nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dedicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: from Middle English dedicat(e) (“dedicated”, also used as the past participle of dedicaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. The nouns is derived through substantivization from Latin dēdicātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛdɪˌkɪt/ 1. One who dedicates themselves, or who is dedicated, to the service of some leader, religion, etc. Example: Glancing at the crowd of onlookers, she said, “I know that service at the dining hall will be over soon”—instantly a few dedicates and all of the novices hurried away—“and some of us here would like to prepare our own meal.” […] Out of sight of the dedicates, she climbed over the short fence and escaped to Winding Circle's biggest library. Example: Initiation—When a dedicate is seen on all levels to be learning and doing more as they participate in the circle and aids with rituals and/or divination, an initiation is decided on with the priest or priestess and dedicate.
Word: conclusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French conclusion, from Latin conclūsiō, from the past participle stem of conclūdere (“to conclude”), from con- + claudō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, conclude + -sion. Pronunciation: /kənˈkluːʒən/ 1. The end, finish, close or last part of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the end of the seventh hour, a flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest; […] Example: Some have recently questioned whether conclusion of a START treaty is a lower priority for the Bush Administration than conclusion of a conventional force in Europe (CFE) treaty or whether we want to delay START pending progress in CFE. 2. The outcome or result of a process or act. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A decision reached after careful thought. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders. Example: [I]n her boſome Ile vnclaſpe my heart, / And take her hearing priſoner with the force / And ſtrong incounter of my amorous tale: / Then after to her father will I breake, / And the concluſion is, ſhe ſhal be thine, [...] 4. In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. 5. An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [W]ee practiſe likewise all Concluſions of Grafting, and Inoculating, as well of VVilde-Trees, as Fruit-Trees, which produceth many Effects. 6. The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was determined, that though the fine operated at first by conclusion, and passed no interest, yet the estoppel should bind the heir 8. arrangement; settlement. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: speculation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English speculacioun, speculation, from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin speculātiō, speculātiōnem, from Latin speculor. Morphologically speculate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌspek.jəˈlæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts. Example: It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him. 2. The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [N]ear the Age of Socrates lived their Great and Renowned Confutius, who began the ſame Deſign, of reclaiming Men from the uſeless and endleſs Speculations of Nature, to thoſe of Morality. Example: To his speculations on these subjects he gave the lofty name of the "Oracles of Reason". 4. An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation. Example: Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be. 6. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The faculty of sight. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Thou hast no speculation in those eyes. 9. An act of looking at something; examination, observation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [T]he expression of exultation and content on their animated faces, is one of my most delicious speculations.
Word: pursuit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pursuyte, from Old French poursuite, from the verb porsuir (“to pursue”). Pronunciation: /pəˈsjuːt/, /pɜː-/, /-ʃuːt/, /pəˈʃʉwt/, /pɝˈsut/ 1. The act of pursuing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Unremitting pursuit of wealth doesn't bring happiness, particularly if successful. Example: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres. 2. A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. prosecution Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court.
Word: sarcophagus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Latin sarcophagus (“grave; sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from Ancient Greek σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (sărkophắgos, “sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”) (so named from λῐ́θος σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (lĭ́thos sărkophắgos, literally “flesh-eating stone”) a type of limestone found at Assos in Troas (now Behramkale, Turkey) thought to consume the flesh of corpses, and thus used to make coffins), from σαρκός (sarkós) (the genitive form of σάρξ (sárx, “flesh; body”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”)) + -φάγος (-phágos, suffix meaning ‘eater (of); eating’) (from ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to devour, eat”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot, distribute; to divide”)). The plural form sarcophagi is borrowed from Latin sarcophagī. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs/, /sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/ 1. To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1). Labels: transitive Example: All waiting: the new-coffined dead, / The handful of mere dust that lies / Sarcophagused in stone and lead / Under the weight of centuries: / Knight, cardinal, bishop, abbess mild, / With last week's buried year-old child. Example: Was it the Mummy of King Cheops—still sarcophagused in the labyrinthine recesses of the star-y-pointing Pyramid, to mock generations of Egyptologists, past, present, and to come—that had all at once found a tongue within his desiccated jaws?
