nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: shorts Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Germanic *skertaną Proto-Germanic *skurtaz Proto-West Germanic *skurt Old English sċort Middle English schort English short Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English shorts From short + -s. Pronunciation: /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/ 1. A garment worn over the pelvic area ending above the knees, not covering the entire length of the leg, designed for warm weather or for sports. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts. Example: In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist. 2. Underpants. Labels: dated, plural, plural-only Example: After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts. Example: And always, when the food arrives, send something back. It's considered very sophisticated. But make sure you use colorful language. Tell him, "Waiter, this veal tastes like the inside front panel of Ferdinand Magellan's shorts. And I'm referring to the first voyage." 3. Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes. Labels: plural, plural-only, uncountable 4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: […]the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps 5. Short, inferior hemp. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: shorts Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Germanic *skertaną Proto-Germanic *skurtaz Proto-West Germanic *skurt Old English sċort Middle English schort English short Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English shorts From short + -s. Pronunciation: /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of short Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: BMX Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of bicycle motocross. Pronunciation: /biː ɛm ˈɛks/ 1. Bicycle motocross, a form of cycling on BMX bikes, originating in California in the 1970s. Labels: uncountable Example: “When I was in Switzerland going through rehab, literally, I was like, ‘What’s the point? I’m going through so much pain right now and BMX has given me a lot of grief,’” said Sakakibara. 2. A BMX bike. Labels: countable Example: In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.
Word: BMX Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Initialism of bicycle motocross. Pronunciation: /biː ɛm ˈɛks/ 1. To ride a BMX bike. Labels: intransitive Example: I BMXed from 1978 (my first race) till not too long ago. Although I don't see too many freestylers in the net, I get in touch with quite a few ex-BMXers like myself on rec.bicycles.off-road (I'm cross-posting to it). Example: Yeah, flippity trick things are fun. I've got a friend who has BMXed for 15-16 years! He rules, and he used to be sponsored.
Word: dah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative Pronunciation: /dɑː/ 1. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Word: dah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao. Pronunciation: /dɑː/ 1. A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. Labels: Myanmar Example: Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace, / Abdul Huq, Wahabi, jerked his dagger from its place, / While amid the jungle-grass danced and grinned and jabbered / Little Boh Hla-oo and cleared his dah-blade from the scabbard. Example: It was like a sea of people, two thousand at the least, black and white in the moon, with here and there a curved dah glittering.
Word: baka Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːkə/, /ˈbɑkə/ 1. An evil spirit in Haitian belief, often in the form of an animal. Example: Under his sign the malevolent bocor may take the shape of an animal, and men may be transformed into terrible bakas. Example: A person has only to serve the baka incorrectly to have it turn against its owner and do him irremediable harm by reason of the very duality of its composition.
Word: baka Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːkə/, /ˈbɑkə/ 1. Stupid, silly. Labels: endearing, slang Example: I hate my stupid baka life.
Word: baka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːkə/, /ˈbɑkə/ 1. A foolish person, a dummy, a silly goose. Labels: endearing, slang
Word: waymark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From way + mark. 1. A sign or symbol marked in a prominent position in an off-road location to show the track of a footpath or route; fingerpost; guidepost; milestone. 2. A map coordinate stored within a satellite navigation system
Word: turret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɹɪt/, /ˈtʊɹɪt/, /ˈtɝ.ɪt/, /ˈtʌɾɪt/ 1. A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle. Example: Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim. Example: There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. 2. A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries. Labels: historical 3. A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes). 4. An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle. 5. The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation. 6. A turret head. 7. The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
Word: evade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“to pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“to go; walk”). See also wade. Pronunciation: /ɪˈveɪd/ 1. To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from. Labels: transitive Example: He evaded his opponent's blows. Example: The robbers evaded the police. 2. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. Labels: transitive Example: Evading from perils. Example: Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. 3. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. Labels: intransitive Example: The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways.
Word: Early Modern English Part of Speech: name 1. The form of the English language written and spoken from the end of the 15th century to the mid-17th century.
