nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: EMI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Electric and Musical Industries. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bortz Part of Speech: noun 1. Diamond of inferior quality, commonly used for drill tips; abrasive diamond powder; bort. Labels: uncountable Example: 1906 September, X-Rays and a Diamond Thief, Popular Mechanics, page 932, It is also noticeable that the black diamond, No. 20, a dull and lusterless substance, is as transparent to the X-rays as the brilliants, while the diamond bortz, No. 6, is much less transparent than either, though more so than the imitation, No 19. Example: These main categories of industrial diamonds, gem stones, bortz, and carbonados, are further subdivided into smaller classes. For instance, particularly fine bortz of a round form composed of crystals radiating from a common center are known as ballas.
Word: mousy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Germanic *mūs Proto-West Germanic *mūs Old English mūs Middle English mous English mouse Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mousy From mouse + -y (forms adjectives from nouns). Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊsi/ 1. Resembling a mouse. Example: Near-synonyms: mouselike, murine 2. Resembling a mouse. 3. Resembling a mouse. 4. Resembling a mouse. Example: It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair 5. Abounding in or infested with mice.
Word: mousy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Germanic *mūs Proto-West Germanic *mūs Old English mūs Middle English mous English mouse Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mousy From mouse + -y (forms diminutives). Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊsi/ 1. Diminutive of mouse. Labels: childish, diminutive, form-of
Word: mousey Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of mousy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley.
Word: mousey Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mousy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It came back again, and would run on the strings / When all were at rest in the house, / And backward and forward, from treble to bass, / Sometimes in a trot, and sometimes in a race— / Huzza for my musical mouse! / At night, when the house would be still, and the moon / Behind the high hill would retire, / By harmony’s magical powers impress’d, / This gay little mousey would steal from its nest, / And run up and down on each wire. Example: It was so much better to have things that are alive, he said, than mere wooden playthings, that he would rather have his mice than all his other playthings together. “I wonder what this little mousey is thinking about,” said he, one day, as he sat looking at them; “he must be thinking about something, he sits so still. How nice it would be if we could look into the minds of such creatures, wouldn’t it mother?”
Word: swallowed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈswɒl.əʊd/, /ˈswɒl.əd/, /ˈswɑl.oʊd/ 1. simple past and past participle of swallow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: holler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: American variant of holla, hallo or hollo. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/, /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A yell, shout. Example: I heard a holler from over the fence. Example: Listen! Listen to the holler! If I write a book, it will be called "Life and How To Live It." 2. Any communication to get somebody's attention. Labels: broadly, colloquial Example: If you need anything, just give me a holler. 3. A field holler.
Word: holler Part of Speech: verb Etymology: American variant of holla, hallo or hollo. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/, /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/ 1. To yell or shout. Labels: intransitive Example: You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything. Example: “Immigrants are welcome here,” the crowd hollered. “Refugees belong here.” 2. To call out one or more words. Labels: transitive 3. To complain, to gripe.
Word: holler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variation of hollow. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/, /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative form of hollow (narrow valley between mountains). Labels: Appalachia, Southern-US, alt-of, alternative
Word: holler Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Variation of hollow. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/, /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative form of hollow. Labels: Appalachia, Southern-US, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, especially, not-comparable Example: the holler tree
Word: grand-uncle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of granduncle. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).
Word: cerebral cortex Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəl ˈkɔːtɛks/, /səˈɹiː.bɹəl ˈkɔːtɛks/, /səˈɹiː.bɹəl ˈkɔɹtɛks/, /ˈsɛɹ.əb.ɹəl ˈkɔɹtɛks/ 1. The grey, folded, outermost layer of the cerebrum that is responsible for higher brain processes such as sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory. Example: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
Word: venule Part of Speech: noun 1. A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein.
Word: moriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin morus (“mulberry”) + -form. 1. Mulberry-like. Example: A moriform (blackberry-like) capitulum is one in which the flower-buds are longer than the interfloral bracts prior to anthesis; when the buds are concealed prior to anthesis by imbricated bracts or by interlocking bracteal setae the capitulum is termed conelike.
Word: anglicisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English anglicise 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 anglicisation From anglicise + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌæŋ.ɡlɪ.saɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌæŋ.ɡlɪ.səˈzeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The process by which something or someone (usually a word) is made more English. Usually applied to language or culture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dublin, the name of the capital of Ireland, is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Dubh Linn.
