nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rancher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ranch Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English rancher From ranch + -er. 1. A person who operates a ranch. Example: That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain. 2. A ranch-style house. Labels: US Example: By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […] Example: We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.
Word: random-access Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being accessed in any order, not required to be sequential. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rankness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rankenesse, equivalent to rank + -ness. 1. The quality of being rank, of having a repulsive or pungent odor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1578, Raphael Holinshed et al., Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, Volume I, Book 3, Chapter 1 “Of cattell kept for profit,” p. 222, […] the bowels of the beast are commonlie cast awaie because of their ranknesse […] Example: A match scratched and the sweet rankness of his corn-cob pipe drifted through the rooms. 2. Exuberant or uncontrolled growth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tam’d us to Manners, when the Stage was rude; Example: […] a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far over-topped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances. 3. Exuberance, excessiveness. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: First Gentleman. God save you, sir! where have you been broiling? Third Gentleman. Among the crowd i’ the Abbey; where a finger Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled With the mere rankness of their joy. 4. Insolence. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I will physic your rankness […]
Word: ratifier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- Proto-Italic *rēōr Latin reor Latin ratus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Medieval Latin ratifico Old French ratifierbor. Middle English ratifien English ratify Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English ratifier From ratify + -er. 1. One who ratifies. 2. One who is in favor of ratification.
Word: ratifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ratify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ratifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ratify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: raven-haired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From raven + haired. 1. Having hair that is very black and lustrous. Example: `Attractive, raven-haired, about twenty-three and with a figure like Diana Dors.' Example: Between these two rode a raven-haired elven lady, who surveyed her surroundings with poise.
Word: razor-sharp Part of Speech: adj 1. Extremely sharp. Labels: idiomatic Example: The executioner was proud that he kept his axe razor-sharp, so no prisoner would feel any pain when his head was cut off. Example: [flavor text of the card "Zera The Mant"] A huge, brutal monster that attacks with razor-sharp claws. 2. Extremely sharp. Labels: idiomatic 3. Extremely sharp. Labels: idiomatic Example: One day, she was in a razor-sharp three-piece suit, and the next, a tulle skirt that had no business being worn after the age of five (but she did, and then we all wanted to wear tutus too!).
Word: razorback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From razor + back. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪzɚˌbæk/, /ˈɹeɪzəˌbæk/ 1. A feral pig. Labels: Southeastern, US, informal 2. The rorqual or finback whale.
Word: peh Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rawboned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From raw + boned. Pronunciation: /ɹɔːboʊnd/ 1. Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt. Example: Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred. Example: […] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.
Word: ravishing Part of Speech: adj 1. Extremely beautiful Example: Every time I get into a conversation with this ravishing girl, I want it to last forever. Example: Richard DeLongpre: Who did this to you? Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Possibly the most ravishing gal I've ever seen.
Word: ravishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ravish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ravishing Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of ravishment.
Word: chang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian چنگ (čang). 1. A traditional harp of central and southwest Asia
Word: ravings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of raving Usual form. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ravishment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ravish Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English ravishment From ravish + -ment. 1. ecstasy Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was in a state of ravishment during the performance of the song, and profoundly touched at its conclusion. 2. seizure by force Labels: countable, uncountable 3. rape Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: ravager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ravage + -er. 1. One who ravages.
Word: flunky Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who always agrees with their superior or employer. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. One performing menial or miscellaneous duties. 3. Alternative form of flunkey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fledgeling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fledgling. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: flanking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of flank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flattening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of flatten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flattening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act, or the result of making something flat or flatter Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A flattened part of something Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The Earth is a sphere that has flattenings at the poles.
Word: frequents Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of frequent Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: glowering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of giving a glower. Example: But after much whispering, cross looks from Caroline and Jane, warning glowerings from John, Sam was not chosen. He was left unselected and Mrs Firth told Sam sharply to go into Adam's team 'to make even numbers'.
