nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: aeriate Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of aerate. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: disour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French diseur. 1. A professional storyteller or joker. Labels: obsolete
Word: teleprocessing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- English processing English teleprocessing From tele- + processing. 1. The exchange of data between computers, or between a central computer and terminals, via telecommunications links; data communications Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: telescopically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scope Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -scopic English telescopic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English telescopically From telescopic + -ally. 1. By means of a telescope. Labels: not-comparable Example: That planet can only be seen telescopically. 2. Using a telescopic action. Labels: not-comparable Example: to be telescopically engageable
Word: televangelism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of television + evangelism. 1. evangelism using telecommunications, especially radio and television Labels: uncountable
Word: temporizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From temporize + -er. 1. A person who temporizes Example: I pronounce thee a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both.
Word: fool's mate Part of Speech: noun 1. The quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess.
Word: henbane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English henbane, hennebane ( > French hanebane), equivalent to hen + bane. Cognate with Danish hønsebane, Swedish hönsbane. Compare also Old English hennebelle (“henbane”, literally “hen-bell”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛnbeɪn/ 1. A poisonous plant, Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation[.] Example: Henbane acts as an anaphrodisiac. 2. Any other plant of the genus Hyoscyamus. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insufflates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of insufflate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: insufflating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of insufflate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: revealed check Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of discovered check.
Word: compone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin componere. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpəʊn/ 1. To compose; to settle; to arrange. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: 31 March 1528, Casale, Gardiner and Foxe, letter to Wolsey a good pretence for componing peace
Word: impone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin imponere, impositum (“to place upon”); prefix im- (“in”) + ponere (“to place”). See imposition. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpoʊn/ 1. To stake; to wager; to pledge. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards.
Word: Kazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin), from قَضَى (qaḍā, “to judge”) Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːzi/ 1. A civil judge in Arabic, Persian or Turkish countries. Example: he sent for the Kazi and his assessors, intending to make his will and reveal to her his secret and die the death Example: “Up with thee speak with the Kazi, for thy wife hath complained of to him and her favour is thus and thus.” Page 301 “...O man, and speak with the Kazi; for thy wife hath complained of thee to him.” Said he, “He made peace between us just now.” But said they, “We come from another Kazi, and thy wife hath complained of thee to our Kazi.” So he arose and went with them to their Kazi, calling on Allah for aid against...
Word: interpone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin interponere; inter (“between”) + ponere (“to place”). See position. 1. To interpose; to insert or place between. Labels: transitive Example: Plotinus did postpone his Psyche, or soul, after the paternal Intellect; but Porphyrius interponed it betwixt the Father and the Son
Word: wuzu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (vuzu). Pronunciation: /ˈwuːzuː/ 1. Alternative form of wudu (“the minor ablution in Islam”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: 1885: So they ceased to urge her; and the trader rose from amongst them and repaired to an out house to perform Wuzu ablution, and he purposed thereafter to return and to tell them his secret and to die. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1
Word: oppone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin opponere. See opponent. Pronunciation: /əˈpəʊn/ 1. To oppose. Labels: obsolete Example: Out of his Indies: what can you not do, Against lords spiritual, or temporal, That shall oppone you?
Word: hend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”). Pronunciation: /hɛnd/ 1. To take hold of; to grasp, hold. Labels: obsolete Example: She flew at him like to an hellish feend, And on his shield tooke hold with all her might, As if that it she would in peeces rend, Or reave out of the hand that did it hend Example: Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage.
Word: hend Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hende, from Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī. Pronunciation: /hɛnd/ 1. Pleasant in manner, courteous, gentle, kind. Labels: obsolete, poetic
Word: gramarye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gramarie, from Old French gramarie, a variant of gramaire; thus a doublet of glamour, glamoury, grammar, and grimoire. The word was revived by Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæməɹi/ 1. Grammar; learning. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […] I dearly love to climb / Time's ladder, and identify / Myself with worthies long gone by – / And Lucerne seems (at least to me) / Fit circle for such gramarye; […] 2. Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: My mother was a weſterne woman / And learned in gramaryè, / And when I learned at the ſchole, / Something ſhee taught itt me. Example: And, but that stronger spells were spread, / And the door might not be opened, / He had laid him on her very bed. / Whate'er he did of gramarye [footnote: Magic.], / Was always done maliciously. / He flung the warrior on the ground, / And the blood welled freshly from the wound.
