nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: reckon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”). Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkən/ 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. Labels: Commonwealth Example: then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain Example: I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. 2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. Labels: Commonwealth Example: He was reckoned among the transgressors Example: For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises 3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. Labels: Commonwealth Example: […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Example: Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. 4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause Labels: Commonwealth, colloquial Example: I reckon he won't try that again. Example: I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most. 5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host Labels: Commonwealth Example: There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will. 6. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. Labels: Commonwealth, intransitive 7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. Labels: Commonwealth
Word: reckon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”). Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkən/ 1. An impression or opinion. Labels: Commonwealth, informal Example: Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?' Example: I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my reckons it was perfect.
Word: reckon Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkən/ 1. Alternative form of rackan (“chain”). Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, dialectal
Word: rinky-dink Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly a variant of rickety (“of an object: not strong or sturdy; of a person: feeble in the joints, tottering”), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. The noun is attested earlier than the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋ.kɪ.dɪŋk/, /ˈɹɪŋkiˌdɪŋk/ 1. Of poor quality; amateurish, shoddy, small-time. Labels: US, informal Example: That rinky-dink shelf is likely to collapse if you fill it with books. Example: It was a rinky-dink way to run a war. 2. Old-fashioned, tired; also, shabby, worn-out. Labels: US, informal 3. Crooked, dishonest, underhanded. Labels: US, informal Example: When NBC licensed his reruns to the Arts & Entertainment cable network without consulting him, he was incensed. "It was a rinky-dink deal," says a source. Example: I asked Father Butterballino, “Why do it at all, if you're going to do it in this rinky-dink, sneaky way?” (phrased more diplomatically, of course). 4. Alternative form of rinky-tink (“tinkling and tinny”). Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, informal Example: As I child, I learned to play on that old pump organ and so had my father. This piano was very special. It had an extra floor pedal which gave the piano a rinky-dink sound like no other. Example: The loud rinky-dink music and the wafting blue cigar smoke made the scene a dime novel cover.
Word: flimsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly from flim(-flam) (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a metathesis of film (“thin layer of a substance; slender thread”) + -sy (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). The noun and verb are derived from the noun. Noun sense 4 (“metal container”) refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪmzi/ 1. Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial. Example: He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment. Example: Yet do I carry every vvhere vvith me ſuch a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, vviſhes, and all the flimſy furniture of a country Miſs's brain! 2. Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial. Example: Compelled, by its deformity, to screen / With flimsy veil of justice and of right, / Its unattractive lineaments, that scare / All, save the brood of ignorance: […] Example: She was wearing the flimsiest blouse and faded jeans. 3. Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial. Labels: figuratively Example: a flimsy excuse Example: the flimsiest of theories 4. Of a person: lacking depth of character or understanding; frivolous, superficial. Labels: figuratively Example: "Yes, fell woman," answered Middlemas; "but was it I who encouraged the young tyrant's outrageous passion for a portrait, or who formed the abominable plan of placing the original within his power?" / "No—for to do so required brain and wit. But it was thine, flimsy villain, to execute the device which a bolder genius planned; it was thine to entice the woman to this foreign shore, under pretence of a love, which, on thy part, cold-blooded miscreant, never had existed." Example: Poor, flimsy, wise, foolish, aristocratical, old-bachelor Horace Walpole, is shocked at his nephew [George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford?] marrying an actress who brought him good children, […] 5. Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail. Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: […] I have a very flimsy constitution, consequently the young women won't taste my wit, and it is a long while before wit makes its own way in the world; especially, as I never prove it, by assuring people that I have it by me.
