nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: trophy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French trophée, from Latin trophaeum (“a sign of victory, a monument”), tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊfi/, /ˈtɹɒfi/, /ˈtɹoʊfi/ 1. An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement. Example: He won the trophy in a running competition. 2. An object taken as a prize by a hunter, or a conqueror or belligerent, especially one that is displayed. Example: The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy. Example: Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, / And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, / And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. 3. Any emblem of success; a status symbol. Example: His trophies included his second wife, his successful children, the third and fourth homes in Palm Beach and Malibu, and his three yachts. Example: “The stakes are getting so high,” Mr. MacDonald-Korth said in a telephone interview, referring to the skyrocketing amounts being paid for trophy works of art. 4. An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime. Labels: broadly 5. A tropæum. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical 6. A display of weaponry and other militaria, often captured from a defeated enemy, as an ornament designed for the purpose of triumphalist display by a victor or as a show of military prowess by a monarch. Example: The souvenirs which many killers retain of their victims are often described as trophies, and Norman Bates's taxidermic interests derived from the real-life Ed Gein. Example: A trophy from this murder would have been of great importance. 7. An artifact or artwork that has been stolen by a criminal and traded on the black market. 8. An animal killed by a trophy hunter that usually has its parts sold on the black market.
Word: trophy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French trophée, from Latin trophaeum (“a sign of victory, a monument”), tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊfi/, /ˈtɹɒfi/, /ˈtɹoʊfi/ 1. To adorn (someone) with trophies. Labels: transitive Example: How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those vvarm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over vvhich Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round vvith golden hair. 2. To win a trophy in a competition. Labels: intransitive Example: He trophied at the 1993, 1994, 2012 and 2015 National Championships and was most proud of winning his class at the 2017 Spring Nationals.
Word: cut down Part of Speech: verb 1. To cut downward. Labels: intransitive, literally 2. To adulterate a drug. Labels: literally, transitive Example: We need to cut the cocaine down. 3. To bring down by cutting. Labels: transitive Example: They want to cut down several trees to make room for the parking lot. 4. To insult, to belittle. Labels: idiomatic, transitive 5. To reduce the amount of something. Labels: idiomatic Example: He wants to cut down on extra steps. Example: Please don't put the candy jar right next to my desk. I'm trying to cut down on sugar. 6. To slay, often in great numbers. Labels: dated, idiomatic Example: I will cut you down where you stand. 7. To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them. Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive 8. To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone). Labels: slang, transitive
Word: cut down Part of Speech: adj 1. Having been cut down; reduced in strength or power.
Word: examiner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English examine Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English examiner From examine + -er. Pronunciation: /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/ 1. A person who investigates someone or something. Example: Younger [Customs] examiners, who, perhaps, have not yet acquired the intuition resulting from years of experience, seem partly responsible for the closer examination of incoming luggage. Not only is this closer scrutiny arousing feelings of resentment among passengers, but it is causing serious delays in the departure of boat trains, many of which have been reaching their destinations two or three hours late. 2. A person who sets an examination. 3. A person who marks an examination.