Word: cartomancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carto- + -mancy. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹtəˌmænsi/ 1. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand. Labels: uncountable Example: These travelling magicians [...] rarely penetrated more deeply into magic than cartomancy, palmistry and the like.
Word: déjà vu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu (literally “already seen”), coined by Émile Boirac in Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 1876. Pronunciation: /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/ 1. The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Why did some déjà vus pattern or pulse at certain peak moments and not others? Example: He had to get back. Soon. All these déjà vus were killing him. 2. Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.
Word: déjà vu Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu (literally “already seen”), coined by Émile Boirac in Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 1876. Pronunciation: /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/ 1. To experience déjà vu; to see (something) as though having seen it before. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Still deja vuing, I said, “Jinx. You owe me a Coke.” Example: Trees looked familiar, moments of landscape were perfectly déjà-vued.
Word: Woop Woop Part of Speech: name 1. An extremely remote area, the middle of nowhere. Labels: Australia, informal Example: Thou froward varlet; must I say again, / That on the Woop Woop course he ran a mile
Word: FUD Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fʌd/ 1. Acronym of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, a marketing strategy involving the spread of worrisome information or rumors about a competitor. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory
Word: batting average Part of Speech: noun 1. A statistical estimation of the scoring ability of a batsman, equal to the total number of runs scored divided by the number of times out. 2. A statistical estimation of the hitting ability of a batter, equal to the number of hits divided by the number of official at-bats. Normally expressed as a real number instead of an average despite the name. Example: Jones has a .279 batting average.
Word: batting gloves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of batting glove Labels: form-of, plural, plural-normally
Word: batting order Part of Speech: noun 1. The sequence in which a side's batsmen go in to bat.
Word: bottom hand Part of Speech: noun 1. With a standard batting grip, the hand placed further down the handle of the bat; the batsman's dominant hand, providing most power to a shot. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bottom, hand.
Word: bottom order Part of Speech: noun 1. The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.
Word: harissa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic هَرِيسَة (harīsa). Pronunciation: /həˈɹɪsə/, /həˈɹiːsə/ 1. A North African spice mix, containing chillis, garlic and salt, used as both a condiment and an ingredient. Labels: uncountable Example: Another sauce, mainly used as a condiment, is harissa, made from pulverised chillies, garlic, salt and olive oil. Harissa is not generically Moroccan, but nevertheless is often found accompanying tajines and couscous. Example: Tunisians love spicy food and harissa is the main ingredient used to provide the heat.
Word: harissa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Armenian հարիսա (harisa), ultimately from Arabic هَرِيسَة (harīsa) and originally identical to Etymology 1 above. Pronunciation: /həˈɹɪsə/, /həˈɹiːsə/ 1. A traditional Armenian dish: a kind of porridge made of previously stewed and boned chicken and coarsely ground soaked wheat. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bowl out Part of Speech: verb 1. To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings. Example: They were bowled out for 181. 2. To dismiss or be dismissed bowled. 3. To overcome opposition from (a person); to remove out of one's way. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: At least once a year, I go to every grammar school in my constituency—with one exception where the headmaster has managed to keep me out, but I shall bowl him out this year.
Word: bowled out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bowl out Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bowled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bəʊld/, [bɒʊɫd], /bɒld/, /boʊld/, /bold/ 1. simple past and past participle of bowl Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bowled Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /bəʊld/, [bɒʊɫd], /bɒld/, /boʊld/, /bold/ 1. Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: a large brown-stemmed silver-bowled pipe 2. (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bowling average Part of Speech: noun 1. The number of runs conceded divided by the number of wickets taken, used as a statistic.
Word: bowling crease Part of Speech: noun 1. The white line marked at each end of the pitch through the wicket and ending at the return creases. When bowling the bowler's front foot must not cross this line until after the ball has been delivered.
Word: bowling figures Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of statistics listed for each bowler in a single innings:- number of overs bowled, number of maiden overs bowled, number of runs conceded and number of wickets taken. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Collectively the bowling figures for all the bowlers who bowled in an innings or match. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: bump ball Part of Speech: noun 1. A ball that bounces off of the pitch immediately after being hit by the bat, and goes up in the air. Example: The umpire believed, mistakenly, that it was a bump ball and Boucher was allowed to remain at the crease.
