nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: swindle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of the verb swintan, from Proto-West Germanic *swindan (“to diminish”). See also Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish שווינדל (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɪndəl/, [ˈswɪndəl] ~ [ˈswɪndl̩] 1. An instance of swindling. Example: There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities. Example: [T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve. 2. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be. 3. An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
Word: defraud Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from de- + frauder. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɹɔːd/, /dɪˈfɹɔd/, /dɪˈfɹɑd/ 1. To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle. Labels: transitive Example: I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer. 2. To deprive. Labels: archaic Example: Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. Example: She is sinned against, because she is defrauded of her rights ^((i.e. sexual satisfaction)).
Word: protasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin protasis, from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis), from προτείνω (proteínō, “put forward, tender, propose”), from πρό (pró) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒtəsɪs/ 1. The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced. Example: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. 2. A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence. Example: In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "if this weather holds up" is the protasis, and "I will be coming" is the apodosis. Example: 2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the "if" is called antecedent (or the "implicans" or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the "then" is the "consequent"(or the "implicate" or — rarely — the "apodosis").
Word: fraudster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fraud Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English fraudster From fraud + -ster. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɔdstɚ/, /ˈfɹɔːdstə/, /ˈfɹɑdstɚ/ 1. A person who carries out fraud; a swindler. Example: 2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats. Example: CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.
Word: salacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious, ultimately from saliō + -acious. Pronunciation: /səˈleɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Promoting sexual desire or lust. Example: utterly salacious 2. Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd. Example: salacious gossip Example: salacious details
Word: dux Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, duce, and duke. Pronunciation: /dʌks/ 1. The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. Labels: Australia, Hong-Kong, New-Zealand, Scotland Example: […]on the motion of Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost, unanimously resolved, July 27, 1814, “that there be annually presented by the town of Edinburgh to the boy at the head of the Greek class, taught by the rector of the High School, a gold medal of the same value [five guineas] as that annually presented to the dux of the Latin class.” Example: He finished the year dux of Form III with an average 90 per cent over eight subjects. The school did not award end-of-year marks in fourth and fifth forms, but Evans’ report for those years shows he passed all subjects in both years and was again dux in Form V. 2. A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion. Labels: historical 3. The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
Word: blight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The etymology of the noun is uncertain; suggested derivations include the following: * possibly related to Middle English blichening (“mildew or rust on grain, blight”), possibly related to Middle English bliken (“to gleam, shine; to turn pale”), from Old English blīcan (“to shine, sparkle”) (whence modern English blike (“(obsolete) to gleam, shine”); also compare Old Norse blikna (“to grow pallid”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blīkan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”); or * since sense 2.2 refers to a diseased condition of the skin, possibly from Middle English *bleighte, *bleȝte, from Old English blǣcþa (“leprosy”) (related to blǣċe (“an itching skin-disease”) and blǣċo (“leprosy; paleness”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). If so, the word is a doublet of bleak. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /blaɪt/ 1. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Proceed, inhuman Parent in thy Scorn; / Root up my Trees, vvith Blites deſtroy my Corn; / My Vineyards Ruin, and my Sheepfolds burn. Example: As ſudden blights corrupt the ripen'd grain, / And of its verdure ſpoil the mournful plain; / So hapleſs love on blooming features preys, / So hapleſs love deſtroys our peaceful days. 2. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A state of cloudy, humid weather. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: And the youth stood by thy side and whispered to thee; and from his lips there came a reeking smoke, and in that smoke as in a blight the wings withered up. 4. A diseased condition of the face or skin; specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold. Labels: broadly, countable, dated, uncountable 5. Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound. Example: He saw her image in the blight and blackness all around him, not irradiating but deepening the gloom. 6. A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area; also, such an area. Labels: countable, figuratively, specifically, uncountable
