nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: red water Part of Speech: noun 1. A cattle disease, with one symptom being reddish urine. Labels: uncountable 2. A wastewater in the manufacture of TNT. Labels: uncountable
Word: red meat Part of Speech: noun 1. Meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: To mention Bishop Manning's name in a city room is equivalent to telling the city editor that a rip-roaring good story is brewing. A bishop for almost ten years, he has provided the hungry presses of New York with more red meat than Al Capone, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, 'Legs' Diamond, Albert Einstein, Charles Augusts Lindbergh, Texas Guinan, or Nicholas Murray Butler. Example: “Keep it up,” urged Truman. “You’re doing a great job for the country and, incidentally, providing me with red meat for campaign speeches.”
Word: Red Planet Part of Speech: name 1. The planet Mars.
Word: red route Part of Speech: noun 1. A system of traffic management, marked by red lines along the edge of the road, where parking, loading or picking up passengers is restricted. Labels: UK 2. A route that has a higher-than-average rate of traffic accidents. Labels: UK
Word: red-pencil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From red + pencil. 1. To correct (written documents). Labels: transitive
Word: blue-pencil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blue + pencil. 1. To edit, especially to censor, written documents. Labels: transitive 2. To use a line-item veto. Labels: slang
Word: redcoat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of red + coat. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌkoʊt/ 1. A British soldier (stemming from the military uniform of British infantry since the 17th century). Labels: historical Example: The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me. Example: He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon; / And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon, / When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor, / A red-coat troop came marching— / Marching—marching— / King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door. 2. A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers. Example: The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins. 3. A fox. Labels: slang Example: Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.
Word: redcoat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of red + coat. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌkoʊt/ 1. To work as a redcoat (Butlin's entertainer). Labels: intransitive, rare
Word: red kangaroo Part of Speech: noun 1. A large kangaroo, of species Osphranter rufus, found in the desert areas of Australia.
Word: load-bearing Part of Speech: adj 1. Able to support a load. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1908, Frederick E. Turneaure, Editor-in-Chief, Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering The different forms of partitions that are not load-bearing will be considered under "Fireproofing." Example: The reactor units each called for a circular pit over 300ft. in diameter, excavated to a depth of 20ft. to reach a suitable load-bearing stratum. 2. Of a physical, digital, procedural etc. component, necessary to the integrity of the system of which it forms a part. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: The number keeps going up, which has a buoying effect on markets that is, in the short term, good. But every good earnings report further entrenches Nvidia as a precariously placed, load-bearing piece of the global economy.
Word: load-bearing Part of Speech: noun 1. The carrying of loads. Labels: uncountable Example: The porters, who stand in knots with cords upon their shoulders, bear huge loads; a characteristic of the place is this load-bearing and the size of the burdens. Example: 1955, National Research Council (U.S.) Building Research Institute, Modular Measure: The Edited Papers and Discussions of a Research Correlation Conference Entitled Modular Coordination: Its Value in Contemporary Building, Conducted by the Building Research Institute Since we do not need walls for load-bearing, the storage walls do not have to have any special thickness.
Word: Guinean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Guinea Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Guinean From Guinea + -an. 1. From Guinea. Labels: not-comparable 2. From Guinea-Bissau. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Guinean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Guinea Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Guinean From Guinea + -an. 1. Someone from Guinea or of Guinean descent.
Word: bigwig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First arose in the 1730s, from big + wig. Formerly, English men of authority (such as judges and Members of Parliament) wore wigs. Bigwig plays on the idea that higher authority is denoted by a larger wig. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪɡ.wɪɡ/ 1. A person of importance in a group or organization. Labels: informal Example: The company bigwig is gathering his staff together for a meeting today. Example: […] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.
