nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: were- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Back-formation from werewolf (“man-wolf”), from Old English werewulf, derived from wer (“man”) + wulf (“wolf”). Pronunciation: /weə(ɹ)/ 1. Prefixed to animal names to indicate a human that shapeshifts into that animal. Labels: morpheme
Word: loyal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French loyal, from Old French loial, leial, leal, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of legal and leal. Pronunciation: /ˈlɔɪəl/ 1. Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something. Example: Dogs are very loyal animals, which is why they make wonderful pets. Example: George is a loyal and loving husband. 2. Firm in allegiance to a person or institution; allegiant. 3. Faithful to a person or cause. Example: We must remain loyal to the mission.
Word: teat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”). It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”). Pronunciation: /tiːt/ 1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. Example: Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers. 2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. 3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.
Word: merkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1617, probably a variant form of malkin, from Malde + -kin. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːkɪn/ 1. A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item. Example: ... his penis squashed invisible under a flesh-colored leather jockstrap, over which he wears a false cunt and merkin of sable both handcrafted in Berlin by the notorious Mme. Ophir, the mock labia and bright purple clitoris molded of — Madame had been abject, pleading shortage — synthetic rubber and Mipolam, the new polyvinyl chloride... 2. A mop for cleaning cannon. 3. The male counterpart of a beard, a companion to a lesbian to feign her straightness. Labels: slang Example: Well, I seem to recall Tori and Patrick being seen together, and a reference in People comes to mind, with a photo attached. I'm not for sure that Patrick is completely gay, but he's at least bi according to a person I know with first hand experience. Perhaps we have a dual merkin-beard relationship here, eh?
Word: merkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Representing an aphetic pronunciation of American. 1. An American. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang Example: For all you non-'merkins: Most 'merkins are idiots, just like the residents of your country. See, most people are idiots. We just have idiots with a higher average income than you do, so they can afford to be better cretins. Example: It is, unfortunately, an all-to-common assumption -- sort of like assuming that all posters here are 'merkins. Perhaps it's best to assume that all posters are vertebrates (I was going to type primates, but one of my neutered cats sent a post awhile^([sic]) back).
Word: merkin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Representing an aphetic pronunciation of American. 1. American. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang Example: [P]robably a merkin reference which it is expected that the rest of the world will understand? Example: it's got very merkin lately... too much time on the international circuit probly?
Word: wig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig! Pronunciation: /wɪɡ/ 1. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying. Example: But wearing a wig is no reason to kill a man, with one or two notable exceptions. 2. A bigwig. Example: Ye’ve been grossly deceived and put upon, Milly, and it’s my belief his old ruffian of an uncle in a wig is in the plot against us. 3. An old seal. Labels: dated, jargon
Word: wig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig! Pronunciation: /wɪɡ/ 1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). 2. To upbraid, reprimand. Labels: colloquial, transitive 3. To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, slang Example: That guy must be high. Look how he's wigging. 4. To shoot in the head. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive Example: And I don't know nothin bout slippin Zombie killer or rambo twinnin Or a long pole like scaffold Just tryna rise and aim and wig him
Word: wig Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig! Pronunciation: /wɪɡ/ 1. An expression of shock. Labels: Internet
Word: blag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /blæɡ/, /blaɡ/, /blæːɡ/, /blɛɡ/, /bleɪ̯ɡ/ 1. An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft. Labels: UK, slang Example: 'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]' Example: Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.
Word: blag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /blæɡ/, /blaɡ/, /blæːɡ/, /blɛɡ/, /bleɪ̯ɡ/ 1. To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal. Labels: UK, slang, transitive
Word: blag Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /blæɡ/, /blaɡ/, /blæːɡ/, /blɛɡ/, /bleɪ̯ɡ/ 1. Not genuine; fake. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!
Word: blag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /blæɡ/, /blaɡ/, /blæːɡ/, /blɛɡ/, /bleɪ̯ɡ/ 1. An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box. 2. An act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: Because I used to run cons with him. I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners. Example: Anyone who claims to be operating on a model designed to fulfil the will of Jesus, or Allah, or Krishna, or anyone, who isn't first and foremost dedicated to the union of all humankind and service of the needy is on a massive blag.
