nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: curvet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”). Pronunciation: /kɜːˈvɛt/, /kɚˈvɛt/ 1. Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. Labels: intransitive Example: Sometime he trots, as if he told the steps, / With gentle majesty and modest pride; / Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps, / As who should say, 'Lo! thus my strength is tried; / And this I do to captivate the eye / Of the fair breeder that is standing by.' Example: The boy turns into a dog and bow-wows—a cock, he flaps his wings and crows—a cow, he fetches a long drawn moo—a horse broke loose, he curvets, prances and kicks fearfully among his nursery blocks—a big bull, he waxes dangerous as he bellows and paws the carpet—a locomotive, he blows his steam whistle and dashes round the nursery with puffs and yells spasmodic, or taming down, sticks a feather in his cap and struts a soldier. 2. To cause to leap about, dart or jump. Labels: transitive Example: […] I could no more travel the same Path, again and again, than I could have Patience to mount a managed Horse, in the Riding-House, and curvet it in the same Spot, for three Hours together. Example: […] the upright leaden spout, curveting its liquid filament into [the well], is merely a representation of what the gardener himself, if called upon, could do better and more abundantly. 3. To fly or swim with darting movements. Example: […] flights of small, low-flying brown doves chased one another to and fro, and bee-eaters, emerald-green, curvetted like slow swallows. Example: The west wind was the music, the motion, the force / To which the swans curveted, a will to change, / A will to make iris frettings on the blank. 4. (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic. Labels: figuratively Example: He curvetted back into the living-room […] Example: It is not possible, many critics allege, that Juana Inés could have lived in the whirlwind of the court for five years […] and have emerged unscathed. I have already said that it would be absurd to discount the possibility of some curvetting and amorous play. 5. (of an object) To jump, skip, shake. Labels: figuratively Example: […] you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions. Example: The earth shook itself like an animal on whose back a predator has lodged. It spasmed, curvetted, tossed and writhed, to throw that malignity from its shoulders.
Word: curvet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”). Pronunciation: /kɜːˈvɛt/, /kɚˈvɛt/ 1. A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. Example: Complexion and constitution are alike revived by a drive in the Park—a white glove rests on the carriage window—and some 'gallant gray' or chestnut Arabian is curbed into curvets and foam by its whispering master. 2. A prank; a frolic.
Word: custrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French coustillier (“soldier armed with a coustille (“double-edged sword”)”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌstɹəl/ 1. A knight's attendant or man-at-arms; a knave.
Word: coistrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French coustillier (“soldier armed with a coustille (“double-edged sword”)”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌstɹəl/ 1. Alternative form of custrel. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative form of coistril. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ytterbia Part of Speech: noun 1. Ytterbium oxide. Labels: uncountable
Word: impoverished Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/, /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/ 1. Reduced to poverty. 2. Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted. Example: English has an impoverished inflectional system. Example: [I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.
Word: impoverished Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/, /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of impoverish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inactivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin āctīvitāsder. Middle French activitébor. English activity ▲ Latin in- ▲ Latin āctīvus Latin ināctīvuslbor. French inactifder. English inactive ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English inactivity From in- + activity or inactive + -ity. 1. The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Painters depicted Idle Hours (see fig. 99), reverie, solitude, and other themes that reflected Americans' new willingness to eschew productivity, and they sold their canvases to patrons who enjoyed both the inactivities portrayed and seeing themselves portrayed in inactivities. Example: Shepard: How do the Reapers survive out in dark space? Vigil: We have only theories. The researchers here came to believe the Reapers enter prolonged states of inactivity to conserve energy. Vigil: This allows them to survive the thousands and thousands of years it takes for organic civilization to rebuild itself. But in this state, they are vulnerable.
Word: Q and A Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the abbreviations Q and A used for question and answer. 1. A period of time in which questions are posed to an individual; an interview. Example: Gina Winthrop: Okay, um, welcome, please find a seat. Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Sure, I will, directly after I do a brief Q and A.
