nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: homologation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English homologate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English homologation From homologate + -ation. 1. Any reaction that converts a compound into the next member of a homologous series, usually by lengthening a carbon chain Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Official certification. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pantagruelism Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Pantagruelism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: trocha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish trocha. 1. A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region. Labels: Latin-America
Word: nosewheel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nose Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English nosewheel From nose + wheel. 1. The wheel of an aircraft's nose gear.
Word: ethylating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ethylate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ethylating Part of Speech: adj 1. That serves to ethylate
Word: partwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From part + work. 1. A written publication released as a series of pre-planned magazine-like issues over a period of time, distributed through the same channels as magazines.
Word: Aunt Flo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Pun on flow and Flo (nickname for Florence, Flora, etc). Pronunciation: /ɑːnt fləʊ/ 1. A personification of the menstrual period or menstruation. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: Aunt Flo came to visit last night: that's why I was so ratty.
Word: super-rich Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of superrich. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: super-rich Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of superrich. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only Example: The super-rich are swapping mansions for £2m motorhomes. Do they know something we don’t? [title] Example: The global super-rich may have as much as $3.55tn hidden away from tax authorities, according to estimates by Oxfam.
Word: superrich Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English rich English superrich From super- + rich. 1. Extremely rich. Labels: not-comparable
Word: superrich Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English rich English superrich From super- + rich. 1. Very wealthy people, considered as a class. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: But the overwhelming concern of the super-rich—mentioned by nearly every parent who participated in the survey—is their children. Example: The trickle-down benefit of spending by the super-rich is insignificant in comparison to the insidious damage.
Word: turboshaft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From turbo- + shaft. 1. A gas-turbine engine designed to transmit power by means of a geared shaft, used in helicopters and for land and marine vehicular and stationary applications.
Word: solubilised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of solubilise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Christoffel Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German.
Word: go off on one Part of Speech: verb 1. To launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of something. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: I barely mentioned the band's name before he went off on one about how commercial the top forty is these days. Example: As far as I was concerned, we had a deal – she never went off on one about 'that's not a skirt it's a belt,' and I never went out dressed like a stripper.
Word: saviour sibling Part of Speech: noun 1. A child, conceived by selected IVF treatment, so as to have compatible tissue that could be used to treat an existing sick sibling Example: MPs pushed back the boundaries of science last night when they voted to allow the creation of hybrid embryos, which have a combination of human and animal DNA, as well as "saviour siblings" to save sick children.
Word: sub-prime Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of subprime. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: struth Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of strewth. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: 'struth Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of strewth. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tantivy Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A fox-hunting term, said to be from the note of a hunting horn. Pronunciation: /tænˈtɪvi/ 1. At full tilt Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Fryar John began to paw, neigh and whinny at the Snout's end, as one ready to leap, or at least to play the Ass, and get up and ride tantivy to the Devil like a Beggar on Horseback.
Word: tantivy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A fox-hunting term, said to be from the note of a hunting horn. Pronunciation: /tænˈtɪvi/ 1. A rapid gallop Labels: obsolete Example: a. 1658, John Cleveland, letter to a Parliament Officer at Grantham Sir , I expected to hear from you in the Language of the lost Groat , and the Prodigal Son , and not in such a Tantivy of Language 2. The sound of a hunting horn in imitation of a galloping horse Labels: informal Example: Jack then placed himself on the opposite side of the pit, farthest from the giant’s lodging, and, just at the break of day, he put the horn to his mouth, and blew, Tantivy, Tantivy. This noise roused the giant.
