nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dishwasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dysche wescheare, equivalent to dish + washer. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪʃˌwɒʃə/, /ˈdɪʃˌwɑʃɚ/ 1. A machine for washing dishes. Example: load the dishwasher Example: Plus, there are about a thousand things that also could, or should get done in that time: a load of laundry, loading the dishwasher, tidying the kitchen, picking up a gagillion toys and blankies off the ground, restocking the change tables. 2. Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant. Example: The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before. 3. A European bird, the wagtail. Labels: Cornwall, UK, dialectal Example: The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts. 4. A bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta). Labels: Australia
Word: Nevada gas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The first gas chamber was used in Nevada, USA on February 8, 1924. 1. Hydrogen cyanide, used in the gas chamber. Labels: US, slang, uncountable Example: In the front seat it had a tank of Nevada gas, cyanide, which the guy driving could turn into the back part without getting it himself.
Word: lead poisoning Part of Speech: noun 1. A chronic intoxication produced by the absorption of lead into the body, characterized by severe colicky pains, a dark line along the gums, and local muscular paralysis. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A gunshot wound. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: house dick Part of Speech: noun 1. A hotel detective. Labels: slang
Word: arraign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English areynen (“to interrogate, arraign, reprimand”), from Anglo-Norman areiner, arener, from Old French araisnier, areisnier, aresnier (“to speak to, address; accuse (in a law court)”) (whence modern French arraisonner (“to verify cargo, to arraign”)), from Vulgar Latin *arratiōnāre, from Latin adratiōnāre, from ad (“to”) + *ratiōnāre (“to reason, talk reasonably, talk”), from ratiō (“reason, reasoning, discourse”), from rat-, past-participle stem of rērī (“to reckon, calculate”). First attested in the late 14th century. Doublet of areason. About the -g- within the word, Etymonline and the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary both agree that it is present by hypercorrection and appears since the 16th century. The Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1986) however, provides two etymological links each, which are Old French aragnier and araigner. The Oxford English Dictionary (1885, 1989) did not support either of these hypotheses, but did attribute Old French arraigner, arainer to an unrelated obsolete sense and etymon. Pronunciation: /əˈɹeɪn/ 1. To officially charge someone in a court of law. Labels: with-on Example: He was arraigned in Washington, D.C., on the 25th of that month on charges of treason. Example: He will then be arraigned, at which point the specific charges will be unsealed. 2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. Example: They will not dare to arraign you for want of knowledge. Example: It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
Word: arraign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English areynen (“to interrogate, arraign, reprimand”), from Anglo-Norman areiner, arener, from Old French araisnier, areisnier, aresnier (“to speak to, address; accuse (in a law court)”) (whence modern French arraisonner (“to verify cargo, to arraign”)), from Vulgar Latin *arratiōnāre, from Latin adratiōnāre, from ad (“to”) + *ratiōnāre (“to reason, talk reasonably, talk”), from ratiō (“reason, reasoning, discourse”), from rat-, past-participle stem of rērī (“to reckon, calculate”). First attested in the late 14th century. Doublet of areason. About the -g- within the word, Etymonline and the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary both agree that it is present by hypercorrection and appears since the 16th century. The Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1986) however, provides two etymological links each, which are Old French aragnier and araigner. The Oxford English Dictionary (1885, 1989) did not support either of these hypotheses, but did attribute Old French arraigner, arainer to an unrelated obsolete sense and etymon. Pronunciation: /əˈɹeɪn/ 1. Arraignment. Example: the clerk of the arraigns Example: The clerk of the arraigns stood up
Word: hatchetmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hatchetman (alternative spelling of hatchet men). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hash house Part of Speech: noun 1. A cheap restaurant. Labels: slang Example: Two hours" deep cogitation resulted in his going to the hash house, and putting one more dinner down to his account. 2. In the sport of rogaining, a central base camp providing hot meals and a place to sleep.
