nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ground zero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ground + zero, first attested in a June 1946 a report by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and 9, 1945, during World War II. “Zero” was used as the code name for the location of the Trinity atomic bomb test – the first detonation of a nuclear weapon – in New Mexico, USA, on July 16, 1945. Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹaʊnd ˈzɪəɹəʊ/, /ˌɡɹaʊnd ˈzɪɚ(ˌ)oʊ/, /-ˈzi(ˌ)ɹoʊ/ 1. Originally, the point on the land or water surface below which a nuclear bomb detonates in the air; now also the point on such a surface at or above the detonation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some of the construction details (reinforcing rod splices, for example) [in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan] were often poor, and much of the concrete was definitely weak; thus some reinforced concrete buildings collapsed and suffered structural damage when within 2,000 feet of ground zero, and some internal wall paneling was demolished even up to 3,800 feet. Example: It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test 2. The location of any disaster or violent assault. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: "This is ground zero," she said. "If regulators don't adopt a zero tolerance for violations of standards then what we will have are places that are going to have unacceptable environmental damage." Example: Florida has been called a “ground zero” for climate change in America, as the state is expected to face the highest temperature rise in the southeast; […] 3. The point at which something begins. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: James Meredith's forced admission was a milestone in upending the old order in America's most segregated state, a kind of race relations ground zero. Example: Less than two years into the job, she has transformed Washington into ground zero of America’s education reform movement.
Word: aleph-zero Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of aleph-null. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aleph-null Part of Speech: name Etymology: From its mathematical symbol ℵ₀, from א, aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 1. The first of the transfinite cardinal numbers; corresponds to the number of natural numbers. Labels: uncountable
Word: sub-zero Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English zero English sub-zero From sub- + zero. 1. below 0°C; freezing cold Labels: not-comparable Example: Several days of sub-zero temperatures caused icicles up to 1.5 metres long to form in tunnels across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria. 2. below 0°F (−18°C) Labels: US, not-comparable
Word: consistently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English consistent Middle English -ly English -ly English consistently From consistent + -ly. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪstəntli/ 1. In a consistent manner. Example: Thus from October 1 the French National Railways made a number of changes in their services and consistently in the direction of higher speeds. Example: The penile mishaps (one involving a bristled toothbrush), severings (one involves hungry ducks) and surgeries cited by Ms. Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries. 2. constantly; always.
Word: Condere Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Irish, borne by an Ulster warrior renowned for his eloquence in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Word: Celtchar Part of Speech: name 1. A leading figure in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology: an Ulster warrior described as tall, grey, and ugly, and who wields a spear called Luír Cheltchair, and who killed Blaí Briugu after the latter slept with his wife Brig Bretach. Labels: Irish
Word: Luír Cheltchair Part of Speech: name 1. The spear wielded by Celtchar. Its lust for blood is so great that it has to be dipped in a cauldron of poison to control it. Labels: Irish
Word: Brig Bretach Part of Speech: name 1. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the wife of Celtchar. Her husband Celtchar killed Blaí Briugu for sleeping with her as Blaí Briugu was required to do so by the latter's geas. Labels: Irish
Word: Blaí Briugu Part of Speech: name 1. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, a wealthy Ulster warrior who kept a hostel. He was killed by Celtchar for sleeping with the latter's wife Brig Bretach. Labels: Irish
Word: Ferdiad Part of Speech: name 1. In Irish mythology, Cúchulainn's best friend and foster-brother. Labels: Irish
Word: BHCA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of busy-hour call attempts. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: iwan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِيوَان (ʔīwān), from Classical Persian اَیْوَان (aywān, “porch”); see there for more. Doublet of apadana. Pronunciation: /ˈiːwɑːn/ 1. A large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.
Word: -mancy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis) Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύομαι (-eúomai) Ancient Greek μᾰντεύομαι (mănteúomai) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā)der. Latin -mantīabor. English -mancy From Latin -mantīa, ultimately from Ancient Greek μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā, “divination”). 1. Divination. Labels: morpheme 2. Variety of magic, especially that controlling or related to a specific element, substance, or theme. Labels: morpheme
Word: sub- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- From Latin sub- (“under”). Doublet of hypo-. Pronunciation: /sʌb/ 1. Under, beneath. Labels: morpheme Example: subterranean Example: submarine 2. Subsidiary, secondary. Labels: morpheme Example: subplot 3. Almost, nearly. Labels: morpheme Example: subconical Example: subequatorial
Word: variable tandem repeat locus Part of Speech: noun 1. Any DNA sequence that exists in multiple copies strung together in various tandem lengths.
