nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Fido Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish or Italian fido from Latin fīdus (“faithful”). Popularly claimed to be directly from Latin fīdō (“to trust, rely on”) instead of the Romance intermediary, but this might be folk etymology. The stereotypical dog's name is evidently very old; a newspaper from 1760 cites, "[a] small white Greyhound with a Collar, answers to the Name of Fido." Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.dəʊ/, /ˈfaɪ.doʊ/ 1. A stereotypical given name for a dog. Example: He [Jimmy Goodson] also passed along some water-saving tips to customers from residents Ingrid and Doug Scott. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down. Urine is a sterile liquid and the toilet is not there for the purpose of Fido getting a drink or Junior floating his rubber ducky,” the couple said. Example: This may provide a simple explanation for the seemingly universal desire of all dogs to drink from the toilet. Since toilet water has likely been refreshed more recently than the water in Fido's bowl, it tastes better. 2. Clipping of FidoNet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: azide Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪzaɪd/ 1. the univalent N₃ radical or functional group or any ester containing this group 2. the N₃⁻ anion or any salt containing this anion (^-N=\overset{+}N=N^-)
Word: sodium azide Part of Speech: noun 1. a white, crystalline salt, NaN₃; it is explosive, and is used in automobile airbags
Word: SMM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of single-molecule magnet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of surface molecular metal, e.g. on silicon wafers, that can affect electrical properties or reliability Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of social media manager. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: single-molecule magnet Part of Speech: noun 1. A complex compound, typically containing clusters of transition elements, each molecule of which acts as a small magnet.
Word: gyrotron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gyro- + -tron. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌtɹɒn/, /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌtɹɑn/ 1. A type of microwave generator employing cyclotron resonance coupling between microwave fields and a beam of electrons.
Word: hadronic atom Part of Speech: noun 1. a hydrogen-like system consisting of an ordinary nucleus with a hadron in orbit.
Word: hadronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English hadron Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English hadronic From hadron + -ic. 1. of, related to, or composed of hadrons Labels: not-comparable
Word: influencable Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of influenceable. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: 2001, Martha B Bronson, Self-Regulation in Early Childhood http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1572307528&id=TUVxOeJRwC4C&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&sig=ouNkHJBQGZQcWp0VnLzzSnEg4xk http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1572307528&id=TUVxOeJRwC4C&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&sig=FAp2GbD_abtUxU60JApN2RRcXLU A reasonable amount of order, regularity, and responsiveness in the environment allows the child to develop a sense that the world is predictable and influencable. … They are “heavily interconnected by feedback loops, or reentrant mechanisms, that make possible high-order regulations between levels” and are “cognitively penetrable” or influencable at some stage of development. Example: 2003, Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology, Olaf Bastian and Uta Steinhardt edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1402009194&id=S6EBh57d2goC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&sig=-t3SvMpApuQ1mNXlM2aVRLSBNMg The ecologically relevant soil characteristics and properties can be divided into stable (barely influencable) and unstable (easily influencable) ones.
Word: Hall effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Edwin Herbert Hall, American physicist. 1. the effect in which a conductor that carries an electric current perpendicular to an applied magnetic field develops a voltage gradient transverse to both current and field
Word: savinase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Trademark. See -ase. 1. A protease enzyme developed for the detergent industry.
