nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: profitable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French profitable, equivalent to profit + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bl̩/, /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bl̩/, /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.ɾə.bl̩/ 1. Producing a profit. Example: Profitable operation is being made possible by the widespread introduction of capacious diesel railcars, which for their comfort and speed are very popular with the travelling public. Example: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. 2. Beneficial, serviceable, of use. Example: I wylbe ferme and ſtabyll And to yow ſeruyceabyll And also prophytabyll Yf ye be agreabyll My propyr Beſſe To turne a gayne to me Example: Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.
Word: lunette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French lunette, diminutive of lune (“moon”). Pronunciation: /luːˈnɛt/, /ljuːˈnɛt/ 1. A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. Example: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Example: Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak. 2. A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. Example: The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting. 3. An image or other representation of a crescent moon. Labels: obsolete Example: The lesser portions of the tablet has over this Mithras, a lunette or symbol of the moon, who, according to Porphyry's comment, is the queen of generation and as such was denominated by the ancients both a bee and a bull [...]. 4. A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks. Example: This Lunette, as we have seen, was confronted, and even in siege-form "approached", by a part of Canrobert's army [...]. Example: In mid-December [...], the French succeeded in storming the half-ruined outwork of the St Laurent lunette and advancing to a position immediately beneath the walls with their breaching batteries. 5. A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. Example: On those occasions when lunettes, custodia and monstrances are used, the sacristan needs to be sure that the lunette fits into the given monstrance, that the host fits into the lunette, and that the host is put out before Mass for consecration. 6. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making. Example: Lunette and double lunette glasses are generally sized in quarters; crystals and thin flat lunettes for hunters in eighths. 7. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed. Example: some "future" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has already closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath. 8. A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia. Example: Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones. Example: These lunettes are relicts of a Late Pleistocene deflationary period, when the lacustrine hydrology changed from perennial water-filled lakes to desiccated mudflats. 9. A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge. 10. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse. 11. An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. 12. See lunettes. Labels: in-plural
Word: kinesitherapist Part of Speech: noun 1. A practitioner of kinesitherapy.
Word: field work Part of Speech: noun 1. A temporary fortification in the field Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If any person, without lawful authority, makes or attempts to make any sketch, drawing, photograph, picture, painting, model or note of any fort, battery, field work, fortification or any military work of defence, aerodrome, barracks, post, magazine, munition factory, stores depot or any other Government property occupied or partly occupied by the Defence Forces or any portion thereof, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, and all sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, paintings, models and notes and all tools and all materials or apparatus for sketching, drawing, photographing, painting or modelling found in his possession shall be forfeited and may be destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of as a Minister of State directs. 2. The collection of raw data, in the field. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They must gain access, engage in field-work, and finally leave the field to carry out analysis.
Word: persuasion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French persuasion and its source, Latin persuāsiō, from persuādēre, from suādēre (“to advise, recommend”). Pronunciation: /pəˈsweɪʒ(ə)n/, /pɚˈsweɪʒən/ 1. The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With the base unleashed, the White House was unable to broker a compromise, either by persuasion or by pressure. 2. An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods, Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical. Example: Sadie curses, weeps, then, infected by Mr. Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent. 3. An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: Some of the shopowners were resistant to the extortion, so the mafia did some persuasion. 4. A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned. Example: Social understanding and equality can neither be nurtured through fear, nor intimidation. Surely this goes for people of all sexual persuasions. 5. One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As a convert from the Baptist persuasion more than 40 years ago, I still feel like an outsider in the church despite the kindness and acceptance of Catholic friends. 7. Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature. Labels: broadly, countable, humorous, often, uncountable Example: 1871 February 14, J.J., "More Solution", Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, page 105. Let us pray that the next generation be all of the male persuasion. Example: To say that a woman is of the female persuasion was originally meant for a joke. As such it might pass — once. You might, indeed, refuse to smile; still, you wouldn't feel like invoking the law. But the constant and persistent use of this unfunny bit of fun has grown to be something of a public calamity. It is matter or congratulation, however, that such linguistic lese-majesty is far more common in England than in America.
