nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: malignity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity. * (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”. 1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter. Example: His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble. 2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable. 3. A group of goblins. Labels: collective, countable, neologism, uncountable Example: There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud. Example: A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.
Word: stream of consciousness Part of Speech: noun 1. The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience. 2. A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.
Word: Zanaki Part of Speech: name 1. A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Word: Zaramo Part of Speech: noun 1. an indigenous people of Tanzania Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Zaramo Part of Speech: name 1. the Bantu language of this people
Word: Zigua Part of Speech: noun 1. A Bantu ethnic group inhabiting in southwestern Tanga Region in Tanzania. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Zigua Part of Speech: name 1. A Bantu language of Tanzania and Somalia.
Word: Zinza Part of Speech: name 1. a Bantu language of Tanzania
Word: averred Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of aver Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pucker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/ 1. To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age. Example: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man". He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.
Word: pucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/ 1. A fold or wrinkle. Example: The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids. 2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. Labels: colloquial Example: What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!" 3. The anus. Labels: slang Example: […]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in.
Word: all-up service Part of Speech: noun 1. A postal service in which all mail is sent by airmail at the usual surface rate with no need of a special label.
Word: splint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”). Pronunciation: /splɪnt/ 1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece. 2. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece. Labels: West-Midlands 3. A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia. 4. A device to immobilize a body part. Example: [...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed. 5. A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate. Labels: historical Example: The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ancle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour. 6. Synonym of splent coal. 7. A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone. 8. A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Word: splint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”). Pronunciation: /splɪnt/ 1. To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints. Labels: transitive 2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough. 3. To press fingers against the vaginal wall to ease defecation. 4. To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive
Word: backhaul Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + haul. 1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.
Word: backhaul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + haul. 1. A return trip after delivery of cargo. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Low rates for backhaul account for the huge volume of waste paper shipped to Asia from the US. 2. The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bellying Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, belly + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of belly Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bellying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, belly + -ing. 1. Bulging or billowing. Labels: not-comparable Example: Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail? Example: And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains […]
Word: bellying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, belly + -ing. 1. A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing. Example: 1693, Simon de la Loubère, A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, translated by A.P., London: Tho. Horne, Part II, Chapter II. Of the Houses of the Siamese, and of their Architecture in Publick Buildings, page 32, But the Principal Ornament of the Pagodes, is to be accompanied, as generally they are, with several Pyramids of Lime and Brick […] Some there are which diminish and grow thick again four or five times in their heighth, so that the Profile of them goes waving: But these Bellyings out are smaller as they are in a higher part of the Pyramid. Example: 1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64, A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake;
Word: besetting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From beset + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of beset Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: besetting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beset + -ing. 1. The act of one who besets or attacks. Example: I might also here tell you of the contests and battles that such are engaged in, wherein they find the besettings of Satan, above any other of the saints.
Word: besetting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beset + -ing. 1. Deeply rooted; persistent. Example: The first thing to bear in mind (especially if we ourselves belong to the clerico-academic-scientific type, the officially and conventionally “correct” type, “the deadly respectable” type, for which to ignore others is a besetting temptation) is that nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenomena from our notice, merely because we are incapable of taking part in anything like them ourselves. Example: Rickie would not push himself. It was his besetting sin. 2. Obsessive Example: Neither were they connected with fear: he was conscious of no fear. Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.
Word: Black Angus Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a breed of black, hornless cattle from Scotland.
Word: black bloc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German schwarzer Block. 1. Any group of individuals who join a protest or demonstration, wearing black clothing including items to protect and/or conceal their faces and often engaging in violence and vandalism; the tactic of forming and participating in such a group. Example: It made perfect sense to Michael that the Berlin police would choose to infiltrate the Black Bloc, rather than the establishment leftist parties. Example: The Black Bloc tactics emerged in Germany in the 1980s, and caught the attention of the North American public during the 1999 Battle of Seattle.
Word: blue eye cod Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish, Hyperoglyphe antarctica, found in deep offshore waters off southern Australia.
Word: blue swimmer crab Part of Speech: noun 1. An edible crab (Portunus armatus, formerly included in Portunus pelagicus), found in inshore waters of southern Queensland, Australia.
