nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: couchette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French couchette. 1. A couch. Labels: rare Example: The doctor […] desired they would have the goodness to repose themselves without ceremony, each in his respective couchette, while he and his friend Mr. Pallet would place themselves upright at the ends, that they might have the pleasure of serving those that lay along. 2. A compartment on a passenger train having berths for sleeping. Example: But I was disturbed to find a blot on my conception of the ultra-modern S.N.C.F.—the couchette car offered neither hot water nor, unless I looked in the wrong places, an electric razor point. 3. A berth in such a compartment.
Word: shuttlecock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers). Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɒk/, /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɑk/, [ˈʃʌɾɫ̩ˌkɑk], /ˈʃɐtl̩ˌkɔk/, [ˈʃɐɾɫ̩ˌkɔk] 1. A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. Labels: countable Example: Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air. [...] The shittlecock was made of a piece of dried skin rolled round, and bound with strings. Into this skin were inserted three long feathers spreading out at top, but so near to each other, where they were stuck into the skin, as to pass through the holes, little more than a quarter of an inch square, which are always made in the centre of Cochin-chinese copper coins. Example: In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round. 2. The game of badminton. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint. Example: Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]
Word: shuttlecock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers). Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɒk/, /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɑk/, [ˈʃʌɾɫ̩ˌkɑk], /ˈʃɐtl̩ˌkɔk/, [ˈʃɐɾɫ̩ˌkɔk] 1. To move rapidly back and forth. 2. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy. Example: to shuttlecock words Example: if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!
Word: prole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proletariat (“working class”) by shortening. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊl/, /pɹoʊl/ 1. A member of the proletariat; a proletarian. Labels: informal 2. A pleb (ordinary person). Labels: informal
Word: prole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From prowl obsolete pronunciation (/pɹoʊl/), from Middle English prollen. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊl/, /pɹoʊl/ 1. To prowl; to proll. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: […] for he ordained, […] and that boyes and children ſhould have ſo little allowed them to eat, that they ſhould be forced to prole, and ſteal for their better proviſion, to make them thereby the more induſtrious, nimble, and quick of ſpirit, […] Example: But I will not ſuch Journies take, / To dig and prole in vain: / For was I to dig twenty Weeks, / Without might come again.
Word: stirrup pump Part of Speech: noun 1. A small hand-operated pump with a stirrup-shaped base that was placed in a bucket of water, allowing a small hose to direct a stream onto minor fires.
Word: Aas Part of Speech: name Etymology: * The place in France is from Occitan Aas, from Basque/Aquitanian aitz (“ridge, rocky point”). * As a Norwegian and Swedish surname, from the noun ås (“ridge”). 1. A village in southwest France, in the Ossau valley of the Pyrenees. 2. A surname from Norwegian.
Word: AEC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of (United States) Atomic Energy Commission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Australian Electoral Commission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Associated Equipment Company. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Angeles Electric Corporation. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of ASEAN Economic Community. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AEC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of associated equipment company. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of architecture, engineering and construction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of automatic exposure control. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: mot juste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mot juste. Pronunciation: /məʊˈʒuːst/ 1. The perfectly appropriate word or phrase for the situation. Example: She legged it, and for a moment silence reigned. Then Bobbie said, “Phew!” and I agreed that “Phew!” was the mot juste. Example: Wattpad is not the sort of site where writers talk about suffering for their art or spend hours searching for the mot juste.
Word: modish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mode Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English modish From mode + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊdɪʃ/ 1. Conforming with fashion or style. Example: As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. Example: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years. 2. In the current mode.
Word: molt Part of Speech: verb 1. US standard spelling of moult. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: molt Part of Speech: noun 1. US standard spelling of moult. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: molt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of melt Labels: form-of, past, rare
Word: momentous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English moment Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English momentous From moment (“weight, importance”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /məʊˈmɛn.təs/, /moʊˈmɛn.təs/ 1. Outstanding in importance, of great consequence. Example: The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs. Example: "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
Word: smore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See smoor. Pronunciation: /smɔː(ɹ)/ 1. To smother. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored. Example: 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son, Stood at the nurse's knee, "Gie our your house, my mother dear," The reek is smoring me!"