Word: trendwhore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trend + whore. 1. One who is a conformist; one who follows trends too much. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: Necronomicon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek, derived from νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”) + εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”), literally “an image of the law of the dead”. Coined by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. By surface analysis, necro- + -nomicon. Pronunciation: /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkən/, /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkɒn/, /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkən/, /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪˌkɑn/ 1. A fictional grimoire of arcane and forbidden knowledge whose contents can drive a person mad. Example: So matters went till that night when Williams brought home the infamous Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred ... he had always wondered why men paled when they spoke of it. The old bookseller had told him that only five copies were known to have survived the shocked edicts of the priests and lawgivers against it and that all of these were locked up with frightened care by custodians who had ventured to begin a reading of the hateful black-letter. Example: The container was a set of ceramic rune-stones and their accompanying manual. The book was The Necronomicon.
Word: fraise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”). Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. To put in danger, in terror, or at risk. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: fraise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position. 2. A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century. Labels: historical 3. An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century. Labels: historical Example: Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color. 4. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter. 5. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
Word: fraise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. Example: to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets
Word: fraise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See froise. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Take a fraise and one udder or two (according to their size) of the veal, blanch and let them cool, mince them ; hash some mushrooms, shalots, parsley, and truffle; Example: It is related of Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, that no one could cook a fraise, as it was then called, for the great duke but herself.
Word: fraise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. A stylized strawberry with leaves. Example: The surname of Bernard is derived from the ancestor carrying, for his device, Argent, a bear rampant sable muzzled or; the name of Frazer from the bearing of fraises or strawberry leaves; and many other instances might be adduced ... Example: Az. a fraise arg. between three garbs or, all within a bordure engrailed of the second. George Cumming (1790)
Word: fraise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z], /ˈfɹɛjz/, [ˈfɹʷɛjz], /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ 1. Commotion. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal
Word: proposal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From propose + -al. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpoʊzəl/, /pɹəˈpəʊzəl/ 1. Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance. Example: proposals for the construction of a new building 2. Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance. Example: to make proposals for a treaty of peace Example: "That's about the size of it," I said. "Now, if it is a fair question, what was your side proposing to shed?" / I had him, there. He saw he had made a blunder, so he hastened to explain it away. He said he had spoken jestingly. Then he added that he and his principal would enjoy axes, and indeed prefer them, but such weapons were barred by the French code, and so I must change my proposal. 3. Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance. Example: December 22 2016, Simon Parkin in the Irish Times Basement idea to blockbuster: The story of Fifa, the video game Lewis, who had been sent to London to set up EA's European office, wrote a proposal for a lavish, high-tech football... 4. Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance. Example: October 25 2013, Guardian Express Kim Kardashian Says a Prenup Is the Only Way to Marry Kanye may have been love stricken when Kim accepted his proposal to marry him but Kim has always supported the idea of a prenup. Example: You could open his collected works almost anywhere and shut your eyes and dab down your finger on some red-hot passage. A proposal of marriage is a thing which it is rather difficult to bring neatly into the ordinary run of conversation. It wants leading up to. 5. Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
Word: get someone's goat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; it has been suggested that the term may be derived from French prendre la chèvre (literally “to take the goat”), or refer to the stealing of a goat mascot from a military unit, etc. Pronunciation: /ˌɡɛt ˈsʌmwʌnz ˈɡəʊt/, /ˌɡɛt ˈsʌmwʌnz ˈɡoʊt/ 1. To annoy or infuriate someone. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: It really gets my goat when inconsiderate people drop litter in public. Example: If he had legged it on his own account, because what he heard me say got his goat, I could understand that.
Word: crackwhore Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of crack whore. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: geotextile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English textile English geotextile From geo- + textile. 1. Any strong, permeable fabric used in earthworks for any of a number of purposes, including separation of soil layers, filtering, reinforcing, erosion protection and protection of drainage pipes from clogging. Example: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Example: The design also included geotextile lining of the trench in which the drainage pipe was buried.
Word: bookcrossing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bookcross Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bookcrossing Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of leaving a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do the same. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: juniper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English junyper, juniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper-tree”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːnɪpə/, /ˈd͡ʒunɪpɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒunɪ̈pɚ] 1. Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns. Example: Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper. 2. One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Gin. Labels: UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable Example: […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^([sic]), take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.
