nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: facilities Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fəˈsɪlɪtiz/, /fəˈsɪlɪdiz/ 1. Synonym of facility in certain contexts. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Facilities for urination and defecation: a toilet; a lavatory. Labels: euphemistic, plural, plural-only Example: I christened the facilities, shrugged into my windbreaker, and met Dolan at his door. Example: We were in a cell, apparently. It felt more like a dungeon than a prison. There was a pile of straw to one side, apparently to use for sleeping, and there didn’t appear to be any ‘facilities’ besides a bucket by the wall.
Word: seagoing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sea + going. 1. Travelling out to sea. Labels: not-comparable Example: a seagoing seal Example: After being kidnapped by a seagoing ne'er-do-well, its Lady protagonist finds herself drifting through a passage at the North Pole into a wholly different world, with its own sun, moon and stars, and a population of bear-men, bird-men and fox-men who promptly make her Empress. Win! 2. Made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Lord! They don't call that a sea-going craft, I hope!'
Word: cargo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/, /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/ 1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals. Example: "[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]" 2. Western material goods. Labels: Papua-New-Guinea, countable, uncountable Example: The principal change was that two of the 'satans', Kilibob and Manup, were now identified by different groups as God and Jesus Christ, as cargo deities. This expressed the return to hostility towards Europeans and a reassessment of native rights to the cargo. Example: In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.
Word: cargo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/, /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/ 1. To load with freight. Labels: transitive
Word: zampogna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zampogna. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and symphony. Pronunciation: /zæmˈpəʊnjə/, /tsæmˈpəʊnjə/, /zæmˈpoʊnjə/, /zɑmˈpoʊnjə/ 1. A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe. Example: “When I go out to guard my sheep I play my zampogna, and I walk along and the sheep follow me. […]” Example: The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
Word: zampone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zampone. Pronunciation: /zæmˈpoʊni/, /zæmˈpoʊneɪ/, /zæmˈpəʊni/, /zæmˈpəʊneɪ/ 1. In Italian cookery, stuffed pig's trotter with spicy ground pork, usually dried and cured, often served with lentils. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: thinking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ 1. The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A thought. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: What is your thinking on this subject? Example: But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
Word: thinking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þenċende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijaną (“to think”), equivalent to think + -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of think Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine. Example: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
Word: cuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”). Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. Glove; mitten Labels: obsolete 2. The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist. 3. The end of a pants leg when folded up. 4. A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.
Word: cuff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”). Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. To furnish with cuffs. Labels: transitive
Word: cuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of handcuff. Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. A handcuff. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only
Word: cuff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of handcuff. Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. To handcuff. Labels: transitive 2. To enter into a committed romantic relationship with (someone). Labels: slang, transitive Example: cuffing season Example: This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀
Word: cuff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”). Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle. Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap. Labels: transitive Example: I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again. Example: [They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food. 2. To fight; to scuffle; to box. Labels: intransitive Example: While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. 3. To buffet. Example: cuffed by the gale
Word: cuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”). Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle. Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap. Example: The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: Example: many a bitter kick and cuff
Word: cuff Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kʌf/, /kɐf/, /kʊf/ 1. The scruff of the neck. Labels: Scotland
Word: pound sterling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The basic unit of currency in medieval England was the silver penny or sterling, weighing ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a tower pound. 240 of these coins made a "pound of sterlings". This term (shortened to "pound sterling" in later usage) continued to be used for a sum of 240 pence even after the sterling had ceased to circulate. The modern pound sterling is equivalent to 100 new pence. Pronunciation: /paʊnd ˈstɜː(ɹ).lɪŋ/ 1. The currency of the United Kingdom. Example: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
Word: loupe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French loupe. Pronunciation: /luːp/ 1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers. Example: Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […] Example: pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps. 2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.
Word: regularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English regular 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 regularly From regular + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.li/, /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.li/, /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/ 1. With constant frequency or pattern. Example: We regularly buy lottery tickets from the corner store. Example: Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar. 2. normally; ordinarily. Example: Noemi decided to dress regularly for the party, instead of going for an outrageous outfit. Example: The period of life at which initiation takes place is regularly puberty.
