nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: prohibitionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English prohibition Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English prohibitionist From prohibition + -ist. 1. A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
Word: prognathous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + -gnathous. Pronunciation: /ˈprɑɡnəθəs/, /prɑɡˈneɪθəs/ 1. Having a jaw that projects forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw. Example: A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder. He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly. Example: Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.
Word: professionalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English professional 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 professionalize From professional + -ize. 1. To make something professional. Labels: transitive 2. To advance an occupation to the level of a profession. Labels: transitive
Word: unadvisedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unadvised + -ly or un- + advised + -ly. 1. In an unadvised manner.
Word: unaffectedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unaffected Middle English -ly English -ly English unaffectedly From unaffected + -ly. 1. In an unaffected manner; sincerely and genuinely. Example: Quite innocent, this prolonged inspection, so unaffectedly rude it was. Example: 2007 Nov. 7. Alfred Hickling review of The Adoption Papers in The Guardian. Lisa Livingstone as Molly gives the kind of unaffectedly natural performance you would happily watch until the cows come home.
Word: unashamedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unashamed Middle English -ly English -ly English unashamedly From unashamed + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmɪdli/ 1. In an unashamed manner.
Word: unassumingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unassuming Middle English -ly English -ly English unassumingly From unassuming + -ly. 1. In an unassuming manner.
Word: unattractively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unattractive Middle English -ly English -ly English unattractively From unattractive + -ly. 1. In an unattractive manner.
Word: unavailingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unavailing Middle English -ly English -ly English unavailingly From unavailing + -ly. Pronunciation: /ʌnəˈveɪlɪŋli/ 1. In an unavailing manner; without successful results; to no avail. Example: The Shepperton guns spoke this time unavailingly. Example: With her own dried tongue, she bent to moisten into relaxation its indrawn blue lips, and breathing on the clenched, congested hands, tried as unavailingly to lessen their terrible tension.
Word: unavoidably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unavoidable Middle English -ly English -ly English unavoidably From unavoidable + -ly. 1. In an unavoidable manner. Example: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
Word: unbecomingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unbecoming Middle English -ly English -ly English unbecomingly From unbecoming + -ly. 1. In an unbecoming manner.
Word: unblushingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unblushing Middle English -ly English -ly English unblushingly From unblushing + -ly. 1. In an unblushing manner, without shame, or shamelessly Example: Recording contracts were unblushingly slanted in the company's favor.
Word: uncannily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uncanny Middle English -ly English -ly English uncannily From uncanny + -ly. Pronunciation: /ʌŋˈkænɪli/ 1. In an uncanny manner. Example: The traveler very easily failed to notice one among the normal bushes and undergrowth, and the moment he was in range the venomous sting would slash out. Even the regular inhabitant of such a district found it difficult to detect a motionless triffid cunningly lurking beside a jungle path. They were uncannily sensitive to any movement near them, and hard to take unawares.
Word: uncertainly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye. By surface analysis, uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsɜːtən.li/, /-lɪ/, /ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən.li/ 1. In an uncertain manner. Example: "No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer. ¶ "Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly. Example: I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]
Word: uncharitably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uncharitable Middle English -ly English -ly English uncharitably From uncharitable + -ly. 1. In an uncharitable manner.
Word: uncomplainingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uncomplaining Middle English -ly English -ly English uncomplainingly From uncomplaining + -ly. 1. In an uncomplaining manner. Example: Then she would walk for hours, and though she had often to do so, Palmer would uncomplainingly draw rein, and slacken the horses' speed to her pace.
Word: Yannick Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Yannick, from Breton Yannig. 1. A male given name from French. Labels: Canada
Word: circumambulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circum- + ambulation, borrowed from Latin circumambulātiō. Pronunciation: /ˌsɝ.kəmˌæm.bjuˈleɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
Word: give someone the heave-ho Part of Speech: verb 1. To fire, expel or break up with someone. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: I'm looking for work again because they gave me the heave-ho. Example: I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. 2. To eject a player or manager from the game.
Word: give someone the old heave-ho Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of give someone the heave-ho. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, idiomatic Example: Possibly a lot of them gained entry because there were so many other strange bees in the hive, but once they started to load up and run, the natives joined with the old ones and gave them the old heave-ho. Example: Now I won't have to explain to her what sort of friend you really were and why I gave you the old heave-ho.