Word: croft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /kɹɒft/, /kɹɔft/, /kɹɑft/ 1. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters. Example: ...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue... Example: Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Word: croft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /kɹɒft/, /kɹɔft/, /kɹɑft/ 1. To do agricultural work on one or more crofts. Labels: intransitive 2. To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: croft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from Old English cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (krŭptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt. Pronunciation: /kɹɒft/, /kɹɔft/, /kɹɑft/ 1. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft. Labels: archaic 2. A cave or cavern. Labels: archaic
Word: croft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of carafe. Pronunciation: /kɹɒft/, /kɹɔft/, /kɹɑft/ 1. A carafe. Labels: archaic
Word: irons Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ənz/, /ˈaɪ.ɚnz/ 1. plural of iron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: irons Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ənz/, /ˈaɪ.ɚnz/ 1. Shackles. Labels: dated, plural, plural-only Example: He’s been clapped in irons! 2. A lack of forward motion. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Alice steered the boat into the wind, so we were stuck in irons. 3. The stirrups. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: irons Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ənz/, /ˈaɪ.ɚnz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of iron Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dickens Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin: 1590–1600; apparently a fanciful use of the proper name Dicken, diminutive form of Dick. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪkɪnz/, /ˈdɪkənz/ 1. The devil. Labels: euphemistic Example: She can go to the dickens for what she said. Example: You scared the dickens out of me. 2. A disturbance or row. Example: Hugh considered saying, Then I guess I'll just have to kick you a few times instead, you frog son of a bitch. Then he thought of that fat bastard Keeton, handing him a pink slip for kicking up dickens in the local tavern. Example: And lastly, thanks to my children, Dutch and Tallulah, for allowing me to see the magic of everything I love about popular culture anew through their eyes. This one is for you two dickens! 3. Used as an intensifier in the phrase the dickens; see that entry. Example: Why the dickens did he do that? Example: We had the dickens of a row.
Word: take something in one's stride Part of Speech: verb 1. Not to allow oneself to be set back, daunted, upset or embarrassed by unpleasant or undesirable circumstances. Labels: UK, idiomatic
Word: propanoic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An IUPAC systematic name for the chemical originally named propionic acid. The prop- prefix is derived from propionic. 1. A colourless liquid with a sharp unpleasant odour; produced by the bacterial breakdown of fatty acids and therefore found in sweat and some cheese. Labels: uncountable 2. The short chain aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH₃CH₂COOH, used as a preservative, and in the manufacture of many chemical compounds. Labels: uncountable
Word: propionic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French acide propionique, coined by chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) ("first") and πίων (píōn) ("fat"), because it was the smallest carboxylic acid that exhibited the properties of the other fatty acids, such as producing an oily layer when salted out of water and having a soapy potassium salt. 1. The compound with the formula CH₃CH₂COOH, a naturally occurring carboxylic acid with a pungent odor. Labels: uncountable
Word: when pigs fly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Referencing the fact that pigs do not have wings and cannot fly. 1. Never. Labels: idiomatic Example: "You know, my friend," said Mongan, "that I can't get Duv Laca back unless the King of Leinster asks me to take her back, for a bargain is a bargain." "That will happen when pigs fly," said mac an Dáv, "and," said he, "I did not make any bargain with any king that is in the world."
Word: propionate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From propionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt or ester of propionic acid.
Word: pyrogallic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of pyrogallol. Labels: uncountable
Word: trihydroxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- English oxy English hydroxy English trihydroxy From tri- + hydroxy. 1. Three hydroxy groups in a molecule Labels: in-compounds, uncountable
Word: pyrogallol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Latin pyr English pyro- English gallic English -ol English pyrogallol From pyro- + gallic + -ol. 1. A poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene, C₆H₃(OH)₃, used as a photographic developer. Labels: uncountable
Word: mastoiditis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English mastoid Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor. New Latin -itisder. English -itis English mastoiditis From mastoid + -itis. 1. An inflammation of the mastoid process of the temporal bone. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: phloroglucinol Part of Speech: noun 1. A poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene, C₆H₃(OH)₃, used as a bone decalcifying agent. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hydroxyquinol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-)lbor. French hydro- French -gène French hydrogènebor. English hydrogen Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.? Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús) Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) French oxygènebor. English oxygen Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl blend English hydroxyl English hydroxy- English quinol English hydroxyquinol From hydroxy- + quinol. 1. a poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene, C₆H₃(OH)₃, used in organic synthesis Labels: uncountable
Word: fish farm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: fish (“vertebrate animal that lives in water”) + farm (“place to raise livestock”) 1. A place or facility dedicated to the raising of fish or other seafood for sale.
Word: yikes Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Attested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765–1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown. Alternatively, it may be derived from yipes, which is an earlier exclamation of similar usage as yikes (and is often considered to be an alternative form of yikes). Yipes may be derived from yipe, which itself may be derived from the yie sound often used to express pain or dismay, with the -p adding onto it in the same way as yep and nope. Or, yipes may be derived from the yipping sound that dogs make. Or, possibly a conflation of both of the previous. Pronunciation: /jaɪks/ 1. Expression of shock and alarm. Labels: humorous, informal, often Example: Yikes! A monster! Example: Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes! 2. Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances. Labels: humorous, informal, often Example: John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes! Example: EXACTLY, BLOCKHEAD!! BONK [hitting head] / AGH… / [detective watching behind door] YIKES…DID HE WAKE UP?