Word: scrutiny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scrūtinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scrūtor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), from Late Latin scrūta (“rubbish, broken trash”), from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɹuː.tɪ.ni/, /ˈskɹuːʔ.n̩.i/, /ˈskɹu.tɪ.ni/, /ˈskɹuʔ.n̩.i/, /ˈskɹʉː.tɪ.ni/ 1. Intense study of someone or something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view / And narrower scrutiny. Example: So much for the occupant of the britscha, who waits, as all the horses are out at a ball or a scrutiny. 2. Thorough inspection of a situation or a case. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: come under scrutiny Example: A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny. 3. An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The Returning Officer on the day appointed to make a scrutiny of the poll
Word: scrutiny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scrūtinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scrūtor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), from Late Latin scrūta (“rubbish, broken trash”), from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɹuː.tɪ.ni/, /ˈskɹuːʔ.n̩.i/, /ˈskɹu.tɪ.ni/, /ˈskɹuʔ.n̩.i/, /ˈskɹʉː.tɪ.ni/ 1. To scrutinize. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: government issue Part of Speech: noun 1. Any articles issued in conformity with US military regulations or procedures. Labels: uncountable Example: government issue rations 2. A group of securities with the same maturity, interest rate, and terms and conditions issued by a government. Labels: countable
Word: GI can Part of Speech: noun 1. A galvanized trash can. Labels: US 2. A shell fired by the German Army in World War I. Labels: historical, slang
Word: milliner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is a variant of Milaner (“(obsolete) inhabitant or native of Milan”) (referring to the importation and sale of women’s apparel, etc., made in Milan: see noun sense 1), from Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪnə/, /ˈmɪlənəɹ/ 1. A person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in Milan. Labels: archaic Example: He hath ſongs for man, or vvoman, of all ſizes: No Milliner can ſo fit his cuſtomers vvith Gloues: […] Example: Hoſt. Here comes my vvife and daughter. / […] / Clovv[n]. She is a pretty lure to dravv cuſtome to your ordinary. / Hoſt. Doſt think I keep her to that purpoſe? / Clovv. VVhen a Dove-houſe is empty, there is cumin-ſeed uſed to purloine from the reſt of the neighbours; […] A Milliner has choice of Monkies, and Paraketoes; […] 2. A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women. Labels: specifically Example: The Milliner muſt be thoroughly verſed in Phyſiognomy; in the Choice of Ribbons ſhe muſt have a particular regard to the Complexion, and muſt ever be mindful to cut the Head-dreſs to the Dimentions of the Face. Example: The great difficulty generally experienced by amateur milliners in lining bonnets, is mainly attributable to the error of fixing the lining in the first instance to the edge of the bonnet, instead of arranging it previously at the head part.
Word: milliner Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is a variant of Milaner (“(obsolete) inhabitant or native of Milan”) (referring to the importation and sale of women’s apparel, etc., made in Milan: see noun sense 1), from Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪnə/, /ˈmɪlənəɹ/ 1. To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply (someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: We pass over his ridiculous observation […] that Sallust has been "man-millinered by Dr. [Henry] Steuart;" for on what we do not understand we can make no remarks. Example: In the east, the only "study of mankind, is man." They have no Miss [Maria] Edgeworth, nor any of those millinering cutters-out of human nature into certain patterns of given rules in education. 2. To adorn or decorate (something). Labels: archaic, figuratively, transitive Example: We would not have Poesy to be greatly millinered, whatever fashions other ladies may adopt; and when we meet her corseted in the iron framework of the sonnet's rhymes, and crinolined about with the unyielding drapery of its fourteen lines, we feel that she is no doubt elegantly dressed, but we long to see her in any other attire she is wont to put on.
Word: take exception Part of Speech: verb 1. To take offense; to object or protest. Example: I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists. Example: I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction. 2. To object to; to disagree with. Example: A correspondent of The American has taken exception to the use, in a recent paragraph in this column, of the word “electrocution.” The writer of the paragraph referred to is conscious that the word, like other etymological hybrids, lacks euphony and consistency; but during the formative period succeeding the introduction of a new idea not yet provided with a verbal exponent, the safest course is to follow general popular usage. The idea must be expressed, and the choice lies between a cumbrous word and a cumbrous sentence, the former of which seems the lesser evil. “Electrocution” has been widely used, even by scientific men, while the only plausible alternative thus far suggested—“electrothany”—though possessing the merit of unmixed ancestry, is inadequate in that it carries no penal signification.
Word: close but no cigar Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of close, but no cigar. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: get to the bottom of Part of Speech: verb 1. To come to understand, discover the truth about, or solve. Labels: idiomatic, informal, transitive Example: I don't know what's going on here, but I'll get to the bottom of it sooner or later.
Word: sinecures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sinecure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sinecures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sinecure Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mentation Part of Speech: noun 1. Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone. Example: Suggesting that meditative training may foster the ability to control the automatic cascade of semantic associations triggered by a stimulus and, by extension, to voluntarily regulate the flow of spontaneous mentation.
