nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: irrationality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From irrational + -ity. May also be analyzed as ir- + rationality. Pronunciation: /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, /ɪˌɹæʃ.ɪˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, /əˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/ 1. The quality or state of being irrational. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The quality or state of being irrational. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The quality or state of being irrational. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Man introduces reason into the world of Nature, destroying irrational struggle and waste. But this activity is outside of self, distant, only reflected. Man sees this irrationality only with his intellect. 4. Something that is irrational; the result of an illogical or absurd thought or action. Labels: countable
Word: fatuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fatuité. Pronunciation: /fəˈtjuːəti/, /fəˈtuːɪti/, [fəˈtuː.ɨ.ɾi] 1. Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Like Joel Miller’s friend, the Senior Wrangler, who bowed to the audience from his box at the play, because he and the king happened to enter the theatre at the same time, only with a fatuity by no means so agreeable to himself, poor Arthur Pendennis felt perfectly convinced that all England would remark the absence of his name from the examination-lists, and talk about his misfortune.
Word: imbecility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inbecillite, from Middle French imbecilité, imbecillité, and its etymon Classical Latin imbēcillitās. By surface analysis, imbecile + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌɪmbəˈsɪləti/ 1. The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind. Labels: uncountable Example: The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers. Example: He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite. 2. Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility. Example: The procedure of musical comedy is not reducible to a coherent formula, so that its imbecilities may be annotated by super imbecilities.
Word: dramatically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek δράω (dráō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)bor. Latin drāmaticuslbor. English dramatic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English dramatically From dramatic + -ally. 1. In a dramatic manner. Example: “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]” Example: Far from it: direct military intervention by a Western state – even if Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is requesting it – would dramatically worsen the situation, and ISIS, contrary to what pro-interventionists might say, would inevitably come out on top.
Word: versed sine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin sinus versus (“flipped sine”); the sine function being sometimes called sinus rectus. 1. The trigonometric function 1 − cos(x). Example: For the divisions, to be laid on this line, are the differences between the logarithm versed sine of 180°, and the logarithm versed sines of the successive arcs. Example: But if the given arch exceed 90°, find the natural co-sine of its supplement, which add to 1000000, and the sum will be the natural versed sine required.
Word: versin Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of vers.
Word: coversine Part of Speech: noun 1. The coversed sine.
Word: haversine Part of Speech: noun 1. The haversed sine.
Word: coversed sine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From contraction of complement + versed sine. 1. The trigonometric function 1 − sin(x). Example: The cosine of an arc is the sine of its complement.† In like manner, the coversed sine, cotangent, and cosecant of an arc, are respectively the versed sine, tangent, and secant of its complement. Example: At the top of the page on the left-hand side is placed the number of degrees, and in the left-hand column each minute of the degree, opposite to which are arranged the numerical values of the sine, coversed sine, &c, of the corresponding angle in those columns, at the top of which those terms are placed.
Word: haversed sine Part of Speech: noun 1. The trigonometric function defined as half the versed sine. Abbreviation: haversin Labels: rare
Word: haversin Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of haversine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: hacoversed sine Part of Speech: noun 1. The trigonometric function equal to half the coversed sine. Abbreviation: hacoversin
Word: hacoversin Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of hacoversed sine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: cohaversine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English haversine English cohaversine From co- + haversine. 1. the hacoversed sine
Word: hacoversine Part of Speech: noun 1. the hacoversed sine
Word: havercosine Part of Speech: noun 1. the trigonometric function (1 + cos(x)) / 2, equal to half the vercosine
Word: coversin Part of Speech: noun 1. coversed sine Labels: uncountable
Word: unit circle Part of Speech: noun 1. A circle of radius 1. Labels: usually 2. The circle of radius 1 with centre at the origin, used in defining trigonometric functions.
Word: popularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English popular Middle English -ly English -ly English popularly From popular + -ly. 1. In a popular manner. 2. In a popular manner. Example: They were popularly known as "the Kings of California" Example: Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called. 3. In a popular manner.