Word: amniotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Likely borrowed from French amniotique, from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon, “vessel for collecting the blood from sacrifices”). Equivalent to amnion + -otic. Pronunciation: /æmniˈɒtɪk/, /æmniˈɑtɪk/ 1. Pertaining to the amnion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pleonastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pleonasm + -astic. Pronunciation: /ˌpliː.əˈnæs.tɪk/ 1. Of, or relating to pleonasm. Labels: not-comparable 2. Redundant. Example: A second class of Subject Expressions in English are so-called pleonastic pronouns such as it and there in sentences like: (104) (a) It is raining/It is a long way to Dallas/Itʼs time to leave/It is obvious that youʼre right (104) (b) There must have been some mistake/There walked into the room the most beautiful woman I had ever encountered These Pronouns are called ‘pleonasticʼ (which means ‘redundantʼ) in traditional grammar because (in their ‘pleonasticʼ use, but not in other uses) they are felt to be (in some vague intuitive sense) ‘semantically emptyʼ, and thus cannot have their reference questioned (cf. ^✽What is raining? ^✽Where must have been some mistake?). Example: 1988 [Hutchinson Educational], Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio C. Lepschy, The Italian Language Today, 2nd Edition, Reprinted 1992, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 107, In these sentences finchè may be followed by a non which is called ‘pleonastic’ and does not negate the predicate in the subordinate clause: Ugo aspetta finchè non lo chiamano 'Ugo is waiting until they call him'. When the main clause is negative one must always use the pleonastic non after finchè in the subordinate clause: Ugo non si muove finchè non lo chiamano 'Ugo is not moving until they call him'. 3. Characterised by the use of redundant words or an excessive number of words. Example: Before undertaking to show the connection which this papyrus seems to establish between an apparently historical king of the IId dynasty and the hero of a romance of the XIXth (an interval of two or three thousand years), I will give an English version of Dr. Brugsch's German translation, condensing somewhat its more pleonastic passages, but preserving its genuine Egyptian features. Example: 1974, Olgierd Wojtasiewicz (translator), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Pragmatic Logic, [1965, Logika Pragmatyczna], D. Reidel Publishing Company, PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, page 44, A characteristic intension of a term unambiguously describes the extension of that term. But a characteristic intension of a term may be pleonastic, i.e., it may contain more properties than it is necessary to define the extension of that term. For instance, the intension of the term "square" consisting of the properties "planeness, quadrilaterality, rectangularity, equilaterality, being inscribable in a circle" would be pleonastic since it would include more properties than it is necessary to describe the extension of the term "square". […] The complete intension always is characteristic and pleonastic. It is the most pleonastic of all those intensions which are characteristic of a given set of objects.
Word: bubkes Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bupkis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: weeds Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inflected form of weed. Pronunciation: /wiːdz/ 1. plural of weed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: weeds Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inflected form of weed. Pronunciation: /wiːdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of weed Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: weeds Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”). Pronunciation: /wiːdz/ 1. Clothes. Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only Example: Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds; Example: Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.
Word: harmonic analyzer Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument used to measure the amplitudes, frequencies and phases of the components of a nonsinusoidal waveform; especially one used for analyzing audio frequencies.
Word: frequencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frequency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: helimagnetism Part of Speech: noun 1. a property of some metals and of some salts of transition elements at low temperature in which the atomic magnetic moments are arranged in a helix Labels: uncountable
Word: Helmholtz coil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Hermann von Helmholtz, German physicist. 1. A device for producing a region of nearly uniform magnetic field.
Word: hematopoiesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hemato- + -poiesis. Pronunciation: /ˌhiː.mə.toʊ.pɔɪˈiː.sɪs/ 1. The process by which blood cells are produced; it involves the formation of new cellular components of the blood in myeloid or lymphatic tissues. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: hemicellulose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-)lbor. English hemi- Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-der. Latin cella Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ula Latin cellulabor. French cellule French -ose French cellulosebor. English cellulose English hemicellulose From hemi- (“half”) + cellulose. 1. A mixture of several plant polysaccharides, of smaller molecular weight than cellulose, that are soluble in dilute alkali; they are involved in the manufacture of paper, and are used in the production of furfural and ethanol. Example: The changes in texture that occur during ripening and cooking result from changes in the cell-wall materials, in particular the cement carbohydrates. One group is the hemicelluloses, which form strengthening cross-links between celluloses. They are built up from glucose and xylose sugars, and can be partly dissolved and removed from cell walls during cooking.
Word: oligosaccharide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ὀλῐ́γος (olĭ́gos)der. English oligo- Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Pali sakkharābor. Ancient Greek σάκχᾰρον (sákkhăron)bor. Latin saccharon Latin saccharum English saccharo- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English saccharide English oligosaccharide From oligo- + saccharide. Pronunciation: /ɒl.ɪ.ɡəʊˈsæk.əˌɹaɪd/ 1. A polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.