Word: Q and A Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the abbreviations Q and A used for question and answer. 1. In a Q and A style or fashion. Labels: informal, uncommon 2. Of a conversation: short, terse, abrupt, or without depth or lacking a tributary style, resembling a Q and A session. Labels: informal, uncommon
Word: daedal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin daedalus, from Ancient Greek δαίδαλος (daídalos, “skillful”). Pronunciation: /ˈdiːdəl/ 1. Skilful, ingenious, cunning. Example: His daedale hand would faile, and greatly faint, / And her perfections with his error taint […] Example: The daedal hand of Nature.
Word: idleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ydelnesse, from Old English īdelnes, from Proto-West Germanic *īdlanassī, equivalent to idle + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian īdelnisse (“idelness”), obsolete Dutch ijdelnis, Old Saxon īdalnussi (“idleness, vanity”), Old High German ītalnissa (“idleness, vanity, emptiness”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ 1. The state of being idle; inactivity. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being indolent; indolence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps [i.e., moles] nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […] 3. Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inactively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvus Latin ināctīvuslbor. French inactifder. English inactive 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 inactively From inactive + -ly. 1. In an inactive manner.
Word: dagga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans dagga, from Khoekhoe daxab. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɡə/, /ˈdaxa/ 1. Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, or a similar plant of the species Leonotis leonurus. Labels: Namibia, South-Africa, Zimbabwe, countable, uncountable Example: He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether. Example: A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga, no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on.
Word: dagga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Shona dhaka. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːɡə/ 1. Cement. Labels: South-Africa, uncountable
Word: jerkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First recorded in early 1500s. Possibly related to Dutch jurk (“dress”), itself of unknown origin and not attested before the 17th century. Derivation from Old French jo(u)rne (“day”) has been suggested. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɜː.kɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɝ.kɪn/ 1. A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves. Labels: historical Example: [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest. 2. A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat. Example: A tall and very good-looking kid in a jerkin came out of the store and rode the coupé off around the corner and came back walking, his glistening black hair plastered with rain. Example: I booked a room at the small hotel and deposited my luggage there. I bought myself strong boots, a pair of breeches, a jerkin, and a couple of shirts. Then I turned my back upon the town and climbed.
Word: jerkin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gyrkin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: debouch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French déboucher (de + bouche (“mouth”)), modelled on Italian sboccare. Pronunciation: /dɪˈbuːʃ/, /dɪˈbaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours. Example: In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, ... 2. A fortress at the end of a defile. Example: To prevent another demonstration of this character, and to insure a debouch on the south bank of the James, it became necessary to occupy Coggin's Point, which was done on the 3d, and the enemy driven back towards Petersburg.
Word: debouch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French déboucher (de + bouche (“mouth”)), modelled on Italian sboccare. Pronunciation: /dɪˈbuːʃ/, /dɪˈbaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space. Labels: intransitive Example: The pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which debouched into the arena. Example: Ungrateful brats debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference.
Word: livres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of livre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: housekeeper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + keeper. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊskipɚ/, /ˈhaʊskiːpə/ 1. Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc. Example: She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up. Example: The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage. 2. Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household. 3. Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody. Labels: archaic, colloquial Example: I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats. 4. Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder. Labels: archaic Example: He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.
Word: househusband Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + husband (etymologically equivalent to house + bond). 1. A man who tends to his home as a housekeeper or homemaker; the male equivalent of a housewife. Example: He’s always thought of himself as boring, “a white-bread suburban househusband.”
Word: nephrology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós) English nephro- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English nephrology From nephro- + -logy. Pronunciation: /nəˈfɹɒlədʒi/ 1. The branch of medicine that deals with the function and diseases of the kidneys. Labels: uncountable
Word: superstitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French superstitieux, from Latin superstitiōsus, from superstitio + -ōsus. Pronunciation: /ˌs(j)uː.pəˈstɪ.ʃəs/, /ˌs(j)u.pɚˈstɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Susceptible to superstitions. Example: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are. 2. Arising from or having the character of superstitions. 3. Overexact; unnecessarily scrupulous. Labels: archaic
Word: latticed Part of Speech: adj 1. Provided with latticework; having a pattern of fretwork. Example: In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.] 2. Shaped or arranged like a lattice.
