nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cabriole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cabriole (“a goat's leap”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæbɹɪˌəʊl/, /ˈkæbɹiˌoʊl/ 1. A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal. Example: It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.
Word: cabrioles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cabriole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cacho Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of catechu. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: caches Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃɪz/ 1. plural of cache Labels: form-of, plural
Word: no-lone zone Part of Speech: noun 1. An area into which entry by a single individual is prohibited; commonly an area with accessibility to a nuclear weapon.
Word: no lone zone Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of no-lone zone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Subaru Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Japanese 昴 (Subaru). Pronunciation: /ˈsuː.bə.ruː/, [ˈsu̟w.bə.ɹu̟w], [ˈsʉw.bə.ɹʉw] 1. A Japanese automotive manufacturer. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A male or female given name from Japanese. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A Japanese traditional constellation, equivalent to the Western asterism the Pleiades (“the Seven Sisters”) (an open cluster). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: unspoken Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English spoken English unspoken From un- + spoken. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈspoʊkən/ 1. Not spoken; not said. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes 2. Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes Example: The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty. Example: I don't think we could ever have a good parent-son relationship as long as there is something as important as this that I'm hiding from you, and you (probably) are wondering about vaguely, but everything remains on a silent unspoken level.
Word: unspoken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English spoken English unspoken From un- + spoken. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈspoʊkən/ 1. past participle of unspeak Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: souteneur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French souteneur (literally “one who supports”), from the verb soutenir. 1. A man who protects, and commonly compels, a prostitute of any gender and lives off the earnings; a pimp. Originally a Parisian term, but since adopted into other languages such as English. Example: The souteneur ... though he lives in comparative comfort from what his mistress gives him, he rarely makes a big haul. His mistress gone, the pot ceases to boil; in fact, he calls her his marmite. Example: 1894 Richard Krafft-Ebing & Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Psychopathia Sexualis. p. 416 Pub. F.A.Davis These "souteneurs" attach their "jesus" to themselves. The passive pederasts are "petits jusus," "jesus," or "aunts." The "petits jesus" are lost, depraved children, whom accident places in the hands of active pederasts, who seduce them, and reveal to them the horrible means of earning a livelihood, either as "entretenus" or as male street-walkers, with or without "souteneurs." The most suitable and promising "petits jesus" are given into the hands of persons who instruct these children in the art of female dress and manner. Gradually they then seek to emancipate themselves from their teachers and masters, in order to become "femmes entretenues"; and not infrequently by means of anonymous denunciation of their "souteneurs" to the police. It is the object of the "souteneur" and the "petit jesus" to make the latter appear young, as long as possible, by means of all the arts of the toilet.
Word: lucky break Part of Speech: noun 1. A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc. Labels: idiomatic Example: At 17, she got her lucky break when she appeared on television and became a popular musician overnight.
Word: overindulgence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English indulgence English overindulgence From over- + indulgence. 1. An act of overindulging; indulgence in too much; pleasure or consumption taken in excess of what is satisfying or necessary. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He blames his overindulgence in food for his expanding waistline.
Word: turn tail Part of Speech: verb 1. To turn away from someone or something, in preparation for running away; to reverse direction; to leave or flee. Labels: idiomatic Example: A box-lobby lion or a Regent-street animal . . . will never bite, and, if you offer to attack him manfully, will fairly turn tail and sneak off. Example: [H]e stormed at me all through the lessons in a very violent manner of scolding, [...] I was often tempted to turn tail, but held my ground for all that, and got some profit of my lessons; [...]
