nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: baile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese baile (“dance”). Compare ball (“dance”). Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪli/ 1. A specific genre of dance music originating in Rio de Janeiro, also known as Funk Carioca Labels: uncountable Example: The irreverent banger "Hey You" repos Balkan brass and sets it to pure Chicago juke step, which bleeds into a colossal baile beat and, for good measure, some trashy Eurotrance. Example: He has been borrowing from Brazilian baile funk for years, and the first release on his new record label, Mad Descent, is by the Brazilian group Bonde do Role.
Word: baile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See bail. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪl/ 1. Archaic spelling of bail. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: mural Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”). Pronunciation: /ˈmjʊɹəl/, /ˈmjɝəl/, /ˈmjʊəɹəl/, /ˈmjʉːɹəl/, /ˈmjuːɹəl/ 1. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. Example: "There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."
Word: mural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”). Pronunciation: /ˈmjʊɹəl/, /ˈmjɝəl/, /ˈmjʊəɹəl/, /ˈmjʉːɹəl/, /ˈmjuːɹəl/ 1. Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall. Labels: not-comparable Example: a mural quadrant Example: Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld. 2. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep. Labels: not-comparable Example: a mural precipice Example: Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]
Word: mural Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”). Pronunciation: /ˈmjʊɹəl/, /ˈmjɝəl/, /ˈmjʊəɹəl/, /ˈmjʉːɹəl/, /ˈmjuːɹəl/ 1. To create a mural. Example: Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls. Example: Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.
Word: muliebrity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin muliebritās (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muliēbris (“feminine, womanly”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muliēbris + -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muliēbris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -brīs (noun suffix denoting a person). Pronunciation: /ˌmjuːlɪˈɛbɹɪti/, /ˌmjuliˈɛbɹəti/, /-ɾi/ 1. The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood. Labels: countable, literary, uncountable Example: The Ladies of Rhodes hearing that you have loſt, / A capitoll part of your Lady ware, / Haue made their petition to Cupid, / To plague you aboue all other, / As one preiuditiall to their muliebritie. Example: [I]n the devising, hammering, forging and composing of the Woman, she hath had a much tenderer regard, and by a great deal more respectful heed to the delightful Consortship, and sociable Delectation of the Man, than to the Perfection and Accomplishment of the individual Womanishness, or Muliebrity. 2. The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood. Labels: countable, literary, uncountable Example: [page 354] If a huſband be Inneen, [impotent,] it is requiſite that the Kâzee appoint the term of one year from the period of litigation, within which if the accuſed have carnal connexion with his wife it is well; but if not, the Kâzee muſt pronounce a ſeparation, provided ſuch be the deſire of the wife, […] [pages 355–356] Where ſhe was married as a virgin, ſhe is to be examined by ſome of her own ſex, and if they declare her to be ſtill a virgin, the term of a year is to be appointed, as above, becauſe the huſband's falſehood is then evident; but if they declare her muliebrity [footnote: Meaning womanhood, as opposed to virginity.], the Kâzee is in that caſe to require the huſband to make oath, which if he do, her right to ſeparation is defeated; […] Example: Janie's story of personal growth may be charted as one that travels from mules to muliebrity. 3. The state of puberty in a female. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trunks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋks/ 1. plural of trunk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trunks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋks/ 1. Shorts or briefs used especially for sports. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Swimming trunks. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Spread your legs and hang on till your trunks rip right up the back. 3. Trunkhose. Labels: plural, plural-only 4. Trunk briefs. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Roger came through, rustling up four shirts and trousers, two belts, pointed out the underwear selections, where Alex riffled through the boxers, boxer-briefs, and trunks, choosing a package of each. 5. Men’s or boys’ boxer shorts or boxer briefs. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only
Word: trunks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋks/ 1. The game of nineholes. Labels: uncountable