Word: animadversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French animadversion and its etymon Latin animadversiō (“observation, criticism”), from animadvertō (“to pay attention”), from animus (“mind”) + advertō (“to turn to”). Pronunciation: /ˌænɪmædˈvɜːʒən/, /ˌænɪmædˈvɝːʒən /, /ˌænɪmædˈvɝːʃən/ 1. A criticism, a critical remark. Labels: countable Example: [A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion. Example: While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive. 2. The state or characteristic of being animadversive. Labels: uncountable Example: He was deceived; for justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for grape-seed. Example: Nor have I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers.
Word: headstrong Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English heedstrong, equivalent to head + strong. 1. Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want. Example: He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything. Example: O, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! ſhe's as headſtrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Word: grease monkey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1910 in a translated work. See cite below. May have originated during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, when children were used to grease the large rotating axles which were used to transfer power from one centralized steam engine to all of the machines on the factory floor. These children, covered in grease and crawling in the tight spaces in the ceilings, were equated with monkeys. 1. A mechanic, often with the specific connotation of an automobile mechanic. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: If you appear like a tramp or grease-monkey how can you expect to meet the people who are able to support your business. Example: Maybe some other "grease monkey," as I call mechanics, will correct me.
Word: needle in a haystack Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that is difficult or impossible to locate. Labels: idiomatic Example: You'll never find the paper you need on her desk. You're looking for a needle in a haystack.
Word: haystack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay + stack. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪˌstæk/ 1. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay. 2. A standing wave in a rapid. 3. The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack) Example: Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack. 4. Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find. Labels: broadly Example: But the point of confining the Kansas City gun experiment to the worst parts of the worst neighborhoods was to make the haystack just a little smaller, and to make the inevitable trade-off between fighting crime and harassing innocent people just a little more manageable. 5. A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
Word: overdue Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + due. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈdju/, /ˌoʊ.vəɹˈdu/ 1. Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need. Example: his library books were three days overdue; my car is overdue for an oil change; she finally left on a long overdue vacation Example: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
Word: overdue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + due. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈdju/, /ˌoʊ.vəɹˈdu/ 1. A borrowed item (such as a library book) that has not been returned on time. 2. A payment or invoice that is past due.
Word: uncontrollable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English controllable English uncontrollable From un- + controllable. 1. Not able to be controlled, contained or governed. Example: She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate. Example: "Ethel!" exclaimed Norbourne, his strong and uncontrollable emotion betraying the power that her name still had over him: he tried to say something more, but the words died on his lips.
Word: board game Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.
Word: rail hail Part of Speech: noun 1. Hail accelerated to high speeds by heavy winds. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: reptilian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile. Pronunciation: /ɹɛpˈtɪliən/, /ɹɛpˈtɪljən/ 1. Of or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles). Example: The Mesozoic represents that time on Earth when life flourished, but when such life was primarily reptilian, before the Age of Mammals. 2. Reptilelike. Example: It is filled with blazing fires and half-human, half-animal beasts, with spiked reptilian tails. 3. Unthinking, low, base, contemptible. Labels: figuratively 4. Cold-blooded, treacherous, unavoidably selfish and hostile. Labels: figuratively
Word: reptilian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile. Pronunciation: /ɹɛpˈtɪliən/, /ɹɛpˈtɪljən/ 1. A reptilian animal: a reptile. 2. A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew. Labels: figuratively 3. A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world. Example: More evolved than the Grays or Reptilians, the Humanoids seem to feel some sort of kinship with humans and are likely to be kind.[…] Some researchers believe the Grays are merely preparing the way for a full-scale invasion of Reptilian aliens. Example: Such powerful human families would descend upon the reptilians themselves and they would be willing to do just anything to retain their power.
Word: dumb blonde Part of Speech: noun 1. A common stereotype portraying a blonde woman as attractive but unintelligent. Labels: derogatory Example: Have you found the canonical list of dumb blonde jokes on the Internet yet? Example: My friends say she's a dumb blonde but they don't know she dyes her hair. 2. A man of a similar type. Labels: broadly, rare
Word: peroxide blonde Part of Speech: noun 1. A person, especially a woman, who bleaches their hair extremely white-blonde.
Word: bukake Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bukkake. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: elongated Part of Speech: adj 1. Extensive in length (physical distance, or time). Example: But his serve instantly came under intense pressure against Alcaraz in an elongated start which included a 12-minute opening game. 2. Stretched. 3. Of a polyhedron, having been modified by placing a prism in the middle of the polyhedron.