Word: Hezbo Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of or a supporter of Hezbollah. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: squared Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skwɛəd/, /skwɛɹd/, /skweːd/, /skweəd/, /skwiəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of square Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: squared Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /skwɛəd/, /skwɛɹd/, /skweːd/, /skweəd/, /skwiəd/ 1. Covered with a grid of squares. Labels: not-comparable Example: The children were taught to plot graphs on squared paper. 2. Raised to the second power. Labels: not-comparable 3. Located on the specified kind of square on the board. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: a light-squared bishop
Word: pan theisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pan theism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pan-theisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pan-theism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mnemonically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English mnemonical Middle English -ly English -ly English mnemonically From mnemonical + -ly. 1. Through the use of mnemonics. Labels: not-comparable 2. As a mnemonic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Avi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew אבי (Ávi, “father”), chiefly as a diminutive of אַבְרָהָם (Avrahám, “Abraham, lit. father of a multitude or exalted father”) and אַבְנֵר (Avnér, “Abner, lit. father of light”). 1. A male given name from Hebrew. Example: “This is different than anything we’ve faced before,” said Avi Hasson, the CEO of Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), a non-profit that promotes Israel’s tech industry globally.
Word: misprision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English misprision, mesprision (“criminal offence or illegal action, especially one committed by a public official”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman misprision, mesprision, mesprison (“criminal offence or illegal action; error, mistake, specifically an error by a court”) [and other forms] (whence Late Latin mesprisio, misprisio), and Old French mesprison, from mespris (“contempt, disdain”) (modern French mépris) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Mespris is the past participle of mesprendre (“to misunderstand”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + prendre (“to take”) (from Latin prēndere, the present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō (“to seize, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to seize, take; to hold”)). Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒn̩/, /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒ(ə)n/ 1. Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: [I]f any persone were perceiued to be absent, or were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour [Nero], he was forthe with accused, as it were, of missprision: whereby the emperour founde occasion to committe him to prison or to put hym to tortures. Example: Bribery is a great miſpriſion, when any man in Judiciall place takes any Fee or Penſion, Robe, or Livery, Gift, Reward, or Brocage of any perſon, that hath to do before him any way, for doing his office, or by colour of his office, but of the King only, unleſſe it be of meat and drink, and that of ſmall value, upon divers, and grievous puniſhments. 2. In full misprision of felony or misprision of treason: originally, a less serious form of felony or treason; later, the crime of (intentionally) failing to give information about a felony or treason that one knows about; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: misprision of heresy Example: Misprisions (a term derived from the old French, meſpris, a neglect or contempt) are, in the acceptation of our law, generally underſtood to be all ſuch high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon: and it is ſaid, that a miſpriſion is contained in every treaſon and felony whatſoever; and that, if the king ſo pleaſe, the offender may be proceeded againſt for the miſpriſion only. […] Miſpriſions are generally divided into two ſorts; negative, which conſiſt in the concealment of ſomething which ought to be revealed; and poſitive, which conſiſt in the commiſſion of ſomething which ought not to be done. 3. Misinterpretation or misunderstanding; (countable) an instance of this; a mistake. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: A Feuer in your blood vvhy then inciſion VVould let her out in Savvcers, ſvveete miſpriſon.^([sic]) Example: What haſt thou done? Thou haſt miſtaken quite, And laid the loue iuice on ſome true loues ſight. Of thy miſpriſion, muſt perforce enſue Some true loue turnd, and not a falſe turnd true. 4. Incorrect or unfair suspicion; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: broadly, uncountable
Word: misprision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From misprize (“to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state), probably influenced by misprision (etymology 1). Misprize is derived from Middle English mesprise, mespryse, from Anglo-Norman mespriser, Middle French mespriser, and Old French mesprisier, mesproisier (“to disdain, scorn; to despise, hate”) (modern French mépriser), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + priser, prisier (“to appraise, value”) (from Late Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“to consider valuable, esteem, prize, value”), Medieval Latin pretiō (“to appraise, assess, value”), from Latin pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before; in front; first”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒn̩/, /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒ(ə)n/ 1. Despising or holding in contempt; disdain, scorn. Labels: uncountable Example: Heere, take her hand, / Proud ſcornful boy, vnworthie this good gift, / That doſt in vile miſpriſion ſhackle vp / My loue, and her deſert: […] Example: [Y]ou may be one of those unhappy persons, whose dim eyes being unable to penetrate the starry spheres, and to discern therein the decrees of heaven at a distance, have their hearts barred against conviction by prejudice and misprision. 2. Not seeing the value in something; undervaluing. Labels: uncountable
Word: teratoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From terato- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹ.ə.tɔɪd/ 1. Monster-like, exhibiting abnormal development. Example: Lucien, staring goggle-eyed at the only brother he’s ever had, is standing very still, face still unwittingly teratoid, the broom at an angle in his hand, the Colt dangling at his side, […]
Word: teratoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From terato- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹ.ə.tɔɪd/ 1. An abnormal tumor similar to a teratoma. Example: In each of these divisions there are subdivisions, according as the parasite consists of a more or less recognisable fœtus, or only of a mass of fœtal tissue (teratomata, teratoids, dermoids). Example: They can be divided into dermoids (only an epithelial layer present) and teratoids (all three germ layers present). 2. A mutant. Example: I wanted to explore how at the launch of a new millennium many people were beginning to feel like teratoids in the global commodity exchange. Example: The objects floating in the bath and lazing about on the bathroom's floor are all monsters, teratoids dehumanized by the husking of their clothes.
