nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: uphill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up + hill. Pronunciation: /ˈʌphɪl/ 1. An uphill route.
Word: uphill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up + hill. 1. To travel uphill.
Word: uphoard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + hoard. 1. To hoard up. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: O, speak! / Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life / Extorted treasure in the womb of earth
Word: upholder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uphold + -er. 1. Someone who upholds something. Example: an upholder of ethical principles Example: Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.] 2. A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster. Labels: obsolete
Word: secondhand Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From second + hand. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/, /ˈsɛk(ə)n(d)ˌhænd/ 1. Not new; previously owned and used by another. Labels: not-comparable 2. Dealing in such merchandise. Labels: not-comparable 3. Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: In the light of recent history it is somewhat curious that this decisive power of the professional secondhand dealers in ideas should not yet be more generally recognized. Example: What's love got to do, got to do with it? / What's love but a secondhand emotion? 4. Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking. Labels: not-comparable Example: exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues
Word: secondhand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From second + hand. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/, /ˈsɛk(ə)n(d)ˌhænd/ 1. Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively. Labels: uncountable Example: Childrenswear is now the fastest growing sector of secondhand. […] The huge increase in the market for childrenswear shows another way in which older generations are getting into secondhand.
Word: secondhand Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From second + hand. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/, /ˈsɛk(ə)n(d)ˌhænd/ 1. In a used or previously-owned condition. Labels: not-comparable Example: It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand. Example: He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status. 2. Indirectly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: upholster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Sense development as well as form may have been influenced by conflation with unrelated bolster. Pronunciation: /əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/, /əˈpɐl.stə(ɹ)/ 1. To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture). Labels: transitive
Word: upholster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English upholdester, upholster; equivalent to uphold + -ster. Pronunciation: /əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/, /əˈpɐl.stə(ɹ)/ 1. An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture. Labels: archaic
Word: upholsterer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From upholster + -er, from Middle English upholdester, upholster, from Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”). By surface analysis, uphold + -ster + -er. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈhəʊl.stəɹ.ə/, /ʌpˈhoʊl.stəɹ.əɹ/ 1. One who upholsters furniture, especially a trained craftsman who does so as an occupation.
Word: upholstery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First recorded in 1597; from upholster (noun) or upholster(er) + -(er)y or -y. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈhəʊlstəɹi/ 1. The craft or business of upholstering furniture. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The materials used in upholstering furniture. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: euphroe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch juffrouw (“young woman”). Pronunciation: /ˈjuːfɹəʊ/ 1. A long wooden slat, with holes for cords, that holds up an awning.
Word: upland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English upland, from Old English ūpland (“the country”); equivalent to up- + land. The word as an adjective developed in Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈʌplənd/, /ˈəp-/ 1. The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation. Example: Near-synonyms: highland, upcountry 2. The country, as contrasted with the town. Labels: obsolete
Word: upland Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English upland, from Old English ūpland (“the country”); equivalent to up- + land. The word as an adjective developed in Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈʌplənd/, /ˈəp-/ 1. Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands. Labels: not-comparable Example: the race of upland giants Example: Sometimes with secure delight / The upland hamlets will invite,
Word: uplandish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English uplondish, oplondysch, uplondysch, from Old English uplendisc (“uplandish”); equivalent to upland + -ish. 1. Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts. Labels: obsolete 2. Rustic, rude, boorish; countrified, unsophisticated, or uncivilized. Labels: obsolete 3. Wild or savage; mountainous, or dwelling in the mountains.
Word: uplander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From upland + -er. 1. A person from the uplands.
Word: uplay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + lay. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈleɪ/ 1. To lay up; hoard. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Or as though the least of His pains, deeds, or words, Would busy a life, she all this day affords; This treasure then, in gross, my soul uplay, And in my life retail it every day.
Word: uplead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + lead. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpliːd/ 1. The line or lines connecting the output of a transmitter to its antenna. Example: When the capacity at the top has been made so large compared with the effective capacity of the uplead that the current in the latter is sensibly uniform, the length of that current is sensibly the full height h of the uplead, which is the greatest available height with the given masts. Example: Effectively, the downlead and uplead for an individual sensor in the simple array becomes the downlead and uplead for a ladder in the subarray.
