nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ticket-of-leave Part of Speech: noun 1. A permit once granted to convicts allowing them to leave prison under certain circumstances; used especially of convicts transported to the British colonies Example: 1893:The prosecutrix was the wife of a ticket-of-leave man, named Daniel Jackson, and she was also separated from her husband, and lived for some time with a man named Clarke, who died on the day before the alleged robbery was committed. Clarke left a will bequeathing all his property to the prosecutrix, who, immediately on his death, possessed herself of sixty pound in money which was in his box, which she rolled up and placed in her bosom. Prosecutrix shortly after missed the money but could not account how it had parted from her, and the warrant for £30, and bank-note for £20, laid in the indictment, was part of the money so lost. The prosecutrix admitted, that both before, at the time, and some time after she missed the money, she was overcome with grief and brandy, but she could not say which of these acted most strongly. R v Smith. https://web.archive.org/web/20060918213824/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1838-39/html/r_v_smith__no_2___1839.htm Example: And as they sat snuggled up together at the far end of the table, talking to one another in low voices, and staring at me from time to time as if I had been a ticket-of-leave man who had got in by crashing the gate and might be expected, unless carefully watched, to pocket a spoon or two, it was not long before I, too, left.
Word: homousious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμοούσιος (homooúsios), from ὁμός (homós) + οὐσία (ousía) + -ος (-os). 1. Of one nature with God.
Word: gigglesome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From giggle + -some. 1. Characterised or marked by giggling. Example: And I ran across one the other day, "gigglesome." "The children were so gigglesome," which I think is just wonderful. Example: The phone rang constantly and long gigglesome conversations took place on it.
Word: Dixie Part of Speech: name Etymology: First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪksi/ 1. The Southern United States, especially the former Confederate States. Labels: US, informal Example: The American Blacks' bias against gays is due to our forced socialization into Dixie Christian culture during slavery. 2. The southwestern corner of Utah. Labels: US, informal 3. A female given name transferred from the place name. Labels: US 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States: 19. A number of places in the United States: 20. A number of places in the United States: 21. A number of places in the United States: 22. A neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. 23. A rural locality in the Shire of Cook, northern Queensland, Australia. 24. A locality in the Shire of Corangamite, south western Victoria, Australia.
Word: dead link Part of Speech: noun 1. An HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable. Labels: Internet
Word: rational egoist Part of Speech: noun 1. an advocate of rational egoism
Word: dead leg Part of Speech: noun 1. A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury. Example: I kneed you, I said, and I gave him a dead leg. Example: Knowing all this it can still take you by surprise, like a dead leg or a sudden punch to the solar plexus. 2. Alternative form of deadleg (isolated section of pipe with no outflow). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: However, care has to be taken to prevent oily material congealing on the walls of pipes, tanks, pumps and other equipments where there are points of restrictions as valves, bends or dead legs. Example: Supply and return lines should not contain dead legs. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, leg.
Word: fundie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of fundamentalist + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌn.di/ 1. A fundamentalist Christian. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Some fundies are picketing at the capitol. 2. A religious fundamentalist of any faith. Labels: broadly, derogatory, slang Example: He's a Jewish fundie, keeps everything really kosher.
Word: allelopathic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English allelo- Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -pathic English allelopathic From allelo- + -pathic. 1. relating to an allelopathy Labels: not-comparable
Word: allelopathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English allelo- Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ieder. Middle English -ie Middle English -y English -y English -pathy English allelopathy From allelo- + -pathy. Pronunciation: /ˌæləlˈɒpəθi/ 1. The release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants. Labels: uncountable
Word: resaca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish resaca, probably from resacar (“retake”), though possibly from rio seco (“dry river”) instead. 1. A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas and deep into northeastern portions of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Example: The road lay over dark resacas and running streams, where volcanic rocks rose above each other^([sic]), and every detour might have been made a fortress. Example: Here and there along the river-bottom, or along the sloughs or “resacas” are found, as Mr. Schwarz has elsewhere stated, “isolated stripes of larger or smaller extent, covered with a dense forest having a thick undergrowth of varied shrubbery and a rich vegetation of lower plants, the like of which is not seen in any other place in southwestern Texas.” 2. A small body of water. Labels: Texas
Word: unhealthful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + healthful. 1. Not promoting health; detrimental to health. Example: An unhealthful diet and lack of exercise are common causes for heart disease.
