nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Anshan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 鞍山 (Ānshān). 1. A prefecture-level city of Liaoning, in northeastern China. Example: South Manchuria Railway Co., Peking, China, perfecting plans for early construction new steel mill Anshan, Manchuria, for manufacture steel bars black sheets, railway sleepers, steel poles, and other iron and steel products used railroad construction and operation. Example: It appears a foregone conclusion that the National Government will take Harbin as soon as the Generalissimo gives the nod. Also, as the new 6th Army, one of the corps d'élite of Chinese forces, is now stationed in and around Anshan, a move on Antung appears likely and may have already begun.
Word: Anshan Part of Speech: name 1. An ancient Elamite and later Achaemenid Persian city in modern-day Iran.
Word: argie bargie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of argy-bargy (arguing contentiously) Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang, uncountable
Word: argumentum ad Lazarum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin Named after Lazarus, a beggar in the New Testament who receives his reward in the afterlife. 1. An appeal to poverty; the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor. Labels: rare, rhetoric Example: Indeed, the geographical fact that economic wealth and neoliberal globalization are very geographically concentrated, with just a few cities in advanced economies being the preferred locations for the world’s major stock exchanges, for the headquarters of banks and other producer service firms, cannot be wished away through either an argumentum ad lazarum (appeal to poverty) or appreciation for the diversity of urban cultures (eg, see Myers, 2011).
Word: Baotou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 包頭 /包头 (Bāotóu), from Mongolian ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ (buɣutu, “haunt of deer”), from ᠪᠤᠭᠤ (buɣu, “deer”) / буга (buga) + -ᠲᠤ (-tu, “with…”) / -т (-t, “ornative case suffix”). Pronunciation: /baʊ.toʊ/ 1. A prefecture-level city, the largest city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China. Example: Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points. Example: Alley and I were not going to Turkestan. We were on a four-hundred-and-fifty-mile trip to Paotou (pronounced Bao Toe), which used to be the frontier end of the line and is now autonomous Inner Mongolia’s largest city.
Word: Armill Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of armill. Labels: alt-of
Word: army golf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The term stems from the army marching cadence: left-right-left. In other words, a golfer hits one shot to the left, the next to the right, and very few of them straight. 1. The situation when a player is spraying the golf ball all over the golf course in different directions. Labels: derogatory, humorous, slang, uncountable Example: I play army golf; right, left, right, left from one side of the course to the other. More than I would like, I hit the ball into shrubs or trees rather than into the generous mowed areas of grass.
Word: Fuzhou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福州 (Fúzhōu). Pronunciation: /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/, /fuːˈt͡ʃəʊ/, /ˈfuˈd͡ʒoʊ/, /ˈfuˈʒoʊ/, /fuːˈd͡ʒəʊ/ 1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Fujian, China. Example: At the end of August Eaton anchored at a group of three small islands off the coast of Fujian to take on fresh water, as the casks had not been refilled since leaving the Cape in April. Cuninghame calls these islands the Crocodile Islands, but he says the Chinese call them the ‘Pek-kin Islands’. These are the Matsu Islands, north east of Fuzhou, one of which is called Peikantang or Peikan Island. Example: In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup.
Word: Fuzhou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 撫州 /抚州 (Fǔzhōu). Pronunciation: /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/, /fuːˈt͡ʃəʊ/, /ˈfuˈd͡ʒoʊ/, /ˈfuˈʒoʊ/, /fuːˈd͡ʒəʊ/ 1. A prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangxi, China. Example: The blasts occurred in the city of Fuzhou in Jiangxi Province between 9 and 9:45 a.m., according to the government posting, which appeared on the province’s propaganda bureau Web site. The first one was at the Fuzhou Procurator’s Office, the second at the Linzhuan District government building and the third in a car park at the Linzhuan Food and Drug Administration office. Example: Our family was originally from Nancheng county, Fuzhou district, Jiangxi province. Nancheng dates back to ancient times, to the days when Liu Bang ruled as the first Han dynasty emperor, and Nancheng belonged to Yuzhang district.
Word: assault and battery Part of Speech: noun 1. The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence. Labels: countable, idiomatic, uncountable
Word: Guiyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴陽 /贵阳 (Guìyáng). 1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China. Example: In 1965 the NCNA reported the setting up of three ‘institutions of higher learning’ in Guiyang, Guizhou (Kweichow) Province. Example: By early afternoon, I was in Kueiyang. Since this was the provincial capital of Kueichou, I decided to splurge and checked into the Plaza Hotel.
