nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: New Southgate Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb of Greater London, England in the borough of Barnet and borough of Enfield (OS grid ref TQ2892).
Word: act of faith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Portuguese auto da fé. 1. An action that demonstrates one's religious faith. 2. An action taken based on trust in a positive outcome with no guarantees. Labels: figuratively
Word: Millerston Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Millers + -ton. 1. A suburban area partly in the city of Glasgow and partly in North Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6468).
Word: pull up on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pull up + on. The "call out"/"criticise" sense is derived from the analogy of cops (police) pulling up alongside of one's vehicle in order to confront or arrest them for wrongdoing. 1. To come to, visit. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: Do you mind if I pull up on you in about half an hour? 2. To call out or criticise someone for something they have done wrong. Labels: idiomatic, slang 3. To a do a drive-by on (someone). Labels: slang
Word: up-pulled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English uppuld, equivalent to up- + pulled. 1. Pulled up. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] Mr. Lawson turned to refasten an up-pulled tent-peg, and to get a cord, and when he turned round again, the mulatto was gone. Example: Her handsome leg was exposed by the up-pulled hem of her torn tunic. 2. Uprooted. Labels: not-comparable Example: A sympathetic youngster two or three years her senior thereupon came over, and, after persuading her to stop crying, showed her how to bury the roots of the up-pulled sprouts so that they would continue in their growth.
Word: step into the breach Part of Speech: verb 1. To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it. Labels: figuratively
Word: trade press Part of Speech: noun 1. Printed media that is written and published for a particular industry. Labels: uncountable Example: Finally, it also seems that poor performance by TransPennine Express has caught the attention of more than just the trade press, with Burnham even suggesting FirstGroup should be stripped of the TPE deal should delays and cancellations continue.
Word: orbital mechanics Part of Speech: noun 1. Astrodynamics; the study of the movement of vehicles in space. Labels: uncountable
Word: lose patience Part of Speech: verb 1. To become impatient. Labels: idiomatic
Word: take someone at their word Part of Speech: verb 1. To take someone literally even though they may not have been serious; to take someone seriously even though they were joking; to take up a challenge that was initially meant as a joke. Labels: transitive 2. To take someone's word for it, to believe someone without having the means to check that what they said is true. Labels: transitive Example: There’s no way to objectively know if a particular alterhuman individual is actually an otherkin, otherkith, or otherlink. As with matters of gender identity, they have to be taken at their word—sometimes quite literally: it might be a word you've never heard before.
Word: retention tank Part of Speech: noun 1. A tank for the retention of toilet waste, e.g. on a train. Example: Eleven four-coach 'Castles' are on order, with eight delivered. These are former GWR Mk 3s that have been converted by fitting sliding doors, passenger information screens and retention tanks.
Word: retention tanks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retention tank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Penarth Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh Penarth, from pennarth (“promontory”). Pronunciation: /pɛˈnɑː(ɹ)θ/ 1. A town and community with a town council in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1871). 2. An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
Word: fabledom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fable + -dom. 1. All fables, collectively, and the worlds depicted in them. Labels: uncountable Example: The animals of all fabledom are absessed by human souls. They think man-thoughts, have man-motives, and do man-deeds. Example: It begins with a paragraph in the now familiar style: "Incola sum Britanniae," and so forth; but almost immediately Britain is left for fabledom, and we have the Wolf and the Lamb, then the names of Latin poets, then Roman camps, another fable, and so on. 2. Cultural beliefs that are not grounded in fact. Labels: uncountable Example: In a time of violent religious excitement the transference was easy from fabledom, Teutonic barbarism, &c., to Christian convents. Example: For the persnickety, spell the month J-u-l-r-y, but the rule about "r" months and oysters has happily passed into fabledom and can be ignored. 3. The legends of a particular subculture. Labels: uncountable Example: That the Seeds were able to parlay their distinctly limited talents as writers, singers and musicians into a rather long and successful career is one of the more miraculous stories in rock fabledom.
Word: Ordsall Part of Speech: name 1. An urban area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8197). 2. A village in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7079).