Word: astonishingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English astonishing Middle English -ly English -ly English astonishingly From astonishing + -ly. 1. In an astonishing manner; so as to surprise or astonish. Example: Famous hotels, for instance, are astonishingly commonplace. 2. Very; remarkably used as an intensifier. Example: The advertisements made the place look promising, but the food was astonishingly bad. Example: “Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote.
Word: TNF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of tumor necrosis factor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: selma'o Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Lojban selma'o. Pronunciation: /selˈma.ho/ 1. A set of cmavo (“structure words/particles”) which are grammatically interchangeable; a "part of speech" used in defining Lojban's formal grammar.
Word: preposterously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English preposterous Middle English -ly English -ly English preposterously From preposterous + -ly. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/, /pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəsli/, /pɹə-/, /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/, /pɹəˈpɑstəɹəsli/ 1. In a preposterous manner. Example: Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle. Example: The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds[…]
Word: degree Rankine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed this scale in 1859. 1. A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the Fahrenheit scale to absolute zero.
Word: Kalie Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Kaylee.
Word: Afroasiatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Āfrī Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Afro- Ancient Greek Ἀσίᾱ (Asíā) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek Ἀσῐᾱτῐκός (Asĭātĭkós)der. Latin āsiāticuslbor. English Asiatic English Afroasiatic From Afro- + Asiatic. 1. Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Afroasiatic Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Āfrī Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Afro- Ancient Greek Ἀσίᾱ (Asíā) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek Ἀσῐᾱτῐκός (Asĭātĭkós)der. Latin āsiāticuslbor. English Asiatic English Afroasiatic From Afro- + Asiatic. 1. The language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages.
Word: IDMC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of independent data monitoring committee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: IDMC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: spit of land Part of Speech: noun 1. A peninsula. 2. An island.
Word: rational egoism Part of Speech: noun 1. The doctrine that it is rational to act in one's own self-interest. Labels: uncountable Example: This emotional feat does not seem to me possible and therefore I must admit that a man who embraces the principle of Rational Egoism cuts himself off from the special pleasure that attends this absolute sacrifice and suppression of self. Example: A few like the Stoics could conceive of a general or collective utility more like the Epicureans could develop a rational egoism and at least make some effort to practice it but to the majority educated under the older religions the failure of those religions meant the substitution of an irrational egoism.
Word: brust Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of burst. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: grow up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Dissimilated from Middle English upgrowen. 1. To mature and become an adult. Labels: intransitive Example: What do you want to be when you grow up? Example: Attila grew up a nomad on the plains of Hungary 2. To start to develop; to flourish. Labels: intransitive Example: Socialism grew up in the industrial cities. Example: A town grew up at the junction of the two rivers. 3. To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection). Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?
Word: grow up Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Dissimilated from Middle English upgrowen. 1. Used to criticize childish behavior, especially that considered unreasonable for one's age. Labels: imperative Example: You're giggling because I said "butt"? Grow up, seriously. Example: Grow up! The Bible is nothing more than a astrotheological allegory for things like the Sun!
Word: CD4 Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of cluster of differentiation type 4. 1. A glycoprotein found on the surface of helper T cells and several other types of immune cells. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A CD4+ helper T cell. Labels: countable Example: In short, while CD4 counts can tell you where you are now, the viral load tells you where you are going.
Word: T-cell Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of T cell (especially when used in attributive position) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Receptors and co-receptors sat on the outside of human T-cells.