Word: aphonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin aphōnia, from Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -phonia. Pronunciation: /eɪˈfəʊ.ni.ə/, /əˈ-/, /eɪˈfoʊ.ni.ə/ 1. Loss of voice; the inability to speak. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: aphrasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + -phrasia. 1. Condition of being unable to speak. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rimed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rime (etymology 1) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Pronunciation: /ɹaɪmd/ 1. Covered in rime (etymology 1) or (generally) frost. Example: The rimed window permitted only shades of the traffic outside.
Word: rimed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From rime (etymology 1) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Pronunciation: /ɹaɪmd/ 1. simple past and past participle of rime Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: valance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English valance, valans, valaunce, valence, valons. Origin uncertain. Probably from Anglo-Norman valaunce, valence, from valer (“go down, let down”), aphetic form of Old French avaler (“to descend, go down”). Pronunciation: /ˈvæləns/ 1. A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window. Example: Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal. 2. A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window. 3. A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there. 4. A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc. Example: Mortally insulted, Jasper went under the couch, where he remained with only his nose showing beneath the valance, emitting little world-weary groans at intervals, and refusing to come out for cake. 5. A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel). 6. The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
Word: anechoic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From an- + echoic, from echo + -ic, from Middle English ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Pronunciation: /ˌæn.ɛˈkəʊ.ɪk/, /ˌæn.ɛˈkoʊ.ɪk/ 1. Lacking echoes; particularly, designed to absorb sound. Example: The bassoonist settled into the anechoic chamber and prepared for another grueling recording session.
Word: moppet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mop (“child, girl”) + -et. 1. A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way. Labels: colloquial Example: They are also very sympathetic, especially Caesar’s orangutan advisor, Maurice (Karin Konoval), who takes a shine to a human moppet (Amiah Miller) he finds hiding in the back of a shack, and the poignant Bad Ape (a scene-stealing Steve Zahn), a mangy chimp who was beaten so often in his zoo-animal days that he came to believe what his handlers were shouting was supposed to be his name. 2. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth. Labels: dated 3. A long-haired pet dog. Labels: dated
Word: whistly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From whistle + -ly. 1. Making a whistling sound. Labels: informal
Word: whistly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From whist + -ly. 1. silently Labels: obsolete
Word: doily Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London draper. The surname is Anglo-Norman, from d'Œuilly, name of several places in Calvados, from Old French oeil (“eye”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɔɪli/ 1. A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food. Example: She looked polite, and observed the oiled floors, hard-wood staircase, unused fireplace with tiles which resembled brown linoleum, cut-glass vases standing upon doilies, and the barred, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and unread-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert Hubbard. Example: Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys / With afternoon tea-cakes and scones. 2. A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women. Labels: Judaism 3. An old kind of woollen material. Labels: obsolete
Word: believers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of believer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: delegates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of delegate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: delegates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of delegate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: researches Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃɪz/, /ɹɪˈsɝt͡ʃɪz/, /ˈɹiːsɚt͡ʃɪz/ 1. plural of research Labels: form-of, plural, rare Example: ... they have led to a number of researches both in the Soviet Union and abroad.