Word: globule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin globus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin globuluslbor. French globulebor. English globule From French globule, from Latin globulus, from globus (“globe”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒbjuːl/, /ˈɡlɑbjul/ 1. A small round particle of substance; a drop. Example: Suppoſe now that in a fair Day the Sun ſhines through a thin Cloud of ſuch globules of Water or Hail, and that the globules are all of the ſame bigneſs[…] Example: A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool.
Word: gleeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glee + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːfəl/ 1. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful. Example: During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
Word: shrill Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative. The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”) and sċill (“shell”) existed. The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”). Pronunciation: /ʃɹɪl/ 1. High-pitched and piercing. Example: The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds. Example: Suppoſe, that you haue ſeene / The well-appointed King at Douer Peer, / Embarke his Royaltie: and his braue Fleet, / With ſilken Streamers, the young Phebus fayning; / […] Heare the ſhrill Whiſtle, which doth order giue / To ſounds confus'd. 2. Having a shrill voice. Example: "It is Miss Halliday!" cried the house-maid, as she opened the door. "And oh my," she added, looking back into the hall with a sorrowful face, "how bad she do look!" […] "Oh, don't she look white!" cried a shrill girl with a baby in her arms. 3. Sharp or keen to the senses. Example: Rather than shrill, feisty whites tasting of grass, green beans, gooseberry or pipi de chat (the somehow more polite French term for cat's pee), [Didier] Dagueneau's Sauvignons were statuesque, beautifully balanced wines with flavors reminiscent of citrus zests, apricot, fig, passion fruit and minerals. 4. Especially of a woman: fierce, loud, strident. Labels: derogatory, figuratively Example: The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife, shrill, vehement, and fluent.
Word: shrill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative. The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”) and sċill (“shell”) existed. The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”). Pronunciation: /ʃɹɪl/ 1. To make a shrill noise. Example: And all wee dwell in deadly night, / O heauie herſe. / Breake we our pipes, that ſhrild as lowde as Larke, / O carefull verſe. Example: Harke how Troy roares, how Hecuba cries out, / How poore Andromache ſhrils her dolours foorth, / Behold deſtruction, frenzie, and amazement, / Like witleſſe antiques one another meete, / And all crie Hector, Hectors dead, O Hector.
Word: shrill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative. The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English sċill (“sonorous sounding”) and sċill (“shell”) existed. The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”). Pronunciation: /ʃɹɪl/ 1. A shrill sound. Example: [W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, which loudly to me called, / That with ſuddein ſhrill I was appalled. Example: The shrill of the whistle from the locomotive “Charlestown” announced the arrival of the first train into Fitchburg on 5 March 1845— […]
Word: Red Indian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See redskin for details about the etymology. 1. An aboriginal native of the Americas of pre-Columbian lineage. An Indian, Amerind(ian), American Indian, a Native American. Labels: dated, offensive
Word: æsthetics Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of aesthetics. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Physiological æsthetics purported to measure and analyze the impact of form, movement and color not only on the eye but on the body. Example: Psychoanalysis, one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive models ever offered in the fields of cognition (epistemology), affect (emotion system), action and motivation (pragmatics) and æsthetics, may very well be the last creation of “modernism.”
Word: American Indian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: American + Indian. The noun is attested since 1702, the adjective since shortly thereafter. 1. A member of some indigenous peoples of the Americas, especially the continental United States, but excluding the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleuts. 2. An indigenous person from the United States. Labels: Canada
Word: American Indian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: American + Indian. The noun is attested since 1702, the adjective since shortly thereafter. 1. Relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas or their languages.