Word: koss Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of coss. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.
Word: coffered Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfəd/ 1. Having coffers. Example: coffered ceiling Example: […] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended ⁠/ In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Word: coffered Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of coffer Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: irradiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English irradiate (“illuminated, shining”), borrowed from Medieval Latin irradiātus, perfect passive participle of irradiō, from ir- (“against; into; on, upon”) + radiō (“to cause to radiate, irradiate; to emit beams, radiate”), from radius (“ray of light; rod, staff; spoke of a wheel”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (further etymology uncertain; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁t- (“beam; pole; post”)). The adjective is attested earlier than the verb. The English word is analysable as in- (“against; into; on, upon”) + radiate. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹeɪdɪət/ 1. Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated. Labels: literary, poetic Example: There ſeek the Theban Bard, depriv'd of ſight, / VVithin, irradiate vvith prophetic light; […] Example: The co-existent Flame / Knew the Destroyer; it encircled him, / Roll'd up his robe, and gathered round his head, / Condensing to intenser splendour there, / His crown of glory, and his light of life, / Hovered the irradiate wreath. 2. Made splendid or wonderful. Labels: figuratively, literary, poetic
Word: ironwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ironwerk, irynwerk, equivalent to iron + -work. 1. Anything made wholly or largely of iron, especially when used for decoration. Labels: uncountable Example: The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons. Example: The gate itself has sideposts of rustic stonework, each topped by a large Baroque vase; these sideposts are joined by elaborate floral ironwork with a coat of arms and a coronet in the centre[…] 2. An ironworks. Labels: countable, dated
Word: ironstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iron + stone. 1. Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: During my stay at Kamalia there was a smelting furnace at a short distance from the hut where I lodged, and the owner and his workmen made no secret about the manner of conducting the operation, and readily allowed me to examine the furnace, and assist them in breaking the ironstone. Example: The trees like this barren ironstone formation. It's well they do, for nothing else does. 2. A type of vitreous pottery similar to stoneware. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: More than 50 percent of the collection from Hall’s brothel is ironstone and porcelain. White ironstone tablewares became popular in the late 1850s, and the high percentage of this ware suggests attention to fashion.
Word: ironware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English iron Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English ironware From iron + -ware. 1. Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ironical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ironic + -al. Attested since the 1570s. Pronunciation: /aɪˈɹɒnɪkəl/, /aɪˈɹɑnɪkəl/ 1. Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony. Example: “So, ultimately, I realized I have been completely ruining my life and my face. What is ironical is that I was only doing this to make myself look better for my wife Marwa. This was for her, not for me.” 2. Given to the use of irony; sarcastic. Example: His tone was cold and ironical; its bitterness but reflecting the terrible disappointment he had suffered. 3. Feigning ignorance; simulating lack of instruction or knowledge; exhibiting Socratic irony. Labels: obsolete
Word: irksomeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English irkesumnesse, irksomnes, irksumnes, urkesommenesse, yrkesumnesse; equivalent to irksome + -ness. 1. The state of being irksome Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My dear child, it is not here as in Italy, women, amongst us, have no other employment than domestic duties; the talents which you possess will serve to relieve the irksomeness of solitude, perhaps, also, you may meet with a husband to whom they would be agreeable; […]
Word: irksomely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irksome Middle English -ly English -ly English irksomely From irksome + -ly. 1. In an irksome manner; tediously.
Word: tediously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English tedyously; equivalent to tedious + -ly. 1. In a tedious or wearisome manner. Example: And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. Example: The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode.
Word: tediousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tediosenes, tediousenesse, tediousnesse, tedusnes, teduysnes, tedyousnes; equivalent to tedious + -ness. 1. The quality of being tedious; tedium. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: [B]revity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.] Example: I am the worst person in the world for formal dinners, but I shall be thankful to have a resting-place whereon to bestow my tediousness in an evening.
