nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ballyhoo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A shortening of the Irish village Ballyhooly, known for its rowdiness. Pronunciation: /bæliˈhuː/ 1. To sensationalize or make grand claims. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over-enthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.
Word: ballyhoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish balajú. Pronunciation: /bæliˈhuː/ 1. Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools. 2. Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools.
Word: ballyhoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Spanish balahú (“schooner”). Pronunciation: /bæliˈhuː/ 1. An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.
Word: bhikshu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “beggar, mendicant, religious mendicant”). 1. A bhikkhu.
Word: uploaded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of upload Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uploaded Part of Speech: adj 1. Having been uploaded; having been digitally sent from one's computer to someone else's. Labels: not-comparable
Word: routes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹuːts/, /ɹaʊts/, [ɹʌʊts] 1. plural of route Labels: form-of, plural
Word: routes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹuːts/, /ɹaʊts/, [ɹʌʊts] 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of route Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: photographs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/, /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːfs/ 1. plural of photograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photographs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/, /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːfs/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of photograph Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: corrected Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛktɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of correct Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: potentially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English potential 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 potentially From potential + -ly. Pronunciation: /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, /pəˈtenʃəli/ 1. In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way. Example: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand. Example: Its impending end has rung alarm bells across social media, with a baseline tariff as high as 145% depending on the carrier set to take effect on Chinese imports, potentially more than doubling the cost for all those cheap products deal-hungry Americans scooped up. 2. Powerfully, strongly. Labels: obsolete Example: I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.
Word: establishing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of establish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: establishing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is established; establishment. Example: This course consists of the overturnings and establishings of the various successive empires under which the Church of Christ, both in its Jewish and Christian state, should exist […]
Word: desired Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪəd/, /dɪˈzaɪɹd/ 1. simple past and past participle of desire Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: desired Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪəd/, /dɪˈzaɪɹd/ 1. wished-for, longed-for Example: This is a highly desired holiday home. Example: Her surprise gift of chocolates didn't have the desired effects
Word: ham it up Part of Speech: verb 1. To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily. Labels: idiomatic Example: Near-synonym: camp it up Example: You can count on him to ham it up for the camera.
Word: bodhisattva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit बोधिसत्त्व (bodhisattva, “enlightened existence”). Pronunciation: /boʊ̯diːˈsʌtvə/, /boʊ̯diːˈsɑtvə/, /ˌbɒdɪˈsatvə/ 1. A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment. Example: Kimi was a true bodhisattva, and her English skills were excellent. 2. An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.
Word: boddhisatva Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bodhisattva. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: up-and-coming Part of Speech: adj 1. Emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim. Labels: idiomatic Example: The theater likes to feature up-and-coming singers and comedians.
Word: aspiring Part of Speech: adj 1. Hoping to become. Labels: not-comparable Example: Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition. Example: Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.
Word: aspiring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of aspire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: aspiring Part of Speech: noun 1. Aspiration. Labels: archaic Example: […] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we muſt have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miſerably fail of our Scientifical aſpirings, […] Example: […] to the aſpirings of unaſſuming truſt and filial confidence, are ſet no bounds.
Word: aspire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English aspiren, from Old French aspirer, from Latin aspīrō (“breathe on; approach; desire”). Pronunciation: /əˈspaɪə(ɹ)/, /əˈspaɪɚ/ 1. To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. Labels: intransitive Example: to aspire to / for / after / to do something; to aspire that something happens Example: He aspires to become a successful doctor. 2. To go as high as, to reach the top of (something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thus ſhall my heart be ſtil combinde with thine, / Untill our bodies turne to Elements: / And both our ſoules aſpire celeſtiall thrones. Example: Mercutio’s dead! / That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, 3. To move upward; to be very tall. Labels: archaic, intransitive, literary, transitive Example: In midſt of which a ſumptuous Temple ſtands, / That threats the ſtarres with her aſpiring toppe. Example: As they descended, they saw […] one of the grand passes of the Pyreneáes into Spain, gleaming with its battlements and towers to the splendour of the setting rays, yellow tops of woods colouring the steeps below, while far above aspired the snowy points of the mountains, still reflecting a rosy hue.