Word: sesquiplicate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Surface form sesqui- (“one and a half”) + plicate (“fold”); by analogy with duplicate. 1. Magnified by one and one-half; in a ratio of three to two. Labels: not-comparable
Word: scamper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. Pronunciation: /ˈskæmpə/, /ˈskæmpɚ/, /ˈskeə̯mpɚ/, /ˈskɛə̯mpɚ/ 1. A quick, light run.
Word: scamper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. Pronunciation: /ˈskæmpə/, /ˈskæmpɚ/, /ˈskeə̯mpɚ/, /ˈskɛə̯mpɚ/ 1. To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner. Labels: intransitive Example: The dog scampered after the squirrel. Example: [W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
Word: scamper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scamp + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈskæmpə/, /ˈskæmpɚ/, /ˈskeə̯mpɚ/, /ˈskɛə̯mpɚ/ 1. One who skimps or does slipshod work.
Word: gush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative. Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌʃ/ 1. A sudden rapid outflow. Example: There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.
Word: gush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative. Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌʃ/ 1. To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. Labels: also, figuratively, intransitive Example: Water gushed out of the broken pipe. Example: After he was stabbed, blood came gushing out his throat. 2. To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: The other was no longer capable of controlling his anger; his parasite creature amplified his passion by ten; his jaws cracked open and his great mouth gushed blood from torn gums as teeth grew out of them like bone sickles. Example: A beautiful spring gushed water from the ground in this mountainous sector of Polk County, inspiring the name of the place. 3. To ejaculate during orgasm. Labels: especially, intransitive Example: Her orgasm exploded over her, making her writhe and cry out his name. She gushed over his hand, her cunt gripping and releasing his invading fingers. Example: Somehow, this made his ejaculations all the more exciting, sending hot tingles streaking through her as he gushed. 4. To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, transitive Example: The young mother was gushing over a baby. Example: Miss Johnson gushed approval with her usual air of coquettish superiority.
Word: repellent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin repellēns. Equivalent to repel + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈpɛlənt/, /ɹɪˈpɛlənt/, /ɹiˈpɛlənt/ 1. Repulsive, inspiring aversion. Example: The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me. Example: People are rightly and justifiably terrified with our culture. Many aspects of it are destructive and repellant. 2. Resistant or impervious to something. Example: All that fabric's supposed to be dust-repellent. 3. Tending or able to repel; driving back. Labels: archaic Example: These particles exercise a-highly repellent force.
Word: repellent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin repellēns. Equivalent to repel + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈpɛlənt/, /ɹɪˈpɛlənt/, /ɹiˈpɛlənt/ 1. A substance or solution used to repel insects, dangerous animals, or other pests. Example: None of the mosquito repellents we've tried work. Example: The most successful form of shark repellent, according to US Naval Research Laboratory tests, was a combination of copper acetate and a dark nigrosine dye, and cakes of this mixture were apparently now attached to the Mae Wests of all the US Armed Forces. 2. A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something. Example: They applied dirt repellent to the sports car. 3. Someone or something that repels. Labels: broadly, obsolete
Word: bagpipes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag + pipes. Pronunciation: /ˈbæɡˌpaɪps/ 1. A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire. Example: “Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”
Word: musical instrument Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English musical instrumentis pl, musicalle instrumentes pl. 1. A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
Word: embonpoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French embonpoint. Pronunciation: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/ 1. Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was slightly inclined to embonpoint. Example: The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
Word: embonpoint Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French embonpoint. Pronunciation: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/ 1. Plump, chubby, buxom. Example: "Though it is six years since I have seen you," exclaimed Anne, "you are not the least altered; instead of that, you are handsomer than ever; your being rather more embonpoint suits you, and your complexion is brilliant to a degree."
Word: overhaul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English haul English overhaul From over- + haul. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/, /ˈoʊvɚˌhɔl/, /ˈoʊvɚˌhɑl/ 1. A major repair, renovation, or revision. Example: The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly. Example: One aim of the move [from Nine Elms] had been to speed up the overhaul of the company's locomotive stock and to reduce costs with more efficient workshop facilities, in what Dugald Drummond claimed to be "the most complete and up-to-date works owned by any railway company". 2. The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.