Word: glowering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of glower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: glowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glowers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of glower Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hitchhiked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hitchhike Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pathogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pathogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oxymorons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oxymoron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: racewalking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From race + walking. 1. A sport in which people try to walk as fast as possible, subject to the constraint that at least one foot must be on the ground at all time (or else they would be running). Labels: uncountable
Word: racewalking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From race + walking. 1. present participle and gerund of racewalk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: racewalk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From race + walk. 1. To participate in the sport of racewalking.
Word: apotheoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apotheosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apotheoses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of apotheose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: appreciatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Showing appreciation; appreciative.
Word: aridity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti Proto-Italic *āzēō Latin āreō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin āridus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin āriditāsbor. English aridity Borrowed from Latin āriditās (“dryness”); equivalent to arid + -ity. 1. A long-term lack of rainfall or moisture. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: patrin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of patteran. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hyporeactive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English reactive English hyporeactive From hypo- + reactive. 1. Having or showing abnormally low sensitivity to stimuli.
Word: Rosh Hashanah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה (rosh hashaná, literally “head of the year”). Compare Yiddish ראָש־השנה (ròsh-(h)ashóne), Arabic رأس السنة (raʔs as-sana). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɑʃ(h)əˈʃɑnə/, /ˌɹɒʃ həˈʃɑːnə/ 1. The Jewish holiday marking the start of the liturgical year, taking place on the first two days of Tishrei, 163 days after the first day of Passover. Labels: Judaism Example: Rosh Hashanah begins a ten-day period during which Jews enter into self-examination and repentance, known as the Ten Days of Awe, which conclude on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. During this time, God, in a sense, withdraws His presence in order to create a hunger in the hearts of His people so that they will abandon all else in pursuit of Him. Example: The past two days we have celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Word: Rosh Hashanah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה (rosh hashaná, literally “head of the year”). Compare Yiddish ראָש־השנה (ròsh-(h)ashóne), Arabic رأس السنة (raʔs as-sana). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɑʃ(h)əˈʃɑnə/, /ˌɹɒʃ həˈʃɑːnə/ 1. A specific occurrence of this holiday.
Word: philtre Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of philter (“kind of potion”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare! Example: What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?
Word: philtre Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of philter. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The friendship of the men he took amiably and modestly, though no man was his superior of all the king's men in strength or skill. The friendship of the women he let go by him, also very modestly but always with decision. There were many that longed to knock at the door of his heart and enter in, and there were some that showed their longing, most notably of all the beautiful Esclaramonde of Bayonne, whom most men worshipped for her dark, imperious loveliness, and whom all the women, her rivals, hated for a witch, and upbraided beneath their breaths for her skill in philtres.
Word: Rosh Chodesh Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew ראש חודש. 1. A minor holiday marking the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar. Labels: Judaism
Word: Tishrei Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תִּשְׁרֵי (tishré, tishréi, “Tishrei”). 1. The first month of the civil year and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Elul and before Cheshvan. Labels: Judaism Example: This year, due to the fact that the 24th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei falls on Shabbat, the ceremonies will be held on Sunday, the 25th of Tishrei, as they will be every year when the 24th of Tishrei falls on Shabbat.
Word: Cheshvan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חשוון. 1. The second month of the civil year and the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tishrei and before Kislev. Labels: Judaism
Word: Kislev Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כסלו. 1. The third month of the civil year and the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Cheshvan and before Tevet. Labels: Judaism
Word: Tevet Part of Speech: name 1. The fourth month of the civil year and the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Kislev and before Shevat. Labels: Judaism
Word: Shevat Part of Speech: name 1. The fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tevet and before Adar. Labels: Judaism
Word: Nisan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán). Pronunciation: /niːˈsɑːn/, /ˈnɪsən/, /ˈnaɪsæn/ 1. The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar. Labels: Judaism Example: Micky Vayner shrugged; as far as he knew, it was, by the lunar calendar, an ordinary day in the month of Nisan.