Word: elongated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of elongate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mechanize Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmɛkənaɪz/ 1. To equip something with machinery. 2. To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles. 3. To make something routine, automatic or monotonous. Example: The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.
Word: remnants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of remnant. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermatozoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “sperm”) + ζῷον (zōîon, “living thing”), equivalent to spermato- + -zoon. Pronunciation: /ˌspɜːmətə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɒn/ 1. A reproductive cell or gamete of a male, carried in semen, that fertilizes an ovum to produce a zygote. Example: But let us suppose [...] that one hardy or lucky spermatozoon has reached the waiting egg. Example: A sperm, or spermatozoa, is the microscopic male reproductive cell. Sperms are made up of oval-shaped heads and long tails that they use for mobility.
Word: terpsichorean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Terpsichore (“the Muse of dance in Greek mythology”). Pronunciation: /ˌtəːp.sɪ.kəɹˈiː.ən/, /ˌtɝp.sɪ.kəˈɹiː.ən/, /ˌtɝp.sɪˈkɔɹ.iː.ən/ 1. Of or relating to dancing. Example: The pair danced away with great agility and contentment,—first a waltz, then a galop, then a waltz again, until, in the second waltz, they were bumped by another couple who had joined the Terpsichorean choir. Example: This was such an entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in some astonishment
Word: terpsichorean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Terpsichore (“the Muse of dance in Greek mythology”). Pronunciation: /ˌtəːp.sɪ.kəɹˈiː.ən/, /ˌtɝp.sɪ.kəˈɹiː.ən/, /ˌtɝp.sɪˈkɔɹ.iː.ən/ 1. A person who dances, especially professionally.
Word: neuropathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + -pathy. Pronunciation: /ˌnjuːˈrɒ.pə.θiː/ 1. Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Long-standing diabetes often causes neuropathy in the retinas, fingertips, and toes. 2. Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the contribution of central neuropathy on postural impairment observed in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy Example: insights into the underlying molecular pathogenesis of diabetes-induced CNS neuropathy
Word: neuropathic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥ Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der. Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron) Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der. English neuro- Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -pathic English neuropathic From neuro- + -pathic. 1. Of or relating to neuropathy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: circumvent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Latin circum Latin circum- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷəniō Latin veniō Latin circumveniōlbor. English circumvent Learned borrowing from Latin circumveniō. Pronunciation: /səːkəmˈvɛnt/ 1. to avoid or get around something; to bypass Labels: transitive Example: The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40. 2. to surround or besiege Labels: transitive 3. to outwit or outsmart Labels: transitive Example: We are mortified by not being thought worthy of trust; and there is also a feeling of small triumph in circumventing those who doubt either our inclination or our power of service.
Word: set-theoretic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, relating to or using set theory. Labels: not-comparable Example: a set-theoretic proof
Word: potbelly stove Part of Speech: noun 1. A cast iron stove with a rotund firebox that uses as fuel coal, coke, wood, charcoal, or rarely peat.
Word: potbellied stove Part of Speech: noun 1. A potbelly stove.
Word: rock 'n' roll Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rock and roll. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: null set Part of Speech: noun 1. A negligible set; set of zero measure. 2. The empty set. Labels: proscribed, sometimes
Word: negligible set Part of Speech: noun 1. A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose.
Word: vitreous humour Part of Speech: noun 1. The clear gel that fills the eyeball between the lens and the retina. Labels: Canada, UK
Word: Euclidean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after Euclid, who established the principles of plane geometry. Pronunciation: /juːˈklɪd.i.ən/, /juˈklɪd.i.ən/, [juˈklɪɾ.i.ən], /jʉːˈklɪd.i.ən/, /jʉːˈkləd.i.ən/ 1. Adhering to the principles of traditional geometry, in which parallel lines are equidistant. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to Euclid's Elements, especially to Euclidean geometry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Euclidean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., which in turn refers to the city of Euclid, Ohio. Pronunciation: /juːˈklɪd.i.ən/, /juˈklɪd.i.ən/, [juˈklɪɾ.i.ən], /jʉːˈklɪd.i.ən/, /jʉːˈkləd.i.ən/ 1. Of or relating to Euclidean zoning. Labels: not-comparable
Word: non-Euclidean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + Euclidean. 1. Of, or relating to non-Euclidean geometry. Labels: not-comparable Example: He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.