Word: yesteryear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yester- + year. Pronunciation: /ˈjɛstəjɪə/, /ˈjɛstəɹˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈjestəjøː/, /ˈjɛstəjɜː/ 1. Past years; time gone by; yore. Labels: countable, poetic, uncountable Example: To be old here, is to be respectable, and time-honored is the epithet most coveted. You see no sign of the doings of yesterday or yesteryear: the new is careful of obtruding itself, and comes into the world under matronage of the old. Example: It seems to me that it isn't these little acts and little connexions we make in our lives that matter so very much. They pass away, and where are they? Where…Where are the snows of yesteryear? 2. Last year. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable
Word: yesteryear Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From yester- + year. Pronunciation: /ˈjɛstəjɪə/, /ˈjɛstəɹˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈjestəjøː/, /ˈjɛstəjɜː/ 1. In past years. Labels: not-comparable, poetic Example: Was it yesteryear or centuries ago that the Orient Express thundered over that narrow, glistening channel and linked the Golden Horn to the Seine? Example: To believe in God was to Moroni’s credit. But to believe in the Son of God, a Being who had only been prophesied about and whose birth was still in the future, is truly remarkable. It is similar to those who lived yesteryear (and are living today) after the coming of Christ, who believed (and who do believe) in Him, although He has never been seen in person.
Word: kinship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English kin Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English kinship From kin + -ship. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪnʃɪp/ 1. Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Relation or connection by nature or character. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The first of these were the ten engines of class "C8", Nos.290-299, which had a very strong kinship to the C.R. "Carbrooks".
Word: benefits Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪts/, /ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪts/, /ˈbɛn.əˌfɪts/, /ˈben.ə.fɪts/, /ˈben.ə.fəts/ 1. plural of benefit Labels: form-of, plural 2. public assistance; welfare. Example: Her dad had been on benefits for years so she never ever received pocket money. When she walked to school she would scour the pavements for coins.
Word: benefits Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪts/, /ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪts/, /ˈbɛn.əˌfɪts/, /ˈben.ə.fɪts/, /ˈben.ə.fəts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of benefit Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: followers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of follower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maidservant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English maide servant; equivalent to maid + servant. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪdˌsɜː.vənt/, /ˈmeɪdˌsɝ.vənt/ 1. A female servant; a maid. Example: Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. / But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy maid ſeruant may reſt as well as thou. Example: "A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came."
Word: ll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of lines; formed similarly to pp for pages. 1. lines Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: minette Part of Speech: noun 1. The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs. Labels: dated Example: The title page bears a minette portrait of the Duke being crowned by the hand of an ideal figure of Chicago, and below are the coat-of-arms and motto of the Duke's house. Example: […] there were hundreds of other sizes of photographic prints ranging from a minette novelty to mammoth views. 2. A mineral deposit consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine. Example: The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz.
Word: hop it Part of Speech: verb 1. To leave; to go away. Labels: UK Example: It has been rather misty for several mornings, so I told my pal to get ready and we would hop it the next day. Example: "You stop that!" cried a voice in the passage. "It's that blasted Jewess!" said the woman. She went to the kitchen door. "What the 'ell are you doing in our 'ouse? 'Op it, quick, or it will be the worse for you!"
Word: quitclaim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quiteclaymen, from Anglo-Norman quiteclamer, from clamer quite (“to claim quit”). Compare claim quit. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪtkleɪm/ 1. To relinquish or release (a claim, title, etc.); to transfer (an interest in property). Labels: transitive Example: 1991, JD Gordon, "How Not to Succeed in Law School", Yale Law Journal, April I hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, transfer, and quitclaim all my right, title, interest, benefit, and use whatever in, of, and concerning this chattel, otherwise known as an orange, or citrus orantium, together with all the appurtenances thereto of skin, pulp, pip, rind, seeds, and juice for his own use and behoof, to himself and his heirs in fee simple forever, free from all liens, encumbrances, easements, limitations, restraints, or conditions whatsoever, any and all prior deeds, transfers or other documents whatsoever. Example: It introduced a bill into the legislature that allowed the king to quitclaim all of Ruth's lands in return for Spreckels gaining title to 24,000 crucial acres at Wailuku, near Spreckelsville.
Word: quitclaim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quiteclaymen, from Anglo-Norman quiteclamer, from clamer quite (“to claim quit”). Compare claim quit. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪtkleɪm/ 1. A renunciation of claims. 2. A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another.