Word: Guiyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 桂陽 /桂阳 (Guìyáng). 1. A former commandery of late imperial China. Labels: historical
Word: Auch Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈaʊk/ 1. A surname from German.
Word: Auch Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈoʊʃ/ 1. A cathedral town, the capital of Gers department, Occitania, France. 2. A surname from French, habitational for the town.
Word: Auld Enemy Part of Speech: name 1. England, or the English people. Labels: Scotland Example: Two years ago Scotland started against England here, following a rousing rendition of Flower of Scotland, like a deflated set of bagpipes. This time they matched their crowd and were at full bellow as they played with a sustained, controlled fury to record their first victory over the Auld Enemy for 10 years and throw open the championship.
Word: Kunming Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 昆明 (Kūnmíng). Pronunciation: /kʊnˈmɪŋ/ 1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Yunnan, in southwestern China. Example: The Minister of Commerce and Industry is pushing forward proposals for the development of mining, and has placed before the Cabinet a scheme for the division of the country into eight mining districts to be controlled by the Mining Supervision Bureau.[…]The fifth division will be Shensi, Kansu, and Singkiang^([sic – meaning Sinkiang]), with headquarters at Changan; the sixth will be Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Fukien, with headquarters at Canton; the seventh will be Yunnan and Kweichow, with headquarters at Kunming, in Yunnan; and the eighth will be Szechuan alone, with headquarters at Chengtu. Example: Military movements are reported to be proceeding in the region of Kunming.
Word: Lanzhou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蘭州 /兰州 (Lánzhōu). 1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Gansu, in northwestern China. Example: Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior. Example: In northwestern Gansu province, where nine local confirmed cases have been reported in the past week, primary and high schools in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, as well as in one county in Jiuquan city, have suspended offline classes.
Word: azygos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄζυγος (ázugos, “unwedded, unpaired”). Pronunciation: /eɪˈzaɪ.ɡəs/, /ˈæzəɡəs/ 1. In anatomy, a structure that is unpaired. This is relatively unusual, as most elements of anatomy reflect bilateral symmetry.
Word: Maoming Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), named after Pan Maoming during the Sui dynasty. 1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China. Example: On the Glorious Fourth Fr. Gauthier said good-bye to Tungchan and the two of us set off to visit the part of the mission that is in Maoming. The first village, lying up in the mountains about twenty miles from Tungchan, was Naamshaantung, where there are about thirty baptized Christians. Example: With the arrival of Maryknoll's second group, Bishop de Guebriant enlarged their territory. He gave them the prefecture of Maoming, a large slice of country to the west of Kwangtung, including the important city of Kochow, which had no resident priest.
Word: literal rule Part of Speech: noun 1. The method of strictly interpreting a statute according to the meaning, established by convention, of the words used therein.
Word: Nanchang Part of Speech: name Etymology: c. 1600s, from the Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng, “Southern Prosperity”). 1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China. Example: But whilſt he was beſieging this City, there came, unfortunately, a new Army of Tartars from the Imperiall City of Peking , which had order to recover this Province of Kiangſi; and therefore Kinus was forced to raiſe his Siege to oppoſe their entrance by the Northern parts of the Country; And at firſt having a vaſt Army, and uſed to the Tartarian warfare, he fought both valiantly and happily; but not being able to ſuſtain any longer their redoubled violent aſſaults, he was forced to retire for his ſecurity to Nanchang, the chief City of that County; which City the Tartars durſt not venture to take by force, but reſolved to reduce it by a long Siege; for which end they gathered together a Company of Country Clowns to make a large and ſpacious Trench round about the City to the River, and there they placed Ships ſo as no Proviſion could poſſibly enter. This City of Nanchang is great and extremely full of inhabitants, beſides the multitude of Souldiers which defended it at that time; ſo as although Kinus had made great Proviſion for a Siege, yet after ſome moneths he came to great want and pennury; and yet he held it out though many dyed, expecting ſtil some ſuccours from the Emperor Fungley, which could not be sent; Example: The next day, being the 23. of April, we came in ſight of the firſt chief City of Nanchang, which is alſo called by ſome according to the name of the Province Kiangſi, where this is ſituated. 2. A county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. 3. A village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
Word: Nanchang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Mandarin 南漳 (Nánzhāng). 1. Alternative form of Nanzhang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Another representative, from Nanchang county, said: "Our worker brothers work harder than we do, and are genuinely meritorious. We must learn from them." Example: Leading members of Nanchang County CCP Committee have seriously studied the Marxist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat in connection with the actual situation in the current class and line struggles.
