nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: smoked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English smoked, y-smoked, equivalent to smoke + -ed. Pronunciation: /sməʊkt/, /smoʊkt/ 1. Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation. Labels: not-comparable Example: smoked salmon 2. Of glass, tinted. Labels: not-comparable Example: 'A pair of smoked spectacles will do it,' he said positively. 'Look at him now; he looks like an angelic office boy. Put him on a pair of smoked spectacles, and children will scream at the sight of him.' Example: "You'll need smoked glasses to protect your eyes," Paul warned him.
Word: smoked Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /sməʊkt/, /smoʊkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of smoke Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: smoking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/, /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of smoke Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smoking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/, /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/ 1. Giving off smoke. Example: Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died. 2. Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman. Labels: slang Example: That woman is smoking! 3. Showing great skill or talent. Labels: slang Example: The band put on a smoking performance.
Word: smoking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/, /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/ 1. The act or process of emitting smoke. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: Smoking can lead to lung cancer. 4. The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others. Labels: countable, especially, uncountable, usually Example: He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings. 5. The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A bantering; teasing; mockery. Labels: countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: AFAIC Part of Speech: phrase 1. As far as I can ____. Labels: Internet, in-compounds 2. As far as I'm concerned; as far as I care. Labels: Internet 3. As fast as I can ____. Labels: Internet, in-compounds
Word: dagmar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Dagmar, buxom American actress. Pronunciation: /ˈdæɡmɑː(ɹ)/ 1. One of the bullet-shaped protrusions on the bumpers of various 1950s cars, especially Cadillacs. Labels: informal
Word: PROM Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In all senses, by acronymy. Pronunciation: /pɹɒm/, /pɹɑm/ 1. Acronym of programmable read-only memory, a chip that can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all); once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way). Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: After you have blown the code into the PROMs, you can read it out, but you can't write to them anymore. 2. Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of passive range of motion. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BCD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of blue compact dwarf. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of binary-coded decimal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Boot Configuration Data. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of bolt circle diameter (a measurement of the various sizes of chainring). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of bad-conduct discharge. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of board-certified diplomate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of buoyancy control device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of behind closed doors. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: KP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Labels: Pakistan, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of Knight of St. Patrick. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 3. Initialism of kitchen police/patrol (enlisted person assigned to assist in the kitchen, or the role itself). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of kiddy porn. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: Name one poster who was posting kp two years ago and has not been busted 5. Initialism of keratosis pilaris. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of keratic precipitate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of Kashmiri Pandit. Labels: Hinduism, India, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Word: local maximum Part of Speech: noun 1. A maximum within a restricted domain; a point on a function whose value is greater than the values of all other points near it, especially if another local maximum of greater value is known to exist.
Word: throughout Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Old English þurh ūt, equivalent to through + out. Compare German durchaus (“all the way, fully, absolutely”). Pronunciation: /θɹuːˈaʊt/, /θɹuˈʌʊt/, /θɹaʊt/, /t̪ɹʉuˈaʊt̞/, /tɹʲuːˈæʊ/ 1. In every part of; all through. Example: And though a philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society. Example: “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year.[…]” 2. Completely through, right the way through. Labels: obsolete Example: His spere went clene thrughout hys body, and so he fell downe deed. Example: The dedlye sworde throughout my brest to stryke I will applye.
Word: throughout Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Old English þurh ūt, equivalent to through + out. Compare German durchaus (“all the way, fully, absolutely”). Pronunciation: /θɹuːˈaʊt/, /θɹuˈʌʊt/, /θɹaʊt/, /t̪ɹʉuˈaʊt̞/, /tɹʲuːˈæʊ/ 1. In every part; everywhere. Labels: not-comparable Example: The apartment is parqueted throughout except for the kitchen and bathroom. 2. During an entire period of time, the whole time. Labels: not-comparable Example: The fight was excrutiating. Throughout, we maintained our dignity though. Example: Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home. 3. Of an ordinary such as a pile or chevron, or a partition per chevron, etc: extending to the edge of the field (or quarter, chief, etc). Labels: not-comparable Example: Thus the VON VÖLCKER of Frankfurt bear : Argent, a rose gules, the field embrassé à senestre of the second. We should blazon this : Gules, a pile throughout issuing from the dexter flank, charged with a rose of the field.