Word: flimsy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly from flim(-flam) (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a metathesis of film (“thin layer of a substance; slender thread”) + -sy (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). The noun and verb are derived from the noun. Noun sense 4 (“metal container”) refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪmzi/ 1. To make (something) likely to be easily damaged. Labels: dated, historical, transitive Example: Its method may be roughly said to be the invention, at all events for the main characters in their novels, of a psychology so tortuous and devious that its fantastic contours cannot be fitted into any single act or situation of or in life without an elaborate apparatus of dissertation. The artistic disadvantages of the method are many. One, and perhaps the chief, is a weakening—a "flimsying" of the structure because a proper proportion of the obvious, which is the thews and sinews of fiction, has, perforce, to be left out. Example: [W]hen he [A[rthur] Ernest Fitzgerald] tried to check reports that Lockheed was seriously "flimsying" the plane's construction, he received an angry call from Pentagon brass warning him, in effect, to keep out of engineering matters. 2. To type or write (text) on a flimsy (“sheet of thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document”) (noun sense 2); to distribute such flimsies. Labels: dated, historical, transitive Example: An interview is not a speech. […] If a man wants to publish an allocution of this kind, he should write it out and give it to me, or anyone else—a newsagency for example—and it will be "flimsied" to most of our English daily papers, whose conductors would, of course, use their own discretion as to how much or how little of it they would use. But in no sense of the word could such a performance be properly classified under the heading of the interview. Example: Did you, as a matter of fact, receive pages 55 and 56 at the same time?—I cannot say that I did. / But if you had received them?—I should have flimsied them with this. / As they are not flimsied, what do you say?—All I can presume is that they were not there. I should not have separated one paper from the other, and flimsied one and left the other. 3. To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate. Labels: dated, figuratively, historical, transitive Example: What she sacrificed in energy, emotion and integrity, diminished her rather than excelled. […] Teri suddenly saw herself flimsied by bargains she had negotiated too readily.
Word: earnest money Part of Speech: noun 1. Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate. Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: chassé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chassé. Pronunciation: /ˈʃæseɪ/, /ʃæˈseɪ/ 1. A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading.
Word: chassé Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French chassé. Pronunciation: /ˈʃæseɪ/, /ʃæˈseɪ/ 1. To perform this step. Labels: intransitive 2. To dismiss. Labels: slang, transitive Example: We believe that this sans-culotte Pillet or Pillard, Pendard or Fuyard, was so put to his shifts that the want of both might have chasséd him from decent society. Example: Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.
Word: subject pronoun Part of Speech: noun 1. A pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence, such as "I", "he" "she" "they" or "we" in English.
Word: object pronoun Part of Speech: noun 1. A pronoun that is used as the object of a sentence, such as "me", "him" or "us" in English.
Word: sashay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“to take”). Pronunciation: /ˈsæʃeɪ/, /sæˈʃeɪ/ 1. A chassé. 2. A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
Word: sashay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“to take”). Pronunciation: /ˈsæʃeɪ/, /sæˈʃeɪ/ 1. To walk casually, showily, or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce. Labels: intransitive Example: “Fresh guy,” explained Aileen, “last night as I was going home at Twenty-third and Sixth. Sashayed up, so he did, and made a break. I turned him down, cold, and he made a sneak; […] Example: Some time, when they shift some decent guards on us that will give us a peep at a newspaper, you get yourself thrown into the jacket, climb out of your body, and sashay down to little old ’Frisco. 2. To chassé when dancing. Labels: intransitive Example: "Hope I didn't put away too much fried chicken to sashay properly at the square dance," Bud remarked. 3. To move sideways. Labels: intransitive Example: Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre- half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.