Word: smore Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /smɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative spelling of s'more. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard
Word: preso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: presentation + -o Pronunciation: /pɹɛzəʊ/, /ˈpɹiːzəʊ/ 1. A presentation. Labels: informal Example: We need to provide a pause of "down time" after each preso for the streaming team to save the captured video to disk before beginning the next presentation. Example: “Now that I've finished Russ's preso, neither do I!”
Word: xu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese xu, from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and sou. Pronunciation: /suː/ 1. A former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong.
Word: Teutonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *tewtéh₂ 1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌtjuːˈtɒn.ɪk/ 1. Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons. 2. Having qualities that are regarded as typical of German people. Labels: dated, offensive Example: Teutonic exactitude Example: He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…] 3. Relating to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Labels: archaic
Word: Teutonic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tewtéh₂ 1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌtjuːˈtɒn.ɪk/ 1. An ancient Germanic, or modern German, individual.
Word: behind someone's back Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Without somebody's knowledge; secretly. Labels: idiomatic Example: The employees talked about their boss behind his back. Example: You will lose good karma if you say bad things behind people's backs. 2. Pursuing, nagging someone. Calque of వెంటపడు in Telugu. Labels: India, South Example: Amma is constantly behind my back about my marks.
Word: all over the place Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In multiple directions or locations, often haphazardly; everywhere. Labels: idiomatic Example: They started firing all over the place. Example: In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place. 2. Inconsistent; lacking a clear pattern; with a large amount of variation. Labels: idiomatic Example: I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place. Example: England were all over the place for the majority of the opening 45 minutes as gaps broke in defence.
Word: pon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 碰 (pon). Pronunciation: /pɒn/, /pɑn/, /pɔn/ 1. A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile. Labels: Japanese
Word: pon Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /pɒn/, /pɑn/, /pɔn/ 1. Alternative spelling of 'pon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pon Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɒn/, /pɑn/, /pɔn/ 1. Clipping of ponteng Labels: Singlish, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: courteous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English curteis, from Old French curteis (French courtois), from cort (“court”). By surface analysis, court + -eous. Compare typologically Czech zdvořilý (<~ dvůr), German höflich (<~ Hof). Also note Russian прийти́сь ко двору́ (prijtísʹ ko dvorú). Compare typologically civil, urbane. See pagan for the opposite. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːti.əs/, /ˈkɝti.əs/ 1. Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette. Example: a courteous gentleman a courteous gesture Example: Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
Word: long shot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From long + shot. The term arose from the accuracy of early naval guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance. 1. A shot fired at a distant target. Example: "It is of course a most foolish thing twice to take a long shot in a capercailzie wood, as you know," said the captain, appealing to me; "but the last time I had no choice, because I heard that villainous Andreas stalking the bird at the same time." 2. Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working; long odds. Labels: idiomatic Example: We can try your plan, but it's a long shot and it probably won't work. Example: A long shot, it may be, at immortality, but longer ones have hit; or Guido Fawkes, William Tell, and Samuel Pepys were forgotten now. 3. A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later. 4. Synonym of long take; a single, continuous shot that lasts for an unusually long duration without any cuts.
Word: black out Part of Speech: verb 1. To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Seigel was able to send two post cards home in 44 months via the Red Cross. The first one was completely blacked out by the Japanese censor's pen. The second one he sent, Seigel wrote that he weighed his "usual weight of 130". Seigel's usual weight was 230 so the family could see that he had been severely starved while in captivity. Seigel had at least triumphed over the Japanese censor and his black pen. 2. To censor or cover up. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I have blacked out your television, every station in the world is mine. Example: At times, README.txt is vague; some sections have been blacked out, presumably on legal advice. 3. To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout. Labels: intransitive Example: I am blacking out—ease the stick forward slightly—the sky is clear again—I turn out over water—reverse turn—there are antiaircraft on the island below—I reverse again—and again. Example: And they were not surprised when Tang Ya reeled into the mess, his face livid and drawn with pain. Rip and Dane got him to his cabin before he blacked out. But all they could learn from him during the interval before he lost consciousness was that his head was bursting and he couldn't stand it. Over his limp body they stared at one another bleakly. 4. To cause (someone) to lose consciousness. Labels: transitive 5. To obscure in darkness. Labels: transitive Example: Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights. He came upon them as he turned a crook in the coast line; and his first thought was that be had come upon a village, for there were many lights. Example: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. 6. To be in a state of blackout, as a building, a city, a ship. Labels: intransitive Example: The countryside blacked out to avoid helping enemy aircraft.