Word: engawa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Romanization of Japanese 縁側 (engawa) or 掾側 (engawa). 1. A veranda or terrace surrounding a house. Labels: Japanese 2. A ribbon of flesh around a fish's fin, prized for making sushi.
Word: Danmark Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately from Danish Danmark. 1. Denmark (a country in Northern Europe). Example: For Youth for Christ in Danmark I'm looking for an inernet service provider in Danmark. Please post a reply or mail me I you have some information on this. Example: Is there a list from running-competitions in Danmark. I´ll spend my holidays in Danmark, and try to to^([sic]) some competitions in running-sports.
Word: unlocked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlɑkt/, /ʌnˈlɒkt/ 1. Not secured or protected by an engaged lock. Labels: not-comparable Example: an unlocked door Example: an unlocked computer file 2. Not bound to any particular carrier. Labels: not-comparable Example: an unlocked iPhone
Word: unlocked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlɑkt/, /ʌnˈlɒkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of unlock Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: arts degree Part of Speech: noun 1. a degree in one or more of the fine arts 2. a degree in one of the liberal arts
Word: unwashed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unwasched, unwasschyd, unwessched, a weak verb conjugation of earlier Middle English unwaschen (“unwashen”), equivalent to un- + washed. 1. Not having been washed. Labels: not-comparable Example: I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon. 2. Vulgar, plebeian, lowbrow. Labels: not-comparable Example: Gannon is looked upon with distrust by a good many members of the Citizens’ Committee—or perhaps it is with jealousy. He remains, however, a hero to the unwashed elements. Example: “Yeah, wading down into the comments. "Winsomely compelling cop-aganda," says C-Rob-69. Oh, wait, that was me.” “Drivel for the unwashed. The Bard, how he weeps.”
Word: staggers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stagger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: staggers Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various diseases of animals that affect the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs Labels: uncountable 2. Any of various diseases of animals that affect the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs Labels: uncountable
Word: staggers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stagger Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: boxed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɒkst/, /ˈbɑːkst/ 1. simple past and past participle of box Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: boxed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /bɒkst/, /ˈbɑːkst/ 1. Packed into a box or boxes. Labels: not-comparable Example: The books are boxed, ready for shipping. 2. In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of domesticated animals, discrete flocks or herds having become mixed, either accidentally or deliberately. (Aust. OED) Labels: not-comparable
Word: peine forte et dure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Law French, from Middle French peine forte et dure (“severe and hard punishment”). 1. Crushing, an old form of punishment (torture) in which the prisoner's body was pressed with heavy weights. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: It was a solid structure, with massy door, sooner than open which in the absence of the ‘Dominie’, we would all have willingly perished by the peine forte et dure.
Word: deb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of debutante or debut. 1. A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society). Labels: informal Example: Josie Powell that was, prettiest deb in Dublin. How time flies by! Example: Go back to your debs or little boys if that's what you fancy and leave us hard working girls, the virile, mature and experienced working men of this world. 2. A debutante ball or debut. Labels: informal Example: "When I met him at my deb, I fell for him. Wanted nothing more than to marry him. That it happened, even after all those years, felt as if the stars had finally aligned." 3. A female member of a gang. Labels: dated, slang Example: Then one night Liz showed up at the factory with a scratched face and torn blouse. She had been in a fight at the park with another girl, a deb of the Porto Rican Flyers. Example: I want you to take over absolute control of all the debs until Ruby is released. Your main job will be to see that most of the girls take at least two tricks a night someplace where the boys can roll them without too much trouble.