Word: lightsaber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light + saber; coined by American filmmaker and philanthropist George Lucas for the Star Wars film franchise. First mentioned in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope) which was released on May 25, 1977. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtˌseɪ.bə(ɹ)/, /ˈlaɪtˌseɪ.bɚ/ 1. A sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light or energy. Example: [Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker] Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Example: Wielding his flashlight like a lightsaber, Kyle sent golden shafts slicing through the swirling vapors. 2. A real-world toy, prop, or device fashioned after the fictional lightsaber. Example: The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
Word: paramedic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + medic. Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹəˈmɛdɪk/, /ˌpɛɹəˈmɛdɪk/ 1. A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility. 2. A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting. Labels: US
Word: chaptalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chaptal + -ization, after Jean-Antoine Chaptal, who developed the process. Pronunciation: /ˌʃæptəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌt͡ʃæptəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The addition of sugar to grape juice in the fermentation of wine. Usually done if the grapes are thought to lack enough natural sugars for the desired alcohol content. Labels: uncountable
Word: sidearm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From side + arm. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/ 1. A personal weapon, either a firearm (handgun type) or a cold weapon (such as a sword), carried on the hip in a belt, sheath, holster, etc., for rapid access.
Word: sidearm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From side + arm. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/ 1. To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground. Example: His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.
Word: sidearm Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From side + arm. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/ 1. With one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
Word: chancery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chancerie, a reduced form of chancellerie. See chancellery. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/, /ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/, /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/, /ˈt͡ʃansəɹi/ 1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 2. A court of equity; equity; a proceeding in equity. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 3. The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The territorial expansion of the United States thus caused no great political stir in the chanceries of Europe. 4. The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 6. The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed. 7. Any awkward predicament. Labels: archaic, countable, slang, uncountable 8. Ellipsis of chancery hand. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: chancery Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English chancerie, a reduced form of chancellerie. See chancellery. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/, /ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/, /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/, /ˈt͡ʃansəɹi/ 1. With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will. Labels: not-comparable Example: [Round] 9. This was a scientific round on both sides; Acton got away well; and also parried some tremendous blows. The latter, however, received a chancery nobber; but he contended every inch of ground till he went down. Example: 15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy. 2. In an awkward situation; wholly under the power of someone else. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable
Word: sniper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From snipe + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsnaɪ.pɚ/ 1. A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position. Example: The sniper shot him in the head. 2. A sniper rifle. Labels: broadly 3. Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position. 4. One who shoots from a concealed position. Example: The British, having cleared the open field, now faced the problem of advancing through the trees into the sniper fire of several hundred Virginia militia. 5. One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others. Example: No winnable seat has been found for Mr. H. L. Nathan, a powerful recruit from the Liberal ranks, and poor Mr. Wedgwood Benn, an invaluable sniper for a party in Opposition, has been out of Parliament now since 1931. Example: They always sniped at each other in public. German snipers were a wishy-washy lot compared with Lester and his wife. 6. A hunter of snipe (the bird). 7. A player who specializes in scoring goals. Labels: slang Example: Alexander Ovechkin is often regarded as the greatest sniper of his generation. 8. A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond Example: The real reason most snipers bid late in the auction is that they feel it helps them obtain bargains at the expense of novices who don't understand how proxy bidding works and who place bids for less than the amount they are really willing to pay. Example: Sniping is the process of placing bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Snipers do this to avoid bidding wars that escalate the bids to more than they want to pay. Bidders can protect themselves against snipers by bidding the absolute maximum amount they are willing to pay with eBay's proxy bidding system.
Word: deathtrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From death + trap. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛθtɹæp/ 1. An extremely dangerous location, structure, or device. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: Route 9 is a deathtrap; they should at least put up guard rails. Example: Dude, your car is a deathtrap! Get the brakes and the steering fixed. 2. A plot device where a villain in a story puts a hero in an elaborate dangerous situation for the purposes of attempting a sadistic murder.
Word: Starfighter Part of Speech: noun 1. The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a jet fighter-interceptor.
Word: machine gun Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/ 1. A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire. Example: I'm gonna get you, baby / Like a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak Example: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
Word: submachine gun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + machine gun. 1. A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition. Example: Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns.