Word: Zhengzhou Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄭州 /郑州 (Zhèngzhōu). Pronunciation: /ˈdʒʌŋˈdʒəʊ/, /ˈdʒœŋˈdʒoʊ/, /d͡ʒʌŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/ 1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Henan, in central China. Example: Now outside in Zhengzhou, the city worst hit at the moment, which has had record rains hitting the highest level of rainfall since records were kept six decades ago, the streets have turned into brown rivers which have swallowed up traffic, and in an even more alarming development the military is saying that at a nearby city a major dam could actually burst and that soldiers have been mobilized there to blast around the dam in an attempt to divert flood waters, take the pressure off the dam, in the hope that, what they're talking about is already is a sort of twenty meter fissure in the dam, it can avoid having that dam being burst, which would obviously also be a really terrible development. Example: The testing will begin in Henan's provincial capital of Zhengzhou before the end of May, authorities said, according to the report, to help with "identifying potential risks" quickly.
Word: purposive approach Part of Speech: noun 1. doctrine of interpreting an enactment according to the spirit of the law and in the context of its drafting
Word: balteus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt, girdle”). 1. The girdle of a biblical Jewish priest. 2. A swordbelt worn by Roman legionaries. Labels: Ancient-Rome 3. An Ionic ornamental band encircling the pulvinus, or bolster of the capital. 4. The subcinctorium, a papal garment.
Word: Goori Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Awabakal gurri as spoken in far northern New South Wales and south east Queensland, originally distinguished from Koori to the south. (See quotations for more information.) 1. Alternative form of Koori. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1991, Joshua Aaron Fishman Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 279, The availability and spread of an indigenous aggregative term for all Aborigines (Gooris/Kooris) is suggestive of a growing intergroup identity among them, over and above former and current ethnolinguistic demarcations. The term Goori/Kuri itself stems from the Southeastern coastal area, some 300 miles north of Sydney. Wurm and Hattori list ‘7?’ speakers for Kuri and ‘9??’ for the Yuin-Kuric grouping (10 dialects, all but three of which are extinct). Example: 1996, Julie Janson, Gunjies, Act 2, Scene 3, in Black Mary and Gunjies: two plays, Aboriginal Studies Press, →ISBN, page 131, JUNE: […] It’s born in you, your identity, I never lost mine. Goori spirituality, it’s always there. I was born with somethin’ […]
Word: bankers' hours Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the traditional opening hours of banks in the 1800s, and in some parts of the United States, maintained until the 1960s. 1. The time period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. of a weekday (corresponding to a late start, an early quit, and no weekend work). Labels: plural, plural-only Example: I don't see how anyone with a day job is supposed to deal with them when they keep only bankers' hours. 2. Any easy job, especially one with a short working day. Labels: figuratively, plural, plural-only Example: Q: How's she like her new job? A: She's careful not to admit it, but it's bankers' hours and she knows it.
Word: banyan day Part of Speech: noun Etymology: According to the OED, the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies, a caste that ate nothing that had life. 1. In British naval tradition, a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship. Labels: UK, dated, idiomatic Example: This was a favourable circumstance in one respect to myself and the ship's company, for as Tuesday is a sumptuous day in point of allowance in the navy, beef and pudding being the prescribed fare for dinner, we by this accident feasted two days together; whereas had it occurred on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, two successive banyan (or starvation) days would have been our dismal portion. 2. A picnic or cookout for the ship's crew. Labels: UK, idiomatic
Word: barn find Part of Speech: noun 1. A valuable item recovered from poor storage, such as a suburban garage, farm shed, etc., where it had been more or less forgotten; especially a vintage automobile. Labels: idiomatic
Word: symmetric polynomial Part of Speech: noun 1. A polynomial which remains unchanged if its variables are permuted Example: x+y+z Example: xyz
Word: elementary symmetric polynomial Part of Speech: noun 1. a coefficient of some power of t in (t+x_1)(t+x_2)⋯(t+x_n), for some n∈ N
Word: bawn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish bán, alternative form of bábhún (“walled enclosure”). Pronunciation: /bɔːn/ 1. A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle. Labels: Ireland Example: But these round hills and square bawnes, which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up Example: The Grand Question Debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house − 1729 This Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider. 2. A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack. Labels: Ireland Example: He [...] then made his way to where he belonged in Bronding country, home again, sure of his ground in strongroom and bawn. Example: The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”
Word: bawn Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɔːn/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of born. Labels: Ireland, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Bofe de same age, sir—five months. Bawn de fust o' Feb'uary. Example: But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.