Word: neologistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English neolog(ism) 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 Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English neologistic From neolog(ism) + -istic. 1. Of or pertaining to neologisms. Example: Neither of these is wholly correct, and the origin of the linguistic application is primarily a result of Yule and Burnell’s own neologistic use.
Word: turbulent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English turbulent, from Middle French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus, from turba (“disorder, tumult, crowd”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːbjələnt/, /ˈtɝbjələnt/, /ˈtøːbjələnt/ 1. Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous. Example: It is dangerous to sail in turbulent seas. 2. Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest. Example: The mid-19th century was a turbulent time in American history. Example: The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.
Word: swelling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈswɛl.ɪŋ/ 1. The state of being swollen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. 2. Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A rising, as of passion or anger. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: swelling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈswɛl.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of swell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shining Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, shine + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈʃaɪnɪŋ/ 1. Emitting light. Example: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. 2. Reflecting light. 3. Having a high polish or sheen. Example: He was at the wedding, too. His beard was flowinger and redder, and the part in the back of his head shininger than ever. He had an elegant time. He was so full of himself you would have thought it was his own party. Example: Hardly knowing what he meant, she plucked a many-headed specimen with a long stalk. At the end of it was such a shining needle that it dazzled her eyes so that she couldn’t see how she did the sewing up with it. But however it was done, the torn sleeve, she says, “didn’t look like wanting mending any more, but was better tore ’cos it let you see he had a shininger coat under.” 4. Having exceptional merit. Example: a shining example Example: Jill had, as you might say quite fallen in love with the Unicorn. She thought—and she wasn’t far wrong—that he was the shiningest, delicatest, most graceful animal she had ever met: and he was so gentle and soft of speech that, if you hadn’t known, you would hardly have believed how fierce and terrible he could be in battle.
Word: shining Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, shine + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈʃaɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of shine Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shining Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, shine + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈʃaɪnɪŋ/ 1. A bright emission of light; a gleam.
Word: respiration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem. Pronunciation: /ɹɛspɪˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The process of inhaling and exhaling. Labels: uncountable Example: In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […] 2. An act of breathing: a single breath. Labels: countable Example: Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again. 3. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: metabolism
Word: pressing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/ 1. Needing urgent attention. Example: “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.” Example: The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made. 2. Insistent, earnest, or persistent. Example: You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go. Example: He was pressing and persuasive.
Word: pressing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/ 1. The application of pressure by a press or other means. 2. A metal or plastic part made with a press. 3. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron. 4. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake. 5. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press. 6. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time. 7. Urgent insistence.
Word: pressing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of press Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: timetable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time English table English timetable From time + table. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪmˌteɪbəl/ 1. A tabular schedule of events with the times at which they occur, especially times of arrivals and departures. Example: The timetable has been changed several times since it was first announced. 2. A schedule of arrivals and departures published in book or booklet form, or as a pamphlet, and available to travellers, either free or for a charge. Example: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
Word: timetable Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time English table English timetable From time + table. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪmˌteɪbəl/ 1. To arrange a specific time for (an event, a class, etc). Labels: transitive Example: I've timetabled the meeting for Monday afternoon.
Word: human nature Part of Speech: noun 1. The fundamental set of qualities, and the range of behaviour, shared by (or believed by many to be shared by) all humans; the probabilities about thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are typical among most humans. Labels: uncountable Example: Some philosophers argue that there is fundamentally no such thing as human nature, but many people reject this thought for practical purposes because by human nature they merely mean predictable likelihoods about how humans can often be expected to think, feel, and behave. Example: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Word: virgo intacta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virgo intacta (“untouched maiden”). 1. A girl or woman whose hymen remains unbroken. 2. A woman who has never had sexual intercourse.