Word: house wine Part of Speech: noun 1. A relatively inexpensive wine sold in a restaurant, often by the glass as well as by the bottle or unmarked carafe; both red and white are normally offered. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: whiles Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst. Pronunciation: /(h)waɪlz/ 1. sometimes; at times Labels: Scotland, archaic, not-comparable Example: Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity. 2. meanwhile Labels: Scotland, archaic, not-comparable Example: the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour
Word: whiles Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst. Pronunciation: /(h)waɪlz/ 1. while, whilst Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: Portia: […]Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door. Example: for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Word: whiles Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /(h)waɪlz/ 1. plural of while Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whiles Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /(h)waɪlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of while Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: crofter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English croft 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 crofter From croft + -er. 1. One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user. Example: c. 1795: Sir John Sinclair ...yet even these sub-divisions are diminished by a still lower order of occupiers (if such they may be deemed) under the name of acre men or crofters. This extraordinary class of cultivators appear to have been quartered upon the tenants after the farms were split down into their smallest size: the crofters being a species of sub-tenants on the farms to which they are respectively attached Example: The passage is remarkable, as proving that at the end of the eighteenth century the crofters were not only hardly recognized but were at the very bottom of the scale in the rural economy of the Central Highlands.
Word: fibula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/, /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/ 1. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. Example: Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon. 2. The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
Word: FN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of footnote. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: FN Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of Fabrique Nationale. 1. Diminutive of FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle) Labels: diminutive, form-of 2. Diminutive of FN Five-seven (the pistol derivative of the FN-FAL) Labels: diminutive, form-of Example: I know your purse say D and G, holdin' my FN
Word: FN Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: FN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of fibronectin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: FN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of false negative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: A FN diagnosis, on the other hand, can give a patient the illusion of good health (and the patient will not get the necessary treatment). Example: From the optics of fairness, we care more about FPs than FNs because it's more unfair to put an innocent person in prison than it is to leave a guilty person in the streets.
Word: FN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of falling number. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: meals on wheels Part of Speech: noun 1. A service that delivers food to those unable to cook for themselves, such as the elderly and people with disabilities. Labels: uncountable
Word: meals on wheels Part of Speech: noun 1. The foods delivered by this service. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Meals on wheels are served at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Twenty-four volunteers delivered approximately 1,000 meals in 1989, for an average of about 6 or 7 clients per day.
Word: Monmouthshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Monmouth + shire. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒn.məθˌʃɪəɹ/, /ˈmɒn.məθ.ʃəɹ/ 1. A maritime traditional county of England and Wales, bordered by to the east by Gloucestershire, to the northeast by Herefordshire, to the north by Brecknockshire, to the west by Glamorganshire and to the south by the Bristol Channel. It was part of England until renamed Gwent and taken into Wales in 1974. 2. A county and local government principal area of Wales which replaced Gwent, bordered by the Forest of Dean, Herefordshire, Powys, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Newport.
Word: when Hell freezes over Part of Speech: adv 1. Never; not in this lifetime or a time in the unforeseeably distant future; not a chance. Labels: excessive, idiomatic, informal, not-comparable, slang Example: "Will you go out with him?" "When Hell freezes over!" Example: "When will the sun shine in Dunedin?" "When Hell freezes over!"
Word: Tallahassee Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Creek tvlvhasse, pronounced [talaháːssi], from etvlw (“town”) + vhassē (“old”). Compare Tulsa, from the same or a similar term. Pronunciation: /ˌtæləˈhæsi/ 1. The capital city of Florida, United States and the county seat of Leon County.
Word: Brythonic Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Brythonic *Brɨθon Welsh Brythonbor. English Brython Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Brythonic From Brython + -ic. Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈθɒnɪk/ 1. A Celtic language.
Word: Brythonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Brythonic *Brɨθon Welsh Brythonbor. English Brython Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Brythonic From Brython + -ic. Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈθɒnɪk/ 1. Of or relating to the Brythonic language subgroup, a set of Celtic languages.
Word: traditional county Part of Speech: noun 1. A county without direct administrative functions. e.g. Yorkshire, Perthshire, Dublin or Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 2. any of the historic divisions of Great Britain no longer used for administrative purposes in favour of ceremonial counties and administrative counties Labels: UK 3. any of the historical sub-national divisions used for the purposes of geographic demarcation, local government, and sport. Labels: Ireland
Word: Heinz Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German. Example: Three weeks after the couple and their young daughters, Amelia and Jane, had moved into the home, the Heinzs began to suspect their dream house contained the stuff that nightmares are made of. 2. A male given name.