Word: researches Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃɪz/, /ɹɪˈsɝt͡ʃɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of research Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: glistening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of glisten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: glistening Part of Speech: noun 1. The appearance of something that glistens. Example: My eyes had adjusted to the faint starlight and I could make out pale glistenings and white glow of bones which had worked their way free of clinging flesh. 2. A fluid-filled microvacuole within a lens.
Word: informing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inform Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: informing Part of Speech: adj 1. informative; educational Labels: archaic Example: Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, and some that were informing; and even the captain, though he kept me at the stick’s end the most part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited.
Word: availed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of avail Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fulgurant Part of Speech: adj 1. Resembling a lightning flash; fulgurous.
Word: conversed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of converse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: imitated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɪmɪteɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of imitate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: imitated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɪmɪteɪtɪd/ 1. Virtual, simulated; in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality. Labels: not-comparable
Word: woes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /woʊz/ 1. plural of woe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: assuasive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive. 1. Mild, soothing. Example: If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise, Musick her soft, assuasive Voice applies; Or when the Soul is press’d with Cares Exalts her in enlivening Airs. Example: “[…] Perhaps,” said Bounderby, starting with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, “you know where your daughter is at the present time?”
Word: assuasive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive. 1. Anything that soothes. Labels: archaic Example: […] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force. Example: 1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112, the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention
Word: epidermal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms. By surface analysis, epidermis + -al = epi- + derm- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪˈdɝməl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the epidermis. Labels: not-comparable Example: The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
Word: mycological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mycology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English mycological From mycology + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to mycology or to fungi Labels: not-comparable
Word: nail-biter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of nail biter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nailbrush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nail + brush. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪl.bɹʌʃ/ 1. A small brush, with firm bristles, used to clean the fingernails or to scrub the hands. Example: Rupert Sheffield, scrubbing John's blood from his hands with a nailbrush and hospital soap, swore that this was the last time [...] that he would have to do this.
Word: nailbrush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nail + brush. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪl.bɹʌʃ/ 1. To scrub with a nailbrush. Labels: transitive
Word: nakedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nakidly; equivalent to naked + -ly. 1. In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly. Example: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here. Example: It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.
Word: matriculation Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /məˌtrɪkjʊˈleɪʃən/, /məˌtrɪkjəˈleɪʃən/ 1. Enrollment in a college or university. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A pass in some university examinations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row. 3. A registration of armorial bearings. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable
Word: nameable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English nameable From name + -able. 1. Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1635, Alexander Gill, The Sacred Philosophie of Holy Scripture, London: Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker, Chapter 8, p. 30, [God’s] pure being, because it is neither understandable, nor nameable by us, we speake of goodnesse, of power, &c. as of the effluences or prime acts thereof […] Example: Mr. Hyde […] gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […] 2. Worthy of being named or having a name; significant; memorable (especially in negative expressions). Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […] the culture [of alfalfa] is not very expensive, though the profit is not nameable till the second or third year, when the cuttings are considerable […] Example: 1810, William Coleman, An Appeal to the People, New York: C.S. Van Winkle, p. 72, A mission hatched by Jefferson under the pretence of forming a commercial treaty, though we have neither trade of any nameable amount with Russia, nor any political concerns with her […]
Word: extrusive Part of Speech: adj 1. Jutting out; extruding. 2. Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, on to the Earth's surface to lie atop existing rocks.
Word: extrusive Part of Speech: noun 1. Rock which has been formed through volcanic extrusion.
Word: name brand Part of Speech: noun 1. A trademark, or a distinctive name for a brand, or for a range of products by a single manufacturer. Example: The company that invented the category remains a name brand to this day. 2. A product having such a mark or name. Example: When it comes to laundry detergent, she always buys a name brand, just to be safe.
