nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: garland Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierlōn, *wieralōn, a frequentative form of Frankish *wierōn (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz. Akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.lənd/, /ˈɡɑɹ.lənd/, /ˈɡaː.lənd/ 1. To deck or ornament something with a garland. Labels: transitive Example: Anand disembarks like a statesman from the Volkswagen to be garlanded immediately by five different women. 2. To form something into a garland. Labels: transitive
Word: repel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English repellen, a borrowing from Old French *repeller, from Latin repellere (“to drive back”), from re- (“back”) + pellere (“to drive”). Doublet of repeal. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɛl/ 1. To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: It is some satisfaction to him that is repelled, that dignities, honours, offices, are not alwayes given by desert or worth, but for love, affinitie, friendship, affection, great mens letters, or as commonly they are bought and sold. 2. To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). Labels: transitive 3. To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.). Labels: transitive 4. To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.). Labels: transitive Example: In nearby Zintan, rebels repelled an advance by Gaddafi's forces, killing eight and taking one prisoner, a local activist said. 5. To force away by means of a repulsive force. Labels: transitive 6. To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust. Labels: transitive Example: However, while the idea of a free holiday appeals enormously, I am frankly repelled by the idea of spending a couple of weeks in your company. 7. To save (a shot). Labels: transitive Example: Arsenal pressed forward again after half-time but other than a venomous Walcott shot that Howard repelled with a fine one-handed save, the hosts offered little cutting edge.
Word: wheelchair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English wheelchair From wheel + chair. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlt͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/ 1. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person. Example: "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train." 2. Designed for use by wheelchairbound people. Labels: attributive 3. Any device involving wheels designed to assist a nonhuman animal with locomotion. Labels: broadly Example: To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.
Word: wheelchair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English wheelchair From wheel + chair. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlt͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/ 1. To move using a wheelchair. Labels: intransitive, sometimes, transitive Example: Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves. Example: People who took part walked, jogged, ran, rollerbladed and wheelchaired the five kilometers
Word: itch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English icche, ȝicche, from Old English ġiċċe (“itch”), from Proto-Germanic *jukjǭ (“itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“itch, itchiness”), Dutch jeuk (“itch”), German jucken. Pronunciation: /ɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area. 2. A constant teasing desire or want. Example: ... it left, however, a bee at his ear and an itch to transfer the buzzer's attentions and tease his darling; for she had betrayed herself as right good game.
Word: itch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English icchen, ȝicchen, from Old English ġiċċan, ġyċċan (“to itch”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjan (“to itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“to itch”), West Frisian jûkje (“to itch”), Dutch jeuken (“to itch”), Low German jocken (“to itch”), German jucken (“to itch”). Pronunciation: /ɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched. Labels: intransitive, stative 2. To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something. Labels: intransitive Example: He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since. Example: Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding! 3. To cause to feel an itch. Labels: transitive Example: My head is suddenly itching me like mad. 4. To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck. Example: I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
Word: generate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) + -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/, [ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɹeɪt], /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.eɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒen.ə.ɹæɪt/, [ˈd͡ʒen.ɹæɪt] 1. To bring into being; give rise to. Labels: transitive Example: The discussion generated an uproar. Example: The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold. 2. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. Labels: transitive Example: Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat. 3. To procreate, beget. Labels: transitive Example: They generated many offspring. 4. To form a figure from a curve or solid. Labels: transitive Example: Rotating a circle generates a sphere. 5. To appear or occur; be generated. Labels: intransitive Example: Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
Word: generate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”). See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. 1. Generated, not self-existent. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in another, it is not generate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neither generate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either be generate or ingenerate. Example: It poses the thorny problem of the status of the Logos. Is he generate or ingenerate?.. Justin replies that he is generate—but in a special sense.
Word: charter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/, /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/ 1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges. 2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc. 3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel. 4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle. 5. A deed (legal contract). 6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. Example: My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me. 7. a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity Labels: UK, derogatory Example: In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it.