Word: upregulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + regulation. 1. The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors increases in order to increase sensitivity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: corner office Part of Speech: noun 1. An office at a place in a building or floor where two walls join together, generally occupied by managers. Example: Mr. Pichai has made it a point to not act like a corner office “messiah” […]
Word: stockfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stokfissh, stokfysch, from Middle Dutch stocvisch and/or Middle Low German stokvisch (“stick fish”), because the fish are dried on sticks or poles. Equivalent to stock + fish. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒkfɪʃ/ 1. Cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast. Example: We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed
Word: stockfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis. Pronunciation: /ˈstɒkfɪʃ/ 1. The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis) Labels: South-Africa
Word: Hitlerish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hitler + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Hitleresque. 1. Fascist; Hitlerian. Labels: derogatory, informal, sometimes 2. Extremely oppressive or restrictive; draconian. Labels: informal Example: a Hitlerish regime; a Hitlerish religious organization
Word: angel dust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in c. 1969 in Rolling Stone magazine. 1. Phencyclidine, a type of dissociative anesthetic. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. Clenbuterol, a banned drug formerly used in animal feedlots. Labels: Ireland, slang, uncountable
Word: downregulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From down- + regulation. 1. The suppression of a response to a stimulus Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tregetour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French tregetor, from tregeter (“throw around”), ultimately from Latin trans + jactare (“throw”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛd͡ʒətə/ 1. A magician or juggler; a trickster. Labels: archaic Example: I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour’s mummery, and so I got admission.
Word: PCP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of personal contract purchase. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of phenylcyclohexylpiperidine, an alternative name for phencyclidine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of pentachlorophenol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Initialism of peptidyl carrier protein. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of probabilistically checkable proof. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of primary care physician. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: GP, family doctor (broadly synonymous) 7. Initialism of primary care practitioner (who may be a physician, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Abbreviation of pneumocystis pneumonia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: The lab had reported on Jane's disease, and the doctors were confident that they could treat it. She had PCP, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, which strikes patients with depressed immune systems—notably victims of ALL or AIDS. 9. Initialism of personal construct psychology. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Holonym: psychology
Word: PCP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Portuguese Communist Party. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: cri de coeur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cri du cœur, meaning approximately “a cry from the heart”. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹiː.dəˈkɜː/, /ˌkɹi.dəˈkɚ/ 1. An impassioned outcry, appeal, protest or entreaty. Example: What do you think of Mr. Salinger's cri de coeur? Example: Personal accounts of racial discrimination were eagerly sought by whites seeking to understand "those people," while blacks justly valued them as overdue cris de coeur.
Word: opsonin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀψωνέω (opsōnéō, “to purchase provisions, to buy victuals, to cater”) + -in. Pronunciation: /ˈɒpsənɪn/ 1. Any chemical produced by the body, including antibodies and complement proteins, that causes a pathogen to be more susceptible to phagocytosis.
Word: opsonization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English opsonize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English opsonization From opsonize + -ation. 1. The process or result of opsonizing Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Greek fire Part of Speech: noun 1. A highly flammable substance of unknown composition first used by the Greeks of Constantinople in the 7th century ce to set fire to enemy ships, buildings, etc. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: “There is yet spirit in him,” said Malvoisin apart to Mont–Fitchet, “were it well directed — but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.”
Word: amphiboly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”). Pronunciation: /amˈfɪbəli/ 1. An ambiguous grammatical construction. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: 1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon. Example: By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.
Word: goatfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goat + fish. The Mullidae sense is because of the fish's beard (as it were) seeming like a goat's beard (a goatee). The chimera sense is because the mythical beast is half goat and half fish. 1. Any of the family Mullidae of brightly coloured fish with two barbels on the chin. 2. Alternative spelling of goat-fish (“mythical beast”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: leatherjacket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leather + jacket. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛðɚd͡ʒækɪt/ 1. The larva of certain crane flies. 2. Any of several brightly coloured tropical fishes, of the family Balistidae, including the filefish and the triggerfish; leatherfish. 3. Any of several Atlantic fishes, of the genus Oligoplites, that have a leathery skin; leatherjack. 4. grey gum (Eucalyptus punctata). Labels: obsolete
Word: crane flies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crane fly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surgeonfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From surgeon + fish. 1. Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.