Word: Iyar Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אִיָּר. 1. The eighth month of the civil year and the second month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Nisan and before Sivan. Labels: Judaism
Word: Sivan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סיוון (siván). 1. The ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Iyar and before Tammuz. Labels: Judaism
Word: Tammuz Part of Speech: name Etymology: Hebrew תַּמּוּז, from a Sumerian god's name (see ). 1. The tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av. Labels: Judaism
Word: Tammuz Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Sumerian 𒌉𒍣 (DUMU.ZID, “the true son”). 1. A Sumerian god of food and vegetation.
Word: pâtisserie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of patisserie. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: boucherie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French boucherie (“butchershop”), and in American usage (for the event), from Cajun French boucherie. 1. A social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig. Example: It is not unusual for guests to contribute side dishes at a boucherie or cochon de lait, or to bring beer, or to donate money to help pay for a sack of crawfish. The participants in a boucherie work hard for hours at various tasks,[…] Example: She'd been chopping ribs at a boucherie, when they killed a whole pig with Lanier, who raised hogs on the other side of the river. A lightning strike startled her, and the ax took off part of that finger. Grady's finger. 2. A butchershop, especially one in a French-speaking area, and especially one which specializes in pork. Labels: uncommon Example: Grace Damas had worked at a boucherie. The killer used a chef's saw, knew something about anatomy. Tanguay dissected animals. Maybe there was a link. I looked for the name of the boucherie but couldn't find it.
Word: mouche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mouche. Doublet of Musca. 1. A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context. Example: They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract. Example: The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals. 2. Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.
Word: korr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Breton korr and Cornish korr. 1. A korred. Example: The woman does as directed: the Korr asks what she is about: she tells him: "For ten, dear mother, in an eggshell! I have seen the egg before I saw the white hen. I have seen the acorn before I saw the tree: I have seen the acorn and I have seen the shoot: I have seen the oak in the wood of Brézal, but never saw I such a thing as this." Example: The korr, dwarf, dim. korrik, is black and ugly, with deep-set eyes and a voice muffled by age.
Word: barr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”). 1. To make the sound of an elephant. Labels: obsolete Example: He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost Endeavours to free himself from all untowards Noises, surrounded and environ'd about so with the barking of Curs, howling of Wolves, neighing of Horses, bleating of Sheep, barring of Elephants, hissing of Serpents, braying of Asses, chirping of Grasshoppers, cooing of Turtles[…]
Word: barr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See bar. 1. Obsolete spelling of bar. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: barr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See bar. 1. Obsolete spelling of bar. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: sophister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English shophister, sofister, sofistre, sophister, sophistre, sovyster, from Anglo-Norman sofistre, a variant of Old French sofiste, sophiste. Equivalent to sophist + -er. 1. Synonym of sophist. Labels: derogatory, historical, obsolete Example: A subtle traitor needs no sophister. Example: […] I wil not be afraid to saie vnto a Pope or Cardinall in this plight, be of good comfort, we haue to doe with a mercifull God; rather to make the best of a little which we hold well, and not with a captious sophister, which gathereth the worst out of everie thing, wherein wee erre. 2. A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence. Labels: UK, US, archaic Example: In the older American colleges, the junior and senior classes were originally called Junior Sophisters and Senior Sophisters. The term is also used at Oxford and Dublin.
Word: deadwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dead + wood. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛdwʊd/, /dɛdˈwʊd/, /ˈdɛdwɵd/, /dɛdˈwɵd/, /ˈdedwʊd/ 1. Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: The defendant […] sustained the injuries at Swatzell's switch, by getting his arm caught between the deadwoods of two freight cars […] 7. Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Cards that have been discarded. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: alabamine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Alabama + -ine, after a discredited claim of discovery by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 1. Former name for the chemical element astatine. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: frequentative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ-der.? Proto-Italic *frekʷents Latin frequēns Latin frequentāreder. Late Latin frequentātīvusder. Middle English frequentatyf English frequentative Inherited from Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentātīvus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”), from frequēns (“crowded, crammed; frequent, repeated”), from Proto-Italic *frekʷents, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to stuff”). By surface analysis, frequent + -ative. Pronunciation: /fɹɪˈkwɛntətɪv/ 1. Serving to express repetition of an action. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".