Word: Euclidean geometry Part of Speech: noun 1. The familiar geometry of the real world, based on the parallel postulate. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: non-Euclidean geometry Part of Speech: noun 1. Any system of geometry not based on the set of axioms of Euclidean geometry, which is based on the three-dimensional space of common experience. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: animalcule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum (“lowly or small animal”) + English -cule (diminutive suffix). Animalculum is derived from Latin animal (“animal; living creature”) + -culum (diminutive suffix); and animal from animāle, the nominative neuter singular of animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”), from anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The English word is analysable as animal + -cule. Pronunciation: /ænɪˈmælkjuːl/, /ˌænəˈmælˌkjul/ 1. A sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state. Labels: historical Example: [Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek's most mysterious finding was yet to come, however. Inside the animalcules in the thickest part of the semen he saw / all manner of great and small vessels, so various and so numerous that I do not doubt that they be nerves, arteries and veins. … 2. A microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers. Labels: archaic Example: If we are part of nature, then we are synonymous with it at the metaphysical level, every bit as much as the first all-but-inorganic animalcules that ever formed a chain of themselves in the blow hole of a primordial sea vent. 3. A small animal. Labels: obsolete Example: Why, there is not a Man, or a Thing, now alive but has tools. The basest of created animalcules, the Spider itself, has a spinning-jenny, and warping-mill, and power-loom within its head: […] Example: Is it not evident that if a parasitic animalcule desired to call its attention it would sink a hole in its shell and so stimulate its sensory apparatus?
Word: gametocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English gameto- Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der. Latin cytader. English -cyte English gametocyte From gameto- + -cyte. 1. A diploid germ cell that divides by meiosis into a gamete.
Word: germ cell Part of Speech: noun 1. A cell that is part of the germ line: a gametocyte, an ovum or a sperm cell.
Word: spermatocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English spermato- Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der. Latin cytader. English -cyte English spermatocyte From spermato- + -cyte. 1. A male gametocyte, from which a spermatozoon develops. Example: The spermatogonia continue to reside in the gonocyst and form spermatocyte, which begins to increase in size. Example: Fragments of laminin chains can act as biologically active peptides to perturb the blood–testis barrier (BTB) permeability function by accelerating protein endocytosis (e.g., occludin) at the site, thereby destabilizing the BTB integrity to facilitate the transit of preleptotene spermatocytes.
Word: diploid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diplo- + -oid. By surface analysis, di- + -ploid. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪploiːʔ/ 1. Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid. Labels: not-comparable Example: It has been shown, however, that triploid forms producing diploid gametes in one sex and haploid ones in the other sex can act as a stepping stone towards tetraploidization (triploid bridge; [ 93 – 95 ]). 2. Of an organism, having diploid cells. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces. Labels: not-comparable
Word: diploid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From diplo- + -oid. By surface analysis, di- + -ploid. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪploiːʔ/ 1. A diploid cell. 2. A diploid organism. Example: The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .
Word: particle board Part of Speech: noun 1. a structural material manufactured from wood particles (such as chips and shavings) by pressing, and binding through resin Labels: Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable
Word: shaving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪvɪŋ/ 1. A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material. Labels: countable 2. The action of having a shave. Labels: uncountable 3. A stabbing. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang Example: On numerous occasions countless bootings and shavings, it's blatant Double tap when I slap this gauge ting Or it's ching-chao when I swing this stainless
Word: shaving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of shave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squander Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Earliest uses (late 16th c.) "to spend recklessly or prodigiously", also "to scatter over a wide area". Of unknown origin. Perhaps a blend of scatter + wander. Compare Danish skvætte (rare)/skvatte (“to splash”) (nominalised: skvæt), Icelandic skvetta (“to squirt”), Swedish skvätta (“to splash”), Norwegian Bokmål skvette. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒnd.ə/, [ˈskwɒn.də], /ˈskwɑn.dɚ/, [ˈskʷɑn.dɚ] 1. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate. Labels: transitive Example: . Example: 1886, Cora Pearl, Memoirs. "I have squandered money enormously.... I ought to have saved, but saving is not easy in such a whirl of excitement as that in which I have lived." 2. To scatter; to disperse. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […]our ſquander’d Troops he rallies:[…] 3. To wander at random; to scatter. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […]The Wiſe-mans folly is anathomiz’d / Euen by ſquandring glances of the foole.