Word: mariage Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of marriage. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [P]olicie, and pittie, pictured thus, / I take man and wife, and temperance (as who ſaie) / Miniſter in this mariage, I diſcus. Example: For Images, reliques, prohibition of meates and mariage, and differēce of apparel, although som alteracion begā than amōgst certain, yet al this while, truth was euer able to match wyth errour and superstition, and that with the most consent of voices, amongst the learned.
Word: microneighborhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + neighborhood. 1. A very small urban neighborhood, usually extending the length of a city block or smaller. Labels: US Example: Occasionally the resultant microneighborhood was a single block; more often it was part of one block plus the face of the block across the street. Or it might be both sides of a street for several blocks.
Word: pander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). Pronunciation: /ˈpændə/, [ˈpændə], [ˈpændə] ~ [ˈpændɐ̝], /ˈpeːndə/, [ˈpʰeːndə] ~ [ˈpʰeːndɐ̝] 1. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer. Example: […] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders Example: It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders. 2. An offer of illicit sex with a third party. 3. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt. 4. One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. Labels: broadly Example: Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar: There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne; All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine, Whom I employ'd, was pre-emplot'd Example: Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Word: pander Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). Pronunciation: /ˈpændə/, [ˈpændə], [ˈpændə] ~ [ˈpændɐ̝], /ˈpeːndə/, [ˈpʰeːndə] ~ [ˈpʰeːndɐ̝] 1. To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification. Labels: intransitive Example: His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate. Example: [...] both the Conservatives and Labour are guilty of pandering to the road lobby at the time of Beeching's The Reshaping of Britain's Railways report published in 1963. 2. To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or improper motivations. Labels: transitive Example: Who knows what Brill really thought? But he pandered the rumor linking Spear to a whole string of dastardly deeds. 3. To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp. Labels: intransitive 4. To act as a pander for (somebody). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: shiksa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish שיקסע (shikse), which is partly derived from the Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination, impure, object of loathing”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪksə/ 1. A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young. Labels: Judaism, derogatory, often Example: A Shickse, that wasn't bad enough? What's worse, you ask? A black man? Well this daughter of mine had to find herself a black woman in order to spite me. That I should never rest easy in my grave. 2. A sexually promiscuous gentile woman. Labels: derogatory
Word: bouquet garni Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bouquet garni (literally “garnished bouquet”). 1. A bundled mixture of herbs or dried herbs used as a flavouring for stews, soups, and sauces. Example: In the past, the bouquet garni was a prescribed mixture of thyme, bay leaf, and parsley. But thankfully the traditional formula has changed as cooking methods have become less regimented.
Word: garam masala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गरम मसाला (garam masālā, “hot spice”). 1. A mixture of spices used in Indian dishes, such as coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, star anise, and chillis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Guillaume Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French. Doublet of Guillermo, William, and Wilhelm, etc. 1. A male given name from French.
Word: inseminate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin inseminatus, past participle of inseminare (“to sow”). See seminate. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɛmɪneɪt/ 1. To sow (to disperse or plant seeds). 2. To fill with one's semen. 3. To impregnate (to cause to become pregnant). Labels: broadly
Word: fictionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English fictionary From fiction + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/, /ˈfɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/ 1. Fictional. Labels: not-comparable Example: I used to spend my mornings in the large, deserted drawing-room, whose charm was not yet broken, inditing ardent letters, into which my whole soul undisguised, was breathed to an imaginary friend; or writing some fragmentary sketches of the life of some fictionary favourite of fortune, in whose fate I always foreshadowed my own. Example: Lastly, there were not a few scholars who, discarding the idea that myths were purely fictionary, and admitting a basis of reality, yet found that basis not in historical occurrence but in natural phenomena.