Word: trunks Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of trunk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: beatitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English beatitude, beatytude, from Middle French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”). Pronunciation: /biːˈætɪtjuːd/, /biˈætɪtud/ 1. Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness. Labels: uncountable Example: Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face. 2. Any of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: preterite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English preterit, from Old French preterit (13th century), from Latin praeteritum (as in tempus praeteritum (“time past”)), the past participle of praetereō (“to go by, go past”), itself from praeter (“beyond, before, above, more than”) (comparative of prae (“before”)) + itum (the past participle of eō (“to go”)). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛtəɹɪt/, /ˈpɹɛtəɹət/ 1. Showing an action at a determined moment in the past. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Dravidian preterite tense is ordinarily formed, like the present, by annexing the pronominal signs to the preterite verbal participle. 2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. Labels: not-comparable Example: Without leaving your elbow-chair, you shall go back with me thirty years, which will bring you among things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. Example: Boas, Benedict, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Murdock, Evans-Pritchard, Griaule, Levi-Strauss, to keep the list short, preterite, and variegated, […]
Word: preterite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English preterit, from Old French preterit (13th century), from Latin praeteritum (as in tempus praeteritum (“time past”)), the past participle of praetereō (“to go by, go past”), itself from praeter (“beyond, before, above, more than”) (comparative of prae (“before”)) + itum (the past participle of eō (“to go”)). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛtəɹɪt/, /ˈpɹɛtəɹət/ 1. A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past. Example: When simple verbs redouble the preterite, the compounds drop the first syllable, as: Pello, pĕpŭli, to drive away, to beat back; Repello, rĕpŭli, and not rĕpĕpŭli, to drive back, to repel. Example: Nevertheless, a small amount of variation still exists in one area of standard English verbal morphology: the preterite and past participle forms of certain irregular verbs.
Word: G-man Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably abbreviated from government man. 1. A US government agent fighting organized crime in the interwar years. Labels: US, historical, slang 2. Any person working for the US government, especially in undercover work. Labels: US, broadly, slang
Word: traditional art Part of Speech: noun 1. Art that is a part of the culture of a group of people, skills and knowledge of which are passed down through generations from master craftsmen to apprentices. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Art produced with real physical media, as opposed to digital art. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Gila monster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico, whose name may ultimately derive from a Yuma word meaning "running water which is salty". Pronunciation: /ˈhiːlə ˈmɒnstə(ɹ)/, /ˈhilə ˈmɑnstɚ/ 1. A venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, that lives in the deserts of the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Example: Ever see one a them Gila monsters take hold, mister? Grabs hold, an’ you chop him in two an’ his head hangs on.
Word: chaotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as chaos + -otic. Doublet of gassy. Pronunciation: /keɪˈɒtɪk/, /keɪˈɑtɪk/, [keɪˈɑɾɪk], [keɪˈɒɾɪk], /kæɪˈɔtɪk/ 1. Filled with chaos. Example: Treating of the Expanſum, or Inferiour Heav'n, he ſays that according to the Moſaick Phyſiology, the Heav'ns, generated of the Abyſſine, or Chaotick Waters, are divided only into two Orbs, call'd by the names of the Superiour and Inferiour Heav'ns […] Example: Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver said Tuesday that the federal assault charges filed against her a day earlier related to a chaotic melee outside an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility are “absurd.” 2. Extremely disorganized or in disarray. Example: In theſe early and unrefined Ages, the jarring Parts of a certain chaotick Conſtitution ſupported their ſeveral Pretenſions by the Sword. Experience and Policy have ſince taught other Methods. Example: Our intervals of repose were now very short; for at 12ʰ 50ᵐ a.m., March 16th, another rush drove irresistibly on the larboard quarter and stern, and forcing the ship ahead raised her up on the ice. A chaotic ruin followed; our poor and cherished court yard, its wall and arched doors, gallery, and well-trodden paths, were rent, and in some parts ploughed up like dust. 3. Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome. Example: The manipulation of the environment through design involves many branches of mathematics: the projective geometry of light transmission, the chaotic and probabilistic maths of weather patterns, and the statistical algorithms required to make analysis legible and obtain discrete building components from continuous distributions. 4. Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles. Example: While a player in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is required to properly perform one of nine moral categories (e.g., "lawful good" or "chaotic neutral"), the Everway player is expected to perform the literary equivalent of moral themes. It is easy to imagine a Macbeth Everway character with the fault of ambition or King Solomon with the virtue of wisdom. It is, however, an additional step removed—and therefore seemintly more contrived—to imagine Macbeth as "chaotic neutral," "neutral evil," or "lawful neutral." Example: The Chaotic Neutral wills the destruction of instances of universal order, but is not motivated by sadism in doing so. The archetypal Chaotic Neutral from recent great fantasy literature remains Karsa Orlong. […] One might harness some of the reasons against the idea of Chaotic Good against Chaotic Neutral. Could someone truly willing chaos do anything but also will the suffering brought about?