Word: hunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin. Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. Pronunciation: /hʌnt͡ʃ/, /hʌnʃ/ 1. A hump; a protuberance. 2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. Example: The old man walked with a hunch. 3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. Example: I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem. Example: I've learned to trust my hunches. 4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece. Example: a hunch of bread Example: "The greedy little bastards! They had a 'unch of bread each when I 'ad my dinner." 5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
Word: hunch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin. Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. Pronunciation: /hʌnt͡ʃ/, /hʌnʃ/ 1. To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. Labels: intransitive Example: Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems. Example: Sandy, you will never get anywhere by hunching over your putter, hold your shoulders back and bend from the waist. 2. To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). Labels: transitive Example: They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes. Example: He hunched up his shoulders and stared down at the ground. 3. To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. Labels: intransitive Example: […] the figure hunched up the road. Example: […] once we had hunched in out of the sun and slunk through a cold pork-and-beans-on-bread lunch […] my brother and I found a desert creek nearby and heaved rocks at each other to cool off. 4. To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back. Labels: transitive Example: […] thou art all one errour; soul and body. The first young tryal of some unskill’d Pow’r; Rude in the making Art, and Ape of Jove. Thy crooked mind within hunch’d out thy back; And wander’d in thy limbs: 5. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone). Labels: transitive Example: After this, we saw a great Troop of Women upon the High-way to Hell, with their Bags; and their fellows, at their Heels, ever, and anon, hunching, and Justling one Another. Example: Hickman, a great over-grown, lank-hair’d, chubby boy, who would be hunch’d and punch’d by every-body; and go home, with his finger in his eye, and tell his mother. 6. To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: People who are instinctive hunchers go through some such process at every decision-making point of their lives. It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.
Word: crunch numbers Part of Speech: verb 1. To figure; to do the math. Labels: idiomatic Example: Before you buy a car, spend some time crunching numbers and make sure you can afford it.
Word: make believe Part of Speech: verb 1. To pretend or imagine. Labels: childish, idiomatic Example: Let's make believe that we are explorers. Example: Only make believe I love you, / Only make believe that you love me. / Others find peace of mind in pretending, / Couldn’t you? / Couldn’t I? / Couldn’t we? / Make believe our lips are blending / In a phantom kiss, or two, or three. / Might as well make believe I love you, / For to tell the truth I do.
Word: make believe Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of make-believe. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: make believe Part of Speech: adj 1. imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially that of a child
Word: prender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French prendre (“to take”), from Latin prehendere (“to take”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛndə(ɹ)/ 1. The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered
Word: hash out Part of Speech: verb 1. To work through the details of something; especially to work through difficulties. Labels: idiomatic Example: They stayed up late hashing out the details of the contract. Example: The Iraqi people have shown their impulse toward democracy; they need security in order to hash out the many remaining differences that still divide them.
Word: vertebral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vertebra + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹəl/, /vɚˈti.bɹəl/, /ˈvɝ.tə.bɹəl/ 1. Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having or made of vertebrae. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having a spinal column. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vertebral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vertebra + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹəl/, /vɚˈti.bɹəl/, /ˈvɝ.tə.bɹəl/ 1. Any of the large dorsal scales along the top of a snake's back.
Word: quartile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus. By surface analysis, quart + -ile. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)taɪl/ 1. Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population. 2. Any one of the four groups so divided. Example: This school is ranked in the first quartile. Example: The Department for Transport's National Travel Survey shows that workers in the lowest income quartile are twice as likely to use public transport.