Word: mediæval Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of medieval. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In that position she might have been an effigy on some mediæval tomb such as the Marshal had so often seen. Example: This embraces all mediæval societies between the ninth and twelfth centuries, as its advocates intended.
Word: sarcology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sarco- + -logy. 1. The study of the soft parts of the body, including myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: subpœna Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of subpoena. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Nothing vnder a Sub-pœna can dravv him to London, and vvhen hee is there, hee ſtickes faſt vppon euery obiect, caſts his eyes avvay vpon gazing, and becomes the prey of euery cut-purſe. Example: No man to be called by Privy Seal or Subpœna to anſwer any matters but ſuch as have no remedy by the Common law, and that to appear ſo by the teſtimony of two Juſtices of either Bench, and by Indenture between them and the Plaintiff, which Plaintiff ſhall always appear in proper perſon, and find ſurety by recognizance to proſecute with effect the matters of the Bill only, and to anſwer dammages if the ſame fall out againſt the Plaintiff.
Word: subpœna Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of subpoena. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: We wish to subpœna the public to our characters. Example: Poor Willy! he would not even subpœna any of his old friends as to his general character. But even if he had, what could the Court do since he pleaded guilty?
Word: rike Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages. Pronunciation: /ɹaɪk/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of like. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: footloose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From foot + loose. 1. Tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility. Example: He was footloose in his youth. Example: Because we often imagine that immigrants are constantly on the move, footloose, able to change course at any moment. 2. Of a sail: not properly secured at the bottom.
Word: keen as mustard Part of Speech: adj 1. Very keen, enthusiastic, eager. Labels: not-comparable Example: He was keen as mustard to begin the new job, until he learned what it really entailed.
Word: cis- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From the Latin preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known use of the prefix relating to sexuality in any language was in a German-language book on sexology published in 1914. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994. Pronunciation: /sɪs-/ 1. On this side of. Labels: morpheme Example: cis- + alpine → cisalpine (literally “on this side of the Alps”) Example: cis- + Caucasia → Ciscaucasia 2. Forms names of chemical compounds in which two atoms or groups are situated on the same side of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound. Labels: morpheme, physical Example: cis- + diazene → cis-diazene 3. Not trans. Labels: morpheme Example: cis- + gender → cisgender Example: cis- + sexual → cissexual 4. Not trans. Labels: broadly, morpheme Example: cis- + normativity → cisnormativity Example: cis- + sexism → cissexism
Word: trans- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trans- (“across, beyond, on the far side”). Pronunciation: /tɹænz/, /tɹæns/ 1. Extending across, through, or over. Labels: morpheme Example: trans- + national → transnational Example: trans- + regional → transregional 2. To or on the other side of, beyond; outside of. Labels: morpheme Example: trans- + alpine → transalpine Example: trans- + uranic → transuranic 3. A compound in which two atoms or groups are situated on opposite sides of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound. (Also used without the hyphen as an adjective; see trans.) Labels: morpheme, physical Example: transacetylase, tranexamic acid, transaldolase 4. Transgender or transsexual, or pertaining to those who are transgender or transsexual. Labels: morpheme Example: transmasculine, transfeminist, transphobia Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:trans-.