Word: fictionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō ▲ Latin -tiō Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin -ārium ▲ Latin dictiō ▲ Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin dictiōnārius? Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English fictionary Blend of fiction + dictionary. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/, /ˈfɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/ 1. A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I generally hate playing games, but recently I was introduced to one that I think is actually fun: fictionary. Example: One of our favorites is Fictionary, which we play on holidays or during storms. 2. A dictionary with contrived entries. Labels: countable, rare Example: Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe. Example: From anemoia to zagreb: how ‘fictionaries’ are liberating the word [title]
Word: persecution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to persecute + -ion. From Middle English persecucioun, from Old French persecucion, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”). Displaced native Old English ēhtnes. Pronunciation: /ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən/, /ˌpɜːsəˈkjuːʃən/ 1. The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents. Example: During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were subject to persecution and were extirpated from large areas of their original range. With increased environmental awareness in the 1970s, attitudes toward wolves began to change.
Word: persecute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French persécuter, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecutor, from Latin persequor, persecutus (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”) (English sequel). Compare prosecute. Cf. also pursue. Pronunciation: /ˈpɝsəkjut/, /ˈpɜːsɪkjuːt/ 1. To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief. Example: He who persecutes one will persecute all. Example: I have heard, brethren, how sharply Antichrist persecuteth you, in vexing the faithful servants of Christ with divers and strange kinds of afflictions. 2. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. 3. To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats. Example: Humans have been persecuting wolves in this forest for centuries.
Word: semordnilap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reverse spelling of palindromes. "Semordnilap", according to author O. V. Michaelsen in his 1997 book Words at Play, was probably first used by recreational linguist Dmitri Borgmann, cited by Martin Gardner in the revised edition of Charles Carroll Bombaugh's Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961) http://books.google.com/books?id=f4kNAQAAIAAJ&q=borgmann. The underlying concept (but not the term) is found at least as far back as Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno (1889). Semordnilap is also autological; that is, it is a self-describing word, as the word semordnilap is itself a semordnilap. Pronunciation: /səˈmɔːdnɪlæp/, /səˈmɔːɹdnɪlæp/ 1. A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase. Example: [He] then goes on to credit us with giving him some of the best examples of semordnilaps. Example: This song is a semordnilap. It can be played forward and then sounds different when it is played backwards.
Word: get off lightly Part of Speech: verb 1. To end up with a mild punishment, or without serious harm. Labels: idiomatic Example: My cousin got off lightly with a restraining order after he broke the boy’s leg. Example: @Socrates Got off lightly, all things considered. They just want me to drink this hemlock stuff. BRB. 8.11am, March 22, 399 BC
Word: end up Part of Speech: verb 1. To bring to a conclusion. Labels: transitive Example: The band usually ends up their concerts with their biggest hit song. 2. To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out. Labels: copulative Example: They ended up angry at each other. Example: He ended up as an insurance agent. 3. To lift or tilt, so as to set on end. Labels: transitive Example: to end up a hogshead
Word: corollaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corollary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toucher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. Sense 3 is derived from the sense of touching someone for money. 1. One who touches. Example: We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher. 2. A ball lying in contact with the jack. 3. A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return. Labels: Geordie, derogatory
Word: après Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Borrowed from French après. Pronunciation: /ˈæpɹeɪ/, /ˈɑːpɹeɪ/, /əˈpɹeɪ/ 1. After. Example: 2002, Jorge Ramos, The Other Face of America, Patricia J Duncan tr. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0060938242&id=D_xrZF1gTi8C&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&sig=ERHjCVnyrDm_50Up1nULZ7JeH2s How about an après ski massage? Well, it’ll cost you $80 for fifty minutes at the Aspen Club, tip included. Thank goodness.