Word: Heinz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the H. J. Heinz Company's "57 Varieties" slogan. 1. A five and a seven as starting cards in Texas hold 'em Labels: slang 2. A full-cover bet of doubles and upwards, consisting of six selections in 57 bets. Labels: UK, slang
Word: saltation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin saltus (“to leap”). Pronunciation: /sælˈteɪ.ʃən/, /sɔlˈ-/, /sɑlˈ-/ 1. A leap, jump or dance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: still keeping time to the music like Harlequin in a pantomime, he thrust a letter into our hero′s hand, and continued his saltation without pause or intermission. 2. The act of jumping, or hopping, using all legs simultaneously (although the contribution to motion is typically made chiefly by the hind legs). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Beating or palpitation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the saltation of the great artery 4. A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Indeed we have always thought that Mr. Darwin has unnecessarily hampered himself by adhering so strictly to his favourite “Natura non facit saltum.” We greatly suspect that nature does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms. 5. Any abrupt transition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus, a tap that precedes the final one by a tenth of a second will likely appear to be midway between the contactors, whereas a tap preceding the final one by only 20 ms will appear to be virtually superimposed on it. Because the overall experience is of a stimulus jumping from place to place, Geldard called the phenomenon saltation.[…]First, saltation can occur only over a limited distance: A tap on the shoulder will not be drawn toward a later one delivered to the foot. 6. The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Of extreme importance in the saltation phenomenon is the vertical distribution of particles, as well as total flux, as functions of the wind speed. The formations of all scales of bed formations, from centimeter-size ripples to kilometer-size dunes, are all due to the saltation process. Example: 2004, Basil Gomez, Mobile Bed, entry in Andrew Goudie (editor), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Volume 2, page 685, Saltation rapidly becomes the dominant type of motion as the flow intensity increases further, and at still higher flow intensities suspension begins to dominate. […] There is also an important difference between the movement of particles by saltation, in air and in water.
Word: cripes Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Minced oath for Christ. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪps/ 1. A mild curse or expression of surprise. Labels: euphemistic Example: “Cripes, they forgot the chopsticks. It won't feel authentic. How am I supposed to eat my moo shu pizza? Dad, bit of a moo shu fiasco over here. Let's talk damage control.”
Word: sliced Part of Speech: adj 1. That has been cut into slices. Labels: not-comparable Example: sliced bread
Word: sliced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of slice Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: PIG Part of Speech: noun 1. Persuade, Identify, GOTV, an electoral technique commonly employed in the United Kingdom. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Police in gear. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Acronym of pipe inspection gauge. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: saltus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin saltus (“a leap”). Doublet of salto. 1. A break of continuity in time. 2. A leap from premises to conclusion. 3. The difference between the right limit and the left limit of a function at a given point.
Word: FORTRAN Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of Fortran, particularly its early forms. Labels: alt-of Example: The brothers wrote the machine’s application software in FORTRAN, a programming language that is “a dinosaur from the late fifties,” Gregory said, adding, “There is always new life in this dinosaur.”
Word: colour triangle Part of Speech: noun 1. A plane triangular graph on which are drawn all the colours that can be made by the additive mixing of red blue and green; these three primary colours are at the apices, while white is in the middle. Labels: UK
Word: color triangle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of colour triangle. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: tights Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tight + -s. Pronunciation: /taɪts/, /tɑjts/, /tɑets/, /tʌɪts/ 1. A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers. Labels: plural, plural-only 3. A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers. Labels: plural, plural-only 4. In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: tights Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /taɪts/, /tɑjts/, /tɑets/, /tʌɪts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tight Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: truth table Part of Speech: noun 1. A table showing all possible truth values for an expression, derived from the truth values of its components. Example: Each row of a truth table corresponds to a distinct interpretation. The columns on the left side assign truth values to the letters (of the truth table's given formula), and the column on the right side shows the truth value for the entire formula, which computably depends on the truth values of its letters. Example: Each of these identities can be proven by simply creating a fully-enumerated truth table for the expression on the left (of the equality sign, not of the table) and another for the expression on the right. Afterward, the truth table shows that they produce the same result for every possible input combination. For this article's purposes, this approach will be done for each identity. […] Below (Tables 5 and 6) you'll see two truth tables for dominance of 1 under OR and dominance of 0 under AND, respectively.