Word: shard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːd/, [ˈʃɑːd], /ˈʃɐːd/, [ˈʃɐ̞ːd], /ˈʃɑɹd/ 1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. Example: You know there is something fascinating beyond that wall because someone's tried to stop you seeing over, and there are shards of glass embedded in the top. 2. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. Labels: broadly Example: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery. 3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. 4. An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources. Labels: Internet Example: 1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I. "The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122926/http://michael-morlan.net/pages/production/prod_uo.htm 5. A component of a sharded distributed database. 6. A piece of crystal methamphetamine. Labels: in-plural, singular, slang
Word: shard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːd/, [ˈʃɑːd], /ˈʃɐːd/, [ˈʃɐ̞ːd], /ˈʃɑɹd/ 1. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. Labels: intransitive 2. To break (something) into shards. Labels: transitive 3. To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one. Labels: Internet, transitive
Word: shard Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːd/, [ˈʃɑːd], /ˈʃɐːd/, [ˈʃɐ̞ːd], /ˈʃɑɹd/ 1. The plant chard. Labels: uncountable Example: Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird, Which Phasis, or Ionia yields, More pleasing Morsels would afford Than the fat Olives of my Fields; Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot, That keep the loosen’d Body sound, Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot, To the just Guardian of my Ground.
Word: philosophers' stone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English philosophres ston, a calque of Latin lapis philosophōrum. 1. Alternative form of philosopher's stone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: archæological Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of archaeological. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: archæologically Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative spelling of archaeologically. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Cheapside Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Ċēapsīde, i.e. “district beside the market”. See ċēap and sīde. 1. Any of several streets in English towns and cities that were originally marketplaces. 2. A street, and surrounding district, in the City of London; links Newgate Street, Cornhill, Threadneedle Street, Poultry and Lombard Street (and others). 3. A village mostly in Sunninghill and Ascot parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9469). 4. A hamlet in Anstey parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4033). 5. A community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. 6. A ghost town in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. 7. An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia, United States.
Word: marketplace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From market + place. 1. An open area in a town housing a public market. 2. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. Example: Some high-street retailers were slow to enter the new digital marketplace of the Internet. 3. The world of commerce and trade. Labels: broadly Example: Endorsing the liberal anti-interventionist credo that the marketplace should act as the "site of verification," the advocates of white lead opposed government intervention for the sake of open economic competition, which they claimed revealed its true value and thus should be the sole determinant: "When the railways were built, the stage coaches disppeared; they died a timely death. If zinc white is truly superior to white lead, it will kill us in the marketplace, but the government should not intervene." These were the words of Expert-Bezançon, in his February 1903 deposition to the parliamentary committee examining the bill for banning lead-based pigments in paint. 4. A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions. Labels: figuratively Example: marketplace of ideas Example: While political theory frequently appears condemned to nostalgic reflection, cultural studies often dulls its critical edge in the never-ending stampede to document the newest styles and counterstyles of the cultural marketplace.
Word: market place Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of marketplace. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It was market day at Sidi Aissa, and the numberless caravans of camels coming in from the desert, and the crowds of bickering Arabs in the market place, filled Tarzan with a consuming desire to remain for a day that he might see more of these sons of the desert.
Word: market square Part of Speech: noun 1. An open area in a town housing a public market, often on just one day per week; a marketplace.
Word: market day Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see market, day. 2. The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location. Example: Part of this section runs beneath the Glasgow Cattle Market, and lairage for livestock traffic is provided beside Bellgrove Station; trains are received from all over Scotland on market days. Example: On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
Word: universal set Part of Speech: noun 1. A set large enough to contain all sets under consideration in the current context.