Word: cisalpine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *ḱís Learned borrowing from Latin cisalpīnus (“cisalpine”) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Cisalpīnus is derived from cis (“on or to this or the near side of”) + Alpīnus (“of or pertaining to the Alps, alpine”) (from Alpēs (“Alps”) (ultimate etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow; to nourish”), Celtic, or a pre-Roman Alpine substrate) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’)). The English word is analysable as cis- + Alpine. Pronunciation: /sɪsˈælpaɪn/, /ˌsɪsˈælpaɪn/ 1. On this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located). Labels: not-comparable Example: [T]he ſaid floud of Rubicon diſſeuereth the Galle Ciſalpine from Italie. Example: How I had been robbed in the valley, I informed the Senators, who told me that, in very truth, the people of that side were bad livers, and naturally theevish, whereby I perceived well, that as we have with us the Countreys cisalpine and transalpine, that is, behither and beyond the mountains, so have they there the Countreys cidentine and tradentine, that is, behither and beyond the teeth: but it is farre better living on this side, and the aire is purer. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Cisalpine (“of or pertaining to Gallicanism, the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; or cisalpinism, a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with allegiance to the pope”). Labels: alt-of, not-comparable Example: They [volume XIII of the works of Henri François d'Aguesseau] shew the conflict between the cisalpine and transalpine opinions on papal power, so late as the reign of Lewis XIV, and the great difficulty, by which, even at that period, the former obtained the ascendant. Example: In pointing to some of these excesses on both sides, I have it not in contemplation to canvass, argue or even to refute errors either ultramontane or cisalpine, but merely to secure to myself a tenable position, […]
Word: transalpine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English Alpine English transalpine From trans- + Alpine. 1. On the other side of the Alps (usually with respect to Rome, therefore the north side). Labels: not-comparable
Word: conditional perfect Part of Speech: noun 1. A combination of the conditional mood and the perfect tense, roughly corresponding to English 'I would have...'
Word: deprive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɹaɪv/ 1. Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something. Labels: transitive Example: "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler." Example: If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy. 2. To degrade (a clergyman) from office. Labels: transitive 3. To bereave. Labels: transitive
Word: ATV Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Associated Television. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Asia Television Limited. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of ATV (Austria). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ATV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of all-terrain vehicle (an astride-seated quad or tri-wheeled off-road recreational vehicle). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: South of the beach access road, people rode ATVs over the dunes, and the ATV engines sounded like bugs from a distance, a high buzzing whine. Ambulances drove down the beach to collect ATV drivers three or four times a day. 2. Initialism of Automated Transfer Vehicle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of amateur television. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of airport transit visa. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Abbreviation of atazanavir. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: Aesculapian staff Part of Speech: noun 1. A symbol of the medical profession, ⟨⚕⟩, consisting of a staff with a single snake or worm twined around it.
Word: lawks Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /lɔːks/, /lɔks/, /lɑks/ 1. Lord! (especially as an expression of surprise) Labels: UK, dialectal Example: "Lawks! how uncomfortable," said the cook. "And M. Henri, was he wet too?" Example: "Your civic pride does you credit," said Hwel. "And now, please, leave the cart. I'm sure you've got some wood to gather. Lawks."
Word: OQ Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of obligatory quote. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of operational qualification. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: OQ Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Officer of the National Order of Quebec. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: crunch time Part of Speech: noun 1. A critical period of time during which it is necessary to work hard and fast. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: Tough-minded, Vidia reacted in much the same way as he had in Uganda. Whenever he met Indians in Kenya, he challenged them, demanding to know their backup plans in case of trouble. He called it "crunch time." "Very well then," he [V. S. Naipaul] would say after the first pleasantries, "what are you going to do when crunch time comes? Example: His decision on cluster munitions, which drew scorn from progressives in Congress, is indicative of a sense in Washington that the war is reaching crunch time as Ukraine wages a slow but steady counter-offensive. 2. The last few minutes of play in the fourth quarter. Labels: uncountable
Word: thinko Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”). Pronunciation: /θɪŋkəʊ/ 1. A careless mistake made in thinking. Labels: slang Example: I must have done quite a thinko, but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator. Example: 1998, K. G. Binmore, Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing, page 34, We need to face the fact that thinkos are likely to be much more important, even though such a source of noise is much harder to model.
Word: thinko Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”). Pronunciation: /θɪŋkəʊ/ 1. To make a mistake when thinking. Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive
Word: specific power Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of the power produced by an object to its mass. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A female blue whale may produce a specific power of up to 16 kilowatts per tonne when travelling fast.
Word: zeros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zero Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zeros Part of Speech: noun 1. The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: endocrinology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French endocrinologie, or endocrine + -ology. Pronunciation: /ˌɛn.də.kɹɪˈnɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /ˌɛn.də.kɹɪˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The study of the endocrine glands of the human body, the hormones produced by them, and their related disorders. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The first journal devoted to endocrinology wasnʼt founded until 1917.
