + jack. 1. A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs. Example: Whether it's a rigger or steeple jack or window washer or any person who has strong nerves and a skilled body.
Word: steeplejacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steeplejack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steelworks Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From steel + works. 1. A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.
Word: steelworker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From steel + worker. 1. A person who works in a steel mill. Example: Near-synonym: steelman Example: The steelworkers went on strike that year, and so did the autoworkers. 2. A person employed to build steel structures. Labels: uncommon Example: The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.
Word: steelworkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steelworker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ironworker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iron + worker. 1. A skilled construction worker who assembles the metal frame of buildings, especially large commercial ones such as warehouses and skyscrapers. Example: Near-synonym: erector Example: Many people believe that growth will only continue. “We’re gonna need stadiums full of electricians, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers, HVAC technicians,” Dwarkesh Patel and Romeo Dean, AI-industry analysts, wrote recently. 2. A person employed to manufacture and shape iron or to do other (related) labor within an ironworks. Labels: archaic Example: Near-synonym: roughneck
Word: ironworkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ironworker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: voltaic battery Part of Speech: noun 1. A battery; a voltaic cell. Labels: archaic
Word: educated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From educate + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/, /ˈɛdjuːkeɪtɪd/, [ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪɾɪd] 1. Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree. 2. Based on relevant information. Example: an educated guess Example: No matter what strategies you employ as you dissect each multiple-choice question and arrive at an educated answer, remember that you are looking for the best response, not only a correct one. 3. Knowledgeable. Example: She cast an educated eye over the antiques. Example: an educated opinion
Word: educated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From educate + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/, /ˈɛdjuːkeɪtɪd/, [ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪɾɪd] 1. simple past and past participle of educate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: subjugator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *yewg- Proto-Indo-European *-óm Proto-Indo-European *yugóm Proto-Italic *jugom Latin iugum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin iugō Latin subiugō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin subiugātorbor. English subjugator Borrowed from Latin subiugātor. By surface analysis, subjugate + -or. 1. A person who subjugates or conquers.
Word: split-second Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From split (adjective) + second (noun), from split second(s) hands: see sense 1. Pronunciation: /ˌsplɪtˈsɛk(ə)nd/, /ˌsplɪtˈsɛkənd/ 1. A stopwatch with two second hands, each of which may be stopped separately to time the intervals of a race by a sportsperson, or to time more than one sportsperson. Labels: attributive 2. A fraction of a second; hence (figurative, also attributive) a very short time period; an instant, a moment. Example: It's very dangerous, though, when a man thinks for a split second that he understands death. Example: I was in the gutter, sitting my bike, willing them to die, […] or otherwise obliterated because this demanded split-second timing.
Word: split second Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of split-second. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It's very dangerous, though, when a man thinks for a split second that he understands death.
Word: higher education Part of Speech: noun 1. Education beyond a level viewed as basic, such as any beyond universal government-funded secondary education. Labels: uncountable Example: Holonym: education Example: He pursued various higher education via trade school and community college. 2. Education beyond a level viewed as basic, such as any beyond universal government-funded secondary education. Labels: uncountable Example: For some, the goals of their higher education involved deep meaningfulness or the frontiers of knowledge; others aspired merely to elitism. Some were honest enough to admit to themselves that meaning, service, money, and class rank were all among their motives. Example: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
Word: pinnace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French pinasse, from Spanish pinaza, from pino (“pine”) + -aza. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪ.nɪs/ 1. A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat, and usually serving to carry messages among the larger ships of a fleet. Example: I cast my eyes to the ship, and there she rode, within little more than half a mile of the shore; for they had weighed her anchor as soon as they were masters of her, and, the weather being fair, had brought her to an anchor just against the mouth of the little creek; and the tide being up, the captain had brought the pinnace in ...
Word: moringas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moringa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: discourse marker Part of Speech: noun 1. A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling.
Word: butterfly effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American author and historian of science James Gleick in 1987 in his book Chaos: Making a New Science, whose first chapter bears the title “The Butterfly Effect”, and in which he discusses “the paradox of the butterfly’s wings” potentially making the difference whether a hurricane will or will not arise somewhere else later. Meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the founder of modern chaos theory, had in 1972, at a scientific meeting, presented a paper entitled “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings set off a tornado in Texas?” without using the specific term butterfly effect. Lorenz also notes that representations of the strange attractor now known as the “Lorenz attractor” resemble a butterfly, as well as that correspondents have drawn his attention to Ray Bradbury’s short science fiction story “A Sound of Thunder”, in which a time traveler’s crushing a butterfly in the Late Cretaceous changes the outcome of a present-day presidential election. But the metaphorical butterfly was actually introduced in the title of the 1972 presentation by meteorologist Philip Merilees, who was not familiar with Bradbury’s story. 1. The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. 2. The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present. Labels: broadly Example: Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today.
Word: contaminating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contaminate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scoliotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, pertaining to, or affected by scoliosis.
Word: scoliotic Part of Speech: noun 1. One who is afflicted with scoliosis.
Word: preprocessor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English processor English preprocessor From pre- + processor. 1. program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program
Word: genopharmacology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geno- + pharmacology. 1. The study of the effects of pharmaceuticals and other compounds on genome expression. Labels: uncountable
Word: proteomic Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌpɹoʊtiˈɑmɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to proteomics. Labels: not-comparable Example: In spite of the methodological, computational, and ethical obstacles faced in biomolecular analyses, of which there are many, genetic, genomic, and proteomic studies have captured the presence of pathogenic bacteria […]
Word: unsalted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + salted. 1. To which salt has not been added. Labels: not-comparable Example: The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi) 2. Without a cryptographic salt. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unsalted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unsalt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: close up shop Part of Speech: verb 1. To stop what one is doing, especially in the context of a business. Labels: US, colloquial Example: Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater closed up shop in the early 1950s, but show business carries on: the site is now a multiplex. http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/travel/escapes/26yiddish.html?8dpc
Word: capelet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cape + -let. Piecewise doublet of caplet. 1. A small cape worn over the shoulders by women.