Word: transcribing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of transcribe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Quincy Part of Speech: name Etymology: A Norman surname of Old French origin, from a place name Quincy or Quincey in France, ultimately from Latin Quintus (“fifth [born]”). Use in reference to toilets derives from President John Quincy Adams, who was the first to have one installed at the White House. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪnsi/, /ˈkwɪnzi/ 1. A surname from Old French. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: US 3. A female given name. 4. A commune in Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. 5. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 6. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 7. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 8. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 9. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 10. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 11. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 12. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 13. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: Example: ‘Adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, is a township named Quincy.’ 14. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 15. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 16. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 17. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 18. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 19. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 20. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 21. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 22. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 23. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including: 24. A number of places in the United States named after people with the surname, including:
Word: Quincy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A Norman surname of Old French origin, from a place name Quincy or Quincey in France, ultimately from Latin Quintus (“fifth [born]”). Use in reference to toilets derives from President John Quincy Adams, who was the first to have one installed at the White House. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪnsi/, /ˈkwɪnzi/ 1. A kind of dry white wine made from Sauvignon blanc grapes grown near Quincy in the Loire valley. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A toilet: a fixture for urination and defecation, particularly (humorous) as a personification of the device. Labels: US, euphemistic, obsolete, slang, uncountable, usually Example: I'll be right back. I need to go visit Quincy.
Word: tone number Part of Speech: noun 1. A number allocated to a syllable in various transliteration systems such as Hanyu Pinyin indicating the tone in which it is pronounced. Example: When we type the syllable "shi" in pinyin, we should always remember to put its tone number after it to avoid confusion.
Word: cicatrices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cicatrix Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of cicatrice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tone numbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tone number Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinchona Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark. Pronunciation: /sɪŋˈkəʊnə/, /sɪŋˈkoʊnə/ 1. A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He seems to have collected plants of every kind - sugar-cane, coffee, cinchona, cocoa, indigo, and many others - and thus demonstrates beyond a doubt that Arnheim's Land will not prove herself behind the rest of the tropical world both in planting and agriculture, when the labour question is settled, and a properly-arranged coolie system enables planters to give the country a proper trial. Example: German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820. 2. The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cincture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cingō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cinctūralbor. English cincture Learned borrowing from Latin cinctūra. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”). Doublet of ceinture. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/ 1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing 2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment Example: In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues. 3. The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Word: cincture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cingō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cinctūralbor. English cincture Learned borrowing from Latin cinctūra. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”). Doublet of ceinture. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/ 1. To encircle, or surround. 2. To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).
Word: cinematographer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cinematograph + -er. 1. A photographer who oversees the operations of the cameras and lighting when making a film. The cinematographer may also double as the camera operator of the movie camera, though this is usually done by a cameraman. The film director may also double as the cinematographer, though this is usually a different person. 2. One who exhibits motion pictures; a projectionist. Labels: dated Example: It is what the spectator sees, not reads, that leaves the lasting impression. The best plan is to have the cinematographer call in order to determine the details to be covered.
Word: cinematographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cinematograph + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪ.nə.mæ.təˈɡɹæ.fɪk/ 1. of or pertaining to cinematography
Word: circuital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circuit + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a circuit.
Word: circuitously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English circuitous Middle English -ly English -ly English circuitously From circuitous + -ly. Pronunciation: /sɝːˈkjuː.ə.t̬əs.li/ 1. In a circuitous manner; following a circuitous route. Example: I encountered a couple of hungry-looking dogs, but both hurried circuitously away from the advances I made them. Example: For instance: I raised, as a problem, my difficulty in finishing my book, in writing without a deadline. I raised it at length, circuitously, with emotion.