Word: blight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The etymology of the noun is uncertain; suggested derivations include the following: * possibly related to Middle English blichening (“mildew or rust on grain, blight”), possibly related to Middle English bliken (“to gleam, shine; to turn pale”), from Old English blīcan (“to shine, sparkle”) (whence modern English blike (“(obsolete) to gleam, shine”); also compare Old Norse blikna (“to grow pallid”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blīkan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”); or * since sense 2.2 refers to a diseased condition of the skin, possibly from Middle English *bleighte, *bleȝte, from Old English blǣcþa (“leprosy”) (related to blǣċe (“an itching skin-disease”) and blǣċo (“leprosy; paleness”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). If so, the word is a doublet of bleak. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /blaɪt/ 1. To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut. Labels: transitive Example: But if it happens, as ſometimes it does, that this Vapour bears up along vvith it any noxious mineral Steams, it then blasts Vegetables, eſpecially thoſe vvhich are more young and tender: blights Corn and Fruits: and is ſometimes injurious even to Men vvho chance to be then abroad in the Fields. Example: In your eye there is death, / There is frost on your breath / Which would blight the plants. 2. To affect (a body part) with a disease. Labels: broadly, dated, transitive Example: [B]lighted be the tongue / That names thy name without the honour due! 3. To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects. Example: [T]o be too far in loue vvith vvorldly felicity, that ſo blighteth goodneſſe and pietie, vvhat is it but vvith the Thurij to make an idoll of the vvinde, and to be in loue vvith blaſting. 4. Of a plant: to suffer blight (noun sense 1.1). Labels: intransitive Example: This vine never blights.
Word: tib Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of tibia. Pronunciation: /tɪb/ 1. A tibia. Labels: informal
Word: tib Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel. Pronunciation: /tɪb/ 1. A working-class woman. Labels: obsolete 2. A prostitute. Labels: obsolete Example: every Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tib Example: But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton. 3. A young girl, a sweetheart. Labels: obsolete
Word: entrap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French entrapper, entraper, from Old French entraper, antraper (“catch in a trap”), equivalent to en- + trap. Compare Middle English bitrappen, from Old English betræppan (“to catch in a trap, entrap”), from the same West Germanic source (see Modern English betrap). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹæp/ 1. To catch in a trap or snare. Labels: transitive Example: Then noble ſouldiers to intrap these theeues […] We haue our Cammels laden al with gold: Which you that be but common ſouldiers, Shall fling in euery corner of the field: And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp, You […] Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues. Example: He goes home to complain to his father, and the two of them decide on a plan to entrap Enkidu. 2. To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act. Labels: transitive
Word: pyrophosphoric acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pyro- + phosphoric acid. 1. A syrupy liquid formed by the dehydration of phosphoric acid; its salts, the pyrophosphates, are used in medicine. Labels: uncountable 2. The acid formed by removing a molecule of water from two molecules of phosphoric acid, H₄P₂O₇; this reaction slowly reverses in the presence of water. Labels: uncountable
Word: pyrophosphate Part of Speech: noun 1. Any salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
Word: AOD Part of Speech: adv 1. Initialism of above Ordnance Datum, used to specify heights above mean sea level (at Southampton) on General Arrangement and other technical drawings. Usually specified in metres, eg +62.0m. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AOD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of art of defense, a videogame mode where the player defeats waves of enemies Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: entrain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French entrainer (modern French entraîner /entrainer), from en- + trainer (“to pull, drag”). 1. To draw (something) along as a current does. Labels: transitive Example: water entrained by steam 2. To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid. Labels: transitive Example: In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed. 3. To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation. Labels: transitive 4. To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior). Labels: transitive Example: There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity. Example: Hence, interestingly, a speaker (VR) might disentrain in no-frequency but entrain in the frequency of a particular discourse function; we also have a speaker with the opposite pattern (DF). 6. To draw, induce, or bring about. Labels: literary, rare, transitive Example: Thou muſt doe well, / Faith true obtaine: / Wit none repell, / Friend déere entraine. Example: That infancie looketh forward, and age backward; was it not that which lanus his double viſage ſignifide? yeares entraine me if they pleaſe; but backward.