Word: zygomorphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zygo- + -morphic. 1. Having bilateral symmetry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nucleoplasm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *knuks Latin nux Latin nucleuslbor. English nucleus English nucleo- English plasm English nucleoplasm From nucleo- + plasm. 1. The protoplasm of a cell nucleus
Word: Hants Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Hāntesċire, the Domesday spelling of Old English Hāmtūnsċīr, from Old English Hāmtūn + scir (“district”). Pronunciation: /ˈhænts/ 1. Abbreviation of Hampshire Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: lozenge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈlɔzɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles. Example: Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...]. Example: How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman! 2. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat. Example: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable. Example: In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
Word: lozenge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈlɔzɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To form into the shape of a lozenge. Labels: transitive 2. To mark or emblazon with a lozenge. Labels: transitive
Word: animat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Scientist Stewart W. Wilson in 1985 as a blend of animal + material. Whether the coincidences with Latin animat and/or a nominalization of Middle English animat were intended is unclear. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ɪ.mət/, /ˈæn.ə.mət/ 1. An artificial animal.
Word: nights Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nightes, from Old English nihtes (“at night, by night”), equivalent to night + -s (adverbial genitive suffix). Cognate with Old Frisian nachtes, Old Saxon nahtes, German nachts (all “nights, at night”). Pronunciation: /naɪts/ 1. At night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis). Labels: not-comparable Example: I work nights, my brother only afternoons, and my son days.
Word: nights Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /naɪts/ 1. plural of night Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kith and kin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kith and kynne. Literally, friends (“kith”) and family (“kin”). 1. Both friends and family. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: And ſyne ſhe kiſſd his bluidy cheik And fyne his bluidy chin: O better I loe my Gill Morice Than a' my kith and kin! "Away, away, ze ill woman, And an il deith mait ze dee: Gin I had kend he'd bin zour ſon, He'd neir bin flain for mee." Example: "What's that to me, boy?" she interrupted with a stern, hard manner, which Joe hitherto had had no idea she could assume. "Didn't her kith and kin rob thee, beat thee, starve thee, and force thee to run away ? Is she not the child of her mother, and what could I do with one trained in the wickedness of vagrant ways?"
Word: fess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of confess. Pronunciation: /fɛs/ 1. To confess; to admit.
Word: fess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fesse, from Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Cognate with fajita, fascia, and fascism. Pronunciation: /fɛs/ 1. A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. Example: Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Example: The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.
Word: fess Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɛs/ 1. Proud; conceited. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!" 2. Lively; active; strong. Labels: UK, dialectal 3. Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: constructivism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English constructive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English constructivism From constructive + -ism. Pronunciation: /kənˈstɹʌktɪvɪzm/ 1. A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Constructivism wasn't just Russian state propaganda - its blend of optimism and pragmatism and its emphasis on equality and the collective prefigured key developments in 20th-century art. Example: Art in the first half of the 20th century was powerfully shaped by Constructivism and Supremicism in the East and by Cubism, Futurism, and Surrealism in the West. 2. A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many masterpieces of Soviet constructivism are now crumbling under capitalism, replaced by pastiche architecture or pale replicas of former buildings. 3. A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At bottom, constructivism opposes axiomatization as the fundamental idea in mathematics. 4. A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no single theory of constructivism. In fact, there are many shades and varieties of constructivism spanning a range of perspectives. There is also no single individual who can be identified as the founder of constructivism. In fact, rather than tracing a linear development along one line of philosophical thought, constructivism seems to circumscribe a set of thinkers, theories and approaches that spring from a plethora of historical and cultural origins. Example: According to constructivism, all systems are artificial abstractions. They are not made by nature and presented to use to be discovered, but we construct them by our perceptual and mental capabilities with the domain of our experiences. 5. A school of studying international relations that prioritises the way the behaviour of polities and agents in geopolitics is constructed by norms and identities. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: regalo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian and Spanish regalo. 1. A gift of fine foods and/or wines. Labels: obsolete
Word: blazon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”). Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪzən/ 1. A verbal or written description of a coat of arms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous 2. A formalized language for describing a coat of arms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […]. Example: We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms... 3. A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He wears their motto on his blade, / Their blazon o'er his towers displayed; [...] 4. Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Example: Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee five-fold blazon.
Word: blazon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”). Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪzən/ 1. To describe a coat of arms. Labels: transitive Example: the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English Example: After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto 2. To make widely or generally known, to proclaim. Example: O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys. Example: There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. 3. To display conspicuously or publicly. 4. To shine; to be conspicuous. 5. To deck; to embellish; to adorn. Example: She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.
