nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ake Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Māori ake. Pronunciation: /ɑːˈkeɪ/ 1. forever Labels: New-Zealand, not-comparable Example: The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever." Example: That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish.
Word: aked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: akes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ake Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: aking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ake Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: infiltrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English infiltrate (adjective), from Medieval Latin infiltrātus, from infiltrō. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfɪltɹeɪt/, /ˈɪnfəltɹeɪt/, /ɪnˈfɪltɹeɪt/ 1. To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The spy infiltrated the high-tech company and stole many secrets. Example: Caithness was infiltrated with a palpable sense of being underimagined. 2. To cause to penetrate in this way. Labels: transitive Example: The agency infiltrated several spies into the company. 3. To pass through something by filtration. Labels: ambitransitive 4. To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration. Labels: transitive 5. To invade or penetrate a tissue or organ. Labels: ambitransitive Example: High-grade tumors often infiltrate surrounding structures. Example: In certain conditions, immune cells may infiltrate into the cerebrospinal fluid. 6. To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line. Labels: transitive 7. To move from a vein, remaining in the body. Labels: intransitive
Word: infiltrate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English infiltrate (adjective), from Medieval Latin infiltrātus, from infiltrō. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfɪltɹeɪt/, /ˈɪnfəltɹeɪt/, /ɪnˈfɪltɹeɪt/ 1. Any undesirable substance or group of cells that has made its way into part of the body. Example: One critical distinction to make is whether a focal corneal infiltrate is infected with bacteria or is a sterile immunologic response. Example: Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.
Word: mashed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /mæʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of mash Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mashed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /mæʃt/ 1. Broken up into a pulpy state. Example: mashed potatoes 2. intoxicated Labels: informal
Word: mass media Part of Speech: noun 1. Collectively, the communications media, especially television, radio, and newspapers, that reach the mass of the people. Labels: plural, plural-normally
Word: matched Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /mætʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of match Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: matched Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mætʃt/ 1. Ellipsis of matched grip. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Word: accourts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accourt Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accourting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accourt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accourted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accourt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: accouters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accouter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accoutering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accouter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accoutered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accouter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: accoying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accoy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accoyed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accoy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: accoys Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accoy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accresces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accresce Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accrescing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accresce Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accresced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accresce Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: capsizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of capsize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: capsizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of capsize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: capsizing Part of Speech: noun 1. An overturning of a boat etc.
Word: capsized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of capsize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reorganize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der. Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor. Latin organum Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izō Medieval Latin organizārelbor. Middle French organiserbor. Middle English organizen English organize English reorganize From re- + organize. 1. to organize something again, or in a different manner Labels: transitive 2. to undergo a reorganization Labels: intransitive
Word: salon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon. Pronunciation: /ˈsælɒn/, /səˈlɑn/, /səˈlɔn/ 1. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests. 2. A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting. 3. An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon. Example: Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus. 4. A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Word: consul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English consul, from Old English consul, from Latin cōnsul. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.səl/, /ˈkɑn.səl/ 1. Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires. Labels: historical 2. Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804. Labels: historical 3. A count or earl. Labels: obsolete 4. A councillor Labels: historical, obsolete 5. A councillor Labels: historical, obsolete 6. A councillor Labels: historical, obsolete 7. An official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country. Labels: broadly 8. A high government official, generally either a coruler himself or a counsellor directly under the ruler. Labels: obsolete Example: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators. Example: And many of the Conſuls, rais'd and met, Are at the Dukes already.
Word: incarnate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ate. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.neɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːnət/ 1. Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified. Labels: not-comparable Example: Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Example: 1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History He […] represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. 2. Flesh-colored; crimson. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Yards of Turkey silk incarnate.
Word: incarnate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1533; borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.neɪt/, /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/ 1. To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form. Labels: intransitive Example: For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare. Example: Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche. 2. To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise). Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter. 3. To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: My uncle Toby’s wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much—he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate. 4. To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of. Labels: transitive Example: This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired. 5. To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Truly, that special world presented itself to me as the arena of my perceptual activity and therefore as the world of my first reading. The texts, the words, the letters of that context were incarnated in a series of things, objects, and signs. Example: Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated. It is incarnated in real (not ideal) relations and actual (physical) terms, each of which exists in relation to each other, reciprocally determining each other.