Word: linn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”). Pronunciation: /lɪn/ 1. A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, Wales Example: What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord? Example: "For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn, "And it's up to the meadow ridge—" "Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
Word: linn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn (“pool, pond”), or else a Brythonic source such as Cumbric *lınn, all from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”). Pronunciation: /lɪn/ 1. A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, Wales Example: There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe, In linns both wide and steep. Example: In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.
Word: Wanda Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Wanda, possibly derived from an ethnic term for “a Wend”. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔndə/, /ˈwɑndə/, /ˈwɒndə/ 1. A female given name from Polish. Example: "Speaking of names, you're the first white Wanda I ever met." Wanda peeled off two sweaters and a woolen scarf." Well, you're the fifth or sixth colored I've had to tell that Wanda is an old Polish name I inherited from my Polish great-grandmother on me sweet dead mother's side;
Word: Wanda Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈwɑːndə/, /ˈwɒndə/ 1. A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Word: rheumatoid arthritis Part of Speech: noun 1. A chronic and progressive disease in which the immune system attacks the joints. It is characterised by pain, inflammation and swelling of the joints, stiffness, weakness, loss of mobility and deformity. Tissues throughout the body can be affected, including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
Word: osteoarthritis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der. English osteo- English arthritis English osteoarthritis From osteo- + arthritis. 1. A form of arthritis, affecting mainly older people, caused by chronic degeneration of the cartilage and synovial membrane of the joints, leading to pain and stiffness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For example, among the papers directed at arthropathies, all the population studies in the bibliometric survey relied on macroscopy alone[…]. These were principally studies of osteoarthritis[…], for which there are standard diagnostic protocols based on macroscopic changes[…].
Word: synovia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin synovia. Pronunciation: /sɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/, /saɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/ 1. plural of synovium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synovia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin synovia. Pronunciation: /sɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/, /saɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/ 1. Synonym of synovial fluid. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the immunoglobulins of synovias from normal and arthritic horses and foals
Word: synovial membrane Part of Speech: noun 1. A thin membrane that lines the ligamentous surfaces of joint capsules, tendon sheaths where free movement is necessary, and bursae; it is composed of dense connective tissue and secretes synovial fluid.
Word: doni Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dhoni. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: commanding Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /kəˈmændɪŋ/, /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/ 1. Tending to give commands, authoritarian. Example: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets. 2. Impressively dominant; very good and impressive. Example: a commanding structure Example: a man with a commanding presence 3. Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position) Example: 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury On the top floor is the lever frame where signalmen are afforded an uninterrupted and commanding view of the junction below, and of Shrewsbury station's five working platforms.
Word: commanding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kəˈmændɪŋ/, /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of command Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: commanding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kəˈmændɪŋ/, /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/ 1. The act of giving a command. Example: God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.
Word: colourise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From colour + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colorize.
Word: humanisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin hūmānus Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human English -isation English humanisation From human + -isation. 1. Alternative form of humanization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: spondulics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of spondulicks. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Jimminy Crickets! The idea of what was about to become of all my things opened vistas. They’d think I took French leave lacking spondulics. I’d talked about rubber, but never shown my certificates, and I’d been losing heavily in the Casino. The Baroness was busted!
Word: Sherri Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name, variant of Sherry or Cheri.
Word: doubled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdʌbl̩d/ 1. simple past and past participle of double Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inescapable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English escape Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English escapable English inescapable From in- + escapable. 1. Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape; not escapable. Example: The Rugby flyover, too, is now an inescapable feature of the West Coast main line landscape. Example: Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
Word: spondulic Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of spondulics (“money”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare, slang, uncountable
Word: poison pen Part of Speech: noun 1. A manner, means, or tone of expression had by a written work, characterized by spitefulness, defamation, and/or intimidation directed toward a person, organization, or point of view. Labels: idiomatic Example: Peter Isaacson continued his attack on Hearst and the poison pen of his editors. Example: After Mr. Rowland spoke, his wife, Patricia, delivered a spoof on the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas," that was a stinging sing-song rebuke of the news organizations that had reported on her husband's shortcomings and the widening federal investigation into his administration. Referring to the news media, she said: "They used to be good girls and boys, Santa said. But the poison pen's power has gone to their head." 2. Of, pertaining to, or possessing such a manner of expression. Labels: attributive Example: In a fair political fight in which neither side wishes to take unfair advantage of an opponent, last-minute poison-pen circulars should be banned. Example: This collection of garbage and guilt-by-association was slipped into the files of the White House personnel office last fall. . . . Who was responsible for the poison-pen attack? No one signed it, and no one has taken responsibility.