Word: uplead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + lead. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈliːd/ 1. To lead upward. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Inestimable good! who giv'st us Truth, Whose hand upleads to light, divinest Truth
Word: uplean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + lean. 1. To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward. Labels: ambitransitive, literary Example: 1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193, The western sky is wallen With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen, And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean Their silver cones upon the crimson verge Of the high zenith, Example: 1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189, I forced the slowly yielding door That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more, And found all that the winds withstood, Was an upleaning piece of wood. 2. To lean (on something). Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare Example: With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, / Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, Example: […] thus his carelesse time / This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt, / And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime,
Word: uplift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + lift. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈlɪft/, /ˈʌp.lɪft/ 1. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual, or emotional level. Example: Whether you find it by your power as a man, or because, being near the gods, a god has whispered you. Uplift our State; think upon your fame; your coming brought us luck, be lucky to us still, remember that it is better to rule over men than over a waste place, since neither walled town nor ship is anything if it be empty and no man within it. Example: They recognised that their free-lay properties were just right for premises where there had to be easy access to underfloor cables or where office layouts needed to be readily changed without having to uplift the carpet every time. 2. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual, or emotional level. Example: —genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.' 3. To aggravate; to increase. Example: A man who abused a Police Community Support Officer for being transgender has received an uplifted sentence at Mold Magistrates' Court... At Court the prosecutor applied for the sentence for the public order offence to be uplifted to reflect the hate crime aspect. This resulted in the Court imposing a greater penalty. 4. To be accepted for carriage on a flight. 5. To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization. Labels: New-Zealand Example: In an affidavit supporting an application for a court order to uplift the child, a social worker said there were ongoing family violence issues between the baby's mother and father. 6. To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession. Labels: Australia, transitive 7. To backport. 8. To pick up; take possession of. Labels: Northern-England Example: In a Post by Northumbria Police:Sharp eyes on patrol! One of our eagle-eyed officers spotted a vehicle driving erratically in Lemington. The driver made off on foot, leaving the car behind - which has now been uplifted for having no insurance.
Word: uplift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + lift. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈlɪft/, /ˈʌp.lɪft/ 1. The act or result of uplifting (in various senses). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The EMR Regional timetable improvements also include a significant uplift in Sunday services. Example: This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line. 2. A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent. Example: This is explained as an uplift in the coast at a rate of 16.2 mm/y in the period before 1900, a downlift of 2.8 mm/y in the period 1900-1906 and a rapid «sinking» of the coast at 22.7 mm/y in the 24 months before the earthquake. 3. The picking up and loading of goods to be transported by a mover. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A brassiere that raises the breasts. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: Dressed in a light silk brassiere and scanties, which was all she wore under her frock, she was unkind enough to say, "I think those uplift fakes of yours are a mistake, Sadie dear. They raise false expectations in the amorous male." "But my breasts are all right," said Sadie, hurt, and pushing her breasts up from under to prove they were in the right place[.] 5. An increase in a fine or penalty due to aggravating circumstances. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The CMA fined the companies involved £3.4 million, which included uplifts for director level involvement.
Word: uplock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock English uplock From up- + lock. 1. A mechanism that secures an aircraft's landing gear in the retracted position, helping to prevent an uncommanded gear deployment during flight.
Word: uplock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock English uplock From up- + lock. 1. To lock up. Labels: obsolete
Word: uplook Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English uploken, equivalent to up- + look. 1. To look upward. Labels: obsolete
Word: upmost Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English upmest; equivalent to up + -most. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpmoʊst/, [ˈʌʔmoʊst] 1. Uppermost. Example: But the disjuncture between addressor and addressed such scenarios emphasise was not always (or even often) upmost in users' minds […]
Word: upmost Part of Speech: adj 1. Eggcorn of utmost.
Word: uppermost Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English upper-moste; equivalent to upper + -most. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpəməʊst/, /ˈʌpɚˌmoʊst/ 1. superlative form of upper: most upper. Example: She couldn't reach the bowls on the uppermost shelf, so she made do with a mug. Example: Well, to me, if you are restricting it to economic policy — because I can surely think of some noneconomic policy concerns that are more uppermost in my mind. 2. superlative form of upper: most upper. Example: of uppermost importance Example: of uppermost concern
Word: uppermost Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English upper-moste; equivalent to upper + -most. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpəməʊst/, /ˈʌpɚˌmoʊst/ 1. In the highest position. Labels: not-comparable
Word: upokororo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Māori upokororo. 1. A New Zealand fish, Prototroctes oxyrhynchus in the family Haplochitonidae, rather like a trout.