Word: watching Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪŋ/, /ˈwɒtʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of watch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: She was watching a movie. Example: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
Word: watching Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪŋ/, /ˈwɒtʃɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who watches. Example: What toils and pains; what cares and watchings; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished? Example: You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]
Word: mahasattva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit महासत्त्व (mahāsattva, “a great creature, great being”). 1. A bodhisattva who attains a high degree on the path of consciousness awakening. 2. A "great bodhisattva", one explicitly defined by their devotion to salvation of all beings through bodhicitta.
Word: directors Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹɛk.təz/, /daɪˈɹɛk.təz/, /daɪ̯əˈɹɛk.təz/, /dɪˈɹɛk.tɚz/, /daɪˈɹɛk.tɚz/ 1. plural of director Labels: form-of, plural
Word: descendants Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛndənts/ 1. plural of descendant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: firepole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + pole. 1. A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
Word: experts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.spɝts/ 1. plural of expert Labels: form-of, plural
Word: experts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.spɝts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of expert Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: diseases Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈziː.zɪz/, /dɪˈzi.zɪz/ 1. plural of disease Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diseases Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈziː.zɪz/, /dɪˈzi.zɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disease Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: interaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin interāctiō. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.ʃən/ 1. The situation or occurrence in which two or more things act upon one another to produce an effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Be aware of interactions between different medications. Example: Such technologies will also “shape future human interaction with the machines we created,” he added. 2. A conversation or exchange between people. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I enjoyed the interaction with a bunch of like-minded people. Example: Another 'basic' is staff interaction with customers - and here, ScotRail excelled. Every single one of them whom RAIL engaged with was polite and chatty, and some were even humorous!
Word: masters Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːs.təz/, /ˈmæs.tɚz/ 1. plural of master Labels: form-of, plural
Word: masters Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːs.təz/, /ˈmæs.tɚz/ 1. A master's degree.
Word: masters Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːs.təz/, /ˈmæs.tɚz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of master Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: masters Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːs.təz/, /ˈmæs.tɚz/ 1. Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience. Labels: Canada, US Example: masters meet
Word: ties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tie Labels: form-of, plural 2. Low shoes fastened with lacings. Labels: dated
Word: ties Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tie Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: exceptions Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əkˈsɛpʃənz/, /ɪkˈsɛpʃənz/ 1. plural of exception Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dove grey Part of Speech: noun 1. A medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove. Labels: UK
Word: dove grey Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove. Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
Word: bodhicitta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit बोधिचित्त (bodhicitta, literally “mind of enlightenment, spirit of awakening”), from बोधि (bodhi, “awakening, enlightenment”) + चित्त (cittá, “mind, spirit, reason”). 1. In Mahayana Buddhism, the intense ontological aspiration to save all beings by following the bodhisattva path to enlightenment. Labels: uncountable 2. The bodhisattva path to nirvana. Labels: uncountable
Word: crusade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French croisade, introduced into English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruciāta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruciātus used as an abstract noun. Adjectival cruciātus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century crucesignatus was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade". Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruciāta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270. Pronunciation: /kɹuːˈseɪd/, /kɹuˈseɪd/, /kɹʉːˈsæɪd/ 1. Any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars. Labels: historical Example: During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered. Example: Their way lay through the hall, where hung the helm of many a bold forefather, and arms that had seen service even in the crusades. 2. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics. 3. A grand, concerted effort towards some purportedly worthy cause. Labels: figuratively Example: a crusade against drug abuse 4. A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort. Labels: dated Example: The same period that has seen social and political crusades increasingly replace religious messages in the pulpits has seen a sharp 35 percent decline in membership of the mainline Protestant denominations associated with the National Council of Churches. 5. A Portuguese coin; a crusado. Labels: archaic
Word: crusade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French croisade, introduced into English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruciāta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruciātus used as an abstract noun. Adjectival cruciātus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century crucesignatus was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade". Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruciāta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270. Pronunciation: /kɹuːˈseɪd/, /kɹuˈseɪd/, /kɹʉːˈsæɪd/ 1. To go on a military crusade. Labels: intransitive 2. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. Labels: intransitive Example: He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.
Word: eau de nil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”). Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.dəˈniːl/, /ˌoʊ.dəˈniːl/ 1. A pale green colour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was a sprawling town of upended concrete boxes tilting pastel rectangles up towards the hot sun: soft blues, prawn reds, pale chocolates, delicate eau de nils, primrose yellows[…]. Example: Such colouring! — slate blues, coral pinks, pale amphitrites, the wet cobblestone blue of mussels, frail sea-forget-me-nots, anemone yellows and carmines, emeralds and eau-de-nils!
