nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Buffyverse Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔil- Biblical Hebrew אֵל (el) Biblical Hebrew נִשְׁבַּע (nishbá) Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ)bor. Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet)der. Middle English Elizabeth English Elizabeth English Buffy English -verse English Buffyverse From Buffy + -verse. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌfiˌvɝs/ 1. The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Labels: slang Example: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse. Example: 2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46, In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome.
Word: trifoliate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: tri- (“three”) + Latin foliātus (“leaved”) Doublet of tréflé. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈfəʊlɪət/ 1. Having or comprising three leaves, or (loosely) trifoliolate (with three leaflets) or having leaves with three parts, as the clover plant. Labels: not-comparable 2. Comprising, abounding with, or featuring trefoils. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trifoliate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: tri- (“three”) + Latin foliātus (“leaved”) Doublet of tréflé. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈfəʊlɪət/ 1. A trifoliate plant
Word: circumcised Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a man, having had the foreskin of the penis excised. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a woman, having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised. Labels: not-comparable
Word: circumcised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of circumcise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: circumcised Part of Speech: noun 1. A circumcised person. Example: From far to near from near to far the circumciseds' sistrum Example: 2018 Michael Burteaux, Academia.Edu and ResearchGate.Net It also indicates some protection of the circumciseds against syphilis and gonorrhoea but they are more prone to genital warts.
Word: excise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ 1. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year. Example: 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise", A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
Word: excise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ 1. To impose an excise tax on something.
Word: excise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/, /əkˈsaɪz/ 1. To cut out; to remove. Example: [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver. Example: 1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion, In revising the book I […] have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
Word: exodus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs Proto-Hellenic *eks Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἐξ- (ex-) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos)der. Latin exodusder. English exodus From Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos. From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksədəs/, /ˈɛɡzədəs/ 1. A sudden departure of a large number of people. Example: There were no less than three exodi from Egypt. The first was the one just named, viz: the expulsion of two hundred and forty thousand Cuthites by Halisphragmuthosis; this occurred about two hundred years before the entrance of the Israelitish shepherds into Egypt. The second exodus was that of this once holy people, under the guidance of the Almighty, through his servant Moses, the account of which we have in profane history, substantiated in the minutest particulars by the sacred writings given us through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which protected and preserved the race. But the third is not so generally known. Example: Now if, as we have seen good reason for believing, the documents were composed within forty or fifty years after the leaving of Egypt, it is hard to believe that their authors should have been so confused and so forgetful that they confounded two city-lands so distinct and separate as Goshen and Raamses, and were ignorant as to which was really the Israelite habitat when in Egypt. There suggests itself at once the hypothetical question, Were there two exodi, one from Raamses and the other from Goshen? […] Only on the hypothesis of two exodi, one to the south, the other to the north, do the two accounts of the route out of Egypt become explainable.
Word: exodus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs Proto-Hellenic *eks Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἐξ- (ex-) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos)der. Latin exodusder. English exodus From Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos. From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksədəs/, /ˈɛɡzədəs/ 1. To depart from a place in a large group. Labels: transitive
Word: thunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By analogy with past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk and sunk. Pronunciation: /θʌŋk/ 1. past participle of think Labels: form-of, humorous, nonstandard, participle, past Example: Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie? Example: A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.
Word: thunk Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /θʌŋk/ 1. Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
Word: thunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /θʌŋk/ 1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound. Example: I was thunked on the head by his stick.
Word: thunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”). Pronunciation: /θʌŋk/ 1. A delayed computation. Example: Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number[…]. 2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments. 3. A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module. Example: If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.
Word: thunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”). Pronunciation: /θʌŋk/ 1. To delay (a computation). Labels: transitive Example: Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number, and the more complex the thunked expression, the more space it needs. For something cheap such as arithmetic, thunking an expression is more computationally expensive than calculating it immediately. 2. To execute (code) by means of a thunk. Labels: transitive Example: This efficiency is offset by the fact that some of the calls made by Win32 apps must now be thunked down to 16 bits, something that isn't necessary in Windows NT and OS/2.
Word: metamorphosise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English spelling of metamorphosize. Labels: nonstandard Example: In The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner describes how dancing, accompanied by drumming, was a very common method (...) in traditional societies for a person to metamorphosise into a bird or other animal. Example: It was funny to consider what things in life inspired a person to suddenly metamorphosise into something else.