Word: artic Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɑ(ɹ)ˈtɪk/ 1. Abbreviation of articulated lorry; A semi-trailer truck. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal 2. Abbreviation of articulated bus Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal
Word: noggin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. First use appears c. 1588. Appears in publications in the 1600s (e.g. in The Tincker of Turvey) in several forms including the still-current Irish English form naggin, the rare older Irish, Scottish and Northern English form noggan, used by Jonathan Swift, and the Wexford form nuggeen. Tomás S. Ó Máille and some older dictionaries like Skeat's derive it from Irish naigín, cnaigín, from cnagaire, cnag, but the Oxford English Dictionary argues that Irish naigín and Scottish Gaelic noigean instead derive from English. Compare nog. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑɡɪn/, /ˈnɑɡn̩/, /ˈnɒɡɪn/ 1. A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container. Example: Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin, or a guinea a bottle… Example: I needed some nails for to rivet them down...When you go to town you can buy the full noggin but beware you bring none of your fancibles home. 2. A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill. Example: I don’t know whether any of you, gentlemen, ever partook of a real, substantial, hospitable Scotch breakfast, and then went to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whisky to close up with. 3. The head. Labels: slang Example: Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs. Example: She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness. 4. A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations. 5. Alternative form of nogging (“horizontal beam; rough brick masonry”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: homologous series Part of Speech: noun 1. any series of aliphatic organic compounds whose members differ only in the addition of a CH₂ group; for example, the carboxylic acids, CH₃(CH₂)ₙCOOH where n is any whole number
Word: disjoint Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/ 1. Not smooth or continuous; disjointed. Example: Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London 2. Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of two or more elements in a lattice, having a meet equal to the bottom element. Labels: not-comparable
Word: disjoint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/ 1. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection. Example: Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart Example: to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving 2. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent. Example: a disjointed speech 3. To fall into pieces. Labels: obsolete Example: But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.
Word: spinning mule Part of Speech: noun 1. A machine that spins thread from fibres.
Word: spinning jenny Part of Speech: noun 1. An early spinning machine having multiple spools. Labels: historical
Word: spinning frame Part of Speech: noun 1. A machine that draws and twists fibers and then winds it onto spools or spindles.
Word: spinning Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspɪnɪŋ/ 1. The motion of something that spins. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: these uncontrollable spinnings of the head 2. The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Indoor cycling on an exercise bicycle. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spinning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of spin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
Word: spinning wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. A domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot. Example: Dobrunka always began the day by feeding the goats, then she prepared the breakfast, swept the kitchen, and when everything else was done she sat down at her spinning wheel and spun.
Word: cardioid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, cardi- + -oid. 1. An epicycloid with exactly one cusp; the plane curve with polar equation ρ=1+ cos ,θ - approximately heart-shaped
Word: cardioid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, cardi- + -oid. 1. Having this characteristic shape 2. sensitive in front, but not behind or at the sides
Word: limaçon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French limaçon, ultimately from Latin limax (“snail”). 1. A plane curve with polar equation ρ=a+b, sin ,θ or ρ=a+b, cos ,θ, of which the cardioid is a special case.
Word: limaçon of Pascal Part of Speech: noun 1. A limaçon.
Word: footing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fotyng; equivalent to foot + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtɪŋ/ 1. A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. 2. A standing; position; established place; foothold. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As soon, however, as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner […] made him a favorite. Example: While the California economy maintains its powerhouse status[…] the state’s most-powerful sectors[…]have struggled to keep their footing, pummeled by high interest rates, investor skittishness, labor strife and other turmoil. 3. A relative condition; state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [L]ived on a footing of equality with nobles. 4. A tread; step; especially, a measured tread. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: Hark, I hear the footing of a man. 5. A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: The Monster swift as word, that from her went, Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace[…]. Example: A man must doe as some wilde beasts, which at the entrance of their caves, will have no manner of footing seene. 6. Stability or balance when standing on one's feet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He lost his footing and fell down. Example: It was difficult to keep my footing on the ship during the storm. 7. Mental stability or balance. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: It's a lot for anybody to go through. But, while the others took weeks - hell, even months - to get used to everything, myself included, you found your footing in a matter of days. 8. The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper. 9. The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the footing of a stocking 10. Foundation or basis for further advancement or development. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The subsidy gives the organization a firm footing. 11. A narrow cotton lace, without figures. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A double-check of the numbers vertically. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: footing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fotyng; equivalent to foot + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of foot Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: put on the dog Part of Speech: verb 1. To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious. Labels: colloquial, dated, idiomatic Example: If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner.
Word: Lucia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius. Pronunciation: /luˈsiːə/, /ˈluː.ʃə/ 1. A female given name from Latin.