Word: Jonny Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name, variant of Johnny 2. A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
Word: Joni Part of Speech: name Etymology: Commonly used as a diminutive of Joan. 1. A female given name.
Word: Juha Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Joha. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: autodrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + -drome. 1. A circuit used for motor sports events, but not for high-speed racing
Word: human chorionic gonadotropin Part of Speech: noun 1. A peptide hormone, produced during pregnancy, that prevents the breakdown of the corpus luteum and maintains progesterone production. Labels: uncountable
Word: malocchio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian malocchio. Doublet of maloik. 1. Synonym of evil eye (“cursed gaze”). 2. Synonym of evil eye (“dirty look”).
Word: evaporates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of evaporate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hypothecate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin hypothecatus, past participle of hypotheco, hypothecare. This was in turn derived from Ancient Greek ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē, “pledge”), from the verb ὑποτίθημι (hupotíthēmi, “to pledge as surety”). Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɒθɪkeɪt/ 1. To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage. Labels: transitive Example: ‘My husband, Jasper Murdock, provided in his will that no part of his collection might be sold, loaned or hypothecated during my lifetime.’ 2. To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure. Labels: UK Example: The levy needed primary legislation and permission from the Treasury to hypothecate the proceeds back into the new line. It meant that the Greater London Authority could borrow against future income from the levy. 3. To designate in advance the specific purpose of expenditure for government revenues (especially taxes). Labels: Australia Example: "Levying customs duties and excises on necessities also ensured a relatively secure source of revenue. Revenues were generally hypothecated in an attempt to draw support from the public, for example funding an orphanage, gaol, hospital equipment and building works around Sydney." A brief history of Australia's tax system; Sam Reinhardt and Lee Steel; 04 September 2006
Word: hypothalamic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thus, in brain studies that purport to find the origins of sexual orientation, gay men are said to have hypothalamic nuclei that are smaller than a straight mans and closer in size to a womans, and thus they are attracted to men.
Word: mangel-wurzel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mangelwurzel. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Word: metastate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + state. 1. A metastable isomer 2. A probability measure on the space of all thermodynamic states of a system
Word: metastable isomer Part of Speech: noun 1. An excited state of an isotope, often having different a spin quantum number (designated with an m)
Word: hypotensive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English tensive English hypotensive From hypo- + tensive. 1. Relating to hypotension (low blood pressure). Example: hypotensive patients 2. Relating to hypotension (low blood pressure). Example: hypotensive medications Example: Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.
Word: hypotensive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English tensive English hypotensive From hypo- + tensive. 1. Any drug that lowers the blood pressure. Example: a hypotensive agent such as an opioid 2. A drug that lowers the blood pressure as its principal intended effect; a drug taken to treat hypertension. Example: a hypotensive agent such as an ARB or an ACEI 3. A person with hypotension.
Word: high court Part of Speech: noun 1. A supreme court; a court to which final appeals may be taken. Labels: common Example: But if the eyes of people could be opened in regard to the evils and delusions of war, would it not be easy to form a confederacy of nations, and organize a high court of equity, to decide national controversies? Example: The judicial power is vested in three high courts consisting of four judges each, and having concurrent jurisdiction in all civil matters; and in a great number of inferior municipal courts. 2. A superior court; a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases. 3. a provincial or state supreme court
Word: high courts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of high court Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reflectance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English reflect Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English reflectance From reflect + -ance. 1. The ratio of the flux reflected to that incident on a surface. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hypoplasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + -plasia. 1. Underdevelopment or incomplete development of a tissue or organ, especially when caused by an inadequate or below-normal number of cells. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1995, William M. Thurlbeck, 2. Lung Growth and Development, William M. Thurlbeck, Andrew Churg (editors), 2nd edition, Thieme Medical Publishers, Pathology of the Lung, page 56, Since the renal system and the lung develop at the same time, there has been repeated speculation that pulmonary hypoplasia and renal anomalies may be linked by a common developmental defect. Example: 2022, Robert A. Foster, Christopher Premanandan, Chapter 19: Male Reproductive System, James F. Zachary (editor), Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease, 7th edition, Elsevier, page 1320, Hypoplasia of the testes is a common condition and DSD.