Word: supposta Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: A reduction of supposed to. Pronunciation: /səˈpoʊstə/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of supposed to. Labels: US, alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
Word: cucurbit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cocurbite, concurbite, cucurbita, cucurbite, from Middle French cucurbite and Latin cucurbita. Doublet of gourd. Pronunciation: /kjuˈkɜː.bɪt/, /kjuˈkɝ.bɪt/ 1. Any member of the family Cucurbitaceae of gourds. Example: Our efforts are directed against species of African origin because these include several notorious pests (such as medfly, Ceratitis capitata), as well as some of the most poorly known ones (species of Dacus feeding on cucurbits). 2. A receptacle, originally gourd-shaped and used for liquids or chemicals; a bottle or other container. Labels: obsolete Example: When Sulayman saw me, he took refuge with Allah and bade me embrace the True Faith and obey his behests; but I refused, so sending for this cucurbit he shut me up therein, and stopped it over with lead
Word: soldi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soldo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: big cat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɪɡ ˈkæt/ 1. Any large felid of the Pantherinae subfamily, including tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards, and clouded leopards. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, cat.
Word: at first blush Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From an obsolete sense of blush meaning to glance at. 1. Upon first impression or consideration; seemingly, apparently, ostensibly. Labels: idiomatic Example: The finer and more distinctive features of a land require deep study and long acquaintance, but the broader traits of nationality are caught in an instant, or not caught at all. Familiarity with, destroys them, and it is only at first blush that we learn to appreciate them with force. Example: At first blush it appears rather strange to consider for even a moment the possibility that corporate financial and business disclosure rises to the dignity of speech protected by the First Amendment.
Word: rag trade Part of Speech: noun 1. The fashion industry. Labels: informal
Word: tenderfeet Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tenderfoot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ten-speed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having ten gears. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ten-speed Part of Speech: noun 1. A bicycle having ten gears. Example: Shops had waiting lists for customers wanting to buy Healing ten-speeds at $237. Morrison countered with the Olympus ten-speed, released in 1974, and the more upmarket Monark.
Word: tenured Part of Speech: adj 1. Having tenure Labels: not-comparable 2. Experienced at a workplace; seasoned Labels: Philippines, not-comparable
Word: tenured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tenure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: test-drive Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of test drive. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Nissan soon realised its mistake and now you can buy a new Europe-only Primera, which Nissan claims has 600 major changes. I've been test-driving the 1.8S hatchback.
Word: test-fly Part of Speech: verb 1. To fly an aircraft in order to evaluate its performance
Word: motu proprio Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Medieval Latin motu proprio, from ablative form of classical Latin motus (“motion”) + proprius (“one’s own”). Pronunciation: /ˌməʊtuː ˈpɹɒpɹɪəʊ/, /ˌməʊtuː ˈpɹəʊpɹɪəʊ/ 1. Of one’s own free will, of one’s own volition. Labels: not-comparable
Word: motu proprio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin motu proprio, from ablative form of classical Latin motus (“motion”) + proprius (“one’s own”). Pronunciation: /ˌməʊtuː ˈpɹɒpɹɪəʊ/, /ˌməʊtuː ˈpɹəʊpɹɪəʊ/ 1. A document issued by the Pope on his own initiative directed to the Roman Catholic Church.
Word: textural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-seti Proto-Indo-European *téḱseti Proto-Italic *teksō? Latin texō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin textūrabor. Middle French texturebor. English texture English -al English textural From texture + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to texture. Labels: not-comparable
Word: theater-in-the-round Part of Speech: noun 1. A theatre in the form of an arena, with seating on at least three of the four sides
Word: theatricality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From theatrical + -ity. 1. Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality. Example: However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei...
Word: theatricals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of theatrical Labels: form-of, plural 2. histrionics
Word: theatrics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English theatric Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Middle English -es English -s English -ics English theatrics From theatric + -ics. Pronunciation: /θiːˈætɹɪks/, /θiˈætɹɪks/ 1. Theatrical appearance or character. Labels: plural, singular Example: the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando 2. Histrionics. Labels: plural, singular Example: Drogba's main contribution prior to his goal was to go through his full range of theatrics but this was an example of exactly why Di Matteo made him his choice. Example: Even though Susan thought her somewhat flappish at times, behind all her theatrics, she was a sound friend.