Word: vexatiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vexatious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English vexatiousness From vexatious + -ness. 1. The state of being vexatious. Labels: uncountable
Word: vexatiously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English vexatious Middle English -ly English -ly English vexatiously From vexatious + -ly. 1. In a vexatious manner; so as to give annoyance.
Word: Biss Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two main origins: * English surname from Middle English bis (“dark, murky, gray”), an adjective related to French bis (“beige”) and Italian bigio (“ash gray, dun”). * Borrowed from German Biss (“bite”), a nickname for a cutting, sarcastic person. 1. A surname from German or Middle English or transferred from the nickname. Example: A Democratic mayor running for Congress in Illinois, Daniel Biss posted video Friday from a protest outside an ICE facility near Chicago where he said he was teargassed.
Word: wearisomeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English wearisome Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English wearisomeness From wearisome + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being wearisome; tiresomeness; tediousness. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: slowness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English slow Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English slowness From slow + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being slow. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult. 2. A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: JSA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Jobseeker's Allowance. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: JSA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Joint Security Area (in the Korean Demilitarized Zone). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Nass Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Ness. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Nass Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Tlingit naas (“intestine”). 1. A river in British Columbia.
Word: newsroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From news + room. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːzɹuːm/ 1. The office of a news organisation, especially that part of it where the journalists work and news stories are processed. 2. A room where newspapers and magazines are available for reading. Labels: dated
Word: YOP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Youth Opportunities Programme, a British youth employment programme of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Introduced by the Callaghan government but popularly associated with Thatcherism. Replaced by the YTS. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: YOP Part of Speech: noun 1. A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme. Labels: UK, slang
Word: yop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From YOP. Pronunciation: /jɒp/, /jɑp/ 1. A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.
Word: yop Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /jɒp/, /jɑp/ 1. Yes; affirmative. Labels: colloquial, informal
Word: yop Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /jɒp/, /jɑp/ 1. Initialism of Yersinia outer protein. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: yopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From YOP + -er. 1. A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s. Labels: informal Example: There must be a real drive in the trade union movement and the Labour movement to recruit Yoppers and the unemployed. Example: When we came back to Blackburn I went on the Youth Opportunities Scheme and became a Yopper, which was the worst thing you could call a teenager in those days.
Word: tiresomeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tiresome Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English tiresomeness From tiresome + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being tiresome; wearisomeness; tediousness. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: tiresomely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English tiresome Middle English -ly English -ly English tiresomely From tiresome + -ly. 1. In a tiresome manner; wearisomely.
Word: wearisomely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English wearisome Middle English -ly English -ly English wearisomely From wearisome + -ly. 1. In a wearisome manner; tediously. Example: They both lived on money of their own, and were wearisomely idle and over-dressed.
Word: edificator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who or that which edifies; an edifier. Labels: rare Example: Language is the grand edificator of the race.
Word: edificatory Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/ 1. Tending to edification. Example: 1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.
Word: sod all Part of Speech: noun 1. Nothing. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: My holiday was rubbish: there was sod all to do.
Word: servent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of server + client. Introduced by the Gnutella network technology. 1. A peer-to-peer network node which has the functionality of both server and client. Labels: Internet
Word: auras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aura Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ipswich Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Old English personal name Gip, genitive case Gipes + Old English wīċ (“port, bay”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪpswɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A port town and borough in and the county town of Suffolk, England. 2. A city in southeastern Queensland, Australia. 3. A local government area around the city in Queensland; in full, the City of Ipswich. 4. A coastal town and census-designated place therein, in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. 5. A small city, the county seat of Edmunds County, South Dakota, United States. 6. An unincorporated community in the town of Elk Grove, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, United States.
Word: Camelot Part of Speech: name Etymology: First attested in Old French as Camaalot in Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. In the US politics sense a reference to the contemporary musical Camelot (1960), associated with the Kennedy era. Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.əˌlɒt/, /ˈkæm.əˌlɑt/, [ˈkɛəm.əˌlɑt], /ˈkæm.əˌlɔt/ 1. A mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend. 2. The administration and surrounding mystique of President John F. Kennedy. Labels: US Example: Of course you want to fund all these programs, and you want to fund all these activist campaigns. Of course you want that. The term “Camelot” was never used, but there was a Camelot feeling to it at the time that people must have felt in the early ’60s in the same way.