Word: overhaul Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English haul English overhaul From over- + haul. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈhɔːl/, /ˌoʊvɚˈhɔl/, /ˌoʊvɚˈhɑl/ 1. To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely. Example: While the engines are dealt with in the diesel shop, their parent locomotives are overhauled in the erecting shop. Example: In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day. 2. To pass, overtake, or travel past. Example: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter. Example: In theory there was a runner ahead of him who would pause to sleep. Who would falter and fall. Who would despair at the size of the desert. Because Logan did none of these he would overhaul the runner and kill him. 3. To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs. 4. To search (a ship) for contraband goods. Labels: transitive 5. To carry out an overhaul.
Word: trotter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er. 1. One who trots. Example: Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter. Example: ... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…] 2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer. Example: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house. 3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat. Example: grange cookbook recipes for trotters Example: Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements. 4. A person's foot. Labels: slang Example: Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand. 5. A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders. Labels: UK, historical Example: One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.
Word: tusk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz Proto-West Germanic *tunsk Old English tūsc Old English tūx Middle English tusk English tusk From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūsc, tūx (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌsk/, /ˈtʊsk/ 1. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life. Example: Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade. 2. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. 3. A tusk shell. 4. A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth. 5. A sharp point. 6. The share of a plough.
Word: tusk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz Proto-West Germanic *tunsk Old English tūsc Old English tūx Middle English tusk English tusk From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūsc, tūx (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌsk/, /ˈtʊsk/ 1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do. 2. To gore with the tusks. 3. To bare or gnash the teeth. Labels: obsolete
Word: tusk Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtʌsk/, /ˈtʊsk/ 1. An edible fish, Brosme brosme.
Word: walrus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/, /ˈwoːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/ 1. A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus. Example: Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse. 2. A man with a walrus moustache. Labels: derogatory, informal, sometimes Example: You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off? Example: One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.
Word: walrus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/, /ˈwoːl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/, /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/ 1. To hunt walruses Example: It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them. 2. To be like a walrus Example: Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat 3. To be like a walrus Example: His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth 4. To be like a walrus Example: Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.
Word: flipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”). Pronunciation: /ˈflɪpə/, /ˈflɪpɚ/ 1. In marine mammals such as whales (or other secondarily aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide, flat limb adapted for swimming. 2. A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 3. A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. Example: Early pinball machines demanded that a player shake the entire table in an effort to guide the ball through the obstacles (pins—hence the name). Later iterations had mechanical flippers like today's, but more of them—six, which were distributed three on each side up and down the body of the machine. 4. A small flat used to support a larger one. Example: The flipper is designed to give support by standing at a 90-degree angle to the flat. It probably gets its name from its appearance: cut out like a piece of profile scenery, it resembles the flipper of a marine animal, […] Example: When standing alone, a flat may have a small extension, a FLIPPER, for added strength. 5. A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 6. Television remote control, clicker. Labels: US, informal 7. The hand. Labels: dated, slang Example: Give me your flipper, old man, and tell me if I can be of any service to you. I'll do what you want at all hazards. 8. A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. Example: Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry." 9. A kitchen spatula. Example: Remember the mornings when you help me fix eggs and pancakes for breakfast. You always had to use the “flipper” to turn the pancakes and eggs. 10. Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. Example: Two notable examples of Zombie Formalism would be the electroplated silver monochromes of Jacob Kassay (b. 1984) and the “Rain Paintings” of Lucien Smith (b. 1989), both recent favorites of the art flippers. 11. Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
Word: flipper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”). Pronunciation: /ˈflɪpə/, /ˈflɪpɚ/ 1. To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
Word: pinball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pin + ball. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪnˌbɔːl/ 1. A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The ball used in pinball. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.
Word: pinball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pin + ball. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪnˌbɔːl/ 1. To dart about rapidly. Labels: intransitive Example: Like most immigrants, Gibbs came South for economic reasons and soon found himself pinballing around a world circumscribed by the hot growth markets... Example: They went off the road and pinballed alongside a stretch of guardrail as the Bambis scattered.
Word: raft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”). Pronunciation: /ɹɑːft/, /ɹæft/ 1. A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. Example: They floated down the river on an inflatable raft 2. Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. Labels: broadly Example: When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind of raft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as his raft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the first raft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced. Example: Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door. There was plenty of room on the raft. I know. I know, I know. 3. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. Example: Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […] 4. A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river. Labels: US 5. A slice of toast. Labels: US, slang 6. A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope. 7. A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
Word: raft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”). Pronunciation: /ɹɑːft/, /ɹæft/ 1. To convey on a raft. Labels: transitive Example: For timber I imported pine logs from Manchuria, rafted them two hundred miles down the Yalu River, three hundred miles over the Yellow Sea, and twenty miles up the Tatung River, where a thirty-five-foot tide lifted the consignment to Pyongyang. 2. To make into a raft. Labels: transitive 3. To travel by raft. Labels: intransitive 4. To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space. Example: The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.