Word: henequen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish henequén, probably of Taíno origin. 1. A tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fibre from this plant (sometimes mistakenly called sisal, which is from Agave sisalana). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: war torn Part of Speech: adj 1. Subjected to the ravages of war. Example: The war torn country was practically back to the stone age for infrastructure.
Word: ravages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ravage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ravages Part of Speech: noun 1. Harsh damage. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.
Word: ravages Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ravage Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Herbig-Haro object Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From George Herbig and Guillermo Haro, astronomers. 1. a small, bright knot of nebular emission in a dark, interstellar cloud of gas and dust; thought to be mass ejected from a young star.
Word: herbivory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English herbivore Latin -ia Old French -ieder. Middle English -ie Middle English -y English -y English herbivory From herbivore + -y. Pronunciation: /həˈbɪvəɹi/, /hɚˈbɪvəɹi/ 1. The consumption of living plant tissue by animals. Labels: uncountable Example: Herbivory is a paradoxical interspecific interaction. On the one hand, upward of a quarter of all species are herbivorous insects (Strong et al., 1984) and some additional fraction of the noninsect species is also herbivorous, so plant-herbivore interactions are common. On the other hand, the simple observation is that, to a first approximation, the earth is green (Hairston et al., 1960), despite the combined effect of those herbivores.
Word: quantum dot Part of Speech: noun 1. A fluorescent nanoparticle of semiconducting material. Example: A quantum dot is a semiconductor crystal a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) across – about 50 atoms wide, in other words. Example: There was talk that Apple would release an iMac with a quantum dot screen last year. But then the company switched course, declaring that the existing process for making these little crystals was too toxic to the environment.
Word: nanoparticle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- English particle English nanoparticle From nano- + particle. 1. Any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter. Example: Nanoparticles of various sorts are already found in products like sunscreen, paint and inkjet paper. More exotic varieties offer promise in medicine for sensitive diagnostic tests and novel treatments: the detection of Alzheimer's disease by finding a protein in spinal fluid, for instance, or nanoparticles that heat up and kill cancer cells. Example: The high surface area of a nanoparticle relative to its weight and volume makes it behave differently from larger masses of the same material.
Word: nanotechnology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + technology. Popularized in 1986 by Eric Drexler. Pronunciation: /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/ 1. The science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range of nanometres (1–100 nm). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The first such review would also include a study of whether it is feasible to create nanoscale devices that can assemble themselves or copies of themselves molecule by molecule -- a subject of fierce debate among nanotechnology experts. Example: Nanotechnology, the science of creating functional systems on the scale of molecules or smaller, could enable engineers to combine the functions of memory chips and disk drives on a device the size of a dime.
Word: chordee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French (chaude-pisse) cordée (“corded (urethral discharge)”), ultimately from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “entrails, intestines”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːdiː/ 1. An abnormal downward curve to the erect penis. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Enderby, blinking and squinting, noting that he had slept with his teeth in, wondering where he had put his contact lenses, was emboldened by morning chordee to say, ‘Oughtn’t you to come back to bed for a while?’
Word: toot sweet Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Homophonic translation of French tout de suite. 1. Alternative form of tout de suite (“very quickly; straight away”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, slang Example: The train's about to leave; you'd better get down here toot sweet! Example: ‘Them bloody chaps 'ave a cushy job,’ said little Martlow with resentful envy. ‘Just fly over the line, take a peek at ol' Fritz, and as soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, fuck off 'ome jildy, toot sweet.’
Word: chrism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crisme, from Late Old English crisma, from Medieval Latin crisma, from Ecclesiastical Latin chrisma, from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “anointing”, “unction”), from χρίω (khríō, “anoint”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪz(ə)m/ 1. A mixture of oil and balm, consecrated for use as an anointing fluid in certain Christian ceremonies, especially confirmation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A reinforcement of fresh troops staggered in, one man soaked and dripping, his hair sticky with the chrism of poured beer, another with his pockets crammed with sauce-bottles. Example: I observe no confirmation of this reversal and Pole specifically restored chrisms in 1555 (Cardwell, op. cit. i. 147).
Word: chumble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌmb(ə)l/ 1. To peck at or nibble. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The baby, whimpering when Janey thrust the crust into his mouth, now whimpered no longer but chumbled at the dry bread, slobbered over it, wiped it down Janey's front, dropped it in the grass and at once forgot about it, sitting on her lap […] Example: "Can you play the violin?" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.