Word: circuitousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English circuitous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English circuitousness From circuitous + -ness. 1. The state of being circuitous. Labels: uncountable Example: But as the circuitousness of this route and the extremely slow running required over the Midland-North Stafford link have increased overall journey times of the trains concerned to 4 hr. 38 min. down and 4½ hr. up, they are hardly likely to prove very attractive to through passengers.
Word: circuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circuit + -y. 1. A circuitous plan; a roundabout way of doing something. Labels: countable Example: It may here suffice to add that, compared with the formalities, the fictions, and the circuities of legal assurances, they surprise us with a simplicity and directness of purpose which would satisfy the most zealous advocate for these desirable qualities […] Example: Upon the establishment of a mint at some intermediate place, these useless and inconvenient circuities would be dispensed with, and the expediency and utility of supplying the internal provinces with money would become apparent […] 2. The state or quality of being circuitous. Labels: uncountable Example: By adding up all squared values and by dividing the total by the number of vertices we get a number indicating the degree of circuity of the transportation network relative to the given vortex. Example: The avoidance of circuity of action is an alternative defence pleaded by the defendants to a salvage action when the wrongdoing ship in a collision and the salving ship which saves the 'innocent' ship are under the same ownership. 3. A measure of the ratio of road miles to air miles between two locations. Labels: countable Example: Total average circuities for the years 1947 and 1950 were estimated as 14 and 13 per cent, respectively, and the overall circuity for the commodity groups in 1947 was 13 per cent for products of agriculture, 8 per cent for animals and products […] Example: The circuity factor is the average ratio of road miles to air miles between two points on a landscape.
Word: circularity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English circular Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English circularity From circular + -ity. 1. The state of being circular. Labels: uncountable 2. A circular object, form or argument. Labels: countable
Word: circularize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English circular 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 circularize From circular + -ize. 1. To publicize something by publishing and distributing circulars. Labels: intransitive 2. To distribute a circular or circulars to. Labels: transitive Example: Mr and Mrs Aloysius Kirby announce the marriage of their daughter Katherine – I knew neither the girl nor the man she was marrying. They must be circularizing the town. 3. To canvass opinion by using a questionnaire. 4. To make (something) circular in shape. Labels: transitive
Word: circulatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French circulatoire, from Latin circulatorius. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːk(j)uːlətəɹi/, /ˈsɜːk(j)uːlətɹi/, /ˈsɝkjələˌtɔɹi/ 1. Of or pertaining to a circulation, especially to the circulatory system. Labels: not-comparable Example: circulatory diseases Example: circulatory organs 2. Circular; going round. Labels: not-comparable Example: a circulatory letter
Word: circulatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French circulatoire, from Latin circulatorius. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːk(j)uːlətəɹi/, /ˈsɜːk(j)uːlətɹi/, /ˈsɝkjələˌtɔɹi/ 1. A vessel with two portions unequally exposed to heat, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.
Word: circumferential Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /səː.kəm.fəˈɹɛn.ʃəl/, /səː.kəm.f(ə)ˈɹɛn.t͡ʃəl/, /sɝ.kəm.f(ə)ˈɹɛn.ʃəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a circumference. Labels: not-comparable 2. Circuitous, indirect or roundabout.
Word: circumstantially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English circumstantial Middle English -ly English -ly English circumstantially From circumstantial + -ly. Pronunciation: /səː.kəmˈstæn.ʃə.li/, /sɝ.kəmˈstæn.ʃə.li/ 1. in a circumstantial manner 2. In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally. Example: Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. 3. In every circumstance or particular; minutely. Example: To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials.
Word: paj Part of Speech: noun 1. A lighter form of pongee silk. Labels: uncountable
Word: ad absurdum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad absurdum (“to absurdity”). 1. To the point of absurdity. Labels: not-comparable Example: What the Squarepusher-type drill and bass artists have responded to and exaggerated ad absurdum is only one aspect of jungle: the music's complexity.