Word: tantivy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A fox-hunting term, said to be from the note of a hunting horn. Pronunciation: /tænˈtɪvi/ 1. To hurry off. Labels: intransitive
Word: tarradiddle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps derived from diddle (“to cheat”). Pronunciation: /ˈtæ.ɹə.dɪ.dəl/ 1. A trivial lie, a fib. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "I dare say my nephew told you a good many tarradiddles in his time. Oh, yes, a good many, eh? He was always a liar. What, now, did he say of me? Tell me, now." 2. Silly talk or writing; humbug. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods […] Example: ‘We haven’t got time to listen to more taradiddles, I’m afraid, Dumbledore. I want this dealt with quickly –’
Word: teleonomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From teleo- + -nomy. Coined by biologist Colin Pittendrigh in 1958, who wanted to limit the much older term "teleology" to actions planned by an agent who can internally model alternative futures with intention, purpose and foresight. Pronunciation: /ˌtɛliˈɒnəmi/ 1. The quality of living organisms of seeming to be organized towards the attainment of an end. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: teleonomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English teleonomy Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English teleonomic From teleonomy + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to teleonomy
Word: quiddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin quid (“what”). Cognate with Dutch kwedelen. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪdəl/ 1. To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle Labels: intransitive, rare Example: He couldn't stop quiddling about the weather. 2. To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner. Labels: intransitive, rare
Word: doited Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English doten (“to behave foolishly”). 1. Afflicted with weak-mindedness, usually caused by senility Labels: Scotland Example: One man only worked on the place, a doited lad who had long been a charge to the parish, and who had not the sense to fear danger or the wit to understand it.
Word: nanocide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- Latin -cīdader. Middle French -cidebor. English -cide English nanocide From nano- + -cide. 1. Any pesticide created using nanotechnology
Word: nanofood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *fōdô Old English fōda Middle English fode English food English nanofood From nano- + food. 1. Any food created with the help of nanotechnology Labels: uncountable
Word: saviour siblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saviour sibling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hybrid embryo Part of Speech: noun 1. An embryo resulting from the sperm of one species fertilising the egg of another. Example: True hybrid embryos are the result of fertilising an egg with the sperm of another closely related species; for example, a mule is the hybrid offspring of a donkey and a horse. 2. Specifically, an embryo created artificially which combines human and animal DNA, in various proportions, for the purposes of medical research. Example: MPs pushed back the boundaries of science last night when they voted to allow the creation of hybrid embryos, which have a combination of human and animal DNA, as well as "saviour siblings" to save sick children.
Word: do the dishes Part of Speech: verb 1. To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons). Labels: intransitive Example: I make my children do the dishes if they are impolite during dinner.
Word: Chimera Part of Speech: name Etymology: As the mythological beast, a variant case form of chimera, q.v. As an ancient mountain, directly from Latin mons Chimaera (“Mount Chimera”), from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira), attested in Strabo. Pronunciation: /kaɪˈmɪɹə/, /kəˈmɪɹə/, /kʌɪˈmɪəɹə/, /kɪˈmɪəɹə/ 1. A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon. Labels: Greek Example: CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter... 2. A fire-spewing mountain in Lycia or Cilicia, presumed to be an ancient name for the Yanartaş region of Turkey's Antalya Province. Example: CHIMERA... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name; that the top of this mountain was ſeldom without lions, nor the middle, which had very good graſs, without goats; that ſerpents bred at the bottom, which was marſhy; and that Bellerophon rendered the mountain habitable. 3. Former name of Himara, a port town in southern Albania. Labels: historical Example: CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly... 4. Former name of Ceraunian Mountains, the Albanian mountain range near Himara. Labels: historical
Word: silicatein Part of Speech: noun 1. An enzyme used by sponges to capture silicate and build silica nanostructures Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ironist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek εἰρωνείᾱ (eirōneíā)der. Latin īrōnīader. Old French Middle French ironieder. English irony Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English ironist From irony + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪɹənɪst/ 1. Someone who uses irony in humor. Example: The great ironists do not merely use irony: they live ironically. 2. A supporter of ironism.
Word: telephone card Part of Speech: noun 1. A plastic card used to pay for telephone services.
Word: Noe Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Noe Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Nōē, from Ancient Greek Νῶε (Nôe), from Hebrew נֹחַ (Nōaḥ). 1. Archaic spelling of Noah. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: he-goat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From he- + goat. 1. A male goat.
Word: he-goats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of he-goat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Scoville scale Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named for American chemist Wilbur Scoville, who devised it in 1912. 1. A measure for the piquancy (“heat, burn, spiciness”) of various chili peppers, indicating the level of capsaicin.
Word: sit in Part of Speech: verb 1. To attend a class, educational presentation, meeting, etc. for one time, as a visitor. Labels: idiomatic 2. To take part in a group musical performance, especially a jazz session, as a temporary guest. 3. To participate in a sit-in protest. Example: Over 200 homeless women and children sat-in over night at the state house to protest inadequate state funding for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
Word: the sky's the limit Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of the sky is the limit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Barbra Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling of Barbara. Associated with Barbra Streisand, who changed the spelling of her name from Barbara. Example: Barbra Streisand isn’t afraid to tell the truth, even to a potential romantic suitor.