Word: charter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/, /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/ 1. Leased or hired. Labels: not-comparable
Word: charter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/, /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/ 1. To grant or establish a charter. Labels: transitive 2. To lease or hire something by charter. Labels: transitive 3. (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest. Labels: Canada, transitive
Word: sewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre. Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːə/, /ˈsuɚ/ 1. A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. Example: There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet. Example: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Word: sewer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre. Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːə/, /ˈsuɚ/ 1. To provide (a place) with a system of sewers. Labels: transitive
Word: sewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”). Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uːə/, /ˈsuɚ/ 1. An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes. Labels: historical Example: While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office. Example: His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.
Word: sewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: sew + -er Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊə/, /ˈsoʊɚ/ 1. One who sews. Example: Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods. 2. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk. Example: the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana
Word: swarm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”). The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swirman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma. Pronunciation: /swɔɹm/, /swɔːm/ 1. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. Example: […] reſtleſs thoughts, that like a deadly ſwarm / Of Hornets arm'd […] ruſh upon me thronging, 2. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. Example: a swarm of meteorites Example: those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy] 3. A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. 4. A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time. Example: Earthquakes were another concern, particularly after swarms were felt in Oklahoma.
Word: swarm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”). The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swirman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma. Pronunciation: /swɔɹm/, /swɔːm/ 1. To move as a swarm. Labels: intransitive Example: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Example: When I was there, at about 0200 this morning [15 May], hundreds of students had swarmed up the steps of the Great Hall and sat there making political speeches. Troops were moved in, 100 or so filed out of the hall and drove the students back, but they were extremely gentle, saying xiexie, xiexie, thank you, thank you, and the relations seemed to be extremely good; I don't think that there is anything the authorities can do now to get them off even though they have said the square will be closed to pedestrians. 2. To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Every place swarming with soldiers. 3. To fill a place as a swarm. Labels: transitive Example: All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent. 4. To overwhelm as by an opposing army. Labels: transitive Example: So, yeah. The overall conclusion of the big gunfight being that, if Yamato is able to tackle the Colorados early, then the Japanese probably have a, maybe a sixty-to-sixty-five-percent chance of pulling this off... although you say "pulling it off", it's more a case of "the Japanese are the last battleship standing"; they tend to then just get swarmed by angry Fletchers[…] 5. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately. Example: At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. Example: She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught. 6. To breed multitudes. Example: Not ſo thick ſwarm'd once the Soil / Bedropt with blood of Gorgon,
Word: SHRIMP Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: spectrometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Italic *spekjō Latin speciō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Latin -trum Latin spectrumbor. English spectrum English spectro- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)lbor. French -mètrebor. English -meter English spectrometer From spectro- + -meter. Pronunciation: /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.tə/, /spɛkˈtɹɑm.ɪ.təɹ/, /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.təɹ/, /spekˈtɹɔm.ɪ.tə/, /spekˈtɹɔm.ə.tɐ/ 1. An optical instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances; typically it will plot a graph of absorption versus wavelength or frequency, and the patterns produced are used to identify the substances present, and their internal structure.
Word: slip of the tongue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Latin lapsus linguae. 1. A mistake in speech. Labels: idiomatic Example: It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way.
Word: pull oneself up by one's bootstraps Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Early 19th century US; attested 1834. In original use, often used to refer to pulling oneself over a fence, and implying that someone is attempting or has claimed some ludicrously far-fetched or impossible task. Presumably a variant on a traditional tall tale, as elaborated below. The shift in sense to a possible task appears to have developed in the early 20th century, and the use of the phrase to mean “a ludicrous task” continued into the 1920s. Widely attributed since at least 1901 to The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, (1781) by Rudolf Erich Raspe, where the eponymous Baron pulls himself out of a swamp by his own pigtail, though not by his bootstraps. The Adventures is primarily a collection of centuries-old tall tales, however, and using bootstraps may have arisen as a variant on the same theme. 1. To begin an enterprise or recover from a setback without any outside help; to succeed only by one's own efforts or abilities. Labels: idiomatic Example: We can't get a loan, so we'll just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Example: It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.