Word: entrain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + train. 1. To get into or board a railway train. Labels: intransitive, poetic, transitive Example: There were two further unscheduled stops, one at a small station, Skalice, where a small party of tourists entrained, and at Břeclav, a junction and customs post on the Austrian frontier. Example: [...] and the Southern Region has recently given another lead by adopting an approach practised for some time by certain U.S. commuter railroads - the pamphlet or brochure left on every seat at a rush-hour before passengers entrain. 2. To put aboard a railway train. Labels: transitive Example: to entrain a regiment Example: The train of articulated L.N.E.R. stock, of the type used on the London suburban services, which you have seen travelling empty over the Cheshire Lines Committee's main line through Trafford Park about midday in a westerly direction, was probably being sent to entrain workers from Risley (between Glazebrook and Padgate) at the conclusion of the morning shift.
Word: entrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French entrain, a deverbal from entraîner (“to charm, enthuse”) or a derivation from être en train (“to be in a good mood”). 1. Spirit, liveliness, vivacity, drive. Labels: archaic, countable, transitive, uncountable Example: [T]he greater number of reasonable people attributed the want of entrain and dullness of the whole thing to the presence of Monsignore ——. Example: To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger Abbey, its completeness, finish, and entrain, obscure the undoubted critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the first rank is reached with difficulty.
Word: pigtails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pigtail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pigtails Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pigtail Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: centre parting Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of center parting. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nybble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nibble (“small, quick bite”), with the i changed to y by analogy with byte. 1. Alternative spelling of nibble (“unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I own several abaci and two books on how to use them, but they all have four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity. Example: At every negative-going transition it reads a 4-bit ADPCM nybble (there are 2 nybbles per byte) and stores it in a memory-resident table.
Word: mulching Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mulch + -ing. Pronunciation: /mʌlt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. Used for applying a mulch. Labels: not-comparable Example: This mulching mower can easily be converted to a bagging mower. 2. Used as a mulch. Labels: not-comparable Example: Compost is generally the best mulching material for the home garden.
Word: mulching Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mulch + -ing. Pronunciation: /mʌlt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. The act of preparing/applying a mulch. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Proper mulching in summer months keeps the soil cooler.
Word: mulching Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mulch + -ing. Pronunciation: /mʌlt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of mulch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: japonaiserie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French japonaiserie. 1. Art objects made in the Japanese style. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jawbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone. 1. The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible. Labels: countable Example: 14 ¶ And when he came vnto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes became as flaxe that was burnt with fire, & his bands loosed from off his hands. 15 And he found a new iawbone of an asse, and put foorth his hand, and tooke it, and slewe a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said, With the iawbone of an asse, heapes vpon heapes, with the iaw of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men. 17 And it came to passe when he had made an end of speaking, that hee cast away the iaw bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi. 2. Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw. Labels: countable 3. A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound. Labels: countable, plural, singular 4. Credit. Labels: archaic, slang, uncountable Example: We have a few persons whose pockets are to let—men who have more complaints than dollars—individuals who, in digger's parlance, live on jawbone (credit), and are always to be found at saloons; a class of men who, when they are here, wish themselves yonder, and when yonder, wish themselves back.
Word: jawbone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone. 1. To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate. Labels: ambitransitive Example: “We got a winner. He stole her glasses and she couldn't see. Boring.” (crowd jeering) “Give me my glasses back.” “I'm gonna give your glasses to your master.” “Lot of jawboning going on.” “Okay? Here you go. It was nice meeting you, okay?” “...a little less hot air, but I present to you our new familiar champion, this guy right here. Never caught his name, never caught his name.” 2. (especially of regulatory agencies) To try to persuade (someone) through implied threats of punitive action, such as tighter regulatory control. Labels: transitive
Word: maxilla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”), diminutive of māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”). Pronunciation: /mækˈsɪl.ə/ 1. Synonym of jaw. 2. Synonym of jaw. 3. One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.
Word: breastbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone. 1. The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs. Example: He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
Word: sternum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sternum, related to Old English steorn (“forehead”), German Stirn (“forehead”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɜː.nəm/, /ˈstɝ.nəm/ 1. The breastbone, consisting of the manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid process. Example: The neckline fell into a V, showing the bone of his sternum. 2. The sclerotized ventral plate of spiders, between the coxae, marking the floor of the cephalothorax.