Word: après Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French après. Pronunciation: /ˈæpɹeɪ/, /ˈɑːpɹeɪ/, /əˈpɹeɪ/ 1. Abbreviation of après-ski. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: beforehand Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English biforhand, biforhond, beforehonde, bifornhand, equivalent to before + hand. [13th century. After Old French avant main]. Pronunciation: /bɪˈfɔːhænd/, /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, /bɪˈfo(ː)ɹhænd/, /bɪˈfoəhænd/ 1. At an earlier or preceding time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs? Example: I love playing tennis but I always get so nervous beforehand.
Word: beforehand Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English biforhand, biforhond, beforehonde, bifornhand, equivalent to before + hand. [13th century. After Old French avant main]. Pronunciation: /bɪˈfɔːhænd/, /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, /bɪˈfo(ː)ɹhænd/, /bɪˈfoəhænd/ 1. In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. Labels: obsolete Example: rich and much beforehand 2. In a state of anticipation or preoccupation. Labels: archaic, often Example: Agricola […] resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Example: The last cited author has been beforehand with me.
Word: acoustic neuroma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: acoustic + neuroma 1. A benign tissue growth situated in the hearing canal.
Word: txt Part of Speech: noun 1. text, text message Labels: Internet 2. a .txt file
Word: txt Part of Speech: verb 1. To text; to send a text message (to). Labels: Internet, ambitransitive
Word: walk the dog Part of Speech: verb 1. To take a dog for a walk, so as to give it exercise. 2. To perform a trick where the yo-yo rolls on the ground, attached to the string. Labels: idiomatic 3. To perform a trick where the ball rolls down the shaft and is caught in the head of the lacrosse stick. Labels: idiomatic 4. To go to the pub. Labels: euphemistic 5. To inbound the ball by rolling it on the ground in order to take time off the game clock (usually because one has a big lead) and/or delay the start of the 24-second shot clock (and so maximize the possession). Example: The tactic has recently exploded, and Paul, for one, appreciates his younger peers who walk the dog to waste the game clock -- and he gets a kick out of those who don't understand them.
Word: riven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English riven, past participle of rive (“to rive”). Compare Old Norse rifinn, past participle of Old Norse rífa (“to pick, scratch, rive”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪvən/ 1. past participle of rive Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: riven Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English riven, past participle of rive (“to rive”). Compare Old Norse rifinn, past participle of Old Norse rífa (“to pick, scratch, rive”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪvən/ 1. Torn apart. Labels: not-comparable 2. Broken into pieces; split asunder. Labels: not-comparable Example: “She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!”
Word: strawberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strawberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strawberries Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of strawberry Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pooper scooper Part of Speech: noun 1. A scoop for the collection of pet excrement, especially that of dogs.
Word: dog dirt Part of Speech: noun 1. Dog feces. Labels: euphemistic, uncountable
Word: dissident Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dissidēns, present participle of dissideō (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪsɪdənt/ 1. In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant. Example: Near-synonym: dissonant Example: Verilye yf all thynges that euel and vitiouſs maners haue caused to ſeme inconueniente and noughte ſhould be refuſed, as thinges vnmete and reprochefull, then we muſt among Chriſten people wynke at the moſte parte of al thoſe thinges, whych Chriſt taught vs, and ſo ſtreitly forbad them to be winked at, yat thoſe thinges alſo whiche he whiſpered in ye eares of his diſciples he commaunded to be proclaimed in open houſes. And yet ye moſt parte of them is more diſſident from the maners of the worlde nowe a dayes, then my communication was. 2. Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement). Labels: Northern-Ireland Example: This tragic event, coupled with a police operation on the Drumcree site July 15-17, 1998 - which revealed a small cache of explosives and arms and resulted in arrests of dissident loyalists effectively ended the standoff. Example: Of the 'dissident' groups which have emerged, the most important has been the RIRA [Real IRA]. While vulnerable to splits, it has contained the deadliest capacity.