Word: fabricatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fabricate + -ory. 1. Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying. Labels: obsolete Example: It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are. Example: He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory. 2. Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying. Example: As a little child she had been awed into a reverence for people who kept their word, although in those days she was not without contempt for luckless ones who could not escape Mother Meg's strap by reason of a certain lack in their fabricatory regions. Example: Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.” 3. Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing. Example: It should be further noted that in the work of the Committee the term "secondary industries" has been taken to include the so-called processing industries, e.g. tanning and fruit-canning, and fabricatory industries, e.g. textile and paper mills. Example: Even so, we do not believe that, again in light of the pertinent decisional background, the fabricatory procedures through which fresh meats may have passed are sufficient to constitute the involved commodities as “processed commodities” within the meaning of the Bilyeu case.
Word: fabricatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fabricate + -ory. 1. A business that handles the fabrication of goods. Example: It is our purpose to build and improve conditions for the manufacturer, the fabricatory and the public. Example: Foundries, fabricatories, factories, mills, and more.
Word: fabricatories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fabricatory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: facthood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fact + -hood. 1. The quality of being factual; factuality. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts. Example: There are other evolutionary hypotheses that have not yet garnered sufficient evidence and whose "facthood" is still in question, especially ones having to do with particular pathways of descent or with the relative importance of natural selection versus drift, for example, as the cause of some particular biological feature.
Word: facthoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of facthood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: facultize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From faculty + -ize. 1. To make use of one's faculties; to perform skilled work. Labels: obsolete Example: And behold, I say unto you, the Supreme Genius doth not facultize ; the glory is not what it does but what it is ; it hath no old nor new, no here nor there ; it stays not to remember, to wonder, to compare ; to the vehm of the patrician Presence, omniscience were an idle labor and delay, and prophecy is forestalled and bootless in the sole sufficiency whose pæan hath no echo. 2. To educate in an academic discipline. Example: Now in Active Orders, more than anywhere else, “facultized" women are a paramount necessity. Example: The twister saved me from being facultized; while my roommate, because he was in studying, got his neck broken when the building was wrecked — poor fellow!" 3. To develop as an academic discipline. Example: Indeed, it is a question not of schools but of civilization, whether mental training, from the three R's to science and philosophy, shall really make men better, as the theory of popular education assumes, and whether the genius and talent of the few who can receive and bear it can be brought to the full maturity of a knowledge fully facultized—a question paramount, even in a republic, to the general education of the many. Example: However, in 2001, it became what I might call a 'facultized' discipline; in other words a faculty was named after it.
Word: facultizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of facultize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: facultizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of facultize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: facultized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of facultize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: facultized Part of Speech: adj 1. Having many faculties; skillful. Example: Huldy was a tailoress by trade; but then she was one o' these 'ere facultized persons that has a gift for most anything, and that was how Mis' Carryl come to set sech store by her, that, when she was sick, nothin' would do for her but she must have Huldy round all the time: and the minister he said he'd make it good to her all the same, and she shouldn't lose nothin' by it. Example: The educational system and conduct of life is based upon a mythical assumption which has been endured all too long. This assumption is that mind is a facultized entity free of the body; that this mind is all-capacious and should be crammed and kept going as long as the owner can wriggle under the lash of whip, tongue or will.
Word: facultise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of facultize. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: One of the new students, Chew, was facultised to-night by some of the Student Faculty. Example: Intuitive wisdom even in scientific discovery may precede facultised wisdom.
Word: facultises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of facultise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: facultising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of facultise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: facultised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of facultise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: falconish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From falcon + -ish. 1. Like a falcon. Example: The visage of the secretary bird is falconish in the extreme ; if possible, more so than that of the actual bird it is compared to. Example: A wholly obscure contest, as was natural ; wherein, however, to all candid eyes the vulturous and falconish character of our Isle fully asserts itself; and the foreign Quack of Quacks, with all his thaumaturgic Hemp-silks, Lottery-numbers, Beauty-waters, Seductions, Phosphorus-boxes, and Wines of Egypt, is seen matched, and nigh throttled, by the natural unassisted cunning of English Attorneys.