Word: inshore Part of Speech: adj 1. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore. Example: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price. 2. Of a wind, blowing from the sea to the land.
Word: inshore Part of Speech: adv 1. Near the shore. Example: The sunset's roses faint and fain decline. Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale, Like an enormous coat of magic mail — Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline. 2. Towards the shore. Example: It is now believed that many species of sharks come inshore at night to feed and, therefore, that attacks made during the day are not related to the feeding process.
Word: deep-sea Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, related to or located in the deeper part of the sea. Example: The oarfish is a deep-sea fish. Example: At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968. 2. Of or related to an open sea. Example: deep-sea fishing 3. Of a port, able to accommodate the largest ships. Example: In addition to the long-standing relationship with Felixstowe (GBRf now carries a third of all containerised rail traffic arising from that port), operations have expanded at two other deep-sea ports - Southampton and Thames Gateway.
Word: deep sea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English depe see, equivalent to deep + sea. 1. The deeper part of the sea or ocean in which no light penetrates. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An open sea. (the part of the sea that is out of sight of land) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: deep sea fishing
Word: suspenders Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suspend + -er. Compare hanger. Pronunciation: /səˈspɛndɚz/, /səˈspɛndəz/ 1. A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off. Labels: US, plural, plural-only 2. Small straps, attached to a suspender belt, that hold up a woman's stockings. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only
Word: box-ticking Part of Speech: noun 1. The completion of a form containing multiple-choice questions in which one or more boxes need to be ticked by way of an answer. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: "It's not a box-ticking exercise and we now have a fantastic culture where people can talk about their mental health, get the support they need and colleagues support each other." 2. Completion of bureaucratic processes of little practical use. Labels: UK, broadly, figuratively, uncountable
Word: worthlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English worthless 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 worthlessness From worthless + -ness. 1. The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness. Example: We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them.
Word: breakout session Part of Speech: noun 1. A session of a conference, normally one of a choice of sessions following a plenary session, in which active participation of those attending is called for.
Word: plenary session Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plenarius (“full, entire”). 1. A session of a conference or other meeting at which all members are expected to be present. Example: The conference consists of five regular sessions spread across multiple rooms and two plenary sessions in the main auditorium.
Word: breastband Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From breast + band. 1. A strophium: a band worn around the breasts. 2. A band of canvas, attached to a ship's rigging, that provides support for the man heaving the lead in heavy weather.
Word: banknote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bank + note. Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋknəʊ̯t/, /ˈbæŋkˌnɵ̞ʊ̯t/, /ˈbæŋkˌnoʊ̯t/, /ˈbæŋkˌnɔʊ̯t/, /ˈbeɪ̯ŋkˌnoʊ̯t/ 1. A piece of currency made of paper or polymer. Example: Near-synonym: paper money 2. A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary. Labels: historical Example: Near-synonym: bank paper Example: Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?
Word: suspender belt Part of Speech: noun 1. An item of women's underwear consisting of a belt to which are attached suspenders for holding up stockings. Labels: Ireland, UK
Word: garter belt Part of Speech: noun 1. An item of women's underwear consisting of a belt to which are attached garters for holding up stockings. Labels: US
Word: viroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From virus + -oid. 1. Any of many short sections of RNA, but without the protein coat typical of viruses (the capsid), that are plant pathogens. 2. Any of certain defective viruses, such as hepatitis D, a human pathogen.
Word: chronologize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos)bor. English chrono- Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English chronology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English chronologize From chronology + -ize. 1. To establish an order of events based on the time of their occurrence.
Word: Proto-Sino-Tibetan Part of Speech: name 1. The original language, or rather, cluster of dialects, from which descended the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
Word: carven Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English carven, a variant (with the vowel modified to match the present stem) of Middle English corven, y-corven (“carved”), from Old English corfen, ġecorfen (“cut, carved”), from Proto-West Germanic *korban, from Proto-Germanic *kurbanaz (“cut, carved”), past participle of *kerbaną (“to carve”). Equivalent to carve + -en (past participle ending). 1. Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done. Labels: not-comparable Example: The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine. Example: I can fancy myself there now, the sun and the sweetness of the orange blossom bewildering in their purity, the green parrotlings in a nest behind a carven god simmering away contentedly like half a dozen kettles until with an express train shriek a red and green parent whizzed past me bearing a dinner for one, […]
Word: carven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English carven, a variant (with the vowel modified to match the present stem) of Middle English corven, y-corven (“carved”), from Old English corfen, ġecorfen (“cut, carved”), from Proto-West Germanic *korban, from Proto-Germanic *kurbanaz (“cut, carved”), past participle of *kerbaną (“to carve”). Equivalent to carve + -en (past participle ending). 1. past participle of carve. Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past Example: We both loved her now and for all time, she was stamped and carven on our hearts, and no other woman or interest could ever raze that splendid die.