Word: frequentative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ-der.? Proto-Italic *frekʷents Latin frequēns Latin frequentāreder. Late Latin frequentātīvusder. Middle English frequentatyf English frequentative Inherited from Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentātīvus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”), from frequēns (“crowded, crammed; frequent, repeated”), from Proto-Italic *frekʷents, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to stuff”). By surface analysis, frequent + -ative. Pronunciation: /fɹɪˈkwɛntətɪv/ 1. Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
Word: perilla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Perilla (genus name). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɪl.ə/ 1. An East Asian herb with flavorful leaves used in cooking and as a garnish, Perilla frutescens. Also grown for the seeds, which contain an edible and industrially-useful oil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The smell of burnt flesh, which the perilla seeds couldn't wholly mask, pricked my nose.
Word: -ine Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en § Etymology 4. Pronunciation: /-aɪ̯n/, /-in/, /-ɪn/, /-ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: asinine, marine, bovine, cervine 2. Used to form demonyms. Labels: morpheme Example: Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine 3. Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements. Labels: morpheme Example: amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine 4. used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera Labels: morpheme Example: australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine 5. Commercial materials. Labels: morpheme Example: glass + -ine → glassine
Word: -ine Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From French -ine, feminine of -in; Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus. Doublet of -ina. Pronunciation: /-aɪ̯n/, /-in/, /-ɪn/, /-ən/ 1. Used to form feminine nouns. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: hero + -ine → heroine Example: speaker + -ine → speakerine 2. Used to form female given names or names of titles. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: Clement + -ine → Clementine Example: landgrave + -ine → landgravine
Word: -ine Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Variant of -en § Etymology 2. Pronunciation: /-aɪ̯n/, /-in/, /-ɪn/, /-ən/ 1. Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive. Labels: morpheme Example: cow + -ine → kine Example: sow + -ine → swine
Word: -ine Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as § Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /-aɪ̯n/, /-in/, /-ɪn/, /-ən/ 1. used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies Labels: morpheme Example: cardueline, velociraptorine
Word: commissioned officer Part of Speech: noun 1. An officer who derives authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, holds a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position.
Word: enure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + ure. Variant form of inure. 1. To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. Labels: transitive 2. To take effect, to be operative; used with to. Labels: intransitive Example: All our striving enures to our own spiritual benefit. Example: The position of the individual as a subject of international law has often been obscured by the failure to observe the distinction between the recognition, in an international instrument of rights enuring to the benefit of the individual and the enforceability of these rights at his instance.
Word: Golgi body Part of Speech: noun 1. The Golgi apparatus
Word: pimp slap Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪmp slæp/ 1. A powerful slap to the face. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: These silent greetings were often returned in spades, accompanied by the angry rejoinder “Nigger, what the fuck you looking at?” and a pimp slap that echoed in my eyes for a week. Example: […] Respect for your / Elders was lost right then— / In the pistol whippings, the pimp slaps, cold / Beatdowns and in-home invasions and / [page break] / Mass killings we read about in / The newspapers and on the “Action / News” and on all the subway trains / Fleeing the cities you inhabited.
Word: pimp slap Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɪmp slæp/ 1. Alternative form of pimp-slap Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: […] That’s what really got me pissed. I admit it. I pimp slapped her a couple times. […] Example: “Hey, Indian.” Mr. Marcus, my next-door neighbor, smiled, with the gold caps in the front of his mouth shining. I felt like pimp slapping the shit out of him. How many times do I have to tell him my damn name is not Indian? I hope he’s not coming to borrow any sugar, because I’ma tell him no.