Word: rent-a-quote Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who is prepared to provide comment or opinion to the media on virtually any topic, either in exchange for payment or in order to gain exposure. Labels: derogatory
Word: therm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1920s, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “heat”). See also thermo-, -thermic, etc. Pronunciation: /θɜːm/, /θɝm/ 1. A unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units, often used in the context of natural gas.
Word: therm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from English Hermes or English Terminus, ancient Gods whose statues would often have decoration characteristic of thermed work around their bases. 1. A technique used by woodturners to simultaneously create multiple copies of spindles and table legs.
Word: thermometric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thermo- + -metric. 1. Of or pertaining to the measurement of temperature. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of, pertaining to, or employing a thermometer. Labels: not-comparable Example: "It is quite chilly," whispered Enid, with a shiver. "It is not a subjective feeling," Mailey answered. "Mr. Harry Price has tested it with thermometric readings. So did Professor Crawford."
Word: thiamin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of thiamine. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: thickheaded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thick + headed. 1. stupid, obtuse or dumb. Labels: informal
Word: axes of rotation Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of axis of rotation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thickset Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thick + set. Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkˌsɛt/ 1. Having a relatively short, heavy build. Example: a thickset, muscular figure Example: a thickset workhorse 2. Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted. Example: a thickset wood Example: a thickset hedge 3. Densely covered (with something). Example: a gully thickset with brambles Example: 1583, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London: John Day, Book 4, “The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand,” p. 177, […] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:
Word: thickset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thick + set. Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkˌsɛt/ 1. A thick hedge. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294, Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: 1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73, When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue, Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue; Example: 1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12, His breeches were of the homeliest thickset; 3. A piece of clothing made from this fabric. Labels: countable, historical Example: […] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows; Example: I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.
Word: thievish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English thevysch, equivalent to thief + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian däifsk (“thievish”), Dutch diefs (“thievish”), German Low German deevsk (“thievish”), German diebisch (“thievish”). 1. Having a tendency to steal. Example: I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath, On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain. And of that false Coſroe, my traiterous brother, Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d? And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away? 2. Having the manner of a thief; furtive; stealthy. Example: What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food, Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road?
Word: thistledown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thistle + down. 1. The soft, feathery pappus attached to the seeds of a thistle. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Yet, let me not reproach myself, since the blame is due to her lightness of heart, her fickle fancy—no stabler than gossamer or thistledown—which the first wanton breath wafts elsewhere. Example: “Oh,” said Zuleika, “of course I like being admired. Oh yes, I like all that very much indeed. In a way, I suppose, I’m even pleased that YOU admire me. But oh, what a little miserable pleasure that is in comparison with the rapture I have forfeited! I had never known the rapture of being in love. I had longed for it, but I had never guessed how wonderfully wonderful it was. It came to me. I shuddered and wavered like a fountain in the wind. I was more helpless and flew lightlier than a shred of thistledown among the stars. All night long, I could not sleep for love of you; nor had I any desire of sleep, save that it might take me to you in a dream. I remember nothing that happened to me this morning before I found myself at your door.”
Word: tho' Part of Speech: conj 1. Though. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: […] I again conveyed his Key into his Pocket, and counterfeiting Sleep, tho’ I never once cloſed my Eyes, lay in Bed till after he aroſe and went to Prayers, an Exerciſe to which I had long been unaccuſtomed.
Word: tho' Part of Speech: adv 1. Though. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, poetic
Word: thoraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thorax Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thought-out Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thought + out. 1. planned Labels: in-compounds
Word: thrasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er. 1. One who thrashes. 2. Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak. 3. A thresher shark. 4. A fan of thrash metal music. Labels: informal
Word: bovver boots Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bovver (“trouble”) + boots. 1. Stout lace-up boots, especially Dr. Martens, perceived to be worn for the purpose of kicking people in fights, and popular with skinheads or other troublemakers out looking for bovver. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Their byword is Aggro (Aggravation) and their crucial enemies are hippies, homosexuals and Pakis (Pakistanis or Indians). When they catch one, they use their shaven skulls for butting, their Bovverboots for caving in ribs. Example: 1991, Rupert Loydell, review of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, in December 1991-January 1992, ThirdWay, page 41, I remember a punk friend - cockerel haircut, leather trousers, bovver boots, and ripped jumper - being shocked at the TV retrospective of the mid-eighties where long-haired oiks in flared trousers stared desultorily at some screaming youths on stage.