Word: chaotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as chaos + -otic. Doublet of gassy. Pronunciation: /keɪˈɒtɪk/, /keɪˈɑtɪk/, [keɪˈɑɾɪk], [keɪˈɒɾɪk], /kæɪˈɔtɪk/ 1. A character having a chaotic alignment.
Word: dumb Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). The senses of stupid, unintellectual, and pointless, which are found regularly since the 19th century only, probably developed under the influence of German dumm and Dutch dom. Just like the English word, these originally meant "lacking the power of speech", but they developed the mentioned senses early on. Cognates Cognate with Scots dumb (“dumb, silent”), North Frisian dom, domme (“dumb, stupid”), West Frisian dom (“dumb, stupid”), Dutch dom (“dumb, stupid”), German dumm (“dumb, stupid”), Danish dum (“stupid”), Swedish dum (“stupid”), Icelandic dumbur (“dumb, mute”). See also deaf. Pronunciation: /dʌm/, /ɖəm(b)/ 1. Unable to speak; lacking power of speech. Labels: dated Example: deaf, dumb, and blind Example: His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language. 2. Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak. Labels: archaic 3. Having no input or voice in running things. Labels: dated Example: Life was never a May-game for men; in all times the lot of the dumb-millions born to toil was defaced with manifold sufferings, injustices, heavy burdens, avoidable and unavoidable; not play at all, but hard work that made the sinews sore, and the heart sore. 4. Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless. Labels: dated, usually Example: dumb show Example: Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts 5. Not producing any sound, silent. Labels: dated Example: […] Thro’ lands where not a leaf was dumb; ⁠But all the lavish hills would hum The murmur of a happy Pan: […] 6. Stupid. Labels: derogatory, especially, informal Example: You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast! 7. Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value. Labels: figuratively Example: This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago! Example: Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another. 8. Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind. 9. Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own. 10. Lacking brightness or clearness as a colour; dim, dull. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Her stern, which was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
Word: dumb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dumben, from Old English *dumbian (found in the compound ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb; keep silence; hold one’s peace”)), from Proto-Germanic *dumbijaną, *dumbōną (“to be silent, become dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with German verdummen (“to become dumb”). Pronunciation: /dʌm/, /ɖəm(b)/ 1. To silence. Labels: dated, transitive Example: […] what I would have spoke Was beastly dumbed by him. Example: The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end. 2. To make stupid. Labels: transitive Example: I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her. 3. To represent as stupid. Labels: transitive Example: Bad-mouthing Neanderthals […] is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize. […] I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception. 4. To reduce the intellectual demands of. Labels: transitive Example: The ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar—amid protests that this was dumbing the test down—so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail.
Word: dumb Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dʌm/, /ɖəm(b)/ 1. Very, extremely. Labels: not-comparable Example: "What, you don't like your food?" Russo asks. ¶ "Are you kidding? It's dumb good." Example: Yo this shit is crazy how these females are making these doctors rich. My baby moms Miracle is getting surgery in a week or so. She's flying out to Colombia. That shit really baffles me as far as she's concerned, because Miracle is already dumb thick. I'm like damn ma, how big do you want your ass to be?
Word: dumb Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /dʌm/, /ɖəm(b)/ 1. An intensifier expressing contempt; damn, damned. Labels: dated Example: Pap came to stand beside her and watched the two play. "That pup has just plum' fell in love with our Sammy, an' Sam's real took by him," Pap said. "It's a dumb shame, too. I talked to Jim, but he's not of a mind to sell."