Word: forestall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forestallen (“to forestall, intercept, ambush, way-lay”), from forestalle (“a forestalling, interception”), from Old English foresteall (“intervention, hindrance of justice, ambush”), from fore- (“ahead of, before”) + steall (“position”), equivalent to fore- + stall. Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈstɔːl/ 1. To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert. Labels: transitive Example: Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action. Example: The Act of 1846 also authorised a branch from the village of Broughty Ferry on the D. & A. to the pier at Broughty Ferry Castle. This action was taken to forestall the Edinburgh & Northern Railway, which had acquired the ferry between Ferryport-on-Craig (Tayport from July, 1851) and Broughty Ferry, and had hopes of a connecting railway on the north side of the Tay. 2. To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible. Labels: transitive Example: In French, an aspired h forestalls elision. 3. To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price. Labels: archaic 4. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly. Example: What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid? Example: She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. […] She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants. 5. To deprive (with of). Example: All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day! 6. To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. Labels: UK
Word: forestall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English forstal, from Old English foresteall (“an intervention, hindrance (of justice), ambush, assault, offence of waylaying on the highway, fine for such an offence, resistance, opposition”), equivalent to fore- + stall. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).stɔːl/ 1. An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue. Labels: historical, obsolete 2. Something situated or placed in front.
Word: forsworn Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈswɔɹn/ 1. Having lied under oath; perjured. Labels: not-comparable Example: But we hold / Thou art forsworn; and no forsworn Archbishop / Shall helm the Church.
Word: forsworn Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈswɔɹn/ 1. past participle of forswear Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: foreswear Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of forswear. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fundi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a Nguni language; compare Zulu umfundisi (“teacher”). Ultimately from Proto-Bantu *-túnda. Pronunciation: /ˈfʊndiː/ 1. A master of a particular skill; an expert. Labels: South-Africa, Zimbabwe Example: Alas I our small office staff boasted no bird fundi and the bird remained unindentified.
Word: fundi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Swahili fundi. Ultimately from Proto-Bantu *-túnda. Pronunciation: /ˈfʊndiː/ 1. A person who repairs and maintains things; mechanic, repairer. Labels: Africa, East Example: The air compressor sends off quite a large blast of air, sending dust skyward, as the air drilling begins. The driller's compressor remains in the backyard in Morogoro town, as the fundi mechanic works to put it back together again. Example: I am sure, dear reader that if you live in Africa the fundi is an integral part of your daily existence. For you who is a non-Swahili speaker, a fundi is anybody who does repair works and includes a mechanic, tailor, bicycle repair man,[…]
Word: fundi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfʌndiː/ 1. The African cereal plant Digitaria exilis. Labels: uncountable
Word: fundi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfʌndaɪ/, /ˈfʌndiː/ 1. plural of fundus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: master key Part of Speech: noun 1. A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey. 2. Any tool or technique that can solve many types of difficulty. Labels: figuratively 3. A shotgun shell designed for breaching doors. Labels: slang
Word: pansies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pansy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tricolor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color English tricolor From tri- + color. 1. US standard spelling of tricolour. Labels: US, alt-of, not-comparable, standard
Word: tricolor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color English tricolor From tri- + color. 1. US standard spelling of tricolour. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: Tricolor Part of Speech: name Etymology: From tri- + color. 1. the French flag 2. the Irish flag 3. the Italian flag
Word: cup of tea Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkʌp əv ˈtiː/, /ˌkʌp ə ˈtiː/ 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, tea. A cup or mug with tea in it. Example: Would you be a dear and get me a cup of tea, please? Example: In the heady days of 1970, the national average wage was about £6,200 in today's money, but a cup of BR tea was within everyone's reach at 9d (2020 value: 55p) until it suddenly went up to 11p (2020: 70p). (The 2020 price would relate to 11d, not 11p; decimalisation took place in 1971.) 2. An activity or domain in which someone is interested or skilled in; one's personal preference. Labels: idiomatic, singular, singular-only 3. three
Word: be mother Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Pouring tea is traditionally the mother's role in a family setting. 1. To pour out tea for others. Labels: UK, idiomatic, no-past Example: Ah, here are the cakes and tea; shall I be mother? Example: They went to a cafe and had afternoon tea. 'Shall l be mother?' Marcus said, lifting a utilitarian brown teapot, all cosied up in something that looked like a bobble hat.