Word: quartile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus. By surface analysis, quart + -ile. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)taɪl/ 1. To divide into quartiles. Labels: transitive
Word: Norn Iron Part of Speech: name Etymology: From an exaggerated pronunciation of Northern Ireland in a broad Belfast accent. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːn ˈaɪɹən/ 1. Northern Ireland. Labels: Ireland, endearing, slang Example: The Ulster Phrase Book will help you to be easily understood on everyday occasions in Norn Iron, get you where you want and what you want, and enable you to cope with any emergencies or catastrophies along the way. Example: I am watching Norn Iron again, this time three minutes walk away from my German home.
Word: farl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of fardel, probably with some influence from the Irish fearann meaning a fourth, especially of land or oatcakes. In this specific sense, fearann itself may be a possible cognate from a Norse or Old English root. Pronunciation: /fɑːl/ 1. A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. Labels: obsolete 2. Any such cake or bread, now especially an Irish speciality such as a soda farl or potato farl.
Word: farl Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɑːl/ 1. Obsolete form of furl. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, Act 1, Scene 1, First Beaumont and Fletcher folio, 1854, Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 2, page 416, Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull ! Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !
Word: dead cat bounce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the idea that a cat dropped from a height might bounce without this indicating any actual life after hitting the ground. Pronunciation: /dɛd kæt bəʊ̯ns/, [dɛd kæt bəʊ̯n(t)s], [-baʊ̯n(t)s-], /dɛd kæt baʊ̯ns/ 1. A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run. Labels: idiomatic Example: Now, if you look at the chart of a stock that has suffered a collapse, you will see that at the bottom of each drop there is a small uptick, a rise in the price. This uptick, representing the smart money getting out because it knows what is coming, and fools getting in because they don't, is known as the dead cat bounce, so-called because if you drop a dead cat off a skyscraper the cat will bounce, too, but the movement doesn't mean the cat is alive. Example: There's this thing called the Dead Cat Bounce. It's a stock market term, I believe. What it's talking about is the fact that even a stock that is essentially worthless and really going nowhere but down for ever can register a slight upward movement, just for a bit, because there is generally a floor for almost everything. The comparison rests on the fact that even when a cat hits the pavement from forty stories high and dies instantly, it'll still bounce back up a little.
Word: myology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myo- + -logy. Pronunciation: /mʌɪˈɒlədʒi/ 1. The physiological study of muscles. Labels: uncountable Example: Examination of the myology of the Comephoridae, an endemic fish family in Lake Baikal, has revealed their morphological peculiarities. Example: Given this, there is an urgent need for detailed compared behavioural and anatomical studies of dasyurids, especially focused on osteology, myology and arthrology.
Word: tower of Babel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. 1. A situation where the use of many different languages is a source of confusion. Labels: figuratively
Word: NIRPS Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Northern Ireland Radiation Protection Service. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: easeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ease + -ful. 1. full of ease, restful, comfortable Example: easeful death Example: His particular End in every Man is, by the infliction of pain, damage, and diſgrace, that the Senſes and common perceivance might carry this Meſſage to the Soul within, that it is neither eaſeful, profitable, nor praiſ-worthy in this Life to do evil.
Word: telecommunications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of telecommunication Labels: form-of, plural
Word: telecommunications Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of telecommunication. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: billy club Part of Speech: noun 1. A short rounded truncheon used by policemen. Example: Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.
Word: billygoat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of billy goat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: billy goat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name Billy, early 19th c. 1. A male goat. Labels: childish Example: There were once upon a time three Billy-goats, who were going up into the hills to get fat.