Word: cash strapped Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of cash-strapped. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cash-strapped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the expression strapped for cash. 1. Without funds; low on or out of money. Example: As the number of successful business cases increases, there will be a need for external funding with the Treasury cash-strapped in the post-COVID period.
Word: deliberated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deliberate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chequered flag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: [Alt: Checkered flag] *(flag): From the pattern found on the flag signalling the end of a race. *(victory): In motor racing, an official waves a black and white chequered flag to signify the end of the race, starting with waving at the leading vehicle. 1. A black-and-white chequered flag which signifies the end of a race. 2. A victory in a race. Example: Come this October when Kelly lines up for his 19th appearance in the Bathurst 1000 he will again be hunting for that chequered flag, but before he even does his first warm up lap he will share a unique moment with his fans. […] As well as the livery Perkins had when claiming three chequered flags at Mount Panorama, Russel Ingall's 'Silver Bullet' and the #6 Castrol Edge Ford Performance Racing Falcon driven by Mark Winterbottom are also on the short list.
Word: Formula One Part of Speech: name 1. The highest class of motor racing sanctioned by the FIA. Example: There is a Formula One race this weekend.
Word: political correctness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From politically correct + -ness. 1. An avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude, marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against. Labels: uncountable Example: The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones. Example: I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't. 2. An avoidance of expressions or actions that are disadvantageous or disquieting to institutions or authorities. Labels: uncountable Example: Methodological considerations are further complicated by implications of political correctness in evaluating texts which, aside from their history and original form, have become accepted in a certain recension (vulgata) by institutions (typically, the national churches) which, in the opinion of some scholars, should be credited with a special status. 3. The result or product of being politically correct. Labels: countable
Word: lumber yard Part of Speech: noun 1. A business that sells finished wood products used to build objects, such as some furniture and fixtures, as well as materials to construct and repair structures such as houses, buildings, etc. Example: Most lumber yards have evolved into full-service hardware stores. 2. Alternative form of lumberyard. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hardware store Part of Speech: noun 1. A shop that sells tools, fasteners, and similar objects known collectively as hardware; related sundries used in construction, repair, and maintenance; and (usually) household goods.
Word: Gothenburg Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately from Swedish Göteborg, probably via German Gothenburg (now archaic). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒθn̩bɜːɡ/, /ˈɡɑθn̩bɝɡ/ 1. A city on the west coast of Sweden, in the province of Västergötland. It is the second-largest city in Sweden. Example: This is what Staffan I. Lindberg, the director of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, had to say about the state of the world while speaking over the phone to the Hankyoreh on Thursday, only a few days ahead of the UN-designated International Day of Democracy on Sept. 15. 2. A city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States, originally settled by Swedish people.
Word: house number Part of Speech: noun 1. The number (street address) assigned to a particular house to distinguish it from other buildings on the same street. 2. The physical representation of this number (for example, affixed to the door or painted on a mailbox).
Word: monograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -graph (“write”). 1. A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects; especially, such a document that is written by one person. Example: It may still be years before we see, what we all look forward to, the great and final book on Knossos. Meanwhile learned monographs on different sections of the subject have been fast accumulating. They form the principal contents of six successive Annuals of the British School at Athens, and a not inconsiderable portion of the six corresponding volumes of The Journal of Hellenic Studies. Example: The complex history of the Wirral Railway and the lines with which it was interlinked needs more lucid treatment than is given in this 39-page monograph - and clearer maps and an index. 2. A nonserial (nonperiodical) publication: a one-time publication. Labels: archaic 3. A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself. Labels: uncommon
Word: monograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -graph (“write”). 1. To write a monograph on (a subject). Labels: transitive Example: It is among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. 2. Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance). Labels: US, transitive
Word: Malmö Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːlmɜː/, /ˈmɑːlməʊ/, /ˈmalməʊ/, /ˈmɑlmʊ/, /ˈmɑlmoʊ/ 1. A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast. Example: Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.