Word: belated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English late English belate Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English belated From belate (verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Pronunciation: /bɪˈleɪtɪd/, /bəˈleɪtɪd/, /bi-/, [-ɾɪd] 1. Affected or overtaken by the lateness of the time; hence, synonym of benighted (“overtaken by night; caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination”). Example: […] Faerie Elves, / VVhoſe midnight Revels, by a Forreſt ſide / Or Fountain ſome belated Peaſant ſees, / Or dreams he ſees, […] Example: At first the steps of a few belated villagers, or the sound of voices from the village, lightened our vigil, but one by one these interruptions died away, and an absolute stillness fell upon us, save for the chimes of the distant church, which told us of the progress of the night, […] 2. Later in relation to the proper time which something should have happened; specifically, delayed beyond the proper time. Example: A belated happy birthday to you! Example: Henceforth vve are to ſtear by another ſort of Authors; neer enough to the things they vvrite, as in thir ovvn Countrie, if that vvould ſerve; in time not much belated, ſome of equal age; […] 3. Slow to learn or to adopt a trend; hence, lacking education or sophistication; benighted, unenlightened, unsophisticated. Labels: figuratively Example: The devil drives the world, whip in hand,—and oddly enough (considering that some belated folk still fancy there is a God somewhere) succeeds in managing his team with extraordinary ease!
Word: belated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English late English belate Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English belated From belate (verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Pronunciation: /bɪˈleɪtɪd/, /bəˈleɪtɪd/, /bi-/, [-ɾɪd] 1. simple past and past participle of belate. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: taskmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From task + master. Pronunciation: /ˈtæskˌmæstɚ/ 1. Someone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work. Example: And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows 2. A source of hard work or responsibility. Labels: figuratively Example: Everyone knows the enthusiasm is inauthentic and only for show, but artifice and inauthenticity are perfectly adequate for the politicization taskmasters. […] It all looked so easy when the competent were at the helm, but reality is a cruel taskmaster, and all the excuses that worked as an underling wear thin once the incompetent are in leadership roles.
Word: burdensome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From burden + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː.dən.səm/, /ˈbɝ.dən.səm/, [ˈbɜː.ɾən.səm], /ˈbøː.dən.səm/ 1. Characteristic of a burden; arduous or demanding Example: . . . reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious. Example: Finally, there are the commuter trains. Both companies operate these around the big cities and both find them burdensome, owing to the lack of off-peak travel.
Word: bat-pad Part of Speech: noun 1. One of a pair of soft padded coverings that protect the legs of the person batting; a pad or batting pad. Labels: countable 2. A fielding position very close to the batsman, square on the leg side, designed to catch the ball from a misplaced defensive shot. Labels: informal, uncountable 3. A fielder in this position. Labels: countable, informal
Word: left arm orthodox Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which finger spin is used to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman). Labels: uncountable Example: Two days before Australia’s first Test match in Pakistan since 1998, the centre-wicket practice at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium that had been teeming with players saw their numbers dissipate through that spring afternoon. For a time [Steve] Smith alternated batting with Usman Khawaja, facing Ashton Agar’s left-arm orthodox.
Word: left arm unorthodox Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which wrist spin is used to move the ball from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman). Labels: uncountable
Word: leg break Part of Speech: noun 1. a normal ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, moving from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman) Example: His idol bowled a leg break that was sent flying for four.
Word: leg cutter Part of Speech: noun 1. a ball bowled by a fast bowler who uses finger spin to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman)
Word: off cutter Part of Speech: noun 1. A ball bowled by a fast bowler who uses finger spin to move the ball from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman). Example: Boon couldn't handle my inswingers, Waugh had no idea with my off-cutters and my leggies were making Taylor dizzy.
Word: leg glance Part of Speech: noun 1. A shot played by a batsman with a vertical bat, deflecting the ball behind the square leg area of the field.
Word: leg glance Part of Speech: verb 1. To play, or hit the ball with, a leg glance.