Word: billypot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Scottish, from 19th century. The Australian usage is sometimes claimed to be related to billabong. 1. A cooking pot. Labels: Scotland Example: c. 1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads, 12: Lord Randall, “What did she boil it in, Willie doo, Willie doo?” “She boild it in the billy-pot; die shall I now!” 2. A billycan used to boil tea. Labels: Australia
Word: clerestory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clerestory, from clere (“clear: light, lighted”) + story (“storey/story: level of a building”). Pronunciation: /ˈklɪəɹ.stɔːɹi/ 1. The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral. Example: Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery. Example: On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
Word: Teletext Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-seti Proto-Indo-European *téḱseti Proto-Italic *teksō? Latin texō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus New Latin textusbor. Old French textebor. Middle English text English text English Teletext From tele- + text. 1. A text-based information retrieval system using television sets with a suitable decoder; developed by the BBC. Labels: Ireland, UK, uncountable
Word: catch a falling knife Part of Speech: verb 1. To buy a financial instrument whose price is falling rapidly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Buying that stock now would be catching a falling knife. Wait until you see capitulation. 2. To buy a financial instrument with the unconfirmed assumption that its price will reverse. Labels: idiomatic
Word: fight the tape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the early 20th-century practice of printing stock prices on ticker tape. 1. To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising. Example: I kept buying hoping the price would go up, but I eventually decided I was fighting the tape.
Word: ticker tape Part of Speech: noun 1. Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Any device used for displaying usually sideways scrolling news or updates. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually
Word: ticker tape parade Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ticker-tape parade. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
Word: stock ticker Part of Speech: noun 1. A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available. Example: ... whose instruments are located directly on the floor of the Exchange, who transmit them instantly to the quotation companies, and in a few seconds the prices are carried by the stock-ticker into the brokers' office, the banks, banking houses... 2. Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available.
Word: ticker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tick + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. One who makes a tick mark. Example: A teacher now is a typist, a printer, a laboratory assistant, a designer of work sheets and booklets, a form-filler, a ticker of boxes and a sender of returns to faculty heads, to head teachers, to education authorities and to the Ministers […] 2. A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur. Example: The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow. 3. A ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen. Example: I checked the prices on the ticker one last time before placing the trade. Example: To my surprise, the ticker showed that the deal had already gone through. 4. A heart, especially a human one. Labels: slang Example: My ticker gave out and I had to go to the hospital for surgery. 5. A watch (timepiece). Labels: slang Example: A right nice ticker it was. Real gold. 6. A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible. Labels: slang 7. A beer drinker who aims to try as many different beers as possible and keeps a record of all the beers they have drunk. Example: My weekday visit found a great mix of luncheoners, locals and real ale tickers. Example: This book has not been written with the goal of pleasing beer geeks, tickers, fetishists, raters or advocates.
Word: news ticker Part of Speech: noun 1. A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed out incoming news stories on paper tape. Example: Supplementing the quotation tickers are the news tickers. These operate on the same principle as the former, but print current news having stock market value on a band of paper about six inches wide. 2. Any device for displaying incoming news stories. Example: My new cell phone has a news ticker feature. 3. A line of text that moves across the lower part of a television screen or monitor, showing the latest news.
Word: charlie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Charlie. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: wald Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Northern Middle English walde, from Old English wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldan, from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognates Cognate with German walten (“to prevail, reign, dominate”), Danish volde (“to cause”), Icelandic valda (“to cause”), Lithuanian valda (“land property”), Lithuanian valdyti (“to rule”). Pronunciation: /wɔːld/ 1. To govern; inherit. Labels: UK, ambitransitive, dialectal