Word: TESSA Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of tax-exempt special savings account. Labels: UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical
Word: capful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cap + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈkæpfʊl/ 1. The amount that will fit into a cap. 2. A light puff of wind. Example: "I warrant you were frighted, wer'n't you, last night, when it blew but a capful of wind?" Example: " Last night, at sunset, there were plenty of the most respectable wind-clouds, but now there isn't a capful."
Word: Sierra Leonean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Sierra Leone + -an. 1. From or of Sierra Leone.
Word: Sierra Leonean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sierra Leone + -an. 1. A native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone.
Word: Eveleen Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
Word: jetpack Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of jet pack. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jetpack Part of Speech: verb 1. To travel with a jet pack. Labels: intransitive Example: the first person to jetpack around the world Example: He shrugs, too, when commandos zipline or jetpack into his line of vision, trading fire across busy intersections.
Word: neighbourliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English neighbourly 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 neighbourliness From neighbourly + -ness. 1. UK standard spelling of neighborliness. Labels: uncountable Example: The after-thought came from over his shoulder, for the Rev. Octavius did not carry universal neighbourliness to the extent of encouraging prolonged wayside conversation.
Word: one-start Part of Speech: adj 1. Describing a simple spiral that starts at a point at the origin and does not divide the plane Labels: not-comparable 2. Describing a section of a simple helix Labels: not-comparable
Word: two-start Part of Speech: adj 1. Describing a double spiral that starts at the origin and divides the plane into two Labels: not-comparable 2. Describing a construction of two helices that wrap around the same cylinder; if infinite, would divide the surface of the cylinder into two Labels: not-comparable
Word: keep away from Part of Speech: verb 1. To avoid or eschew. Labels: intransitive Example: He tried to keep away from danger. Example: He tried to keep away from alcohol. 2. To deny (someone or something) access to, to maintain distance between. Labels: transitive Example: He tried to keep Jack away from his daughter.
Word: multi-start Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English start English multi-start From multi- + start. 1. Describing a multiple spiral that starts at the origin and divides the plane into multiple regions Labels: not-comparable 2. Describing a construction of multiple helices that wrap around the same cylinder; if infinite, would divide the surface of the cylinder into multiple regions Labels: not-comparable
Word: tonsil-hockey Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of tonsil hockey. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: friggin Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of frigging. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard
Word: behabitive Part of Speech: adj 1. Adopting an attitude, by making an utterance. Example: 'God is good' is behabitive and commissive said by someone brought up in the Christian tradition, but may not be said by an animist of his high god.
Word: behabitive Part of Speech: noun 1. A speech act by which an attitude is adopted. Example: As a behabitive, unsuccessful forgiveness is also connected to sincerity — in this case, a sincere willingness to work on oneself and eliminate resentment.
Word: tarpa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Marathi तारपा (tārpā) 1. A wind instrument that is played by blowing into a reservoir chamber that is connected to two bamboo pipes attached to a resonating chamber. It is primarily played by the Western Indian Warli tribe.
Word: upbound Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From up- + bound or up + -bound. 1. Directed or moving up or in a direction conventionally considered up; upstream Labels: not-comparable Example: He took an upbound escalator.
Word: upbound Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From up- + bound or up + -bound. 1. Up or in a direction conventionally considered up; upstream Example: The ore boat sailed upbound through the locks last week.
Word: Clapham Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈklæp.əm/, /ˈklap.əm/ 1. A number of places in England: 2. A number of places in England: 3. A number of places in England: 4. A number of places in England: 5. A number of places in England: 6. A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham, South Australia, named after Clapham, London. 7. An English habitational surname from Old English derived from these places.
Word: Clarion Part of Speech: name 1. An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. 2. A city, the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States. 3. A borough, the county seat of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. 4. A ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. 5. A river in Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River.
Word: man on the Clapham omnibus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First put to legal use in a reported judgement by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR in the English Court of Appeal libel case, McQuire v. Western Morning News (1903), who attributed it to Lord Bowen. 1. Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness; an everyman. Labels: UK Example: Near-synonyms: man on the Bondi tram, man on the Shau Kei Wan tram, reasonable person 2. Any ordinary person; everyman. Labels: UK, broadly
Word: tramontana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tramontana. 1. A dry, cold north wind in Italy and adjacent Mediterranean areas.