Word: opa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Opa. 1. Grandfather, grandpa. Example: We love to eat: Opa's apple cake […] My opa (grandfather) had a long and beautifully kept allotment in the north German town of Flensburg. Example: I intuited that somehow I’d always been, yet, clearly, there was time — a considerable time — when I was not. So, where was I? I didn’t have an opa to ask.
Word: chyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”). Pronunciation: /kaɪl/ 1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524, It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison - and as the tidings were told him, after the first start he kept on eating, but slowly and deliberately, chewing the wild news with the wild meat, as if both together, turned to chyle, together should sinew him to his intent. Example: And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.
Word: chyle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kaɪl/ 1. Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child") Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cicatrise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cicātrīx (“scar”), equivalent to cicatrix + -ise. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk.ə.tɹaɪz/ 1. To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form). Labels: transitive Example: But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint. 2. To form a scar. Labels: intransitive
Word: circumvallate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin circumvallare, from circum- + vallum (“rampart”). Pronunciation: /sɜːkəmˈvæleɪt/ 1. To surround with, or as if with, a rampart. Labels: transitive Example: The settlement is circumvallated by a stake-fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places.
Word: circumvallate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin circumvallare, from circum- + vallum (“rampart”). Pronunciation: /sɜːkəmˈvæleɪt/ 1. Surrounded with a wall; enclosed with a rampart. Labels: not-comparable 2. Surrounded by a ridge or elevation. Labels: not-comparable Example: circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue
Word: clabber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of bonny clabber, from Irish bainne clábar (“mud, thick milk for churning”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof; the latter is probably related to láib (“dirt, mud, filth”). Pronunciation: /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/ 1. Sour or curdled milk. Labels: uncountable Example: Even butter had proved beyond her means, for the milk she had tried to churn had never firmed up beyond the consistency of runny clabber. 2. Wet clay or mud. Labels: uncountable
Word: clabber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortening of bonny clabber, from Irish bainne clábar (“mud, thick milk for churning”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof; the latter is probably related to láib (“dirt, mud, filth”). Pronunciation: /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/ 1. To sour or curdle. Example: They always had more milk than they needed and often entire buckets would clabber and one of her brothers would carry it out to the bunkhouse for the vaqueros.
Word: clauber Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈklæbə(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative form of clabber. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Word: clart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *clart, found in the verb biclarten (“to cover or smear with dirt”). Cognate with Scots clart, clairt (“to besmear”), Scots clarty (“dirty”). Further origin uncertain. Pronunciation: /klɑːt/ 1. A daub. Example: a clart of grease 2. Sticky mud, mire or filth. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: I’m but a county Surveyor,– not really at m’ best upon the grand and global type of expedition, content here at home, old Geordie a-slog thro’ the clarts […]. 3. A person who is unclean. Labels: Geordie, derogatory 4. A fool. Labels: Geordie, derogatory 5. Unwanted stuff; junk; clutter; rubbish; stuff that is in the way. Example: I need to get rid of all this clart. (Clearing unwanted items from a table top)
Word: clart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *clart, found in the verb biclarten (“to cover or smear with dirt”). Cognate with Scots clart, clairt (“to besmear”), Scots clarty (“dirty”). Further origin uncertain. Pronunciation: /klɑːt/ 1. To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, transitive Example: Chris boiled water in kettles for hours and hours and then towels came down, towels clairted with stuff she didn't dare look at, she washed them quick and hung them to dry.
Word: clinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē) English -al English clinal From Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + English -al. Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪnəl/ 1. Pertaining to beds or rest. Labels: not-comparable Example: ‘Strange,’ Enderby said. ‘Here we both are, in a clinal situation so to speak, a bed context I mean, the Greek word means to lean or repose I suppose, hence bed, hence clinic by the way, and this has nothing to do with my feverish imaginings.’ 2. Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150° Labels: not-comparable, physical
Word: clinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cline + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪnəl/ 1. Pertaining to a cline. Labels: not-comparable Example: Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.