Word: latticed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lattice Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ety Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of etymology. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: latticework Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lattice + -work. 1. A lattice or lattice-like structure; interlacing laths or strips. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A vine-like latticework of stars frosted the southern sky, and with his eyes he interlinked these spangled vines till he could trace many ice-white resemblances ... Example: On the former North Eastern Railway the signalling methods followed for many years resulted in a great number of structures being provided, all of substantial design, with tall latticework posts and sometimes duplicate arms below.
Word: lattice-work Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of latticework. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: Coca-Cola Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Niger-Congoder. English cola English Coca-Cola From two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut. Pronunciation: /ˌkoʊ.kəˈkoʊ.lə/ 1. A particular cola soft drink (type of carbonated drink), produced by the Coca-Cola Company.
Word: Coca-Cola Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Niger-Congoder. English cola English Coca-Cola From two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut. Pronunciation: /ˌkoʊ.kəˈkoʊ.lə/ 1. A serving of Coca-Cola.
Word: squidge Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skwɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To squash, most often between one's fingers. Labels: informal Example: The babies, giggled, smiled, and squidged dirt and dandelions between their fingers. 2. To fire a wink with a squidger. Example: Gyles Brandreth (1991), The Book of Solo Games, →ISBN, page 63: “The object of the game is to be the first player to squidge all one's winks into the cup.”
Word: squidge Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /skwɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A tight space; squeeze. Labels: informal Example: If we go into the elevator too, it'll be a bit of a squidge. 2. The act of firing a wink with a squidger.
Word: entheomania Part of Speech: noun 1. The abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired. Labels: uncountable
Word: meagre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French maigre. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːɡɚ/ 1. An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic. Example: 1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] . Example: It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.
Word: meagre Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”). Pronunciation: /ˈmiːɡɚ/ 1. Having little flesh; lean; thin. Labels: Canada, UK, common Example: […]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: 2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent Labels: Canada, UK, common Example: Nothing will grow in this meagre soil. Example: He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite. 3. Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. Labels: Canada, UK, common 4. Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). Labels: Canada, UK, common
Word: meagre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”). Pronunciation: /ˈmiːɡɚ/ 1. To make lean. Labels: Canada, UK, common, transitive Example: I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.
Word: meagerly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English meager Middle English -ly English -ly English meagerly From meager + -ly. 1. In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.
Word: meagrely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English meagre Middle English -ly English -ly English meagrely From meagre + -ly. 1. In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
Word: meagerness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English meager 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 meagerness From meager + -ness. 1. The state of being meager. Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: meagreness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English meagre 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 meagreness From meagre + -ness. 1. The state of being meagre. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: lopen Part of Speech: noun 1. A teacher or master.
Word: vies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vie Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overgarment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English overgarment; equivalent to over- + garment. 1. A garment normally worn over other garments.
Word: overtly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English overt Middle English -ly English -ly English overtly From overt + -ly. 1. In an overt manner; publicly; openly. Example: Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist. Example: The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.
Word: zeer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of zir (“water jug”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Cholera is in the majority of cases a water-borne disease, due to water having become Cholera-contaminated [...] Water from zeers and goulahs should be looked upon with suspicion unless these are carefully watched and cleaned. Example: Before leaving Khartoum the bilge water in the various sections should be oiled by pouring petroleum on the surface [...] collections will harbour mosquito larvae, and attention should therefore be paid to the water-closet cisterns, zeers and tanks.