Word: incarnate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English carnate English incarnate From in- + carnate. 1. Not in the flesh; spiritual. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.
Word: xerox copy Part of Speech: noun 1. A xerox; a photocopy. Labels: Philippines, US, slang Example: Bring a xerox copy of your driver's licence. 2. something exactly the same as something else Labels: Philippines, slang
Word: Ephesians Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /əˈfiʒənz/ 1. The tenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Ephesus which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.
Word: Ephesians Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈfiʒənz/ 1. plural of Ephesian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polycythemia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + -cyte + -emia, with /θ/ for euphony; akin to poly- + -cyte + hem- + -ia; morphologically parallel with erythrocythemia. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒlɪsaɪˈθiːmɪə/ 1. A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: relative clause Part of Speech: noun 1. A subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes a whole statement; in English, it may be introduced by a relative pronoun (sometimes optional) such as that, which or who. Example: Near-synonyms: (dated, deprecated) adjective clause, adjectival clause, attributive clause
Word: paternalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English paternal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English paternalism From paternal + -ism. Pronunciation: /pəˈtɜːnəlɪzəm/, /pəˈtɝnəlɪzəm/, /pəˈtɜː.nəlɪzəm/, /pəˈtøː.nələzəm/ 1. The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control. 2. The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: choke the chicken Part of Speech: verb 1. To masturbate by stimulating one's penis. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: "This is where I choke the chicken," Giddy told him with a grin. "You know. Shake hands with the milkman." Dave cringed and looked around the room at the posters of half-naked women.
Word: chief executive officer Part of Speech: noun 1. The highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis; CEO.
Word: wind-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from wind up. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪndˌʌp/ 1. The end or conclusion of something. Example: Everyone is invited to our end-of-term wind-up party. Example: The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take. 2. The punch line of a joke or comedy routine. 3. A humorous attempt to fool somebody; a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue. Labels: UK Example: "Is this a wind-up, or what?" "No, no, it's true. He can really do it." 4. The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball. Example: He's into his wind-up. Here comes the pitch. Strike on the inside corner! 5. A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
Word: wind-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from wind up. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪndˌʌp/ 1. Of a machine, requiring winding up in order to function. Labels: not-comparable Example: Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.
Word: stereognosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós) Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der. English stereo- Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder. Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)der. English gnosis English stereognosis From stereo- + gnosis. 1. The ability to perceive the form of an object by using the sense of touch. Labels: uncountable
Word: pot calling the kettle black Part of Speech: noun Etymology: There are two interpretations of this phrase, though some sources give only the first interpretation. In the first interpretation, it refers to the fact that both cast-iron pots' and kettles' bottoms turn equally black when hung over a fire, and thus the pot is accusing the kettle of a fault it shares. In the second (unlikely) interpretation, the pot is sooty (being placed on a fire), while the kettle is clean and shiny (being placed on coals only), and hence when the pot accuses the kettle of being black, it is the pot’s own sooty reflection that it sees: the pot accuses the kettle of a fault that only the pot has. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒt ˈkɔːliŋ ðə ˈkɛtl̩ ˈblæk/, /ˈpɑt ˈkɔliŋ ðə ˈkɛtl̩ ˈblæk/ 1. A situation in which somebody comments on or accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares. Labels: idiomatic Example: I think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black when she says he is obsessive.
Word: fill someone's shoes Part of Speech: verb 1. To do (somebody's) job; to perform or assume (somebody's) role. Labels: idiomatic Example: I don't think anyone could ever fill her shoes, doing all she does. Example: You have some very large shoes to fill. I hope you know that.
Word: hold someone's hand Part of Speech: verb 1. To grasp or hold a person's hand. Labels: literally 2. To guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details. Labels: idiomatic Example: I'll give you advice on writing an article, but I won't hold your hand through the entire process.