Word: lurch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”). Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. A sudden or unsteady movement. Example: the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard Example: The ship was driving rapidly towards the rocky coast, against which she must have been dashed to pieces had she kept afloat a few minutes longer, but she gave a lurch and went down, rose again for an instant, and with another lurch sank, and all was over,—and there were nearly two hundred and fifty human beings struggling with the waves.
Word: lurch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”). Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. Example: It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin. Example: The incident made it think, apparently, that the neighborhood was dangerous, for it slowly lurched off through the wood, followed by its mate and its three enormous infants.
Word: lurch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *lurchen (recorded only in Middle English lurcare, lurcard (“glutton”)), from Old French *lurcher, from Latin lurcō (“eat greedily, guzzle”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle High German slurken (“to slurp”) (whence German schlurken). Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. Labels: obsolete Example: Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
Word: lurch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lorchen, variant of Middle English lurken (“to lurk”). More at lurk. Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way. Labels: dialectal, intransitive 2. To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain. Labels: dialectal, intransitive 3. To rob. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.
Word: lurch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lorchen, variant of Middle English lurken (“to lurk”). More at lurk. Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. A lift or heave. Labels: dialectal
Word: lurch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *lurche (implied in derivative lurching), from Old French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt. Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. A predicament or difficult situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to leave someone in the lurch 2. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
Word: lurch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *lurche (implied in derivative lurching), from Old French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt. Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ/, /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ 1. To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry). Labels: transitive 2. To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
Word: minimal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From minimum + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl/, /ˈmɪn.ə.məl/ 1. The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. Example: With minimal effort, you won't be able to achieve all your dreams. 2. The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. Example: With respect to the ordering induced by set-theoretic inclusion, the power set of the set of natural numbers has a unique minimal element: the empty set. 3. Characterised by the use of simple form or structures. 4. Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
Word: minimal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From minimum + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl/, /ˈmɪn.ə.məl/ 1. Something very small; a tiny part or fragment. Example: […] we seek in explaining mental phenomena and behavior always the "minimals," the little fragments of association, on which the mind is (passively) supposed to be based. Example: […] identifications with birds, fish, trees, and flowers (and occasionally as relief, with the stillness of rocks, clam shells, driftwood, and nature's minimals); […]
Word: emotional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion English -al English emotional From emotion + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/, /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/, /iˈmoʊʃənəl/ 1. Of or relating to the emotions. Example: emotional crisis Example: emotional lift 2. Characterized by emotion. 3. Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning. Example: emotional decision Example: The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology). 4. Appealing to or arousing emotion. Example: emotional speech 5. Easily affected by emotion. Example: She’s an emotional person. 6. Readily displaying emotion. Example: emotional greeting 7. Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful. Example: She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother. Example: I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.
Word: emotional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion English -al English emotional From emotion + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/, /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/, /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/, /iˈmoʊʃənəl/ 1. An emotional person
Word: peroneal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From perona or peroneus + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌpɛː.ɹəˈniː.əl/, /ˌpɛɹ.oʊˈniː.əl/, /pəˈɹoʊ.ni.əl/ 1. Pertaining to the fibula or to the part of the leg containing it, the outside (lateral aspect) of the lower leg (that is, what anatomical terminology calls the leg, from knee to foot). Example: Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.
Word: sith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head”). Cognate with Faroese sinn (“time”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs, “path, movement”), Icelandic sinn (“time”). See also send. Pronunciation: /siːθ/ 1. A journey, way. Labels: obsolete Example: The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe 2. One's journey of life, experience, one's lot, also by extension life, lifetime. Labels: obsolete Example: Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering. 3. An instant in time, a point in time or an occasion. Labels: obsolete Example: Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning. Example: The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous blith, / As if the word so spoken, were halfe donne, / And humbly thanked him a thousand sith, / That had from death to life him newly wonne.