Word: street address Part of Speech: noun 1. The address of a building, typically comprising a house number, street name, city, and postcode.
Word: cabinetry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cabinet + -ry. 1. Synonym of cabinetmaking (“fine woodworking to produce cabinets”). Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Synonym of cabinetwork (“the cabinets thus made”). Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: caloyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French caloyer, from Italian caloiero, from Ancient Greek κᾰλόγηρος (kălógēros, “venerable”), from κᾰλός (kălós, “beautiful”) + γῆρας (gêras, “old age”). Pronunciation: /kəˈlɔɪə/ 1. A reclusive monk of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Word: ibn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *bin- Arabic اِبْن (ibn)bor. English ibn Borrowed from Arabic اِبْن (ibn, “son”). 1. son of Example: "Ali ibn Amr": "Ali son of Amr".
Word: casework Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From case + work. 1. Any type of work done on an individual case, such as a legal case or a client case in social services. Labels: uncountable Example: Most of her time is spent on casework, rather than research. 2. Boxlike or box-shaped woodwork or manufactured, boxed furniture. Labels: uncountable
Word: monstrance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mustraunce, from Old French mostrance, monstrance, from post-classical Latin mōnstrantia, from classical Latin mōnstrāns, present participle of mōnstrāre (“to show”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnstɹəns/, /ˈmɑnztɹəns/ 1. An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration. Example: He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice and smiting his breast for his sins. Example: Sir Oswald had done pretty well during the war out of his timber, and there had been no death duties to pay for many years, not since the old man had died. But there was no doubt that the shoe was beginning to pinch. He had been obliged to sell that Spanish monstrance in '30, or was it '31?
Word: cast-off Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from cast off. 1. Alternative form of castoff. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cast-off Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from cast off. 1. Alternative form of castoff. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: causticization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English causticize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English causticization From causticize + -ation. 1. The process of making something caustic. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: castoff Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from cast off. 1. Discarded, rejected. Labels: not-comparable
Word: castoff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from cast off. 1. Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. Example: Found art is created when odd, disparate, unlikely, even long-abandoned castoffs are put together with other similarly unexpected remnants to create something new and, if all goes as planned, lovely.
Word: cayuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cayuse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: centrepin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From centre + pin. 1. a fishing reel consisting of a revolving drum with attached handles
Word: chaffering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of bargaining or haggling over a price. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air. Example: He had the practised face of a dealer also. But he was a Jew and chaffering was in his blood, and he said, "A bit stiff, isn't it? I mean without a guarantee that it's by the original maker?"
Word: chaffering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chaffer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chickenhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chicken + house. 1. Synonym of chicken coop. Example: [H]e might catch that dirty big black retriever in his chicken-house, red-legged, with blood in its teeth and henshit in its tail.
Word: chicken coop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chicken + coop. 1. A building, often wooden with wire netting, in which a small number of poultry are kept. 2. A weigh station. Labels: slang Example: There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps And rigs of every size. Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears And choppers filled the skies.
Word: chickenyard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chicken + yard. 1. A chicken run. Labels: US
Word: chicken run Part of Speech: noun 1. An enclosed area, attached to a chicken coop, in which poultry are allowed to run around and peck. 2. The act of "gapping it", i.e. emigrating from Rhodesia as a white inhabitant during the country's transition to independence. Labels: historical, slang Example: By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known […]
Word: clacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clacking Part of Speech: noun 1. A sound that clacks.
Word: clack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”). Pronunciation: /klæk/ 1. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk. 2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve. 3. Chatter; prattle. Example: whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack 4. The tongue. Labels: colloquial
Word: clack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”). Pronunciation: /klæk/ 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. Labels: intransitive Example: We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches. Example: [He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble. 2. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. Labels: transitive 3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration. Example: There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings Example: The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too. 4. To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. Labels: UK 5. Dated form of cluck. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps. Example: We drive on between meadows of mown grass, through a pergola of vines, and so to an orchard of peaches, apples, and pears and a hen colony housed in neat modern cottages, the chickens clacking and scratching away […]
Word: clacks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /klæks/ 1. plural of clack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clacks Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /klæks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of clack Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cladistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A back-formation from cladistics. 1. Relating to a clade. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to cladistics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: clannish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂ Proto-Italic *plāntā? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-der. Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk /*gteh₂ Proto-Italic *plānktā Latin plantabor. Old Welsh plantbor. Old Irish cland Middle Irish clann Irish clannbor. ▲ Middle Irish clann Scottish Gaelic clannbor. English clan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English clannish From clan + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈklæn.ɪʃ/ 1. Of or related to a clan. 2. Socially exclusive. Example: Gendrot describes a “clannish” system that ensures officers close ranks to protect their own, leading to a sense of impunity.