Word: numerical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nem- Proto-Italic *nomezos Latin numerus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique French numériquebor. English numeric English -al English numerical From numeric + -al. Pronunciation: /n(j)uːˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kəl/, [n(j)uːˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kɫ̩], /n(j)uˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kəl/, [n(j)uˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kɫ̩], /n(j)ʉːˈmeɹ.ɪ.kəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to numbers. Labels: relational Example: They propose that the brain manages numerical systems with circuitry that is equipped for action related to "more than-less than", "faster-slower", "nearer-farther", "bigger-smaller", computations of "any kind of stuff in the external world". This neural activity allows us to successfully reach, grasp, throw or point. Bueti and Walsh argue further that, "it is on these abilities that discrete numerical abilities hitched an evolutionary ride," given the primitive need to make these kinds of judgments of space and time. Number then, as a measure, is not primary — what comes first is our need to move accurately. Example: Harry Kane broke the deadlock from the spot eight minutes after half-time, the captain's superb pass releasing Jude Bellingham, who was fouled by Liam Scales, earning the defender a second yellow card and a dismissal. England capitalised on the numerical advantage ruthlessly, Anthony Gordon scoring his first England goal two minutes later, pouncing at the far post after the Republic defence failed to clear debutant Tino Livramento's cross. 2. The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical. Labels: obsolete Example: But would to God that all my fellow-brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, with me might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes! Example: For who ever was yet seen by them, after a total consumption into dust and ashes, to rise again, and to resume the same numerical body?
Word: coprophiliac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From copro- + -philiac. 1. someone with a marked interest in excrement, especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement.
Word: coprophiliac Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From copro- + -philiac. 1. having to do with a marked interest in excrement, especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement.
Word: remedial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmiː.dɪəl/, /ɹɪˈmi.di.əl/ 1. curative; providing a remedy 2. intended to remediate (i.e., correct or improve) deficient skills in some subject
Word: remedial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmiː.dɪəl/, /ɹɪˈmi.di.əl/ 1. A pupil enrolled in special classes to improve deficient skills.
Word: Constantinople Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Cōnstantīnopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Constantine, and/or Constantine the Great). Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnəʊ.pəl/, /ˌkɑn.stæn.tɪˈnoʊ.pəl/ 1. The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that. Labels: historical
Word: croup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop. Pronunciation: /kɹuːp/ 1. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped. Example: So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung. Example: The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.
Word: croup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop. In the medical sense introduced by Edinburgh physician Francis Home. Pronunciation: /kɹuːp/ 1. To croak, make a hoarse noise. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: croup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop. In the medical sense introduced by Edinburgh physician Francis Home. Pronunciation: /kɹuːp/ 1. An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty. Labels: uncountable Example: Yes; I've nursed five children and buried three; and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, […]. Example: Percy Northumberland Driscoll[…]had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.
Word: mosh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly an alteration or deformation of mash. Pronunciation: /mɒʃ/, /mɑʃ/ 1. To dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild or aggressive movements. Labels: intransitive Example: From 9 in the morning (when It Dies Today played the lot) until 9 at night (when Ozzy Osbourne led Black Sabbath on the main stage), hardy fans cheered and moshed and staggered through a stifling but often exciting day. 2. To intentionally jump into and collide with (another dancer) at a concert. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: mosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly an alteration or deformation of mash. Pronunciation: /mɒʃ/, /mɑʃ/ 1. The moshing style of dancing. Example: We had a great mosh at the gig.
Word: lipogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek λειπογγράμμα (leipongrámma), from λείπω (leípō, “leaving out”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”), 18th c. By surface analysis, lipo- + -gram. 1. A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols. Example: "Transubstantiationalists" is a particularly long single-word lipogram, not using the letter "e". Example: Gadsby is a particularly long novel considering that it is very nearly a lipogram that does not use the letter "e".
Word: mononucleosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + nucleus + -osis. Pronunciation: /ˌmɑnoʊnukliˈoʊsɪs/ 1. A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: antilipo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- (“not”) + lipo (“lipogram”), literally “an un-lipogram”. A neologism coined by Will Thomas. 1. A text in which all words share a common character; the inverse of a lipogram.