Word: disbelief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *laubō Proto-West Germanic *laubu Old English lēafa Middle English bileve English belief English disbelief From dis- + belief. Pronunciation: /dɪsbɪˈliːf/ 1. An unpreparedness, unwillingness, or an inability to believe that something is the case. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City. Example: 'Smuggling was a way of life here, with no stigma attached,' David explained. His own granny used to smuggle out rabbit meat, tied to her body, and bring back such coveted Italian goods as chocolate, coffee and brooms. 'Brooms?' I asked him in disbelief. 'Yes, ordinary sorghum brooms, which were in short supply in Communist Yugoslavia, like many other basic household goods,' he said with a smile. 2. Astonishment. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon. 3. The loss or abandonment of a belief; the cessation of belief. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There is an agony of suffering in that lingering doubt which haunts the human soul in the beginnings of disbelief. Example: No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.
Word: brickbat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from brick + bat (“a bit, piece; specifically, part of a brick with one whole end”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪkbæt/, /ˈbɹɪkˌbæt/ 1. A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club). Example: [S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […] Example: [Y]ᵉ body of King Charles the First was privately putt into the Sand about White-hall; and the coffin that was carried to Windsor and layd in K. Hen[ry] 8^(th's) vault was filled with rubbish, or brick-batts. 2. A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark. Labels: figuratively Example: I beſeech ye friends, ere the brickbats flye, reſolve me and your ſelves, is it blasphemy, or any vvhit diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe, […] for me to anſvver a ſlovenly vvincer of a confutation, that, if he vvould needs put his foot to ſuch a ſvveaty ſervice, the odour of his Sock vvas like to be neither Musk, nor Benjamin? Example: Not honoured, hardly even envied; only fools and the flunkey-species so much as envy me. I am conspicuous,—as a mark for curses and brickbats. What good is it?
Word: brickbat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from brick + bat (“a bit, piece; specifically, part of a brick with one whole end”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪkbæt/, /ˈbɹɪkˌbæt/ 1. To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1). Labels: transitive Example: We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each. 2. To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism. Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: collectively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Latin collēctīvusder. Middle French collectifder. English collective Middle English -ly English -ly English collectively From collective + -ly. 1. In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately. Labels: not-comparable Example: ...the tube of the throat between the larynx and the oral cavity, which is called the pharynx; the oral cavity; and the nasal cavity. These passages are collectively known as the vocal tract.
Word: small-l liberal Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who holds liberal views but may or may not be a member or supporter of their country's "Liberal Party". 2. A person who is a member of, or associated with, the Moderate (centrist) faction of the Liberal Party of Australia. Labels: Australian Example: I was a factional warrior for the [New South Wales] Right of the [New South Wales] Libs. […] the main reason I allowed my membership to lapse was simple. I saw the conservative wing being overrun by a bunch of feral ex-lefties for whom being small “l” liberal was only a means to further their careers in the political sex industry. Example: Was this a reflection of [then-leader of the Victorian Liberal Party Teb] Baillieu's small-l liberal values or just a product of anger over public safety and inadequate rail services?
Word: unpacked Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + packed and unpack + -ed. 1. past participle of unpack Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unpacked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + packed and unpack + -ed. 1. Having had its packing removed. Labels: not-comparable Example: I worked all day and managed to get all the boxes unpacked. 2. Not yet packed. Labels: not-comparable Example: The unpacked gifts are on the table. 3. Not yet having had its packing removed. (Especially after still. For more on this use, see http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html) Labels: not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes Example: I left the box, still unpacked, at our old house.