Word: blag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by the American author, cartoonist, and engineer Randall Munroe (born 1984) in his webcomic xkcd in 2006: see the quotation. Pronunciation: /blæɡ/, /blaɡ/, /blæːɡ/, /blɛɡ/, /bleɪ̯ɡ/ 1. Deliberate misspelling of blog. Labels: Ireland, UK, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, informal, misspelling Example: Why don't you write about it in your blag? Example: RONFLMAF! You do have a way with words. I think I need to update my blag, this is just too good.
Word: baldness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness. 1. The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My baldness was the result of radiotherapy. Example: We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
Word: ribbit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪbɪt/, /ˈɹɪbət/ 1. The vocal sound made by a frog or toad. Labels: onomatopoeic Example: Widow Toad: Looks kinds puny to me. Looks like a breeze could carry her off. Ribbit, ribbit. Maybe she could cook and clean my house. Example: Frogs croaking ribbit, ribbit Trees rustling sssshh, ssshh Water rushing over rapids splash, clash. 2. Used to anonymously and disrespectfully break silence, as in educational or ceremonial settings. Example: The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit!"
Word: ribbit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪbɪt/, /ˈɹɪbət/ 1. The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
Word: ribbit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪbɪt/, /ˈɹɪbət/ 1. To make the sound of a frog or toad. Labels: intransitive
Word: oink Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative of the sound. Pronunciation: /ɔɪŋk/ 1. Representing the grunting sound made by a pig. 2. Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig). Example: Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig. Example: "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"
Word: oink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative of the sound. Pronunciation: /ɔɪŋk/ 1. The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof. Example: The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.
Word: oink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative of the sound. Pronunciation: /ɔɪŋk/ 1. Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.
Word: oesophagus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰσοφάγος (oisophágos), from οἴσω (oísō), future form of φέρω (phérō, “to carry”) + ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to eat”). Pronunciation: /iːˈsɒfəɡəs/, /ɪˈsɒfəɡəs/, /ɪˈsɑfəɡəs/ 1. The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach. Example: Graham, who lived in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, donated his oesophagus to the MRC cancer unit at Cambridge University, for research.
Word: lingual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from lingua (“the tongue; a language, speech”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to lingua + -al. Doublet of lingualis. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/, /ˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/ 1. Related to, near, or on the side toward the tongue. Labels: not-comparable, relational 2. Related to, near, or on the side toward the tongue. Labels: not-comparable, relational 3. Related to language or linguistics. Labels: not-comparable, relational
Word: lingual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from lingua (“the tongue; a language, speech”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to lingua + -al. Doublet of lingualis. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/, /ˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/ 1. A sound articulated with the tongue.
Word: latest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late. Doublet of last. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.tɪst/ 1. superlative form of late: most late Labels: form-of, superlative 2. Last, final. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele. 3. Most recent. Example: Here is the latest news on the accident. Example: My latest album, which is being published next week, is even better than my last one.
Word: latest Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late. Doublet of last. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.tɪst/ 1. superlative form of late: most late Labels: form-of, superlative 2. At the latest. Example: Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
Word: latest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late. Doublet of last. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.tɪst/ 1. The most recent thing, particularly information or news. Example: Have you heard the latest? Example: What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
Word: heck Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell. Pronunciation: /hɛk/ 1. Hell. Labels: euphemistic Example: Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
Word: heck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell. Pronunciation: /hɛk/ 1. Hell. Labels: euphemistic, uncountable Example: You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned. Example: "And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.
Word: heck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly supported by feck. Pronunciation: /hɛk/ 1. to break, to destroy Labels: informal 2. to mess up Labels: informal
Word: heck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hatch (“a half door”). Pronunciation: /hɛk/ 1. The bolt or latch of a door. Labels: informal 2. A rack for cattle to feed at. Labels: informal 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework. Labels: informal, obsolete 4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish. Labels: informal 5. An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine. Labels: informal 6. A bend or winding of a stream. Labels: informal
Word: alcavala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alcabala. 1. In Spain, a tax levied on transactions involving property movable or immovable.
Word: cicala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Latin cicādader. Early Medieval Latin cicāla Italian cicalader. Occitan cicalader. English cicala Derived from Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada. Pronunciation: /sɪˈkɑːlə/ 1. A cicada. Example: The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […] Example: She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.