Word: virgin territory Part of Speech: noun 1. Land that has never been explored or developed. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Ideas or concepts or activities that have not yet been tried, explored or developed. Labels: broadly, figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: The company had engineered plenty of products, but manufacturing them was virgin territory.
Word: hoosegow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From informal spoken Spanish juzgao, variant of standard Spanish juzgado (“court, courthouse”). Alteration of pronunciation and spelling by law of Hobson-Jobson. Pronunciation: /ˈhuːsɡaʊ/ 1. A jail. Labels: US, slang Example: There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that. Example: Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, divided the participants at random into ‘prisoners’ and ‘guards,’ and even got the Palo Alto police to arrest the prisoners and haul them to the campus hoosegow.
Word: homogenization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English homogen(eous) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English homogenize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English homogenization From homogenize + -ation. 1. The act of making something homogenous, or the same throughout; or the tendency of something to become homogenous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cream does not separate from milk that has undergone a homogenization process. 2. Intensive mixing of mutually insoluble substances or groups of substances to obtain a soluble suspension or emulsion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: more often than not Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Origin obscure. Semantically equivalent to, and often understood as, an ellipsis of more often than not so. Possibly sometimes understood as more often than zero (see nought and naught), especially in reference to scales or gauges where mark zero represents the midpoint of measurement or frequency. 1. Usually; more than half the time; more likely to be the case than not to be the case. Labels: comparative-only, idiomatic Example: Near-synonyms: commonly, frequently; usually; see also Thesaurus:usually Example: More often than not, tomato seeds will sprout even if they are a couple of years old.
Word: likely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċ (“suitable”) and Old Norse líkligr (“likely”) (probably independent formations), equivalent to like + -ly (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪkli/ 1. Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring. Example: Rain is likely later this afternoon. Example: His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who cultivated her inner life in strict solitude — seem a much likelier source for his condition. 2. Reasonably to be expected; apparently destined, probable. Labels: infinitive, with-to Example: Do you think there's likely to be snow? Example: He is likely to succeed at anything he tries. 3. Appropriate, suitable; believable; promising, having a good potential. Example: Jones is a likely candidate for management. Example: The relationship with social status is a likely topic for investigation. 4. Plausible; within the realm of credibility. Example: not a very likely excuse. Example: The DPRK propagated an extraordinary tale of his birth occurring on Mount Baekdu, one of Korea's most revered sites, being accompanied by shooting stars in the sky. It is more likely that he was born in a small village in the USSR, while his father was serving as a Soviet-backed general during the second world war. 5. Leading with high probability to some specified outcome. Example: a likely recipe for disaster. 6. Attractive; pleasant. Labels: archaic Example: I found a likely spot under a shady tree for the picnic. 7. Similar; like; alike. Labels: obsolete Example: For love is a celestiall harmonie Of likely harts composed of starres concent
Word: likely Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċ (“suitable”) and Old Norse líkligr (“likely”) (probably independent formations), equivalent to like + -ly (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪkli/ 1. Something or somebody considered likely.
Word: likely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċe (“equally”) and Old Norse líkliga, glíkliga (“likely”), both from Proto-Germanic *līkalīka, equivalent to like + -ly (adverbial suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪkli/ 1. Probably. Labels: US Example: Likely he’ll win the election in this economy. Example: He’ll likely win the election in this economy. 2. Similarly. Labels: US, obsolete
Word: blow-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from blow up. 1. Inflatable; able to be blown up. Labels: not-comparable Example: The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
Word: blow-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from blow up. 1. An explosion (physical or emotional). Labels: informal Example: I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room. Example: But BBD said that “several” wholesalers it spoke with said they are “waiting out the storm” — expecting the backlash to fade a few weeks following the initial controversy, as many similar blow-ups have in the past. 2. An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph). Labels: informal Example: Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.
Word: cut the mustard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cut (“to exhibit (a quality)”) + the + mustard (“(originally US slang) something adding spice or zest to a situation; something setting the standard”). Pronunciation: /kʌt ðə ˈmʌstəd/, /kʌt ðə ˈmʌstəɹd/ 1. To achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough; to suffice. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Give me the bigger hammer. This little one just doesn’t cut the mustard. Example: By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. So I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut the mustard. I found a restaurant tent just opened up by an outfit that had drifted in on the tail of the boom.