Word: eau de nil Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”). Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.dəˈniːl/, /ˌoʊ.dəˈniːl/ 1. Of a pale green colour.
Word: dirigible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/, /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/ 1. A self-propelled airship that can be steered. Example: Do you know, Louis, of any great secret military camp where a surprise fleet of dirigibles and flying machines of a new and terrible pattern is being formed by a far-seeing Government as a reserve against the day of Armageddon? Example: On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.
Word: dirigible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/, /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/ 1. steerable
Word: exclosure Part of Speech: noun 1. A limited area from which unwanted animals, such as domestic cattle or wildlife, are excluded by fencing or other means.
Word: exclave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex-der. Middle French ex-bor. Middle English ex- English ex- English (en)clave English exclave From ex- + (en)clave. Pronunciation: /ˈɛkskleɪv/ 1. A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part. Example: Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves. Example: While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger. 2. A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid (accessory thyroids), or other gland. Labels: rare
Word: exclave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex-der. Middle French ex-bor. Middle English ex- English ex- English (en)clave English exclave From ex- + (en)clave. Pronunciation: /ˈɛkskleɪv/ 1. To separate a region in a way that turns it into an exclave. Labels: transitive
Word: sangha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”). 1. The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism. 2. The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).
Word: pandit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita). Doublet of pundit. 1. An honorary title for a learned man or scholar. Labels: India, Nepal
Word: eggshell blue Part of Speech: noun 1. A delicate pale blue colour. 2. Robin's-egg blue.
Word: eggshell blue Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a delicate pale blue colour. Labels: not-comparable Example: The sky was clear and eggshell blue.
Word: six perfections Part of Speech: noun 1. In Mahayana Buddhism, the six virtues which the bodhisattva must practice in their avowed pursuit of bringing all beings to enlightenment through bodhicitta; they are dana (munificence), sila (ethicality), ksanti (patience), virya (determination), dhyana (meditation), and prajna (wisdom). Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: fire brick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of firebrick. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 2. A bright red colour. Labels: uncountable 3. Asterodiscus truncatus - a large brightly coloured starfish found in deep waters around parts of northern New Zealand. Plenty. A chrome colour heavily blotched with vermilion and the terminal plates are mauve to purple. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fire brick Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a bright red colour. Labels: not-comparable
Word: whirlygig Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of whirligig. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: predictable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English predict Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English predictable From predict + -able. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈdɪktəbl̩/ 1. Able to be predicted. Labels: not-comparable Example: a predictable mathematical pattern Example: a boring film with a predictable ending
Word: predictable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English predict Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English predictable From predict + -able. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈdɪktəbl̩/ 1. A predictable thing. Labels: uncommon
Word: uninspired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English inspired English uninspired From un- + inspired. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪəd/ 1. Lacking inspiration; dull or dry. Example: Looking out on the morning rain / I used to feel so uninspired / And when I knew I had to face another day / Lord, it made me feel so tired
Word: uninspired Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English inspired English uninspired From un- + inspired. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of uninspire Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: juvenescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, juven(ile) + -escence 1. The state of becoming young or juvenile. Labels: especially, uncountable
Word: larval Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈlɑɹvəl/ 1. Of or relating to larvae: 2. Of or relating to larvae: 3. Of or relating to larvae: 4. Undeveloped, latent. 5. Immature, childlike. Labels: broadly Example: A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users.
Word: tapeworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tape + worm. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpˌwɝm/ 1. Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle. Labels: countable 2. Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle. Labels: countable 3. Infection by tapeworms. Labels: uncountable Example: We used to have a lot of tapeworm down in my neck of the woods, but we don't have much now.