Word: metamorphosize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English metamorphose Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English metamorphosize From metamorphose + -ize. 1. To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose. Labels: nonstandard Example: "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."
Word: ghost imaging Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of creating a ghost image of all the contents of a hard drive as a backup that may be stored and later retrieved if needed. Labels: uncountable
Word: Pleiades Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”). Pronunciation: /ˈplaɪ.əˌdiːz/, /ˈpliː.əˌdiz/, /ˈpleɪ.əˌdiz/, /ˈplaɪ.əˌdiz/ 1. The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione. Labels: Greek, plural, plural-only 2. An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The Pleiades and Hyades are sometimes spoken of as constellations, but this is a mistake; they are integral parts of Taurus.
Word: Pollux Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Pollūx, from Ancient Greek Πολυδεύκης (Poludeúkēs). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒləks/, /ˈpɑləks/ 1. One of the Dioscuri, son of Zeus and Leda, brother of Castor. Labels: Greek 2. A star in the constellation Gemini; beta (β) Geminorum.
Word: kos Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of coss. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: executrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English executrice, executrix (“female executor; administrator of the law; wielder of fate”), from Medieval Latin execūtrīx (possibly through Anglo-Norman *executrice) from execūtor, exsecūtor (“accomplisher, performer; prosecutor, revenger”), + Latin -trīx (suffix forming feminine agent nouns). Exsecūtor is derived from Latin exsequor (“to follow after thoroughly, pursue persistently; (figurative) to execute, perform; to pursue with vengeance, avenge”) (from ex- (intensifying prefix) + sequor (“to follow, pursue”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”))) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). By surface analysis, execute + -trix (suffix forming feminine agent nouns). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛkjuːtɹɪks/, /ɛɡ-/, /ɪɡˈzɛkjətɹɪks/, /ɪɡˈzɛkjuːtɹɪˌsiːz/, /-sɪz/ 1. A female person who executes or carries out something. Labels: archaic, rare Example: My deere he ſayes, vvho vnder golden haire / And vvith a looke ſo delicate in ſhovv, / Doth aged vvit, and manly ſtomacke beare: / […] / VVeaue thou the vveb begun by my deuice, / Of vvarie age as bold executrice. // Goe to the en'mies Campe, and there employ / Ech vvomans vvile, vvhich loue may ſerue to flocke, […] Example: [A]s for Paracelſus his conceit that Giants and Nymphs vvere artificially born, that he ſayes is falſe: For the firſt ought to be born vvithout humane Art: and that they uſed Art to the generation of men, and not Nature ſeems uncertain & falſ, unleſſe the intelligences, the executrices of Gods providence have uſed this Art in ſome Region; […] 2. A female person appointed to execute the wishes of a deceased person as stated in their will; a female executor. Labels: specifically Example: And fewe [wives] there be that be not made at the death of their huſbandes either ſole or chiefe executrixes of his laſt wil and teſtament, and haue for the moſt part the gouernement of the children and their portions: […] Example: A female […] at ſeventeen may be executrix; and at tvventy one may diſpoſe of herſelf and her lands. 3. A dominatrix who acts a fantasy of killing her client. Labels: rare Example: The fact that a Google search for “Femdom Executrix” yields over 2,000 results for online videos is proof enough that the erotic death fantasy is an aspect […]
Word: Iain Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic. Cognate of John; see there for more. 1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, equivalent to English John.
Word: Adigoppula Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Palnadu district, India.
Word: ice kachang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ice + Malay kacang (“red bean”), the latter spelled in pre-1972 spelling. 1. A dessert made from crushed ice with syrup and jelly poured on top. Labels: Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable Example: ONE ICE KACHANG FIVE SPOONS PLEASE Ice Kachang is something children in Singapore love, especially to cool off in the hot humid weather of Singapore. It is made up of ice shavings and boiled sweetened red beans and green jelly and sweet syrup drips on the mountain of ice shavings. Example: Another favourite is 'Ice Kachang' (a dessert made from ice shavings combined with various syrups and fruits). The ice kachang man would wait outside schools with his push cart and the contraption which could shave the ice blocks.