Word: bean queen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare rice queen. 1. A (usually white) man who is primarily attracted to Hispanic and Latino men. Labels: slang
Word: bench jockey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: As verbal jousting is frequently called "riding", the "rider" sitting on a bench came to be known as the "bench jockey". 1. A player, coach or manager who verbally annoys and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench. Labels: US, idiomatic, slang
Word: Kuiper Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dutch Kuiper. Doublet of Cooper. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪpɚ/, /ˈkaɪpə/ 1. A surname from Dutch, Dutch surname equivalent to the English surname Cooper, from the profession cooper (“kuiper”) Labels: countable 2. Gerard Kuiper (U.S. planetary astronomer) Labels: uncountable 3. An asteroid in Solar System, the 1776th asteroid registered Labels: uncountable
Word: berk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang, an ellipsis and clipping of Berkeley Hunt, a prominent hunt at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to mean cunt. Pronunciation: /bɝk/, /bɜː(ɹ)k/ 1. a fool, a prat, a twit, etc. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: However, it appears as if the berk who built the box ran out of wood and has left the end wall off. Example: His chat-up techniques have to be read to be imagined—they make the crudest of Loaded-style berks seem classy—and he earns far, far too much money.
Word: between a rock and a hard place Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Originated in the United States before 1918 in the Southwest, possibly in connection with mining. Related to the concept of the Ancient Greeks: between Scylla and Charybdis. 1. In a difficult and inescapable position. Labels: idiomatic Example: After meeting again that afternoon with Donna, Wilbur had advised her that she was indeed between a rock and a hard place. She could not hope to recover and build back the lost business until the suits were settled, and it appeared that the only way to settle the suits without going to court was to liquidate the mortuary assets or tap into the Clifton's personal funds. Example: A dish gone awry after adding the wrong ingredient. Chewing your way through this won't be fun, but it will fill you up when you're between a rock and a hard place. 2. Having the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary. Labels: idiomatic Example: Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages […] Example: If Washington Mutual needs to raise capital quickly, it will very likely find itself between a rock and a hard place, because credit markets have all but closed their doors to troubled banks.
Word: epexegeses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epexegesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: big bang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Big Bang. Pronunciation: /ˌbɪɡˈbæŋ/, /ˈbɪɡ ˈbæŋ/ 1. a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an infinitely small, hot, and dense point. Example: Many-worlds interpretations of physics suggest that millions of big bangs might be happening as we speak. 2. A large implementation of a system rather than phased or gradual delivery. Example: They're planning for an upcoming release that promises to be a big bang.
Word: big bang Part of Speech: name Etymology: See Big Bang. Pronunciation: /ˌbɪɡˈbæŋ/, /ˈbɪɡ ˈbæŋ/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Big Bang. Labels: alt-of
Word: bikie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French bicyclebor. English bicycleclip. English bike English -ie English bikie From bike (“short for motorbike”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑɪ.kiː/ 1. A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: A luxury waterfront flat believed to be owned by a Hells Angels bikie in Sydney was searched by police this afternoon. Example: What so you're a bikie now?
Word: bio queen Part of Speech: noun 1. A cis female performance artist who performs in female drag at drag shows, or acts like a drag queen. Labels: idiomatic, slang
Word: jet ski Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A genericized trademark of Jet Ski. By surface analysis, jet + ski. 1. A small motorized watercraft with a flattish hull and an upright centre, which a rider sits astride. Example: "Jet ski" is actually Kawasaki's name for their PWC (personal water craft) models, but like hoovers and speedos has become genericised.