Word: mother-to-be Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother English -to-be English mother-to-be From mother + -to-be. 1. A pregnant woman, especially one expecting her first child. Example: The ideal position for a back massage for the mother-to-be is to sit astride a chair supported by cushions. 2. A woman whose partner is pregnant. Example: I don't know how other lesbian, nonbiological mothers-to-be, who tried to get pregnant and could not, might experience their partners' pregnancy.
Word: eicosanoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English eicosanoic Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English eicosanoid From eicosanoic + -oid (“-like”). Pronunciation: /aɪˈkoʊ.səˌnɔɪd/ 1. Any of a family of naturally-occurring substances derived from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids; they include the prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids; they function as hormones.
Word: electric organ Part of Speech: noun 1. An effector organ found in some fish (especially electric eels and electric catfish), that can produce a voltage large enough to aid in predation. 2. electronic organ.
Word: electrocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + -cyte. 1. A modified striated muscle cell that does not contract, but produces electric signals; the component of the electric organ in some fish.
Word: PCM Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Initialism of per calendar month: used in lease arrangements, stating that costs are to be paid on a fixed date every month. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PCM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of pulse code modulation (“the system of encoding sound on a telephone for use in the PSTN, using a compander”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of phase change memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of phase-change material (“the type of material that phase change memory is composed of, capable of applications in switching”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of power control module. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of powertrain control module. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: run around like a chicken with its head cut off Part of Speech: verb 1. To act in a haphazard or aimless way; to act frantically or without control. Labels: idiomatic Example: The president doesn't know what to do. He's running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Word: chronotherapy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos)bor. English chrono- Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.? Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn) Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō) Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor. New Latin therapīabor. English therapy English chronotherapy From chrono- + therapy. 1. Any therapy based on the circadian rhythm or other cyclical schedule. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bedtime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed + time. Compare earlier Old English bedtīd (“bedtime”). Compare also West Frisian bêdtiid (“bedtime”), Dutch bedtijd (“bedtime”), Saterland Frisian Bädegungenstied (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”), German Low German Beddgahnstied, Bettgahnstiet (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdtaɪm/ 1. The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime. Example: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
Word: airsickness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + sickness or airsick + -ness. 1. A feeling of nausea, dizziness etc. caused by the motion of an aircraft; a form of motion sickness. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: crack of dawn Part of Speech: noun 1. The first moment of daylight; the instant at which sunrise begins. Labels: idiomatic Example: "This is high-speed travel, Muriel. Not fun. I'm waking up at crack of dawn."
Word: crack-pipe Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of crack pipe. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cop a feel Part of Speech: verb 1. To fondle someone in a sexual manner. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Connor: All right. If cop a feel I must, then cop a feel I sh... What is that? I don't know. Wait. What does that mean? / Lise: No, finish it. / Connor: Then cop a feel I shall. No idea what that means, though. / Lise: "Cop a feel" means "grab a girl's boob".
Word: biometeorology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + meteorology. 1. The study of the relationship between atmospheric conditions (the weather) and living organisms.
Word: Bohne Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Bohne. 1. A surname from German.
Word: rantallion Part of Speech: noun 1. A person whose scrotum is so relaxed as to hang so low as to exceed the length of the flaccid penis Labels: slang
Word: Segway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Brand name; according to Segway Inc., chosen for similarity to segue on notion of “a smooth transition from one place to another”, with probable influence of way. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɡweɪ/ 1. A motorised vehicle for one person, ridden while standing, and having two wheels on one axle that balances itself using gyroscopes and tilt sensors.
Word: Segway Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Brand name; according to Segway Inc., chosen for similarity to segue on notion of “a smooth transition from one place to another”, with probable influence of way. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɡweɪ/ 1. To travel by Segway.
Word: stingray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sting + ray. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪŋˌɹeɪ/ 1. Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail. 2. A device that simulates a cell tower, used to intercept cell phone communications. Labels: US Example: The device mimics a cell phone tower and gets the phone to connect to it. […] Once a signal is found, the stingray measures its strength and can provide a general location on the map.