Word: ice milk Part of Speech: noun 1. A dessert that resembles ice cream but is made of milk rather than cream. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ice needle Part of Speech: noun 1. a small crystal of ice floating in the high atmosphere; a constituent of snow mist
Word: Antares Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Antares, from Ancient Greek Ἀντάρης (Antárēs, “rival to Ares”). Pronunciation: /ænˈtɛəɹ.iːz/, /ænˈtɑːɹ.iːz/, /ænˈtɛɹ.iz/, /ænˈtɑɹ.iz/ 1. Alpha Scorpii (α Sco), the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a M type red giant, and is a binary with a B type companion visible in greenish.
Word: ice nucleus Part of Speech: noun 1. a small atmospheric particle, around which an ice crystal grows
Word: ice-out Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ice + out. 1. The annual thawing of winter ice on a body of water.
Word: Alrisha Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الرِّشَاء (ar-rišāʔ, literally “the cord, rope”). 1. A binary star in the constellation Pisces; alpha (α) Piscium.
Word: ice pack Part of Speech: noun 1. A large floating mass of ice; pack ice. 2. A pack of crushed ice applied to the body in order to reduce pain or inflammation. 3. A plastic sac of silicone that can be cooled in a freezer and then used in a cool bag, cool box or cooler; a freezer block.
Word: Zubenelgenubi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic الزُّبَانَى الْجَنُوبِيّ (az-zubānā l-janūbiyy, “the Southern Claw”). Pronunciation: /ˌzuːbənˌɛl.d͡ʒəˈnu.bi/ 1. A binary star in the constellation Libra; alpha (α) Librae.
Word: Zubeneschamali Part of Speech: name Etymology: Arabic الزُّبَانَى الشَّمَالِيّ (az-zubānā š-šamāliyy, “the Northern Claw”). Pronunciation: /ˌzuːbənˌɛʃəˈmeɪli/ 1. The brightest star in the constellation Libra; beta (β) Librae.
Word: East Indies Part of Speech: name Etymology: From east + Indies, a qualification added to distinguish the original lands and islands of "India" (inclusive of areas from Subsaharan Africa to Indonesia and Japan) from the "West Indies". 1. Southeast Asia, especially Island Southeast Asia or Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago, from the Philippines to Indonesia. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: East Indies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of East Indie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interplant distance Part of Speech: noun 1. Standard distance between individual plants placed in an ordered garden or field. Example: The optimum interplant distance for crops depends on the species.
Word: ecologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From eco- + -logic. 1. Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
Word: Ruritania Part of Speech: name Etymology: Used by Anthony Hope as a setting for his novels. 1. A fictional kingdom in Central Europe. 2. A place of adventure, romance, and intrigue. Labels: broadly
Word: rupia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥυπία (rhupía), from ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːpi.ə/ 1. An ulcer due to syphilis.
Word: rupia Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːpi.ə/ 1. The former currencies of Italian Somaliland and Portuguese India. Labels: historical
Word: freaky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From freak + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.ki/ 1. Resembling a freak. 2. Odd; bizarre; unusual. Labels: slang Example: I've heard the props and costumes in this play are quite freaky. 3. Scary; frightening. Labels: slang Example: Have you met the freaky new guy who moved in next door? 4. Sexually deviant or overly sexual. Labels: slang Example: The things she asked me to do were too freaky for me. Example: GCN was prevented from covering the hearing by a police officer outside the building, who said that he would not allow representatives of "freaky" press inside. 5. Sexually deviant or overly sexual. Labels: predicative, slang
Word: Hyades Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Hyades, Yades, from Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hū̆ắs, “one of the Hyades”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ədiːz/ 1. Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades. Labels: Greek 2. An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth. Example: The Pleiades and Hyades are sometimes spoken of as constellations, but this is a mistake; they are integral parts of Taurus. Example: An early Grecian gem shows three nude figures, hand in hand, standing on the head of the Bull, one pointing to seven stars in line over the back, which Landseer referred to the Hyades.