Word: inattentions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inattention Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doryphore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A modification of doriphore, borrowed from French doryphore (“Colorado beetle”) by Harold Nicolson in 1952, presumably under the influence of the various senses of pest. The French term was a translation of the New Latin genus Doryphora, itself from Ancient Greek δορυφόρος (doruphóros, “lance-bearing; lance-bearer”). 1. A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes. Labels: humorous, rare Example: Often have I tried to supplement my vocabulary by inventing words, such as ‘couth’, or ‘doriphore’, or ‘hypoulic’, feeling that it is the duty as well as the pastime of a professional writer to make two words bloom where only one bloomed before. Example: The idiomatic implications of such a word as doryphore in his own text is left for the ignorant to guess. (It means a Colorado beetle and, hence, a pest.)
Word: dipthong Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of diphthong. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. Misspelling of diphthong. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: radeau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French radeau. 1. A float; a raft. Example: Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer, noted in the last year's naval fight.
Word: cloudland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cloud + land. 1. Dreamland, fantasy land. Example: Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life. Example: Wide awake, all at once, he was at the same time plunged even deeper into a cloudland of symbols to which he had no key.
Word: as though Part of Speech: conj Pronunciation: /əzˈðəʊ/ 1. As to suggest the idea that; as if, as would be true if. Example: I felt sick, as though I'd just eaten a dozen bad oysters. Example: She reached out, as though to touch my face.
Word: newspaperwomen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of newspaperwoman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonconductors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonconductor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nippier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of nippy: more nippy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: nippiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of nippy: most nippy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: novelettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of novelette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lengthsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From length + -s- + -man (suffix denoting a man or person who is an expert in an area or who takes part in an activity). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛŋθsmn̩/, /ˈlɛŋθsˌm(ə)n/ 1. Alternative form of lengthman. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I started working on the canal when I was only 14. I was a lengths man on the Shrewsbury, the canal. It was my job to cut hedges and to keep the toe path^([sic – meaning towpath]) clear. Example: It became common practice for day-to-day maintenance to be undertaken by a number of roadmen, each appointed to maintain a length of road. This gave rise to the term, ‘the lengthsman’. Over time, greater mechanisation and centralisation replaced lengthsmen with area-based work teams, controlled from County offices and depots. […] In 2000 Herefordshire Council launched a local initiative, the ‘Lengthsman Scheme,’ to devolve some minor highway works to Parish Councils. […] Parishes are permitted to use the delegated budget to employ a local contractor to undertake the works – the lengthsman. […] Works carried out by lengthsmen can range from clearing minor storm debris discharged onto the highway, cutting back overgrown hedges encroaching on footways and verge cutting as required by the parish.
Word: Roget's Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Roget's Thesaurus, published in 1852. 1. A thesaurus published with the Roget's name as part of the title. Example: I like my old Roget's for much the same reason as I like my old dictionary. 2. Any source of synonyms. Example: They use words like appraisal, evaluation, assessment, their Roget's litany, to avoid the constrained "test" connotation.
Word: Doppler shift Part of Speech: noun 1. The Doppler effect.
Word: Tom Thumb Part of Speech: name 1. A fairy-tale character who is the size of a person's thumb; the protagonist and hero of the fairy tale The History of Tom Thumb.
Word: Tom Thumb Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of diminutive simple firecracker that explodes to give a loud noise. Labels: Australia
Word: copy cat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of copycat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: copy boy Part of Speech: noun 1. A boy employed to carry copy and run errands. Labels: historical Example: Copy boys wanted for expanding staff of ambitious regional newspaper. Need smart, hardworking hustlers.
Word: copy desk Part of Speech: noun 1. The desk in a newspaper office where copyreading takes place. 2. The staff responsible for editing copy.
Word: copy writer Part of Speech: noun 1. a writer of advertising copy.
Word: conflux Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnflūxus. 1. A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge. Example: It stands on the conflux of two rivers—the Chelmer, whence the town is called, and the Cann. 2. A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things. Example: Thence to the gates caſt round thine eye, and ſee / What conflux iſſuing forth, or entring in: / Pretors, Proconſuls to thir Provinces / Haſting or on return, in robes of State; / Lictors and rods the enſigns of thir power; / Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horſe and wings: […] Example: There was a conflux of emotions and thoughts in him that would not let him either give thorough way to his anger or persevere with simple rigidity of resolve.