Word: love feast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From love + feast, partial calque of Latin agape and Koine Greek ἀγάπη (agápē). 1. A symbolic communal meal held by early Christians in commemoration of the eucharist. Labels: historical 2. A religious service held by Moravians, Methodists and some other group, in imitation of such gatherings, characterised by partaking in a simple meal. Example: He then invited me to a love-feast at his chapel that evening. 3. Any banquet or gathering to promote goodwill among the participants. Labels: Canada, US, figuratively
Word: for kicks Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In order to obtain pleasure or excitement. Labels: colloquial Example: Well you tried it just for once, found it alright for kicks, but now you found it's a habit that sticks, and you're an orgasm addict, you're an orgasm addict. Example: Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now / I been feeling it since 1966, now / Might be over now, but I feel it still
Word: brotherly love Part of Speech: noun 1. A kindly and lenient attitude towards others. Labels: uncountable Example: Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Example: He always managed to have one or two slaves to whip on Monday morning, so as to start his hands to their work, under the inspiration of a new assurance on Monday, that his preaching about kindness, mercy, brotherly love, and the like, on Sunday, did not interfere with, or prevent him from establishing his authority, by the cowskin.
Word: sisterly love Part of Speech: noun 1. Feminine variant of brotherly love. Labels: alt-of, alternative, feminine, uncountable
Word: ampere-hour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: established 1880-85, from ampere + hour. 1. a unit of electric charge, equal to the charge transferred by a current of one ampere in one hour through a specified point in a circuit, equal to 3600 coulombs.
Word: amp-hr Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of ampere-hour. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: amp. hr. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of amp-hr (“ampere-hour”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Qezel Ozan Part of Speech: name 1. A large river in northwestern Iran. It originates from the mountains of Kurdistan and discharges to the Caspian Sea.
Word: shalom aleichem Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Hebrew שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (shalóm 'aleikhém, “peace be upon you”). Doublet of salaam alaikum. Pronunciation: /ʃəˌlɒm əˈleɪxəm/, /ʃəˌlɒm əˈleɪkəm/, /ˌʃɔləm əˈleɪkəm/, /ˌʃoʊləm-/, /-əˈleɪxəm/ 1. A greeting said on meeting someone, especially when the two people meeting have not met in some time. Labels: Judaism
Word: bamboo partridge Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several spurred partridges, of the genus Bambusicola, that inhabit China.
Word: hill partridge Part of Speech: noun 1. Any partridge of the genus Arborophila, of which numerous species inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Word: Golgi apparatus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Italian biologist and physician Camillo Golgi. 1. A network of membranes in the cytoplasm of those animal cells that produce secretions.
Word: facies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēsbor. English facies Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/, /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/, /ˈfeɪ.ʃiz/ 1. General appearance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The insects of these four islands have also a common facies - facts which seem to indicate that some more extensive land has recently disappeared from the area they now occupy, and has supplied them with a few of its peculiar productions. Example: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows. 2. Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: costive facies 3. A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: facies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of facie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhapsodical Part of Speech: adj 1. Rhapsodic. Example: And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
Word: rhapsodize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English rhapsody 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 rhapsodize From rhapsody + -ize. 1. To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something). Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive Example: The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain. Example: How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables? How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach? 2. To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Example: “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.” Example: “Listen, my pearl,” he rhapsodized. “I have money now and you shall have dresses like rainbows, a gold tiara and slave girls to wait on you […]” 3. To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Example: The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […] Example: The great poetry of the opening chapter of Ulysses […] amplifies and rhapsodizes the world with an unlooked-for accuracy and transport. 4. To perform a rhapsody. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive Example: […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730. Example: Should one gather statistics of the enormous production of poetry some sixty or seventy years ago, they would scarcely appear credible. Journals and magazines teemed with it. Editors openly countenanced it. Even the daily press affected it. Love sighed in home-made stanzas. Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature.