Word: haploid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Hellenic *hə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-) Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der. English haplo- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English haploid From haplo- + -oid, Ancient Greek roots meaning, together, literally “simplex” or “onefoldlike”, from ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos, “single, simple”, literally “onefold”) and -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæplɔɪd/ 1. Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism). Labels: broadly, not-comparable 2. Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism). Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: Examples of haploid cells are prokaryotes and the gametes of eukaryotes. Example: It has been shown, however, that triploid forms producing diploid gametes in one sex and haploid ones in the other sex can act as a stepping stone towards tetraploidization (triploid bridge; [ 93 – 95 ]).
Word: haploid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Hellenic *hə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-) Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der. English haplo- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English haploid From haplo- + -oid, Ancient Greek roots meaning, together, literally “simplex” or “onefoldlike”, from ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos, “single, simple”, literally “onefold”) and -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæplɔɪd/ 1. A cell which is haploid. Example: In teleosts, double haploids (DHs) induced by mitogynogenesis are often sterile. 2. An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells.
Word: acid test Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acid + test; sense 1 (“test involving the reaction of an acid with another chemical”) and sense 2 (“rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something”) refer to the use of nitric acid to test if a metal is gold; true gold is not affected by the acid. Sense 3 (“party based around the use and advocacy of the psychedelic drug LSD”) is a pun referencing the slang term acid (“LSD”). The original “acid test” parties were thrown by the Merry Pranksters group between 1965 and 1966 and advertised by the slogan “Can you pass the acid test?” Pronunciation: /ˌæsɪd ˈtɛst/ 1. A test involving the reaction of an acid with another chemical. 2. A rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something. Labels: figuratively Example: [H]e reflected that few professional beauties could have stood, as this woman did, the acid test of that mercilessly brilliant morning. Example: "Eggs, Parker," said Freddie solemnly, "are the acid test!" / "Yes, sir?" / "If, on the morning after, you can tackle a poached egg, you are all right. If not not. And don't let anybody tell you otherwise." 3. In the 1960s, a party based around the use and advocacy of the psychedelic drug LSD (known in slang as acid). Labels: broadly, historical Example: The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.
Word: appraisal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From appraise + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹeɪzəl/ 1. The act or process of developing an opinion of value. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been. 2. A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: acid-base equilibrium Part of Speech: noun 1. The state in which the concentrations of acidic and basic ions in a solution neutralize each other.
Word: proper subset Part of Speech: noun 1. a set that is a subset of the set, but not equal to it. Example: {2, 4, 5} is a proper subset of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, but {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} is not.
Word: acid-base indicator Part of Speech: noun 1. A substance that shows the acidity or alkalinity of a solution by its colour.
Word: pH indicator Part of Speech: noun 1. An acid-base indicator.
Word: Venn diagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after British mathematician and philosopher John Venn (1834–1923). Pronunciation: /ˈvɛn ˌdaɪəɡɹæm/, /ˈvɛn ˌdaɪɡɹæm/ 1. A diagram representing some sets by contours of closed shapes, such as circles or ellipses (and sometimes also the universal set as a rectangle enclosing all of these shapes), and indicating the relationships between the sets: by overlapping the shapes to show that the corresponding sets have a non-empty intersection, and by possibly (but not necessarily) enclosing all of the sets (which are proper subsets of the universal set) within a universal set (represented typically by a rectangle); such that the total number of simply connected regions is 2ⁿ, where n is the number of depicted sets which are proper subsets of the universal set. 2. The intersection of two or more things. Labels: broadly Example: The overlapping section of the Venn diagram of Phillies fans and mystery meat aficionados probably already knows this, but the Phils’ beloved Dollar Dog Nights appeared to be over for the season (for the uninitiated, that’s when glizzies go on sale for a buck). Example: […]the gobal “mind, body and energy healing” market size […] was estimated at nearly $80bn in 2023 and is projected to grow year on year at 26 per cent to 2030. And the Venn diagram between this world and that of real estate and architecture is increasing.
Word: non-empty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + empty. 1. Of a set, containing at least one element; not the empty set. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mehu Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of meu (“second minister of Kingdom of Dahomey”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: acid-fast Part of Speech: adj 1. Retaining stain when treated with an acidic solution.