Word: dissident Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dissidēns, present participle of dissideō (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪsɪdənt/ 1. A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws. Example: I once more find myself a dissident, and a dissident in a very small minority. Example: It is largely the story of a man who fell from being a potential leader of the Soviet Communist Party in the early 1960s to being an outcast by the mid-1970s – a dissident in the eyes of officialdom, a "half-dissident" in his own eyes. 2. A member of a paramilitary that has continued actions after the Good Friday Agreement or other ceasefire. Labels: Northern-Ireland 3. One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. 4. One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. Labels: historical, specifically Example: From Warſaw, May 25. That the Dyet of Convocation had held its laſt Seſſion on the 22d, and then agreed to and ſign'd a general Confederacy in good Order, having firſt Sworn not to Elect a Foreigner as above. The Day of Election was fixt for the 25th of Aug. But a Proteſt was enter'd by the Diſſidents, who had been excluded. Example: The Article which enjoins Peace among the Diſſidents was ſigned by all the Catholics then present, and ſo are alſo the continual Repetitions of it in all the Pacta Conventa, and in the ſame Terms, to the Death of the late King; whereas the Confederacies of 1717 and 1733 are not signed by the Diſſidents, who were expelled from thence by Force.
Word: school bus yellow Part of Speech: noun 1. An orange-yellow color, used in school buses in Canada and the United States. Labels: uncountable
Word: school bus yellow Part of Speech: adj 1. Of an orange-yellow color, used in school buses in Canada and the United States. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Stirling engine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for inventors Rev. Robert Stirling and his brother James Stirling. 1. A heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type.
Word: face value Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The term exists because a contrast between nominal value and market value is sometimes materially relevant for currencies. 1. The amount or value listed on a bill, card, note, stamp, etc.; the stated value or amount. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. No more or less than what is stated; a literal or direct meaning or interpretation. Labels: countable, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Please take this comment at face value and don't try to read anything into it. Example: Few museums have such a coherent collection that covers so many different areas of interest as the London Transport Museum. At face value, it is a collection of urban transport in London. In reality, it is so much more.
Word: literal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-der. Old Latin leitera Latin līterader.? Proto-Hellenic *dipʰtʰérā? Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā)bor. Etruscan [Term?]bor.? Latin littera Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin litterālisbor. Old French literalbor. Middle English literal English literal From Middle English literal, from Old French literal, from Late Latin litteralis or literalis (“of or pertaining to letters or to writing”), from Latin littera or litera (“a letter”). See letter. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/ 1. Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic. Example: The literal translation of Spanish irse al otro barrio is "to go to the other neighbourhood" but it means "to die". Example: A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent. 2. Actual, real, physical. Example: Mechanically, operating this hybrid vehicle is sort of a cross between driving a car and taming an animal, which means the movie treats the audience to the sight of a man (pretending to be a teenager) driving a literal monster truck in a field next to a woman (also pretending to be a teenager) riding a horse. 3. That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given text is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it. Labels: broadly 4. Following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation. Labels: specifically Example: It is most important to distinguish literalistic from literal interpretation. [...] ‘Literalistic’ interpretation is like word-for-word translation that yields the verbally exact or ‘formally equivalent’ versions but also runs the risk of overlooking the main (illocutionary) point. Literal interpretation, on the other hand, is more like a translation that strives for dynamic equivalence and yields the literary sense. 5. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet); using literation. Labels: uncommon Example: a literal equation 6. Unimaginative; matter-of-fact; literal-minded. 7. Used nonliterally as an intensifier. See literally for usage notes. Labels: proscribed Example: Telemarketers are the literal worst. 8. Misspelling of littoral. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: literal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-der. Old Latin leitera Latin līterader.? Proto-Hellenic *dipʰtʰérā? Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā)bor. Etruscan [Term?]bor.? Latin littera Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin litterālisbor. Old French literalbor. Middle English literal English literal From Middle English literal, from Old French literal, from Late Latin litteralis or literalis (“of or pertaining to letters or to writing”), from Latin littera or litera (“a letter”). See letter. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/ 1. A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter. 2. An atomic formula (consisting of a propositional variable) or its negation. 3. A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program. 4. Misspelling of littoral. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: tosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century. Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/, /tɑʃ/, /tɔʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] 1. Copper; items made of copper. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of "Toshers," the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term "tosh," a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper. 2. Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers. Labels: UK, rare, slang, uncountable Example: I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn. 3. Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too. Example: Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh. 4. A bath or foot pan Labels: UK, countable Example: A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided. Example: We call a tub a tosh. 5. Easy bowling Labels: derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness. 6. Used as a form of address. Labels: UK, humorous, slang, uncountable Example: 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?