Word: clonus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin clonus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κλόνος (klónos), meaning a "violent, confused motion." Pronunciation: /ˈkloʊnəs/ 1. A muscular spasm with regular contractions.
Word: coenobite Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsiːnəbaɪt/ 1. Alternative spelling of cenobite. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The killing resounded around the world but above all in St Petersburg and Paris: the aggressive confidence of the coenobite brawlers reflected not just the religions but the empires behind them.
Word: coign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of quoin. Pronunciation: /kɔɪn/ 1. A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone. Example: By many a dern and painful perch Of Pericles the careful search By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence Example: Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. 2. The keystone of an arch. 3. A wedge used in typesetting. 4. A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography) Example: In both the orthogonal and clinographic projections the light rays joining the eye and crystal coigns (solid angles, corners at which three or more edges meet) are all parallel Example: Axes taken from corner to corner ( coign to coign is the correct terminology ) in a cube are such … 5. An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology) Example: South of the North American coign we have again a pair of east - west mountain chains
Word: coign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of quoin. Pronunciation: /kɔɪn/ 1. To furnish with coigns. Labels: transitive Example: The angles were always coigned, and the arches turned with squared stone, brought from Caen in Normandy […]
Word: genned in Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See gen (“information”). 1. Fully acquainted with the details of something; up to speed; plugged in. Labels: not-comparable, slang
Word: genned in Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From generate. 1. Having had certain characteristics generated or installed. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: […] a special set of console vectors is patched over the genned-in set to handle the PMMI modem instead of the normal horizon drivers.
Word: body part Part of Speech: noun 1. Any part of an animal organism, such as an organ, limb or extremity. Example: Eighteen of the Alzheimer elderly were able to identify at least ten body-parts. Example: 1997, Gerald Thorn, Phil Embleton, Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding HEAVY DUTY The low-set, high-intensity system (1 to 3 sets per bodypart) was popularized by Dr. Arthur Jones, inventor of the Nautilus equipment. 2. Any part of the body of a vehicle.
Word: consists Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪsts/ 1. plural of consist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: consists Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪsts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of consist Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of volcano + fog, by analogy with smog. Pronunciation: /vɒɡ/, /vɑɡ/, /vɔɡ/ 1. Air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] where fluidal textures can be clearly noticed as well as abundant vogs formed by escaped gases […] Example: You are permitted to inspect the current eruption [from Kiluea, Hawaii] from a safe distance. […] On humid days water vapour combines with the sulphurous emanations to produce an acrid mist known as vog.
Word: berzerk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of berserk. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Rinzai Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 臨済. 1. A school of Zen buddhism in Japan, based on sudden enlightenment though koans and for that reason also known as the "sudden school".
Word: Soto Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 曹洞. 1. A school of Zen Buddhism in Japan, based on gradual attainment of enlightenment through meditation.
Word: Soto Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Sotho. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: zendo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 禅堂 (zendō). Pronunciation: /ˈzɛndəʊ/ 1. A hall at a Zen buddhist monastery where formal seated meditation (zazen) is practiced. Example: In the zendo, she settled herself in her teacher’s old seat and looked out over the room at the rows of meditators who were settling on their cushions, turning to face the smooth, white walls.
Word: byssinosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin byssinum (“linen cloth”) via Latin byssus + New Latin -osis. Pronunciation: /ˌbɪsɪˈnəʊsɪs/ 1. A lung disease, caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: play the ponies Part of Speech: verb 1. to bet on horse racing. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive
Word: nephrologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nephrology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English nephrologist From nephrology + -ist. 1. A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
Word: Bisaya Part of Speech: name 1. An indigenous people of Borneo.
Word: extroversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From extro- + -version. As a variant of extraversion, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's use of the (then nonstandard) spelling extrovert in her publication "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte" (1918). 1. The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: in mystical Divinity... a scattering or distracting ones thoughts upon exterior objects. Example: The turning of the eye of the mind from [Christ] to outward things [mystics] call Extroversion. 2. The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In extroversion of the bladder the anterior part of this organ is more or less completely wanting. 3. The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: Extroversion is the thrusting out of the mind on to life, the use of the mind in practical affairs, the pouring out of the libido on external objects. Example: In a genre characterized by brassy extroversion, The Dead is a quiet revolutionary: a musical that dares to be diffident.