Word: supreme court Part of Speech: noun 1. A court of law which represents the highest legal authority within a jurisdiction. Example: Many observers believed that the tribunal will consciously or unconsciously be influenced by the November elections. It is an old saying that the supreme court watches the polls. 2. A superior court; a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases. Example: After the establishment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the original Supreme Court was renamed as the Senior Courts. 3. In certain provinces and states, a superior court of original jurisdiction, which however is inferior to said region's court of appeals. Labels: Canada, US
Word: supreme courts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of supreme court Labels: form-of, plural
Word: en rapport Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French en rapport. 1. In agreement; harmonious. Labels: not-comparable Example: Each man may vote according to his conception of a candidate's character, and hence it comes to pass that councillors well represent the wishes of ratepayers, and, being daily brought in contact with them, they are always en rapport with their requirements and wishes.
Word: ultrahazardous activity Part of Speech: noun 1. An activity that is so dangerous that any person engaging in it will be held strictly liable for harm caused by engaging in the activity, no matter what precautions were taken to prevent harm; common examples include using explosives, radiation, and poisonous chemicals, and handling wild animals.
Word: ultrahazardous activities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ultrahazardous activity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ultrahazardous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ultra- + hazardous. 1. Extremely hazardous.
Word: Fitz Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: [fɪts] 1. A village in Shropshire, England. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A male given name. Labels: countable 3. A surname. Labels: countable
Word: public office Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From public + office. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌblɪk ˈɔfɪs/, /ˈpʌblɪk ˈɒfɪs/ 1. A position or occupation established by law or by the act of a government body, for the purpose of exercising the authority of the government in the service of the public. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My son finished law last month, and now aspires to public office.
Word: public offices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of public office Labels: form-of, plural
Word: double cross Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of double-cross. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: double cross Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of double-cross. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cute as a button Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cute, as, a and button. 1. Very cute. Labels: not-comparable
Word: public officer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who holds public office; an official or employee of the government.
Word: public officers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of public officer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Caribbean Sea Part of Speech: name 1. A tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Word: viricide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weys- Proto-Indo-European *wisós Proto-Italic *weizos Latin vīrusbor. Middle English virus English virus English -icide English viricide From virus + -icide. 1. Any substance that destroys or inactivates viruses.
Word: viricide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Italic *wiros Latin vir English -icide English viricide From Latin vir + English -icide. 1. The act of killing one's husband. Labels: uncountable Example: The impious Danaides, Grecian ſtories tell, / For barbarous viricide, condemn’d to hell, / Pour ſtreams in leaky tubs for evermore, / Whoſe pervious bottoms ſpout at every pore: […]
Word: mediterranean sea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *médʰyos The word mediterranean is from Latin mediterrāneus (“inland, remote from the coast”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). Mediterrāneus is derived from medius (“middle”) + terra (“dry land, ground”), modelled after Ancient Greek μεσόγαιος (mesógaios, “located in the midst of land”). The English word is cognate with Middle French méditerranéen (modern French méditerranéen), Italian mediterraneo, Spanish mediterráneo. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛ.dɪ.təˈɹeɪ.nɪ.ən ˈsiː/, /ˌmɛ.də.təˈɹeɪ.ni.ən ˈsi/, /ˌmɛ.də.təˈɹeɪ.njən ˈsi/ 1. A mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans, and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds. Example: To this day they haue not diſouered at the Indies any Mediterranean Sea, as in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica, into the which there enters ſome arme of this great Sea, and makes diſtinct Seas, taking their names from the Prouinces they waſh: and almoſt all of the Mediterranean Seas continue and ioyne together, and with the Ocean it ſelfe, by the ſtraight of Gibraltar, which the Ancients called, the Pillers of Hercules, […] Example: This will account for the Caſpian Sea being always at a Stand, and neither waſting or overflowing; and alſo for the Current ſaid to ſet always in at the Streights of Gibraltar, notwithſtanding that thoſe Mediterranean''' ſeas receive ſo many, and ſo conſiderable Rivers.
Word: impanels Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of impanel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: impaneling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of impanel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: impaneled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of impanel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lactations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lactation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: duodene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mediaeval Latin duodena (“dozen”), from duodeni. Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːəʊdiːn/ 1. A schematic group of twelve notes. 2. A group of twelve. Labels: rare Example: He saw where the beer was, crated duodenes of it stacked between counter and wall, and went to help himself.