Word: sith Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Clipping of sithen; compare German seit (“since”). Pronunciation: /sɪθ/ 1. Archaic form of since. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Therefore we need not fear them, sith Christ is with us; […] Example: Welcome deere Roſencraus, and Guyldensterne, / Moreouer, that we much did long to ſee you, / The need we haue to vſe you did prouoke / Our haſtie ſending, ſomething haue you heard / Of Hamlets transformation, ſo call it, / Sith nor th'exterior, nor the inward man / Reſembles that it was, what it ſhould be, / More then his fathers death, that thus hath put him / So much from th'vnderſtanding of himſelfe / I cannot dreame of: […]
Word: philalethia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek φιλαλήθεια (philalḗtheia, “sincerity”), from φιλία (philía, “love”) + ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”). 1. The love of truth. Labels: uncountable
Word: cottage cheese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First known use is from 1831 in the periodical Godey's Lady's Book. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter. 1. A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: quark, mató, ricotta, tvorog
Word: pestilent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛstələnt/, /ˈpɛstɪlənt/, /ˈpɛstlənt/ 1. Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly. 2. Annoying. Labels: informal 3. Harmful to morals or public order. Labels: archaic
Word: follow up Part of Speech: verb 1. To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Send a letter, then follow up promptly with a telephone call. Example: With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
Word: sandwich board Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sandwich + board; when worn, the two sides of the sign “sandwich” the wearer between them. 1. A person-sized, wearable billboard or advertisement consisting of two printed boards strung together so that they hang over the shoulders, or simply set out on a street. Example: Towards the end of August, the Southern Railway decided to adopt a novel form of publicity to popularise the services. Sandwich board men were employed at Charing Cross and Cannon Street to display placards, and distribute leaflet timetables, calling attention to the vacant seats on the services via Nunhead.
Word: sandwich board Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sandwich + board; when worn, the two sides of the sign “sandwich” the wearer between them. 1. To advertise or campaign using a sandwich board; to wear a sandwich board. Labels: intransitive, sometimes, transitive
Word: bovine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef. Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/, /ˈboʊˌvaɪn/, /ˈboʊˌvin/, /ˈboʊ.vɪn/ 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison. Labels: not-comparable 3. Sluggish, dull, slow-witted. Labels: figuratively Example: They had been selected and arranged with a dull, bovine indifference to any meaning that any of them might have. Example: For reasons which are really a matter for a trainee psychoanalyst, who plays James Bond is a big thing for Spencer. To this end, he has unleashed a series of thoughts so bovine that I’ll just give you one for a little flavour.
Word: bovine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *gʷṓws Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef. Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/, /ˈboʊˌvaɪn/, /ˈboʊˌvin/, /ˈboʊ.vɪn/ 1. An animal of a family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison. 2. An animal of a family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison. Labels: often, specifically Example: Near-synonyms: cattle beast, cattlebeast, cow
Word: take a breather Part of Speech: verb 1. To take a break; to pause or relax briefly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Why don't we stop and take a breather before we continue?
Word: fossil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“to dig up”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒsl̩/, /ˈfɑsl̩/ 1. The mineralized remains of an animal or plant. Example: With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions. Example: Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters. 2. Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals. Example: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. Example: You know what, we’ve got a limited number of heartbeats in this world so if you’re only truly happy researching fossils and can make it work for you, you go for it. 3. A fossil word. 4. Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated. Labels: figuratively 5. An extremely old or outdated person. Labels: derogatory, figuratively Example: I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently. Example: All at once there was a tapping at the window pane. Atherton was staring at us from without. He shouted through the glass, ‘Come out of that, you fossils! — I’ve news for you!’
Word: swamped Part of Speech: adj 1. very busy; having too much to do Labels: informal Example: They have been swamped ever since they started advertising. Example: He can’t talk to you right now; he’s swamped.
Word: swamped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of swamp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: happy camper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The Dictionary of American Slang suspects the phrase to have originated among California movie and show-business people as a reference to child clients of summer camps. 1. One who is thoroughly content or satisfied. Labels: US, informal Example: I will be a happy camper when they fix the potholes on my commute. Example: “You all look like happy campers to me,” Dan Quayle to the people of American Samoa. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see happy, camper.