Word: extroverted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant spelling of extraverted. Popularized as a psychological term by Phyllis Blanchard's use of extrovert in her 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte", from extrovert + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstɹəvəːtɪd/, /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːtɪd/, /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, /ɛkstɹoʊˈvəɹtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of extrovert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: extroverted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A variant spelling of extraverted. Popularized as a psychological term by Phyllis Blanchard's use of extrovert in her 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte", from extrovert + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstɹəvəːtɪd/, /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːtɪd/, /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, /ɛkstɹoʊˈvəɹtɪd/ 1. Turned or thrust outwards, especially Example: The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted. 2. Turned or thrust outwards, especially: Labels: informal Example: She's very extroverted. She's always out meeting new people and looking for new experiences. Example: This subtle but important distinction means otroverts can blend into both introverted and extroverted environments without fully belonging to either. 3. Turned or thrust outwards, especially: Example: ...an extroverted bladder...
Word: introverted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From introvert + -ed, q.v. 1. simple past and past participle of introvert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: introverted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From introvert + -ed, q.v. 1. Turned or thrust inward Example: ...Self-searching with an introverted eye... 2. Turned or thrust inward Example: An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception. Example: The introverted type is characterised by the fact that his libido is turned towards his own personality to a certain extent. 3. Turned or thrust inward Example: In the Quatrain Reversed or Introverted, the first line corresponds with the fourth.
Word: cuckquean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”). The verb sense is derived from the noun sense. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌk.kwiːn/ 1. A woman who has an unfaithful husband. Example: Ye make hir a cookqueane. Example: Yes, that's her name! His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be! 2. A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
Word: cuckquean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”). The verb sense is derived from the noun sense. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌk.kwiːn/ 1. To make a woman into a cuckquean. Labels: transitive
Word: citadel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin cīvitās. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtədəl/, /ˈsɪtədɛl/ 1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city. Example: In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it. 2. A stronghold or fortified place. Labels: figuratively, sometimes Example: Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…] 3. An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment. Example: Twenty-two of these — eleven per broadside — were on the main deck within a central citadel, essentially an armor-protected box in the middle of the ship. Also within the citadel were four 110-pdr. breech-loaders. 4. A Salvation Army meeting place.
Word: dingaling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɪ.ŋə.lɪŋ/ 1. Alternative form of ding-a-ling. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hobble skirt Part of Speech: noun 1. A skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride, or hobble the wearer.
Word: hootenanny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; potentially Scottish. Use is tied to the Appalachian culture in the US. Pronunciation: /ˈhutənæni/ 1. An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments. Example: The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny. Example: It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday. 2. A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing. Labels: obsolete
Word: singers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋɚz/, /ˈsɪŋəz/ 1. plural of singer (“person who sings”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: singers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnd͡ʒɚz/, /ˈsɪnd͡ʒəz/ 1. plural of singer (“someone or something that singes”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: payong Part of Speech: noun 1. A parasol used as a Javanese emblem of rank. Labels: historical
Word: lä Part of Speech: noun 1. Sixth tone of the diatonic scale.
Word: shit out of luck Part of Speech: adj 1. Completely out of luck; in unfortunate circumstances such that all options for achieving one's goal are exhausted; unlucky; screwed. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable, slang, vulgar Example: There are no tickets left. I guess we're shit out of luck. Example: While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are still being funded by last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, and FEMA and the Coast Guard have funds to pay employees for several months, the Transportation Security Administration is shit out of luck.