Word: ilala Part of Speech: noun 1. Hyphaene coriacea, a type of palm tree native to South Africa.
Word: lauhala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian lauhala, from lau (“leaf”) + hala (“pandanus”). 1. Pandanus tectorius, a tree common in Hawaii, also known as the screwpine. Example: Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.
Word: mancala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala). 1. Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mameh could sit on the floor to play board games like mancala with her friends, or roll out a mat and lounge about.
Word: tambala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chichewa tambala (“rooster”), after the rooster that appeared on the original coins in this denomination. 1. Malawi's minor currency unit, a hundredth of a kwacha.
Word: kwacha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *-kéa Chichewa -cha Chichewa kwachabor. English kwacha Borrowed from Chichewa kwacha (“it has dawned”). 1. Malawi's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 tambala. 2. Zambia's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 ngwee. Example: ‘We left more kwacha than heʼs ever seen in his whole life.’
Word: masala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani مصالحہ (maṣālḥa, maṣāliḥa) / मसाला (masālā, “spice(s)”), from Classical Persian مصالح (masālih, “affairs, materials, spices”), plural of مصلحت (maṣlaḥat, “affair, policy, best thing to do”), both from Arabic, derived from صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa, “be fit, competent, usable”). Pronunciation: /məˈsɑːlə/ 1. Any of many blends of spices used in Indian cuisine, most often containing cardamom, coriander, mace together with pepper, nutmeg, fennel seeds, jeera etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. […] Basically, it’s a juicy naan bread with an egg coating, stuffed with mutton or chicken, rolled up and sprinkled with a unique masala that gives it its special flavor. Example: When she cooked, she reached out for bottles and masalas without glancing up. 2. Any dish prepared with such spices. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We ordered two lamb bhunas and a masala. 3. Any powder of ground ingredients, not necessarily used in cuisine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trehala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin trehāla, from Turkish tıgala, from Classical Persian تیغال (tīġāl, “a kind of manna”). 1. Manna from the cocoons of the insects Larinus maculatus and Larinus nidificans. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: trehalose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trehala + -ose. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiːhələʊz/, /ˈtɹiːələʊz/ 1. A disaccharide formed from two glucose units; it is an isomer of maltose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The most important of these is the common sugar furnished by the sugar cane, hence termed cane sugar, related to which are some others of small importance, viz., trehalose, melezitose, and melitose, represented by the general formula (C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁,xH₂O). Example: The researchers fed a natural sugar called trehalose to mice genetically engineered to have a severe version of Huntington's disease.
Word: haler Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English hale Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English haler From hale + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪlə/ 1. comparative form of hale: more hale Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: haler Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of heller (“currency unit, 100th of a koruna”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nyala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably borrowed from Tsonga nyala. The alternative form inyala is from Zulu inyala. Pronunciation: /ˈnjɑːlə/ 1. A southern African antelope, Tragelaphus angasii (syn. Nyala angasii), with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist.
Word: pala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pāla. Doublet of peel. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪlə/, /ˈpɑːlə/ 1. A part of an insect's leg that is spade-shaped and can be used as a scoop for feeding.
Word: pala Part of Speech: noun 1. An Odisha art form consisting of Puranic texts expressed through music and dance. Labels: uncountable
Word: licuala Part of Speech: noun 1. A palm tree native to Australia, Vanuatu, and Malaysia, with large, pleated, fan-like, almost circular leaves
Word: tala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dalą Proto-West Germanic *dal Old High German tal Middle High German tal German Tal German Talerder. Middle Low German dālerbor. Dutch dalerbor. English dollarbor. Samoan tālābor. English tala Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar. 1. The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.
Word: tala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ताल (tālá). 1. A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.
Word: laya Part of Speech: noun 1. tempo in Indian music. Labels: uncountable
Word: matra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”). 1. In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala. 2. In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora. 3. The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts. 4. An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
Word: Saale Part of Speech: name 1. A river in Germany. 2. One of the glaciations of northern Europe. Labels: attributive
Word: tsk tsk Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˌtɪsk ˈtɪsk/, [ᵏǀ ᵏǀ] 1. Used to indicate disapproval, disappointment, or discontent.
Word: tsk tsk Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌtɪsk ˈtɪsk/, [ᵏǀ ᵏǀ] 1. The sound of such an exclamation of disapproval.