Word: threader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thread + -er. 1. A device used to thread needles. 2. A device used to machine a screw thread.
Word: thready Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y. 1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous. Example: The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies. 2. weak. Example: A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.
Word: three-decker Part of Speech: noun 1. Anything with three layers or levels. Example: He awoke at midday and walked down the road to a cafeteria where the short-order cook fixed him a delicious three-decker western sandwich and coffee. Example: I planned to splurge on a three-decker cone. All the flavors looked so good that I couldn't decide which three to have. 2. Anything with three layers or levels. Labels: alt-of, alternative 3. Anything with three layers or levels. Labels: alt-of, alternative 4. Anything with three layers or levels. Labels: alt-of, alternative 5. Anything with three layers or levels. Labels: alt-of, alternative 6. Anything with three layers or levels. Labels: historical 7. Anything with three layers or levels. Labels: historical
Word: three-ply Part of Speech: adj 1. Having three strands or layers Labels: not-comparable Example: The vestibule ceilings are of three-ply, in removable sections to give access to the air-conditioning units, filters, and Pullman gangway control springs situated above. Example: It has been found that although the two-ply moquette used in L.T. train upholstery was of equal weight to the three-ply fabric used in L.T. buses, the bus fabric had 50 per cent longer life, and accordingly it is now being used also for trains.
Word: three-ply Part of Speech: noun 1. Yarn having three strands Labels: uncountable
Word: thrombotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by thrombosis
Word: half-arsed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of half-assed. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, slang
Word: throttler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From throttle + -er. 1. One who or that which throttles. Labels: figuratively, sometimes Example: […] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade. Example: Current Blocked Async I/O Requests is the number of current asynchronous I/O requests blocked by bandwidth throttler.
Word: thumbscrew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thumb + screw. Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmskɹuː/ 1. A screw that is designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers, thus requiring no screwdriver or spanner (wrench). Example: Very interested, Dr Grimsby watched the saw follow the fine pencil line on the white pearwood as Peter dexterously twirled the veneers on the fretwork table, timing the movement of both hands precisely to put no strain on either the saw or the wood. Nor did he acknowledge their presence till he had finished a section of the pattern, gingerly released the saw from its upper thumbscrew, and drawn it out of the wood. 2. An instrument of torture used to crush the fingers. Example: To ensure good behavior, the slaveholder relies on the whip; […] to imbrute and destroy his manhood, he relies on the whip, the chain, the gag, the thumb-screw, the pillory, the bowie-knife, the pistol, and the blood-hound. 3. A weakness that can be taken advantage of. Labels: figuratively Example: Law 33: Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
Word: thunderer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thunder + -er. 1. One who thunders. Example: Thor, Odin's son, is the thunderer.
Word: Thunderer Part of Speech: name Etymology: From thunderer. 1. The Times newspaper. Labels: UK, informal
Word: thwacker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thwack + -er. 1. A person who strikes a resounding blow with an object. 2. A club, rod, stick, etc., used to thwack.
Word: thyroidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der. Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā Ancient Greek θῠ́ρᾱ (thŭ́rā) Ancient Greek -εος (-eos) Ancient Greek θῠρεός (thŭreós) Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs)bor. New Latin thyreoīdēsbor. English thyroid English -al English thyroidal From thyroid + -al. Pronunciation: /θaɪˈɹɔɪ.dəl/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting the thyroid. Labels: not-comparable Example: The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC, /nmol/L*hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age.