Word: running man Part of Speech: noun 1. A dance move popular in the late 1980s to early 1990s, characterized by running movements done in place with hands going in an alternating forward-backward motion.
Word: B.A. Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (collegiate degree). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: In the 1918 list five B.A.’s were given post obitum, honoris causa and 35 were granted to men unable to be present because of absence in the Service. Example: And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle. 2. Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (person with the degree). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else. Example: On account of the shortness of the Lent Term, permission was granted in 1684 (Dec. 16), to make the work lighter by the passing of two graces, allowing inceptors in arts to make their disputations with an M.A. any day in term-time in the Logic, Philosophy, or Law schools, from 7 to 9, or 9 to 11 a. m., and 1 to 3, or 3 to 5 p. m., in the presence of the Proctor (or a regent his deputy) and at least six B.A.’s, and to hold disputations or declamations of inceptors and questionists, even out of term, at the Proctors’ pleasure, provided that the questions were duly posted on the doors and a Moderator present, as well as twelve Sophs at the Sophs’ disputations, and six B.A.’s at the Bachelors’ declamations.
Word: taxed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tax Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: taxed Part of Speech: adj 1. Subject to taxation.
Word: Jinju Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 진주(晋州) (Jinju). 1. A city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Example: Mr. Kang’s day begins at 6 a.m., when he serves his 13 fighting bulls the first of four hot meals a day. On this morning, Mr. Kang was busy stoking the fire under a caldron filled with bean sprouts, rice stalks, corn, yams, potatoes, pumpkin chunks and anchovies  a stark contrast to the factory feed that goes to ordinary cattle at Mr. Kang’s ranch in Jinju, about 180 miles south of Seoul.
Word: scanned Part of Speech: adj 1. Converted to a digital format using a scanner. 2. Seen, looked at.
Word: scanned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of scan Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deerskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deer + skin. 1. Leather made from deer hide. Labels: uncountable Example: The moccasin maker had a pile of deerskin on the table, waiting to be cut out. Example: Nichole wore a pair of deerskin gloves because she said she could feel more through them. 2. The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer. Labels: countable Example: The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post. 3. An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural. Labels: countable Example: The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.
Word: deerskins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deerskin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deer-skin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of deerskin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: deer-skins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deer-skin (alternative spelling of deerskins). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wrong side of the tracks Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated from municipalities where the sections were divided by railway tracks. 1. The part of town that is not inhabited by the wealthy. An area where the working class, poor or extremely poor live. Labels: idiomatic Example: He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, but he made a success of himself. Example: An arc electric light has been put toward the north side of the depot, […] As one gentleman expressed it, the people can more quickly see that they are on the "wrong side of the track."
Word: doeskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From doe + skin. 1. Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep. Labels: uncountable Example: He was dressed in shirt of doeskin, / White and soft, and fringed with ermine, / All inwrought with beads of wampum... Example: A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs. 2. The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck. Labels: countable Example: Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality. 3. A glove made of doeskin leather. Labels: countable, in-plural Example: Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service. 4. A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality. Labels: uncountable Example: In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.
Word: rein in Part of Speech: verb 1. To stop or slow a horse by pulling the reins 2. To stop or slow something, by exercising control. Labels: figuratively Example: The government has no other option than to rein in public spending. Example: “As you are well aware, over the last few months we’ve made a considerable effort to rein in costs, but it simply hasn’t been enough,” Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday.
Word: defacement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English deface Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English defacement From deface + -ment. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfeɪsmənt/ 1. An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns. 2. An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper. 3. A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: defacements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of defacement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: planter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English plant Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English planter From plant + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈplæntə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɑːntə(ɹ)/ 1. One who plants something. Example: She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories. Example: De Rocco, the compulsive rose planter, had surreptitiously placed the rose there. 2. One who plants something. Labels: historical 3. One who plants something. 4. A box or pot for plants to be planted in, usually large and standing on the floor. 5. A machine for planting seeds or transplants.