Word: uppent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From up- + pent. 1. pent up, confined Labels: obsolete
Word: uppertendom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English upper ten Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-West Germanic *-dōm Old English -dōm Middle English -dom English -dom English uppertendom From upper ten + -dom. 1. The very highest social class; the upper ten. Labels: uncountable Example: But what would be the sentiment of uppertendom, when it should be rumored that the beautiful young creature, of the proud Clarence Delwood's choice, had stooped so low, as to maintain herself by her own hands?
Word: uppile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + pile. 1. To pile up; to heap up. Labels: obsolete
Word: uppluck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upplucken, upplukken, equivalent to up- + pluck. 1. To pluck up; pull up; deracinate. Labels: rare, transitive Example: And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie. Example: The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...]
Word: uppricked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From up- + pricked. 1. pricked up; upraised Labels: not-comparable
Word: upprop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + prop. 1. To prop up. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: upraise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + raise. 1. To raise something up; to elevate. Labels: archaic Example: So fell those two in spight of both their prydes, / But Scudamour himselfe did soone vprayse, / And mounting light his foe for lying long vpbrayes. 2. To move something upright; to erect. Labels: archaic
Word: uprear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upreren, equivalent to up- + rear. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈɹɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To raise something up; to rise up; to erect Labels: ambitransitive Example: With tears, with blushes, sighs and clasped hands, / With innocent upreared arms to heaven, […] Example: a huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head.
Word: upridged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From up- + ridged. 1. raised up in ridges Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: uprighteously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uprighteous Middle English -ly English -ly English uprighteously From uprighteous + -ly. 1. in an uprighteous or just manner
Word: uprighteous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of upright + righteous. 1. Righteous.
Word: righteous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier rightuous, rightwose, rightwos, rightwise, from Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtwīs (“righteous, just”), corresponding to right + -wise (with assimilation of second element to -ous), or to right + wise (“way, manner”). Cognate with Scots richtwis (“righteous”), Old High German rehtwīsic (“righteous, just”), Icelandic réttvíss (“righteous, just”). Compare also thefteous, mighteous. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt͡ʃəs/, /ˈɹaɪtjəs/, /ˈɹaɪti.əs/ 1. Free from sin or guilt. Example: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon. 2. Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony. Example: Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art. 3. Justified morally. Example: righteous indignation 4. Awesome; great. Labels: US, slang Example: The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. Example: He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed. 5. Major; large; significant. Labels: US, slang Example: He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.
Word: righteous Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier rightuous, rightwose, rightwos, rightwise, from Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtwīs (“righteous, just”), corresponding to right + -wise (with assimilation of second element to -ous), or to right + wise (“way, manner”). Cognate with Scots richtwis (“righteous”), Old High German rehtwīsic (“righteous, just”), Icelandic réttvíss (“righteous, just”). Compare also thefteous, mighteous. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt͡ʃəs/, /ˈɹaɪtjəs/, /ˈɹaɪti.əs/ 1. To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin. Example: Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
Word: uprightness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English upright Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English uprightness From upright + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˌʌpˈɹaɪtnəs/ 1. The state of being honest, honourable, and moral. Labels: uncountable Example: You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis Example: [S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […] 2. The state of being erect or vertical. Labels: uncountable Example: It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested. 3. The product or result of being upright. Labels: countable
Word: VSWR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of voltage standing wave ratio. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: EC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of earth closet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of edge combiner. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of electron capture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 4. Initialism of enstatite chondrite. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of entorhinal cortex. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of ethylene carbonate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of error correction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of eye contact. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of emergency contraception Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: EC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of European Communities (1952–2009). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of European Community (1958–1993). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of European Commission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Abbreviation of EuroCity. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: EC Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of east/eastern Caribbean. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: ZF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Zermelo-Fraenkel (set theory): a particular axiomatic formulation of set theory without the axiom of choice. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: Gödel's model is an example of a simple type of inner model that might be called a definable transitive inner model³), where the universe is replaced by a transitive subuniverse defined within ZF, the membership relation is just the original one restricted to the subuniverse, and where the axioms of ZF relativized to the subuniverse, are provable within ZF. Example: 1971, Ulrich Felgner, Models of ZF-Set Theory, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 223, page 21, 1. Corollary: ZF is not finitely axiomatizable. 2. Corollary: ZF is reflexive (i.e. the consistency of every finite subtheory of ZF can be proved within ZF).