Word: tosh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century. Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/, /tɑʃ/, /tɔʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] 1. To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores. 2. To search for valuables in sewers Labels: UK, slang, uncommon Example: You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing. 3. To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath" Labels: UK Example: ‘Toshing’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding about three gallons of water) over the wretched lad's head. Example: He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.
Word: tosh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure. Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/, /tɑʃ/, /tɔʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] 1. Tight. Labels: Scotland, obsolete Example: Tosh, tight, neat. 2. Neat, clean; tidy, trim. Labels: Scotland Example: I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh As a' the neighbours can tell. 3. Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. Labels: Scotland Example: We were a very tosh and agreeable company.
Word: tosh Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure. Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/, /tɑʃ/, /tɔʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] 1. Toshly: neatly, tidily Labels: Scotland Example: Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!
Word: tosh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure. Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/, /tɑʃ/, /tɔʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] 1. To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim. Labels: Scotland Example: Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.
Word: tosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 19th-century British slang tosheroon, from or alongside tusheroon, of uncertain derivation from British slang caroon (“crown, a 5-shilling silver coin”), from Sabir and (originally) Italian corona (“crown”). The term was either derived from or influenced by madza caroon, the British slang for the Sabir and Italian mezzo corona (“half-crown”), possibly under influence from tosh (“copper items; valuables”) above or from the half-crown's value of two shillings & sixpence. Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/, /tɑʃ/, /tɔʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] 1. A half-crown coin; its value Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang Example: tush or tosh. Money: Cockney: late C.19–20. Ex: tusheroon... But H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON. Example: Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer. 2. A crown coin; its value Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang Example: Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon. Example: ‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown. 3. Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage Labels: UK, archaic, slang, uncountable
Word: curling iron Part of Speech: noun 1. A heated cylindrical device for curling the hair.
Word: soldering iron Part of Speech: noun 1. A hand-held tool with a heated tip, used to melt and apply solder.
Word: waffle iron Part of Speech: noun 1. A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles. Example: Such a one is very apt to leave his impress upon his scholars, as the waffle-iron is impressed upon the cake that is baked in it. Example: I remember once of buying a waffle-iron of him, and when I tried it and found it did not make a pretty pattern on the waffles, I took it back to him to change it: but having no other pattern, he returned me the money as soon as I asked him.
Word: corrach Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of currach (“light, rowed Irish boat”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The corrachs, as may be supposed, drew but few feet of water. Example: […] the corrachs are so light, and the western fishermen are so skilful in their management, that accidents are almost unknown, and if a boatman but says it is safe to venture out with him, there is no danger whatever [...]
Word: belay my last Part of Speech: phrase 1. Ignore what I just said; My previous order or request is retracted.
Word: VBS Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of VBScript. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: VBS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Vacation Bible School. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of virtualization-based security. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: NWA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of NorthWest Airlines. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of National Wrestling Alliance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Niggaz Wit Attitudes, American hip-hop group. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.
Word: ACS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Australian Computer Society. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Australian Customs Service. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Anglo-Chinese School. Labels: Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of American Cancer Society. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of American Chemical Society. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of American Community Survey. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The ACS asks all respondents ages 5 and older two questions about language. First, people are asked if they speak a language other than English at home. If they mention a language other than English, they are asked how well they speak English.