Word: stingaree Part of Speech: noun 1. A stingray. Example: Sharks, stingarees, and myriads of other fish you could see swimming about.
Word: condone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin condōnāre (“to forgive”). Pronunciation: /kənˈdoʊn/, /kənˈdəʊn/ 1. To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked). Labels: transitive Example: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers? 2. To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked). Labels: transitive Example: Rule-utilitarianism is unlikely to condone torturing a child, but it does imply that the torturing of a child is less evil if the torturer shares his pleasure with other sadists-perhaps by inviting an audience, or broadcasting it on the Internet. 3. To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense). Labels: transitive
Word: paleo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæl.i.əʊ/, /ˈpeɪ.li.əʊ/, /ˈpæl.i.ə/, /ˈpeɪ.li.ə/, /-oʊ/ 1. Old; ancient or primitive. Labels: morpheme 2. Related to paleontology. Labels: morpheme 3. Used to form informal names of taxa; basal. Labels: morpheme
Word: schofel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shoful (“counterfeit money”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: aces Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sɪz/ 1. plural of ace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aces Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ace Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: aces Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sɪz/ 1. Alternative form of ace (“excellent”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal Example: I said it in this very sincere voice. “You're aces, Ackley kid,” I said. “You know that?”
Word: aces Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sɪz/ 1. Ace; excellent. Labels: informal
Word: biomass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- (prefix denoting organic life) + mass (“matter, material”). Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪə(ʊ)mæs/, /ˈbaɪoʊˌmæs/ 1. The total mass of a living thing or a part thereof (such as a cell). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their size. 2. The total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the untouched Shangri-la-like Kingman Reef in the Line Islands in the central Pacific, sharks make up 75 per cent of the fish biomass. 3. Organic matter from living things which were recently alive (especially vegetation) used as a fuel or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose; also, fuel produced from such organic matter; biofuel. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Advanced technologies such as gasifier/gas turbine systems for electric power generation and fuel cells for transportation make it possible for biomass to provide a substantial share of world energy in the decades ahead, at competitive costs. Example: Among the key contracts she works on is the supply of coal and biomass to Drax power station and extensive rail operations for British Steel.
Word: horsehide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horse + hide. 1. Hide of a horse. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A baseball. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: hand out Part of Speech: verb 1. To distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (figuratively). Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: give out, pass out, send out Example: Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King. 2. To help (someone) from a vehicle. Example: ‘Lydgate has a lot of ideas […],’ resumed Mr Brooke, after he had handed out Lady Chettam, and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers. Example: He jumped onto the deck and handed her out of the gondola. 3. To try to impress (someone) with deceptions. Labels: slang
Word: hand out Part of Speech: phrase 1. a player is out Labels: slang
Word: muffin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌf.ɪn/ 1. A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten. Labels: UK Example: […] but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin. Example: We take a less gloomy view of our errors now our father confessor listens to us over his egg and coffee. We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins. 2. A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert). Example: Aubrey got a bowl of soup, a cup of coffee, beef stew, and bran muffins, and took them to an empty seat by the window. He ate with one eye on the street. Example: Newland and his wife had had no idea of obeying this injunction; but Mrs. Carfry, with her usual acuteness, had run them down and sent them an invitation to dine; and it was over this invitation that May Archer was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins. 3. Term of endearment. Labels: colloquial, endearing Example: I love you, muffin! 4. The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin! Example: Is your muffin buttered? 5. A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball. Labels: slang 6. A charming, attractive young man. 7. A small plate, smaller than a twiffler. Labels: dated 8. A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted. Labels: Northern-England, UK, dialectal 9. A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast. Labels: slang 10. A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season. Labels: Canada, archaic, slang Example: I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed. Example: The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella." 11. A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine. Example: The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins."