Word: heckle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Related to hackle. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛkəl/, [ˈhɛkəl] ~ [ˈhɛkl̩] 1. To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. Labels: transitive 2. To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance. Labels: transitive Example: Promise that you won't heckle me after my performance. Example: As late as 1854, the antichoir members of an Ohio Methodist congregation heckled the choir whenever it tried to sing, hoping to "bring discredit on the singers by creating discord." 3. To prepare (flax) for spinning, using special combs called hackles.
Word: heckle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Related to hackle. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛkəl/, [ˈhɛkəl] ~ [ˈhɛkl̩] 1. Alternative form of hackle (“tool for separating flax”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. The long shining feathers on a cock's neck. 3. A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments. 4. An rude interruption during a show, especially a comedy performance Example: The stand-up dealt well with the heckles from the crowd, replying with raucous banter to raise plenty of laughs.
Word: ticklish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English tickle Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English ticklish From tickle + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪk(ə)lɪʃ/ 1. Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled. Example: She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet. 2. Touchy, sensitive, or delicate. Example: That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice. Example: Opening round three, Enderby moved the ticklish issue of whether to advise the Hong Kong government of the intelligence regarding Ko.
Word: sticky note Part of Speech: noun 1. A slip of paper, or a chit, with a gummy or gluey top that can be moved from place to place, usually as a reminder. Labels: US, informal
Word: tickled pink Part of Speech: adj 1. Very pleased; delighted; thrilled. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: He's tickled pink about his promotion.
Word: tickled pink Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tickle pink Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: in the dark Part of Speech: prep_phrase Pronunciation: /ɪn ðə dɑːk/, /ɪn ðə dɑɹk/, /ɪn ðə dɐːk/, /ən ðə dɐːk/, /ɪn ðə daɹk/ 1. Without information. Labels: idiomatic Example: Management kept the board of directors completely in the dark. Example: They remained in the dark until the newspaper story came out. 2. Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are. Labels: slang 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, dark; without light, somewhere that is dark. Example: I tripped over his suitcase in the dark.
Word: holdup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from hold up. 1. Alternative form of hold-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shelve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”). The noun is derived from etymology 1, verb sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”). Pronunciation: /ʃɛlv/ 1. To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves. Labels: transitive Example: to shelve a closet or a library 2. To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf. Labels: transitive Example: The library needs volunteers to help shelve books. Example: Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked. 3. To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf. Labels: figuratively, slang, transitive Example: I love shelving ecstasy! Example: I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know. 4. To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf. Labels: Wales, figuratively, slang, transitive 5. To set aside (something), as if on a shelf. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost. Example: [T]he Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business. 6. To set aside (something), as if on a shelf. Labels: also, figuratively, reflexive, transitive Example: The time, too, nearly ripe for his great schemes, made it doubly necessary that he should exert himself, and prevent being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities. 7. To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life. 8. To extend via a series of projecting shelves. Labels: intransitive Example: The beach shelved quickly and he kept underwater as long as he could, swimming with powerful strokes and feeling the soft coolness all over him.
Word: shelve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”). The noun is derived from etymology 1, verb sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”). Pronunciation: /ʃɛlv/ 1. A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc. Labels: archaic Example: "This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]" Example: Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]
Word: shelve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English shelven (“to separate (someone or something) from another thing, keep away”); further etymology uncertain, possibly: * from shelf, shelfe (“shelf; cabinet, cupboard; grassy bank”) (though this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary); or * related to West Frisian skelf (“not level or straight, oblique”). Pronunciation: /ʃɛlv/ 1. To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 2. Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope. Labels: intransitive Example: The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things. Example: From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […] 3. To be in an inclined or sloping position. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: shelve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Treated as a singular form of shelves, the plural of shelf (“reef; sandbar; shoal”). Pronunciation: /ʃɛlv/ 1. Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic Example: But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after. Example: [T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.
Word: doublespeak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do. Pronunciation: /ˈdəbəlˌspiːk/ 1. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity. Labels: uncountable Example: The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret. Example: The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."