Word: calcaneus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin calcāneus (“heel”), rare form of calx (“heel”). 1. The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone.
Word: commiserate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From commiserātus, the perfect passive participle of commiseror. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪzəɹət/ 1. Commiserating, pitying, lamentful. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the clergy (for he was at that time their chief bishop) to assemble in prayer and supplications, and deal forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgive them.
Word: commiserate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the above adjective, see at -ate for more. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪzəɹeɪt/ 1. To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something). Labels: transitive Example: A few individuals who commiserated the unhappy condition of British negro slaves. Example: Lord Meersbrook had remarked the same woman a day or two before, peering into the area, as if looking for some of the servants, yet neither venturing to ring nor knock; he concluded she was there for no good, but the self-commiserating tone in which she spoke, together with her Irish accent, now caught his ear;... 2. To sympathize; condole. Labels: intransitive 3. To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: Peterborough Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Peter + -borough, referring to Saint Peter the Apostle. Doublet of Petersburg. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːtə(ɹ)bəɹə/, /ˈpiːtə(ɹ)bɹə/ 1. A cathedral city, unitary authority, and borough of Cambridgeshire, England. 2. A town in South Australia, Australia. 3. A town on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia. 4. An independent city, the county seat of Peterborough County, Southern Ontario, Canada, named in honour of Peter Robinson. 5. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
Word: Ajax Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Aiāx, from Ancient Greek Αἴᾱς (Aíās). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/ 1. Either of two heroes of the Trojan War. Labels: Greek Example: In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for... 2. A male given name. Labels: rare 3. A town in Ontario, Canada. Example: In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).
Word: Ajax Part of Speech: name Etymology: Short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/ 1. A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Example: An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…
Word: Ajax Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/ 1. A ghost town in Utah. Example: Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch. 2. An unincorporated community in South Dakota. Example: Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota. 3. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Example: THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only... 4. An unincorporated community in West Virginia. 5. The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax 6. Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.
Word: Japonism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French japonisme. 1. An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: japonisme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French japonisme. 1. An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: foi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French foi. 1. A depiction of a handshake.
Word: colour wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite. Labels: UK 2. A device that emits varying colours of light by the use of a wheel, commonly used to illuminate Christmas trees. Example: With fears that draping normal Christmas fairy lights through the tree's aluminium branches would cause a short circuit, the trees were lit from below by a rotating colour wheel divided into wedge-shaped segments of variously coloured plastic. Example: The twins led him across the room to a silver aluminum Christmas tree in the far corner. A device on the floor cast light on the tree from a bulb behind a slowly turning color wheel.
Word: color wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of colour wheel. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Muddy colors are often the result of mixing complementary colors—those opposite each other on the color wheel.
Word: heel bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The large bone making up the heel of the human foot.