Word: stave off Part of Speech: verb 1. To prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert. Labels: idiomatic Example: He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office. Example: [Enid] answer'd with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously, […]
Word: DS Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of drug susceptible or drug sensitive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: DS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of double strength. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, countable, initialism, uncountable, usually 2. Initialism of Down syndrome. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of Douglas Score (point ranking for deer antlers). Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Clipping of Nintendo DS. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable Example: It's been rumored for months, but Square Enix finally made it official: Kingdom Hearts is coming to DS. Example: If you make a shark that looks like a kid caught with a DS under the pillow at 2 AM choose violence, you asked for it in everything but writing. 6. Clipping of DS Automobiles. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable 7. Initialism of directing staff. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable 8. Initialism of disjunctive syllogism. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for ‘There is no option available to God that counters F.’ With this in place, the argument may be formalized as follows: (1) [(p & q) & r] → s Premiss (2) ~s Premiss (3) ~[(p & q) & r] 1, 2 MT (4) ~(p & q) v ~r 3 DM (5) r Premiss (6) ~(p & q) 4, 5 DS (7) ~p v ~q 6 DM (3) follows from the conjunction of (1) and (2) by modus tollens; De Morgan’s law applied to (3) yields (4); (4) and (5) together lead to (6) by disjunctive syllogism; and another application of De Morgan’s law takes us from (6) to the final conclusion, according to which either God exists or there is free will (but not both). 9. Initialism of dal segno. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of dear/darling son. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: You can get the general idea from a recent comment in response to a request from a mother for advice on where to send her DS (Darling Son) to school. 11. Alternative form of D/s. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 12. Initialism of decision science. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: DS Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Discord. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: directeur sportif Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French directeur sportif. 1. The manager of a cycle racing team.
Word: pochtecatl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl pōchtēcatl (“merchant, trader”). 1. A trader in the Aztec Empire. Labels: historical
Word: feed zone Part of Speech: noun 1. A designated place along the course of a bicycle race where it is permitted for the riders to receive food and energy drinks from their team support personnel. 2. The portion of a device in which material that is input through a feed tube or other portal accumulates before processing. Example: Thus the base of the effective reservoir is placed at 1500m depth, the actual location of the deepest major feed zone. Example: Pressure readings are taken downhole next to the feed zone and the total flow is measured on the surface using a separator.
Word: Proto-Greek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- English Greek English Proto-Greek From proto- + Greek. 1. The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects. Labels: uncountable
Word: Protogreek Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Proto-Greek. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: protohellenic Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- English Hellenic English protohellenic From proto- + Hellenic. 1. Proto-Greek.
Word: common ancestor Part of Speech: noun 1. An ancestor that two or more descendants have in common. Example: The monarchs of Spain and the UK have a common ancestor namely Queen Victoria. Example: The chimpanzee and the gorilla have a common ancestor.
Word: ice palace Part of Speech: noun 1. A temporary structure, similar to a small palace or castle, made from blocks of ice.
Word: ice pick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of icepick. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ice plant Part of Speech: noun 1. A succulent annual, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, of the fig marigold family, having pale pink flowers and fleshy leaves covered with glistening water vesicles. 2. Any of several plants in fig marigold family, Aizoaceae, which were formerly classified in the genus Mesembryanthemum along with Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. 3. Any of several plants in fig marigold family, Aizoaceae, which were formerly classified in the genus Mesembryanthemum along with Mesembryanthemum crystallinum.
Word: ice racing Part of Speech: noun 1. the sport of racing cars or other vehicles on frozen lakes or rivers Labels: uncountable
Word: ice rink Part of Speech: noun 1. A specially frozen surface of water on which people skate or play ice hockey; the building that houses such a surface.
Word: icerink Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ice rink. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ice scour Part of Speech: noun 1. A narrow ditch on a seabed, formed by the movement of pack ice.
Word: pack ice Part of Speech: noun 1. A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...]. Example: […] the sea ices: pack ices, ice floes, ice rinds, ice hummocks ...; the coastal ices, fast ice, shore ices, glacial-ice, tongues, ice piedmonts; […]
Word: sea ice Part of Speech: noun 1. Frozen seawater. Labels: uncountable
Word: in common Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Possibly a calque of French en commun. Compare Italian in comune, Spanish en común and Portuguese em comum. 1. Shared with one or more others. Example: My cousin and I have a grandfather and grandmother in common. 2. Held in joint possession. 3. Possessing similar or identical qualities. Example: I hate being alone with my boss as we have nothing in common. Example: Brittany is a relatively barren and sparsely populated land, and had it not been for tourists, the fishing and the cultivation of potatoes, the life of the people would have been hard indeed. It has, in fact, much in common with Western Ireland.