Word: jet ski Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A genericized trademark of Jet Ski. By surface analysis, jet + ski. 1. To ride on a jet ski. Labels: intransitive
Word: black-on-black Part of Speech: adj 1. Taking place between black people. Labels: not-comparable Example: statistics dealing with black-on-black crime
Word: phonebank Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of phone bank. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: phonebank Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of phone bank. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: whizzing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whiz Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of whizz Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whizzing Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound or action of something that whizzes. Example: At length it grew dark; they though, they heard a sound of whizzing and snorting in the air, such as the swans use to make in the winter time. Example: For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a steam-engine in full play[…]
Word: whizzing Part of Speech: adj 1. Spinning rapidly. 2. Producing a whizz; giving off a whizzing noise. Example: From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.
Word: blacktress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of black + actress. 1. An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry. Labels: rare, slang Example: […] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.
Word: blanket term Part of Speech: noun 1. A word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things. Labels: idiomatic
Word: Blore's razor Part of Speech: name 1. A humorous adage suggesting that, when given a choice between two theories, one should prefer the one that is funnier.
Word: toeprint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toe + print. 1. The mark left by a toe. Example: A misleading toeprint may not only be planted on the scene of crime, but just as well on crime objects such as anonymous letters and other articles. In that case there is full and quiet opportunity for the "planting". Example: “It was, in fact, her natural walk,” he wrote in his autobiography. “Her footprints on a beach would be in astraight line, the heel descending exactly before the last toeprint, throwing her pelvis into motion." 2. A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment). Labels: informal Example: Total toeprint including keyboard for the miniature workstation is 83 square inches […] Example: The tiny, shall we say, "toeprint" of the machine is due to a remarkable feat of miniaturization by Intel […] 3. A measure of 30S-mRNA binding. Example: In the absence of IF3, the 10-fold molar excess of tRNAᴾʰᵉ produces a strong +18 toeprint relative to the +15 toeprint. Example: In the case of the entrapment model on the contrary, one does not expect the toeprint to disappear with increasing repressor concentrations, since in this case, both repressor and ribosome can bind the same mRNA.
Word: Bob's your uncle Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Unknown. Several unsupported theories exist about its origin. A common explanation, involving Arthur Balfour gaining a promotion through the supposed intercession of his uncle, Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, is doubted because the expression did not appear in print until 1924. 1. No problem, the solution is simple, there you have it, it's that easy, you have what you want, all will be well: indicates a desirable conclusion has been reached with ease. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic Example: Insert the plug, press the switch, and Bob's your uncle. Example: You want to go to the stadium? Go straight on until you reach the park, take the first left and Bob's your uncle!
Word: subproblem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English problem English subproblem From sub- + problem. 1. A problem whose solution contributes to the solution of a larger problem.
Word: bota bag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Spanish bota. 1. A traditional Greek or Spanish wineskin bag. Typically it is made of leather, and is used to carry wine, although any liquid can be carried.
Word: bought the farm Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of buy the farm Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: subring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English ring English subring From sub- + ring. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbˌɹɪŋ/, /ˈsɐbˌɹɪŋ/, /ˈsabˌɹəŋ/, /ˈsabˌɾiŋ/ 1. A ring which is contained in a larger ring, such that the multiplication and addition on the former are a restriction of those on the latter. When rings are required to have a multiplicative identity (as is standard in most branches of algebra), the subring must also have the same multiplicative identity as the larger ring.
Word: subfield Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English field English subfield From sub- + field. 1. A smaller, more specialized area of study or occupation within a larger one 2. A subring of a field, containing the multiplicative identity and closed under inversion. Example: Let us describe in general the subfield generated by a given element. Let K be a given field, F a subfield of K, and c an element of K. Consider those elements of K which are given by polynomial expressions of the form (1)#92;qquadf(c)#61;a#95;0#43;a#95;1c#43;a#95;2c²#43;...#43;a#95;ncⁿ#92;qquad#92;qquad#92;mbox#123;(each#125;a#95;i#92;mbox#123;in#125;F#92;mbox#123;).#125; [...] If f(c) and g(c) ≠ 0 are polynomial expressions like (1), their quotient f(c)/g(c) is an element of K, called a rational expression in c with coefficients in F. The set of all such quotients is a subfield; it is the field generated by F and c and is conventionally denoted by F(c), with round brackets. Example: We are now in a position to describe the subfield of K generated by F and our algebraic element u. This subfield F(u) clearly contains the subdomain F[u] of all elements expressible as polynomials f(u) with coefficients in F (cf. (1)). Actually, this domain F[u] is a subfield of K. Indeed, let us find an inverse for any element f(u) ≠ 0 in F[u]. [...] This shows that F[u] is a subfield of K. Since, conversely, every subfield of K which contains F and u evidently contains every polynomial f(u) in F[u], we see that F[u] is the subfield of K generated by F and u.