Word: muffin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌf.ɪn/ 1. To eat muffins. Labels: intransitive Example: I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined at 8. Example: And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined. 2. To feed muffins to. Labels: transitive Example: But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!" Example: We were caffeined and muffined and then asked to seat ourselves at any of several large round tables. 3. To become like a muffin; to increase in size. Labels: intransitive Example: A pale band of flesh muffined up over her shorts, her lively top not quite up to the task of covering it, and Chrissy tugged at the fabric ineffectively. Example: In spite of wearing the largest size of body armor available, her ample breasts were simply much too big, and deliciously muffined over the top. 4. To make like a muffin. Labels: transitive Example: Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like! Ah, yew doan’t know what muffined biscuits be! Example: WE HAVE too many raisins in our cake; / Our bread is muffined.
Word: muffin Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmʌf.ɪn/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of MUFFIN. Labels: alt-of, historical, transitive Example: (The package may also be “muffined” by those users who wish to take advantage of the greater disk capacity available using the new Apple DOS 3.3). Example: Print II is supplied on a DOS 3.2 disk (it can be muffined to DOS 3.3 ), which contains programs to customize Print II for specific memory configurations and several simple demonstration programs.
Word: club nine Part of Speech: noun 1. The team. Labels: slang
Word: nota Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of notum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cranks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cranks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of crank Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: og Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of own goal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: break one off Part of Speech: verb 1. To throw a curve ball. Labels: dated, slang
Word: side out Part of Speech: phrase 1. three outs. Labels: dated, slang
Word: planta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin planta (“sole of the foot”). Doublet of clan and plant. Pronunciation: /ˈplæn.tə/ 1. The sole of the foot.
Word: sky ball Part of Speech: noun 1. A high fly ball Labels: slang
Word: stringer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From string + -er. Pronunciation: /stɹɪŋə/, /stɹɪŋɚ/ 1. Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Example: Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. 2. Someone who strings someone along. 3. A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel. Example: A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door. 4. The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs. 5. A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached. 6. A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place. Example: And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday. 7. A person who plays on a particular string. 8. Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength. 9. A hard-hit ball. Labels: slang 10. A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish. Example: "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat. 11. A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift. 12. A libertine; a wencher. Labels: obsolete Example: A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days 13. A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity. Example: [T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work.
Word: selector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From select + -or. Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone or something which selects or chooses. Example: There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type. 2. An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side. 3. A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style. Example: The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many. Example: The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query. 4. A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory. Example: Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory. Example: You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS. 5. A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved. Labels: Internet, historical Example: Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed. 6. A disc jockey. Example: That's my sector, homosexual dissector / Come again, rewind selector Example: This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when the selector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next? 7. A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase. Labels: Australia, historical Example: Each selector in turn chose the particular allotment he wanted for his client, and so on till this important work was over.
Word: foul tick Part of Speech: noun 1. A foul ball which just brushes by the bat, making a ticking sound. Labels: rare, slang Example: The catcher held onto the foul tick for the out.
Word: foul tip Part of Speech: noun 1. a foul ball which glances off the bat and continues back with only a moderate change in direction Example: The foul tip hit the umpire in the shoulder.
Word: desa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian desa, from Malay desa. 1. A rural village terminology. Labels: Indonesia
Word: MMSE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of mini-mental state examination. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: thrower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thrower, equivalent to throw + -er. 1. Someone who throws. 2. Something that throws. 3. A flamethrower. Example: Twenty yards or so of the fence was lying flat, with the posts snapped off. I rigged it up temporarily there and then and played the thrower back and forth, giving the things enough of a scorching to prevent more trouble for a few hours at least. 4. One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. Labels: archaic 5. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine. Labels: archaic 6. A bowler who illegally throws the ball instead of bowling it. 7. The pitcher. Labels: slang
Word: hurler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hurl Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English hurler From hurl + -er. 1. Agent noun of hurl; someone who hurls or throws. Labels: agent, form-of 2. The pitcher. Labels: slang 3. Someone who participates in the sport of hurling.