Word: cottage industry Part of Speech: noun 1. A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis, historically often manufacturing work such as sewing, lacemaking, or spinning. Example: Near-synonym: proto-industry Example: A craft such as quilting may be pursued as a hobby or as a cottage industry. 2. A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact. Labels: broadly Example: Customers quickly sensed the change when CA took over a company: The new owners vigorously enforced license agreements, often in the courts. A cottage industry soon sprang up to advise companies on how to negotiate with CA. Example: So why was there so much breathlessness about a blogger joining this emphatically non-exclusive club? Because the blogging story has become a cottage industry, a cultural fashion trend that blogger and establishment alike have a vested interest in keeping alive.
Word: terra incognita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terra incognita (“unknown land”). 1. Land that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed. Example: Behold me now in the full career of my voyage of discovery, exploring the James River in the steamboat, on a clear, hot fifteenth of June, and looking with a sagacious perspicacity on the commonest sights of this terra incognita. Example: It is needless to say how much interest attaches to the far larger unknown portion of this great island, the greatest terra incognita that still remains for the naturalist to explore, and the only region where altogether new and unimagined forms of life may perhaps be found. 2. Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored. Labels: broadly Example: The concept of the unconscious or an inner terra incognita, an unknown country of the psyche that precedes and predicates the Cartesian subject, the focal point of rational consciousness, was a revolutionary idea. Example: How commonly stinging insects encounter this problem is scientific terra incognita.
Word: on the fence Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Undecided; wavering in one's opinion. Example: I am still on the fence about which way to vote. Example: The letter was from a 41-year-old man who was also on the fence about kids: “Things like quiet, free time, spontaneous travel, pockets of non-obligation,” he wrote. “I really value them.” 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, fence.
Word: formerly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English former Middle English -ly English -ly English formerly From former + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹmɚli/, /ˈfɔːməli/ 1. at some time in the past Labels: not-comparable Example: Xenia Robertson, formerly known as Xenia Isaamov, is from Ukraine. 2. previously; once Labels: not-comparable Example: This ranch was formerly owned by slaveholders.
Word: virgin field Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of virgin territory. 2. An oilfield that has not yet been exploited.
Word: on the mend Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Healing or recovering, as from an injury or illness. Example: My foot is on the mend but it still hurts to walk. Example: My stress and frustration resulted in a spastic colon and the need for weeks of medication. While on the mend, another avenue [for funding] was suggested to me - individual Jewish philanthropists. 2. Improving or undergoing restoration to a previous, more favorable condition. Labels: figuratively Example: Our marriage went through a difficult time, but now it is on the mend.
Word: take a spill Part of Speech: verb 1. To trip and fall. Labels: informal Example: He took a spill and scraped his knee.
Word: mofo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊfəʊ/, /ˈmoʊfoʊ/ 1. Syllabic abbreviation of motherfucker. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: Man, he's a big mofo.
Word: mofo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊfəʊ/, /ˈmoʊfoʊ/ 1. Syllabic abbreviation of motherfucking. Labels: not-comparable, slang, vulgar Example: Man, he's got a big mofo truck.
Word: mofo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊfəʊ/, /ˈmoʊfoʊ/ 1. Syllabic abbreviation of motherfucking. Labels: not-comparable, slang, vulgar
Word: physiotherapist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From physio- + therapist or physiotherapy + -ist. 1. A therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
Word: on the wagon Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Originally on the water wagon or on the water cart, referring to carts used to hose down dusty roads: see the 1901 quotation below. The suggestion is that a person who is “on the wagon” is drinking water rather than alcoholic beverages. The term may have been used by the early 20th-century temperance movement in the United States; for instance, William Hamilton Anderson (1874 – c. 1959), the superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, is said to have made the following remark about Prohibition: “Be a good sport about it. No more falling off the water wagon. Uncle Sam will help you keep your pledge.” 1. Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal. Labels: idiomatic Example: I wanted to git him some whisky, but he shuck his head. 'I'm on the water-cart,' sez he. Example: "Where did you get all that money?" / "Went to hear Bill and climbed on the water wagon." 2. Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. Labels: broadly Example: He’s been on the smoking cessation wagon for two weeks now. Example: This book is about harm reduction. It is not about "getting clean." […] It is not about an all-or-nothing attitude: drink or be on the wagon, use or quit. It is about reducing the harm done by alcohol and other drugs in your life. Less harm is the solution. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, wagon.