Word: planar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin plānārius (“relating to a plane”), derived from Latin plānus (“flat”, “level”), equivalent to plane + -ar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪnɚ/, /ˈpleɪnə/ 1. Of or pertaining to a plane. Example: A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane. 2. Flat, two-dimensional. 3. Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting. Example: A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar. 4. Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
Word: complementary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/ 1. Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else. Example: I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study. Example: The two business partners had complementary abilities: one had excellent people skills, while the other had a head for figures. 2. Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA. 3. Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
Word: complementary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/ 1. A complementary colour. 2. One skilled in compliments. Labels: obsolete Example: the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive 3. An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
Word: feng shui Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 風水 /风水 (fēngshuǐ, “feng shui (Chinese system of geomancy)”, literally “wind and water”): 風 /风 (fēng, “wind”) + 水 (shuǐ, “water”). Doublet of fung shui. Pronunciation: /fʌŋˈʃweɪ/, /fʊŋ-/, /fɛŋ-/, /fɛŋˈʃuː.i/ 1. A system of spiritual energies, both good and evil, present in the natural features of landscapes. Labels: Chinese, uncountable Example: On my telling two missionaries here lately that this Government would not allow a road to be made to their coal mines because it would obstruct the Feng-shui, they only laughed at it. [...] The upper classes may have Feng-shui, and use it when it suits them, as the Government do; but they also, when it suits their purpose, have no difficulty in overcoming the Feng Shui. Example: When the Hongkong Government cut a road, now known as the Gap, to the Happy Valley, the Chinese community was thrown into a state of abject terror and fright, on account of the disturbance which this amputation of the dragon's limbs would cause to the Feng-shui of Hongkong; and when many of the engineers, employed at the cutting, died of the Hongkong fever, and the foreign houses already built in the Happy Valley had to be deserted on account of malaria, the Chinese triumphantly declared, it was an act of retributory justice on the part of Feng-shui. 2. An ancient Chinese system of geomancy used to design buildings and graves, and to determine the spatial arrangement of things, according to rules about the flow of energy, aimed at achieving harmony with the environment, promoting good fortune and wealth, etc. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: Feng-Shui has long been the puzzle of European residents in China. It is the principle which is given as a reason for every opposition to modern improvements, and which commands the devotions of the Chinese to such an extent that they will commit murder to avenge its neglect. [...] This Feng-Shui is, however, nothing more than the development of the principles enunciated in the Yih-king, and expounded by Confucius. [...] Therefore, Feng-Shui requires the tombs of the deceased to be on specially fortunate ground, where there shall be a proper combination of male and female, the male being represented by hilly country, the female by gently undulating ground. At the junction of these two grounds, where they form a bend like the elbow of a man's arm, is the propitious site for tombs and also for cities. Such a site has been chosen for the city of Canton. Example: In setting up his hut, he gives no heed to the customary consideration of geomancy in the Chinese tradition of feng shui: "I built my house without consulting any diviners." 3. The state of having a space in a particular order, though not necessarily in accordance with any actual principles of the Chinese system of geomancy. Labels: colloquial, uncountable
Word: feng shui Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 風水 /风水 (fēngshuǐ, “feng shui (Chinese system of geomancy)”, literally “wind and water”): 風 /风 (fēng, “wind”) + 水 (shuǐ, “water”). Doublet of fung shui. Pronunciation: /fʌŋˈʃweɪ/, /fʊŋ-/, /fɛŋ-/, /fɛŋˈʃuː.i/ 1. To arrange a space according to the rules of feng shui. Labels: transitive Example: I’m going to have my bedroom feng shuied. Maybe this will finally bring me good luck. Example: Library school seemed like gay intellectual paradise to me. After years of unsplitting infinitives and feng shui-ing misplaced modifiers, I sheathed my editor's blue pencil and prepared to sharpen my mind.
Word: fengshui Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of feng shui. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: [A] large number of people in the United States and Western Europe are paying fengshui "experts" large sums of money to align their expensive coffee tables with their even more expensive sofas, in the hope of bringing more wealth, and perhaps some happiness, into their already affluent households. This seems a gross perversion of the basic spirit of fengshui – which would say that happiness, and certainly some wealth, would come more easily if these people simply sold off all the furniture and other clutter that's obstructing their contact with their natural surroundings.
Word: feng-shui Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of feng shui. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: On my telling two missionaries here lately that this Government would not allow a road to be made to their coal mines because it would obstruct the Feng-shui, they only laughed at it. [...] The upper classes may have Feng-shui, and use it when it suits them, as the Government do; but they also, when it suits their purpose, have no difficulty in overcoming the Feng Shui. Example: When the Hongkong Government cut a road, now known as the Gap, to the Happy Valley, the Chinese community was thrown into a state of abject terror and fright, on account of the disturbance which this amputation of the dragon's limbs would cause to the Feng-shui of Hongkong; and when many of the engineers, employed at the cutting, died of the Hongkong fever, and the foreign houses already built in the Happy Valley had to be deserted on account of malaria, the Chinese triumphantly declared, it was an act of retributory justice on the part of Feng-shui.