Word: go to seed Part of Speech: verb 1. To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds. Example: Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces. 2. To deteriorate; to decline into an unkempt or debased condition. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit. Example: But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.
Word: meliorate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1542; borrowed from Late Latin meliorātus, perfect passive participle of meliorō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from melior (“better”). Pronunciation: /ˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/ 1. To make better; to improve; to solve a problem. Labels: transitive Example: They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement. Example: Nature by art we nobly meliorate. 2. To become better. Labels: intransitive
Word: habitability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English habitable Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English habitability From habitable + -ity. 1. The property of being habitable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability. Example: The findings shed light on the geological history of Mars and offer valuable insights into how rocky planets across the solar system evolve. In addition, the discovery offers key implications for understanding the habitability of rocky planets, the researchers said.
Word: hairsplitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hair + splitter. 1. A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).
Word: hairsplitters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hairsplitter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: berime 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 rime English berime From be- + rime. 1. Alternative spelling of berhyme. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: berhyme 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 rhyme English berhyme From be- + rhyme. 1. To compose rhymes about; celebrate in rhyme; make poetry about someone. Labels: transitive 2. To lampoon. Labels: transitive
Word: half-dollar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English half- Proto-Germanic *dalą Proto-West Germanic *dal Old High German tal Middle High German tal German Tal German Talerder. Middle Low German dālerbor. Dutch dalerbor. English dollar English half-dollar From half- + dollar. 1. A coin worth one half of a dollar, typically 50 cents. Example: The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it. [This may be inspired by the number 42626 where 26 occurs twice; the half-crown was worth two shillings and sixpence - 2s 6d or 2/6.]
Word: half-dollars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of half-dollar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: half-track Part of Speech: noun 1. A vehicle combining both wheels and treads (caterpillar tracks).
Word: half-track Part of Speech: adj 1. Describing such a vehicle; half-tracked. Labels: not-comparable
Word: half-tracks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of half-track Labels: form-of, plural
Word: upchucks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of upchuck Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: upchucking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of upchuck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: upchucked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of upchuck Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bumblebees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bumblebee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supplicator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supplicate + -or. 1. someone who supplicates
Word: clamant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin clāmāns, present participle of clāmō (“yell”). Doublet of claimant. Pronunciation: /ˈklæmənt/, /ˈkleɪmənt/ 1. Urgent. Example: The concoctions contrived by Italians were particularly in clamant demand, while the occult sciences of astrology and alchemy lent their support[.] 2. Crying earnestly; beseeching clamorously. Example: clamant children
Word: get fucked Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ɡɪt fʌkt/, /ɡɛt fʌkt/ 1. A term used to express contempt. Usually used after the individual in question is retaliated upon and the user has no sympathy. Labels: offensive, vulgar Example: Get fucked—I'm disgusted with the way you acted today. 2. Go away, get lost. Labels: offensive, vulgar Example: Get fucked—I don't need your help. 3. A curse meaning "go to hell". Labels: offensive, vulgar Example: How dare you do that to Elizabeth? Get fucked! 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, fucked.
Word: screw you Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screw, you. Example: I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.
Word: screw you Part of Speech: intj 1. less offensive version of fuck you. Labels: idiomatic, mildly, slang, vulgar Example: You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you. Example: Screw you—go annoy someone else!
Word: screw you Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of defiance and contempt. Example: You know what it is about that game, the thing that id Software says isn't worth their time (which I personally believe is a big screw you to us gamers), Example: Partly as a 'screw you' to all the people who treated me so badly, to be honest. Show them the ugly duckling has morphed into a swan, that kind of thing.
Word: block dump Part of Speech: noun 1. An image that contains the sectors read from an original floppy disk or optical disc.
Word: brachylaimiasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Brachylaima + -iasis. 1. Infection by trematode worms of genus Brachylaima. Labels: uncountable Example: Zoonotic trematode (brachylaimiasis) and cestode (rodentoleposis) infections have been reported from semi-arid environments.
Word: flight mode Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of airplane mode. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: take a joke Part of Speech: verb 1. To accept a joke at one's expense. Labels: idiomatic Example: The school authorities, unable to take a joke, demanded the immediate removal of the satirical poster.