Word: jostle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxtā (“next to”), from iungō (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒs.əl/, /ˈd͡ʒɑ.səl/ 1. To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals. Example: It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space […] 2. To move through by pushing and shoving. Labels: intransitive Example: Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched. Example: Allow the person in front of you sufficient space to turn around from the bar with their drinks. Do not jostle past them. 3. To be close to or in physical contact with. Labels: transitive Example: […] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders. 4. To contend or vie in order to acquire something. Labels: intransitive Example: Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment. Example: 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130, […] Our statecraft, our learning Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour. 5. To pick or attempt to pick pockets. Labels: dated, slang
Word: jostle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxtā (“next to”), from iungō (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒs.əl/, /ˈd͡ʒɑ.səl/ 1. The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove. Example: 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241, I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […] 2. The action of a jostling crowd. Example: 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291, For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.
Word: jorum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from the Hebrew name of Joram, who “brought with him [to King David] vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass” (Bible (King James Version), 2 Samuel 8:10; compare Jeroboam); or from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔːɹəm/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊɹəm/, /ˈd͡ʒɔɹəm/ 1. A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages). Example: Then come, put the jorum about, / And let us be merry and clever, / Our hearts and our liquors are stout, / Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever. Example: Come each jolly fellow / That loves to be mellow, / Attend unto me, and sit easy: / One jorum in quiet, / My boys, we will try it, / Dull thinking will make a man crazy: […] / I am here as Justice of Quorum; / And in my cabin's fore end, / I've a bed for a friend, / With a clean fire-side and a jorum. 2. The contents, or quantity of the contents, of such a vessel. Example: To cure you at once of sciatical pains, / That hamper your body in dolorous pains, / And keep you confin'd in your sheets without motion, / Take me two jorams of wine for a potion, / Reserving two glasses by way of a lotion, / Which warm you'll apply to the part that's affected, / Then tip the remainder, as I have directed, / To cure you. Example: Let Politicians a' gae daft, / Their tricks, how I abhor 'em! / Di'el nick the silly, wily craft, / They're no worth half a jorum. / So push about. 3. A large quantity. Labels: figuratively Example: […] while Miss Skiffins brewed such a jorum of tea, that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited, and repeatedly expressed his desire to participate in the entertainment. Example: Let the rain fall as heavily as it pleased, and the sticks be saturated through and through, as we ourselves were often enough! we never failed to boil our jorams of tea!
Word: jitterbug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jitter + bug, after the 1934 Cab Calloway song “Jitter Bug”. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)bʌɡ/ 1. A nervous or jittery person. Labels: colloquial 2. A jazz musician or aficionado. 3. An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps. 4. Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
Word: jitterbug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jitter + bug, after the 1934 Cab Calloway song “Jitter Bug”. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)bʌɡ/ 1. To dance the jitterbug.
Word: jargonization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English jargonize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English jargonization From jargonize + -ation. 1. The incorporation of jargon into a text or language. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. That which has been translated into jargon. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: whim-wham Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from North Germanic (compare Old Norse hvima (“to let the eyes wander”), Norwegian kvima (“to flutter”)), but in any case ultimately sound-symbolic/a fanciful reduplication (compare flim-flam). 1. A whimsical object; a trinket. Labels: obsolete Example: They′ll pull ye all to pieces for your Whim-whams, Your Garters and your Gloves, 2. A whim or fancy. Example: 1807 April 18, “Anthony Evergreen” (Washington Irving), Salmagundi, or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others, No. VIII, 1834, The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume, page 35, And trust me, gentlefolk, his are the whim-whams of a courteous gentleman full of most excellent qualities ; honourable in his disposition, independent in his sentiments, and of unbounded good-nature, as may be seen through all his works. 3. A state of nervous anxiety. Labels: in-plural Example: But that wasn't what gave him the whim-whams so bad here. In the clearing, no more than ten feet away, stood a little stone cherub atop a fancy grave marker maybe three feet high.
Word: fracas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fracas, derived from fracasser, from Italian fracassare, from fra- + cassare, equivalent to Latin infra + quassare. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹækɑː/, /fɹəˈkɑː/, /ˈfɹeɪkəs/, /ˈfɹækəs/, /ˈfɹækaː/ 1. A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap. Example: Fanny read to herself that “it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world, a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband’s roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr. C. the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R. and it was not known, even to the editor of the newspaper, whither they were gone.” Example: The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.
Word: Monty Python Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnti ˈpaɪθən/, /ˈmɑnti ˈpaɪθɑn/ 1. A former British comedy troupe known for surreal and absurd comedy.