Word: wald Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“power, authority”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“power”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”). Pronunciation: /wɔːld/ 1. Power; strength. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable 2. Command; control; possession. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: wald Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English wald, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”). Largely displaced by forest. Cognates Compare North Frisian wald, walt (“forest”), Saterland Frisian Woold (“forest”), West Frisian wâld (“forest”), Alemannic German and German Wald (“forest, woods”), Bavarian Woid (“forest, woods”), Cimbrian balt (“forest, woods”), Dutch woud (“forest, woods”), Low German Woold, Woolt (“forest”), Luxembourgish Wal (“forest”), Mòcheno bòlt (“wood, woodland”), Yiddish וואַלד (vald, “forest”), Danish val (“plain”), vold (“field, meadow”), Faroese vøllur (“lawn; field”), Icelandic völlur (“lawn; field”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk voll (“meadow”), Swedish vall (“field, pasture”); also Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (ú-e-el-lu-uš, “meadow, pasture”). See also weald, wold, ultimately of the same origin. Pronunciation: /wɔːld/ 1. Forest; woods. Example: … we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,… Example: the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road
Word: autism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Autismus, coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, first usage dated to 1907 attributed by Carl Jung as an alternative of his for "auto-erotism", although Bleuler himself differentiates the terms in his book Dementia Praecox, first published 1911. From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtɪzəm/, /ˈoːtɪzəm/, /ˈɔtɪzəm/, /ˈɑtɪzəm/ 1. Autism spectrum disorder, a condition characterized by impairment in social communication and interaction, as well as a need or strong preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing differences, focused interests, or repetitive behaviours. This includes classic autism as well as other, previously distinct disorders such as Asperger's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Classic autism, a pervasive neurological condition that is observable in early childhood and persists throughout the lifespan, characterised by atypical communication patterns (e.g., differences in body language or eye contact), delayed language development, and sensory processing sensitivities. Labels: dated, uncountable, usually Example: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. 3. A diagnosis involving a pathological tendency to engage in self-centered fantasy thinking, historically considered a symptom of insanity or schizophrenia. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 4. Abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, stereotypically coupled with low self-awareness and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism. Labels: Internet, offensive, uncountable, usually Example: weaponized autism 5. Deliberate misspelling of autumn. Labels: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling, uncountable, usually Example: it's finally autism
Word: vibrato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). Pronunciation: /vɪˈbɹɑːtoʊ/ 1. The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound. Example: He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.
Word: vibrato Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). Pronunciation: /vɪˈbɹɑːtoʊ/ 1. Distorted by editing a sound so it becomes more wobbled, usually for humorous purposes. Labels: Internet, humorous Example: Yoshi Dance But Every Time He Showing His Face It Gets Vibrato
Word: lucerne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French luzerne, from Occitan luzerno, of uncertain origin. 1. Alfalfa. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: I have mixed lucerne, partially cured, in alternate strata with dry barley-straw on the mow, and found that cattle greedily consumed both in winter, when fed out in the yard. Example: Harvesting. With the aid of thoroughly up-to-date machinery, lucerne haymaking on the farm has become a regular routine. Briefly, the hay is cut with an ordinary mower, drawn into windrows with a rotary rake, picked up by a hay loader, carted direct to a derrick press, baled and wired without the formality of being stacked, and drawn at once to the railway. From waving lucerne in the paddock to fragrant hay on the truck something less than three days is involved in the height of the season, and a team of eight men, including the foreman, keep pace with the growth of 120 acres.
Word: espressivo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian espressivo. 1. To be played in an expressive manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fortississimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Pseudo-Italianism, derived from fortissimo with an additional -iss-, instead of the expected Italian fortissimissimo. 1. Indicating that the piece is to be played more loudly than fortissimo.
Word: fortississimo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pseudo-Italianism, derived from fortissimo with an additional -iss-, instead of the expected Italian fortissimissimo. 1. The dynamic sign indicating that the piece should be played more loudly than fortissimo.
Word: pianississimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Pseudo-Italianism, derived from pianissimo with an additional -iss-, instead of the expected Italian pianissimissimo. 1. Indicating that the piece is to be played more softly than pianissimo.
Word: pianississimo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pseudo-Italianism, derived from pianissimo with an additional -iss-, instead of the expected Italian pianissimissimo. 1. The dynamic sign indicating that the piece should be played more softly than pianissimo.
Word: stewed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stew + -ed. Pronunciation: /stuːd/ 1. Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew). 2. Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long. 3. Drunk. Labels: slang Example: Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.