Word: dewikify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English wikify English dewikify From de- + wikify. 1. To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links. Labels: transitive Example: I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".
Word: Linköping Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Linköping. 1. A city, the seventh-largest in Sweden, and the capital of Östergötland county.
Word: Maler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malto, meaning "hill people". 1. A people of northern India who speak the Malto language. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: preterition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praeteritiō, from praetereō (“to omit”). 1. The act of passing by, disregarding or omitting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Synonym of paralipsis. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 3. The failure of a testator to name a legal heir in their will. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The doctrine that God passes over the non-elect in electing to eternal life those predestinated to salvation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: praeterition Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of preterition. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: Emmentaler Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Alemannic German Emmentaler, from Emmental, a valley in Switzerland. By surface analysis, Emme + Tal. Pronunciation: /ˈɛmənˌtɑlɚ/, /ˈɛmənˌtɑːlə/ 1. A Swiss cheese with many holes.
Word: Shahzadah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of shahzadah. Labels: alt-of
Word: shimada Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 島田. 1. A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.
Word: Schubertiade Part of Speech: noun 1. A social gathering whose primary purpose is the performance of the music of Schubert and where the music of no other composer is played.
Word: industry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ 1. The tendency to work persistently. Labels: uncountable Example: Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy. Example: The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid? 2. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade. Labels: countable Example: The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled. Example: The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron. 3. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. Labels: uncountable Example: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 4. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. Labels: countable, singular, uncountable Example: There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism. Example: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. 5. Automated production of material goods. Labels: Europe, countable, uncountable Example: It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…] 6. A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: industrious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/ 1. Hard-working and persistent. Example: He was a very industrious student at school. Example: The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
Word: industrial strength Part of Speech: adj 1. Made for use by businesses or manufacturers, as opposed to home consumers, and therefore typically larger, stronger, more difficult to operate, and less attractive in appearance. Labels: not-comparable Example: The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner. 2. Unusually large or potent. Labels: not-comparable, often Example: That's one industrial strength cockroach! I'll need the industrial strength bug spray.
Word: industrial strength Part of Speech: noun 1. Ability or capacity, as related to industry. Example: It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.
Word: banausic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαναυσικός (banausikós, “of or for mechanics”), from βάναυσος (bánausos, “mechanical; ironsmith”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming relational adjectives). βάναυσος is derived from βαύνος (baúnos, “forge, furnace”), a Pre-Greek word of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /bəˈnɔːsɪk/, /bəˈnɔzɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to technical matters; mechanical. Labels: formal Example: The true "Gentleman," they [the ruling classes] assert, will far more easily acquire the technical knowledge necessary for an officer, a judge, or for the administration of some high post, than one who has been brought up in some banausic speciality, will be able to gain the general educational foundation essential for a good ruler. Example: It was the Greeks who taught us the dignity of leisure; it is from them that we inherit the perception that the highest life is the life of contemplation. But this respect for leisure, with the Greeks, was accompanied by a contempt for the banausic occupations. 2. Uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian. Labels: formal Example: After 1812, and when the worst portion of the Tories got enthroned in the supremacy, when the Banausic principle (we must coin a word from the most expressive of languages to express all its intense vulgarity) began to obtain, […] Lord Grey [Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey] did what might have been expected from so high a gentleman. […] He opposed but not incessantly, angrily, nor with constant faction, but in stately speeches and solemn protests. Example: [H]ow graceful and accurate a portrait of Alexandria he manages to convey; Alexandria and its women. […] One could not expect more from an intruder of gifts who almost by mistake pierced the hard banausic shell of Alexandria and discovered himself.
Word: learning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung. Pronunciation: /ˈlɝnɪŋ/, /ˈlɜːnɪŋ/ 1. An act in which something is learned. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Accumulated knowledge. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The department head was also a scholar of great learning. 3. Something that has been learned. Labels: countable, proscribed, usually Example: “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”
Word: learning Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung. Pronunciation: /ˈlɝnɪŋ/, /ˈlɜːnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of learn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: I'm learning to ride a unicycle. Example: The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network.