Word: Californian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English California Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Californian From California + -an. 1. Of or relating to California. Example: The Californian ant-cricket, Myrmecophila formicarum Scudder occurs in practically every nest.
Word: Californian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English California Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Californian From California + -an. 1. A native or resident of the state of California in the United States of America. Example: And almost five million Californians voted Republican. Example: In fact, it's often somewhat disparagingly called "Boz Angeles" for the many Californians and celebrities that have come to town, as well as its perceived "fanciness" in relation to the rest of the state.
Word: rising Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of rise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rising Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/ 1. Rebellion. 2. The act of something that rises. Example: the risings and fallings of a thermometer Example: Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles. 3. A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment. Labels: US, dated Example: salt rising Example: milk rising
Word: rising Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/ 1. Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc. Labels: not-comparable 2. Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be. Labels: not-comparable Example: A student in the rising Senior Freshman Class, who may not have passed the preceding Michaelmas Examination, will be allowed to join the School and attend Lectures during Michaelmas Term, for which he will receive credit, on condition that he passes the ensuing Hilary Examination with the Senior Freshman Class. Example: Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday. 3. Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rising Part of Speech: prep Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/ 1. More than; exceeding; upwards of. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.
Word: bump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin. Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb. Pronunciation: /bʌmp/, [bʌm̥p], [bɐm̥p], /bʊmp/ 1. To knock against or run into with a jolt. Example: Their car got bumped while they were turning at the junction. 2. To move up or down by a step; displace. Example: I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read. 3. To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. Labels: Internet Example: As in [the online forum] carersvoicesnz, certain contributors were more visible, taking the initiative to "bump" the thread to bring it back into view if it went quiet. 4. To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid. Labels: physical Example: Heat until the liquid bumps, then reduce the heat and continue the boiling for 1½ hours. 5. To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations. Labels: transitive Example: Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […] 6. To move the time of (a scheduled event). Labels: transitive Example: A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30. 7. To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins. Labels: transitive 8. To increase (a version number). Labels: transitive 9. To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: as a bittern bumps within a reed 10. To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages. Labels: dated 11. To assassinate; to bump off. Labels: slang, transitive Example: You know about the night the kid bumped Brody? 12. To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority. Labels: transitive Example: Employees with 2 years or more, and less than 8 years plant seniority, may bump a probationary employee. 13. To anger, irritate. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: After his ancestors had been browbeaten by the Puritans, and his ancestors had been driven out by the early pioneers [...], if he learned that a magnificent bronze statue is to be erected to his ancestors; wouldn't it bump an Indian? 14. In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence. 15. To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public. Labels: slang 16. To encounter and stop, to catch. Labels: US, slang 17. To move while bumping up and down, as a cart or car does on rough ground. Labels: intransitive Example: The car bumped over the dirt road.
Word: bump Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin. Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb. Pronunciation: /bʌmp/, [bʌm̥p], [bɐm̥p], /bʊmp/ 1. Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. Labels: Internet
Word: bump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Early Modern English; onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /bʌmp/, [bʌm̥p], [bɐm̥p], /bʊmp/ 1. The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Early Modern English; onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /bʌmp/, [bʌm̥p], [bɐm̥p], /bʊmp/ 1. Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
Word: jolt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɒlt/, /d͡ʒəʊlt/, /d͡ʒoʊlt/ 1. To push or shake abruptly and roughly. Labels: transitive Example: The bus jolted its passengers at every turn. 2. To knock sharply Labels: transitive 3. To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert Labels: transitive Example: I jolted her out of complacency. 4. To shock emotionally. Labels: transitive Example: Her untimely death jolted us all. 5. To shake; to move with a series of jerks. Labels: intransitive Example: The car jolted along the stony path.
Word: jolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɒlt/, /d͡ʒəʊlt/, /d͡ʒoʊlt/ 1. An act of jolting. Example: Timing your first coffee for mid-morning allows the caffeine to work its magic right as your body’s natural energy starts to wane. Instead of a jolt, you get a smooth, effective lift that carries you through the late morning and into the afternoon. 2. A surprise or shock. 3. A long prison sentence. Labels: slang Example: Just sit down and look around for a while. Notice your cell, John. Take a good look at it, because it is going to be your home for the next ten years. Sure! You have just gotten a ten-year "jolt," John; so settle down and be a good prisoner. Example: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work. 4. A narcotic injection. Labels: slang 5. The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
Word: collision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French collision, from Latin collīsiō (“clash, concussion, collision”) (whence -ion (noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition)), from collīsus (“clashed together, conflicted, contended”), past participle of collīdō (“to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together”) (whence collide), from con- (“together”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence col- (assimilated form of com-)). Pronunciation: /kəˈlɪʒn̩/ 1. An instance of colliding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He has retired due to the collision. Example: At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision. 2. Any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. In a collision, physical contact of two bodies is not necessary. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Clipping of naming collision. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable 4. Clipping of collision detection; tangibility. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Word: Feldenkrais Part of Speech: name Etymology: Introduced by Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984). 1. A somatic educational system designed to reduce pain or limitations in movement, to improve physical function, and to promote general well-being by increasing students' awareness of themselves and by expanding students' movement repertoire.