Word: cat's-paw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cat + paw. In most senses, due to a resemblance of shape. In its senses as a pawn to another's interests or analysis, variant of earlier cat's-foot, derived from European tales of a monkey (attested as early as 1456 but sometimes misattributed to the 16th-century monkey of Pope Julius II) who used a sleeping puppy or cat's foot to rake hot chestnuts out of a fire, taken as a metaphor for rulers' ill use of their subjects. Now usually understood in light of Jean de La Fontaine's 1679 fable of the "The Monkey and the Cat" (sometimes misattributed to Aesop), in which the monkey fools the cat into removing the chestnuts through flattery and promises of shared reward. The cat removes the chestnuts one by one, burning his paw while the monkey eats each in turn. A maid then enters and chases them both away. La Fontaine's moral concludes that princes should not endure real losses for mere flattery from their king. 1. A paw of a cat. 2. Someone who acts in another's interest, (properly) unknowingly or through trickery. Labels: figuratively Example: To take the Cat by the foote, and therewith rake the coales out of the Ouen. Example: These he useth as the Monkey did the Cats paw, to scrape the nuts out of the fire. 3. A minor breeze that ripples the surface of a body of water. Example: Cats-paw, a light air of wind perceived... by the impression made on the surface of the sea, which it sweeps very lightly, and then decays. Example: No, not a cat’s paw anywhere: Hold up your finger in the air You could n’t feel a breath; For why, in yonder storm that burst, The wind that blew so hard at first Had blown itself to death. 4. A twisting variant of the lark's-foot hitch which forms two small bights used to hook a pair of tackles to a rope. Example: ...when the mate came to shake the catspaw out of the down-haul... 5. Someone or something that comes down quickly upon a victim in the manner of a cat's paw. Labels: figuratively, uncommon Example: [T]hese Florentines [...] / In hungry pride and gainful cowardice, / [...] / Quick cat's-paws on the generous stray-away. 6. A small crowbar with a handle at a right angle to a blade with a V-shaped notch, principally used by carpenters to remove nails. Labels: US Example: Filed Dec. 13, 1952. Cat's Paw. For Hand Tools for Pulling Nails and Spikes. 7. A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to remove skin and flesh. Labels: historical 8. A supervisor whose reliance on a subordinate's analysis is so complete as to render him or her liable for the subordinate's animus or other misconduct towards a third employee. Labels: US 9. Any of several species of North American freshwater mussels of the genus Epioblasma, especially E. obliquata. 10. Any of several species of Australian bloodworts of the genus Anigozanthos, especially A. humilis.
Word: Faustian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the surname of the German alchemist and magician Johann Georg Faust (c. 1466 or 1480 – c. 1541) + -ian (suffix forming relational adjectives or nouns). According to medieval legend, Faust made a contract with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Purported tales about Faust’s life first appeared in print in an anonymously written chapbook, Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587). The story was then particularly popularized by two plays, Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragicall History of D. Faustus (first published 1604) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (published 1808 and 1832). Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊstɪən/, /ˈfaʊstiən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Faust, especially in the sense of being willing to abandon one's principles or values in order to pursue knowledge, wealth or other benefits. Example: But along with this growth, there is at the same time developed in his breast, a Faustian conflict between the passion for accumulation, and the desire for enjoyment. Example: Each transaction in the transient corresponds to a pragmatics that transforms the Faustian promise into an advertising slogan.
Word: chime in Part of Speech: verb 1. To talk; to join in conversation or discussion. Labels: idiomatic Example: We appreciate your input, so please don't hesitate to chime in with comments and questions. Example: Atherton chimed in. ‘To that I say, Amen!’ He lifted his hand. ‘God is my witness!’ 2. To agree, to harmonize, to concord. Labels: idiomatic Example: I was therefore obliged to chime in with her plan, which in truth seemed well arranged: […] Example: What I saw upon this cliff, although surely an object of very extraordinary nature, the place and season considered, at first neither startled nor amazed me—so thoroughly and appropriately did it chime in with the half-slumberous fancies that enwrapped me.
Word: culprit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman cul. prit, contraction of culpable: prest (d'averrer nostre bille) 'guilty: ready (to prove our case)', words used by prosecutor in opening a trial, mistaken in English for an address to the defendant. See culpable. It may have been influenced by Latin culpa (“blame, fault”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/ 1. The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime. Example: I have tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit; it should work now. Example: Another sits beneath the purple canopy—a lady, but alone. The diadem is on her cold and haughty brow; there is no pity in her stern aspect, and the smile on her lip bodes death. Before her stands the lovely culprit, whose fatal beauty, and still more fatal love, are about to be dearly requited. 2. A prisoner accused but not yet tried. Labels: UK
Word: keep someone posted Part of Speech: verb 1. To inform (someone) regularly of the latest developments. Labels: idiomatic Example: That's all the news for now, but I'll keep you posted about new developments.