Word: rheostat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sréweti Proto-Hellenic *hréwō Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō) English rheo- English -stat English rheostat From rheo- (prefix meaning ‘current; flow’) + -stat (suffix forming the names of scientific instruments which render the prefixed elements static or stationary in some respect), coined by the English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875) in an 1843 journal article: see the quotation. * Rheo- is derived from Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, stream”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”), possibly from *ser- (“to flow”). * -Stat is derived from Ancient Greek -στάτης (-státēs), from ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ, “to stand; to stop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹiː.ə.stat/, /-stæt/, /-əʊ-/, /ˈɹi.əˌstæt/, /-oʊ-/ 1. An electrical resistor with two terminals, the resistance of which can be varied continuously by moving a knob or slider to regulate the flow of an electric current. Example: [page 309] As the principal use of this instrument is to adjust or regulate the circuit so that any constant degree of force may be obtained, I have called it a Rheostat. […] [page 311] The rheostat, especially under the form last described, may be usefully employed as a regulator of a voltaic current in order to maintain for any required length of time precisely the same degree of force, or to change it in any desired proportion. Example: The temperature was kept constant by taking pyrometer readings at the beginning, after the third set of observations, and after the sixth set of observations, and making slight adjustments in the heating-current rheostats when necessary. 2. An electrical resistor with two terminals, the resistance of which can be varied continuously by moving a knob or slider to regulate the flow of an electric current. Example: The light in the radio cabin was very dim, the rheostat of the angled table lamp had been turned down until only a faint pool of yellow fell on the scratched metal of the table, […] Example: [W]e decided we needed to carry our own theatre lighting. […] [H]e looked out for us two very large ancient round lamps with thick 'Fresnel' lenses and tall, heavy stands. To dim these lamps, there was a pair of huge rheostats mounted on a thick ply board, that inspired in the operator a constant fear of random electric shocks at 240 volts of Alternating Current. 3. A notional device which causes some quality to vary. Labels: figuratively Example: The world had dimmed a little when she was gone, as if there were a rheostat on the sun and somebody had turned it down, just one notch. Example: You could see the giant's scorn and fury dim down all at once, as if it were on a rheostat. Obviously he was beginning to process the implications in terms of public opinion, gawker opinion, if this was in fact the girl's brother.
Word: rhetorically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English retorycally; equivalent to rhetorical + -ly. 1. In a rhetorical manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: Bronx councilmember Rev. Wendell Foster rhetorically asked city council president Andrew Stein if he could cast two votes, being of "divided mind." 2. With reference to rhetoric. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rheumatically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English rheumatic 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 rheumatically From rheumatic + -ally. 1. In a rheumatic manner. Example: `Trew ter Gord may He blind me eternally, I see her I tell yew, lyin' dead on the floor,' he vociferated, trembling rheumatically in the desire to carry conviction.
Word: rhythmically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós) English rhythmic English -al English rhythmical 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 rhythmically From rhythmical + -ly. 1. In a rhythmical manner. Example: Her hips swayed rhythmically. Example: her flutter purred rhythmically with her breathing. 2. With reference to rhythm. Example: These songs are rhythmically complex. Example: If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).
Word: rhythmical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós) English rhythmic English -al English rhythmical From rhythmic + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪð.mɪ.kəl/, /ˈɹɪð.mɪ.kl̩/ 1. rhythmic Example: Whereas the accentuated linearism, the angular stylization of the folds, the rhythmical course of the outlining and the solemn frontality conjoined with an air of regality in the pose seem to recall the formal repertory of the Corbolinus Master and his group […]
Word: rhetorician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/ 1. An expert or student of rhetoric. Example: Themistocles was a rhetorician. Example: As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings. 2. An orator or eloquent public speaker.
Word: rheumatoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English rheumat(ism) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English rheumatoid From rheumat(ism) + -oid. 1. Involving or pertaining to rheumatism, especially rheumatoid arthritis. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Rheumatoid sufferers have such pain and discomfort every day of their lives that they live eternally in high hopes of something effective turning up. Example: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain. 2. Presenting analogies with rheumatism. Labels: dated, not-comparable, usually
Word: rheumatoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rheumat(ism) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English rheumatoid From rheumat(ism) + -oid. 1. A person with rheumatoid arthritis. Labels: dated Example: The highly significant findings with regard to hurt feelings suggests that the hypothesis that rheumatoids learn to hide their hurt feelings [7] and are reticent about expressing their dissatisfactions [4] may be correct.