Word: dehumidify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Latin ūmidus Latin hūmidusder. Old French humideder. English humid Latin -i- Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English dehumidify From de- + humid + -ify. Pronunciation: /diːˌhjuːˈmɪdɪfaɪ/ 1. To reduce the moisture in a body of air; to lower the humidity. Example: Many air conditioners, in addition to reducing the temperature, also dehumidify the air. Example: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
Word: Travelling Community Part of Speech: name 1. A nomadic ethnic minority, the Irish Travellers. Labels: Ireland
Word: defaces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of deface Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: defacing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈfeɪsɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of deface Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: defacing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈfeɪsɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. defacement
Word: defaced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deface Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: effaces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of efface Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: effacing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of efface Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: effaced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of efface Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: climes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /klaɪmz/ 1. plural of clime Labels: form-of, plural
Word: climes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /klaɪmz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of clime Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dethrone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Middle English trone English throne English dethrone From de- + throne. 1. To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy. Example: […] he (the said Pope) doth not onely claime to be spirituall head of all Christians, but also to haue an Imperiall Ciuill power ouer all Kings and Emperours, dethroning and decrowning princes with his foote, as pleaseth him […] Example: Thou, Goddess-Mother, with our Sire comply, Nor break the sacred Union of the Sky: Lest, rouz’d to Rage, he shake the blest Abodes, Launch the red Lightning, and dethrone the Gods. 2. To remove any governing authority from power. Example: Not only where the chief magistrate enters into measures, in themselves, extremely pernicious to the public, but even when he wou’d encroach on the other parts of the constitution, and extend his power beyond the legal bounds, it is allowable to resist and dethrone him; Example: […] demands by Sakharov and others for further change—notably the dethroning of the increasingly discredited Party from its privileged position—could not be swept aside […] 3. To remove from any position of high status or power. Example: 1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 23, 24 March, 1753, Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 168, […] we conclude, sincerely wishing, that you may continue to display your usual Graces of Elocution, and admirable Powers of Action, untill Harlequin shall dethrone the great Shakespear, or Pierot usurp the Seat of Johnson. Example: “[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!” 4. To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance. Labels: figuratively Example: All that was Good and Holy, is dethron’d, And Lust, and Rapine are for justice own’d. Example: To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would […] offend against common sense; but an endeavour to restrain this tumultuous passion, and to prove that it should not be allowed to dethrone superior powers, or to usurp the sceptre which the understanding should ever coolly wield, appears less wild.
Word: Kyōto Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Kyoto: a prefecture of Japan. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative spelling of Kyoto: the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and the country's former capital. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The shogunate was overthrown in 1867 by supporters of Emperor Meiji. The following year, the emperor moved his court from Kyōto to Edo and renamed it Tōkyō: the Eastern Capital.
Word: dethrones Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dethrone Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dethroning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dethrone Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dethroning Part of Speech: noun 1. The removal of a ruler from the throne.
Word: dethroned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dethrone Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cross-section Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cross section. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The book's publication was also welcomed by a wide cross-section of the industry, with a large group of both current and former industry leaders gathering for the launch at St Pancras.
Word: funeral director Part of Speech: noun 1. An undertaker; one who arranges funerals. Example: Near-synonyms: cremator, embalmer, mortician
Word: cirrhotic Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /səˈɹɒtɪk/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from cirrhosis.
Word: cirrhotic Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /səˈɹɒtɪk/ 1. A person who has cirrhosis.
Word: citified Part of Speech: adj 1. Characteristic of the sophisticated customs or dress associated with city life. Example: 1794, quoted in 2009, Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, New York is less citified than Philadelphia. Example: It was not much more citified than it was countrified.
Word: citified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of citify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: insomuch Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English insomuche; equivalent to in + so + much. Pronunciation: /ɪnsəʊˈmʌt͡ʃ/ 1. Because of; since; as a result of. Labels: not-comparable Example: Insomuch as you have consistently paid the bill on time before, we'll excuse one late payment. 2. To the extent that. Labels: not-comparable Example: In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] Example: These weights did not exert their natural gravity […] insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.