Word: acidhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin acidusbor. French acidebor. English acid English -head English acidhead From acid (“LSD”) + -head. 1. A person who uses the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Labels: derogatory, often, slang
Word: acidophilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *akēō Latin aceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin acidusbor. French acidebor. English acid Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English -philic English acidophilic From acid + -o- + -philic. Pronunciation: /ˌæsɪdəʊˈfɪlɪk/, /ˌæsɪdoʊˈfɪlɪk/ 1. Thriving under acidic conditions; relating to or being an acidophile. 2. Easily stained with acidic dyes, such as eosin.
Word: homer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”). Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊmə/, /ˈhoʊmɚ/ 1. A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels. Labels: historical Example: The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. Example: Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat. 2. Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure. Labels: historical Example: The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Word: homer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Middle English hōm English home English -er English homer From home + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊmə/, /ˈhoʊmɚ/ 1. A home run. Labels: US Example: The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth. Example: The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final. 2. Synonym of home run (“sexual intercourse”). Labels: US, colloquial Example: Fast forward to Chase's base. Where Chase hit a homer, first at bat. Becca thrived off being sexy, having sex, watching sex. Example: “So you hit a homer, huh?” she asked, confused by his misery. Colm nodded. “Best sex I've had in a long time. Maybe ever.” 3. A homing pigeon. Labels: US Example: Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time. 4. A person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team. Labels: US Example: Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league. 5. A homing beacon. Example: Two general types of homer systems are in use, active homers and passive homers. Active homers contain a transmitting device which emits energy that is directed towards the target. 6. homework Labels: UK Example: 'What's the good of talking?' said Cyril. 'What I want is for something to happen. It's awfully stuffy for a chap not to be allowed out in the evenings. There's simply nothing to do when you've got through your homers.' Jane finished the last of her home-lessons and shut the book with a bang.
Word: homer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Middle English hōm English home English -er English homer From home + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊmə/, /ˈhoʊmɚ/ 1. To hit a homer; to hit a home run. Labels: US Example: The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.
Word: neurasthenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neur- + asthenia, after Italian nevrastenia. By surface analysis, neur- (“nerve”) + a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ia (“disease”). Pronunciation: /ˌnjʊəɹəsˈθiːniə/ 1. An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: engrave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- + grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/ 1. To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. Labels: transitive Example: He engraved the plaque with his name. Example: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics." 2. To carve (something) into a material. Labels: transitive Example: He engraved his name.
Word: engrave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English grave English engrave From en- + grave. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/ 1. To put in a grave, to bury. Labels: obsolete Example: So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].
Word: commodity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin commoditāsder. Anglo-Norman commoditeebor. Middle English commoditee English commodity Inherited from Middle English commoditee, borrowed from Anglo-Norman commoditee, from Latin commoditās. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɑdəti/, /kəˈmɒdəti/, /kəˈmɔdɪte/, /-tɪ/, /-ti/ 1. Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is with the help of the commodity concept that the mechanism of the market is geared to the various elements of industrial life. Commodities are here empirically defined as objects produced for sale on the market; […]. But labor, land, and money are obviously not commodities; the postulate that anything that is bought and sold must have been produced for sale is emphatically untrue in regard to them. Example: If a key part of shopping is the conversion of anonymous commodities into possessions, shopping is a cultural as much as an economic activity. 2. Something useful or valuable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And Slade said: "It really makes me sad that football club chairmen and boards seem to have lost that most precious commodity - patience. "Sam's sacking at Newcastle had, I suppose, been on the cards for a while, but it is really ridiculous to fire a manager after such a short time. 3. Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in World's many commodities exchanges. 4. Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity. 5. Anything which has both a use value and an exchange value. Labels: Marxism, countable, uncountable 6. Convenience; usefulness, suitability. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 7. Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Shall we employ the intelligence Heaven hath bestowed upon us for our greatest good, to our ruine? repugning natures desseign and the universal order and vicissitude of things, which implieth that every man should use his instruments and meanes for his owne commoditie? Example: they commonly respect their own ends, commodity is the steer of all their action[…].