Word: ZF Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of zero forcing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: In the case of the ZF detector, we suppress the interference among the transmit streams by multiplying the received signal vector y with the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of the channel matrix […] Example: However, due to its simplicity, ZF equalization is a good choice when the channel is known and fixed, and also when there is no frequency notch in the channel frequency response […]
Word: jetty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey of a building, overhang; breakwater, pier, jetty”), from Anglo-Norman geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (“projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier”) (modern French jetée), a noun use of the past participle of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (“to throw”) from Late Latin iectāre, the present active infinitive of iectō (“to throw”), probably from Latin iactō (“to cast, hurl, throw”), from iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix). Compare jet (“(obsolete) protruding part”), jutty. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below. Example: Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte. Example: Moſt prepoſtrous therefore and improper is our frequent aſſigning ſuch vveak ſupporters to ſuch monſtrous jetties and exceſſive Superſtructures as vve many times find under Balconies, Bay-VVindovvs and long Galleries, […] 2. A structure of stone or wood which extends into a river or sea to protect a bank, beach, harbour, etc., from currents or tides; a breakwater. Labels: broadly Example: [I]t appeareth that all the auncient Townes and Citties which ſtand vppon the Riuers of Rhyne and Danowe, towardes Fraunce and Italy, did ſerue rather for a Banke or Iettie againſt the ouerflowing of the Germanes, than for Fortreſſes to aſſayle them withall. Example: Near the River VVelland, that runs thro the Tovvn of Spalding in Lincolnſhire, at the depth of above 8 or 10 foot, there vvere found Jettys, as they call them, to keep up the old Rivers Bank, and the head of a Tunnel that emptied the Land-vvater into the old River; […] 3. A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier. Labels: broadly Example: There are excellent jetties for landing by boat at the Marine Hotel, and the Vine Inn; […] Example: The boathouse was a stone one, with a narrow quay along each wall inside, and a small jetty sticking out beyond it into the lake. 4. A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier. Labels: broadly 5. A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier. Labels: broadly 6. Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”). Labels: broadly, obsolete
Word: jetty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey of a building, overhang; breakwater, pier, jetty”), from Anglo-Norman geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (“projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier”) (modern French jetée), a noun use of the past participle of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (“to throw”) from Late Latin iectāre, the present active infinitive of iectō (“to throw”), probably from Latin iactō (“to cast, hurl, throw”), from iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix). Compare jet (“(obsolete) protruding part”), jutty. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest. Labels: transitive Example: Adentellare, […] It is properly to ietty out, or indent ſtones or timber of any vnfinished building, that another may the eaſier be ioyned vnto, or that finiſhed. 2. To provide (a riverbank, seashore, etc.) with a jetty (“breakwater; dock or wharf”) (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The land is indeed materially injured in many parts, for want of drains; but I think the expence would exceed the profit: they would soon lodge up, and consequently want jettying on the sides. Example: The harbor of Greytown was formely open to vessels of considerable draught, but has almost been closed by sand bars; the surveys show, however, that the expense will be but moderate, by jettying with brush and pile, and finally strengthening of stone, of making an entrance for vessels of 30 feelt draught to an amply protected and safe harbor, […] 3. Sometimes followed by out or over: of (a part of) a building: to jet or project beyond the rest of the building or other structures. Labels: intransitive Example: Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte. Example: [A]s he beheld from out of the houſe Gelotiana, the preparation and furniture of the Cirque, ſome fevv from the next open galleries jettying out, called unto him for the ſame. 4. To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2). Labels: broadly, intransitive
Word: jetty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jet (“(obsolete) protruding part, projection”, noun) or jet (“to jut, project, protrude”, verb) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. Having the characteristic of jetting or jutting out; protruding. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Tvviſe tvventie Iettie ſailes vvith him, the ſvvelling ſtreame did take. Example: As near yon rock we bore, that o'er the waves / Just shews its jetty point, and will, ere long, / Beneath the tide be hid, we heard the sound / Of feeble lamentation.
Word: jetty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jet (“hard, black form of coal; colour of jet coal”, noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. Like jet (“a hard, black form of coal”) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black. Labels: archaic Example: Blacke are his colloures, blacke Pauillion, / His ſpeare, his ſhield, his horſe, his armour, plumes, / And Ietty Feathers menace death and hell, / VVithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age. Example: [A]s amongſt the Moores, the Iettieſt blacke are deem'd / The beautifulſt of them; […] 2. Having a composition like that of jet. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: In the Whitby Museum there is a large mass of bone, which has the exterior converted into jet for about a quarter of an inch in thickness. The jetty matter appears to have entered first into the pores of the bone, and there to have hardened; and, during the mineralising process, the whole bony matter has been gradually displaced, and its place occupied by jet, so as to preserve its original form.