Word: take someone's word for it Part of Speech: verb 1. To believe a person's claim, especially without personal verification. Labels: idiomatic Example: I can't really check on that, so I'll have to take your word for it.
Word: on the fly Part of Speech: adv 1. While in the air, without having touched the ground. Labels: not-comparable Example: Jones caught the ball on the fly. 2. Spontaneously or extemporaneously; done as one goes, or during another activity. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: The software program has a table of values for some results, but calculates others on the fly. Example: The only process that yields problem-solving on the fly is experiential. 3. On the move. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye. The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly. Danger is his business.
Word: chowder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably borrowed from French chaudière, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Related to English cauldron. Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaʊdɚ/ 1. A thick, creamy soup or stew. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: fish chowder 2. A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Alternative spelling of jowter. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: chowder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably borrowed from French chaudière, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Related to English cauldron. Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaʊdɚ/ 1. To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder. Labels: transitive
Word: mop the floor with someone Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of wipe the floor with someone. Labels: slang
Word: not be caught dead Part of Speech: verb 1. To refuse completely to do something, generally out of scorn. Labels: idiomatic Example: I would not be caught dead in such a skimpy dress.
Word: skimpy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From skimp + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪmpi/ 1. Small or inadequate; not generous; diminutive. Example: They served a pretty skimpy portion of ice cream as the free birthday dessert. Example: He was of a pallid complexion, hair of a kind of dirty fairness, greyish eyes, and a skimpy, immature moustache under his peaked indeterminate nose. 2. Very small, light, or revealing. Example: Have you ever seen such a skimpy bikini? Example: The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; he carried his powerful torso thrown forward; […] 3. Wearing skimpy clothing; scantily clad.
Word: skimpy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From skimp + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪmpi/ 1. A barmaid who wears little clothing. Labels: Australia, Western Example: It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies. Example: For an anthropological experience, the front bar at the Exchange Hotel provides a window into some locals′ lives at all hours of the day, with skimpies, TV sports and mine workers chain-drinking.
Word: doo-wop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by DJ Gus Gossert in the 1970s, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is onomatopoeic, representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre. 1. A style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that was mostly popular within Black Americans of African descent in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s that is best characterized by nonsensical backing vocals with very little to no instrumentation. Labels: uncountable Example: The R&B groups possessed a grittiness and soulful earnestness that was soon to be emulated by street-corner doo-wop groups, some of whom would achieve commercial success with instrumentally arranged hit records.
Word: doo-wop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined by DJ Gus Gossert in the 1970s, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is onomatopoeic, representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre. 1. To perform music in this style. Labels: intransitive
Word: montane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”). Synchronically, it can be seen to have the suffix English -ane (variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Montānus is derived from mōns (“mount, mountain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnteɪn/, /mɑnˈteɪn/ 1. Of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline. Example: This plant evidently occupies, like V. sabulosa and V. Curtisii, an intermediate position between lutea and tricolor; and, as I have indicated already, it is a montane, not an agrestal plant. Jordan compares it to V. vivariensis, which is also a montane plant, between V. tricolor and V. lutea. Example: [T]he upper part of these peaks is very bare and monotonous, and almost destitute of damp precipice; and I know of only seven Montane species that grow there above 650 yards.
Word: montane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”). Synchronically, it can be seen to have the suffix English -ane (variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Montānus is derived from mōns (“mount, mountain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnteɪn/, /mɑnˈteɪn/ 1. An animal or a plant of a montane habitat. Example: The true Montanes comprise those species, of unmistakably Alpine, Scottish, or Highland type, which not merely with us but elsewhere throughout Britain are characteristic of high latitudes and altitudes—of mountain regions only. Example: The wintergreens, and northern montanes such as Linnaea have their stronghold in these pinewoods and some of their rarity may be due to the reduction in the extent of the forest.
Word: airt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scots airt. 1. To guide; to direct. Labels: Scotland
Word: airt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots airt. 1. direction; quarter Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: He looked the airt the rain was coming from, and he saw it was the airt the Sker flowed.