Word: poisoned Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɪzn̩d/ 1. Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison. Example: The snake left its poisoned prey to die. 2. Containing poison; poisonous. Example: The hunters began to fire their poisoned darts. 3. Having a strongly negative effect; harmful. Labels: figuratively Example: This is a poisoned work environment.
Word: poisoned Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɪzn̩d/ 1. simple past and past participle of poison Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deke Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: circumscribe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin circumscrībō, from circum (“around”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, circum- + scribe. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.kəm.skɹaɪb/, /ˈsɝ.kəm.skɹaɪb/ 1. To draw a line around; to encircle. 2. To limit narrowly; to restrict. Example: "Well, I promise you to circumscribe her conquests as much as possible by extending my own," returned Henrietta. "It will be an easy task; for Miss Churchill does not do 'the honours of her eyes.' I often tell her her beauty is quite wasted upon her." Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […]. 3. To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Word: accelerated graphics port Part of Speech: noun 1. A high-speed port used to attach a display adapter to a personal computer.
Word: sleep together Part of Speech: verb 1. To have sex with each other. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, reciprocal 2. To be intimate with each other in the same bed. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, reciprocal 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, together. Example: The twins slept together, the straw doll between them.
Word: telephony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. French télé- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. French -phone French téléphonebor. English telephone English -y English telephony From telephone + -y. Pronunciation: /təˈlɛf.ə.ni/ 1. The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The study and application of telephone technology. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: crippleware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cripple Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English crippleware From cripple + -ware. 1. A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program. Labels: derogatory, uncountable
Word: demoware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English demo Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English demoware From demo + -ware. 1. A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase. Labels: uncountable
Word: donationware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English donation Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English donationware From donation + -ware. 1. A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author. Labels: uncountable
Word: offensive line Part of Speech: noun 1. The five players of the team possessing the ball comprising the center, the left and right offensive guards, and the left and right offensive tackles who are positioned around the ball at the line of scrimmage. Labels: Canadian 2. The seven players required to be within one yard of the line of scrimmage in an offensive formation. Labels: Canadian, uncommon 3. All of the offensive players, whether obligatory or not, lined up one yard or less from the line of scrimmage. Labels: Canadian, uncommon
Word: trialware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trial + -ware, a contraction of software. 1. Software that can be tried for a limited time, after which it expires or has limited functionality. Labels: Internet, uncountable
Word: lateral pass Part of Speech: noun 1. a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off 2. any hand-off, whether lateral or backward
Word: backward pass Part of Speech: noun 1. A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off. 2. The step of the backpropagation algorithm wherein the error gradient is applied in reverse order through the neural network by recursive application of the chain rule.
Word: supply-side economics Part of Speech: noun 1. A branch of economics that focuses on the supply side of the economy and on tax reductions. Labels: uncountable
Word: supply side Part of Speech: noun 1. In a market trade, the side where the supply comes from.
Word: tax reduction Part of Speech: noun 1. The reduction of one or more tax rates.
Word: tax rate Part of Speech: noun 1. A rate, usually a percentage rate, at which something is taxed.
Word: percentage rate Part of Speech: noun 1. A measure to show a change or relationship between two numbers as a fraction of 100, over a certain time. Example: The annual percentage rate on the mortgage loan is 4.5%, indicating the cost of borrowing money on an annual basis, including interest and fees. 2. A coefficient, expressed as a fraction of 100, of the quotient of two numbers over a specified period of time, where the denominator has the same units as the numerator but is adjusted by a unit of time. This measure indicates the proportion of a part in relation to a whole and is commonly used to describe rates of interest, growth, or change in financial and economic contexts, expressed in percentage points.