Word: leg side Part of Speech: noun 1. The side of the pitch on the same side as the batsman's legs as he takes his stance at the wicket; the left side for a right-handed batsman. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: on side Part of Speech: noun 1. The leg side. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: on side Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of onside. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Lloyd George's decision to involve Churchill in the Irish talks was a sign of confidence in him as well as a manoeuvre to keep him on side. Example: "Why of course! [...] I would very much like to make it up to you and take you out to dinner, one evening." Edward said with a cheeky grin passing Helena's mother medication, trying his best to sweet-talk her around to get her on side.
Word: off side Part of Speech: noun 1. The side of the pitch away from the batsman's legs as he takes his stance at the wicket; the right side for a right-handed batsman. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The right-hand side of a horse. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: socioeconomic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of socio-economic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Brown said some young men feel they’re victims of discrimination and have expressed mounting resentment for successes of the women’s rights movement, including #MeToo. The tension also has been influenced by socioeconomic struggles.
Word: leg slip Part of Speech: noun 1. a fielding position on the leg side of the wicket-keeper, designed to catch a ball after it hits the bat and deflects by a small amount
Word: leg spin Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of bowling in which a (right-handed) bowler spins the ball such that, after bouncing, it moves from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman). Labels: uncountable
Word: off spin Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of bowling in which a (right-handed) bowler spins the ball such that, after pitching, it moves from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman). Labels: uncountable
Word: anticlimax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- English climax English anticlimax From anti- + climax. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.tiˌklaɪ.mæks/, [ˈæ.ɾ̃iˌklaɪ.mæks], /ˈæn.taɪˌklaɪ.mæks/ 1. A failed or reverse climax, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Reed, Superba of yore, made a gallant effort to summon the Promethean fire that once burned within him when it was his “listening senates to command,” but his vaunted perorations proved anticlimaces and his oratory a flop. Example: Loving her physically would each time be a thrilling voyage without the anticlimax of arrival. 2. A failed or reverse climax Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A failed or reverse climax Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: off spinner Part of Speech: noun 1. A bowler who bowls off spin. 2. An off cutter.
Word: leg spinner Part of Speech: noun 1. A bowler who bowls leg spin. Example: The leg-spinner had talked about new mystery balls, giving them names like shooters and zooters.
Word: antithesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- + thesis. Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪθ.ɪ.sɪs/, /ænˈtɪ.θə.sɪs/, /ænˈtɪθ.ə.səs/ 1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition. Example: For if every condition of everything conditioned (according to its existence) is sensuous, and therefore belongs to the series, that series is again conditioned (as shown in the antithesis of the fourth antinomy). Example: Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard. 2. A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner Labels: rhetoric Example: Antithesis, opposing things to things, Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings. 3. The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.
Word: recrudesce Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛs/, /ˌɹi-/ 1. To recur, or break out anew after a quiescence or dormant period. Labels: intransitive
Word: recrudescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin recrūdēscentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“(of a wound) to break open again; (of a fight, sedition,...) to break out again, be rekindled”); from re- (“again”) + crūdēscō (“to grow harsh or violent; to become worse”) (from crūdus (“bleeding, bloody, raw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs indicating a becoming of something)). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/, /ˌɹɛ-/, /ˌɹikɹuˈdɛs(ə)ns/ 1. The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The population of particular countries, or districts of country, may be given up to less improving pursuits than those of agriculture. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [i.e., land] to chronic poverty and waste. Example: A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare. 2. The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Very probably however, ſuppoſing Mr. Dwight's Account to be Fact, not more than one Conſtitution in one Million is liable to ſuch repeated and diſtant Recrudeſcences of this Diſeaſe. Example: In other cases the wound opens of itself, and discharges a peculiar matter. Something similar is known to take place in traumatic tetanus; and although in this affection, as well as in hydrophobia, we cannot explain why the phenomenon of recrudescence does not occur in many fatal examples, yet we ought not therefore to deny that in those cases in which it does appear, the connexion between the recrudescence and the disease is most remarkable. 3. The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [Frédéric] Kirschleger describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of the fruit in Plantago, and a similar growth frequently takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinum majus, &c. In cases where a renewal of growth in the axis of inflorescence has taken place after the ripening of the fruit, the French botanists use the term recrudescence, but the growth in question by no means always occurs after the ripening of the fruit, but frequently before. Example: A great many of the scapes have furnished examples of "recrudescence," a few flowers having been produced amongst the ripening capsules; but fresh flower-stalks have also continued to shoot up from the root, and at the time I write (Oct. 4) I see there is one very pretty bunch of flowers upon a last year's seedling plant.