Word: jetty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jet (“(obsolete) to strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait”, verb) + -y (suffix added for metrical reasons, or forming informal terms). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/, [-ɾi] 1. To move with haste. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare Example: Some knack not vnpretye, / of Huſwiferie nettie, / how Huſwiues ſhould iettie / from morning to night.
Word: seachanger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sea change + -er. 1. One who moves to a location in proximity to the ocean, for whom such a move is an extreme shift in one's life. Labels: Australia Example: The hardest challenge – one to be faced by every aspiring seachanger – is the slide back down the greasy corporate pole. Example: Rapid rail links with the rest of the country have today made the Atlantic Coast popular with seachangers, as well as with students attending the area′s many major universities.
Word: seachange Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sea + change; sense 1 (“movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas; act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community”) was possibly coined by the Australian author and demographer Bernard Salt in his book The Big Shift (2001), based on the title of the Australian television series SeaChange (1998–2000 and 2019) about a lawyer who moved with her daughters from the city to a coastal town. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas. Labels: Australia, uncountable Example: The seachange shift was initiated by retirees from the late 1960s although it did acquire a spiritual status when embraced by the boomers from 2001 onwards. […] The drivers of treechange and seachange are the same: people wanting a simpler life in a pleasant town with all the amenities not too far from their interests in the city. Example: For example, the ‘seachange’ and ‘treechange’ movements have seen transitions in rural and regional communities, with the influx of wealthy city-dwellers increasing the price of housing and demanding the provision of particular services and facilities[…]. 2. An act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community. Labels: Australia, countable Example: Surrey […] was negotiating with his wife to move the family (two teenaged girls, reluctant to leave their high school friends) to Tathra and a new house, perhaps with a view of the sea. The trick was going to be maintaining the loyalty of his longstanding if slow-paying rural clients, when he planned to spend most of his time on the coast, away from the extremes of the Goulburn climate ('Either too cold, too hot, too dry, too windy, or too wet,' he was wont to say). There had proved to be lots of minor crime on the coast, which augured well for the seachange. 3. Alternative form of sea change (“a profound transformation; a metamorphosis”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: It is interesting to watch how the most unpromising subject seems to warm and assimilate with his [John Randolph of Roanoke's] genius. Everything undergoes a seachange. Example: New economic, social and international pressures were threatening a seachange in the language of politics, with more activism sought from government than in the laissez-faire nineteenth century.
Word: SIDS Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of sudden infant death syndrome. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable Example: The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both. Example: The AAP, therefore, is expanding its recommendations from focusing only on SIDS to focusing on a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS.
Word: SIDS Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Small Island Developing States. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: EOB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of explanation of benefits. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of end of business (“the end of the business day”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Near-synonym: EOD (“end of day”)
Word: HELOC Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of home equity line of credit. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: Barnaby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”). * Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”). 1. A lively and fast-paced dance; (by extension) any quick and uneven movement. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly And make the world dance Barnaby. Example: It was a regular Barnaby dance; I'd never seen anyone move so quickly. Before the culprit bolted out the door into the night,
Word: Barnaby Part of Speech: name Etymology: * English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”). * Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”). 1. A male given name from Hebrew, from the medieval vernacular form of Barnabas. Example: This day the sun is in his chiefest height With Barnaby the Bright. Example: The name Barnaby may strike the reader as out of place in so Celtic a pedigree; but this was an anglicisation of the true name, Brian Oge - - - Now, times are altered, and his anglicised descendants will probably begin to use Brian as a family name again, rejecting Barnaby as less respectable.
Word: LOC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of lab on a chip. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of letter of contract. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, letter, uncountable 3. Initialism of letter of comment Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, dated, initialism, letter, slang, uncountable 4. Initialism of level of consciousness. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of line of credit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of line of code. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Abbreviation of localizer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 8. Initialism of loss of crew. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of loss of consciousness. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of loss of control. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: WARNING: If CSS is not selected immediately for some 2 EO RTLS contingency abort situations, the vehicle may pitch up and out of control, due to the low thrust-to-weight situation and relatively high dynamic pressure. When a second engine fails, the vehicle will pitch up and try to maintain its trajectory at a lower thrust to weight. However, the dynamic pressure may be too high to maintain this attitude at this angle of attack and the flight control system will quickly become saturated, resulting in LOC. 11. Initialism of local organisation committee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: LOC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Library of Congress. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Line of Control. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SNL Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Saturday Night Live. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Clinton, playing a bartender, was told by an SNL cast member that she was "really easy to talk to." Example: The comedian and talk show host worked as a writer on “SNL” between 2008 and 2012.