Word: rhymer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rymare, from Old English rīmere (“a compouter, reckoner, calculator”), equivalent to rhyme + -er. Cognate with Dutch rijmer, German Reimer, Danish rimer, Swedish rimmare, Icelandic rímari. More at rhyme. 1. A minstrel. Labels: archaic 2. One who makes, composes, or recites rhymes or simple poems.
Word: rhymester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rhyme Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English rhymester From rhyme + -ster. 1. A rhymer; a poetaster Example: [...] “Whether vanity is the cause of our becoming rhymesters or not,” answered Harley, “it is a pretty certain effect of it. [...]
Word: en face Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French en face. 1. facing forward Labels: not-comparable Example: Botticelli's “Portrait of a Young Man” is his only known en face portrait. 2. across from; opposite Labels: not-comparable Example: The missa was printed in the original Latin with the English translation en face.
Word: bimetal strip Part of Speech: noun 1. A circuit breaker or thermostat consisting of two metals fused together.
Word: bus trap Part of Speech: noun 1. A construction or device placed on a road that only allows (public transport) buses, and no other vehicles with smaller gauge, to pass.
Word: RBT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of random breath test (of a motorist, employee, etc.) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: motorist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin mōtorder. Middle English motour English motor 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 motorist From motor + -ist. 1. One who drives a motor vehicle. Example: Moreover, the motorist, even if the speed at which he travelled enabled him to appreciate what he saw, does not see the country at all. What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists. Example: In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.
Word: motorists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of motorist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bi-metal strip Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bimetal strip. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bimetal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der. Latin metallum Old French metalbor. Middle English metal English metal English bimetal From bi- + metal. 1. Consisting of two metals. Labels: not-comparable Example: “Are you taking notes, Hayley?” “Yeah, no.” “You see why you're here, President Garfield? Why don't you tell her about your famous bimetal monetary system. It was one of your great passions.” “Only after women and billiards.”
Word: bimetal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der. Latin metallum Old French metalbor. Middle English metal English metal English bimetal From bi- + metal. 1. An object consisting of two metals. Example: Thermostatic Bimetals: Thermostatic bimetals are laminated composites using materials with a pronounced difference in thermal expansion'. Therefore, thermostatic bimetals change their shape whenever ambient temperature changes. Example: The application of bimetals synthesized with the combination of another secondary metal such as Ni, Pd, or Pt [comprise of a high reduction potential than ZVI; ZVI, −0.44 V; Ni,−0.257 V; Pd, 0.915 V; or Pt, 1.188 V; Arning and Minteer[…]
Word: inviter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From invite + -er. 1. Someone who invites. Example: While the buyer of such an item wants a sui generis gift to impress a weekend-in-the-Hamptons inviter, how about sending that sum to the Fresh Air Fund in the hosts’ name so a child can enjoy country life, too?
Word: window-shopping Part of Speech: noun 1. The browsing of shop windows without any intention of buying. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable
Word: window-shopping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of window-shop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: closed shop Part of Speech: noun 1. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment. Example: [...] about 90 per cent of the locomotive staff belong to one trade union and 10 per cent to another smaller one or to none, for there is no such thing in Switzerland as a "closed shop". 2. A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end. Labels: historical
Word: twangy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English twang Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English twangy From twang + -y. 1. That makes a twanging sound. Example: There’s an occasional schmaltziness, aggravated by the overuse of a twangy score, but more than enough moments of genuine heartbreak, joy and suspense to make up for it.
Word: tweedy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English tweed Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English tweedy From tweed + -y. 1. Made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture. Example: We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons. 2. Wearing tweed clothing. 3. Preppy.
Word: twiggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *twīgą Proto-West Germanic *twīg Old English twiġ Middle English twig English twig English -y English twiggy From twig + -y. 1. Having many twigs. 2. Thin and angular.