Word: bumper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English bump Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bumper From bump + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpə/, /ˈbʌmpəɹ/ 1. Someone or something that bumps. 2. A drinking vessel filled to the brim. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion. Example: Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […] 3. Anything large or successful. Labels: attributive, colloquial 4. Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender. 5. Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact. Example: The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet. 6. A bouncer. 7. A side wall of a pool table. 8. A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve. 9. A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements. 10. A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer. Labels: dated, slang 11. A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable. Labels: Caribbean, Jamaica, slang 12. An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra. 13. An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score. 14. A cigarette butt. Labels: Australia, slang 15. In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles. 16. A shoulder button on a gamepad. 17. Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
Word: bumper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English bump Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bumper From bump + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpə/, /ˈbʌmpəɹ/ 1. Wonderfully large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo, or successful in this regard. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: a bumper collection of silly jokes Example: What a bumper year for apples!
Word: bumper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English bump Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bumper From bump + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpə/, /ˈbʌmpəɹ/ 1. To drink from the vessels called bumpers. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: ghit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of Google + hit. Coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl. See the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪt/, /ˈdʒiːˌhɪt/, /ˈdʒiˌhɪt/ 1. Contraction of Google + hit, a hit obtained using the search engine Google. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction Example: Igry (1/2/3) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you've sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena, although it's still way behind plaatsvervangende schaamte and vergüenza ajena (not to mention verguenza ajena). Example: For me, though, the most important thing in his post is the neologism ghits. Now there's a word that fills a need! I don't know if this is Trevor's coinage, but it seems to be pretty new: "ghits" has 2380 ghits, at the moment, but all the 50 or so that I checked were programming language variable names, words in languages other than English, alternative spellings of "gits", or jokes like "ghits and siggles". Anyhow, I'm in Trevor's debt for the tip, and if he's the author, he deserves immortal renown. […] Update: it seems that Trevor is the responsible party. He's posted that / I am having 1,500 cards printed with "ghit = google hit © 2004 followthebaldie.com" and am going to flog them down the Ramblas this lunchtime. I am unsure as to whether this constitutes a business plan.
Word: Goldilocks planet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the children's story Goldilocks, in which one of the bowls of porridge the protagonist tries is neither too hot nor too cold, but just right. 1. A planet which orbits in the habitable zone around a star, where temperatures like those on Earth occur, allowing for the possible existence of liquid water and of life.
Word: blarney Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after a legendary magical stone in Blarney Castle, Ireland that gives the gift of eloquence. See also Blarney Stone. Pronunciation: /ˈblɑɹni/, /ˈblaːɹni/, /ˈblɑːni/ 1. Mindless chatter. Labels: uncountable Example: He is full of blarney. 2. Ability to talk constantly and fluently. Labels: uncountable 3. Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk. Labels: uncountable
Word: blarney Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after a legendary magical stone in Blarney Castle, Ireland that gives the gift of eloquence. See also Blarney Stone. Pronunciation: /ˈblɑɹni/, /ˈblaːɹni/, /ˈblɑːni/ 1. To beguile with flattery.
Word: poteen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish poitín (“little pot; poteen”), from pota (“pot”) (from Middle English potte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“type of vessel”)) + -ín (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /pəˈtiːn/, /pəˈtʃiːn/, /ˈpɒ.tiːn/, /-tjiːn/, /-t͡ʃiːn/ 1. Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. Labels: Ireland, countable, uncountable Example: The Irish peasantry practice the distillation of that illicit spirituous liquor, so well known by the name of poteen whiskey, with a most unaccountable infatuation. Example: [A] detachment, consisting of a subaltern’s party, was on its road to Head Quarters, from a still hunting in the mountains, or hostile excursion after contrabandists, or distillers of that delicious fluid, Potheen whiskey, […] It is related that when he [George IV of the United Kingdom] had drained the first glass that was presented to him, he declared that he could now understand why the Irish peasantry were willing to risk life and liberty in its illegal production—it was the real elixir vitæ—the only stuff fit to fuddle a prince with—royal in its flavor, royal in its odor, and super-royal in its effects! That Poteen! 2. An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey. Labels: Ireland, broadly, countable Example: Kildrumferton … Pop. 9,687 […] There are nine licensed public houses; poteens many more. Illicit distillation prevails to a very great extent, the district being rarely visited by the revenue police, not indeed for years past; the presence of the excise officer in a neighbouring town is the only check. Example: The whisky shops and poteens of Scotland and Ireland, the gin-palaces and beer-shops of England, are an incubus that is dwarfing the good in every section of the community, and forcing out the evil.