Word: percentage point Part of Speech: noun 1. One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages. Example: The difference between 20 percent and 30 percent is 10 percentage points, not 10 percent. In fact, an increase from 20 to 30 percent is an increase of 50 percent. Only if, for example, 20 percent of buyers choose a certain company's products in one year and 22 percent do so the next year, can one speak of an increase of 10 percent. Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
Word: supply-side Part of Speech: adj 1. Regarding or promoting the supply side of the economy. Example: Coordinate term: demand-side Example: Brown told her that she sounded very supply-side, but what about that memo to Muskie, which had recently surfaced, denouncing supply-siders as a “right-wing claque”?
Word: supply-sider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supply-side + -er. 1. an economist, student or follower of supply-side economics
Word: bludge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from bludger. Pronunciation: /blʌdʒ/ 1. The act of bludging. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable Example: A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track. 2. Easy work, especially a subject at school that requires little effort. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable Example: Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge, sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass. Example: ‘Seriously, you′ve got sheep at school?’ I said. ‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it′s a big bludge, like drama.’
Word: bludge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from bludger. Pronunciation: /blʌdʒ/ 1. To live off the earnings of a prostitute. Labels: Australia, obsolete, slang 2. To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang 3. To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick. Example: One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day. 4. To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.” Example: Now, you get back out there and you bludge! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing. 5. To take some benefit and give nothing in return. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: Can I bludge a cigarette off you? Example: Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged on the family. He bludged on his mates.
Word: trojan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Trojan horse. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/, /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/ 1. Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.
Word: trojan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Trojan horse. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/, /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/ 1. Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another Labels: not-comparable
Word: trojan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Trojan horse. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/, /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/ 1. To infect (a system) with a trojan. Labels: transitive
Word: Trojan horse Part of Speech: name 1. The hollow wooden horse by which the Greeks allegedly gained access to Troy during the Trojan War. Labels: Greek
Word: Trojan horse Part of Speech: noun 1. A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy. Labels: figuratively 2. A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software. Example: Worse than what could be observed about the program was the fear that it might be a Trojan horse program -- apparently innocent, but carrying a string of code instructing the computer to carry out a specific damaging instruction at some later time. 3. A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments. 4. A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions. Example: Russia thinks of an atomic authority as a Trojan horse to get behind the iron curtain and impair her defense, and there is some reason historically for this view. Example: Seen like this, huge western companies function like a Trojan horse when they are invited inside the boundaries of LDCs.
Word: Trojan horse Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of Trojan-horse. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: You will disarm a group or person that holds simplistic attitudes—about relationships, education, financial success, morality, business ethics, religion, raising children—by giving that group or person Trojan Horsed instructions seemingly about how to do something mundane and unrelated. Example: But still, despite my initial shock at being expected to do a grownup job for my new grown-up salary, I was determined to keep the dream alive to some extent, by ticking a few of the sensible boxes while Trojan Horsing (yes, as a verb) some dot com fun in the back […]
Word: backdoor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + door. 1. Alternative form of back door. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: South Western Railway is introducing "backdoor price hikes" of "up to 28%" from September 5, claims pressure group SWR Watch, which has asked the operator: "When were you going to tell passengers?"
Word: backdoor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + door. 1. Alternative spelling of back door. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rootkit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From root + kit. 1. A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
Word: rootkit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From root + kit. 1. To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit. Labels: transitive Example: Given crackers' propensity for "rootkitting" systems — installing altered system binaries to facilitate future access — systematic integrity checks using message digest algorithms or one-way hash functions can be an important detection safeguard. Example: If not, your system might have been rootkitted.
Word: lounged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lounge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: trestle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trestel, from Old French trestel (“crossbeam”) (French tréteau), from Latin trānstellum, diminutive of trānstrum. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛsəl/ 1. A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses. 2. A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks. Example: He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor. 3. A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge. 4. A trestle bridge.
Word: immune system Part of Speech: noun 1. The system that differentiates self from non-self and protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing an immune response. It includes organs such as the thymus, the spleen and lymph nodes; tissue such as bone marrow, and lymphoid tissues such as the tonsils; cells such as lymphocytes including the B cells and T cells, and cell products such as antibodies.