Word: brachyology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin brachiologia, from Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “speech”); compare brachylogy. 1. A figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!"). Labels: especially Example: In the words [...of] Acts x. 39. there might be a brachyology, in case the sense were: we are witnesses of all that he did, of this also, that they put him to death. But such an omission is not necessary. Example: So also in Ps 118²⁷ the preposition עד might include the verb ‘come,’ which connects itself so naturally with ‘until,’ and a poetical mode of expression, which is naturally disposed to vivid brachyology (cf. Ps 118), might discover a self-evident point in the circumstance that not the victims themselves but their blood, the precious part of them (Lv 17¹¹), is at last to touch the alter-horns.
Word: brand avatar Part of Speech: noun 1. A company's online brand personality, which is an online overview of the feedback of the organization and its brands. Labels: Internet
Word: homomorphism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homo- + morphism. 1. A structure-preserving map between two algebraic structures of the same type, such as groups, rings, or vector spaces. Example: A field homomorphism is a map from one field to another one which is additive, multiplicative, zero-preserving, and unit-preserving. Example: 1954, Kuo-Tsai Chen, Iterated Integrals and Exponential Homomorphisms, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Reprinted in 2001, Philippe Tondeur (editor), Collected Papers of K.-T. Chen, Birkhäuser, page 54, This motivates a generalization, and exponential homomorphisms are now defined, in an algebraic fashion, from certain free products to formal power series rings with non-commutative indeterminates. 2. A similar appearance of two unrelated organisms or structures, as for example with fish and whales.
Word: brick by brick Part of Speech: adv 1. Created or built in a steady, step-by-step fashion. Labels: not-comparable Example: I've built up this feed, brick by brick. And if I had to, I'd do it again.
Word: morphism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Generalised from isomorphism, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːfɪzəm/, /ˈmɔɹfɪzəm/ 1. (formally) An arrow in a category; (less formally) an abstraction that generalises a map from one mathematical object to another and is structure-preserving in a way that depends on the branch of mathematics from which it arises. Example: 1982, Israel Program for Scientific Translations (translator), Lev J. Leifman (editor of translation), N. N. Čencov, Statistical Decision Rules and Optimal Inference, American Mathematical Society, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Volume 53, page 50, 1° The composition of two morphisms is defined if and only if the final object of the first morphism is the initial object of the second. This composition is also a morphism, whose initial object is the initial object of the first morphism and whose final object is the final object of the second. Example: 1992, Terrance Brown (translator), Gil Henriques, Chapter 13: Morphisms and Transformations in the Construction of Invariants, Terrance Brown (translator), Jean Piaget, Gil Henriques, Edgar Ascher (editors), Morphisms and Categories: Comparing and Transforming, page 198, In certain extreme cases in mathematics, the synthesis of morphisms and of transformations is so intimate that one can speak of a veritable fusion. […] Essentially, categories are sets of morphisms organized into operatory systems. 2. Being or having distinct variants of a plant or animal species in the same locale; polymorphism. Example: Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired to satellite and from satellite to the paired one. However, they cannot cross into the status of the red morph.[…] The colour morphism of males is proved to be irreversible after its expression at an early stage of ontogeny.
Word: bright-line rule Part of Speech: noun 1. A clear-cut rule, so that it is easy to make a decision. Labels: idiomatic 2. A clearly defined rule or standard, composed of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation.
Word: bubbe meise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish באָבע־מעשׂה (bobe-mayse). 1. An old wives' tale; a fairytale. Labels: Judaism Example: If you look ahead to the second book of the Maccabees, you will see that Judah did not embrace the life of the tzaddik […] No, Judah discovered […] that war, not holiness, is good business. He spent the years after the Maccabean victory pillaging whatever small settlements happened to strike his fancy. So if some Hebrew school teacher feeds you full of bubbemeises about the Jews only having enough sacred oil to light the eternal flame for one day […] don't believe it for a minute.
Word: buck-passing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English buck Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Italic *pattus Latin passus Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *passāre Old French passerbor. Middle English passen English pass English -ing English passing English buck-passing From buck + passing. 1. Blameshifting; the act of absolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: It's from here onwards that the whole web of buck-passing and excuses began.