Word: blee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”). Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly. Pronunciation: /bliː/ 1. Color, hue. Labels: countable, poetic, uncountable Example: Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly. Example: IT was a Mothering Sunday ; / The sky was clear to see / Above the white, white snowdrop, / And the crocus of golden blee. 2. Color of the face, complexion, coloring. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: "The Felon Sow of Rokeby and the Freers of Richmond", in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York, Thomas Bowman (publ., 1821, appendix, cvii. The sew she would not Latin heare, / But rudely rushed at the Frear, / That he blinked all his blee ; / And when she would have taken her hold, / The Fryar leaped as Jesus wold, / And bealed him with a tree. Example: "The Gay Goss-hawk", The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott: first series, containing Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Sir Tristrem, and Dramatic Pieces, Baudry's European Library (publ.), 1838, page 189 (glossed as “bloom”). And pale, pale grew her rosy cheeck, / That was sae bright of blee,⁴ / And she seem'd to be as surely dead / As any one could be. 3. Consistency, form, texture. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee: / And earth's soul yawns disembowelled of her pancreatic organs, / Like a madrepore if mesmerized, in rapt catalepsy. 4. General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look. Labels: East-Anglia, countable, uncountable Example: 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379. Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee. Example: BLEE, s[ubstantive] general resemblance, not "colour and complexion," as the dictt. [dictionaries in general] give it; Mr. Nares asserts that it was obsolete in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. If so, we have a very extraordinary instance of the renascence of a word; for it is in use every day in the sense here given to it. Ex. "That boy has a strong blee of his father." br. [Brockett's Glossary] in the sense of complexion. ch. p. g. [Chaucer; Percy's Glossary]
Word: blee Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Associated with Smash Hits magazine, where it may have originated. Pronunciation: /bliː/ 1. Expressing disgust or trepidation. Labels: informal Example: Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!) Example: It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough.
Word: capi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of capo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genitory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French genitoire. 1. A testicle. Labels: obsolete Example: Pasicles the philosopher, brother unto Crates, comming to salute one, whereas he should have carried his hand to his knee, carried the same unto his genitories [translating genitoires]: The partie saluted having rudely pusht him away. What, quoth he, is not that part yours as well as the other? 2. The sex organs, genitals. Labels: obsolete Example: When the lady heard his verses she came up out of the basin and, seating herself upon his lap and knees, pointed to her genitory and said, "O my lordling, what be the name of this?"
Word: condensor Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of condenser. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: ITK Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of in the know. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: in the twinkling of an eye Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From Middle English in the twynklyng of an iȝe, in þe twynklynk of an eiȝe, from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52: We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 1. Immediately; instantaneously. Labels: idiomatic Example: Father, come, ile take my leaue of the Iew in the twinkling of an eye. Example: All my dreams for him have been cut short in the twinkling of an eye. Why was my son murdered?
Word: choreographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choreography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: custodiam Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of lease in which property seized by the Crown is put into the custody of some agent. Labels: historical
Word: Caledonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Calēdoniabor. English Caledonia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Caledonian From Caledonia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌkæləˈdoʊni.ən/, /ˌkæləˈdəʊni.ən/ 1. In or from Caledonia; (jocularly) Scottish. 2. In or from New Caledonia. 3. Relating to a mountain-forming period (orogeny) in Europe.
Word: Caledonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Calēdoniabor. English Caledonia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Caledonian From Caledonia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌkæləˈdoʊni.ən/, /ˌkæləˈdəʊni.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Caledonia; a Scot. Example: I congratulate the Caledonians on the acquiſition of this new Saint, but wonder if the German crows were ſo civil to refrain from ſo ſavoury a Scotch haggiſs. Example: In the early 1770s the bogey figure for opposition politicians was arguably not so much North in the Commons as Mansfield behind the curtain, the country's greatest lawyer (and another Caledonian to gratify the Scotophobes) keeping an irresolute Cabinet committed to waging war in America. 2. Someone from the ancient Celtic tribe (or group of tribes) called Caledonians, in Scotland
Word: tubae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tubae. 1. plural of tuba (“a tube or tubular organ; a type of Roman military trumpet”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: essent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Ralph Manheim in his 1959 English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Einführung in die Metaphysik to render German Seiendes (as distinct from Sein), on the basis of essens, a faux-Latin present participle of sum. Pronunciation: /ˈɛsənt/ 1. that which is; an entity, a being, an existent Example: Why are there essents rather than nothing? That is the question. Clearly it is no ordinary question. “Why are there essents, why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?”—obviously this is the first of all questions, though not in a chronological sense. Example: As against this, the non-conceptual creative word, instead of enabling us to grasp and lay hold of what is already there before us, instead of serving merely as a means to describing what is present, calls into being. It is evocative of Being; it invokes that presence (Anwesenheit), i.e., Being, within which (in the light of which) anything can appear before us as an essent.