Word: RPM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of revolutions per minute. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of royal prerogative of mercy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RPM Part of Speech: name 1. The station code of Royapuram railway station in India. 2. Initialism of RPM Package Manager or (formerly) Red Hat Package Manager, a package management system used by some Linux distributions, especially by Red Hat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NYT Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of New York Times (a US newspaper) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list. Example: And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”
Word: barrow man Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for wheel-barrow man 1. Alternative form of wheel-barrow man. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As the term "barrow men" is all but incomprehensible to readers of the present day, it may be pertinent to explain they were convicts who were hired out to do paving and similar work on the city streets. The jail at that time was at the southeast corner of Sixth and Walnut Streets. The five "barrow men," it appears, while at work on Market Street near Thirteenth accidentally discovered a drover who had in his possession a large sum of money just received from a sale of live stock. Example: In those days convicts from the prison at Sixth and Walnut streets were taken out to mend the highways, do grading, and other similar tasks. They were popularly known as barrow- men.
Word: WP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Washington Post. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Warsaw Pact. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of WordPress. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of WordPerfect. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of Wattpad. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Wirtualna Polska. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of Windows Phone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of Wikipedia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 9. Initialism of Western Pacific. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: WP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of word processor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of word processing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of weakest precondition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of wild pitch. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of white privilege. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of white people. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of white phosphorus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of wilting point. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 9. Initialism of weapons procurement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 10. Initialism of war prison. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: WP Part of Speech: intj 1. Initialism of well played. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: IPTV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Internet Protocol television. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: SNRI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DAW Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɔː/, /diː eɪ ˈdʌbəljuː/ 1. Initialism of digital audio workstation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DAW Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɔː/, /diː eɪ ˈdʌbəljuː/ 1. Initialism of dispense as written. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NDC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of National Defence College (Bangladesh). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: NDC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of negative differential conductance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of National Drug Code. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of network daughter card. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of nationally determined contribution. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: “I don’t see that many new NDCs on the horizon, frankly,” he said, pointing to Australia, with its new government, as a rare exception.
Word: PTT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of professional technical trainer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of postal telephone and telegraph. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of platform terminal transmitter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of Partitioning tracer test. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of partial thromboplastin time. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of polytrimethylene terephthalate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of protein truncation test. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of part task trainer (See Flight simulator at Wikipedia). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of push-to-talk. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of push-to-transmit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 11. Initialism of press-to-talk. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 12. Initialism of press-to-transmit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 13. Initialism of Pizza Time Theatre, an old name for Chuck E. Cheese. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 14. Initialism of pick-to-tote. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Ordered goods (to the stores or online sales) are picked by employees at pick to tote (PTT) picking stations. PTT stations are able to handle around 750 order lines and 500 to 600 orders per hour. When an order is released to the WMS from the host, MFS starts to allocate storing totes for a right picking sequence.
Word: bastardly gullion Part of Speech: noun 1. A bastard's bastard. Labels: archaic, idiomatic Example: An evil, clever, murderin', bastardly gullion of a Malouin corsair, [...]
Word: CIO Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Congress of Industrial Organizations. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CIO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of chief information officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of chief investment officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of chief innovation officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Charitable incorporated organisation. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CIO Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of cry it out (in reference to the Ferber method). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: uproar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpɹɔː/, /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/ 1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A loud protest, controversy, or outrage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
Word: uproar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpɹɔː/, /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/ 1. To throw into uproar or confusion. Labels: transitive Example: […] had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth. 2. To make an uproar. Labels: intransitive Example: […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […] Example: […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
Word: CCO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of chief compliance officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of chief communications officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of chief change officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of chief commercial officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of chief content officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CSO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of chief security officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of chief sustainability officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of civil society organisation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of combined sewer overflow. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of community service officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of conditional sentencing order. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: CTO Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of cancelled to order. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: CTO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of chief technology officer or chief technical officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Senior employees can also pitch project ideas to upper-management and get funding to work on them, while junior employees are encouraged to “take ownership” over their assigned projects and to act as if they were the CTO of it. 2. Initialism of confidential treatment order. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of chronic total occlusion. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. A cancelled-to-order postage stamp.
Word: basting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪstɪŋ/ 1. The act by which a food item is basted. Example: Use repeated bastings to prevent the chicken from drying out. 2. A (physical) beating. Labels: archaic 3. The use of long or loose stitches; the act by which something is basted.
Word: basting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of baste Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jinx Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪŋks/ 1. A hex; an evil spell. 2. A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.