Word: passional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English passional, from Late Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al. 1. a book describing sufferings of martyrs
Word: passional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English passional, from Late Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al. 1. characterized by passion Example: 1957: the promise of a release in her passional self — Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.71 (Faber)
Word: ratiocinative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ratiocinate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˌɹæʃ.ɪˈɑ.səˌneɪ.tɪv/ 1. Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge. Example: Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception […] Example: […] bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty […]
Word: meidan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of maidan (“an urban open space”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: maidan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius. Pronunciation: /maɪˈdɑːn/, /ˈmaɪdɑːn/, /maɪˈdɑn/ 1. A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade. Labels: South-Asia Example: Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital. Example: Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].
Word: maidan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), from the same Persian source as above. 1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine. 2. The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
Word: tamped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tamp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tamped Part of Speech: adj 1. pounded hard 2. packed down Example: whose floor was of tamped earth —
Word: objurgation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obiūrgō. 1. A strong rebuke or scolding. Labels: uncommon Example: Nevertheless, spite of this imperial objurgation, the short cloaks continued in fashion down to the time of which we treat, and particularly among the princes of the House of Anjou. Example: The tipsy drivers dashed gallantly over the turf, amidst the admiration of foot-passengers, the ironical cheers of the little donkey-carriages and spring vans, and the loud objurgations of horse-and-chaise men, with whom the reckless post-boys came in contact.
Word: dottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒtəl/ 1. A plug or tap of a vessel. 2. A small rounded lump or mass. 3. The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe. Example: 1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al. In refilling a pipe, where twist is smoked, a common practice is to save the dottle and put it on the top of the new-filled pipe. "Aw like a baccy dottle to leet wiv." Example: one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind 4. A baby's dummy, pacifier. Labels: Geordie
Word: dottle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒtəl/ 1. To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.
Word: dottle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Related to dote, dotard. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒtəl/ 1. Stupid or senile. Labels: Scotland Example: When days and years proclaim you’re old — A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow, Then for support you can lay hold O’ the upright of your umberella.
Word: dottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to dote, dotard. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒtəl/ 1. A dotard. Labels: Scotland
Word: deckle-edged Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a deckle edge. Example: From-time to time the book tilted and wobbled in his lap, and the weight of the deckle-edged pages pressed on his erection through the sleek black nylon. 2. Rough-edged like uncut paper. Labels: figuratively Example: We turn a corner and the world becomes a pattern of arteries, splashed with silver and deckle-edged with shadow.
Word: military Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English militari, from Old French militaire, from Latin mīlitāris, from mīles (“soldier”) + -āris (whence -ary). Doublet of militaire. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪt(ə)ɹi/, /ˈmɪlɪtɛɹi/, /ˈmɪləˌtɛɹi/, /ˈmɪlɪtɹi/, /ˈmɪlɪˌtɛɹi/ 1. Characteristic of members of the armed forces. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: She was dishonorably discharged from all military duties. Example: "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result." 2. Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces). Labels: Canada, US, not-comparable, usually Example: If you join a military force, you may end up killing people. 3. Relating to war. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: The only goal pursued by Western defense strategy — to cause the Warsaw Pact to break off an attack — is more military than political in nature. 4. Relating to armies or ground forces. Labels: not-comparable, usually
Word: military Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English militari, from Old French militaire, from Latin mīlitāris, from mīles (“soldier”) + -āris (whence -ary). Doublet of militaire. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪt(ə)ɹi/, /ˈmɪlɪtɛɹi/, /ˈmɪləˌtɛɹi/, /ˈmɪlɪtɹi/, /ˈmɪlɪˌtɛɹi/ 1. Armed forces. Example: He spent six years in the military. Example: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Word: nation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tisder. Proto-Italic *gnātiō Latin nātiōbor. Old French nacionbor. Middle English nacioun English nation From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced Old English þēod. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪʃən/ 1. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. Labels: collective Example: The Roma are a nation without a country. Example: pre-Columbian nations 2. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. Labels: broadly, collective, humorous, informal, often Example: Near-synonym: tribe Example: the Dallas Cowboys nation 3. A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country. Labels: metonymically Example: Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups. Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […] perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment. 4. An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members. Labels: historical Example: Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland. 5. A great number; a great deal. Labels: obsolete Example: […]and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…] 6. In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory. Example: The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area. Example: The term Navajo Nation refers both to the people and to their territory.