Word: logic fallacy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of logical fallacy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: precocious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin praecox (“premature, precocious, ripe before time, early ripe”), from praecoquō (“to ripen beforehand, ripen fully, also boil beforehand”), from prae (“before”) + coquō (“to cook, boil, ripen”). Doublet of apricot. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈkəʊʃəs/ 1. Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity. Example: The precocious plant was already blooming flowers by day 4. Example: Now those abominations whom you call precocious boys—your little pet monsters, doctor!—and who can wonder that the world is what it is? when it is full of them—as they will have no divine time to look back upon in their own lives, how can they believe in innocence and goodness, or be other than sons of selfishness and the Devil? 2. Exhibiting advanced skills and aptitudes at an abnormally early age. Example: The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four. Example: Mary: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious / If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious.
Word: mousetrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊsˌtɹæp/ 1. A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents. Labels: countable 2. A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Labels: Internet, countable 3. Ordinary, everyday cheese. Labels: UK, informal, uncountable 4. A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved. Labels: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable 5. An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Besides depth charges, they were armed with smaller forward firing antisubmarine rocket launchers called mousetraps. Fired in groups, these rockets detonated when they contacted a submarine.
Word: mousetrap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊsˌtɹæp/ 1. To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: He hoped to bring the rebels out of their trenches for a showdown battle somewhere south of the Wilderness, that gloomy expanse of scrub oaks and pines where Lee had mousetrapped Joe Hooker exactly a year earlier. 2. To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: The scammer is paid for each new visitor directed to his site. There is nothing wrong except that the user finds it impossible to leave the site because he is mousetrapped.
Word: galileo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named in honour of Galileo Galilei 1. The CGS unit of acceleration, equal to 1 centimetre per second per second (1 centimeter per second squared, 1cm/s^2). Symbol: Gal
Word: unequivocal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English equivocal English unequivocal From un- + equivocal. Pronunciation: /ʌnɪˈkwɪvəkəl/, /ˌʌnɪˈkwɪvəkəl/ 1. Unambiguous; without equivocation or ambiguity; singularly clear, unmistakable, or unquestionable Example: I want you to give me an unequivocal guarantee on that. Example: There exists no moral system under which there do not arise unequivocal cases of conflicting obligation. 2. Without equal, matchless. Labels: dated, possibly Example: the unequivocal scope of the Golden Gate Bridge
Word: surrogate mother Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman who gives birth to a child with the intent to give this child to at least one of the biological parents (not including herself, if she is one of them)
Word: affines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of affine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aerobeacon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- English beacon English aerobeacon From aero- + beacon. 1. A light used to warn aircraft away from tall structures.
Word: alopecoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -oid. 1. Similar to or resembling a fox. Labels: not-comparable
Word: alopecoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -oid. 1. An animal that resembles a fox. Example: In the smaller Alopecoids, such as C. zerda, the temporal ridges remain permanently separate, and inclose a wide lyrate sagittal area, the ridges themselves not being very strongly marked; […]
Word: amalgamated Part of Speech: adj 1. Combined from two or more entities into one specific entity whilst retaining the defining characteristics of the original source entities. Labels: not-comparable
Word: amalgamated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of amalgamate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ambivert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ambiversion, modelled after extrovert and introvert. By surface analysis, ambi- + -vert. Pronunciation: /ˈæmbɪvɜːt/, /-vəːt/, /ˈæmbəˌvɚt/ 1. A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each. Example: Many there are, as I have already shown, whose life can not be readily described by either the definitions of extroversion or introversion. [...] It is these I have called ambiverts. With them, extroversion or introversion are but passing states of mind, whereas with the extrovert extroversion is the dominant condition and with the introvert introversion is the dominant condition. Example: [‘]We are not in the same class, in more ways than one’ (laughing), ‘she's a little genius, I'm a plain American ambivert, but we are enrolled in the same Advanced French group [...].’