Word: ice scraper Part of Speech: noun 1. a handheld tool for removing ice from car windows etc
Word: rickettsiae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rickettsia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sycomore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Obsolete spelling of sycamore that hearkens closer to the word's Greek roots. Some writers have used the more Hellenic sycomore when referring to the Biblical tree to distinguish it from other trees now called sycamore. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkəmɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A type of fig, Ficus sycomorus, native to the Middle East; the sycamore tree of the Bible. Example: And the king made siluer to be in Ierusalem as stones, and Cedars made he to be as the Sycomore trees, that are in the vale for abundance. Example: The Sycomore was and is one of the common trees of Egypt, and its wood was employed for the manufacture of mummy cases, and for doors, boxes, and all articles of furniture. […] So valuable was this tree that David appointed a special overseer “over the olive trees and sycomore trees that were in the low plains” (1 Chron. xxvii. 28) […]
Word: rickettsia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Rickettsia (genus name), from Howard Taylor Ricketts, equivalent to Ricketts + -ia. 1. Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice, that cause typhus and other diseases. 2. Any bacterium of the order Rickettsiales. Labels: informal
Word: petabyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English peta- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt Proto-Germanic *bītaną Proto-West Germanic *bītan Old English bītan Middle English biten English bite English byte English petabyte From peta- + byte. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/ 1. One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes. 2. A pebibyte. Labels: informal Example: As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies. At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. Example: The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte^([sic]) (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.
Word: Nicolaitanism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Nicolaite Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Nicolaitan 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 Nicolaitanism From Nicolaitan + -ism. 1. The beliefs of the Nicolaitans, an early Christian group or sect. Labels: uncountable
Word: sociology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834, itself a combination of Latin socius (“companion, fellowship”) and the Greek suffix Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía), itself from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, knowledge”), from socio- + -logy. Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics. Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒləd͡ʒiː/, /ˌsəʊʃiːˈɒləd͡ʒiː/, /ˌsoʊsiˈɑləd͡ʒi/, /ˌsoʊʃiˈɑləd͡ʒi/, /ˌsoʊsiˈɒləd͡ʒi/ 1. A social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture. Through both theory and applied research, it engages subject matters across a range of microanalysis, mesoanalysis, and macroanalysis. Example: Maisie says that Danny entered the manosphere through the realm of self-help, which Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociology professor at American University who specializes in extremism, says is “a great example of how radicalization works.”
Word: Nicholaitan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Nicolaitan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: quaere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪəɹi/ 1. To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt. Example: Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube? Example: Now, she cannot express her emotions fully: Quaere: will she feel them fully?
Word: quaere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪəɹi/ 1. A question or query. Labels: archaic Example: Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many places all at one time,—he could not have […] started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him.
Word: heretike Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of heretic. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The examination of Iohn Iackeson, had before Doct. Cooke, the xi. day of March. Anno.1556. FIrst when I came before him, he rayled on me, and called me heretike. I aunswered and saide: I am no heretike. Example: nicholaitan, (g) an heretike, like Nicholas, who helde that wiues ſhould bee common to all alike.
Word: Nicolaitan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Nicolaite Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Nicolaitan From Nicolaite + -an. Pronunciation: /nɪ.kəˈleɪ.ɪ.t(ə)n/ 1. A member of an early Christian sect (Nicolaism), said to participate in certain pagan ceremonies. Example: nicholaitan, (g) an heretike, like Nicholas, who helde that wiues ſhould bee common to all alike. Example: But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which also I hate....So hast thou also them that hold to the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.
Word: Pinkerton Part of Speech: name Etymology: Habitational surname from a place near Dunbar, from an unexplained first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure”). This surname is well established in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋkətən/, /ˈpɪŋkɚtən/ 1. A habitational surname from Old English.
Word: Pinkerton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Habitational surname from a place near Dunbar, from an unexplained first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure”). This surname is well established in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋkətən/, /ˈpɪŋkɚtən/ 1. An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884). Labels: countable, dated Example: My heart wells up in admiration of the man, as I think of his participation in the memorable struggle of Homestead. He fought the Pinkertons, the myrmidons of Capital. Example: He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton.