Word: crosstalk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross- + talk. Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng). 1. Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I couldn't hear the opening address because of all the crosstalk around me. 4. A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sharing resources for mutual benefit: crosstalk between disciplines deepns the understanding of mycorrhizal symbioses.
Word: crosstalk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cross- + talk. Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng). 1. To hold an incidental conversation
Word: airts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of airt Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: airting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of airt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: airted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of airt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: airmails Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛə.meɪlz/ 1. The items of mail conveyed using aircraft. Labels: colloquial, plural, plural-only
Word: airmails Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɛə.meɪlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of airmail Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: airmailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of airmail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: airmailed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of airmail Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: airlifted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of airlift Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: airlifted Part of Speech: adj 1. Having been the subject of an airlift. Labels: not-comparable
Word: airlifting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of airlift Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: airlifts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of airlift Labels: form-of, plural
Word: airlifts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of airlift Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: aiming Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.mɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of aim Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: aiming Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.mɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who aims. Example: The aimings after the impossible, represented by the Uniformity Act of 1549, had failed […]
Word: aimed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /eɪmd/ 1. simple past and past participle of aim Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: aimed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /eɪmd/ 1. Directed towards a target. Labels: not-comparable
Word: aims Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /eɪmz/ 1. plural of aim Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aims Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /eɪmz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of aim Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ails Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /eɪlz/ 1. plural of ail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ails Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /eɪlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ail Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ailing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/ 1. An ailment. Example: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
Word: ailing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of ail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ailing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/ 1. Sickly; sick; ill; unwell. Example: She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out. Example: Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet.
Word: ailed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /eɪld/ 1. simple past and past participle of ail Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: aiding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of aid Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: aiding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who aids or assists. Example: aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind
Word: aided Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.dɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of aid Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: confounding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of confound Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: confounding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing. 1. The act by which things are confounded, or confused. 2. The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor. Example: Confounding is defined as the confusion or distortion of measures of association between exposure and outcome as a result of third (or more) variable(s).
Word: confounding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing. 1. Confusing, bewildering, baffling or perplexing. Example: We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…] Example: But, Lord my God, help me so to remember that thou mayest forget them ; so to charge them upon myself, that thou mayest never lay them to my charge ; so to keep them before my eyes, to abase and humble my soul, that thou mayest hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities ; especially those that are so confounding and terrible to my thought.
Word: confounds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of confound Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: confounds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of confound Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clipped Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /klɪpt/ 1. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back. Labels: not-comparable 2. With each word pronounced separately and distinctly. Labels: not-comparable 3. Circumcised. Labels: not-comparable Example: After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him, […]
Word: clipped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /klɪpt/ 1. simple past and past participle of clip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: co-opt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin cooptō (“to choose, elect”), from co(m)- + optō (“to opt”). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊˌɒpt/, /ˈkoʊˌɑpt/ 1. To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. Labels: transitive 2. To commandeer, appropriate or take over. Labels: transitive Example: Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated. 3. To absorb or assimilate into an established group, movement, category, etc. Labels: transitive Example: In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos. Example: Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: nearly seven meandering, episodic minutes of unlikely chord changes […]
Word: crop circle Part of Speech: noun 1. An area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape, performed as a prank or sometimes ascribed to UFO activity etc.
Word: riddled Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdəld/ 1. Damaged throughout by holes. Labels: also, figuratively Example: When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written". 2. Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation. Example: The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud. Example: Riddled with guilt for having failed to oppose the project, Zac sacrifices himself by driving the truck into the lab, detonating the explosives at the same time as the Effect reoccurs. 3. Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation. Example: a hole-riddled sweater Example: They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
Word: riddled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdəld/ 1. simple past and past participle of riddle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pooier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of pooey: more pooey Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: redshift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From red + shift. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌʃɪft/ 1. An increase in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a lower frequency and a shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: redshift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From red + shift. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌʃɪft/ 1. (ergative) (said of light or a photon) To shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum; to change to a longer wavelength and a lower frequency.