Word: alterity Part of Speech: noun 1. Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.
Word: boogie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbuː.ɡi/, /ˈbʊ.ɡi/ 1. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity. Labels: US, informal
Word: boogie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French bouger means to move as in a dance move. Pronunciation: /ˈbuː.ɡi/, /ˈbʊ.ɡi/ 1. A style of swing dance. Labels: informal 2. Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music. Labels: informal Example: Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie! 3. A large, organised skydiving event. Labels: informal 4. A black person. Labels: ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees, Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis
Word: boogie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: French bouger means to move as in a dance move. Pronunciation: /ˈbuː.ɡi/, /ˈbʊ.ɡi/ 1. To dance a boogie. Labels: intransitive Example: Don't you know I wanna boogie with you / Hey, I wanna boogie with you / Down on the corner Example: Mr. Nichols said that with permits, equipment storage fees and other expenses, it costs the association about $7,000 for a season of boogieing. 2. To dance, especially a vigorous, nightclub-type dance. Labels: broadly, intransitive 3. To move, walk, leave, exit. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Let's boogie on out of here. Example: Again, the entire line stopped, and again, by the time I got there the enemy had boogied, having accomplished their mission: to delay and harass us
Word: caffled Part of Speech: adj 1. tangled Labels: Pembrokeshire, UK, dialectal Example: That rope's all caffled.
Word: cacography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From caco- + -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie. Pronunciation: /kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/ 1. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously. Example: In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography. 2. Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. 3. Poor or illegible handwriting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes. Example: Germans write a "1" so it's easy to confuse it with a "7": mathematics and cacography can leave Margret and I not speaking to each other for a week.
Word: backorder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.? Proto-Germanic *baką Proto-West Germanic *bak Old English bæc Middle English bak English back English order English backorder From back + order. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk(ˌ)oɹdəɹ/ 1. An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again. Example: on backorder
Word: backorder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.? Proto-Germanic *baką Proto-West Germanic *bak Old English bæc Middle English bak English back English order English backorder From back + order. Pronunciation: /ˈbæk(ˌ)oɹdəɹ/ 1. To place such an order
Word: dorsal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English dorsal/dorsale, borrowing from Medieval Latin dorsālis (“of or relating to the back”), from dorsum (“the back”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to dorsum + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː.səl/, /ˈdɔː.sl̩/, /ˈdɔɹ.səl/ 1. With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. 2. With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. 3. Having only one sharp side. 4. Relating to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf. 5. Relating to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
Word: dorsal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English dorsal/dorsale, borrowing from Medieval Latin dorsālis (“of or relating to the back”), from dorsum (“the back”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to dorsum + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː.səl/, /ˈdɔː.sl̩/, /ˈdɔɹ.səl/ 1. A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc. Example: Near-synonyms: altar screen, rood screen (not always different) 2. Any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales. 3. A sound produced using the dorsum of the tongue.
Word: ecky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First syllable of ecstasy, + -y. 1. The drug ecstasy. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Afterwards, Tom wanted to drive home. Francoise said he was in no state to. Tom said that he always drove home from clubs, and that the ecky wouldn't impair his driving. Example: Penman and I have taken half an ecky each, but mair coke would be sound.
Word: chevage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old French chevage, from chief (“head”) + -age. 1. A capitation tax; an equal tax or tribute per person.
Word: choss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A colloquial form of chaos. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɒs/ 1. Rock that is unsuitable for rock climbing, e.g. because it is too soft, unstable, or overgrown. Labels: uncountable 2. chaos Labels: informal, uncountable Example: One's for ever in a state of choss or chassis and I hate it. Example: With a 'begging your pardon, miss,' to a stoically resigned Elstow, he went on, 'I take the mum and dad back to Paphos for a month, and when I gets back, the office is in a right state of choss. A right boss-eyed state of choss.'