Word: raft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of raff. Pronunciation: /ɹɑːft/, /ɹæft/ 1. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot. Example: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them. Example: Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].
Word: raft Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɑːft/, /ɹæft/ 1. simple past and past participle of reave Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past Example: Colin Clout raft me of his brother
Word: bleep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈbliːp/ 1. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A general euphemism for any expletive. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: What the bleep are you doing? Example: Who the bleep are you, Bob Kavin, to tell lesbians whether or not it's "appropriate" for us to gather together as women? 3. A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work. Example: A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone. 4. A pager, usually one held by a doctor or nurse in a hospital. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: bleep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈbliːp/ 1. To emit one or more bleeps. Labels: intransitive Example: The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions. Example: The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock. 2. To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps. Labels: transitive 3. To contact someone by pager. Labels: UK Example: If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.
Word: halibut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *halibutt, equivalent to holy + but (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Cognate with Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte, Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra, and Norwegian Nynorsk hellefisk. Pronunciation: /ˈhæ.lɪ.bət/, /ˈhɒ.lɪ.bət/ 1. A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically. Example: [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.
Word: obduracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obdur(ate) + -acy. Pronunciation: /ˈɒb.dʊ.ɹə.si/, /-djʊ-/, /ˈɑbdʊɹəsi/ 1. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible. Example: By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...] Example: It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.
Word: idiomatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/, /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmæt.ɪk/, /ˌɪd.i.əˈmæt.ɪk/, /ˌəd.iː.əˈmɛt.ək/, /ˌɪd.i.əˈmat.ɪk/ 1. Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language. Example: The inclusion or omission of definite articles follows idiomatic norms in each language and depends on context and intent. Example: In English, the only idiomatic position for a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb is before the particle, whereas a noun as object can fall either before or after the particle; thus only he picked them up but either he picked his tools up or he picked up his tools. 2. Resembling or characteristic of an idiom. Example: An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched". 3. Using many idioms. 4. Relating to parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments. 5. Following the conventions of the language, or doing things in the common way for the language, rather than code that is ported from another language and therefore may not follow the common conventions.
Word: idiomatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/, /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmæt.ɪk/, /ˌɪd.i.əˈmæt.ɪk/, /ˌəd.iː.əˈmɛt.ək/, /ˌɪd.i.əˈmat.ɪk/ 1. Synonym of idiom. Example: A preprocessing (or text normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, and idiomatics in any format.
Word: Whitby Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old Norse hvítr býr (“white town”). Equivalent to white + -by. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtbi/, /ˈʍɪtbi/ 1. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A habitational surname from Old Norse. Labels: countable
Word: set phrase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From set + phrase. 1. An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic. Example: Bally remarks in passing, as Hall does not, that the inversion in toujours est-il que is part of a set phrase and hence invariable. Example: American courts sometimes use cherry in place of apple, but the latter fruit vastly predominates. The American version is that rare set phrase that is not so well set, variations on the phrase being more common than the main phrase itself. 2. An idiomatic expression in general. Example: If it proves clearly unfeasible to make the audience laugh at a thin and far-fetched joke, it is always better to change the way the joke works . . . for instance, a pun based on the speaker's taking literally some set phrase or metaphor with a pun based on phonetic similarity.
Word: Yorkshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Yorkschire; equivalent to York (“English city”) + shire. Displaced native cognate Middle English Everwich schire, from Old English Eoforwīcsċīr. Pronunciation: /ˈjɔːkʃə/, /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)/ 1. England's largest county. Situated in the northeast of England; divided into three ridings, (North, West and East, and The City Of York). Since 1974 for administration purposes local government has used different divisions. 2. A British English dialect as spoken (and possibly written) in the county of Yorkshire.