Word: peacemonger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peace + monger, modelled after warmonger. 1. Someone who opposes war even when it is impractical to do so; a strict pacifist. Labels: derogatory
Word: double-header Part of Speech: noun 1. A pair of games played one after another between the same teams. Example: This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm. Example: The ′40s and ′50s were in advance of the day of the twilight double-header, and most certainly before the more common twilight or “twinight” double-headers, in which the fans must leave so as to empty their seats for a new crowd which is to see the second game at a separately scheduled time. 2. A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue. Example: The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests. Example: The next jazz double-header at The Sound Lounge will feature the Leonie Cohen Trio and the Sam Hawkins Quartet 3. A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel. 4. The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together. 5. A double-headed coin. 6. A train pulled by two locomotives. Example: If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve,[…]. 7. Double penetration Labels: slang Example: According to feminist writer and adult film producer Tristan Taormino, similar instances of sexual contact between men in heterosexual pornography, such as the "double header," circumvent queer meaning, given their location within heterosexual sex.
Word: death house Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of death row.
Word: Podunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian, likely Loup A, word or words. Similar names were applied to various small and generally unknown places. By the late 19th century the word came to mean an obscure small town, a use possibly popularized by Mark Twain (see quotation). Carlton and Reed survey similar place names and note a transformation from Potaecke to Potunke to Podunk. Carlton suggests a derivation from the adjective petukque ("round"). Tooker compares Ojibwe petobeg (“bog”) (as Chippewa) and Abenaki poteba (“to sink in the mire”) and divides the word into pot- ("to sink") and -unk (locative). Algonquian expert Ives Goddard says "We have no idea what the word means. You'll be able to find guesses in the sources if you look around. Don't believe any of it." Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊdʌŋk/ 1. A member of a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in modern-day Hartford County, Connecticut.
Word: Podunk Part of Speech: name Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian, likely Loup A, word or words. Similar names were applied to various small and generally unknown places. By the late 19th century the word came to mean an obscure small town, a use possibly popularized by Mark Twain (see quotation). Carlton and Reed survey similar place names and note a transformation from Potaecke to Potunke to Podunk. Carlton suggests a derivation from the adjective petukque ("round"). Tooker compares Ojibwe petobeg (“bog”) (as Chippewa) and Abenaki poteba (“to sink in the mire”) and divides the word into pot- ("to sink") and -unk (locative). Algonquian expert Ives Goddard says "We have no idea what the word means. You'll be able to find guesses in the sources if you look around. Don't believe any of it." Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊdʌŋk/ 1. A mythical small town of no importance. Labels: US Example: They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be. Example: Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.
Word: sexagenerian Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of sexagenarian. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable
Word: sexagenerian Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of sexagenarian. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: brachybasidiole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brachy- + basidiole. 1. A cell that resembles a basidiole but is larger and more inflated.
Word: vertuus Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of virtuous. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: HE that made this hous for contemplacion / Myndyde specially excercyse of lernynge and vertuus occupation.
Word: vertuus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vertuu, an obsolete spelling of virtue. Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural Example: For withowt ther goode gydaunce / Yough shuld fall in grett myschaunce; / For yough ys frayle and prompt to doo, / As well vices as vertuus to ensew;
Word: clean copy Part of Speech: noun 1. A copy of a draft of a document without editing notations. Example: Print everyone a clean copy so they can read it over the weekend.
Word: gate house Part of Speech: noun 1. A structure located at an entrance to a large property, especially a dwelling.