Word: meadow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/, [ˈmɛd.əʊ̯], [ˈmɛd.ɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈmɛd.oʊ̯/, [ˈmɛd.oʊ̯] 1. A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed. Example: alpine meadows Example: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…]. 2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. Example: the salt meadows near Newark Bay Example: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
Word: meadow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/, [ˈmɛd.əʊ̯], [ˈmɛd.ɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈmɛd.oʊ̯/, [ˈmɛd.oʊ̯] 1. To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay. Example: That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
Word: funny bone Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfʌn.i boʊn/, /ˈfʌn.i bəʊn/ 1. The ulnar nerve in the elbow, which, when hit, causes a tingling sensation. Labels: idiomatic Example: Ouch, I just hit my funny bone. 2. Nickname for the humerus, so named because of its being homophonic with "humorous". Labels: mnemonic 3. One's sense of humor. Labels: figuratively Example: His wisecracks always tickle my funny bone. Example: ANNOUNCER (on TV): “If you're a Parrothead, try Jimmy Buffet's Key West Saloon, located downstairs in the lobby. From World-renown chef Gordon Fukayami come Roppongi, a bistro house with a South Asian flair. And if you're looking to get your funny bone tickled, don't miss Rita Rudner's hilarious live stand-up show.”
Word: nod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnodōn, from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”). Pronunciation: /nɒd/, /nɑd/, /nɔd/ 1. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement. Labels: ambitransitive Example: ‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who? Patty? Oh yes.’ Hentman nodded. ‘Well, it’s that operation they give in Hollywood and New York. It’s more the rage now than the dilation, and she’s had that done, too.’ 2. To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting. Labels: ambitransitive 3. To sway, move up and down. Labels: ambitransitive Example: By every wind that nods the mountain pine. Example: Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by. 4. To gradually fall asleep. Labels: intransitive 5. To signify by a nod. Labels: transitive Example: They nodded their assent. 6. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired Labels: intransitive Example: Even Homer nods. 7. To head; to strike the ball with one's head. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper. Example: With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot. 8. To allude to something. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself. 9. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: nod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnodōn, from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”). Pronunciation: /nɒd/, /nɑd/, /nɔd/ 1. An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting. 2. A reference or allusion to something. Example: Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937. Example: Early into Zootopia 2, a character celebrates how easy it was to teach everyone to “set aside their differences and solve bias and prejudice forever”—a winking nod towards the mixed reception of the first film’s themes. 3. A nomination. Example: For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award. Example: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod. 4. Approval. Labels: figuratively Example: The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting. Example: Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow? 5. A state of half-consciousness; stupor. Example: Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.
Word: wiggle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen (“to wiggle”) and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen (“to rock”), from wiege (“cradle”). See wain, and Dutch wieg (“cradle”). Cognate to Dutch wiggelen (“to wiggle”), Low German wiggeln (“to wiggle”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪɡəl/ 1. To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Her hips wiggle as she walks. Example: The jelly wiggles on the plate when you move it.
Word: wiggle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen (“to wiggle”) and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen (“to rock”), from wiege (“cradle”). See wain, and Dutch wieg (“cradle”). Cognate to Dutch wiggelen (“to wiggle”), Low German wiggeln (“to wiggle”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪɡəl/ 1. A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular. Example: She walked with a sexy wiggle. 2. An alternating state or characteristic. Labels: figuratively 3. See wiggles. Labels: in-plural
Word: Freudian slip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). Pronunciation: /ˌfɹɔɪdɪ.ən ˈslɪp/, /ˌfɹɔɪdi.ən ˈslɪp/ 1. A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires. Example: After disposing of these general topics in a chapter entitled "The Manners of All Men" (but which, by some Freudian slip, we suppose, deals chiefly with 'The Impure Man') Example: Film has in fact enriched our world of perception, with methods which could be illustrated by Freudian theory. A Freudian slip in conversation would occur fifty years ago more or less unnoticed.