Word: tapeworm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tape + worm. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpˌwɝm/ 1. To move along in a wriggling manner, like a tapeworm. Labels: intransitive 2. To treat (an animal) for tapeworm infection. Labels: transitive
Word: kithe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English kiþen, küthen, kithen, from Old English cȳþan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan, from Proto-Germanic *kunþijaną (“to make known”). Pronunciation: /kaɪð/ 1. To make known; to reveal. Labels: archaic Example: these lines are sent by me, to keep the law and kithe my love to thee. Example: I'll kithe a constant Palinurus to thee, […]
Word: riel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer រៀល (riəl). 1. The monetary unit of Cambodia, equivalent to 100 sen or 10 kak. Symbol: ៛
Word: oral cavity Part of Speech: noun 1. The cavity of the mouth, especially the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible. 2. The hollow on the lower surface of the head from which the proboscis protrudes. Labels: rare
Word: morena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sotho morena, Northern Sotho morena, Tswana morena, from mo- (personal class prefix) + rena (“to be rich, to be a leader”). Pronunciation: /mɔˈɹenə/, /məˈɹenə/, /məˈɹeɪnə/ 1. Someone in authority, a master or leader, especially among Sotho-speakers. Labels: South-Africa Example: ‘Morena,’ said the old priest, ‘don't be angry with the boy.’
Word: swarthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɔɹði/ 1. Tawny, dusky, dark. 2. Dark-skinned; black. Labels: derogatory Example: Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim. 3. Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan. Example: the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People Example: Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis. 4. A dark grey color. 5. Evil, malicious. Labels: nonstandard 6. Weathered, rough. Labels: nonstandard Example: Mason: "Okay, how do I look, really?" Betty: "…'Swarthy.'" Mason: "Well, is that good?" Betty: "Depends if you like 'swarthy.'" Mason: "Do you like 'swarthy'?" Betty: "Not particularly."
Word: swarthy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɔɹði/ 1. A swarthy person. Example: Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain Example: Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.
Word: speakeasy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from speak easy (= speak quietly [interj.]); for the history, see Wikipedia at speakeasy § Etymology. 1. An illegal saloon or tavern, especially one operated during the American Prohibition period in the 1920s. Labels: historical Example: Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days. Example: Retuning^([sic]) to Gotham, he came to intimately know Manhattan's speakeasy scene. “At a speakeasy,” Hirschfeld acknowledged, “you had to be known to get in...each place had its own clientele.” Membership cards, really fake IDs, were common.
Word: open house Part of Speech: noun 1. A house habitually kept open to callers. Example: He keeps a kind of open house for all the respectable young men of the town who are staying in lodgings. Example: My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung. 2. An event, often in one's home, at which there are few restrictions regarding who and how many may attend. Example: Over the year, we had been invited to many people′s homes, enjoying good food and warm hospitality. It had not been possible for us to reciprocate in every case, so we decided to invite everyone to an open house ‘barbie’-cum-buffet in order to say a mass farewell. Example: Visitors to the Wests′ weekend open houses would often include Gore Vidal, David Niven, Vatican power brokers, ex-Queen Frederica of Greece and members of various superrich families, including the Vanderbilts, Guggenheims and von Furstenbergs. 3. An event during which a facility or institution is open to the public for inspection or tour. 4. A period of time, usually several hours in a day, during which a house which is for sale is open for inspection or tour by interested parties. Labels: Australia, Canada, US Example: We′re holding an open house this weekend at 77 Parkway Road. Example: I took my sign out of the boot and put it up that morning, then arranged the advertising and open house viewings as soon as I returned to my office. 5. A casual school event where the school invites parents or guardians to tour their child's school and meet the teachers before the school year begins Labels: US
Word: Zhejiang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浙江 (literally “crooked river”), from a former name of the Qiantang River. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəˈt͡ʃjɑŋ/, /t͡ʃɪˈt͡ʃjɑːŋ/, /d͡ʒəˈd͡ʒjɑŋ/ 1. A coastal province in eastern China, running from Hangzhou Bay to Fujian. Capital: Hangzhou. Example: The kiln site actually responsible for such refinement has so far not been located. Shao-hsing, Chechiang Province, is commonly considered their point of origin since so many jars have been unearthed from tombs in that district.[...]It would take until the late third century for the potters of Chechiang to reduce the amount of oxygen in their kilns to the extent necessary for the formation of the glaze color which we call celadon green. Example: In the eastern province of Zhejiang, drivers are tested at highway exits before they can enter.
Word: vamos Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of vamoose. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: When he wishes to leave, he does not say with the Yankee, "Well, we'd better be a goin'," but "Let's vamos," or "Let's vamos the ranche."