Word: reinvent the wheel Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːɪnˌvɛnt ðə ˈ(h)wiːl/ 1. To do work unnecessarily when it has already been done satisfactorily by others; to attempt to devise a solution to a problem when a solution already exists. Labels: idiomatic Example: The trading of information so that people need not reinvent the wheel. Example: A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown.
Word: tip one's hand Part of Speech: verb 1. In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand. 2. To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage. Labels: figuratively Example: In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire?" Example: In a nearly 13-minute address, he did not tip his hand about what he might do next.
Word: semantic differentiation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: semantic + differentiation 1. A bifurcation of the meaning along with time into two separate meanings of two separate resulting expressions. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A diachronic differentiation or change in meaning. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: diachronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ic; historically, see synchronous § Etymology. Pronunciation: /daɪ.əˈkɹɒnɪk/, /daɪ.əˈkɹɑnɪk/ 1. Occurring over or changing with time. Example: […] one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture. 2. Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time. Example: It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before. Example: I also take a more diachronic perspective and relate the growth of empire to changes in the regional market system as they occurred in the transition from the Early Aztec to the Late Aztec periods.
Word: methylchloroisothiazolinone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From methyl + chloro- + isothiazolinone Pronunciation: /ˌmɛθɪlˌklɔːɹəʊˌaɪsəʊˌθaɪəˈzəʊlɪnəʊn/ 1. A synthetic preservative used in many cosmetics, personal care products and cleaners to stop bacteria, mold and fungi. It is effective at very low concentrations but is also a known cause of skin irritation and allergic contact dermatitis in some people. It is often used together with methylisothiazolinone. Labels: uncountable
Word: jock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English Jock English jock From Jock, a Scottish hypocoristic form of John (compare Jack). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/, /ˈd͡ʒɑk/ 1. A common man. Labels: archaic, slang 2. A Scotsman. Labels: Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang
Word: jock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The computer slang meanings are derived from jockey. The athletic slang meanings in turn date from the mid-20th century and are simple abbreviations of jockstrap. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/, /ˈd͡ʒɑk/ 1. A jockey. Labels: informal Example: "You've heard of him?" "No." "Why, young fellah, where have you lived? Sir John Ballinger is the best gentleman jock in the north country." 2. The penis. Labels: dated, rare, slang 3. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports. 4. A young male athlete, typically tall and aged 16–23. Labels: US, slang 5. An enthusiastic sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: 'Cause all jocks ever think about is sports, all we ever think about is sex. 6. A disc jockey. Labels: slang Example: There was never a single listener protest or objection — the entire opposition to the content of the program came from a few jocks within the station. Example: As a teenager, I laid down the sword and decided I wanted to be a disc jockey. […] I'd sit outside the studio and watch with envy and admiration as the jocks performed in the small room on the other side of the soundproof window […] 7. A specialist computer programmer. Labels: US, dated, in-compounds, slang Example: compiler jock Example: systems jock
Word: jock Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/, /ˈd͡ʒɑk/ 1. To masturbate. Labels: slang 2. To humiliate. Labels: slang 3. To steal. Labels: slang
Word: jock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/, /ˈd͡ʒɑk/ 1. Food; meals. Labels: Yorkshire, dialectal, uncountable Example: Thear's boan-idle nowbles, baht hahses an' lands, 'at al walk on a carpeted path, an' nivver do nowt wi' ther lily-white hands bud lift uther fowk's jock to ther maath. Example: Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?
Word: unruly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unruly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + rule + -ly (compare Middle English ruly, reuli (“subject to a religious rule, regular”)), but also representing a modified continuation of earlier Middle English unrouly, unroly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + roolie. The latter is perhaps from or influenced by Old Norse *úróligr, related to Danish urolig (“restless”), Swedish orolig (“restless”), Icelandic órólegur (“agitated”). Compare also Middle English unroo, unro (“unrest”). More at roo. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɹuːli/ 1. Wild; uncontrolled. Example: The police gathered to contain the unruly mob. Example: Unruly boys who will not grow up / Must be taken in hand / Unruly girls who will not settle down / They must be taken in hand
Word: key server Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of keyserver. Labels: alt-of, alternative