Word: SIMS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of secondary ion mass spectrometry. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: contrariwise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English contrary-wyse; equivalent to contrary + -wise. 1. In the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction. Labels: literary, not-comparable
Word: contrariwise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English contrary-wyse; equivalent to contrary + -wise. 1. In the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction. Labels: literary, not-comparable Example: If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise. Example: Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs. / Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows, / Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise, / A wave drops like a wall: another follows, / Wilting and scrambling 2. on the other hand Labels: literary, not-comparable
Word: carbonate of lime Part of Speech: noun 1. Calcium carbonate. Labels: uncountable
Word: microprobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + probe. 1. An instrument used to determine the chemical composition at a point on a solid surface, such as that of a mineral. It analyzes the X-rays emitted when a beam of electrons are focused on the sample.
Word: Persian Empire Part of Speech: name Etymology: Collocation of 'Persian' (as a demonym of Latinate Persia in the sense of Greek Persis, Old Persian Pārsa) and 'empire'. Translates Latin Imperium Persārum, as attested e.g. in the 1st century (e.g. Quintus Curtius Rufus "Life and exploits of Alexander the Great" 3.3.8). In English from the 17th centuryhttp://books.google.com/books?id=lLhHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37&dq=%22Persian+Empire%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1700&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Persian%20Empire%22&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=cY8pAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA400&dq=%22Persian+Empire%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1800&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Persian%20Empire%22&f=false, invariably in reference to the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 B.C.E.) conquered by Alexander the Great. Sometimes expanded to Medo-Persian Empirehttp://books.google.com/books?id=AOYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33&dq=%22Medo-Persian+Empire%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1800&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Medo-Persian%20Empire%22&f=false (translating Imperium Persārum et Mēdōrum, "empire of (ruled by) Persians and Medians"). The 'et Medorum' is not a reference to Median empire (625–550 B.C.E.), but rather to (1) the tribal affiliation and shared status of the Persians and Medians, (2) the mixed Persian-Median parentage of the founder of the dynasty, Cyrus I. The term 'Persian empire' has sometimes been extended to the later, "restored" empire ruled by the Sasanian dynastyhttp://books.google.com/books?id=YfoEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA129&dq=%22Persian+Empire%22+Sassanian&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1850&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Persian%20Empire%22%20Sassanian&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=PNYLJakw1SQC&pg=PA28&dq=%22Persian+Empire%22+Sassanian&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1980&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Persian%20Empire%22%20Sassanian&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=MziRd4ddZz4C&pg=PA100&dq=%22Persian+Empire%22+Sassanian&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1980&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Persian%20Empire%22%20Sassanian&f=false, the ruling dynasty of which was also from Persia in the sense of Greek Persis, Old Persian Pārsa. It is sometimes taken more loosely to refer to the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian states taken together (so Encyclopædia Britannica 2009: "historical empire from about 550 B.C.E. – 640 C.E."). 1. The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty 550–330 B.C.E. Labels: historical Example: We know how Darius got the Persian Empire from the rest of his fellow Peers, from the first neighing of his generous Steed. 2. The empire ruled by the Sasanian dynasty 224–651 C.E. Labels: historical Example: The geographical limits of the Sassanian or Later Persian Empire were so nearly identical with those of its predecessor, the Parthian, […]
Word: Islamic Republic of Iran Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Iranian Persian جُمْهوریِ اِسْلامیِ ایران (jomhuri-ye eslâmi-ye irân). 1. Official name of Iran: a country in West Asia, in the Middle East. Example: Carolina Chandlers Corp. has filed suit in U.S. District Court charging the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nationalized shipping line with failing to pay outstanding debts. Example: Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police as she came out of Tehran’s Haghani metro station.
Word: reflectoporn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reflect + -o- + porn. 1. Exhibitionism of a sexual nature in which a person takes a photograph of a reflective object, such as a kettle or cutlery, so that their naked image appears in the reflection, and posts the pictures on the Internet, for example when listing the object for sale. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: 2004, Internet auction site eBay has been hit by a new craze in which sellers appear naked in reflections on goods they're selling. “Reflectoporn” is said to have started in the US and now British exhibitionists have caught on. — Ananova news story
Word: Marine Corps Part of Speech: name 1. The United States Marine Corps; one of the major divisions of the US military.