Word: off the wagon Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Originally off the water wagon or off the water cart, referring to carts used to hose down dusty roads: see the 1901 quotation below. The suggestion is that a person who is “on the wagon” is drinking water rather than alcoholic beverages. The term may have been used by the early 20th-century temperance movement in the United States; for instance, William Hamilton Anderson (1874 – c. 1959), the superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, is said to have made the following remark about Prohibition: “Be a good sport about it. No more falling off the water wagon. Uncle Sam will help you keep your pledge.” 1. No longer maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from an undesirable habit, especially drinking alcohol. Labels: idiomatic Example: She kept up her diet for an entire month before falling off the wagon. Example: He is off the wagon again.
Word: by and large Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sailing: a ship may (or may not) sail well both close by the wind, and large, downwind, with sheets extended. 1. Mostly; generally; all things considered. Labels: focus, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: It was, by and large, an unexceptional presentation. Example: Taking things by and large, as sailors say, I got on fairly well in the matter of provisions even on the long voyage across the Pacific. 2. In one way or another. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable, obsolete Example: Miss Betsey, a charming frigate, that will do honour to our country, if you take her by and large. Example: […] a man who has heard of the biter bit, feels rather perplexed on the whole, take it by-and-large […] 3. Sailing alternately into the wind and in the same direction as the wind. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] For to make a Ship to drawe or goe but little into the water, and to hold a good winde, and to ſaile well both by and large, were very neceſſarie, and eſpecially in theſe our ſhallowe Seas, […]
Word: Australian English Part of Speech: name 1. The form of the English language used in Australia. Example: Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".
Word: buildup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from build up. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪldʌp/ 1. An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Snow buildup on roads makes for hazardous driving. Example: There was a buildup of pressure in the boiler. 2. The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e).
Word: obround Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ob- + round. 1. A plane shape consisting of two semicircles connected by parallel lines tangent to their endpoints. 2. A feature or component with an obround shape. Example: Four slugs of wrought boron containing stainless steel containing 1 and 2 wt % boron were prepared from 1 in. thick plate material as 1-1/8 in. dla. x 5 in. long obrounds and irradiated in the MTR reactor for a preliminary engineering check of […]
Word: Terpsichore Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τερψιχόρη (Terpsikhórē, from τέρψις (térpsis, “enjoyment, delight”) + χορός (khorós, “chorus”)). Pronunciation: /təpˈsɪkəɹi/, /tɚpˈsɪkəɹi/ 1. The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne. Labels: Greek 2. 81 Terpsichore, a main belt asteroid.
Word: fence in Part of Speech: verb 1. To enclose with a fence. Example: If we fence in that field, it will be a good pasture for a horse. 2. To restrict freedom. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: Many people feel fenced in by the new rules.
Word: lure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʊə̯/, [ˈlʊə̯], /ˈlɔː/, [ˈlɔː], /ˈljʊə̯/ 1. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. Labels: also, figuratively Example: How many have with a smile made small account Of Beauty and her lures 2. An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish. Example: the inch-at-a-time flutter of a surface lure 3. A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk. Example: My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure. 4. A velvet smoothing brush.
Word: lure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʊə̯/, [ˈlʊə̯], /ˈlɔː/, [ˈlɔː], /ˈljʊə̯/ 1. To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile. Labels: transitive Example: It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries. Example: Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place! 2. To attract fish with a lure. Labels: transitive 3. To recall a hawk with a lure. Labels: transitive
Word: lure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr. 1. Alternative form of lur. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: or so Part of Speech: phrase 1. Roughly, approximately. Example: How many people came to the party? – Thirty or so. Example: It was about half full or so.
Word: pistol-whip Part of Speech: verb 1. To strike or beat (someone) with a pistol, especially with its butt. Labels: transitive
Word: piece of piss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piece of cake and piss-easy. 1. Something easy to achieve. Labels: Australian, New-Zealand, UK, slang, vulgar Example: Rollerblading is a piece of piss if you know how to roller-skate.