Word: dialozite Part of Speech: noun 1. Rhodochrosite. Labels: uncountable
Word: Zaba Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Polish żaba, Czech žába, or Slovak, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian žaba, all meaning frog. 1. A surname.
Word: king of all one surveys Part of Speech: noun 1. Possessing governing authority over a range of territory; having decisive control or oversight over all major matters within one's ambit of influence; having a satisfying position of respected leadership or comfortable prestige. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable, usually Example: Let the world without go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall, so long as he has the wherewithal to pay his bill he is, for the time being, the very monarch of all he surveys. Example: None of the refinements of civilisation enter into the life of an ordinary Boer. […] His happiness is to live alone in the great wilderness, with his children, his men-servants and his maid-servants, his flocks and his herds, the monarch of all he surveys.
Word: monarch of all one surveys Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of king of all one surveys. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: lord of all one surveys Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of king of all one surveys. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: master of all one surveys Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of king of all one surveys. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: poodly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From poodle + -y. 1. Like a poodle (dog).
Word: Tehrangeles Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Tehran + Los Angeles. 1. A Persian/Iranian-dominated neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Example: Some of those immigrants and their descendants became a visible part of the cultural scene in California, in Tehrangeles, the worst of which were depicted in the unflattering reality show Shahs of Sunset.
Word: Spotswood Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. 2. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Hobsons Bay, Victoria, Australia
Word: Pittsylvania Part of Speech: name Etymology: * (Pittsylvania County): Pitt (“William Pitt the Elder”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”) Pronunciation: /ˌpɪt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/, /-.njə/, /ˌpɪt.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/ 1. Ellipsis of Pittsylvania County. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. A proposed name for a failed colony bid, in what would later become West Virginia. Labels: historical
Word: as much again Part of Speech: adv 1. An additional amount of the same size. Labels: not-comparable
Word: that's a good one Part of Speech: intj 1. That's funny (often said to indicate that what has just been said is laughably unbelievable.) Labels: informal
Word: pendletonite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Norman Pendleton (1901-1995), a mineral collector in Santa Cruz. Name invented by Joseph Murdoch in 1967. 1. Name for a coronene mineral, later called carpathite. Labels: uncountable
Word: Yugonostalgic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of Yugo-nostalgic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: calmth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From calm + -th (abstract nominal suffix). 1. The state or condition of being calm; calmness. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: esponton Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of spontoon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jump in with both feet Part of Speech: verb 1. To commit oneself wholeheartedly. Labels: informal
Word: dansak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dhansak. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: dansaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dansak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baby rice Part of Speech: noun 1. Finely ground rice used as a food for babies. Labels: uncountable
Word: on the block Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Available or for sale at an auction. Labels: Canada, US Example: go on the block Example: put on the block
Word: live to regret Part of Speech: verb 1. to regret doing something. Labels: transitive
Word: microswitched Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From microswitch + -ed. 1. Having one or more microswitches. Labels: not-comparable
Word: AFAP Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of as fast as possible. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: out of both sides of one's mouth Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Compare out of the side of one's mouth. 1. Indicating contradictory things. Labels: figuratively Example: to speak out of both sides of one's mouth Example: to talk out of both sides of one's mouth
Word: sparkledog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sparkle Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog English sparkledog From sparkle + dog. Pronunciation: /ˈspɑː.kəlˌdɒɡ/, /ˈspɑɹ.kəlˌdɑɡ/ 1. A fictional anthropomorphic character, most commonly a canine, that has strikingly vibrant colors and patterns on its body. Other common features include unnatural combinations of physical traits, such as wings and horns being on a dog; human-styled hair; and excessive jewellery, piercings, and other man-made accessories. Labels: Internet, slang
Word: street shitters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of street shitter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sparkledogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sparkledog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: timetabler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From timetable + -er. 1. A person who prepares timetables. Example: NR's timetablers would usually deal with these conflicts by adding pathing time to a train's schedule.
Word: timetablers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of timetabler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of police + accident. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊlæk/ 1. A road-traffic accident that occurs due to presence of a police vehicle. Labels: UK Example: An accident involving a police car is known as a 'polac', and is investigated 'independently' by the area traffic department rather than by the division to which the driver belongs. Example: Before getting out of his van, he sent out a Polac (police accident) bulletin on his radio.
Word: POLAC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of police + accident. 1. Alternative letter-case form of polac. Labels: UK, alt-of Example: I doubt that the organisation is going to be terribly concerned that you arrive at that call thirty seconds later than you would have done otherwise but can be pretty sure that they would have something to say had you smashed up your police car on the way there. I doubt also that CPS would be satisfied with the defence of '...It was my first night duty … and I was rather tired...' after your high profile POLAC gets splashed all over the national newspapers and television news. Example: And it really brought it home to me when I was involved in my own POLAC (police accident) in March 2012.
Word: POLAC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of police + academy. 1. The Police Academy of Nigeria. Labels: Nigeria, uncountable
Word: POLACs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of POLAC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grade-separated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having routes that cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level. Labels: not-comparable Example: Potential answers here include remodelling the north junction to be grade-separated, adding an extra platform and track to allow more parallel moves, or by changing services so that trains from Wigan go towards Piccadilly and trains from Bolton head for Victoria.
Word: bar chair Part of Speech: noun 1. A tall chair-like seat usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters. Example: Past the bar was a little area in an alcove that contained a few tall, round tables and bar chairs. Example: He ordered a Corona, stretched and groaned as he lowered himself into a too small bar chair.
Word: bar chairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bar chair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reversing siding Part of Speech: noun 1. A siding provided for terminating passenger trains, usually at a through station, where a train can lay over between journeys before heading back in the opposite direction. Labels: UK Example: Help could also come from adding reversing sidings east of Victoria. This would cut the number of trains running on towards Rochdale or Stalybridge, which might ease the contraints of those single-ladder junctions.
Word: reversing sidings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reversing siding Labels: form-of, plural
Word: set an example Part of Speech: verb 1. To behave in a way that other people should.
Word: make a play Part of Speech: verb 1. To attempt to get or achieve. 2. To try to initiate a romantic relationship.
Word: Guinevieve Part of Speech: name Etymology: Conflation of Guinevere and Genevieve. Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɪnəˌviːv/ 1. A female given name. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Guinevieve.
Word: Newtonmore Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Highland council area, Scotland, historically in Inverness-shire (OS grid ref NN7199).
Word: Honeybourne Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English huniġ (“honey”) + burna (“stream, brook”). 1. A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1144). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: neofuturist Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to neofuturism. Example: In the late 1970s, World Shelters founder Bruce LeBel studied with Buckminster Fuller, the renowned neofuturist architect. Example: The original neofuturist structure includes a winged, thin shell roof and fluid, open design, which the architect hoped would evoke the sensation of flight.
Word: neofuturist Part of Speech: noun 1. An adherent of neofuturism. Labels: rare 2. A modern futurologist. Example: Building on the works of John Naisbitt (1982) and Alvin Toffler (1970), neofuturists imbue novel technologies with an almost mystical quality, revealed in their numerous incantations supporting technological solutions to political problems.
Word: Wolstenholme Part of Speech: name Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from the Old English personal name Wulfstān, which is composed of the elements wulf (“wolf”) and stān (“stone”), + Old Norse holmr (“island”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlstənˌhoʊm/ 1. A surname.
Word: smear-case Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of smearcase. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:smear-case.
Word: augmentive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From augment + -ive. 1. Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative. Example: The data leave little doubt that the augmentive power of these blood samples was much greater from the formed elements than from the plasma. Example: The third class of tools are augmentive tools which extend the capabilities of the developers in much the same way in which saws, hammers and screwdrivers extend the capabilities of carpenters. 2. Supplementary; additional. Example: A planting report as described in subsection (1) of this section shall also be submitted to the cabinet if any augmentive reseeding or replanting, or other augmentive work, is performed within the permit area. Example: I have the requisite authority to provide augmentive information to you concerning the history and tragic circumstance of the loss. 3. Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense. Example: Observe, that as ry is augmentive, it is not usual to give it a plural form, (for the plural termination is in a certain sense augmentive,) Example: As an opposite to dys, let en (ry) as an augmentive particle, as we have it in en-harmonia, en-telechia, and en-ergetic.
Word: augmentive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From augment + -ive. 1. An augmentive affix; augmentative. Example: This coincidence between the numeral and the augmentive (for both are resolvable into the same etymon) has occasioned all my perplexity in deciding whether connectives ought to be resolved into augmentives, or augmentives into connectives; for, as we shall presently see, they are closely connected. Example: Marking the noun in agreement with the class associated with diminutives (or augmentives) instead of the agreement class it is ordinarily associated with indicates that a speaker is evaluating the referent as small (or large) with respect to a certain domain. 2. Something that augments. Example: The chief thing which they point out to me is that there was no religious sense in the peasantry at all. The names and symbols of worship were augmentives of conversation, but no more.
Word: augmentives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of augmentive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bepuddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + puddle. 1. To cover or fill with puddles. Example: It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters. Example: Now, black streets the rain bepuddles, and a communion of sorts can be happily re-embraced. 2. To soil or debase. Labels: broadly Example: But this Antichrist has, where she rules, put all out of order ; and no wonder, for she has bepuddled the word of God ; no wonder, then, I say, if the foundations of the world be out of course.
Word: bepuddles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bepuddle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bepuddling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bepuddle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bepuddled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bepuddle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spherical nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spherical + nucleic acid. 1. A spheroidal compound composed of a central spherical scaffold upon which nucleic acid strands are attached, like hair on a ball.
Word: spinal muscular atrophy Part of Speech: noun 1. A neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spinal muscular atrophies Part of Speech: noun 1. a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the degeneration of lower motor neurons and atrophy of muscle groups Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: spinal muscular atrophies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: SMAs Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of spinal muscular atrophies. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, plural, plural-only
Word: SMAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of SMA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supplementary motor area Part of Speech: noun 1. A part of the primate cerebral cortex that contributes to the control of movement, located on the midline surface of the brain hemisphere anterior to the primary motor cortex leg representation.
Word: otherwards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From other + -wards; compare otherward. 1. Towards an other or another direction. Example: For in this Arch too, leading, as we humbly presume, far otherwards than that grand primeval one, the materials are to be fished-up from the weltering deep, and down from the simmering air, here one mass, there another, ... Example: "Embodiment" suggests the thing directly before us, while "expression" has the unfortunate tendency . . . to direct our thoughts otherwards to feelings or ideas which are expressed.
Word: otherwhat Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From other + what. 1. Something else; (some) other thing; especially in the phrase no otherwhat (“no other thing; nothing else”). Labels: archaic Example: Certes, for no otherwhat (His every action being our witness) than to instruct those who govern and the faithful in general that they should be diligent to learn what opinion is had of them, so they may persevere in good and desist from ill. Example: i. e. do not blurt it out abruptly, but begin by speaking of otherwhat and then gradually and discreetly introduce the mention of me and my case.
Word: otherwhen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From other + when. 1. Other time (sometime else). Labels: rare Example: It was the beginning of a trail leading from the here-and-now into the otherwhere, otherwhen which Simak so loved. His otherwhere, otherwhen would never find more poetic expression than in this series about the Websters, unless perhaps in ... Example: The ravaging weapons of war had revealed them, had so torn the fabric of the universe that now strange paths to otherwheres and otherwhens lay open to those who were knowledgeable or courageous enough to tread those paths ...
Word: otherwhen Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From other + when. 1. Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: In the contrasting phenomenological approach — because elsewhere presences here and otherwhen presences now — elsewhere and otherwhen also are present to one another, each in its own way.
Word: otherwhens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of otherwhen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: housewifry Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of housewifery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: mislest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apparently an alteration of molest, after mis-. 1. To molest, mistreat. Labels: England, Ireland, regional Example: “I'd scorn for to mislest a gentleman when he's taking his pleasure.”
Word: becket hitch Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several types of hitch knot used to attach a rope or cord to any kind of becket. 2. Specifically, a sheet bend when used to hitch to an eye splice.
Word: becket hitches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of becket hitch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Purleigh Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Maldon district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8302).
Word: Hook Norton Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3533).
Word: alloarthroplasty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From allo- + arthroplasty. 1. The surgical method of reconstructing and replacing a damaged or deformed joint
Word: alloarthroplasties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alloarthroplasty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alloarthroplastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From allo- + arthroplastic. 1. Relating to alloarthroplasty Labels: not-comparable
Word: swab hitch Part of Speech: noun 1. A becket hitch applied to a swab.
Word: swab hitches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swab hitch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: double becket hitch Part of Speech: noun 1. A becket hitch with an extra turn, for security. Often used to hitch a line to a harpoon.
Word: double becket hitches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of double becket hitch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: churn rate Part of Speech: noun 1. The annual percentage rate at which customers stop using a service, or employees leave a job (staff turnover). Example: These include higher performance levels, increased customer satisfaction and better business results, plus a range of other metrics such as staff churn rate, gender pay gap, industrial relations and staff satisfaction.
Word: churn rates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of churn rate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steering wheel becket Part of Speech: noun 1. A rope with a becket at one end and a hook at the other, used to hold the ship's wheel (the helm) in fixed position. Normally used in pairs, with the becket on a spoke and the hook on a ring in the deck.
Word: steering wheel beckets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steering wheel becket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Moreton Part of Speech: name 1. A number of places in England: 2. A number of places in England: 3. A number of places in England: 4. A number of places in England: 5. A number of places in England: 6. A number of places in England: 7. A number of places in England: 8. A surname.
Word: figure-eight hitch Part of Speech: noun 1. A becket hitch favoured by anglers to hitch a line to a leader loop.
Word: figure-eight hitches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of figure-eight hitch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Moreton Bay Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named Morton's Bay by James Cook after James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton; the spelling change was due to a misprint. 1. A bay near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 2. A locality in the City of Brisbane and Redland City, near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, partly surrounding the bay of the same name. 3. A local government area north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia; in full, the City of Moreton Bay.
Word: Moreton-in-Marsh Part of Speech: name 1. A small market town and civil parish with a town council in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP2032).
Word: garadship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From garaad + -ship. 1. A Horn African or Cushitic kingdom or chieftaincy. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable
Word: otherwhither Part of Speech: adv Etymology: other + whither 1. Elsewhither. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, obsolete Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:otherwhither.
Word: otherwhereas Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From other + whereas (“where”). 1. Elsewhere. Labels: obsolete Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:otherwhereas.
Word: QAPF diagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: QAPF stands for "quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, feldspathoid". 1. A kind of diagram used to classify igneous rocks based on their mineral composition.
Word: QAPF diagrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of QAPF diagram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skinny Minnie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme. 1. A person having a thin physical build. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic, informal
Word: skinny Minnies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skinny Minnie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gloomy octopuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gloomy octopus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baking tin Part of Speech: noun 1. A deep baking tray that may be used in making cakes etc.
Word: baking tins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baking tin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barrel knot Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of bend knot used to join nylon lines and cords, for its ability to maintain line strength and its non-slip quality. Also known as the blood knot.
Word: barrel knots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barrel knot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sprunk Part of Speech: noun 1. A concubine. Labels: obsolete Example: My chiefest spite to clergy is, / Who in these days bear sway; / With fryars and monks, with their fine sprunks, / I make my chiefest prey.
Word: sprunks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sprunk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cabbalic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Kabbalic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: 'I find it so difficult,' he said, his watery eyes gleaming with a pale, flickering light of humour, 'to remember the various cabbalic passwords and devices with which I should approach the Holy of Holies, Robin. Example: The title of Of This Men Shall Know Nothing echoes a particular phrase in a popular text on cabbalic mysteries, Eliphas Levi's La Clef des grands mysteres: "God: that is what we eternally learn to know.
Word: malenders Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of malanders. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: malander Part of Speech: noun 1. singular of malanders Labels: form-of, singular
Word: malender Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of malander. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mallender Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of malander. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kabbalic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Kabbala + -ic. 1. Concerning the Kabbalah; cabalistic. Labels: Judaism, not-comparable Example: While the practices of Kabbala were known in Europe from very early times, the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492 resulted in a great influx of Kabbalic lore into the Latin kingdoms. Example: To assist in the spiritual awakening of his disciples, Jesus taught them a form of Kabbalic Yoga which had been handed down word of mouth from the Essenes, the School of Prophets, and the Levites.
Word: tide surveyor Part of Speech: noun 1. A customs inspector ranking above the tide waiters. Labels: UK, historical
Word: tide surveyors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tide surveyor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cabbalic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Kabbalic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: More affected by Cabbalic and Hermetic studies than Mede, he too uses allegory in his exposition of the Scriptures, and in teaching constantly quotes the prophetic books. Example: The analysis is far from original, as Gobineau himself recognized, this manner of thinking being a common aspect of the Jewish Cabbalic tradition, Christian gnosticism, and Islamic Sufism.
Word: kabbalic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Kabbalic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Although kabbalic mysticism did not emerge until the twelfth century, mystical exploration can be traced back to... Example: ... and who utilized the kabbalic Sefer Yetzira (third to sixth centuries) and Sefer ha-Bahir (twelfth century).
Word: Megxit Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Meghan + exit, one of a series of coinages by analogy with Brexit. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɡ.zɪt/, /ˈmɛk.sɪt/ 1. The (initially hypothetical) departure of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, from the British royal family; the January 2020 decision of Prince Harry and Meghan to step back from duties as senior members of the British royal family. Labels: colloquial Example: Some have even posted on Twitter with the hashtag #Megxit to share their views. Example: And while Julie enjoys the life she has built here in the UK, she understands the pressures that come with marrying into a high-profile and ancient family line like the Windsor's. So much so, that she predicted "Megxit" six months ago.
Word: MENACA Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Middle East and North Africa and Central Asia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: marbled godwit Part of Speech: noun 1. Limosa fedoa, a large shorebird.
Word: marbled godwits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marbled godwit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Menaca Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Meñaca, from Basque Meñaca, from Basque Meña. 1. A habitational surname from Basque. 2. A town in Spain.
Word: honor walk Part of Speech: noun 1. The transportation of a dying patient in a hospital to the operating theatre for organ donation, flanked by friends, family and hospital staff as a sign of respect. Labels: US Example: So it was on Thursday, August 23, when staff joined together to participate in our first Honor Walk, celebrating the life and spirit of Elizabeth “Libby” Hanzl D’Avignon, who had fallen in her Middlebury home and had been declared brain dead here at UVM Medical Center. Example: Whether in Idaho or Tennessee or Oregon, hospitals across the United States are holding honor walks as dignified ways to honor each patient’s final contribution.
Word: honor walks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of honor walk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: privet hawk moth Part of Speech: noun 1. Sphinx ligustri, a moth found in most of the Palearctic ecozone.
Word: privet hawk moths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of privet hawk moth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dactylose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dactyl- + -ose. 1. Finger-like. Example: Distinguished by its elongated dactylose form, and by the bold longitudinally striped pattern of the epidermis. Example: It consists of a little calcareous cylindrical column, about one tenth of an inch in height, attached by a dactylose base, and surmounted by an expansion in the form of a reversed cone, the margin of whose wide end is extended into several radiating arms, which, like the rest of the fossil, are entirely calcareous.
Word: Ingleton Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1720). 2. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD6973).
Word: musicall Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of musical. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: It is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.
Word: essentiall Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of essential. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: […] rather than alter his pace, or path (that Conscience or Reason boundeth him in) he will bee poor, undone; any thing but the Ratio formalis, essentiall of a Suist, or selfe-polititian, that is changeable.
Word: spheare Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of sphere. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: spheares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spheare Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quarrell Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of quarrel. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: You miſtake ſir I am ſure, no man hath any quarrell to me: my remembrance is very free and cleere from any image of offence done to any man. Example: If I can faſten but one cup vpon him, / With that which he hath drunke to night already, / Hee'll be as full of quarrell and offence, / As my young miſtris dog:— […]
Word: quarrell Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of quarrel. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: [T]here is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts, is as full of difference, as the outward, and in that, is the Cauſe Continent of many diſeaſes, which not be obſerued, they quarrell many times with the humors which are not in fault, the fault being in the very frame and Mechanicke of the parte, which cannot be remoued by medicine alteratiue, but muſt be accomodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar.
Word: quarrells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quarrell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quarrells Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of quarrell Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: seraphicall Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of seraphical. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: In summe, the active Christian is the onely Seraphicall Doctor, the just Dealer, the best Casuist, the good Example, Master of the Sentences, each good Action speaking more effectually, Imitation, or Conviction to Spectators, than any (though the subtlest worder) could ever arrive to.
Word: wissled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of wissle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: wissling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wissle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: quattuortrigintillion Part of Speech: num Etymology: From Latin quattuor + trigintillion. 1. 10¹⁰⁵. Labels: US, rare
Word: summit-hop Part of Speech: verb 1. To travel frequently between political assemblies in order to take part in protests or other activism. Labels: intransitive
Word: subsummit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + summit. 1. A local peaked portion of a mountain etc., lower than the primary summit.
Word: subsummits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subsummit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: summit-hopping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of summit-hop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: summit-hops Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of summit-hop Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: summit-hopped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of summit-hop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: summit-hopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From summit-hop + -er. 1. One who summit-hops.
Word: summit-hoppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of summit-hopper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sye Part of Speech: verb 1. To say. Labels: UK, dated Example: hinkin' of whort yer'd liked ter sye, but whort yer 'aven't said, Example: Thank yer kindly for mi comfortable tea. That's what you was about to sye, eh'! No, 'tain't.
Word: Yosondúa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Yosondúa. 1. A town in Oaxaca, Mexico. 2. A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Word: Pinotepa Nacional Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Pinotepa Nacional. 1. A city in Oaxaca, Mexico. 2. A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Word: sticky-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stick up + -y. 1. Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy. Labels: informal Example: "There was a light in the painting-room window," he said, tremulously, "and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away." Example: All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]
Word: digital art Part of Speech: noun 1. Art produced using computer technology, as opposed to traditional art. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: matched grip Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of holding drum sticks in which the stick is held the same way in both hands. Labels: uncountable
Word: digital arts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of digital art Labels: form-of, plural
Word: traditional grip Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of holding drum sticks in which the right hand uses an overhand grip and the left hand uses an underhand grip. Labels: uncountable
Word: inaureole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + aureole. 1. To give (someone) a halo; to surround (someone or something) with light. Labels: literary, transitive Example: Light most heavenly-human— / […] / With a sun derivèd stole / Did inaureole / All her lovely body round; […] Example: So leave we them, each head inaureoled With the awakening spring’s young sunlight-gold.
Word: with a bump Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. With a sudden return to seriousness or reality. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: bring someone back down to earth with a bump Example: come down to earth with a bump
Word: with a bang Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Flamboyantly; in a noticeable and exciting manner. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: go off with a bang 2. Suddenly serious or down-to-earth. Labels: figuratively, informal
Word: Lamington Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7477). 2. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9831). 3. A suburb of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 4. An unincorporated community in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
Word: down tools Part of Speech: verb 1. To stop work, especially when taking industrial action. Labels: UK, idiomatic, informal Example: But when railway workers downed tools almost a year later, on September 26 1919, Britain was in many ways still a country at war. Example: In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise[.]
Word: downed tools Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of down tools Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: downing tools Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of down tools Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: downs tools Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of down tools Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: war cabinet Part of Speech: noun 1. A government committee formed in wartime to coordinate the war effort. Labels: capitalized, often Example: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George was still holding meetings of the War Cabinet, a committee he had established on entering Downing Street three years earlier to put key decisions in the hands of a group of select ministers.
Word: war cabinets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of war cabinet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Taurini Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Taurīnī. 1. A Celto-Ligurian tribe of ancient Piedmont, whose chief town was Taurasi, near Turin. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only
Word: papboat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pap boat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mouth-pussy Part of Speech: noun 1. the mouth, seen as a sexual receptacle Labels: slang, vulgar Example: Shit, what ah need is a nice, warm, wet li'l mouth-pussy t'fuck. How 'bout it?" Example: He grinned a little. "Open up that mouth-pussy of yours, baby, ...