Word: disengagement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + engage + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/ 1. Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: moral disengagement Example: “Miss Vernon,” I said, “Mr Rashleigh, has recommended me to return my thanks to you for my speedy disengagement from the ridiculous accusation of Morris;[…]” 2. The release or separation of a chemical. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Indians of the Orellanna, also, tell of horrible noises heard occasionally in the Paraguaxo, […] Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them […] to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition. 3. Withdrawal from combat, confrontation, or the assertion of influence. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Termination of an agreement to be married. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was a quick flash, a disengagement, a feint, a lunge that was like a man's, and as her long left arm shot out like lightning, her foil bent nearly double. 6. The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Leisure; relief from responsibilities or onerous activities. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: blinker fluid Part of Speech: noun 1. A mythical automotive material used either in jokes or to gauge how inept someone is in basic auto mechanics. Labels: humorous, uncountable Example: Holonym: fool's errand Example: Near-synonyms: muffler bearing, left-handed monkey wrench, left-handed smoke shifter, relative bearing grease, skyhook, key to the midway, pigeon's milk
Word: muffler bearing Part of Speech: noun 1. A mythical automotive part used either in jokes or to gauge someone's ineptness in basic auto mechanics. Labels: humorous Example: Holonym: fool's errand Example: Near-synonyms: blinker fluid, left-handed monkey wrench, left-handed smoke shifter, relative bearing grease, skyhook, key to the midway, pigeon's milk
Word: Winterpeg Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of winter + Winnipeg, referring to the city's harsh winters. 1. Winnipeg. Labels: humorous
Word: take a number Part of Speech: verb 1. To queue; to wait to be served by being assigned a number and waiting for that number to be called after all previous numbers have been served in order of assignment. Labels: literally 2. To recognize that many others are in the same situation; to recognize that one's concerns are not of high priority; to be prepared to wait. Labels: figuratively Example: Wanna buy a television network? Take a number. A few years ago you would have had the field to yourself. Example: Even if they did decide to prosecute, the Justice Department would have to take a number and stand in a very long line.
Word: Ukrainian Easter egg Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of pysanka.
Word: strings attached Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely by analogy with no strings attached. 1. plural of string attached Labels: form-of, plural
Word: behabitives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of behabitive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: illocutionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English illocution Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English illocutionary From illocution + -ary. 1. Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking. Labels: not-comparable Example: "I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force. Example: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
Word: automobilia Part of Speech: noun 1. Everything pertaining to automobiles, especially collectibles. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Ask any automobilia collector what the most popular field of auto-related antiques is and you'll invariably be told license plates. Example: I once found and brought home a Mercedes Benz hubcap. For years it sat in my garage. One day an automobilia collector happened to see it and told me it was worth $40 because it came from a popular sports model Mercedes.
Word: reimport Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English import English reimport From re- + import. 1. The act or practice of importing again, or back to a place of origin; reimportation. Example: It was these texts, translated yet again into Latin, which were the source of the reimport of swathes of lost Classical knowledge into Latin Europe in later centuries. 2. A product which has been reimported. Example: The low price of reimports has placed competitive pressure on local producers.
Word: reimport Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English import English reimport From re- + import. 1. To import again. Example: We reimported the data in a different format. 2. To import goods which have previously been exported, particularly pharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin. Example: Reimported drugs may not be as safe as domestic products.
Word: illocutions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of illocution Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bus stops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bus stop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: faqirs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of faqir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resiled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of resile Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: how can you sleep at night Part of Speech: phrase 1. A rhetorical question, used to tell someone that they should feel guilty about something.
Word: cutesily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English cutesy Middle English -ly English -ly English cutesily From cutesy + -ly. 1. In a cutesy manner.
Word: punny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pun + -y, possibly influenced by funny. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌni/, /ˈpʊni/, /ˈpʌne/ 1. Resembling a pun; involving the use of a pun. Example: And though [Terry] Border's overly punny captions fall flat for me, the images themselves exude enough delight to make it all a treat. Example: Along Main Street, where crowds popped in and out of boutiques, one woman savored samples at the specialty food store. A punny T-shirt urging “SOCIALism DISTANCING” hung prominently in one of the shop windows […]. 2. Fond of puns. Example: From Battersea Flower Station to Blonde Dye Bleach, everyone wants to be punny. What's your favourite? 3. Funny.
Word: punny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of punishment + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌni/, /ˈpʊni/, /ˈpʌne/ 1. A punishment.
Word: recovery position Part of Speech: noun 1. The position, into which helpers will typically place an unconscious person, of lying on the floor three-quarters prone, on one's side; this position maximizes the likelihood of the person's airway remaining open.
Word: clanky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English clank Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English clanky From clank + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈklæŋki/ 1. Making a clanking metallic sound. Example: My father's first car was a clanky old Volkswagen Beetle. Example: The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter. 2. Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.