Word: haggard Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”)) Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ.əd/, /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/ 1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition Example: Pale and haggard faces. Example: A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state. 2. Wild or untamed Example: a haggard or refractory hawk
Word: haggard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”)) Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ.əd/, /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/ 1. A hunting bird captured as an adult. Example: No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock. Example: 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced 2. A young or untrained hawk or falcon. 3. A fierce, intractable creature. Labels: obsolete Example: I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. 4. A hag. Labels: obsolete Example: In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day
Word: haggard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡ.əd/, /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/ 1. A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc. Labels: Ireland, Scotland, dialectal Example: He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm
Word: zero-point energy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Nullpunktenergie. 1. The lowest possible energy of a given quantum mechanical system. Example: The existence of a zero-point energy (i.e., the existence of a non-zero lower limit to the energy of a quantum-mechanical system) is a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Example: 2000, Stephen T. Thornton, Andrew F. Rex, Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Saunders College Publishing, page 205, Our estimate for the zero-point energy of the harmonic oscillator is hbar ω/2. 2. The kinetic energy possessed by (the particle constituents of) a substance at absolute zero temperature. Labels: physical Example: The calculated zero-point energies of hydrogen at inner bulk, GB, and FS are within 0.12-0.16eV/H.
Word: zero-sum Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a system, where all gains are offset by exactly equal losses. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dalio is right, but somewhat self-serving. If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility? […] Can it really be in America’s interest to have so much of its young talent playing a zero-sum game? Example: When disorder reigns, humanity tends toward an extraction system. This kind of existence is one of low trust and zero-sum, where people are replaceable, the past is overlooked, and those who react quickly prevail.
Word: zero-sum Part of Speech: noun 1. Ellipsis of zero-sum game, zero-sum situation, etc. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: hypocritical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hypocritic + -al, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτικός (hupokritikós), from ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I play a part on stage”), from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + κρίνω (krínō, “I choose”). Pronunciation: /hɪpəˈkɹɪtɪkəl/ 1. Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite. Example: Near-synonyms: double-faced, two-faced, Janus-faced, duplicitous (these denote intentional deception) Example: The British Empire was in a somewhat-hypocritical position when it came to slavery. Due to the fact that most other nations were at war with the Empire and the Royal Navy controlled the seas, most slavers were flying British flags. However, slavery in England had been banned hundreds of years before, in 1102, with periodic court cases reaffirming this through the centuries.
Word: zero-sum game Part of Speech: noun 1. A game (or a similar political or economic system) in which the gains of some players must equal the losses of others. Example: Dalio is right, but somewhat self-serving. If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility? […] Can it really be in America’s interest to have so much of its young talent playing a zero-sum game? Example: A zero-sum game, as its name suggests, is one in which, whatever the outcome, the payoffs to the players add up to zero, which means that what one player gains, the other(s) must necessarily lose.
Word: hush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht. Pronunciation: /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/ 1. To become quiet. Labels: intransitive 2. To make quiet. Labels: transitive 3. To appease; to allay; to soothe. Labels: transitive Example: VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love? Example: And hush’d my deepest grief of all.
Word: hush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht. Pronunciation: /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/ 1. A silence, especially after some noise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is the hush of night. Example: And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.
Word: hush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/ 1. To rush, to gush. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […] Example: […] water, far down below, roaring and hushing over the rocks, […] 2. To send forth a rush of water over (some ground) so as to clear off the soil and other materials overlying, and thus uncover or separate out, ore. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: […] worn its Chanel so deep in some Part of its Course as to work upon some mineral Substance, which gives it the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines, and is so strong as to tinge the River Derwent […] Example: The earliest method of searching for lead ore was by collecting the water in dams and hushing the surface of the ground where metalliferous veins existed.