Word: name-calling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From name + calling. Compare call names. 1. The use of derogatory labels in verbal attacks on a person or other entity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier. Example: The next day things got heated in the schoolyard as the name calling began. It was three against one.
Word: name-calling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From name-call + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of name-call Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: podiatrist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English podiatry 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 podiatrist From podiatry + -ist. Pronunciation: /pəˈdaɪətɹɪst/ 1. A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments. Example: I visited my podiatrist to get a new pair of orthopedic inserts for my sneakers. Example: Dr. Larry Braunstein, a podiatrist who died in 2007, often told the story of providing Donald Trump with the diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels so he could be exempt from military service, his two daughters – Dr. Elysa Braunstein and Sharon Kessel – told the New York Times.
Word: namedrop Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of name-drop. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He namedrops the Thundercats, Punky Brewster and “hammerhead sharks in Bermuda,” describes his car as looking “like Almond Joy” and taunts, on “Ain’t I (remix),” “The choppers in the trunk will make you do the Macarena.”
Word: namedrop Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of name-dropping. Example: [Adam Gopnik] moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
Word: name-drop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From name + drop. 1. To casually mention a well-known or illustrious person or the titles of their works, often implying familiarity or association, especially in order to impress others, increase one's status, or to appear knowledgeable or fashionable. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: namedropping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of namedrop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: namedropping Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of name-dropping. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: administrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of administration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: name-dropping Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of casually mentioning famous or important people or the titles of their works, subtly implying familiarity or association, in order to impress others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “The one thing I don't want anybody to do, the one thing I will not tolerate, is name-dropping. It's bad. Marlon Brando told me that.”
Word: name-dropping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of name-drop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Our drama teacher is always name-dropping, but I bet she's never even been to New York.
Word: namedropper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From name + dropper or namedrop + -er. 1. A person who name-drops Example: One last note: Ann Landers is a name dropper. "I had lunch with the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia yesterday", "Just last week I was talking with the Senator."
Word: name-dropper Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of namedropper. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: namelessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English nameless Middle English -ly English -ly English namelessly From nameless + -ly. 1. Without using, or revealing a name; anonymously.
Word: Austrians Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɒstɹi.əns/, /ˈɔːstɹi.əns/ 1. plural of Austrian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: napless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nap Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English napless From nap (“soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather”) + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈnæpləs/ 1. Without a nap; worn or threadbare. Example: Stout men with napless hats on, look out of the bedroom windows, and cut jokes with friends in the street.
Word: napless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nap Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English napless From nap (“a short period of sleep”) + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈnæpləs/ 1. Without napping or sleeping. Example: a napless baby
Word: pain in the bum Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone or something very annoying. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: 2000, Max Allen, Crush: The New Australian Wine Book This is fine and dandy for the wineries and the consumer […] but it’s a pain in the bum for people like me who have to pigeonhole everybody to make them fit nicely in a book. Example: 2003, Alan Grayson, Mile End “Yes, she’s a pain in the bum, coming over all the time.”
Word: dolphins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dolphin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: napper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nap + -er. 1. A person who takes a nap. 2. The head. Labels: slang Example: You look so dapper from your napper to your feet. Example: Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper. 3. A machine used to raise the nap on cloth. Labels: obsolete 4. A sheepstealer. Labels: obsolete
Word: PMT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of premenstrual tension. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: Other circumstances, such as sunburn, travel, or emotional crisis, can also aggravate fluid retention and "PMT". Example: Fraser knew girls had periods but he'd never heard of PMT. 2. Abbreviation of photomultiplier tube. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable
Word: femininity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine + -ity. Pronunciation: /fɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/ 1. The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It's almost eerie, in the wake of the Lawrence Summers controversy, to encounter the words of an earlier Harvard president, John Kirkland, a "friend and mentor" of Elizabeth's, who advised her that if any woman "is raised by genius and knowledge above the level of her sex, her neglect of attention appropriate to the best half of creation, attentions called femininities, will more than counterbalance all her advantages and reduce her below other women." Example: A contributing factor to this slightly regressive femininity may have been the sugary fabrics (silver lamé, tulle over sequins) and the meringuelike puffs and baby Googums bows at the neck.