Word: arias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aria Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buppie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”). 1. A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties. Labels: US, slang Example: In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.
Word: burble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/, /ˈbɜː.bl̩/ 1. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek. Example: Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs. 2. A gush of rapid speech. Example: He could hear the music in the distance, and the burble and laughter from the library, and a high ringing in his own ears. 3. The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.
Word: burble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/, /ˈbɜː.bl̩/ 1. To bubble; to gurgle. Labels: intransitive Example: The stream burbled as it flowed past. Its slightly musty odor smelled of trout. 2. To babble; to speak in an excited rush. Example: She burbled on, as if I cared to listen. Example: "No, Jo, it wasn't one bit crowded, there was room enought ^([sic]) for everyone," she burbled on. "And we were there, and all these other wymeen too, of all shapes, sizes, and colors..."
Word: burble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Scottish; probably connected Old French barbouiller (“to confound”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/, /ˈbɜː.bl̩/ 1. Trouble; disorder.
Word: burble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Scottish; probably connected Old French barbouiller (“to confound”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/, /ˈbɜː.bl̩/ 1. To trouble or confuse. Labels: transitive
Word: bury the hatchet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The phrase is an allusion to the figurative or literal practice of putting away the tomahawk at the cessation of hostilities among or by Native Americans in the Eastern United States, specifically during the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, and in Iroquois custom in general. Weapons were to be buried or otherwise cached in time of peace. 1. To cease fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce. Labels: idiomatic Example: They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt. 2. To accidentally leave a surgical instrument inside the patient after an operation. Labels: humorous, slang
Word: remix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English mix English remix From re- + mix. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːˌmɪks/, /ˈɹiˌmɪks/, /ɹiːˈmɪks/, /ɹiˈmɪks/ 1. A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes. 2. A piece of music formed by combining existing pieces of music together, possibly including various other cosmetic changes
Word: remix Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English mix English remix From re- + mix. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːˌmɪks/, /ˈɹiˌmɪks/, /ɹiːˈmɪks/, /ɹiˈmɪks/ 1. To mix again. Labels: transitive Example: Overhauling serves to remix the brine and to shift the meat so that all pieces will be exposed to the brine. 2. To create a remix. Labels: intransitive 3. To rearrange or radically alter (a particular piece of music). Labels: transitive 4. To modify (a work in any medium). Labels: transitive Example: It is essential that we maintain focus on originality as an ethical issue. A broader idea of creativity does not mean that 'anything goes' and sometimes attempts to reuse or remix the work of others becomes an ethical, even a legal, problem […]
Word: megamix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English mix English megamix From mega- + mix. 1. A remix taking the form of a medley, with radical alterations and many constituent pieces of music.
Word: exhilarates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of exhilarate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: by the numbers Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: The origin of this phrase goes back to the American Revolutionary War where a book containing numbered positions for rifle and bayonet practice was used to train soldiers. In the book, each diagram was numbered. 1. exactly, precisely, or in a formulaic way. Labels: idiomatic
Word: camel's nose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The root phrase is usually claimed to be a saying of Arabs or Middle Eastern cultures, roughly as follows: : Do not allow a camel to put his nose under the edge of your tent, for soon you will have a camel in your tent. 1. A situation where the permitting of some small act will lead to a larger undesirable act or circumstance. Labels: idiomatic
Word: carnography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin carnis (“meat”) and Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”), by analogy to pornography. Although it is often taken to be a blend carnage and pornography, this is not the case. 1. Any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence. Labels: uncountable Example: In 1986, Philip Brophy noted in Screen magazine that the horror film defied critics' attempts to deal with it as other than plotless carnography, gore, and effects for an increasingly brutalized mass audience.
Word: carrot and stick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From combining two ways to motivate a beast of burden, with the lure of a carrot placed just out of reach, and the threat of a stick behind. 1. The simultaneous rewarding of good behavior and punishing of bad behavior. Labels: idiomatic Example: It was this carrot and stick discipline to which Mr. John Mill was subjected, and which he accepted dutifully as flowing from that perfect wisdom of which up to this time his father had been the representative. Example: There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.
Word: cartooney Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of cartoon + attorney, or a variation of cartoony. 1. An empty and comically overstated threat of legal action, or a mock legal action. Labels: Internet Example: Because we who don’t like spam need a good laugh once in a while (other than the occasional guffaws induced by cartooneys), let me share a few samples from my incoming spam cesspool.