Word: feng-shui Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of feng shui. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Your brother just found me this great house in West Van—up on the hill. [...] It's got a commanding city view, two karaoke rooms and it's been feng-shuied by a Grand Master.
Word: Feng Shui Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of feng shui. Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: On my telling two missionaries here lately that this Government would not allow a road to be made to their coal mines because it would obstruct the Feng-shui, they only laughed at it. [...] The upper classes may have Feng-shui, and use it when it suits them, as the Government do; but they also, when it suits their purpose, have no difficulty in overcoming the Feng Shui. Example: The following are translated copies of placards which have been extensively posted in the city and suburbs during the past week: [...] "[...] On recovering our Feng Shui land, then the state will be prosperous, the people peaceable, the winds moderate, and the rains favorable. Let all the people exert themselves."
Word: coccyx Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin coccyx, from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑksɪks/, /ˈkɒksɪks/ 1. The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone. Labels: formal Example: He lands on the concrete path and bounces on his coccyx, which cracks the base of his spine. Example: An actor herself, McAlpine was hands-on, demonstrating “how you penetrate” on screen: “If you can move your coccyx, just arch your back slightly, it looks fantastic,” she says happily. “Those orgy scenes were amazing.”
Word: tailbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tail + bone. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlˌbəʊn/, /ˈteɪlˌboʊn/ 1. The final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine; the coccyx. Labels: informal
Word: geomancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English geomancie, from Medieval Latin geomantia from late Ancient Greek γεωμαντεία (geōmanteía). Equivalent to geo- + -mancy. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒiːəʊˌmænsi/ 1. A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come... Example: The Arabian Geomancy, said to have been first practised by Almadul, was more recondite, being founded on the effects of motion under the crust of the earth, the chinks thus produced, and the noises or thunderings heard; its foundation was the dogma of Aristotle, that "the moving of the heaven is everlasting, and is the beginning and cause of all inferior movings." 2. feng shui; Chinese geomancy. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: geomancy [...] The pretended art of divining future events, or of ascertaining the luckiness or unluckiness of any event or locality, by means of signs connected with the earth [...] or, as in China, from the configuration and aspect of a particular region in its relation to some other. Example: There was [...] a striking similarity between Mesopotamian and Chinese thinking - if not method - in the concept of feng-shui, the Chinese system of geomancy, or divination by topographical features.
Word: pelvis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pēlvis (“basin”), from Old Latin pēluis (“basin”), further etymology uncertain. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛlvɪs/ 1. The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs in hominids. Example: Meronyms: hip bone, os coxae; sacrum; coccyx 2. The pelvic region of the human body. Labels: broadly Example: Elvis was swinging his pelvis around and the ladies were swooning. 3. A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter. Example: Near-synonyms: infundibulum, choana, cornu Example: renal pelvis
Word: hipbone Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hip bone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: centripetal force Part of Speech: noun 1. The force on a rotating or orbiting body in the direction of the centre of rotation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A Centripetal force is that by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or any way tend, towards a point as to a centre.
Word: centripetal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin centripetālis coined by Sir Isaac Newton, from Latin centrum (“center”) + petō (“to seek, aim”) + -al. Analysable as centri- + -petal. Pronunciation: /sɛnˈtɹɪp.ə.tl̩/, /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈpiː.tl̩/ 1. Directed or moving towards a centre. Labels: not-comparable Example: It was a centripetal time, with me at the centre, everything gravitating towards me. 2. Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: coccygeal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From coccyx + -al. Pronunciation: /kɒkˈsɪdʒ.i.əl/, /kɒkˈsaɪ.dʒi.əl/, /kɑkˈsɪdʒ.i.əl/ 1. Relating to the coccyx Labels: not-comparable
Word: coccygeal vertebra Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the four vertebrae that are found in the human coccyx.