Word: lets go Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of let go Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lets go Part of Speech: intj 1. Misspelling of let's go. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Delacruz Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish de la Cruz. 1. A surname from Spanish
Word: Delosreyes Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish de los Reyes. 1. A surname from Spanish.
Word: foodstuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of food + stuff. Pronunciation: /ˈfuːdˌstʌf/, [ˈfʉwdˌstəf] 1. A material that may be used as food or as an ingredient of food. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The consumption of meat and wine demonstrates the heroes' close relationship to the gods, since these, unlike other foodstuffs, are always offered to the gods: a splash of wine from any drinking occasion is always poured for the gods (as a libation), and animals that are killed are always "sacrificed," never merely butchered.
Word: conclude Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”). Pronunciation: /kənˈkluːd/ 1. To end; to come to an end. Labels: intransitive Example: The story concluded with a moral. Example: He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family. 2. To bring to an end; to close; to finish. Labels: transitive Example: I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state. 3. To bring about as a result; to effect; to make. Labels: transitive Example: to conclude a bargain Example: if we conclude a peace 4. To come to a conclusion, to a final decision. Labels: transitive Example: From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered. Example: No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him. 5. To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide. Labels: obsolete Example: But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die. 6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar. Example: The defendant is concluded by his own plea. Example: A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence. 7. To shut up; to enclose. Labels: obsolete Example: The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave. 8. To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine. Labels: obsolete Example: Banisht the Court? Let me be banisht Life; Since the chief end of Life is there concluded: Within the Court is all the Kingdom bounded, And as her sacred Sphear doth comprehend Ten thousand times so much, as so much Place In any part of all the Empire else; So every Body, moving in her Sphear, Contains Ten thousand times as much in him, As any other, her choice Orb excludes. Example: For God hath concluded all in unbelief. 9. to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
Word: randomize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-der. Proto-Germanic *rinnaną Proto-West Germanic *rinnan Frankish *randijubor. Old French randirder. Old French randonbor. Middle English randoun English randon English random Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English randomize From random + -ize. 1. US and Oxford British English standard spelling of randomise.
Word: flunkey Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈflʌŋki/ 1. An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household). Labels: derogatory Example: “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …" Example: For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride. 2. An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.
Word: cockblock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Rhyming compound of cock + block; likely a back-formation from cockblocker. First use appears c. 1972. See cite below. 1. To make or attempt to make another's intended goal of romantic relationship or sexual intercourse impossible. Labels: idiomatic, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: [T]o COCK BLOCK: to interfere with a male's attempt to 'win over' a female, even if the other male is not interested in the female himself. Example: Excitement surged through him and his groin tingled tight. He heard himself growling low in his throat. At his stop he considered staying on. Maybe she would get off without the dude. Cockblocking chump motherfucker. 2. To prevent someone from achieving a goal, aggressively getting in the way (e.g., an intentionally difficult level of a video game). Labels: broadly, idiomatic, transitive
Word: cockblock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Rhyming compound of cock + block; likely a back-formation from cockblocker. First use appears c. 1972. See cite below. 1. The act of cockblocking. Labels: slang, vulgar 2. A person who cockblocks. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: evasive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French évasif, from Latin ēvādō. Pronunciation: /ɪˈveɪsɪv/ 1. Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself. Example: evasive behaviour Example: evasive response 2. Directed towards avoidance or escape Example: take evasive action Example: evasive manoeuvre
Word: hose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky. The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids. Pronunciation: /həʊz/, /hoʊz/ 1. A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid. Labels: countable 2. A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. Labels: uncountable 3. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace. Example: His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […]
Word: hose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky. The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids. Pronunciation: /həʊz/, /hoʊz/ 1. To water or spray with a hose. Labels: transitive Example: Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed. 2. To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity. Labels: transitive Example: His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions. 3. To deliver using a hose. Labels: transitive Example: He had just finished hosing gasoline into his tank, a short man, burly, needing a shave, and wearing greasy coveralls. 4. To provide with hose (garment) Labels: transitive Example: The mighty mass of many a mingled race, Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase; The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed- Nose and eyes only to the day exposed 5. To trick or deceive. Labels: transitive Example: Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him. Example: Poutine? A better McMuffin? A bigger Big Mac?? We've been hosed. 6. To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content. Labels: slang, transitive Example: There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity. 7. To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call. Labels: transitive