Word: ætiology Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of aetiology. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: overtness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English overt 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 overtness From overt + -ness. 1. The state of being overt; openness. Labels: uncountable
Word: replicon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From replic(ate) + -on. 1. A DNA molecule or a region of DNA that replicates as an individual unit. A replicon may be, for instance, a chromosome, a plasmid or a phage. Example: During cell division there is a probability that either or both of the master replicons will misreplicate and one of the daughter cells will be missing a master copy.
Word: perversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English perversion. Pronunciation: /pəˈvɜː.ʒən/, /pəɹˈvɜɹ.ʒən/, /pəˈvøː.ʒən/, /pəɾˈvɛɾ.ʒən/, /pʌɾˈvɛɾ.ʒʌn/ 1. The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being perverted; depravity; vice. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After all, the great error in human judgment is not so much wilful perversion, as that we judge according to situation, and always make that situation our own ; while the chances are, that we really have not one thought, feeling, or habit, in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves qualified to decide. 4. A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Ellipsis of tendril perversion. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: pervertedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English perverted 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 pervertedness From perverted + -ness. 1. The state of being perverted; perversion. Labels: uncountable
Word: reversional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reversion Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English reversional From reversion + -al. 1. Pertaining to reversion.
Word: reversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revertō. By surface analysis, revert + -sion. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜːʒ(ə)n̩/, /ɹɪˈvɜːʃ(ə)n̩/, /ɹɪˈvɚʒən/, /ɹəˈvɚʒən/ 1. The act or process of reverting something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: reversal 2. The act or process of reverting something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: rollback (sometimes synonymous) 3. The action of returning to a former condition or practice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green. Example: Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it. That's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries. 4. The fact of being turned the reverse way. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The action of turning something the reverse way. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver— Example: Each day too slew it’s^([sic]) thousands six or seven, Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo— They threw their pens down in divine disgust, The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […] (Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion— ’Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion). 7. An estate which has been returned in this manner. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A sum payable on a person's death. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim. Labels: countable, proscribed, uncountable, usually
Word: reversionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English reversion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English reversionist From reversion + -ist. 1. One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change. Example: The right-wing Reversionist focuses on a small town past where law, order and predictability prevail. Example: These reversionists think technology and industrialism are synonymous. They can't imagine clean technology, human technology. 2. One who has lost faith; a heathen, nonbeliever, or apostate. Example: But for the reversionist the indwelling of Christ has no effect. Example: The reality which is expected is the justice of God judging unbeliever reversionists, both Jews and Gentiles, and sending them to the Lake of Fire. 3. The person to whom a property reverts when a freehold expires. Example: As to the argument about the possibility of the reversionist not being capable of discharging his duties, that would equally apply to the granting a place for one life, as then the holder might live so long, or become so infirm as to be unable to fulfil all the duties of his situation. Example: If the particular species of clamour, to which we allude, has in some degree subsided, we doubt whether the cessateion of hostilities is so much to be ascribed to a full sense of its absurdity and wickedness, as to a growing consciousness that the lewd libidinous stare, directed against the jewels of the crown, would in time be transferred to wealth of a more substantial kind, and that the fund-holder and land-owner would come in for a share of that clamour which had hitherto been confined to the pensionist and the reversionist.
Word: reversionist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reversion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English reversionist From reversion + -ist. 1. Pertaining to or characteristic of reversionists. Example: Certain fringe ecologists are quite as reversionist in their thinking, and reach even farther back for their image of the good life. Example: This confirms that the design process is more reversionist than might be imagined.
Word: reversionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English reversion Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English reversionary From reversion + -ary. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)ʒənəɹi/, /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)ʒənɹi/, /ɹəˈvɝʒəˌnɛɹi/ 1. A reversioner.
Word: reversionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reversion Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English reversionary From reversion + -ary. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)ʒənəɹi/, /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)ʒənɹi/, /ɹəˈvɝʒəˌnɛɹi/ 1. Pertaining to reversion, especially that of an estate. Example: a reversionary interest or right Example: If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
Word: reversioner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reversion + -er. 1. A person who possesses the reversion to an estate or office.