Word: preternatural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From preter- + natural, after Latin prēternātūrālis/praeternātūrālis, from praeter nātūram, from praeter (“beyond”) + nātūra (“nature”); compare supernatural. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiː.təˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə)ɹ.əl/, /ˌpɹi.tɚˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə)ɹ.əl/, /ˌprɛdərˈnætʃ(ə)rəl/ 1. Beyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange. Example: I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation. Example: Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian […] 2. Having an existence outside of the natural world. Labels: dated Example: Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event. Example: Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short-paced donkey, [...]
Word: bbiab Part of Speech: phrase 1. Be back in a bit. Labels: Internet Example: The baby's crying. I'll bbiab.
Word: clerk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clerc, from Old English clerc, from Late Latin clēricus (“priest, clergyman, cleric”, also generally “learned man, clerk”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”, adj. in church jargon), from κλῆρος (klêros, “lot, inheritance”, originally “shard used in casting lots”). Doublet of cleric. Compare typologically Russian дьяк (dʹjak) (akin to дья́кон (dʹjákon)). Pronunciation: /klɑːk/, /klɝk/, /klɐːk/, /klɜːk/ 1. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. Example: As office boy I made such a mark That they gave me the post of a junior clerk. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well. 2. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. 3. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. 4. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. 5. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. 6. A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs. Labels: Quakerism 7. In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk and Bible clerk). Labels: archaic Example: God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, amen. 8. A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number). Labels: dated 9. A scholar. Labels: obsolete Example: 13th century, Traditional carol, And all was for an appel, an appel that he toke/As clerkès finden written in their boke.
Word: clerk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clerc, from Old English clerc, from Late Latin clēricus (“priest, clergyman, cleric”, also generally “learned man, clerk”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”, adj. in church jargon), from κλῆρος (klêros, “lot, inheritance”, originally “shard used in casting lots”). Doublet of cleric. Compare typologically Russian дьяк (dʹjak) (akin to дья́кон (dʹjákon)). Pronunciation: /klɑːk/, /klɝk/, /klɐːk/, /klɜːk/ 1. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk. Example: The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer. Example: He turned to a more attentive audience, and found it in the young fellow they called The Iceman, because he clerked in the swell jewelry store around the corner, and was always there with the finger advertisement for his boss’s diamondware. 2. To assemble information about a patient during their initial assessment by actions such as a taking a detailed medical history and performing a physical examination. Example: The best preparation for the long case is to clerk patients on the wards and in outpatients within a strict 60 minutes. This would include deciding on a policy of management. Example: You should present a case you have clerked to a doctor (registrar or consultant) and discuss your choice of investigations and management.
Word: Meaco Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 都 (miyako, “capital”), as the city was formerly the capital of Japan. 1. A late medieval name for Kyoto, a city of Japan. Example: So on the thriteenth of June in the Year 1585, having reciv'd theſe ſeveral Bounties, and Benedictions from his Holineſs, they departed, and travelling through Italy and other Lands, much toſs'd and turmoil'd by Sea, ſpending five years abroard, they Landed at Nangeʃaque in Japan, and from thence went directly to the Emperors Court at Meaco. Example: The greateſt and wealtheiſt ſtands divided into three and fifty Provinces, or petty Kingdoms, the chief City call'd Meaco, gives in denomination to that Iſle. 2. The entire island of Honshu, of which it was the capital. Labels: broadly
Word: deicide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Merged from Medieval Latin deicīdium and Medieval Latin deicīda. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.saɪd/, /ˈdiː.ɪ.saɪd/, /ˈdi.ə.saɪd/, /ˈdeɪ.ə.saɪd/ 1. The killing of a deity; godslaughter. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The killer of a deity. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The crucifixion of Jesus, viewed as a crime. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Herzegovina Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ker-der. Proto-Indo-European *kóryos Proto-Germanic *harjaz Proto-West Germanic *hari Proto-Indo-European *dewk-? Proto-West Germanic *togō ▲ Ancient Greek στρατηγός (stratēgós)calq. Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō Old High German herizogo Middle High German herzog German Herzogbor. ▲ Middle High German herzogbor. Hungarian hercegbor. Serbo-Croatian herceg Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Serbo-Croatian -ov Proto-Indo-European *-iHneh Proto-Balto-Slavic *-īˀnāˀder. Proto-Slavic *-ina Serbo-Croatian -ina Serbo-Croatian Hercegovinabor. English Herzegovina A direct borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Hercegovina, from German Herzog (“duke”) + Serbo-Croatian -ov (possessive suffix) + Serbo-Croatian -ina (feminine suffix). Thus meaning, a Duke's possession, a dukedom. Pronunciation: /ˌhɜːtsəˈɡɒvɪnə/, /ˌhɜɹtsəɡoʊˈviːnə/ 1. A historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Word: fizzy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fizz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fizzy From fizz + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪzi/ 1. Containing bubbles. Example: Fizzy drinks are also known as carbonated beverages. 2. Lively, vivacious. Labels: figuratively Example: [I]ts main character, Henry (Mr. [Ewan] McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. 3. Makes a hissing sound. Labels: onomatopoeic
Word: fizzy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fizz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fizzy From fizz + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪzi/ 1. A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: hopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈhɔp.ə/, /ˈhɑ.pɚ/ 1. One who or that which hops. 2. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. Example: ...forming the bottom of the hopper, in combination with the recriprocating longitudinal movement of the same, for the purpose of regulating the feed from the hopper, substantially as herein set forth. 3. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. 4. A bin or device that feeds material into a machine. Example: Having thus fully described my improved winnowing machine, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is in the forming of a series of shoulders one above another on the inclined board, forming the bottom of the hopper,... 5. Any of various insects known for hopping, especially a grasshopper or locust, the immature form of a locust, or the larva of various flies and beetles. Example: I went over and found the mealies and ground covered with large hoppers, about two weeks old. Example: “And the next year the hoppers came. The sky was so dark with them we had to light the lamps at midday.” 6. An artificial fishing lure. Example: To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface. 7. A toilet. Labels: slang Example: The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […] 8. An escapement lever in a piano. 9. The game of hopscotch. Labels: obsolete 10. A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically. 11. A hopper car. 12. A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece. Example: The Leo, Pao (or Cannon, a piece from Chinese chess) and Vao (Z.Mach FCR 1940) are hybrid hoppers that move like a queen, rook or bishop and capture along these lines like a lion. 13. A person or machine that picks hops.
Word: hopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa), from Tamil ஆப்பம் (āppam). Doublet of appam. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈhɔp.ə/, /ˈhɑ.pɚ/ 1. A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast. Example: Hoppers come in different varieties and can be sweet or savoury, while an egg hopper has an egg in the middle added during cooking.
Word: impugn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impugner, from Latin impugnō, from im- + pugnō (“fight”), from pugnus (“fist”), as in English pugilism (“fighting with fists, boxing”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpjuːn/ 1. To assault, attack. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of; cast doubt on. Labels: transitive Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:impugn. Example: [The fact] that Americans’ trust in government is at historic lows […] makes it easier for politicians to impugn the system – courts, parties, and institutions.
Word: blackleg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From black + leg. 1. A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax. Labels: uncountable 2. A disease of potato crops caused by pectolytic bacteria, characterized by blackening and decay of the lower stem portion. Labels: uncountable 3. A disease of brassicas caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans Labels: uncountable 4. A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker. Labels: countable Example: [H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing. Example: [Y]our friend Bloundell-Bloundell is a professional blackleg, and travels the Continent, where he picks up young gentlemen of fashion and fleeces them. 5. A person who takes the place of striking workers. Labels: countable Example: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time. Example: It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.
Word: blackleg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From black + leg. 1. To continue working whilst fellow workers strike. Example: Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
Word: dip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from dippy. Pronunciation: /dɪp/ 1. A foolish person. Labels: informal Example: A commander tells the soldiers, "We're going on a 5 mile run". And some dip asks, "Do we have to bring our kitbags?" At which point, the answer is yes. It wouldn't have been if the soldier hadn't asked the question.
Word: dip Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪp/ 1. Initialism of device-independent pixel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: dip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortenings. Pronunciation: /dɪp/ 1. A diplomat. Labels: informal 2. A diaper; diap, dipe. Labels: informal, uncommon