Word: Sino-Vietnamese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Sino- English Vietnam Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Vietnamese English Sino-Vietnamese From Sino- + Vietnamese. 1. Pertaining to the Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Sino-Vietnamese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Sino- English Vietnam Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Vietnamese English Sino-Vietnamese From Sino- + Vietnamese. 1. The Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
Word: proconsul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin prōcōnsul. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈkɒn.səl/, /pɹoʊˈkɑn.səl/ 1. A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.
Word: pro-choicer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pro- English choice English pro-choice 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 pro-choicer From pro-choice + -er. 1. A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.
Word: processional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English procession Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English processional From procession + -al. 1. Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding. Labels: not-comparable Example: The publick Processional-way to the Chapter-house at Windesor, used time out of mind, led from the Presence-Chamber, down through the Cloister, and the great Gate of the Kings Lodging, into the upper Ward of the Castle, thence through the middle Ward, and part of the lower, to and through the passage, between the East-end of the Chappel, and Tomb-house, and thence into the Chapter-house, situate at the North-East Corner of St. George’s Chappel. Example: 1799, Isaac D’Israeli, Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura, Book 4, in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., pp. 170-171, The nuptial day arrives. The virgin, preceded by a splendid retinue, and followed by her mother, her female relatives, and the damsels of her tribe, issues from the tent of her father. […] The women then followed with solemn and processional steps.
Word: processional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English procession Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English processional From procession + -al. 1. A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion. Example: A perfectly drilled wedding procession, like a military one, should move forward in perfect step, rising and falling in a block or unit. To secure perfection of detail, the bars of the processional may be counted so that the music comes to an end at precisely the moment the bride and groom stand side by side at the chancel steps. Example: […] a rainy Palm Sunday. […] At Grace Church on-the-Hill, the children and the acolytes stood huddled in the narthex; holding their palm fronds, they resembled tourists who’d landed in the tropics on an unseasonably cold day. The organist chose Brahms for the processional—“O Welt ich muss dich lassen”; “O world I must leave you.” 2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner. Example: He saw the processional of world brotherhood tramp steadily through the paling sunset; saffron-vestured Mandarin marching by flax-faced Norseman and languid South Sea Islander—the diverse peoples toward whom he had always yearned. Example: And Eugene watched the slow fusion of the seasons; he saw the royal processional of the months; he saw the summer light eat like a river into dark; he saw dark triumph once again; and he saw the minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death. 3. A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions. Example: [47] Item that the Churchwardens of euery paryshe shall delyuer vnto our visitours the inuentories of vestmentes, copes, and other ornamentes, plate, bookes, and specyallye of Grayles, Couchers, Legendes, Processionalles, Hymnalles, Manuelles, Portuesses, and suche lyke apperteynyng to theyr Church. Example: c. 1640s, John Gregory, “Episcopus Puerorum In Die Innocentium: Or, A Discovery of an Ancient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversary Bishop among the Choristers” in The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory, London: R. Royston and T. Williams, 1671, p. 114, By the Use of Sarum (for ’tis almost the only place where I can hear any thing of this; that of York in their Processional seems to take no notice of it) upon the Eve to Innocents Day the Chorister-Bishop was to go in solemn Procession with his fellows […]
Word: vali Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Turkish vali, from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin). Compare English vilayet. Pronunciation: /vɑːˈlɪː/ 1. Alternative form of wali. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: piece work Part of Speech: noun 1. Work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked; work done and paid for by the piece or by the job. Labels: uncountable Example: Turning manure and many other things we've hitherto done by day work, we'll do by piece work. Example: We have seen details of the types of work for which volunteers are sought, and these range from the manufacture of camouflage nets, on piece work in the Central London area, enabling approximately 6s. a shift of 4 hours to be earned, [...].
Word: men-at-arms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of man-at-arms Labels: form-of, plural
Word: equivale Part of Speech: verb 1. to be equivalent to. Labels: transitive Example: We read b#92;equivc as "b equivales c".
Word: lesse Part of Speech: adv 1. Archaic form of less. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: beasts of burden Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beast of burden Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mungo Part of Speech: noun 1. A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.