Word: aguise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a- + guise; compare disguise. Pronunciation: /əˈɡaɪz/ 1. To dress; to array. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight About her neck
Word: aguise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + guise; compare disguise. Pronunciation: /əˈɡaɪz/ 1. Clothing, dress. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The glory of the Court, their faſhions, / And brave agguize with all their Princely ſtate, / Which Poets or Hiſtorians relate / This farre excels, farther than pompous Court / Excels the homelieſt garb of Country rate: […]
Word: aguising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of aguise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: aguised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of aguise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: aguised Part of Speech: adj 1. Dressed. Labels: obsolete Example: Faire sonne, God giue you happie chance, / And that deare Crosse vpon your shield deuizd, / Wherewith aboue all knights ye goodly seeme aguizd.
Word: aguises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of aguise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mystified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mystify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mystified Part of Speech: adj 1. puzzled or confused Example: 'Do I happen to have it for disposal?' repeated Mr Carlyle in a slightly mystified tone. 'I thought you would have read that the coin has been stolen. […]'
Word: aguing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ague Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agued Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ague Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agued Part of Speech: adj 1. Afflicted with ague. Labels: not-comparable
Word: agues Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ague Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: in the nuddy Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Naked or nude Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, childish Example: He was on a favourite topic of his and he was reminding her, during their Sunday afternoon stroll, that Australia had borrowed a lot. "We have lived on borrowed money. We still live on it," he said. "Most of the things we have we obtained by borrowed money. The very clothes you are wearing are bought with borrowed money!" he exclaimed. There was a pause, and the charming unbeliever looked up into his eyes. "But what are we to do? Am I to go round in the nuddy?" And his world crashed down around him. Example: It got a lot hotter than that some times. We used to swim in this lake in the nuddy. I learned to swim in the lake. It was all bush all around, beautiful park. All parks all around, all bush. We’d swim in the nuddy.
Word: baitware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English bait Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English baitware From bait + -ware. 1. Freeware of deliberately poor quality with some, but generally not all, of the features of a software application, intended to entice those who download the freeware to buy the complete application. Labels: uncountable
Word: sandlapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Upon visiting Columbia/Lancaster, SC, in 1791, George Washington is said to have called the people living on the sands near the river shores sandlappers. An alternative etymology is that the word was used before and during the American Revolution by the British and the residents of the Carolina coast to refer to residents of the river-bottoms and more generally of the back country and piedmont areas of South Carolina. The word originally had a pejorative connotation, not unlike hillbilly. 1. A native of South Carolina.
Word: louer Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete typography of lover. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: acrolect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acro- (“tip; peak”) + -lect, coined by William Alexander Stewart in 1965. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.ɹə.lɛkt/ 1. The variety of speech that is considered most suitable for formal occasions (typically using only standard forms). Example: In one dimension change is directed toward the acrolect, the “typical” change in the creole continuum. Example: At the other end of the continuum is the most standard speech, the acrolect. In between is a gradient of forms with many successive levels, the mesolects.
Word: sucking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsʌkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of suck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sucking Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsʌkɪŋ/ 1. An act of sucking. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A sound or motion that sucks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sucking Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈsʌkɪŋ/ 1. Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling. Labels: archaic, not-comparable 2. Young and inexperienced. Labels: archaic, broadly, figuratively, not-comparable Example: Rather a shy place for a sucking county member, ay, Pynsent?