Word: Canterbury Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Caunterbury, Canterburi, from Old English Cantwara burg. Pronunciation: /ˈkæntəɹbəɹi/, /ˈkæntəb(ə)ɹɪ/, /ˈkɛntəb(ə)ɹi/ 1. A cathedral city in Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1457). 2. A local government district with borough status in Kent, England, the City of Canterbury, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the city itself. 3. The episcopal see of Canterbury or the occupant thereof (the full title used for the archbishop). 4. The Anglican Communion. Labels: metonymically 5. A suburb of Sydney in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. 6. A small settlement in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. 7. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Boroondara, Victoria, Australia. 8. A village and parish of York County, New Brunswick, Canada. 9. A suburb of Montego Bay, Jamaica. 10. A region in the South Island, New Zealand. Example: A New Zealand linguistics doctorate graduate from the University of Canterbury has completed a world-first study into colloquial Antarctic English, spoken at the US, British and New Zealand Antarctic research stations. 11. A locality in the United States. 12. A locality in the United States. 13. A locality in the United States. 14. A locality in the United States.
Word: Giovanni Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Giovanni. Doublet of John. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒoʊˈvɑni/, /d͡ʒiː.əˈvɑni/ 1. A male given name from Italian. Labels: rare 2. A female given name from Italian. Labels: rare
Word: Ganges Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Gangēs, from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from the verbal root गम् (gam, “to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come”) (whence Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and English come). Doublet of Ganga. Pronunciation: /ˈɡændʒiːz/, /ˈɡænd͡ʒiz/ 1. A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism. Example: […] the Yellow Riuer […] is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it. Example: ...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Word: RL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of rugby league. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of real life. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like. 3. Initialism of royal letters. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, plural, plural-only, uncountable 4. Initialism of reinforcement learning. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: This requires keeping track of many RL algorithms and architectures, which are used as part of the state space. By contrast, our approach only focuses on training a single RL architecture, taking advantage of MCTS search and powerful state representations. Example: But Richard Sutton’s textbook led [David] Silver in deeper, describing the algorithms that a programmer might deploy to make RL a reality. If computers could be trained to understand the world by interacting with it directly, they could learn what to do in any given situation, effectively programming themselves.
Word: Becky Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈbɛki/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.
Word: Becky Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɛki/ 1. A (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker because she is basic or unaware of, or is taking advantage of, her social privilege (white privilege). Labels: US, colloquial, derogatory Example: We were smoking weed in the park, but then some Becky called the cops on us. Example: He only want me when I'm not there He better call Becky with the good hair 2. An average-looking woman. Labels: derogatory Example: Incels scoff at Beckys, hoping to score exclusively with Stacys because Stacys alone are the sexual currency that will lead to admiration. Example: She was the hottest Becky to hit the gaming circuit in years.
Word: racer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race English -er English racer From race + -er. First attested in 1648. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.sə/, /ˈɹeɪ.səɹ/ 1. Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing. Example: He was a [motorcycle] racer as a teenager, and a frequent visitor to the Isle of Man, where he had many friends. 2. Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing. 3. Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing. 4. Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing. 5. Any of several genera of colubrid snakes. 6. A video game involving racing of any kind. Labels: informal Example: For our kart racer, we will start by investigating common elements in similar games that we will need to bring to life, […] 7. A racist. Labels: humorous
Word: CPUSA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Communist Party of the United States of America. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: YCL Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Young Communist League, the youth section of the Communist Party of the USA. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Hayley Part of Speech: name Etymology: Localities in England, from Old English hēg (“hay”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hay + -ley (“lea”). Pronunciation: /ˈheɪli/ 1. An English placename. 2. A habitational surname from Old English. (More often spelled Haley.) 3. A unisex given name transferred from the surname. 4. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Word: movant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English movant From move + -ant. 1. The party who moves for the judge to rule in favor of a motion.