Word: nation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for damnation or tarnation. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪʃən/ 1. Damnation. Labels: rare Example: ... what the nation's the matter of that boy now ? If he's got them highsterics ag'in , I'll blister him from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet , sure as he's a - livin ' . " The doctor took up his hat and started out to meet[…] Example: O nation!.. if I were a man, […]
Word: nation Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Short for damnation or tarnation. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪʃən/ 1. Extremely, very. Labels: dialectal, rare Example: “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.” Example: "Beleddy, Mester, yo're a dab hand at axing questions, at ony rate! One has to look back a 'nation long way into one's books to find what yo I axen after.
Word: nation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Short for damnation or tarnation. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪʃən/ 1. An intensifier; extreme, great. Labels: dialectal, rare Example: ... a nation deal o' trouble to captivate him. Example: ... a nation lot of hunters assembled, for it war known there war plenty of game ...
Word: zoot suit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Zoot may be a Caló slang pronunciation of suit, thus making the term a tautology and reduplication. 1. An outfit featuring a suit with broad shoulders, a long coat, and baggy trousers that taper to a tight fit at the ankles. Example: Dexter Gordon was an idol around Central Avenue. He was tall. He wore a wide-brimmed hat that made him seem like he was about seven feet tall. He had a stoop to his walk and wore long zoot suits, and he carried his tenor in a sack under his arm. 2. Synonym of goon suit (“waterproof rubber suit for pilots”). Labels: UK, slang Example: Before his nap, Kaplan had put on all his clothes, including the wool-lined waterproof double-zippered survival suit nicknamed the zoot suit.
Word: reprecipitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English precipitation English reprecipitation From re- + precipitation. 1. After returning a precipitate to a dissolved state, the process of precipitating it again. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lambada Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese lambada (“strong slap, hit”). 1. A fast-paced, erotic Brazilian dance in which couples dance with their stomachs touching. 2. The music to which it is danced.
Word: precipitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”). Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/ 1. To make something happen suddenly and quickly. Labels: transitive Example: to precipitate a journey, or a conflict Example: it precipitated their success 2. To throw an object or person from a great height. Labels: transitive Example: In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river. 3. To send violently into a certain state or condition. Labels: transitive Example: we were precipitated into a conflict 4. (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form. Labels: intransitive Example: Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate. 5. (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form. Labels: transitive 6. To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets. Labels: intransitive Example: It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow. 7. To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground. Labels: transitive Example: The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold. 8. To fall headlong. Labels: intransitive 9. To act too hastily; to be precipitous. Labels: intransitive
Word: precipitate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin praecipitātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more). Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/ 1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically. Example: When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows. 2. Very steep; precipitous. 3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. Example: Though thoughtful far beyond your years, you are very inexperienced; and I would not have a preference that may originate in your little knowledge of others, or a romantic exaggeration of slight kindnesses, lead you into a precipitate union with me, unless you most seriously examine your own heart, and weigh the various consequences. 4. Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. Example: The king was too precipitate in declaring war. Example: a precipitate case of disease 5. Performed very rapidly or abruptly. Example: It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.
Word: precipitate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin praecipitātum. Equivalent to Latin praecipitō + -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/ 1. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action. Example: As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it. 2. A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
Word: hammada Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hamada. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: yardang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yardan, ablative of Turkish yar ("cliff", "precipice"). 1. A large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape. Example: My Chinese guide and I were standing in the Yardang National Geopark, on the border between Gansu Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China’s extreme northwest. The nearest town was Dunhuang, 110 miles to the southeast. Enormous yardangs — curving sandstone and mudstone strata carved by winds — towered over us. Others floated on the far horizon.
Word: reg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /ɹɛd͡ʒ/, /ɹɛɡ/ 1. A regular. Labels: informal Example: I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now. 2. A regulation. Labels: informal Example: It makes me sad to see a prisoner complain about another prisoner not writing. His or her mailroom (or yours!) might have just tossed the letter; besides the rules and regs for prisoners writing each other are different in every state, and may change for no reason. Or, the rules may be ignored (especially for gay prisoners) also, even prisons that do accept mail from other prisoners, may not deliver it to people in isolation or on certain security levels. 3. registrar 4. registration 5. registration Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: What's your reg and where are you parked? 6. registry 7. register
Word: reg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From regolith. Pronunciation: /ɹɛɡ/ 1. A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.