Word: lumbago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/, /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˌləm-/ 1. Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc. Labels: also, attributive, uncountable Example: Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago. Example: We may imagine an athletics coach with a scientific training researching into the physiology and the psychology of runners. [...] He finds out the effects of fatigue, of alcohol, of tobacco, of lumbago and of depression upon their performances. 2. An episode of such backache. Labels: also, attributive, countable
Word: lumbago Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/, /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˌləm-/ 1. To affect (someone) with lumbago. Labels: also, attributive, transitive
Word: special needs Part of Speech: noun 1. Needs for special care, services or accommodations for people with disabilities. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: The school has introduced provisions for pupils with special needs. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see special, needs. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Am I really hard to please? Perhaps I have such special needs I wondered what was wrong with me My friends all fall so easily
Word: pull out Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pullen oute. 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, out. Example: I need to pull the splinter out of my hand. 2. To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. Labels: also, figuratively, intransitive Example: The troops pulled out of the conflict. Example: The mayor pulled out of the race for Senate after numerous opinion polls had him polling at less than 10 percent. 3. To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight. Labels: intransitive Example: After releasing its bomb, the plane pulled out of its dive. 4. To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control. Labels: intransitive, literally Example: Shortly before you ejaculate, you can pull out and use your hand (or hers) to push yourself over the edge. Some of my patients claim this is a more natural method of birth control[…] Example: She'd long since caught the knack of moving with him, and closed her arms and legs around him. “You'll fly with me, Tiberius? Take the last fence with me?” He'd meant to pull out. Coitus interruptus was a term even the scholars failing their Latin knew before they left public school. 5. To remove something from a container. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: He pulled his gun out before she had a chance to scream. 6. To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: When joining a road, you should check for traffic before pulling out. 7. To draw out or lengthen. Labels: transitive 8. To draw out by dragging or tugging. Labels: transitive Example: The robbers ransacked the place, pulling out drawers and opening closets. Example: Wearing a green beret and a long, dark coat, the Santa Ana man pulled out a sword with a 3-foot blade and calmly attacked in silence, almost beheading one of his victims. 9. To succeed despite long odds. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Nobody thought they'd win, but the football team pulled out a victory. Example: They were behind by 29 points in the third quarter, but they pulled it out at the buzzer.
Word: backbreaking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From back + breaking. 1. Of work, very physically tiring. Labels: figuratively Example: A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties. Example: Ahead [...] each woman is stooped beneath a backbreaking load of firewood.
Word: lessor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lessour, from Anglo-Norman lessour. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛsɚ/, /ˈlɛsə/ 1. The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.
Word: revolt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/, /ɹɪˈvəʊlt/, /ɹɪˈvɒlt/ 1. To rebel, particularly against authority. Labels: intransitive Example: The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved. Example: Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt 2. To repel greatly. Labels: transitive Example: Your brother revolts me! Example: I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds. 3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at. Labels: intransitive Example: The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. 4. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. Example: The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt. 5. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. Example: And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free. Example: His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. 6. to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
Word: revolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/, /ɹɪˈvəʊlt/, /ɹɪˈvɒlt/ 1. An act of revolting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: — It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution... Example: The first recorded use of “insurrection” in English, indeed, is in parliamentary papers describing the armed revolt led by Jack Cade in 1450, who marched on London to protest against the corruption of Henry VI’s government. […] Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.
Word: slippery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slipperie, an extended form ( + -y) of Middle English slipper, sliper (“slippery”), from Old English slipor (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”), equivalent to slip + -er. Compare also Middle English slibbri, slubbri (“slippery”) borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slibberich (“slippery”). Cognate with German schlüpfrig (“slippery”), Danish slibrig (“slippery”), Swedish slipprig (“slippery”). Pronunciation: /ˈslɪpəɹi/, /ˈslɪpɹi/ 1. Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc. Example: Oily substances render things slippery. Example: The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis. 2. Evasive; difficult to pin down. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: a slippery person Example: a slippery promise 3. Liable to slip; not standing firm. Labels: obsolete Example: Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, / The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall. 4. Unstable; changeable; inconstant. Example: He looking down With scorn or pity on the slippery state Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate. 5. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. Labels: obsolete Example: My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess –
Word: phenology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der. ▲ Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der. French phéno- Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. French -yle French phénylebor. English phenyl Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English pheno- ▲ English -o- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English -ology English phenology From pheno- + -ology. Pronunciation: /ˌfɛnˈɒlədʒi/, /fəˈnɒlədʒi/, /fiˈnɒlədʒi/ 1. The study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena. Labels: uncountable
Word: back-breaking Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of backbreaking. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: back number Part of Speech: noun 1. A back issue of a magazine, etc. Example: Because of war conditions and rigid paper control, it is now impossible for us to keep supplies of recent back numbers. 2. Anything considered old-fashioned.