Word: Marine Corps Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of marine corps. Labels: alt-of
Word: salami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal. Pronunciation: /səˈlɑːmi/, /səˈlɑːmɪj/, /ˌsəˈlɑmi/, /səˈlɐːmi/, /səˈlame/ 1. A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A grand slam. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The penis. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: To this day Katie thought wistfully of the night in his apartment when his salami had split her loins sending her into a state of sexual ecstasy unmatched in human history.
Word: salame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian salame. 1. Alternative form of salami. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Travellers, they say, come very unexpectedly, and for long intervals not at all; so that, excepting at the times of arrival of the Diligences, they seldom have food in the house beyond such as they now set on the table, namely, eggs and salame (or ham sausage), a plate of good trout, and an indifferent steak, […] Example: “Let us go to the cantina,” Gorgio said. “We can pay there for a piece of salame.” […] “Eat salame,” said Gorgio. “The other stuff is too old.”
Word: contagion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”). Pronunciation: /kənˈteɪd͡ʒən/ 1. A disease spread by contact. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The spread or transmission of such a disease. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy. 4. The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe. 5. A recession or crisis developed in such manner. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gabion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gabbione, augmentative of gabbia (“cage”), itself from Latin cavea (whence also English cage, jail and cajole — the two latter via Latin caveola), from Latin cavus (whence also English cave). Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪ.bi.ən/ 1. A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag). Labels: historical Example: When our artillery came before the walls of the town, the English within the walls killed some of our men, and several pioneers who were making gabions. And seeing they were so wounded that there was no hope of curing them, their comrades stripped them, and put them still living inside the gabions, which served to fill them up. Example: Then ſe the bringing of our ordinance / Along the trench into the battery, / VVhere vve vvil haue gabions of ſix foot broad / To ſaue our Cannoniers from muſket ſhot, […] 2. A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride. 3. A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks. 4. A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable. Example: Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott. Example: 1774, James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie p. vi, quoted in 2004, Walter Scott Reliquiae Trotcosiensis, Edinburgh University Press, p.6, The meaning of the word Gabion, as it is used in the poem, is not to be sought for in any dictionary. It was of the venerable old gentleman Mr Ruthven′s own coining, and it was well enough understood among his select friends, to mean nothing else but the miscellaneous curiosities in his closet humorously described in the poem.
Word: deontic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek δέον (déon, “what is right”); compare deontology. Pronunciation: /diːˈɒntɪk/ 1. Pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this.
Word: mush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”). Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/, /mʊʃ/ 1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell. 2. A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The foam of a breaker. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida. 4. A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A gun. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, countable, uncountable Example: Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
Word: mush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”). Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/, /mʊʃ/ 1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. Example: He mushed the ingredients together. Example: One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.
Word: mush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit. Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/ 1. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.
Word: mush Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”). Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/, /mʊʃ/ 1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster. Example: "An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men. / "Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. "Mush!" he shouted. "Mush on there!" / The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.
Word: mush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”). Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/, /mʊʃ/ 1. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs. Example: The White House posted a cartoon to X on Wednesday of two Greenlandic mush teams with three huskies each, pointing towards the choice of the white pillars and the South Lawn or a tempestuous scene by the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Russia.
Word: mush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”). Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/, /mʊʃ/ 1. To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. Labels: intransitive 2. To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. Labels: transitive Example: Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.
Word: mush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Simple contraction of mushroom. Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/ 1. A magic mushroom. Labels: Quebec, slang
Word: mush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”). Pronunciation: /mʊʃ/ 1. (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man. Labels: Southern-England, UK, slang Example: Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor. Example: "Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street. 2. The face. Labels: Australia, Northern-England, UK, slang
Word: mush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather). 1. A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher. Labels: London, slang
Word: mush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”). 1. To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp. Labels: transitive
Word: Romanche Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French romanche, which stems from Latin romanice. 1. Alternative form of Romansch. Labels: alt-of, alternative