Word: oud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute. Pronunciation: /uːd/ 1. A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Oriental music is chiefly unrhythmical [...]. It is mostly rendered by a solo voice with accompaniment of the Ud, a kind of lyre or mandolin, or Kanun, resembling a guitar. Example: Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle. The oud's origins are unknown, although myths attribute either celestial or magical beginnings, it more likely came from ancient Persia. 2. Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated “beautiful” by my co-author. Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.
Word: passers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of passer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of han (“sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: kast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kastō. 1. A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries Example: At Clifford A. Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green. Example: The exhibition includes the kinds of Dutch furnishings that might have been found in 17th- century estates: pewter plates, silver bowls, brass candlesticks, Dutch tiles, Bible boxes, Delft jars and Dutch cupboards, called kasts.
Word: uncultivated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + cultivated. 1. Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation. 2. Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge Example: I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome. 3. Not attended to or fostered.
Word: kist Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of kiss. Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: To me my Julia lately sent A Bracelet richly Redolent The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her That did perfume the Pomander.
Word: kist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh 1. A chest. Labels: Scotland Example: the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […] 2. A coffin. Labels: Scotland 3. Alternative form of cist (“crypt”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.
Word: kist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh 1. To place in a coffin. Labels: Scotland, transitive
Word: kist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”). 1. An individual installment of the yearly land revenue. Labels: British, India
Word: unhistorical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English historical English unhistorical From un- + historical. 1. Not historical; not based on history. Labels: not-comparable Example: There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical. Example: If one is a liberal, one hopes that this political consciousness will eventually find less costly forms of expression […] But it would be unhistorical to bemoan the protesters' resort to violence […] Movements of social liberation just don't happen that way, much as we might wish they did.
Word: unhistoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English un- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Indo-European *wéydtōr Proto-Hellenic *wístōr Ancient Greek ἵστωρ (hístōr) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορέω (hĭstoréō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía)bor. Latin historia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin historicusder. English historic English unhistoric From un- + historic. 1. Not historic or historical. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unhistorically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unhistoric Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English unhistorically From unhistoric + -ally. 1. In an unhistoric or unhistorical manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unlicensed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English licensed English unlicensed From un- + licensed. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈlaɪsənst/, [ˌʌnˈlaɪsn̩st] 1. Not licensed; not officially authorized. Example: Since then, three more babies have died in unlicensed child-care programs in Virginia. 2. Without permission. 3. Free from requiring a license.
Word: unsaleable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + saleable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈseɪləbl̩/ 1. Not sellable. Example: Rita was drifting about the shop one morning, and had stopped to meditate glumly over an unsaleable collection of old chairs, when a little old man entered the shop and stopped to eject a loud snort at the chairs, too. Example: After the fully documented records have been made available for study by experts of other railways in a few months' time, the high-powered diesel-hydraulic locomotive might become an increasingly unsaleable commodity in world markets.
Word: unsaleable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + saleable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈseɪləbl̩/ 1. Something that cannot be sold.
Word: unsaleability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being unsaleable. Labels: uncountable
Word: unsalable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English salable English unsalable From un- + salable. 1. Something that cannot be sold. Labels: US
Word: unsalable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English salable English unsalable From un- + salable. 1. Not salable; unmerchantable. Example: The spread ratio of the cookie can be crucial in a commercial plant; if the ratio suddenly changes (in either direction), the cookies may not fit into the carton or tray and may be unsalable because they are unpackageable.
Word: unsaleableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English unsaleable 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 unsaleableness From unsaleable + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being unsaleable. Labels: uncountable
Word: per- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin perbor. Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per-bor. English per- Borrowed from Latin per and per-. 1. In verbs: denoting the sense "through", as in perforate. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme 2. In verbs: denoting the sense "thoroughly", as in perfect. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme 3. In verbs: denoting the sense "to destruction", as in pervert. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme 4. In adjectives and adverbs: denoting the sense "extremely", as in perfervid. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme 5. Forming nouns and adjectives denoting the maximum proportion of one element in a compound, as in peroxide. Labels: morpheme 6. Added to the name of an element in a polyatomic ion to denote the number of atoms of that element (usually four). Labels: morpheme
Word: per- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Borrowed from Old French per (modern French par). 1. Denoting the sense "by" or "per", as in perchance or perhaps. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme
Word: mand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Introduced by B. F. Skinner. Pronunciation: /mænd/, /mɑːnd/ 1. A verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.