Word: smear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren (“to smear, lubricate”), Low German smeren, German schmieren (“to smear, lubricate”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål smøre (“to lubricate”), Norwegian Nynorsk smørja (“to lubricate”), Swedish smörja (“to grease”), Faroese and Icelandic smyrja. Pronunciation: /smɪə(ɹ)/, /smiɚ/, /smɪɚ/ 1. A mark made by smearing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This detergent cleans windows without leaving smears. Example: A smear of decisive lead-coloured paint had been laid on to obliterate Henchard’s name, though its letters dimly loomed through like ships in a fog. 2. A mark made by smearing. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: smear campaign Example: I should have held him quite beneath my Notice, as is all he utters, but that the Appetite of Slander, in many, is too predominant; and, ’tis possible, when the filthiest Fellow throws a Profusion of Dirt, some may chance to stick, if not timely thrown off; I shall endeavour therefore, to wipe away the sooty Smears of this Chimney-sweeper, by relating a simple Fact, which will, I flatter myself, amply confute the malicious Tales of this unprovoked, rancorous Mortal: 4. A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'm going to the doctor's this afternoon for a smear. 6. Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. Labels: uncountable Example: In television terms, a certain amount of smear, ringing, and anticipatory overshoot are indigenous to VSB transmission. Example: Results show the reduction in intelligibility produced by changing the filter condition was much greater than reductions caused by altering smear duration. 7. A maneuver in which a shoe is placed onto a holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact with the rock. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A rough glissando in jazz music. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: suppress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin suppressus, perfect passive participle of supprimō (“press down or under”), from sub (“under”) + premō (“press”). Pronunciation: /səˈpɹɛs/, /səˈpɹes/ 1. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue. Example: Political dissent was brutally suppressed. 2. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression. Example: I struggled to suppress my smile. 3. To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind. Example: He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse. 4. To prevent publication. Example: The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy. 5. To stop a flow or stream. Example: The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole. Example: Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough. 6. To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained. Labels: US 7. To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal. 8. To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 9. To hold in place, to keep low. Labels: obsolete
Word: diversity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English diversite, from Old French diversité, from Latin dīversitās, equivalent to diverse + -ity. Displaced native Old English mislīcnes. Pronunciation: /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/ 1. The quality of being diverse or different; a difference or unlikeness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From this view of the case, my friends, I am driven irresistibly to the conclusion that diversity, dissimilarity, variety in all our local and domestic institutions, is the great safeguard of our liberties Example: In much she reminded me constantly of my own lost child; in other ways she attracted me by her diversity. 2. A variety; diverse types or examples. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hendryx has laid down eight tracks that flow seamlessly through funk, disco, gospel, rock and reggae, with nary a false step along the way. She is at home in this diversity of styles because she has paid her dues in all of them: from her days as one of the dynamoes of Labelle through collaborations with rock band Talking Heads, funk band Cameo […] Example: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity. 3. Equal-opportunity inclusion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Bakke has shaped a precarious context for diversity initiatives in higher education. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court has reasoned that race may serve a purpose in the admissions process; however, race may not be used as a corrective measure, such as by establishing quotas. Example: Diversity is now a big industry — about $8 billion per year gets spent on diversity trainings in America — and parents might be feeling blindsided by the rapid changes, many of which came after last year’s George Floyd protests.
Word: granular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin grānulum (“granule, little grain”), diminutive of Latin grānum (“grain, seed”), + -ar. By surface analysis, granule + -ar. Compare French granulaire. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lɚ/, [ˈɡɹɛən.jə.lɚ], /ˈɡɹɛn.jə.lə(ɹ)/ 1. Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains. Example: a granular substance 2. Grainy. Example: It has a granular structure Example: This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture... 3. Refined or precise. Example: This should allow for a more granular degree of control
Word: weaning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wean Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: weaning Part of Speech: noun 1. The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment. Labels: countable, uncountable