Word: Sasha Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from the Slavic diminutive form of Alexander and Alexandra; in English mostly from Russian Са́ша (Sáša), a diminutive form for both Алекса́ндр m (Aleksándr, “Alexander”) and Алекса́ндра f (Aleksándra, “Alexandra”). 1. A male given name from Russian or Ukrainian. 2. A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
Word: Sasha Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the ending of Natasha, but likely influenced by the Slavic diminutive form of Alexandra. 1. A diminutive of the female given name Natasha. Example: The engagement is announced between Seth, son of Mrs Renate Forsyth, of Jacobstow, Cornwall, and the late Mr Neil Gale, of Wimbledon, London, and Natasha (Sasha), daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis Hussey, of Pease Pottage, West Sussex, formerly of Hereford. Example: In one bus was none other than Sen. Barack Obama, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, his wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Malia, 9, and Natasha “Sasha”, 7.
Word: full nelson Part of Speech: noun 1. A hold in which the wrestler applying the hold puts their arms under the armpits of their opponent and applies pressure to the back of their opponent's head or neck. Example: With the quickness of a striking rattler he launched himself full upon Sabor’s back, his strong young arms seeking and gaining a full-Nelson upon the beast, as he had learned it that other day during his bloody, wrestling victory over Terkoz. Example: Bouncers had kids in full nelson headlocks as we were rushed out the side door because we were told it was too dangerous. The place was a mess; it was a total riot. 2. A sex position where one partner penetrates the other from behind while holding up the recipient's legs.
Word: concubinage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin concubīnuslbor. French concubin Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Middle French -age French -age French concubinagebor. English concubinage Borrowed from French concubinage. 1. The state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being or keeping a concubine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The existence of concubinage among rulers, and members of upper classes, lead us to think that the ideal of womanhood prevailing among the people could not have been very high.
Word: brainbuster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brain + buster. 1. A move in which the wrestler drops the opponent on the head to the mat. 2. Something that requires much thought or is difficult to figure out.
Word: half nelson Part of Speech: noun 1. A hold in which the wrestler applying the hold puts one arm under the arm of the opponent and applies pressure to the back of the opponent's head or neck.
Word: monkey flip Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki flɪp/ 1. A move in which a wrestler takes his opponent and flips that person over his head.
Word: monkey flip Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki flɪp/ 1. To perform a monkey flip on. Labels: transitive Example: Rappers; I monkey flip 'em with the funky rhythm / I be kickin', musician inflictin' composition
Word: Tinker Part of Speech: name 1. A northern English surname originating as an occupation for someone who mends pots and pans.
Word: epistemological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English epistemology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English epistemological From epistemology + -ical. Pronunciation: /ɪˌpɪstəməˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/, /ɪˌpɪstəməˈlɑd͡ʒəkəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study. Example: The epistemological position of Ritschl, in our author's exposition of it, is little more than idealistic rationalism. Example: In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.” 2. Synonym of epistemic (“of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired”). Example: The reality which thus emerges is the outcome of the epistemological process in which the mind conceptually structures a given content.
Word: mindless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind + -less. Pronunciation: /maɪnd.ləs/ 1. Showing a lack of forethought or sense. 2. Having no sensible meaning or purpose. Example: An act of mindless violence. Example: “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship. 3. Heedless. Example: Near-synonyms: unmindful, absent-minded, thoughtless 4. Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation. Example: Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull 5. Lacking a mind. Example: Near-synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient Example: Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.
Word: tinker, tailor Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of choosing between two or more people or things, used by children. The child points to each item in turn (or alternately), while saying the rhyme "tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief", moving to the next item after naming each profession. The item pointed at on the word 'thief' is the one chosen. Labels: uncountable
Word: USAC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of USA Cycling, the National Governing Body (NGB) for cycling in the United States. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Acronym of United States Auto Club, a sanctioning body for automobile motorsports in the United States of America. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of 3. Initialism of Utah State Agricultural College. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: counting-out game Part of Speech: noun 1. A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.
Word: archaeon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Scientific Latin, corresponding to a singular form of Archaea. 1. A prokaryotic organism; a member of the domain Archaea Example: Then, the theory goes, a rogue archaeon gobbled up a bacterium to create an entirely new type of cell that would go on to form the basis of all complex life on Earth, from plants to humans.
Word: archeo- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of archaeo-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: Irani Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Iranian Persian ایرانی (irâni) (ērānī in classical Persian). 1. relative to Iran and its people Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable
Word: Irani Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Iranian Persian ایرانی (irâni) (ērānī in classical Persian). 1. a person from Iran or of Iranian heritage Labels: nonstandard 2. A member of the smaller of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.