Word: Riss Part of Speech: name 1. A small river in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, right tributary of the Danube.
Word: Harz Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Harz. 1. A mountain range in central Germany; its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. 2. A rural district of Saxony-Anhalt. Seat: Halberstadt.
Word: practicum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Praktikum, a coinage from the neuter of Late Latin practicus (“practical”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəm/ 1. A college course designed to give a student supervised practical knowledge of a subject previously studied theoretically. Labels: US Example: Eromin has provided clinical practicum placements for students seeking advanced degrees in social service professions. 2. A science exam in which students are questioned about specimens or other objects placed in front of them. Labels: US
Word: swither Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *swithren, from Old Norse sviðra (“to burn, singe”). Related to Middle English swithen (“to burn, scorch, singe”), from Old Norse svíða (“to burn”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɪðə/ 1. To burn, scorch, singe. Labels: dialectal 2. To burn slowly, melt (as a candle), sweal Labels: dialectal 3. To smart, ache; tingle Labels: dialectal, figuratively
Word: swither Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *swithren, from Old Norse sviðra (“to burn, singe”). Related to Middle English swithen (“to burn, scorch, singe”), from Old Norse svíða (“to burn”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɪðə/ 1. A great heat; a scorching, singeing Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable 2. Sweating. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: swither Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1501; of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ˈswɪðə/ 1. To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 2. To move or swing about. Example: He was filling his pipe, staring at his picture, not her, and this tacit dismissal allowed her to sidle over to the bank higher up, and there swither her legs about in the water before coming out of it.
Word: swither Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1501; of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ˈswɪðə/ 1. A state of indecision or confusion; a panicked state; a flap, fluster, or dither. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: Bradly came bristling to the lagoon the following afternoon, in a swither of alarm and expectation.
Word: dovetail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from dove + tail. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌvteɪl/, /ˈdʌvˌteɪl/ 1. The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail. Example: Beſides this, another fine Starfiſh came to my Hands, […] Its body hath ten corners, and it hath a Star above vvith as many Rays; each of theſe one may compare unto a Sail of the VVindmills that the Children run againſt the VVind vvithal, or to a piece of ſuch Croſſes that are broad before, and narrovv vvhere they meet together; that is to ſay, of the ſhape of a Dove-tail: […] 2. In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes. Labels: attributive, often Example: [T]heſe muſt be joined at Bottom to the Piles by a ſtrong Dove-tail, and the Piles joined vvith Braces; […] Example: With a warding file cut a dovetail on each of the ends to be joined, as shown by Fig. 1. 3. A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail joint. Labels: attributive, often 4. A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1). Example: I ſhall add other tvvo Forms of Lines, […] The firſt of theſe tvvo is termed Patee, or Dove-Tail, from a Form of Art uſed by Joiners, vvho make Joints one into the other by that Name: […] Example: ASSEMBLEE, [in Heraldry,] a Dovetail or more to hold the tvvo Parts of the Eſcutcheon together, vvhere the Partition Line is, being countercharged, is ſome of the Metal and ſome of the Colour of the Eſcutcheon.