Word: cartooney Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of cartoony. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: catbird seat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The expression, as it was in use in the 19th century in the southern United States, may originate in regard to the gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis). It was featured in the 1942 short story "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber, and popularized by baseball commentator Red Barber, and often referred to baseball. The expression, according to James Thurber, comes from the observation of the catbird (an Australian bird) of the family Ptilonorhynchidae. Some of the male birds will assemble several hundred colored rocks or shells, arranging them in a remarkable artistic display, in order to build a "seat" atop which his mate will eventually be enthroned. 1. An enviable position, often one of great advantage. Labels: US, idiomatic Example: With a big victory in the primary, he was sitting in the catbird seat.
Word: cattle station Part of Speech: noun 1. A large farm in Australia, (the equivalent of ranch), usually in the outback, whose main activity is the raising of cattle, and run by a grazier. In most cases the stations are in a rangeland context on pastoral leases. Many are larger than small countries. Labels: Australia
Word: CCSI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of certified Cisco Systems instructor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: charientism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek χαριεντισμός (kharientismós). 1. A figure of speech wherein an insult is disguised as or softened by a jest. Labels: rare, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: Chicago Protocol Part of Speech: name 1. A method for the testing of appliances that perform any kind of combustion (household heaters, stoves, etc.) for carbon monoxide emissions.
Word: choreology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + -logy. 1. The study of the aesthetic and science of forms of dance and other human movement, by means of notation. Labels: uncountable
Word: Christmas tree bill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Christmas tree + bill. 1. A bill consisting of many riders that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments, which may provide special benefits to various groups or interests. Labels: US, idiomatic
Word: Circean poison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the Greek mythological figure of Circe, who (in the Odyssey) tempted men to excess before turning them into pigs. 1. A poison or potion that changes the body but not the mind. Labels: uncountable Example: And the riven Tree in the West withered; and the broken Car was changed by the Circean poison of the golden plumes into a two-natured monster, half-bird, half-beast — a mockery of the holy Griffin. 2. Anything magically (and fatally) captivating, such as a potion or applause. Labels: uncountable Example: O foulest Circean draught, thou poison of Popular Applause! madness is in thee, and death; thy end is Bedlam and the Grave. Example: "Is not this herd," he continues, "worse than Circean poison?"
Word: city father Part of Speech: noun 1. A senior municipal official, especially an elected official such as a mayor, a controller, or a municipal legislator.
Word: climate canary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from miner's canary. 1. A species that is affected by an environmental danger prior to other species, thus serving as an early warning system for the other species with regard to a danger.
Word: COAS Part of Speech: noun 1. chief of army staff Labels: uncountable 2. courses of action Labels: uncountable 3. charter ownership agreements Labels: uncountable
Word: co-create with God Part of Speech: verb 1. As a spiritual practitioner who feels that he or she has attained a type of communication with God: to work with God to bring desirable things into the practitioner's life. Labels: New-Age 2. To work to create things or bring about circumstances, with the attitude that one is doing God's work.
Word: communitas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin commūnitās. Doublet of community. 1. An unstructured community of common experience. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates. 2. The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas. Example: The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation.
Word: communiversity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of community + university. 1. An organization that is formed by a relationship between a university and a community. Labels: humorous
Word: comprador bourgeoisie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From comprador + bourgeoisie. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpɹədɔː(ɹ)ˌbʊə(ɹ)ʒwɑːˈziː/ 1. A section of an indigenous middle class allied with foreign investors, multinational corporations, bankers, and military interests. Labels: Marxism
Word: Conformist Part of Speech: noun 1. In English history, a person whose religious practices conformed with the requirements of the Act of Uniformity and who was therefore in concert with the established Church of England, as opposed to those of the Nonconformists, whose practices were not acceptable to the Church of England. Labels: historical
Word: confusopoly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From confuse + -opoly, coined by Scott Adams in The Dilbert Future. Pronunciation: /kənˌfjuːˈzɒpəli/ 1. An economic condition whereby the market force of competition is evaded via intentional obfuscation. Example: Be aware that BT have just cut some prices, *and* introduced a new tariff that you can buy your way onto. Beware however that it's an even bigger confusopoly than it was before. Example: Instead of the power of monopoly, consumers lose to the power of confusopoly.