Word: pyruvic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin acidum pyruvicum, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ūva (“grape”) + -icum (neuter singular of -icus), from its being produced by the dry distillation of racemic acid, originally derived from grapes. By surface analysis, pyr(e) + Latin uv(a) + -ic. Pronunciation: /pʌɪˌruː.vɪk ˈas.ɪd/, /paɪˌruː.vɪk ˈæs.ɪd/ 1. A yellowish organic keto acid, 2-oxopropanoic acid, which occurs as an intermediate in many metabolic processes, especially glycolysis. Labels: uncountable
Word: pyruvate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pyruvic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). Pronunciation: /pʌɪˈɹuː.veɪt/, /paɪˈɹuː.veɪt/ 1. Any salt or ester of pyruvic acid. Example: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
Word: intermediate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.ət/ 1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range. Example: Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both ſides. Example: Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.
Word: intermediate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.ət/ 1. Anything in an intermediate position. Example: In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age. 2. An intermediary. 3. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car. 4. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product. 5. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product. 6. A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet. Example: Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.
Word: intermediate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.eɪt/ 1. To mediate, to be an intermediate. Labels: intransitive 2. To arrange, in the manner of a broker. Labels: transitive Example: Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Word: beetroot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beet + root. Pronunciation: /ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/, /ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/, /ˈbit.ɹut/, /ˈbiː.tɹʉːt/, [ˈbiː.t͡ʃɹʉːt] 1. A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating. Labels: Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable 2. The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: beetroot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From beet + root. Pronunciation: /ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/, /ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/, /ˈbit.ɹut/, /ˈbiː.tɹʉːt/, [ˈbiː.t͡ʃɹʉːt] 1. To turn a bright red or purple color. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: He straightened up as a spring, beetrooted to the root of his pale hair, and answered wildly, "Ki-Ki-Kan!" I backed prudently towards the door, still keeping that indulgent but firm expression no one sees on the face of warders in lunatic asylums. Example: Harmon's face beetrooted. He strode from the office, stared at the cell block, and swore with artistry.
Word: racemic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. an equal mixture of the d- and l- forms of tartaric acid found in grape juice; the isomers can be separated via crystallization Labels: uncountable
Word: retinoic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A derivative of vitamin A, used in the treatment of acne; it is essential for bone and tissue development. Labels: uncountable
Word: ribonucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A derivative of DNA having ribose in place of deoxyribose, and uracil in place of thymine; its primary function is in the transcription of genetic material and subsequent synthesis of protein. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deoxyribose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.? Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)bor. English oxy- English deoxy- English ribose English deoxyribose From deoxy- + ribose. 1. A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that constitute the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: double take Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From take (“a visible (facial) response to something”) as used in acting, especially in comedy. 1. An abrupt movement, used, for example, as a comical reaction to a surprising sight, in which someone casually sees something, briefly stops looking at it, realizes what it is, and snaps attention back to it with an expression of surprise or disbelief. Example: Smith passes the car and does a double take as he realizes it is on fire. Example: I swear I did a double take when I spotted that $100 bill lying in the gutter!
Word: spit take Part of Speech: noun 1. A take (recorded performance), generally expressing surprise or disbelief, in which the actor in the act of drinking spits out the drink. Example: When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take.
Word: run and gun Part of Speech: verb 1. To move the ball quickly and shoot often. Labels: attributive, often Example: This team likes to run and gun. Example: They're really running and gunning now. 2. To do something hastily and with great energy. Labels: idiomatic Example: It has this sort of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get those people back! So we have to run and gun it. Example: “We used to just run and gun it,” he says. “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.”
Word: tp Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of toilet paper. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of transponder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: You can watch us via satellite on Wikistar 1 tp. 8.
Word: tp Part of Speech: verb 1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.
Word: achromatic lens Part of Speech: noun 1. A lens generally composed of two separate lenses, one convex and one concave and generally of different materials, in such a way that the chromatic aberration produced by one is corrected by the other.
Word: banjo hitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the twanging sound of the batter's swing, like that of a banjo. 1. a batter who lacks power, usually hits bloop singles, and would have a low slugging percentage. Example: Aluminum bats, which had replaced wood in the college game in 1974, were so potent they made Babe Ruths out of banjo hitters.
Word: mixed initiative Part of Speech: noun 1. A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.