Word: cheeky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cheek + -y. Compare typologically barefaced, bald-faced; Italian sfacciato (< Latin ex- + faciēs); French effronté, Italian sfrontato (< Latin ex- + frons), Polish czelny (< czoło). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːki/ 1. Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing. Labels: informal Example: 'Shut up,' said Harrison. 'You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you.' / 'You're a lot too cheeky,' said Craye. Example: The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style. 2. Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks. Labels: informal, usually Example: Barry said he introduced the cheeky bikini to the Coast three years ago: "I took a theatrical garment worn for as long as there have been strippers and showgirls — the G-string — and put it on the beach and gave it a name and we sold a heap." Example: Joyce Azria oversees a staff of twelve, manages a multimillion-dollar budget, and, in her first year as director of BCBG swimwear, designed cheeky bikinis and deep-V maillots that became top sellers at Bloomingdale's. 3. Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent. Example: A death adder is cheeky, a tree snake quiet. Wasps are only cheeky if you hold them in your hand. Example: There is no doubt that many have been killed by large elapids, and that Aborigines treat such 'cheeky' snakes (and colubrids of similar appearance) with great respect. 4. Indulged in as a treat, especially an unhealthy one. Labels: Commonwealth, UK, informal Example: Although sometimes I'd award myself a cheeky McDonald's hangover treat if I did well. Example: It was a massive struggle to resist the lure of a cheeky beer, but I held firm.
Word: full of shit Part of Speech: adj 1. Characterized by speaking nonsense or falsehoods, or being inconsistent. Labels: derogatory, vulgar Example: You don't know what you're talking about. You're full of shit! Example: He’s so full of shit: he says one thing, and then he contradicts himself.
Word: Gloucester Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Glowchestre, from Old English Glēawċeaster, Glēaweċeaster, Glēawanċeaster, from Latin Glēvum + Old English ċeaster. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Glowecestre. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒs.tə/, /ˈɡlɔs.tɚ/, /ˈɡlɑ.stɚ/, /ˈɡlɔs.tə/ 1. A cathedral city and local government district of Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales. 2. A district and former municipality in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 3. A city in Essex County, Massachusetts. 4. A township in Camden County, New Jersey. 5. A census-designated place in North Carolina. 6. A town in New South Wales, Australia. 7. A royal dukedom.
Word: Gloucester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Glowchestre, from Old English Glēawċeaster, Glēaweċeaster, Glēawanċeaster, from Latin Glēvum + Old English ċeaster. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Glowecestre. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒs.tə/, /ˈɡlɔs.tɚ/, /ˈɡlɑ.stɚ/, /ˈɡlɔs.tə/ 1. A traditional semi-hard cheese from Gloucestershire. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Short for Gloucester Old Spots Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable
Word: coll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English collen, from Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”). Pronunciation: /kɑl/, /kɒl/, /qʰʊu̯/ 1. To hug or embrace. Labels: ambitransitive Example: So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly Example: "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ...
Word: saliency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From salient + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.li.ən.si/, /ˈseɪ.ljən.si/, /ˈsæɪ.li.ən.si/, /ˈsæɪ.ljən.si/ 1. the quality of being salient; salience Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The saliency of the model of production with convexity and constant returns to scale technologies recommends that we examine it in some further detail.
Word: coloratura Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian coloratura, from Late Latin colōrātūra, from colōrāre (“to colour”). Pronunciation: /kɒləɹəˈtjʊɹə/ 1. Florid or fancy passages in vocal music. Labels: uncountable Example: The singing is generally excellent, with Simon Keenlyside standing out for his richly vocalized (and amusingly dour) Papageno and Diana Damrau for her spot-on coloratura and genuine venom as the Queen of the Night. 2. A singer of such passages, especially a soprano. Labels: countable Example: The middle one, of course, was the coloratura Julia Kristeva, known as the most voluptuous Salome in the business.
Word: coloratura Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian coloratura, from Late Latin colōrātūra, from colōrāre (“to colour”). Pronunciation: /kɒləɹəˈtjʊɹə/ 1. Pertaining to coloratura. Example: She has a lighter and more coloratura voice. Example: I drew a deep breath, this time fortunately unmixed with gin and tonic. I was profoundly stirred. “You mean,” I said, my voice quavering like that of a coloratura soprano, “that I went through that soul-shattering experience all for nothing?”
Word: fanlight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fan + light (“window; source of illumination”). Pronunciation: /ˈfænˌlaɪt/ 1. A semicircular or semioval window over a door or other window, normally having a fan-like structure of ribs; sometimes hinged to the transom. Example: One house, however, second from the corner, was still occupied entire; and at the door of this, which wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now plunged in darkness except for the fan-light, Mr. Utterson stopped and knocked. A well-dressed, elderly servant opened the door. Example: Limpet was out, but with a deal of struggling he managed to screw himself through the fanlight, removing in that process the dust of many ages. 2. An electric fan, usually a ceiling fan, that is also a light fixture.