Word: narcotization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English narcot(ic) 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 narcotize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English narcotization From narcotize + -ation. 1. the state of being narcotized; narcosis Labels: uncountable 2. the act of narcotizing someone or something Labels: countable
Word: masculinist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English masculine 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 masculinist From masculine + -ist. 1. Relating to or in accordance with masculinism. Labels: not-comparable Example: We live in a masculinist-oriented (as opposed to a feminist-oriented) society. That is, we live in a society which rewards masculine action, even if such action is taken by a woman. Example: But evolutionary psychology, as it has been disseminated across mainstream consciousness, is a cranky and despotic Cyclops, its single eye glaring through an overwhelmingly masculinist lens. I say "masculinist" rather than male because the view of male behaviour promulgated by hard-core evolutionary psychologists is as narrow and inflexible as their view of womanhood.
Word: masculinist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English masculine 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 masculinist From masculine + -ist. 1. An advocate of masculinism.
Word: narcotize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English narcot(ic) 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 narcotize From narcot(ic) + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːkə.tʌɪz/, /ˈnɑɹ.kəˌtaɪz/ 1. To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug. Labels: transitive 2. To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.). Labels: transitive 3. To make into a narcotic. Labels: transitive Example: The sun hangs overhead like a lantern, the essence of new grass and apple blossom narcotizes the air, the clack and whir of the wheels have a quelling, hypnotic effect on the passengers.
Word: asexually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English asexual Middle English -ly English -ly English asexually From asexual + -ly. 1. In an asexual manner; without having sex. Example: Amoebas reproduce asexually. Example: One of the pioneers was a French plant scientist named Georges Morel who figured out how to produce asexually thousands of identical orchids from one plant through cloning instead of breeding from seed.
Word: narrow-minded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From narrow + minded. Pronunciation: /ˈnæ.ɹəʊˌmaɪn.dɪd/, /ˌnæ.ɹəʊˈmaɪn.dɪd/, /ˈnæ.ɹəʊˌmaɪn.dəd/, /ˌnæ.ɹəʊˈmaɪn.dəd/ 1. Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas. Example: Even Mr. Wilson's speech, excellent as it was, could only condemn the Government's narrow-minded approach for the reasons we have outlined, [...]. 2. Intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced. Example: What GCN has done for prisoners is an act of love, all the more precious because it's done despite the many voices of the narrow-minded who refuse to admit that our humanity remains, even past the prison gates.
Word: narrow-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English narrow-minded Middle English -ly English -ly English narrow-mindedly From narrow-minded + -ly. 1. In a narrow-minded manner. Example: 'Funny,' I said, 'that she should be quite so narrow-mindedly English when you think that she spent five years in India.'
Word: narrow-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English narrow-minded 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 narrow-mindedness From narrow-minded + -ness. 1. The state of being narrow-minded. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: relegation zone Part of Speech: noun 1. The bottom part of e.g. a sports table, listing how well teams have played over a period of time. All teams that end up in the relegation zone are relegated. Example: The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.
Word: relegated Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: relegated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of relegate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: narrowness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English narwenesse; equivalent to narrow + -ness. 1. The state of being narrow. Labels: uncountable Example: presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to Example: “You will understand me when I say that it was a deadly life for a girl brought up as I had been. The narrowness, the deadly monotony of it, almost drove me mad.” 2. A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent. Labels: countable
Word: strip off Part of Speech: verb 1. To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship. Labels: transitive Example: 1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at Project Gutenberg Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave. Example: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once. 2. To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively). Labels: Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive Example: Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April. Example: A night when you strip off and sit down to gasp and pant for a breath of air; such a night is never experienced in Kansas. 3. To be removed by stripping. Labels: intransitive Example: The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm. Example: On an old plant, this tends to strip off in long, tough, stringy lumps, a bit like short lengths of raffia.