Word: clavicular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English clavicle Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -ārisbor. English -ar English clavicular From clavicle + -ar. Pronunciation: /kləˈvɪk.jʊ.lə/, /klæˈvɪk.jə.lɚ/, /kləˈvɪk.jəl.ɚ/ 1. Of or relating to the clavicle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cleaveth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cleave + -eth. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cleave Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: climb up Part of Speech: verb 1. to make a gradual ascent or increase Labels: intransitive 2. to gradually ascend something Labels: transitive
Word: cubhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cub Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood English cubhood From cub + -hood. 1. the state of being a cub Labels: uncountable 2. youth Labels: broadly, uncountable
Word: cumbered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cumber Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English cumbered From cumber + -ed. 1. Encumbered; hampered. Labels: archaic Example: Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour. Example: Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.
Word: cumbered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English cumber Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English cumbered From cumber + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of cumber Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: heptathlete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *sṗɣ? Proto-Semitic *šabʕ-bor.? Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Hellenic *heptə́ Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ)bor. English hepta- English athlete English heptathlete From hepta- + athlete. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛp.tæθ.lit/ 1. An athlete who competes in the heptathlon. Example: “Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.” Example: He comes from a family of athletes: Greg, his father, was an elite vaulter for the U.S. Helena, his Swedish mother, was an international heptathlete and volleyball player.
Word: pentathlete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Hellenic *pénkʷe Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte) Ancient Greek πεντᾰ- (pentă-)lbor. English penta- English athlete English pentathlete From penta- + athlete. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛn.tæθ.lit/ 1. An athlete who competes in the pentathlon. Example: In Tokyo, that led to accusations of abuse after a German pentathlete and medal contender, Annika Schleu, was assigned a stubborn horse that refused to jump at all. Example: While the pentathletes at the Paris Games are indeed riding horses over a series of jumps as part of the event, they will face an entirely different fifth discipline when they get to Los Angeles in 2028: a race the organizers are calling a “‘Ninja Warrior’-style obstacle course.”
Word: biathlete Part of Speech: noun 1. An athlete who competes in the biathlon.
Word: Y2K38 Part of Speech: name Etymology: As for Y2K, with the addition of 38. 1. The year 2038, in which certain date-related bugs in computer software are expected to manifest themselves.
Word: Bonn Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Bonn. 1. An independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany. 2. The (West) German government. Labels: historical, metonymically 3. A locality in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia
Word: East Germany Part of Speech: name 1. A former Communist country of Central Europe, existing between 1949 and 1990. Official name: German Democratic Republic. Capital: East Berlin. Labels: historical Example: Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it. Example: In August 2021, Williams visited the Republic of Molossia, an 11.3-acre micronation in Nevada that declared independence from the United States of America in 1998, where he was given a personal tour by “His Excellency President Kevin Baugh.” He learned about the Republic of Molossia’s ongoing “war” with now-defunct East Germany, how the local currency (the “valora”) is backed by chocolate chip cookie dough instead of gold, and had his passport stamped and his photo taken on the “border” with the United States. 2. A geographic region of Germany, consisting of the states formerly part of the Cold War-era East Germany, also known as Eastern Germany.
Word: Jeeves Part of Speech: name Etymology: Originally a surname derived from a Middle English diminutive of Genevieve. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːvz/ 1. A surname originating as a matronymic. 2. A fictional valet in the stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Example: “Do you never overlook anything, Bunter?” ”I endeavour to give satisfaction, my lord.” ”Well, then, don’t talk like Jeeves. It irritates me. …” 3. A valet, butler or helper who fulfills the model of a helpful servant. Labels: broadly Example: When you name a baby Jeeves, you've pretty much mapped out his future, wouldn't you say?