Word: mand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Introduced by B. F. Skinner. Pronunciation: /mænd/, /mɑːnd/ 1. To produce a mand (verbal operant).
Word: mand Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mænd/, /mɑːnd/ 1. A demand. Labels: obsolete
Word: maat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”). Doublet of mate. 1. mate; buddy Labels: South-Africa, slang Example: A lot of my maats went west.
Word: maat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Egyptian mꜣꜥt (“truth, righteousness, justice”). 1. The ancient Egyptian concept of justice, order, and harmony. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: stap Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /stæp/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of stop. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, pronunciation-spelling
Word: Faries Part of Speech: name 1. A surname transferred from the given name originating from Scotland. First found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland where they held a family seat from very early times.
Word: titles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪtl̩z/ 1. plural of title Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spontaneously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English spontaneous Middle English -ly English -ly English spontaneously From spontaneous + -ly. Pronunciation: /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs.li/, /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs.li/ 1. In a spontaneous manner; naturally; voluntarily. Example: The idea that the body could spontaneously ignite was promoted by the 19th-century temperance movement. Example: Smaller-scale isolated deaf-education programs had existed previously in 20th-century Nicaragua, Shepard-Kegl says, but the critical mass needed to spontaneously develop Nicaraguan Sign Language only occurred with the opening of Melania Morales.
Word: studied Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈstʌd.id/, [ˈstʌɾ.id] 1. simple past and past participle of study Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: studied Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈstʌd.id/, [ˈstʌɾ.id] 1. Practiced; self-conscious; careful; not spontaneous. Example: She gave a studied reply. Example: He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement. 2. Qualified by, or versed in, study; learned. Labels: dated Example: He is well studied in theology. Example: I asked a man well read, well studied in Nietzsche, what the lifelong task was. He could not say. He had only read and studied and loved Nietzsche’s books.
Word: helder Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Old Norse heldr. Cognate with Danish heller. 1. Rather. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: ascendancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ascend + -ancy or ascendant + -cy. The use in ecology is due to Robert Ulanowicz. Pronunciation: /əˈsɛndənsi/ 1. The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide. Example: The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat. 2. Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century. Labels: Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, countable, ellipsis, historical, sometimes, uncountable Example: [W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie. Example: True, the “ascendancy” remained a crucial and significant governing class in Irish life, and would remain so for generations. 3. A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ascendency was found to be a useful indicator for the health assessment of marine benthic ecosystems over space and time.
Word: ascendance Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈsɛndəns/ 1. Ascendancy, superiority; the act of ascending. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The phenomenon coincides with the ascendance of Sinn Féin. Once an IRA mouthpiece with fringe support, it is now Ireland’s most popular party and appears poised to lead the next government.
Word: potassio- Part of Speech: prefix 1. potassium Labels: morpheme
Word: vals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of val Labels: form-of, plural
Word: veel Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of veal. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: veel Part of Speech: verb 1. feel Labels: UK, nonstandard Example: 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire To Veel. v. To feel. Veel’d. part. Felt.
Word: veel Part of Speech: noun 1. field Labels: UK, nonstandard
Word: strut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English strūtian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”). The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”). The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)). Pronunciation: /stɹʌt/, [stɹɐt], [stɹʊ̈t], /stɹət/, /stɹʊt/ 1. A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking. Labels: also, figuratively Example: Putting on his hat, and thrusting both hands into the pockets of his trousers, he marched with a nonchalant strut out of the room, [...] 2. An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff. Labels: historical