Word: dovetail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from dove + tail. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌvteɪl/, /ˈdʌvˌteɪl/ 1. To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint. Labels: transitive Example: [T]heſe Piles ought to be placed contrary to the Stillings, vvhich ſurround or croſs them every three Feet, and Dove-tail'd into the ſquare Supporters; […] Example: In house-building it is further forbidden [by Sultan Muhammed Shah] to dovetail or make the ends of the timbers (e.g. of the roof) fit accurately together, and also to build two verandahs, one on each side of the house, with their floors on a level with the floor of the main building; if two verandahs are used, the floor of one must be lower than that of the main building (kelek anak). 2. To combine or fit (things) together well. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up. Example: Through my new project, I dovetail my interests in botany and programming. 3. To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: However, we can construct a single master algorithm M that DPExact learns from unknown distribution D by simply dovetailing the algorithms A. The precise way in which we dovetail the algorithms depends on whether our goal is time or query efficiency. 4. To seamlessly move a melody from one instrument to another. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. Of several things: to combine or fit together well. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The parts of your essay should dovetail so that it is cohesive and coherent. Example: The task now facing Mr Crook and his team in the multi-disciplinary programme is sequencing the works going forward, to ensure track, signalling, station works and overhead line installations dovetail together. 6. To adapt to something; to fit in. Labels: intransitive Example: If I have a row with any fellow, he’s always the first to taunt me with being what he and his friends have made me. I don’t feel it so much now. I used to at first. One dovetails into all that sort of thing in time, and the edge of your feelings, as I may say, wears off by degrees.
Word: iridescently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English iridescent Middle English -ly English -ly English iridescently From iridescent + -ly. 1. In an iridescent manner.
Word: iridescence Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdɛs.əns/ 1. The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: poesy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English poesie (Middle English po(esie) + -esy), from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊɪzi/, /ˈpoʊɪzi/ 1. A poem. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The art or composition of poetry. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The class of literature comprising poems. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I know not well how to excuse him, in that hee deemed his Poesie worthy to be published. Example: We know a poetical young gentleman—a very poetical young gentleman. We do not mean to say that he is troubled with the gift of poesy in any remarkable degree, but his countenance is of a plaintive and melancholy cast, his manner is abstracted and bespeaks affliction of soul:[…]
Word: poesy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English poesie (Middle English po(esie) + -esy), from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊɪzi/, /ˈpoʊɪzi/ 1. To write or perform poetry. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: shimmer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/ 1. To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly. Labels: intransitive Example: 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare Example: The shimmering glimpses of a stream 2. Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
Word: shimmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/ 1. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining. Example: I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. Example: The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees. 2. A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time. Example: As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
Word: shimmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shim + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/ 1. A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
Word: iridesce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from iridescent. Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdɛs/ 1. To be iridescent; to exhibit iridescence. Labels: intransitive
Word: prismatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πρῑ́ω (prī́ō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek πρίσματος (prísmatos) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique French prismatiquebor. English prismatic Borrowed from French prismatique. Equivalent to prism + -atic. Pronunciation: /pɹɪzˈmætɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms. 2. Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.
Word: ireful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ireful; equivalent to ire + -ful. 1. Deeply angered but not outwardly displaying it; full of ire; angry; wroth. 2. Threatening to storm, or storming; louring or stormy. Example: ... ireful clouds collect in stern array, / And bursting thunders speak the mighty fray; Example: ... ireful crimson sky, as he gropes his broken way home after the trial.
Word: earworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ear + worm; senses 1 and 3 (“tune that keeps replaying in one’s head”; “earwig”) are a calque of German Ohrwurm (“tune that pops up in one’s memory all the time; earwig”) (from the idea of a creature burrowing into the ear, an erroneous belief where earwigs are concerned), while sense 2 (“moth larva”) refers to the fact that these pests infest, among other things, ears of maize or sweet corn. Pronunciation: /ˈɪəwɜːm/, /ˈɪ(ə)ɹˌwɚm/ 1. A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted. Example: The chorus [of "Meeting in the Ladies Room" by Klymaxx] spawned an earworm so potent that women still mutter it as they exit for a bathroom break twenty years later. Example: "It's been haunting me," she said. / "Yeah, well," he said, weakly. "Sometimes tunes do that." [...] "I don't mean that I heard it once before and caught an earworm. [...]" 2. Ellipsis of corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: I had planned in mind to tell you [...] how I protected, that is, guaranteed, Evergreen sweet corn against the bud worm and the ear worm; [...] Example: The number of bollworms or ear worms increases greatly as the season advances. This indicates a need for hastening the maturity of all crops affected. 3. An earwig; an insect of the order Dermaptera}}. Labels: archaic Example: Earwig, [...] The ear-worm or grub, a well-known insect, with large transparent wings, which eats fruit and flower-leaves, and has been erroneously supposed to creep into the human brain through the ear; [...] Example: Foreign Bodies in the Ear. [...] The ear-worm (forficula auricula), so much dreaded by people, occasions no special danger, but behaves in the ear in as harmless a manner as all other living animalcula of that calibre.