Word: Düsseldorf Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Düsseldorf. Pronunciation: /ˈdʊsəldɔːf/, /ˈduːsəldɔɹf/, /ˈdʊsəldɔɹf/ 1. The capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 2. One of the five administrative regions of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Word: Lübeck Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Schleswig-Holstein, north-central Germany, northeast of Hamburg; a major Baltic port and industrial center, the present city dates from 1143 and was the leading town of the Hanseatic League after its designation as a free city in 1226; it retained that status until 1937.
Word: Rostock Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German, from Middle Low German Rozstoc, from West Slavic (probably Polabian), from Proto-Slavic *orz-tokъ (“river fork”) (compare Czech roztok). 1. An independent city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. 2. A rural district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Seat: Güstrow.
Word: Ulm Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ʊlm/, /ʌlm/ 1. A city on the River Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. 2. A town in Prairie County, Arkansas, United States.
Word: Bangor Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh bangor (“wattle”), from Old Welsh bancor (“wattle”) (sense 1), and from Irish Beannchar (sense 2). Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋɡə/, /ˈbæŋɡɚ/, /ˈbeɪ̯ŋɡɚ/, /ˈbɛ̃ŋɡɚ/, /ˈbæŋɡɔː/ 1. A city and community with a city council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5872). 2. A city and community with a city council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5872). 3. A city, formerly a town, in County Down, Northern Ireland. 4. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 5. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 6. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 7. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. Example: ‘Where are you from?’ Lionel asked, and then, because the question seemed too personal […] he said, ‘Not that you have to tell me.’ ‘Bangor,’ Charles said. ‘Maine.’ ‘What’s it like there?’ ‘Cold. Wet. Empty,’ he said. ‘It’s kind of a bleak place.’ 8. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 9. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 10. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 11. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 12. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 13. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 14. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 15. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 16. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 17. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 18. Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland. 19. A commune on Belle-Île, Morbihan department, Brittany, France.
Word: Gwynedd Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh Gwynedd. Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɪnɛð/, /ˈɡwɪnəð/, /ˈɡwɪnɪð/, /-d/, /ˈɡwɪnəd/ 1. A historical kingdom of Wales, in the north of the country. 2. A county of Wales, in the north-west of the country. 3. An unincorporated community in Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Word: Caernarvonshire Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Caernarfonshire. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: synchronised swimming Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of synchronized swimming Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Grimsby Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old Norse Grim (“male given name”) (Grimr, Grimnir, Grim; masked one, mask; Odin) + -s + býr (“village”). Equivalent of Grim + -s- + -by. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪmzbi/ 1. A large town and seaport on the Humber in North East Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England. 2. A town on Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada, named after the town in England. 3. An unincorporated community in Sand Ridge Township, Jackson County, Illinois, United States.
Word: tread water Part of Speech: verb 1. To remain afloat in the water without use of any buoyancy aid, by using kicking motions and hand motions. Example: Near-synonym: keep one's head above water Example: We gained the interior of the submarine cave without difficulty, and on emerging from the waves, supported ourselves for some time by treading water, while we held the two bundles above our heads. 2. To make no progress, expending effort just enough to maintain a stable position. Labels: figuratively Example: Near-synonym: keep one's head above water Example: Jem looked at me furiously, could not decline, ran down the sidewalk, treaded water at the gate, then dashed in and retrieved the tire. “See there?” Jem was scowling triumphantly. “Nothin‘ to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’.”
Word: Humber Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Humber, from Old English Humbre. 1. A large tidal estuary forming part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England. 2. A coastal sea area centered on this estuary. 3. A hamlet in Bishopsteignton parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9075). 4. A hamlet and civil parish (served by Humber, Ford and Stoke Prior Parish Council) south-east of Leominster, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5356). 5. A river in Newfoundland and Labrador. 6. A former make of British motor car. 7. A surname. Example: To that end, prosecutors allege that Allison and Humber pushed their followers to attack minority communities, government infrastructure, politicians, government officials and the leaders of private companies – some of whom, including a US senator and a federal judge, were included in a detailed list of “high value targets” for assassination.
Word: limb from limb Part of Speech: adv 1. dismembered Labels: not-comparable 2. completely apart; completely destroyed Labels: not-comparable