Word: hush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/ 1. Water which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore. Example: […] the hush from the lead mines on the moors near that place enters the Arkle, and the stream below suffers materially, the fishing being of little good; Example: The great cause of the scarcity of fish in this river is without doubt the "hush" coming down from the lead mines in the upper waters. […] 2. A part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water. Example: […] lead ore occurs abundantly in the upper crust of the earth, and this phrase would have been quite applicable to the early finds of shoad-stones of lead ore in Weardale, to the importance of which the scars of the "hushes" that still furrow the fell-sides bear conclusive evidence. Example: After the first hush miners loosened the rock in the floor of the hush with picks and crow bars [...] a torrent of water was sent down which swept and tore the loosened stuff over the grate, trapping much of the ore that was being moved. In this method a hush could be used for over a century and could grow […]
Word: zero tolerance Part of Speech: noun 1. The strict policy of enforcing law(s) or the rule(s), and allowing no toleration or compromise even for first-time offenders or petty violations. Labels: uncountable Example: I get weary of this zero tolerance bullshit. It's annoying. To begin with, it's a fascist concept; it's what Hitler and Stalin practiced. It allows for no exceptions or compassion of any kind. All is black and white—no gradations. But even more important, it doesn't solve anything. The use of such a slogan simply allows whichever company, school or municipality is using it to claim they're doing something about a problem when, in fact, nothing is being done at all and the problem is being ignored. It's a cosmetic non-solution designed to impress simpletons. Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.
Word: humiliate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin humiliātus, perfect passive participle of humiliō (“to abase, humble”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin humilis (“lowly, humble”), from humus (“ground; earth, soil”); see humble. Pronunciation: /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ 1. To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of. Labels: transitive Example: The bully tried to humiliate the other students during lunch. Example: He would never intentionally humiliate anyone, even in jest. 2. To make humble; to lower in condition or status. Labels: transitive 3. To defeat overwhelmingly. Labels: transitive
Word: vinyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnum Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English vinyl From Latin vīnum (“wine”) + -yl. Derived from Latin vīnum because ethyl alcohol is the ordinary alcohol present in wine. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.nɪl/, /ˈvaɪ.nəl/, [ˈvaɪ.nɫ̩], /ˈvɑe.nɪl/, /ˈvɑe.nəl/ 1. The univalent radical CH₂=CH−, derived from ethylene. Labels: uncountable 2. Any of various compounds and substances containing the vinyl radical, especially various tough, flexible, shiny plastics. Labels: countable 3. Phonograph records as a medium. Labels: collective, uncountable Example: Many DJs prefer vinyl to CDs. 4. A phonograph record. Labels: countable Example: This is a tangible example of the net's natural flow toward improved environmental outcomes. Although some people lament the loss of flipping through CDs, or eight-tracks, or vinyls, there is a clear upside to dematerialization.
Word: vinyl Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnum Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English vinyl From Latin vīnum (“wine”) + -yl. Derived from Latin vīnum because ethyl alcohol is the ordinary alcohol present in wine. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.nɪl/, /ˈvaɪ.nəl/, [ˈvaɪ.nɫ̩], /ˈvɑe.nɪl/, /ˈvɑe.nəl/ 1. Containing the vinyl radical. Labels: not-comparable 2. Made of polyvinyl chloride. Labels: not-comparable 3. Pertaining to a phonograph record. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dance, boogie wonderland / Sound fly through the night / I chase my vinyl dreams to boogie wonderland Example: After being gifted a turntable and investing in relatively inexpensive speakers, he talks about becoming reacquainted with the Impulse vinyl version of John Coltrane's celebrated jazz album, A Love Supreme.
Word: vinyl chloride Part of Speech: noun 1. A colourless gas, CH₂=CHCl, used in the manufacture of the plastic polyvinyl chloride Labels: uncountable
Word: timid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin timeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin timidusder. Middle French timideder. English timid From Middle French timide, from Latin timidus (“full of fear, fearful, timid”), from timeō (“to fear”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪmɪd/ 1. Lacking in courage or confidence. Example: John's a very timid person. I doubt he'll be brave enough to face his brother. Example: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
Word: polyvinyl chloride Part of Speech: noun 1. A thermoplastic resin produced by the polymerization of vinyl chloride; used as an electrical insulator and in many other applications. Can be compounded into flexible and rigid forms through the use of plasticizers, stabilizers, fillers and other modifiers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Renew is also free of polyvinyl chloride, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and halons.
Word: vinyl record Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of gramophone record that was stamped from a lump of polyvinyl chloride. 2. A gramophone record made from any material. Labels: broadly