Word: stewed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From stew + -ed. Pronunciation: /stuːd/ 1. simple past and past participle of stew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: AMA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of American Medical Association. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: “While there is still time, we urge Florida to reconsider this change to help prevent a rise of infectious disease outbreaks that put health and lives at risk,” said Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, an AMA trustee. 2. Initialism of Alberta Motor Association. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Australian Medical Association. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of American Motorcyclist Association. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AMA Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of ask me anything: usually attached to the end of a prompt in an “ask me anything” interview session. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AMA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of ask me anything. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: We did this after the company abruptly terminated Victoria Taylor, a Reddit employee who worked extensively with us as well as with other moderator teams on facilitating A.M.A.s. […] When the company removed her without warning or providing alternative resources, it effectively hindered every community that hosts the wildly popular A.M.A.s that have made Reddit a part of the mainstream media conversation. […] We received news of Ms. Taylor’s termination in a chaotic way: Someone who was scheduled to conduct an A.M.A. flew to New York to visit the Reddit office and discovered a canceled appointment and no backup support. Example: While Obama’s AMA ended up being a bit bland, the experiences and knowledge shared by the vacuum repair man made it one of the most popular and memorable AMAs ever hosted.
Word: AMA Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Initialism of against medical advice. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of citizens' band. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of citizens' band radio. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. Initialism of competition best or championship best. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of conduction band. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. The United States Navy hull classification symbol for a large cruiser. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 6. Initialism of construction battalion. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of confined to barracks. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of continental breakfast. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of centre of buoyancy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of centre-back, a defensive position. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 11. Initialism of cornerback. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 12. Initialism of center back, a line marking the center on the back side of a piece of clothing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 13. Initialism of Cajal body. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 14. Initialism of circuit breaker. Labels: Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 15. Abbreviation of Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 16. Initialism of cruise boost. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 17. Initialism of cheebai. Labels: Malaysia, Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 18. Initialism of casus belli Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: CB Part of Speech: adj 1. confined to barracks (a punishment in the army). Labels: initialism Example: ‘Twenty days C.B.,’ said one. ‘Twenty years, more likely,’ said another. 2. Initialism of chemical and biological. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Cape Breton. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: epistropheus Part of Speech: noun 1. The second cervical vertebra of the spine which forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra (the atlas), which carries the head, rotates. Example: The union of the atlas and epistropheus is described in this section because (1) there is often a direct communication between the synovial cavity of the transverse epistropic and the occipito-atlantal joints; (2) the rotatory movements of the head take place around the dens (odontoid process); and (3) important ligaments from the dens pass over the atlas to the occiput.
Word: CDT Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Central Daylight Time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of C/C++ Development Toolkit (a component of Eclipse) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CDT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of causal decision theory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of clock draw task. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of craft, design, and technology. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable
Word: DV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of digital video. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Vincent opened it and found a video camera, a Panasonic. She recognized it as one of the new kind that took DV tapes, but it still had an unexpected weight. 2. Initialism of domestic violence. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of described video. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of daily value. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: DV Part of Speech: intj 1. Initialism of Deo volente (God willing). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DV Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Doctors Vote. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DOA Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of dead on arrival. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: "You got a DOA here?" Sullivan asked leaving out the salutations, his eyes going to the ground in front of the patrol car, searching the shadows for the inevitable blanket-covered body. Example: Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A. 2. Initialism of defective on arrival. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: CST Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Central Standard Time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: For example, triskaidekaphobes like to point out the fate of the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, blaming its near-disastrous outcome on its number and the time it launched, 13:13 CST. 2. Initialism of China Standard Time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Community Security Trust. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CST Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of concrete syntax tree. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of convulsive shock treatment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of constable. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Initialism of certified sex therapist. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: CSA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Canadian Space Agency. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Canadian Standards Association. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Confederate States of America. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Child Support Agency. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of Central Services Agency. Labels: Northern-Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Controlled Substances Act. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Similarly, alcohol and tobacco are not scheduled under the CSA. These two substances are descheduled. […] NORML believes that a similar descheduling option – where the federal government and state governments both possess varying degrees of regulatory authority over the production, marketing, and taxation of the product, is appropriate for cannabis.
Word: CSA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of combined statistical area. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of community service announcement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 3. Initialism of Cartan subalgebra. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of central simple algebra. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of community-supported agriculture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of child sexual abuse. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of corporate sociopolitical activism. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 8. Abbreviation of ciclosporin A. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable