nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: headlight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From head + light. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌlaɪt/ 1. A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair. Example: Improving how headlights are designed and controlled does not have to mean choosing between environmental protection and public safety. Smarter lighting that reduces unnecessary brightness and glare can benefit wildlife, improve driver comfort, and support safer nighttime travel. 2. A woman's breast. Labels: US, in-plural, slang, vulgar Example: Oh, well. She's got... great... casabas.[…]Well, you know. Melons.[…]Hoo-has? Honkers? Hooters? Headlights? Uh... tatas? Teeters? Tweeters? Tom-toms? Tetons?[…]I'm trying to say it. Uh, meatballs. Mangoes. Cream pies. Cupcakes? Uh... bangers? Bouncers? Bulumbas?[…]Bazongas? Breasts! I said it. 3. A woman's erect nipples, partially masked by clothing. Labels: Canada, in-plural, slang, vulgar 4. A jewel; especially a diamond. Labels: US, in-plural, slang 5. Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Labels: US, in-plural, slang
Word: saccharum Part of Speech: noun 1. Invert sugar. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Thus, when analysing these sugars, we make a point of determining the extent of inversion accomplished, and freedom from albuminous matter and ash, for it will be seen that the chief difference between the saccharums and invert sugars in the market is exemplified by variation in these respects […]
Word: lanyard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English lainer, lainere, lanyer (“strap or thong used to fasten armour”) (with the ending modified in the 17th century under the influence of yard), from Old French laniere, lasniere (“thong, lash”) (see modern French lanière (“lanyard, strap”)). The French word is ultimately from Germanic, cognate with Old High German nestila (“band, headband; strap”) (modern German Nestel (“lace; strap; string”)), Old Norse nesta (“brace; fastener, strap”). Pronunciation: /ˈlæn.jəd/, /ˈlænˌjɑːd/, /ˈlæn.jɚd/, /ˈlænˌjɑɹd/, /ˈɫænjəd/ 1. A short rope used for fastening rigging, as a handle, etc. Example: "Take ahold here, an' keep ringin' steady," said Dan, passing Harvey the lanyard of a bell that hung just behind the windlass. 2. A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle. Labels: broadly Example: Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible. [...] [H]e would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk. 3. A craft activity done by intricately braiding thin colored plastic lines to make patterns, or the product of such a craft. Example: It's lanyard. It's a camp tradition. You'll have about a million lanyard key chains by the time the summer is over. Example: A few lousy days at Camp Minnehaha spent extracting oar splinters from your palms and taking group lanyard lessons under the full noonday sun. 4. A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon. Labels: broadly
Word: politique Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French politique, from Latin politicus. Doublet of politic. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlətɪk/, /ˈpɑlətɪk/ 1. A politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled. Labels: derogatory Example: Modern historical assessments of Cecil have veered from that of the cynical, secular politique to the image of the committed Protestant ideologue […]
Word: politique Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of politic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And surely me thinketh we cannot better bestowe our time on the Sea, then in aduice how to behaue our selues when we come to the shore: for greater daunger is there to ariue in a straunge countrey where the inhabitauntes be politique, then to be tossed with the troublesome waues, where the Marriners be vnskilfull. Example: Politique Body
Word: morts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: okrug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a Slavic language; compare Russian о́круг (ókrug) or Serbo-Croatian округ/okrug. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkrʌɡ/, /ˈɑkrʌɡ/ 1. An administrative division of some Slavic states. Example: It should also be taken into account, that the creation of okruga was carried out without consideration of the country’s economic divisions and regions’ economic potentials. The number and structure of federal okruga should be specified further. Therefore, given that okruga continue evolving as centers of governance over social and economic territorial development, change of structure and organization principles can be viewed as a long­ term task. Example: Eighteen additional nationalities had territorial enclaves (autonomous oblasts and okruga) but possessed very little power of self-government.
Word: longueur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”). Pronunciation: /lɒŋˈ(ɡ)ɜː/ 1. A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom. Example: Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications. Example: He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].
Word: Aleut Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Russian алеу́т (aleút), probably from a native word, perhaps Aleut allíthuh (“community”) or Chukchi aliat (“island”). Pronunciation: /ˌæ.liːˈuːt/, /ˈæ.liːˌuːt/, /əˈluːt/ 1. Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Aleut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian алеу́т (aleút), probably from a native word, perhaps Aleut allíthuh (“community”) or Chukchi aliat (“island”). Pronunciation: /ˌæ.liːˈuːt/, /ˈæ.liːˌuːt/, /əˈluːt/ 1. A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
Word: Aleut Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian алеу́т (aleút), probably from a native word, perhaps Aleut allíthuh (“community”) or Chukchi aliat (“island”). Pronunciation: /ˌæ.liːˈuːt/, /ˈæ.liːˌuːt/, /əˈluːt/ 1. The language of the Aleutian Islands, related to Eskimo (Inupiaq and Yupik).
Word: redacted Part of Speech: adj 1. Edited or censored. Example: The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret. Example: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
Word: redacted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of redact Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: googolth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From googol + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːɡəlθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number googol. Labels: not-comparable
Word: googolth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From googol + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːɡəlθ/ 1. The person or thing in the googolth position. Labels: no-plural 2. One of a googol equal parts of a whole. Labels: no-plural
Word: whoremaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier hore-maister, equivalent to whore + master. 1. A man who uses the services of prostitutes. Labels: derogatory Example: Noiselessly the fat whoremaster glided across the floor. Jimmy Earls the brothel creeper. 2. A pimp. 3. An exploiter of people. Labels: figuratively Example: a. 2000, Dale Brown, quoted in Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist This one-billion-dollar TV contract is the paramount example of the injustices in the game. Look at the money we make off predominately poor black kids. We're the whoremasters.
Word: prospector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prospect + -or. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈspɛktə/, /ˈpɹɑsˌpɛktɚ/ 1. A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold. Example: A large number of prospectors have crossed over the divide to the British head waters of the Yukon, in search of the rich diggings found by a lucky few last year. Example: The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect.
Word: ikebana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 生け花 (ikebana, literally “living flowers”). 1. The Japanese art of flower arrangement. Labels: uncountable Example: Along with the island’s 3,000 other Japanese American residents, she celebrated Japanese holidays; learned the art of flower arranging, ikebana; and wore kimonos. 2. An arrangement of flowers according to this art. Labels: countable
Word: irresistible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin resisto Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin irresistibilislbor. English irresistible Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin irresistibilis, equivalent to ir- + resistible. Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/ 1. Impossible to resist. Example: Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth on the march, where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the market-place, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a torrent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a whole world. Example: Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible: at what point did handwriting begin to express individual personality? 2. Compellingly attractive.
Word: resistible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English resist Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English resistible From resist + -ible. 1. Able to be resisted.
Word: resists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of resist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resists Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of resist Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: resisting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɪstɪŋ/, /ɹəˈzɪstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of resist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: resisting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɪstɪŋ/, /ɹəˈzɪstɪŋ/ 1. resistance Example: There has been a great deal written recently regarding the honesty, or rather dishonesty of action on the part of surety companies, their technical bonds, their resistings of payments, their scalings of losses, etc.
Word: isu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 椅子. 1. An individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
Word: resisted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɪstɪd/, /ɹəˈzɪstɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of resist Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: isha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic عِشَاء (ʕišāʔ, “evening, night”), in صَلَاةُ العِشَاء (ṣalātu l-ʕišāʔ, “night prayer”). 1. The evening/night Islamic prayer. Labels: uncountable
Word: fascinoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fascinating Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.? Ancient Greek -όω (-óō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)der. English -oma English fascinoma From fascinating + -oma. 1. An unusual and interesting case or diagnosis: one especially interesting in its differential diagnosis. Labels: slang
Word: gridelin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French gris de lin (“grey of flax”). 1. Having a dusky color between white and red; gray-violet. Labels: not-comparable
Word: gridelin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French gris de lin (“grey of flax”). 1. A dusky color between white and red; gray-violet. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: priapic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Priapus + -ic, from Πρίᾱπος (Príāpos), a god of procreation pictured with an erect phallus in Greek mythology. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈæpɪk/, /pɹaɪˈeɪpɪk/ 1. Phallic. Example: The only relic of the temple of Isis is a priapic goblet; from the spout of which it is plain that the votaries must have quaffed the wine. 2. In a state of penile erection. Example: When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?" Priapic Adam was in no mood to explain the natural order of things (from his point of view) and so he simply tried to compel her obedience by force. 3. Related to or overly concerned with male sexual activity or exhibiting excessive male sexual activity. Example: Both artists were charming, shameless and cruel, and revelled in what Bacon called an “atmosphere of threat”. Often on the run or hiding out, they led priapic private lives: Bacon was homosexual, Freud hetero. Example: And in every way that mattered his life story proved that we were wrong to listen to him, because at the end of the long slide lay only a degraded, priapic senility, or the desperate gaiety of Prince Prospero’s court with the Red Death at the door. 4. Excessively masculine; excessively concerned with masculinity. Example: Gabriele D’Annunzio, a priapic, drug-addicted poet, war hero, military adventurer and man about town, was a mesmeric figure who encouraged triumphalism in Italy’s nationalist right-wingers.
Word: cool beans Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /kuːl biːnz/ 1. A humorous and lighthearted nonsense phrase indicating approval or mild excitement: great, wow. Labels: childish Example: Cheech: “Hey man, look at this car made out of weed!” / Chong: “Oh cool beans, man!” Example: ‘It’s cool beans!’ That’s what Betsy always says when she thinks something is fantastic, and I couldn’t help wondering what she’d say if she could see me now.
Word: leukopenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English leuko- Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-der. Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek πένης (pénēs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā) Ancient Greek πενῐ́ᾱ (penĭ́ā)bor. English -penia English leukopenia From leuko- + -penia. 1. An abnormally low count of leukocytes, or white blood cells, in the blood. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: epicure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Epicurus, the name of an Ancient Greek philosopher who advocated such a lifestyle. Pronunciation: /ˈɛpɪkjʊə/, /ˈɛpɪkjʊɹ/ 1. A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink. Example: If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is. Example: But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits in public, do not always pursue the performer into private life, and that the most dreary depression of spirits and dismal repentances sometimes overcome him. Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.
Word: hipster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪp.stə/, /ˈhɪp.stɚ/ 1. A person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. Example: c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239, I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […] Example: The other people in the urine-odored hall stood silently waiting for the hipster to disappear between the tables, to be dropped there by the stocky white detective. 2. A member of a Bohemian counterculture. Example: Near-synonym: hippie 3. An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip. Example: Near-synonym: hippie Example: Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!” 4. A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol). Labels: US, obsolete Example: (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine) 5. A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s. Labels: US, historical, obsolete 6. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
Word: hipster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪp.stə/, /ˈhɪp.stɚ/ 1. To behave like a hipster. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: But it was a white staff member of a reform school who gave Claude Brown the first notion he ever had that there might be something in the world besides dope and sex and hipstering. Example: The hipsters are hipstering, the businessmen are businessing, the parents are parenting, the children are childrening, and the black teenagers are calling each other niggers. 2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone. Example: I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.
Word: elision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ēlīsiō (“striking out, forcing out”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from ēlīsus (“knocked out, forced out”), past participle of ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”) (whence elide), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)). Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɪʒ.(ə)n̩/, /ɪˈlɪz.j(ə)n̩/ 1. The deliberate omission of something. 2. The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe. Example: See also: contraction, apheresis, apocope, syncope
Word: elicitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English elicit Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English elicitation From elicit + -ation. 1. The act of eliciting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The exact interpretation of these hyperparameters becomes clearer once you have seen their role in the posterior and, hence, we defer a deeper discussion of prior elicitation until the next section. 2. Something that is elicited. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: embarkation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French embarcation. By surface analysis, embark + -ation. 1. The act of embarking. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of loading military personnel and vehicles etc into ships or aircraft. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A vessel. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: embolden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bold (adjective) + em- -en (variant of en- -en (circumfix forming transitive verbs denoting an increase in, or intensification of, the quality denoted by the enclosed word)). Compare Middle English embolden, enbolden (“to make bold, encourage”) (modern English embold, enbold, imbold (obsolete)), and inboldysshen (“to embolden, encourage”). Pronunciation: /ɛmˈbəʊld(ə)n/, /ɪm-/, /ɛmˈboʊld(ə)n/ 1. To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten. Labels: transitive Example: Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill. Example: I haue heard many ſuch things: miſerable comforters are ye all. Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou anſwereſt? 2. To format (text) in boldface. Labels: transitive Example: This note introduces several additional features of LATEX: […] ▪ The use of text style commands, including the \emph command to emphasize text, the \textbf command to embolden text, and the \texttt command to produce typewriter style text. Example: The [HTML] tags <p></p> indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: <em></em> for emphasis (typically italics), <u></u> for underline and <strong></strong> to embolden text.
Word: embower Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower. Pronunciation: /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/ 1. To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. Labels: poetic, transitive Example: Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d Example: A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms. 2. To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. Labels: intransitive Example: But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent; 3. To form a bower. Labels: intransitive Example: Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat
Word: composite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). Doublet of compost, compote, and kompot. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpəzɪt/, /kəmˈpɑzɪt/, /kəmˈpɒzɪt/, /ˈkɔmpəzɪt/, /ˈkɒmpəzət/ 1. Made up of multiple components; compound or complex. Example: The line then falls on a gradient of 1 in 102 to the point at Windmill Lane, known locally as the "Three Bridges," where there is a composite crossing of road, canal and railway, all at the same point. The road is carried over the canal by an orthodox-style bridge, the canal being contained in a cast-iron trough, 8 ft. deep, which passes at an acute angle over the railway. (This arrangement at Southall remains the same in 2026) 2. Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles. 3. Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one. 4. Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets. 5. Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy. Labels: historical Example: composite portraiture; a composite photograph Example: [B]y photographing a number of faces on the same plate, and so superimposing their images on one another, he produces a so-called "composite" photograph or image.
Word: composite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). Doublet of compost, compote, and kompot. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpəzɪt/, /kəmˈpɑzɪt/, /kəmˈpɒzɪt/, /ˈkɔmpəzɪt/, /ˈkɒmpəzət/ 1. A mixture of different components. 2. A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials. 3. A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae. 4. A function of a function. 5. Clipping of composite number. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 6. A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images. 7. A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor. Labels: UK Example: The units are made up as either: [...] Trailer composite—4 first-class compartments—24 seats; and 3 second-class compartments—24 seats, [...] A total of 40 vehicles are to be built, Ten of each type of power car, ten trailer composites, five trailer seconds and five trailer second/buffets. 8. A framed photo board composed of many individual photos of fraternity or sorority members. 9. The separate pages of individual student photos that form the main section. 10. A segment, subset. Labels: uncommon Example: […] likely give offense to conscience or moral feelings or shock the sense of decency or propriety in a substantial composite of the general public Example: Insurance as an industry is a major composite of the financial sector of any economy all over the world, Nigeria inclusive.
Word: composite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of compōnō (“put together”). Doublet of compost, compote, and kompot. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpəzɪt/, /kəmˈpɑzɪt/, /kəmˈpɒzɪt/, /ˈkɔmpəzɪt/, /ˈkɒmpəzət/ 1. To make a composite. Example: I composited an image using computer software.
Word: logger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From log + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɡə/, /ˈlɑɡɚ/ 1. A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees. 2. That which logs, such as a computer program to keep track of events.
Word: lawless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *lagą Old Norse lag Old Norse lǫgbor. Old English lagu Middle English lawe Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les Middle English laweles English lawless From Middle English laweles; equivalent to law + -less. Cognate with Danish lovløs (“lawless”), Swedish laglös (“lawless”), Norwegian lovløs (“lawless”), Icelandic löglaus (“lawless”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːləs/ 1. Not governed by any law. 2. Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal. Example: This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine. Example: For ſure the Gods / Are not devoid of wiſdom, but perceive / What oaths are lawleſs and by force extorted. 3. Not restrained by the law or by discipline; disorderly, unruly. Example: On why leaving lawless places and leaving pseudovirtuous groups is loving such places and groups
Word: fig. Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. Abbreviation of figure. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: fig. 2.1
Word: fig. Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. Abbreviation of figurative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: (fig.) a fat bank account
Word: glorify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman and Old French glorifier, from Late Latin glōrificō, from Latin glōria + -ficō (“to make”). By surface analysis, glory + -fy. Displaced native Middle English wuldrien (“to glorify”), from Old English wuldrian as well as Middle English stellifien (“to glorify, make stellar”), from Old French stellifier (Medieval Latin stellificāre); see stellify. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/ 1. To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone). Labels: transitive 2. To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone as excellent baselessly. Labels: transitive Example: Some movies glorify mobsters by making them seem like the cool kids around the block. Example: Historical dictators are glorified in some countries that are dictatorships and by some political radicals. 3. To worship or extol. Labels: transitive
Word: throw the baby out with the bathwater Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Calque of German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten, a proverb first recorded by Thomas Murner in his satire Narrenbeschwörung (1512). First appeared in English when Thomas Carlyle translated it in an essay on slavery (1849). Pronunciation: /θɹəʊ ðə ˈbeɪbi aʊt wɪð ðə ˈbɑːθwɔːtə(ɹ)/, /θɹoʊ ðə ˈbeɪbi aʊt wɪθ ðə ˈbæθwɔtɚ/ 1. To discard, inadvertently or through overzealousness, something valuable or essential ("the baby") in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted or undesirable ("the bathwater"). Labels: idiomatic Example: They cancelled the entire project because the new management didn't like the prototype, but I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Word: throw out the baby with the bathwater Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of throw the baby out with the bathwater. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: VoD Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videōbor. English audioinflu. English video Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English on English on Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Proto-Italic *manuðō Latin mandō Latin dēmandō Old French demanderbor. Middle English demaunden English demand English VoD Pronunciation: /vɔd/ 1. Abbreviation of video on demand. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, acronym, countable, initialism 2. Abbreviation of video on demand. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, countable, initialism
Word: ea. Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of each. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Fresh 2 lb. pkg. Sweet Strawberries $2.99 ea.
Word: ea. Part of Speech: noun 1. whole piece (used when use of a unit of measure is obligatory) Example: GARNISH FOR GASPACHO PAILLETTES (CHEESE STICKS) […] 1 ea. egg yolk ½ oz. whole milk 1 ea. puff pastry sheet 2 oz. Parmesan cheese tt Hungarian paprika
Word: emergent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/, /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒənt/ 1. Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new. 2. Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction. Example: The chief precepts of their priests enjoin the strict keeping of their Lents, which are at least seven months in every year, and are not to be dispensed with on the most emergent necessity. Letter 43 3. Constituting an emergency. Labels: especially Example: Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon. Example: Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses. 4. Taller than the surrounding vegetation. 5. Having leaves and flowers above the water. 6. Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline. Example: In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other. 7. That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually. Example: an emergent property Example: A high-level phenomenon is strongly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are not deducible even in principle from truths in the low-level domain.[…] A high-level phenomenon is weakly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are unexpected given the principles governing the low-level domain.
Word: emergent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/, /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒənt/ 1. A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.
Word: evermore Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English evermore (written as two words before 14th century), equivalent to ever + -more. Pronunciation: /ˌɛvɚˈmoɹ/, /ˌɛvəˈmɔː/, /ˌɛvɚˈmo(ː)ɹ/, /ˌɛvəˈmoə/ 1. Always; forever; eternally. Labels: not-comparable Example: But love me for love's sake, that evermore / Thou may'st love on through love's eternity. 2. At any time in the future. Labels: not-comparable Example: [N]ote by the way, that if honey be deſpumed, that is to ſay, skummed and clarified, it is evermore the better for any uſe.
Word: evangelisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of evangelization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: Europeanization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Latin Eurōpaeus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Classical Latin -ānus New Latin Eurōpaeānusbor. French européenbor. English European English -ization English Europeanization From European + -ization. 1. Alternative spelling of Europeanisation. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: Europeanisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Latin Eurōpaeus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Classical Latin -ānus New Latin Eurōpaeānusbor. French européenbor. English European English -isation English Europeanisation From European + -isation. 1. The process whereby the people and institutions of the countries of the European Union become more European and less national. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: extremist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English extreme Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English extremist From extreme + -ist. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːmɪst/, /ɛkˈstɹiːmɪst/ 1. A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic. Example: In Urif, extremists spray painted “Death to Arabs” on shipping containers belonging to a local resident and the local quarry was tagged with the words “Fight the enemy.” Example: Oy, mate! I'm an Australian extremist, and I've come to detonate this bomb that'll release all the world's deadliest spiders into... Did I pick a bad time?
Word: extremist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English extreme Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English extremist From extreme + -ist. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːmɪst/, /ɛkˈstɹiːmɪst/ 1. Holding extreme views, especially on a political or religious subject. Example: There are some minor extremist movements that are antiforeigner. Example: The hate crimes, once commonly referred to as “price tag attacks,” are committed by extremist Jewish youth from nearby settlements. 2. Of or relating to extremism.
Word: coops Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kuːps/ 1. plural of coop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coops Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kuːps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of coop Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: extremism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English extreme Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English extremism From extreme + -ism. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiː.mɪ.zəm/, /ɛkˈstɹiː.mɪ.zəm/, /ɪkˈstɹi.mɪ.zəm/ 1. Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For a student of American history and a foreigner like myself, it is easier to understand all these extremisms of conscience. Example: Echoing the views of my colleagues from the region and beyond, I told the Security Council on Feb. 18, 2003, that while the ramifications of the war could go beyond anyone’s calculations, “one outcome is almost certain: extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.”
Word: white sapphire Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of corundum having very few impurities, and sometimes substituted for diamond. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: elongate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English elongat, elongate (“kept away; different or remote in nature”, adjective), borrowed from Late Latin ēlongātus (“having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”) + Middle English -at (suffix forming participles). Ēlongātus is the perfect passive participle of ēlongō (“to prolong, protract; to keep aloof, remove; to depart, withdraw”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + longus (“extended, long, prolonged; far”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”, adjective)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of eloign. Cognates * French éloigner Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈiːˌlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈɛ-/, /əˈlɔŋˌɡeɪt/, /i-/ 1. Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form. Example: Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs. Example: He stood in the shadow of the pagoda, achieving a kinship between the building and himself by his elongate elegance, an air of old, uninsisting nobility.
Word: elongate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English elongat, elongate (“kept away; different or remote in nature”, adjective), borrowed from Late Latin ēlongātus (“having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”) + Middle English -at (suffix forming participles). Ēlongātus is the perfect passive participle of ēlongō (“to prolong, protract; to keep aloof, remove; to depart, withdraw”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + longus (“extended, long, prolonged; far”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”, adjective)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of eloign. Cognates * French éloigner Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈiːˌlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈɛ-/, /əˈlɔŋˌɡeɪt/, /i-/ 1. To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen. Labels: transitive Example: VVhen the muſcles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again diſtends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before. Example: A vvriter may tell me that he thinks man vvill ultimately become an oſtrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reaſonable perſon over to his opinion, he ought to ſhevv, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating; […] and that the hair is beginning to change into ſtubs of feathers. 2. Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [L]et the cõmon house of easement [i.e., the outhouse] be ouer some water, or els elongated from the house. Example: But to open this more particularly, let us ſhevv in hovv many particulars they [wicked men] are thus elongated, or made afar off from God. 3. To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated. Labels: intransitive Example: Here, Mr. Lorry perceived the reflexion on the wall to elongate, and Mr. Cruncher rose and stepped forward. Example: They studied fiercely as Bilging Day drew nearer. […] His face elongated daily, and his melancholy eyes burned in deepening sockets like dim candles, but he never failed a quiz. 4. Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form. Labels: intransitive Example: Shepherd’s-purse Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. […] FLOWERS White, blooming March–December; inflorescence of racemes, elongating greatly with fruit; […] 5. Followed by from: to be at a distance, or move away, from a thing; to depart; (specifically, astronomy) of a planet, star, or other astronomical object: to appear to recede from the sun or a fixed point in the celestial sphere. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: [A]bout Capo Frio in Brasilia, the south point [of the compass] varieth tvvelve degrees unto the VVeſt, and about the mouth of the Straites of Magellan five or ſix; but elongating from the coaſt of Braſilia tovvard the ſhore of Africa it varyeth Eaſtvvard, and arriving at Capo de las Agullas, it reſteth in the Meridian, and looketh neither vvay.
Word: exegete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής (exēgētḗs, “expounder, interpreter”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɪˌdʒiːt/, /ˈɛksəˌd͡ʒit/ 1. A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter of texts, difficult passages, law, oracles, and similar obscure or esoteric sources. Example: A text that could not speak to the present was dead, and the exegete had a duty to revive it. Example: In Plato's state all three exegetes will be selected by Apollo. This is contrary to the practice of Hellenistic times, according to the evidence so ably marshaled by Oliver, when only two of the exegetes were named by the oracle.
Word: exegete Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής (exēgētḗs, “expounder, interpreter”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɪˌdʒiːt/, /ˈɛksəˌd͡ʒit/ 1. (chiefly religion) To interpret; to perform an exegesis on. Labels: transitive Example: History, not the dictionary, must exegete this doctrine. When thus exegeted, the secularity of our Government, as shown by the intentions of its founders, the customs of the people, and the continuous decisions of the courts, means simply the separation of church and state.
Word: exhibitionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English exhibition Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English exhibitionist From exhibition + -ist. Pronunciation: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst/ 1. One who attempts to draw attention to themselves by their behavior. 2. One who exposes their genitalia (or female nipples) in public. 3. Synonym of exhibitioner (“student who is awarded an exhibition”).
Word: exhibitionist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English exhibition Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English exhibitionist From exhibition + -ist. Pronunciation: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst/ 1. Compulsively seeking attention.
Word: exophora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō, “to carry”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛksəˈfɔːɹə/, /ɪkˈsɒfəɹə/ 1. A reference to something extralinguistic.
Word: exoticization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exotic + -ization. 1. the conversion of something into a more exotic form 2. the representation of something ordinary as being exotic 3. the act of romanticizing elements of something, like a culture, that is foreign to oneself
Word: exoticize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English exotic 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 exoticize From exotic + -ize. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɒtɪsaɪz/, /ɪɡˈzɑtɪsaɪz/ 1. To make (something banal) seem to be exotic. Labels: transitive
Word: expansive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin expāns-, past-participle stem of expandere (“to spread out”; see expand) + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspænsɪv/ 1. Comprehensive in scope or extent. Example: expansive research work Example: She laughed, she winked, and nodded knowingly at Pen; she tapped him on the arm with her fan; she tapped Blanche; she tapped the Major;—her contentment was boundless, and her method of showing her joy equally expansive. 2. Talkative and sociable. 3. Able to be expanded. Example: The Elastick or expansive faculty of the Air, whereby it dilates itself, when compressed (indeed this lower Region of it by reason of the weight of the superincumbent is al∣ways in a compressed State) hath been made use of in the common Weather-glasses, in Wind guns, and in several ingenious Water∣works, and doubtless hath a great Interest in many natural Effects and Operations. Example: Such instruments, however ingenious, are not of scientific value; because they do not admit of rigid comparison, are liable to alter in their contractile and expansive properties, and cannot be made to indicate precisely alike. 4. Exhibiting expansivity.
Word: expectancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From expectant + -cy or expect + -ancy. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/, /ɛkˈspɛkt(ə)nsi/, /ɪkˈspɛktənsi/, /ɛkˈspɛktənsi/ 1. Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]he Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue. Example: If you foresee not this misery, and the fatall consequence which necessarily must follow such a turn of Fortune, I must leave you to your own will and expectancy […] 2. The state of being expected. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Future interest as to possession or enjoyment Labels: countable, uncountable 4. expectation; expected value Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Something expected or awaited. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword, / Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state […] Example: […] Frederic II. King of Prussia, in consequence of an expectancy granted to the house of Brandenburg, by the Emperor Leopold in 1604, took possession of East Friezland […]
Word: extemporisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English extemporise Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English extemporisation From extemporise + -ation. 1. Alternative spelling of extemporization. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: After the collision between a suburban electric and a 4-6-2 outside Waterloo at the peak evening period on April 11, a swift extemporisation of many Western Section services was necessary.