Word: urbanise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From urban + -ise. 1. Alternative spelling of urbanize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: capitalise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard Example: One of the remotest Cambridgeshire stations is enjoying an uplift in business from commuters capitalising on its cheaper park-and-ride benefits, as an alternative to Ely.
Word: burglarise Part of Speech: verb 1. Rare spelling of burglarize. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: creolise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Portuguese crioulobor. Spanish criollo French créolebor. English Creole English creole English -ise English creolise From creole + -ise. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːəlaɪz/ 1. Alternative form of creolize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gallicise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of gallicize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: milk-tooth Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of milk tooth. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Sammi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Respelling of Sammy. 1. A female given name, diminutive of Samantha.
Word: bergshrund Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Bergschrund. 1. A large crack or crevasse in a glacier where the glacier is pulling away from the mountain. Example: The snow was extremely hard and there was a well defined path all the way up to the bergshrund. Example: By this time the cloud had rolled in once more and we stopped on the lip of a bergschrund and around 6730 m.
Word: discharged Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪsˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/, /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒd/ 1. simple past and past participle of discharge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bull ring Part of Speech: noun 1. The area in which bullfighting takes place. 2. An unusually short track, typically six furlongs or less for one lap. Labels: US 3. A corral wherein horses are exercised and riders trained. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang 4. A nose ring intended to be worn by cattle.
Word: flivver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, early 20th c.. A book titled "At the Front in a Flivver" was published in 1917. Cartoonist Tad Dorgan in 1919 claimed to have created the term in his comic strip Judge Rummy. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪv.ɚ/, /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/ 1. An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, dated Example: Billy being too poor to own a car, had hired a cheap flivver for the day, and was purposely ten minutes behind the time, but to his disgust found the procession not yet started. Example: Shortly after daylight a procession of mule-drawn waggons, broken-down flivvers, and buggies begins wheeling in from the countryside ... 2. An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, dated 3. A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons. Labels: US, derogatory, historical, slang
Word: flehm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from German flehmen. 1. To exhibit the flehmen response, i.e., to draw back the lips, allowing scent to reach the Jacobson’s organ, an auxiliary olfactory organ found in many animals. Labels: intransitive
Word: flehm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German flehmen. 1. Alternative form of flehmen. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Betawi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Betawi. Doublet of Batavia and Passau. 1. A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century. Example: While he is now revered as a local and national hero of the Betawi, according to older legends he was in fact a Sundanese who came to Batavia from Cirebon.
Word: Betawi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Betawi. Doublet of Batavia and Passau. 1. The native language of the Betawi people.
Word: Ade Part of Speech: name Etymology: The surname derives from medieval forms of Adam or Adrian. 1. A surname transferred from the given name. 2. A male given name. Labels: rare
Word: FTW Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Initialism of for the win. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Right, and the fact that I ran winXP every day eight hours a day for three years running without the system locking up once means nothing. That said, Linux FTW!
Word: FTW Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of fitness to work. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: FTW Part of Speech: intj 1. Initialism of fuck the world: an antisocial slogan. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang, vulgar 2. Initialism of forever two wheels: a biker slogan. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Example: "Most people," John said, "think it means 'Fuck the world.' But to a real biker, it means 'Forever two wheels'."
Word: FTW Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of for those wondering. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: smaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of smoke + haze. 1. Smoky haze in the air. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: squatter camp Part of Speech: noun 1. A settlement of makeshift shacks. Labels: South-Africa
Word: hudnah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hudna. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hudna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic هُدْنَة (hudna, “calm, quiet”). 1. truce, armistice, cease-fire 2. a pause to regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next fight
Word: rabbet plane Part of Speech: noun 1. A rebate plane.
Word: buffalo berry Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of buffaloberry. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rabbit ear Part of Speech: noun 1. The bunny cactus (Opuntia microdasys), which has erect, flat branches covered prominently with bristles.
Word: rabbit moth Part of Speech: noun 1. The southern flannel moth, Megalopyge opercularis.
Word: rabbit ear mite Part of Speech: noun 1. A parasite, Psoroptes cuniculi, that causes cheyletiellosis and psoroptic mange in rabbits.