Word: -dom Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-West Germanic *-dōm Old English -dōm Middle English -dom English -dom From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz. Cognate with Scots -dom (“-dom”), North Frisian -dom (“-dom”), West Frisian -dom (“-dom”), Dutch -dom (“-dom”), Low German -dom (“-dom”), German -tum (“-dom”), Danish -dom (“-dom”) -dømme (“-dom”), Swedish -dom (“-dom”) -döme (“-dom”), Norwegian -dom (“-dom”), Icelandic -dómur (“-dom”), Norwegian Bokmål -dømme, Norwegian Nynorsk -døme. Same as Old English dōm (“doom, judgment, sentence, condemnation, ordeal, judicial sentence, decree, ordinance, law, custom; justice, equity; direction, ruling, governing, command; might, power, supremacy, majesty, glory, magnificence, splendor, reputation, honor, praise, dignity, authority; state, condition”). No relation to English domain or dominion. More at doom. Pronunciation: /-dəm/ 1. Forms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable Example: boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom 2. Forms nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable Example: Christendom, fiefdom, Hindudom, Islamdom, kingdom, Saxondom 3. Forms nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable Example: catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom Example: It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom. 4. Forms nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word. Labels: countable, morpheme, slang, uncountable Example: Potterdom, stfdom
Word: -dom Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French dominantbor. English dominantclip. English -dom From dom, shortening of variously domination, dominance, or dominator. Pronunciation: /-dɒm/, /-dɑm/ 1. Forms uncountable nouns denoting a type of domination. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable 2. Forms countable nouns denoting a type of dominator. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable
Word: Jacobs Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz/ 1. An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jacob. 2. A place in the United States: 3. A place in the United States: 4. A place in the United States:
Word: Jacobs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang - Jacob's Cream Crackers (a brand of crackers) = knackers Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz/ 1. Testicles. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only, slang Example: He has also provided some of the show's funniest moments - when enjoying a bath with Three Degrees star Sheila Ferguson he told her: 'I'm comfortable with anything, love, but you don't want to see my 'Jacobs' hanging out.' Example: I used to have a Velo seat, which is pretty similar to the KH in design, and I got rid of it for the same reason. The padding was so deep and spongey that my Jacobs used to float to the top as I rode along.
Word: swim the Tiber Part of Speech: verb 1. To convert to Catholicism. Labels: intransitive
Word: agrises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agrise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: agrising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of agrise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agrised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of agrise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agonises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agonise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: agonizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agonize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: agonising Part of Speech: adj 1. Causing agony; very painful Example: agonising desperation Example: agonising pain
Word: agonising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of agonise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agonising Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of agonizing. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: agonised Part of Speech: adj 1. Experiencing agony
Word: agonised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of agonise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agonise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of agonize. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: abjurations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of abjuration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: awent Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of ago Labels: form-of, past
Word: agoing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English going English agoing From a- + going. 1. present participle and gerund of go Labels: archaic, dialectal, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agone Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + gone, see ago. 1. Alternative form of ago. Labels: Northern-England, alt-of, alternative, archaic, dialectal, not-comparable Example: Three days agone I fell sick. Example: And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone, / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.
Word: agitates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agitate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: agists Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agist Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: agitating Part of Speech: adj 1. That agitates
Word: agitating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of agitate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of agist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agisted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈdʒɪstɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of agist Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: agisted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈdʒɪstɪd/ 1. That has been put out to pasture (of an animal), especially on hired land not belonging to the animal's owner. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: ‘Them Brooks have got your old place now,’ she said to Annabelle. ‘They got cattle agisted on Verbena.’
Word: males Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /meɪlz/ 1. plural of male Labels: form-of, plural
Word: accoll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English acolen, from Old French acoler (whence modern French accoler), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”). 1. To embrace; cling to. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thrice raught I with mine arms to accoll her
Word: wildebeests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wildebeest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neenish tart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. The oldest known reference is a September 1895 advertisement in the Sydney Sunday Times for Nenish cakes. Derivation from a German or Viennese German word has been suggested, and the early spellings nienich (1935) and nenische (1959) appear consistent with a German origin, but the "very English" spelling neenish has been common since even earlier, being in a January 1903 recipe in the Launceston Daily Telegraph, a May 1924 Melbourne Argus article, and a 1929 cookbook by Lucy Drake, suggesting the Germanic spellings may have developed later to give the dish a Continental feel. A popular claim that the tarts were first made by a Ruby Neenish in Grong Grong, New South Wales circa 1913, when she ran low on cocoa preparing for an unexpected shower tea and made do with half-chocolate/half-white icing, was a hoax. 1. A small tart with a pastry base and gelatine-set cream filling, covered with icing in two colours, half and half. Labels: Australia Example: She had thought of a neenish tart but then wondered if the filling might run. Example: “See if Mrs Clarke would like a neenish tart.”