Word: mungo Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of mung (“mung bean”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: locum tenens Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Existing in English since the seventeenth century: from Medieval Latin locum tenēns (literally “one holding a place”). Doublet of lieutenant. Pronunciation: /ˌləʊkəm ˈtɛnɛns/ 1. A professional person (such as a doctor or clergyman) who temporarily fulfills the duties of another. Example: […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship. Example: "I expected better things of you, Professor Summerlee." "You must remember," said Summerlee, sourly, "that I have a large class in London who are at present at the mercy of an extremely inefficient locum tenens."
Word: emunge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēmungō. 1. To wipe or cleanse, especially one's nose. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The moment of inspiration commences — the speaker emunges his nose with all his might - a doleful voice, scarcely audible, something like the melancholy moan of the midnight breeze, which so few have heard, informs you might have supposed destitute of the organs of speech, possesses in some respect the faculties of speaking.
Word: locum tenentes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌləʊkəm tɛˈnɛntɛs/, /ˌləʊkəm tɪˈnɛntiːz/ 1. plural of locum tenens Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genome transplant Part of Speech: noun 1. A procedure in which DNA from one species is transplanted into a cell of another species, and after repeated division of hybrid cells the original cells are destroyed; only achieved in bacteria so far
Word: organocatalysis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organo- + catalysis. 1. The use of small organic compounds as catalysts Labels: uncountable
Word: organocatalyst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organo- + catalyst. 1. Any small organic compound that functions as a catalyst
Word: pancreata Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpæŋ.kɹiˌɑːt.ə/, /ˈpæn-/ 1. plural of pancreas Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fiascos Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fiˈæskəʊz/ 1. plural of fiasco Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fiasci Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fiˈæski/, /fiˈæʃi/ 1. plural of fiasco Labels: form-of, hypercorrect, plural
Word: fiaschi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fiˈæski/ 1. plural of fiasco Labels: form-of, plural
Word: locums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of locum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chloroplatinate Part of Speech: noun 1. Any salt of chloroplatinic acid
Word: malice prepense Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmælɪs pɹɪˈpɛns/ 1. Malice aforethought. Labels: uncountable Example: Quoth I, "This I did by accident not of malice prepense;" and quoth he, "If thou didst it by accident, I will do the like by thee with intention." Example: Mrs. Dallow complied, placing herself opposite to him in the boat; but as he took up the paddles she declared that she preferred to remain on the water—there was too much malice prepense in the temple. He asked her what she meant by that, and she said it was ridiculous to withdraw to an island a few feet square on purpose to meditate. She had nothing to meditate about which required so much attitude.
Word: malice aforethought Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Anglo-Norman malice prepensé (literally “forethought malice”). 1. The criminal intent which precedes a crime, especially murder. Labels: uncountable
Word: disbursal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See disburse. Pronunciation: [dɪsˈbɜːsəɫ] 1. The act of disbursing money. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The amount of money paid for something, especially the amount that may be tax-deductible. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dogie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration. Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊɡi/, /ˈdəʊɡi/ 1. A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. Labels: colloquial Example: When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]
Word: dogmatist Part of Speech: noun 1. A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person. 2. One who derives philosophical or religious principles from a priori assertion or revelation rather than evidence or experience. Example: Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
Word: drumbeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drum + beat. 1. The beating of a drum. 2. The sound of a beating drum. Example: This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge. 3. A repetitive beating sound. Labels: broadly Example: This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance! Example: The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations. 4. A driving force. Labels: figuratively Example: Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity. Example: On a more scholarly level the drumbeat of need was signalled too: as when the newly appointed headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Richard Mulcaster, declared: 'it would be a thing verie praiseworthy ... if som one learned and as laborious a man wold gather all the wordes which we vse in our English tung ... into one dictionarie.'
Word: hewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hew 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 hewer From hew + -er. 1. One who hews. Example: And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle. Example: The Larrakiahs at Port Darwin seem to have identified themselves with the white population, and became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the settlement.
Word: highlands Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kewk- Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s Proto-Germanic *hauhaz Proto-West Germanic *hauh Old English hēah Middle English heigh English high English lands English highlands From high + lands. 1. A high area of land, lands higher than surrounding areas. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: However, between Monrovia (6°20'N/10°46'W) and Buchanan (5°57'N/10°02'W) highlands approach to within 25 km of the coast. East of Buchanan the lowlands reach nearly 100 km inland, in the Cestos Valley, but narrow again to 30 km towards the eastern border. Example: One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.