Word: pistolwhip Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of pistol-whip. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Whose woods these are I think I know, They are my Uncle Sam's, and so This simple country farmer blows His stack, and on his tippy toes Takes all the wood that he can cut Before the ranger doubles back And pistolwhips me forty whacks. Example: She's just fussing at me because I had a chance to pistolwhip her kid brother a few months ago and passed on the opportunity."
Word: yorker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over. Pronunciation: /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/ 1. A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease. Example: He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen. Example: I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.
Word: wagon wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. The wheel of a wagon, including railway wagons. 2. The wheel of a wagon, including railway wagons. Labels: especially Example: Near-synonyms: cartwheel, artillery wheel 3. Synonym of ruote (“a type of pasta shaped like a wheel”). Labels: US, in-plural 4. A graphical representation of the cricket field, with lines showing the trajectories of the scoring balls hit by a batsman; singles, fours and sixes are shown in different colours.
Word: cricket field Part of Speech: noun 1. The area of grass (within the boundary) on which a cricket match is played. 2. A cricket ground.
Word: cricket ground Part of Speech: noun 1. An arena in which a cricket match is played; a cricket field plus the viewing areas, pavilion etc.
Word: wicketkeeper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wicket + keeper. 1. A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman. Example: England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.] Example: The fielder clad in armour who squats behind the batsman should be respected as a specialist and not treated as a dabbler. The wicketkeeper controls the mood around the pitch. His gloves hold most of the catches, his voice accompanies every appeal. He is the factory foreman, responsible for every ball.
Word: wicket-keeping gloves Part of Speech: noun 1. Protective gloves worn by a wicket keeper to cushion the hands when repeatedly catching balls. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: wicket maiden Part of Speech: noun 1. A maiden over in which a bowler gets a batsman out. Example: He bowled a wicket-maiden over before lunch.
Word: with the spin Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. hitting the ball in the same direction that it is spinning off the pitch
Word: world cup Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of World Cup, an international tournament establishing a world champion; the trophy awarded to the winner. Labels: alt-of Example: The Golden Bear ruggers, co-holders of the world cup following their invasion of Canada during the holidays with a combined California-Stanford team, will present seven of the ten players who made the northern trip.
Word: wrist spin Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of bowling in which the bowler spins the ball by releasing it from the back of the hand, running his/her fingers down the side of the ball as it is released.
Word: wrist spinner Part of Speech: noun 1. A bowler who specializes in wrist spin.
Word: finger spinner Part of Speech: noun 1. A bowler who specializes in finger spin.
Word: wrong 'un Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wrong + one. Compare young'un. 1. A dishonest or disreputable person; a crook or rogue. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang Example: We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece. There's always wrong 'uns, in every walk of life, who'll have whatever you've got from under your nose. Example: Some reasons why Naseem Hamed might have been stripped of his MBE for speeding, where acknowledged wrong 'uns Jeffrey Archer, Shirley Porter and Mark Thatcher kept their honours. 2. A googly. 3. A horse deliberately held back in order to lose a race.
Word: 'un Part of Speech: pron Etymology: The apostrophe is not justified historically: this word preserves an original pronunciation of one without an initial /w/; see one for more. Pronunciation: /ʌn/ 1. One (a thing). Labels: colloquial Example: Give me one of those round 'uns. 2. One (a person). Labels: colloquial Example: We've got a clever 'un here! 3. Him or her. Labels: West-Country Example: Tom Trevarton had a piece of hoggan weth un.
Word: pink 'un Part of Speech: noun 1. A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on pink newsprint. Labels: UK, slang Example: When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the "Pink 'un" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet.
Word: green 'un Part of Speech: noun 1. A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on green newsprint. Labels: UK, slang
Word: newsprint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From news + print. 1. An inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The journalism trade publication Editor and Publisher announced in the spring of 1954 that more newsprint had been generated about Jorgensen during the previous year than about any other individual—over a million and a half words, the rough equivalent of fifteen full-length books.