Word: casis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish caciz or Portuguese caxis, which was from a dialectal pronunciation of Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”). Doublet of qadi and alcalde. 1. Obsolete form of qadi. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. a Muslim holy man or a saint. Labels: historical
Word: make-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from make up. Pronunciation: /mæɪkˈɐp/ 1. Alternative spelling of makeup. See usage notes there. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Example: From Whitemoor, left at 6.45 p.m., the train's make-up usually includes also some Continental ferry wagons, originating from Harwich.
Word: make-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from make up. Pronunciation: /mæɪkˈɐp/ 1. Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to a reconciliation. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Joe and Joanne had a big fight, and then apologized and had incredible make-up sex.
Word: make-up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Deverbal from make up. Pronunciation: /mæɪkˈɐp/ 1. Rare form of make up (“to put makeup on”). Labels: form-of, rare Example: Orange, mauve, and cobalt blue are three favorite shades now employed by the woman who desires to “make-up” her face, according to the approved beauty standards. Example: And shame at what you thought was fard! It’s only make-upping your face.
Word: PIT Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Pittsburgh. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: PIT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of personal income tax. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of programmable interval timer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of precision immobilization technique: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of pursuit intervention technique: the same method for ending car chases. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of parallel immobilization technique: the same method for ending car chases. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: sat-nav Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of satellite navigation system. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: sat nav Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of satnav. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, informal, uncountable
Word: sat nav Part of Speech: verb 1. To navigate using satellite navigation system. Labels: informal
Word: satnav Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of satellite + navigation. Pronunciation: /ˈsæt.næv/ 1. A satellite navigation system. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 2. A satellite navigation system receiver. Labels: Commonwealth, countable, informal, uncountable 3. A civilian GPS receiver (“Navstar receiver”). Labels: Commonwealth, countable, informal, uncountable
Word: estrade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French estrade, from Spanish estrado. Doublet of stratum and street. Pronunciation: /ɪˈstɹɑːd/ 1. A dais or raised platform. Example: Then she made the Kalandars sit upon a sofa at the side of the estrade, and seated the Caliph and Ja'afar and Masrur on the other side of the saloon
Word: gravitationally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Latin gravis Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus 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 -tō Latin -itō Latin gravitō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō New Latin gravitātiōbor. English gravitation English -al English gravitational Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English gravitationally From gravitational + -ly. 1. As a result of the force of gravity. Labels: not-comparable
Word: maligne Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of malign. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He was a kyng, full worthy and condigne / That let not, for his eaſe nor his laboure / To ſearche and ſee defautes, that were maligne / And theim correcte, he was a gouernoure / God ſet neuer kyng, to be a ryotoure / To trippe on tapettes, and lyue in ydelneſſe / But for to rule, with all kyndes of buſyneſſe Example: As who ſhuld ſay for ſuch maner of perſõs as do maligne ⁊ diſquiet honeſt ⁊ quiet mẽ which wold faine liue in reſt ⁊ cannot.
Word: maligne Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of malign. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: For if that I ſpake it, in ſome audience, / Some men wolde maligne, and take it for offence. Example: But if the heauens did his dayes enuie, / And my ſhort blis maligne, yet mote they well / Thus much afford me, ere that he did die / That the dim eies of my deare Marinell / I mote haue cloſed, and him bed farewell, / Sith other offices for mother meet / They would not graunt.
Word: truchman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mediaeval Latin turchemannus or French trucheman, from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān). Doublet of dragoman. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌt͡ʃmən/ 1. Synonym of interpreter. Labels: archaic Example: 1604, Edward Grimston (translator), The Natural and Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta (1590), edited by Clements Markham, London: Hakluyt Society, 1853, Volume II, Book 7, Chapter 25, p. 519, He laboured to make them all understand this discourse, using his interpreters and truchmen. The which being understoode by the King and the other Mexicane Lords, they were wonderfully well satisfied, and shewed great signes of love to Cortes and his company. Example: 1640, William Habington, The Queen of Arragon, Act II, Scene 1, in A Selection of Collection of Old Plays, Volume 9, London: Septimus Prowett, 1825, […] And now I have with labour Attain’d thy language, I’ll thy truchman be. Interpret for thee to those smaller souls, Who wonder when they understand not: souls!