Word: diaspora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek διασπορᾱ́ (diasporā́, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from δια- (dia-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”). Pronunciation: /daɪˈæs.pə.ɹə/, /daɪˈæs.pɹə/, /daɪˈæs.pɚ.ə/, /diˈæs.pɚ.ə/, /diˈæs.pɹə/ 1. The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE). Labels: collective Example: The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places. Example: This scattering abrode of the Iewes, as it were an heauenly sowing, fell out after their returne from the captiuitie of Babylon. Wherevpon both Acts. 2. and also 1. Pet. 1. and 1. Iam. ver. 1. [sic] they are called Diaspora, that is, a scattering or sowing abrode. 2. Jews outside of the land of Israel. Labels: broadly, informal 3. The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively. Example: Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews. 4. Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture. Example: Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages
Word: tenpin bowling Part of Speech: noun 1. A sport where players roll a ball down a wooden pathway and try to knock down as many of the ten target pins as possible. Labels: uncountable
Word: tenpin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ten + pin 1. Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling. Labels: countable 2. The game of tenpin bowling. Labels: uncountable
Word: skittles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtəlz/ 1. A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible. Labels: British, uncountable 2. An informal form of chess played without a clock. Labels: uncountable
Word: skittles Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtəlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of skittle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: skittles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtəlz/ 1. plural of skittle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skittle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skutill (“bolt, harpoon”), related to skjóta (“to shoot”), but the OED dismisses this connection as conjecture. The Old Norse word is related to Swedish and Danish skyttel (“shuttle, child's toy”). Compare also Old English sċytel (“a dart, bolt”). More at shuttle. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtəl/ 1. One of the wooden targets used in skittles. Example: By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
Word: skittle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skutill (“bolt, harpoon”), related to skjóta (“to shoot”), but the OED dismisses this connection as conjecture. The Old Norse word is related to Swedish and Danish skyttel (“shuttle, child's toy”). Compare also Old English sċytel (“a dart, bolt”). More at shuttle. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtəl/ 1. To play skittles. Labels: intransitive 2. (with down) To squander one's money. Labels: transitive 3. (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen. Labels: transitive 4. (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. To knock down (skittles). Labels: transitive
Word: skittle alley Part of Speech: noun 1. The long narrow building in which skittles is played.
Word: neura Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek νεῦρα (neûra), the nominative plural form of νεῦρον (neûron), whence neuron. Pronunciation: /ˈnjʊəɹə/ 1. plural of neuron Labels: form-of, plural, rare Example: 1905: Eugene Solomon Talbot, Developmental Pathology, pages 7⁽¹⁾ and 8⁽²⁾ ⁽¹⁾ Some investigations have shown that the slightest injuries to nerve cells or neura will give rise to easily demonstrable degenerative lesions in other parts of the cell. ⁽²⁾ Certain groups of neura are more susceptible than others to a given toxication. Example: In Wollenberg’s opinion the primary type of disease of the sensory neura in tabes is of this kind.
Word: MSCE Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Master of Science in Communications Engineering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: stay behind Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stay-behind. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Pleasant prospect for us, who are sure to be amongst the unlucky stay behinds! Example: “[…]Think there may be some bugs left. Deserters, stay behinds, whatever.”