Word: wildfire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wilde fyr, wilde fire, wylde fyre, from Old English wilde fȳr. By surface analysis, wild + fire. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪldˌfaɪər/ 1. A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Greek fire. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 3. A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Something that acts or spreads quickly and uncontrollably. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: So, it appears a revolution has happened and a very unexpected one. Of course it was only a matter of time before it happened. With WiFi connectivity spreading faster than wildfire and a laptop or tablet in one’s bag, what’s the point of a mobile nowadays? Example: “It was my own personal watch and I wanted to change the face,” she said in an interview during a recent business trip to New York. “I started wearing it, and it was wildfire — everybody wanted one.”
Word: spread like wildfire Part of Speech: verb 1. To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably. Labels: intransitive Example: The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet. Example: The propaganda of the rebels spread like wild-fire, and the hopes of the more daring Irish Catholics rose high.
Word: wiliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English wily 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 wiliness From wily + -ness. 1. deceitful cleverness or shrewdness Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: schoolgirl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of school + girl. Pronunciation: /ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/ 1. A girl attending school. Example: That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family. Example: Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.
Word: schoolgirl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compound of school + girl. Pronunciation: /ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/ 1. To restrain in a schoolgirl pin. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim. Example: She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.
Word: willingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English willyngly, wyllyngly (“intentionally, deliverately; freely, gladly”), from Old English willendlīċe (“diligently”), equivalent to willing + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlɪŋli/ 1. Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously. Example: Now this is a process of the mind or thought, of which I would willingly know the foundation. Example: In the first place, although many people wanted nationalisation and it became the will of Parliament, there were many other people who did not want it, have never willingly accepted it, and never will.
Word: willingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English willing 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 willingness From willing + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/ 1. The state of being willing Labels: uncountable, usually Example: All it takes is a willingness to learn. Example: "[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"
Word: schoolboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From school + boy. Pronunciation: /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/ 1. A boy attending school.
Word: schoolboy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From school + boy. Pronunciation: /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/ 1. Characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable
Word: willpower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English will Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin posseder. Vulgar Latin potēre Old French pooir Anglo-Norman poerbor. Middle English power English power English willpower From will + power. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlˌpaʊɚ/, /ˈwɪlˌpaʊə(ɹ)/ 1. The unwavering strength of will to carry out one's wishes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "A remarkable woman, gentlemen," said he, "a very noteworthy woman. I had prided myself that my willpower was the most powerful in the country--I had never met any to match it--but I do not mind admitting that, for firmness and tenacity, this lady is my equal. ...
Word: wince Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir (compare Old French guenchir), from Frankish *wankjan, related to *winkijan (“to flex, bend”). See also German winken. Pronunciation: /wɪns/ 1. A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away. 2. A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
Word: wince Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir (compare Old French guenchir), from Frankish *wankjan, related to *winkijan (“to flex, bend”). See also German winken. Pronunciation: /wɪns/ 1. To flinch as if in pain or distress. Labels: intransitive Example: I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word. Example: “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain. 2. To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince. Labels: transitive 3. To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient. Example: A horse winces.
Word: windcheater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wind + cheater. 1. A heavy weatherproof jacket Labels: UK
Word: anorak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * Borrowed from Greenlandic annoraaq. * (person with obsessive interest): Originally referring to train spotters (because they would wear anoraks while looking out for trains). Pronunciation: /ˈænəɹæk/ 1. A heavy weatherproof jacket with an attached hood; a parka or windcheater. Example: Don't ever use the hood on your anorak; and, if you do, for heaven's sake don't pull the string tight so that you peep out like a little baby in a siren suit. 2. A person with an unusual or obsessive interest in a niche subject, especially trains. Labels: UK, slang Example: He has described himself as the uber-geek, an anorak's anorak, a standard bearer for fellow Star Trekkies everywhere, and his air of bland, amiable bafflement has served him remarkably well in a string of TV and film roles.
Word: train spotter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of trainspotter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: train spotting Part of Speech: noun 1. The hobby of collecting the numbers and names of locomotives seen at railway stations and other vantage points. Labels: uncountable Example: One of my friends, the one who wept, did vow he'd never visit a bird observatory again and went back to train-spotting. 2. The obsessive following of any minority interest or hobby. Labels: uncountable Example: […] trainspotting mentality that thrives on the minutiae of whatever field with little regard for any contextual relevance such detail may have to the wider picture.