Word: wiffleball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From (onomatopoeia) whiff (“to strike, to strikeout”) + ball. Not derived from whiffle, though both derive from same onomatopoeic sources, namely a sound of wind. 1. A game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas. Labels: US, uncountable 2. The ball used in that game. Labels: US, countable
Word: bestie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From best + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛsti/ 1. A best friend. Labels: informal Example: You're supposed to be my bestie, Mel. We used to tell each other everything. So what's this Toby secret you can't tell me? Example: Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames. 2. A term of address for someone, usually used to instruct, to make a statement, or to draw attention. Labels: informal 3. A friend (any in general). Labels: informal
Word: emergency response Part of Speech: noun 1. An effort by public safety personnel and citizens to mitigate the impact of an incident on human life and property.
Word: en-masse Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative spelling of en masse. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: scaglia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scaglia (“a scale, a shell, a chip of marble”). Doublet of scale and shell. 1. A reddish variety of limestone. Labels: uncountable
Word: moquettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moquette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: concurrencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of concurrency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gonopodium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gono- + -podium (“part resembling a foot”). 1. A modified extremity, such as an anal fin, of certain types of livebearing fish and arthropods (most notably crustaceans and myriapods), which is used for reproduction.
Word: henbanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of henbane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pit lane Part of Speech: noun 1. A lane adjacent (usually on the inner curve) to a racetrack where the competing teams' garages are situated.
Word: cephalocarid Part of Speech: noun 1. An animal in the class Cephalocarida of crustaceans.
Word: trilobitomorph Part of Speech: noun 1. An animal in the subphylum Trilobitomorpha; a trilobite
Word: proetid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any trilobite of the order Proetida.
Word: kinaesthesia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kin- + -aesthesia. 1. Alternative spelling of kinesthesia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: paraesthesia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Hellenic *pərai Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ) Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der. English par- English -aesthesia English paraesthesia From par- + -aesthesia. 1. Alternative spelling of paresthesia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: child safety seat Part of Speech: noun 1. A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law. Example: DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"... LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.
Word: incomunicado Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of incommunicado. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: precompress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English compress English precompress From pre- + compress. 1. To subject to precompression
Word: conde Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of conn. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the." Example: The officer of the deck has the conde of the vessel. Example: The captain took the conde when he reached the bridge.
Word: conde Part of Speech: verb 1. To direct a ship. Labels: rare, transitive Example: The pilot conded the ship safely into the harbor.
Word: formicas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of formica Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fenestras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fenestra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: linguae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lingua Labels: form-of, plural
Word: remorselessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English remorseless 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 remorselessness From remorseless + -ness. 1. the characteristic of lacking remorse Labels: uncountable
Word: rambunctiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rambunctious 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 rambunctiousness From rambunctious + -ness. 1. The characteristic or state of being rambunctious, boisterous and unruly. Labels: US, uncountable Example: I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting.
Word: tantalizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tantalize + -er. 1. One who tantalizes; a tease; a tempter.
Word: tantalizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tantalizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pass-remarkable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the phrase pass remark on, i.e. make a comment about, + -able. 1. Of a person, making belittling or snide remarks. Labels: English, Irish, Scotland, derogatory Example: Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs.
Word: chocker Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Shortened from chock-a-block. 1. Tightly packed, especially with people. Labels: UK, informal Example: The place was absolutely packed. It was chocker. Example: The largest of these service chains in Italy is Agip, and these mini-cities in the middle of nowhere are always absolutely chocker with people. Half of Italy must be in these places at any one time.
Word: pinchbeck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy. 1. An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: pinchbeck Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy. 1. Made of pinchbeck. Labels: not-comparable Example: on the inside were suspended a variety of watches, pinchbeck, silver, and one or two of gold 2. Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive. Example: Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity? Example: Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.
Word: dracaenas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dracaena Labels: form-of, plural
Word: horis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hori Labels: form-of, plural
Word: horas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hora Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glorias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gloria Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dolefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English doolfulnes, dolfulnesse, equivalent to doleful + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being doleful; sadness. Labels: uncountable