Word: worrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From worry + -er. 1. A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily. Example: You are such a worrier! I'm sure everything will turn out all right. 2. A person who causes worry in others. 3. An animal that seizes or shakes another by the throat. Example: The person owning a dog which had destroyed sheep could be made to pay for the damage; but the Court should also have an undoubted power to order incurable sheep-worriers to be destroyed.
Word: hurrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hurry + -er. 1. A person who hurries. 2. A child employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: escargots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of escargot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vrouw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch vrouw. Doublet of frau, frow, and vrou. 1. A Dutchwoman. Example: So the Vrouws, in a minuet, solemnly prance Like a bear, at a fair, that is tutor'd to dance. Example: Those whose rank excluded them from a participation in the town deliberations drew closer to their firesides; the vrouws, both old and young, edged their seats nigher to each other[…]
Word: zoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First adopted by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (see 1864 quotation): from New Latin zōon, from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”). Pronunciation: /ˈzəʊɒn/ 1. A distinct organism. 2. Any individual produced from a single egg. 3. The individuals collectively produced from a single egg, also called a compound animal. 4. Any of the individuals of a compound organism. Labels: uncommon 5. Zooid. Labels: rare
Word: werk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The LGBT slang usage is very recent and in essence an orthographical variant. It is independent from the far older and long-obsolete alternative form which derived directly from Middle English werk (noun) and werken (verb). 1. Alternative form of work. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete 2. Alternative form of work. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Werk it, bitch!
Word: werk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The LGBT slang usage is very recent and in essence an orthographical variant. It is independent from the far older and long-obsolete alternative form which derived directly from Middle English werk (noun) and werken (verb). 1. Alternative form of work. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Alternative form of work. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: wens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: florin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino and forint. Pronunciation: /ˈflɒɹɪn/, /ˈflɔɹɪn/, /ˈflɑɹɪn/ 1. Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies. 2. A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands). Example: [I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins. 3. The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ. 4. A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence. 5. A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.
Word: Georgie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutives + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒi/ 1. A diminutive of the male given name George. 2. A diminutive of the female given name Georgina.
Word: Georgie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Georgie (“Georgia”), from Middle French Georgie, from Medieval Latin Geōrgia. 1. Georgia (a medieval country in the South Caucasus, approximately coextensive with modern Georgia). Labels: obsolete Example: THe realme of Georgie toward thorient hath agret mountayn / which is named Abbers & is inhabited with many diuers nations of peple. And for that cause it is named the countrey Alayne. Example: And after he addreſſed an armie againſt the Soldan of Egipt & the Sarazins of the which his purpose Caſſan aduertiſed the kings of Armenia & Georgie, who with their armies came & ioyned with him at Baudras, and from thence marched to the towne of Hames.
Word: dak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani डाक / ڈاک (ḍāk). Pronunciation: /ɖɑːk/ 1. A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers. Labels: South-Asia Example: He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding dâks. 2. A dak bungalow. Labels: South-Asia Example: Gaining the dak, they were joined on the veranda by four tight-lipped men. 3. A journey using the dak system. Labels: South-Asia, obsolete Example: “What are you going to do?” said the woman, between her sobs. “Do! Nothing. What should I do? Kill Kurrell or send you Home, or apply for leave to get a divorce? It's two days' dâk into Narkarra.”
Word: dak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from daks. Pronunciation: /dæk/ 1. To suddenly pull down someone's pants as a prank; to pants. Labels: Australia, informal Example: 'That Phillip (names another child) “dakked” Trevor.' 'But I've already spoken with Brendan and with Phillip, and they say that it was you who “dakked” Trevor.' 'No. He did it to me first, ay?' 'First? You mean he “dakked” you before you “dakked” him?'
Word: doos Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈduːs/, [ˈdʊu̯s] 1. Uncommon spelling of dos; plural of do. Labels: alt-of, uncommon