Word: irefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ireful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English irefulness From ireful + -ness. 1. The state of being ireful; anger; fury. Labels: uncountable
Word: irefully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ireful Middle English -ly English -ly English irefully From ireful + -ly. 1. In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
Word: drafter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From draft + -er. 1. A person who prepares technical drawings and plans. 2. A person who prepares drafts. Example: It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types. Example: Departmental drafters have done their best to explain in the June report what's happened, but obviously can't write about the politics that led to Golborne being dropped. Instead, they refer to the Government's Union Connectivity Review [...]. 3. A person who writes a legislative bill. Labels: US
Word: wrathfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English wrattheful English wrathful Middle English -ly English -ly English wrathfully From wrathful + -ly. 1. In a wrathful manner; with anger; angrily. Example: Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.
Word: irateness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English irate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English irateness From irate + -ness. 1. The state of being irate. Labels: uncountable
Word: crampon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French crampon. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæmpɑn/, /ˈkɹæmpən/ 1. An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice. 2. An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy. 3. A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.
Word: crampon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French crampon. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæmpɑn/, /ˈkɹæmpən/ 1. To walk or climb using crampons.
Word: MAC address Part of Speech: noun 1. Media Access Control address; a unique identifying number assigned to most network devices. Example: The MAC address substitution module then substitutes the source MAC address and the destination MAC address of the packet before it is forwarded into the interface port. The source MAC address is replaced by that of the output interface, and the destination MAC address is replaced by that of the immediate next hop (a router or the destination host). Example: Our analysis illustrates that MAC address randomization policies are neither universally implemented nor effective at eliminating privacy concerns.
Word: irately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irate Middle English -ly English -ly English irately From irate + -ly. 1. In an irate manner; angrily.
Word: irenics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English irenic Middle English -es English -s English irenics From irenic + -s. 1. Synonym of irenicism (“behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions”). Labels: uncountable
Word: stair-step Part of Speech: verb 1. To walk up a set of stairs as exercise. 2. To use a strategy for big city walking to avoid staying on the same street; it involves turning at a corner, walking to the end of the block, crossing the street, then repeating Example: I'm going to stair-step from East 3rd and 50th down to West 44th and Seventh Avenue.
Word: irenical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). 1. Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”). Example: [Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.
Word: ARP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of absolute refractory period. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 2. Initialism of Air Raid Precautions. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, dated, initialism, uncountable Example: The small white squares painted above the footboard at the ends of S.R. passenger coaches were a wartime addition to show that the lighting arrangements of vehicles so marked had been altered to conform to A.R.P. regulations.
Word: ARP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Address Resolution Protocol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: irenicon Part of Speech: noun 1. A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church. 2. The deacon's litany or great synapte at the beginning of the liturgy of the Orthodox Church.
Word: Address Resolution Protocol Part of Speech: name 1. The protocol used to translate IP addresses into MAC addresses to support communication on a LAN.
Word: irascibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irascible Middle English -ly English -ly English irascibly From irascible + -ly. See also -ibly. 1. In an irascible manner.
Word: irascibleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English irascible Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English irascibleness From irascible + -ness. 1. The state of being irascible; irascibility. Labels: uncountable
Word: irascibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin īrāscor (“to be angry, to be enraged”) + -ibility. See also irascible. Pronunciation: /ɪˌɹæsəˈbɪlɪti/, /aɪˌɹæsəˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The quality of being irascible; irritability of temper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One valid response to all this “you kids off my lawn” irascibility is that the questions in economics are hard – really, really hard.