Word: narrows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of narrow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: narrows Part of Speech: noun 1. A narrow part of a navigable waterway.
Word: ear candy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely analogous to eye candy. 1. Light popular music that has an instant appeal but no lasting impact or significance. Labels: US, colloquial, uncountable Example: Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth. Example: I wanted it to just be something fun to listen to, like ear candy. I think that's what we got.
Word: nasality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nasal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English nasality From nasal + -ity. Pronunciation: /neɪˈzælɪtiː/ 1. The state or quality of being nasal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: twang
Word: nasalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nasal 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 nasalize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English nasalization From nasalize + -ation. 1. the articulation of a vowel or continuant consonant in such a way that air flows through the nose at the same time as it flows through the mouth Labels: uncountable 2. a particular instance of such change Labels: countable 3. eclipsis Labels: Irish, countable, uncountable
Word: nasalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English nasal 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 nasalize From nasal + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪ.zəˌlaɪz/ 1. To speak through the nose. 2. To make a nasal sound when speaking. 3. To lower the soft palate so that air flows through the nose during the articulation of a speech sound.
Word: nasally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English nasal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English nasally From nasal + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪzəli/ 1. In a nasal manner or tone. Example: speak nasally 2. By, through or using the nose. Example: Among the Arabs, who are highly sensitive to aromas as sexual stimulants, perfume is applied for this purpose to the mouth, the armpits, nasally, and the pudenda muliebria.
Word: nasally Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nasal Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English nasally From nasal + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪzəli/ 1. That sounds nasal. Example: The loud, nasally voice from behind the door attracted my attention. Example: My only option was to tell the off-site building manager, a nasally guy named Russell Sepulveda.
Word: nascence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin nāscentia + -ence, from nāscentem (“arising young, immature”), present participle of nāscī (“to be born”) (Old Latin gnāscī; see genus). Doublet of nascency. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪ.səns/ 1. Birth. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: He had discerned that I was with child. He was a physician first. When he came around offering to see me through my baby's nascence, Mother so thoroughly scolded him for his audacity that he was again left speechless. "I will see to the birth ..." 2. Coming into being; inception, beginning. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Careful examination of Romaine's prophecy reveals the operative nature of the Kongolese religious habitus in the nascence of Haitian Vodou, a religion that truly began to crystallize during the Revolution.
Word: nastily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English nasty Middle English -ly English -ly English nastily From nasty + -ly. 1. In a nasty manner. Example: laced with humor that lampoons and ridicules, but never nastily so
Word: nastiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nasty 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 nastiness From nasty + -ness. 1. Lack of cleanliness. Labels: uncountable Example: They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace. Example: Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to the nastiness and dirt and slovenly habits among the people. “The floors,” says he, “are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.” 2. Dirt, filth. Labels: uncountable Example: [T]he helliſh Noiſe, the Roaring, Svvearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Naſtineſs, and all the dreadful croud of Afflicting things that I ſavv there; joyn'd together to make the Place ſeem an Emblem of Hell itſelf, and a kind of an Entrance into it. 3. Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty. Labels: uncountable Example: Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor. Example: Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside. 4. Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses). Labels: uncountable Example: Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. Example: During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness. 5. A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty). Labels: countable Example: If we, who are educated, habitually submit to have copper in our preserves, red-lead in our cayenne, alum in our bread, pigments in our tea, and ineffable nastinesses in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor? Example: […] imagine the delights of bathing when the Baths were open to public view, the said public delighting to throw dead cats, offal, and all manner of nastinesses among the bathers!
Word: nationalistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English nationalistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English nationalistically From nationalistic + -ally. 1. In a nationalistic manner.
Word: nationhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nation Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood English nationhood From nation + -hood. 1. The quality of being a nation. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fact of achieving national independence or autonomy. Labels: countable, uncountable