Word: Yorkshire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Yorkschire; equivalent to York (“English city”) + shire. Displaced native cognate Middle English Everwich schire, from Old English Eoforwīcsċīr. Pronunciation: /ˈjɔːkʃə/, /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A Yorkshire pudding. Labels: informal 2. A Yorkshire canary. Labels: informal Example: The Yorkshire Canary Club was founded in 1894. The Yorkshire can be up to 6¾ inches in length, and stands tall so that its height is obvious. Yorkshires are available in many colors and can have variegations on them.
Word: Gentoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)). 1. A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu. Labels: historical Example: The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country. Example: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133, The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat. 2. The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.
Word: Gentoo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)). 1. The Telugu language. Labels: historical
Word: halogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt" or "sea”) + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842). By surface analysis, halo- (“salt”) + -gen (“forming”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæl.ə.d͡ʒən/, /ˈheɪ.lə.d͡ʒən/ 1. Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine. Example: Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also release bromine gas and hydrogen bromide upon decomposition. 2. A light fixture in which the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas.
Word: quartz halogen lamp Part of Speech: noun 1. An incandescent light bulb in which the envelope is made of quartz instead of glass, and the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas, usually iodine.
Word: incandescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/, /ˌɪŋ.kænˈdɛs.ənt/, /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt/ 1. Emitting light as a result of being heated. Example: We will all go together when we go / All suffused with an incandescent glow Example: Rather than burning out as incandescent bulbs do, L.E.D.’s light output dims over tens of thousands of hours. L.E.D.’s are also more resistant to vibration than incandescents or screw-in fluorescent bulbs, and do not flicker or hum. 2. Shining very brightly. Example: Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars]. 3. Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc. Labels: figuratively Example: The incandescent performance enraptured the audience. 4. Extremely angry; furious. Example: She is incandescent with rage because someone stole her wallet.
Word: incandescent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/, /ˌɪŋ.kænˈdɛs.ənt/, /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt/ 1. An incandescent lamp or bulb. Example: Compact fluorescents are typically rated at 7,500 to 10,000 hours, and incandescents at about 1,500 hours.
Word: chloride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chlor(ine) + -ide, coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812. Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːˌɹaɪd/, /ˈklɔɹˌaɪd/ 1. Any binary compound of chlorine and another element or radical. 2. Any binary compound of chlorine and another element or radical. Example: Another type, also common in the Taipei area has more chlorides than sulfates, and while it is also hot, its flavor is more salty than sour. The springs at Chinshan on the north coast are typical of this type. Example: Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement. 3. The anionic form of a chlorine atom.
Word: fluoride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fluor(ine) Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English fluoride From fluor(ine) + -ide. Pronunciation: /ˈflʊəˌɹaɪd/, /ˈflɔːˌɹaɪd/, /ˈflʊɚˌaɪd/, /ˈflɔɹˌaɪd/ 1. A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: However, too much fluoride produces a mottling effect on teeth. Large doses of fluoride are actually toxic. Example: The public health practice of adding fluoride to water supplies faces new scrutiny as a few recent reports raise concerns about potential health risks and suggest the benefits may not be as significant as they once were. 3. The anionic form of a fluorine atom. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: whisk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-. Cognates Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”). Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”). The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪsk/, /ˈʍɪsk/, [ˈw̥ɪsk] 1. A quick, light sweeping motion. Example: With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom. 2. A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function). Example: He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle. 3. A bunch of twigs, hair, etc., used as a brush. Example: Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving. 4. A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle. Example: I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor. 5. A plane used by coopers for evening chines. 6. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress. Example: My wife in her new lace whiske.
Word: whisk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-. Cognates Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”). Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”). The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪsk/, /ˈʍɪsk/, [ˈw̥ɪsk] 1. To move something with quick light sweeping motions. Labels: transitive Example: Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench. Example: He that walks in gray, whisking his riding Page. 2. In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream. Labels: transitive Example: The chef prepared to whisk the egg whites for the angel's food cake. Example: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour. 3. To move something rapidly and with no warning. Labels: transitive Example: July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another. Example: The governess whisked the children from the room before they could see their presents. 4. To move lightly and nimbly. Labels: intransitive Example: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator. Example: The children whisked down the road to the fair, laughing and chattering as they went. 5. To move whiskers. Labels: transitive
Word: whisk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called from the rapid action of sweeping the cards off the table after a trick has been won. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪsk/, /ˈʍɪsk/, [ˈw̥ɪsk] 1. The card game whist. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Trump, noddy, whisk, hole[…]