Word: holdout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from hold out. Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊldˌaʊt/ 1. One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned. Example: If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse. Example: One of Otto’s first moves after Viserys’ death is to make the lords and ladies of the Red Keep bend the knee to Aegon. The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels. 2. A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted. Example: He is probably working a vest or sleeve hold-out. Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.
Word: homiletic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to a homily, or to homiletics. 2. Preachy.
Word: homiletics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητική (homilētikḗ). Compare ὅμιλος (hómilos, “crowd, throng”), ὁμῑλέω (homīléō, “to be with, to talk”), and ομιλώ (omilṓ, “to talk”). 1. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology). Labels: uncountable Example: We will consider first what is common to Rhetoric and Homiletics, then what is special to the latter. Rhetoric is the genus, Homiletics the species. Example: Thus theology got on its legs, both as a science and as an art, and with it its faithful handmaiden, homiletics.
Word: horologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin horologicus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to horo- + logic or horology + -ic. 1. Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia or horology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: horological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- + logical or horology + -ical. 1. Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology. Labels: not-comparable Example: [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.
Word: bloodwite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Old English blōdwīte. Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdwaɪt/ 1. A penalty for committing bloodshed, specifically under Anglo-Saxon law a penalty to be paid to the king or aldorman as distinct from the wergeld. Labels: historical
Word: blood-wite Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdwaɪt/ 1. Alternative form of bloodwite. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bloodwit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bloodwite. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blood-wit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of blood-wite. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I told him all my past from first to last; and he was concerned on my account and said, "O youth, disclose not thy secret to any: the King of this city is the greatest enemy thy father hath, and there is blood-wit between them and thou hast cause to fear for thy life."
Word: advowtry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English avoutrie, from Old French avouterie, variant (perhaps influenced by vout, vut (“vow”)) of aouterie, aolterie, from Late Latin adulterium. Doublet of adultery, which replaced it in modern English. Pronunciation: /ədˈvaʊtɹi/ 1. adultery Labels: archaic, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Then he turned to me and said, "O mortal, we have it in our law that, when the wife committeth advowtry it is lawful for us to slay her."
Word: cut a wide swath Part of Speech: verb 1. To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action. Labels: US Example: Sherman started from Atlanta in the middle of November. He cut a wide swath of desolation through the South. Example: Swinging his bloody horns from side to side the beast cut a wide swath before him. 2. To behave in an expansive, flagrantly showy, or pushy manner, especially in public venues; to exert sweeping influence. Labels: US, figuratively, idiomatic Example: Girls who like to cut a wide swath ought to come out to China, for they will have enough flattery and attention to turn their heads. Example: During the two years that he [the Count] cut a wide swath in the city [Berlin] his name was constantly associated with that of some dancer, actress or other woman whose notoriety drew more attention than her talent.
Word: cut a wide swathe Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of cut a wide swath. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cut a swath Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of cut a wide swath. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, idiomatic
Word: cut a swathe Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of cut a swath. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pertechnetate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin perbor. Latin per-bor. English per- English technetate English pertechnetate From per- + technetate. 1. The univalent technetium anion TcO₄⁻; any salt containing this anion
Word: gallantries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gallantry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arrhythmias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arrhythmia, which can refer to types of arrhythmia, cases of arrhythmia, or episodes of arrhythmia. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sleeping at the switch Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of asleep at the switch. Labels: alt-of, alternative, idiomatic
Word: angelical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al; equivalent to angel + -ical. Pronunciation: /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkəl/ 1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel. Example: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Example: She was all angelical gentleness.
Word: malnutrite Part of Speech: adj 1. malnourished Labels: obsolete
Word: smoke eater Part of Speech: noun 1. A firefighter. Labels: slang 2. A device or piece of equipment designed to remove smoke from the air.
Word: dopiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dopy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dopiness From dopy + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being dopey. Labels: uncountable Example: In fact, for all of Morgan’s game dopiness and genius timing, the biggest laugh might come from famed particle physicist Brian Cox, who—after having to listen to yet another misguided and meandering anecdote about Cunk’s mate Paul, an ill-informed fount of knowledge for our title star—finally asks: “So what does Paul do?”