Word: nom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short form of various words. Pronunciation: /nɒm/, /nɑm/ 1. Clipping of nomination. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: I have already submitted a revised (in terms of format) nomination. […] In the future I will try to better organize my information (one message per nom, snip out excess spam if I post, etc.). Example: The obvious way to reduce the number of noms is to increase the standard. 2. Clipping of nominator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal 3. Clipping of nominee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: nom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Short form of various words. Pronunciation: /nɒm/, /nɑm/ 1. Clipping of nominate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, transitive Example: I have a little request to make. When you kids nom, do you think you could make clear who it is you're nomming -- and maybe even include the article headers for the voters (and the judge) -- many of whom are not psychics? Example: Quite a big percentage of the anagrams posted here get nommed - IMO it should only be around 20% or so.
Word: nom Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom, popularized from 2007 in internet use, second place in the American Dialect Society’s "Word of the Year" 2010. From the catchphrase of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, as at the end of “C Is For Cookie” (1971), made when devouring cookies. However, as late as 2009, this was canonically written with a ‘u’, as in S is for School! (2006), as “num num”, or in the press kit for the 40th season (2009), as “un num num num num”; by 2013 this was changed to the now-popular nom. Pronunciation: /nɒm/, /nɑm/ 1. Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating. Labels: colloquial Example: [to a baby] You are so cute, I could just eat you right up! Nom nom nom.
Word: nom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom, popularized from 2007 in internet use, second place in the American Dialect Society’s "Word of the Year" 2010. From the catchphrase of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, as at the end of “C Is For Cookie” (1971), made when devouring cookies. However, as late as 2009, this was canonically written with a ‘u’, as in S is for School! (2006), as “num num”, or in the press kit for the 40th season (2009), as “un num num num num”; by 2013 this was changed to the now-popular nom. Pronunciation: /nɒm/, /nɑm/ 1. To eat with noisy enjoyment. Labels: colloquial
Word: up-to-date Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/ 1. Current; recent; the latest. Labels: idiomatic Example: Use an up-to-date text for your source. Example: From 1860, the steamer service between Kingstown and Holyhead was operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, which never spared expense in providing up-to-date vessels, and in meeting a portion of the cost of improvements to Carlisle Pier. 2. Informed about the latest news or developments; abreast. Labels: idiomatic Example: I like to stay up-to-date about current affairs.
Word: up to date Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of up-to-date. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The clothes of these marching women were, it is quite true, essentially up to date. Example: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Word: up to date Part of Speech: noun 1. A sherry-based cocktail.
Word: rosbif Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French rosbif, from English roast beef. Doublet of roast beef. 1. An English person (as viewed by the French). Labels: humorous Example: Polidor Graindart, sometime sergeant of the intendant's guard in the days when three golden lilies bloomed on the flagstaff above the De Troit blockhouse, never had forgiven the rosbifs for the conquest of New France. Example: France demonstrate the entente cordiale towards the rosbifs.
Word: imperfective aspect Part of Speech: noun 1. A feature of a verb which denotes that its action or condition does not have a fixed temporal boundary, but is habitual, unfinished, continuous, repetitive or in progress. Labels: uncountable Example: 2007, Almut Hintze, A Zoroastrian Liturgy: The Worship in Seven Chapters (Yasna 35—41), Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 240, If the root meaning is iterative or durative, such as 'to go', the verb belongs to the imperfective aspect and forms a root present. Example: 2012, David Holton, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Vassilios Spyropoulos (reviser), Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2nd Edition, page 286, The imperfective aspect in Greek presents the action or state expressed by the verb either as a single but continuous event (progressively) or as a repetitive or habitual one.
Word: pene Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of peen. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pene Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of peen. Labels: alt-of, alternative