Word: stay behind Part of Speech: verb 1. To remain where one is, whilst others leave. Labels: idiomatic Example: If a twin goes off on a spaceship for a long trip at nearly the speed of light, that twin would be much younger on return to earth than the twin who stayed behind (Fock, 1964; French, 1968; Hawking, 1988; Young, 1992). Example: Much as Tra wanted to stay behind, as commander of the region, it was his duty to organize and lead the troops going to the North. 2. To remain in a classroom or school at the end of teaching, especially to receive punishment. Labels: idiomatic Example: When I stayed behind at school with my school friends after lessons, and managed to play up to a hundred games in a single afternoon, the strategy was simple enough: I castled on the opposite side in the middle of violent (and mutual) King attacks. Example: Observe what sanctions the teacher employs with her class in order to enforce the rules. Are individuals kept in after school, for instance, or are they asked to stay behind at the end of a lesson, or reprimanded in front of the other children? 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, behind. Example: If you can, sprint ahead and stay ahead — otherwise slow down and stay well behind Example: 1995, Rudolf Steiner, Helen Fox (original translator), revising translator not named, Lecture 7, The Kingdom of Childhood, Revised Translation, page 120, Children who are in any way below standard come into this class from all the other classes. Otherwise, as I have said, we do not let the children stay behind but we try to bring them along with us under all circumstances, so that in this way each child really receives what is right for his or her particular age.
Word: forswear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forsweren, from Old English forswerian (“to swear falsely”). Cognate with Old Saxon farswerian, Old High German farsweren, German verschwören. More at for- + swear. Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈswɛə(ɹ)/, /fɔː(ɹ)ˈswɛə(ɹ)/ 1. To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. Labels: transitive Example: We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters. Example: Never to woo her more; but do forswear her. 2. To commit perjury; to break an oath. Labels: intransitive, reflexive
Word: SNMP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Simple Network Management Protocol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: silently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English silent Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English silently From silent + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪləntli/ 1. In a silent manner; making no noise. Example: It often happens that the most important results in the natural world are brought about by causes which operate silently, if not imperceptibly. Example: Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; his orderlies are silently speeding, plans taken, orders given: […] 2. Of an edit or change to a text, without explicit acknowledgment. Example: There never was an English-language text, either in 1561 or 1859. Yule and Burnell have silently provided a translation.
Word: great minds think alike Part of Speech: proverb 1. Used to remark upon the fact that someone else has had the same thought or idea as you, implying that both of you are clever or astute. Labels: humorous, often Example: Person A: He looks a bit like David Beckham... Example: Person B: I was just thinking that!
Word: chemurgy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chem- + -urgy. 1. A branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: stake out Part of Speech: verb 1. To watch a location or people, generally covertly. Labels: transitive 2. To mark off the limits by stakes. Labels: transitive Example: stake out land Example: to stake out a new road 3. To end the game by hitting the stake peg in the middle of the court. Labels: intransitive
Word: sidespin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From side + spin. 1. Rotation around a vertical axis that makes a ball or other object curve in flight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When a right-handed golfer hits a ball with a clockwise sidespin (when viewed from the top), it is called a fade or if extreme a slice and the flight of the ball will curve to the right. Example: When a right-handed golfer hits a ball with an anticlockwise sidespin (when viewed from the top), it is called a draw or if extreme a hook and the flight of the ball will curve to the left.
Word: cardiomyopathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥díyeh₂ Proto-Hellenic *kərdíyā Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía)lbor. English cardio- English myopathy English cardiomyopathy From cardio- + myopathy. 1. The deterioration of the myocardium.
Word: two-seam fastball Part of Speech: noun 1. A pitch thrown with a grip in the "horseshoe" orientation of the ball, with the rotation at a slight angle resulting in less Magnus effect as compared to a four-seam fastball since only two of the ball's seams cross the flight path; the pitch is delivered with a similar velocity as a four-seam fastball, but has a degree of sink. Example: His two-seamer has a heavy sink and keeps the infielders busy.
Word: four-seam fastball Part of Speech: noun 1. A backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
Word: flatcar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flat + car. 1. A railroad freight car without sides and roof. Labels: US
Word: -urgy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)bor. English -urgy Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”). 1. A technique for working with something. Labels: morpheme
Word: iso-octane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῐ̓́σος (ĭ́sos)lbor. English iso- English octane English iso-octane From iso- + octane. 1. Any isomer of octane except the normal, straight-chain one; especially 2,2,4-trimethylpentane.