Word: Glamorganshire Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɡləˈmɔː(ɹ)ɡənʃɪə(ɹ)/, /ɡləˈmɔː(ɹ)ɡənʃə(ɹ)/ 1. A synonym, probably archaic, of Glamorgan, a traditional county of Wales. Example: Trevithick's first use of steam traction on rail took place at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on a tramroad 9¾ miles long between the Penydarren ironworks of Samuel Homfray, and the staithes at Abercynon, where the worked iron was loaded into barges on the Glamorganshire Canal.
Word: Brecknockshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh Brycheiniog + English shire. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɛknɒkʃɪɚ/, /ˈbɹɛknɒkʃɚ/ 1. An inland traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire.
Word: assailant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French assaillant, from the verb assaillir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“to, towards”) + salīre (“to jump”). Equivalent to assail + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈseɪlənt/ 1. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally. Example: I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants. Example: […] commonly some of us used to get up a tree to look out for any assailant, or kidnapper, that might come upon us; for they sometimes took those opportunities of our parents absence to attack and carry off as many as they could seize. 2. A hostile critic or opponent. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41, […] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.
Word: assailant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French assaillant, from the verb assaillir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“to, towards”) + salīre (“to jump”). Equivalent to assail + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈseɪlənt/ 1. Assailing; attacking. Labels: not-comparable Example: But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd, and thought extinguish'd quite, / With inward eyes illuminated, / His fiery virtue roused / From under ashes into sudden flame, / And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl, but as an eagle / His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
Word: Carmarthenshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Carmarthen + -shire. Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈmɑː(ɹ)ðənʃə(ɹ)/, /kə(ɹ)-/, /-ʃɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Glamorganshire, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire. 2. A local government principal area, bordered by Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
Word: Pembrokeshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Pembroke + -shire. Pronunciation: /pɛmˈbɹʊkʃə(ɹ)/ 1. A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. Example: It [the word pittance] does not signify the whole share of each individual in a conventual meal, but merely that smaller portion of more tasty viands which in frugal housekeeping is used to give relish to the bread or pottage constituting the substance of the meal; what is still called sowl or sowling in some parts of England. The Pembrokeshire peasant says, "I have not had a bit of sowl to my bread for these six months". 2. A local government principal area, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.
Word: armigerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English armiger Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English armigerous From armiger + -ous. Pronunciation: /ɑːˈmɪ.dʒə.ɹəs/, /ɑɹˈmɪ.d͡ʒɚ.əs/ 1. Entitled to bear a coat of arms. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries a non-armigerous man may still display her own arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife's arms to go? Example: Although the rolls of arms upon which Denholm-Young relied so heavily do not after all show that the esquires became armigerous in about 1370, it is still significant that the arms of esquires which were not emblazoned on the Parliamentary, Carlisle or Dunstable Rolls should appear for the first time on a roll of arms in about 1370.
Word: gules Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules. Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːlz/, /ˈɡjulz/ 1. Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. Labels: uncountable Example: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
Word: gules Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules. Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːlz/, /ˈɡjulz/ 1. In blazon, of the colour red. Example: The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules. Example: Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
Word: gules Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules. Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːlz/, /ˈɡjulz/ 1. plural of gule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: purpure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura. Pronunciation: /pəˈpjʊə/, /pɚˈpjʊɹ/ 1. A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise. Labels: uncountable Example: Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.
Word: purpure Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura. Pronunciation: /pəˈpjʊə/, /pɚˈpjʊɹ/ 1. In blazon, of the colour purple. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chevron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kápros Proto-Italic *kapros Latin caper Latin *capreus Vulgar Latin *capriō Old French chevronbor. Middle English cheveroun English chevron From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛvɹən/, /ˈʃɛvɹɑn/ 1. A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve. 2. A wide inverted V placed on a shield. 3. One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles. Labels: UK Example: 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009. I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front. 4. A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””. 5. An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol. 6. A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex. Labels: informal Example: It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script. Example: The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058. 7. A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world. 8. Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
Word: chevron Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kápros Proto-Italic *kapros Latin caper Latin *capreus Vulgar Latin *capriō Old French chevronbor. Middle English cheveroun English chevron From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛvɹən/, /ˈʃɛvɹɑn/ 1. To form or be formed into chevrons Example: ...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow. Example: ... as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream comes sliding down the crack now towards his asshole, chevroning the hairs along like topo lines up a river valley...