Word: civvie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of civvy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: civvy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of civilian + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvi/ 1. A civilian; someone who is not in the military. Labels: informal 2. A manufactured cigarette, as opposed to a rollup. Labels: slang Example: I reached across and offered him the packet of civvies.
Word: allocutions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allocution Labels: form-of, plural
Word: commissive Part of Speech: adj 1. By commission; resulting from a positive act. Example: This error was commissive rather than omissive. 2. Making a commitment, such as a promise or threat, by illocutionary means. Example: "I will kill you if you do that" is a commissive statement.
Word: commissive Part of Speech: noun 1. A speech act by which a commitment is made, such as a promise or threat.
Word: commissives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commissive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Veepstakes Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of veepstakes. Labels: alt-of Example: What America needs now is comedy—so hurray, we're getting ready to elect a Vice-President! Sure, we elect a Boss Man too, but it'll be the Veepstakes that'll provide the laughs. Example: If [Spiro] Agnew abandoned his inflammatory rhetoric during the 1972 campaign, he did not abandon his corrosive wit altogether. The more restrained Agnew twitted Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate in the Veepstakes, on his personal wealth.
Word: Eastern Orthodoxy Part of Speech: name 1. The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Word: unlistenable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English un- English listen Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English listenable English unlistenable From un- + listenable. 1. Of a sound, quality, or characteristic, that a person cannot listen to for an extended time. Example: Many older adults find rap music unlistenable. Example: '[…] you'd prefer some Stravinsky or Stockhausen. Something unlistenable.'
Word: put on airs Part of Speech: verb 1. To become haughty, to assume a pretentious manner. Labels: idiomatic Example: Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. Example: "Now what if I talked white-folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin‘ on airs to beat Moses."
Word: trip cord Part of Speech: noun 1. A cord, line, lanyard, or wire that, when pulled, mechanically activates a device. Example: Seeing the trip cord of a bouncing Betty nearby gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods. 2. A type of electrical extension cord: see pad.
Word: better safe than sorry Part of Speech: proverb 1. It is preferable to be cautious in one's choices and actions than to act recklessly and suffer afterwards. Example: Moreover, apart from official restrictions, drivers do not a little easing of their engines on their own account, where they consider that the feel of the track makes this desirable; and they can hardly be blamed in consequence. It is better to be safe than sorry. Example: But I'll be stumbling away / Slowly learning that life is OK / Say after me / It's no better to be safe than sorry
Word: Homeric laughter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: With reference to the "unquenchable laughter" (ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unceasing”) γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”)) of the gods in e.g. Iliad I. 599, Odyssey XX. 346. 1. Boisterous laughter, prolonged belly laughing; long or uncontrollable laughing. Labels: uncountable Example: The words were scarcely out of her mouth, when they were greeted with a roar of Homeric laughter that literally shook the room, and this time not at the expense of the innocent speaker. Example: But the Professor! He ought to have exploded in a burst of Homeric laughter, or else to have shaken his head at her and warned her where little girls go to who do this sort of thing.
Word: cluestick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of clue stick. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: isosceles trapezoid Part of Speech: noun 1. A quadrilateral with two parallel sides and a separate pair of congruent sides which are not parallel.
Word: isosceles trapezoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of isosceles trapezoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pick up speed Part of Speech: verb 1. To accelerate.
Word: Bahreyn Part of Speech: name 1. Obsolete spelling of Bahrain. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: hawkshaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip. 1. A detective. Labels: dated, obsolete
Word: steamliner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From steam + liner. 1. A steam-powered ocean liner. 2. A streamlined steam powered train locomotive.
Word: Jim Crow law Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the song Jump Jim Crow (c. 1830) which mockingly portrayed African-Americans. It became a generic term for African-Americans in the early- to mid-19th century. 1. Any law that racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965. Labels: US, historical
Word: panji Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of punji. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bignesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bigness Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of bignesse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: CCI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of co-channel interference. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: CCI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Center for Copyright Information. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Competition Commission of India. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has asked Google to modify its conduct in relation to anti-competitive practices. […] “The Commission opined that the markets should be allowed to compete on merits and the onus is on the dominant players (in the present case, Google) that its conduct does not impinge this competition on merits,” the CCI said Thursday in a press release.
Word: micrograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph. 1. An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope. 2. A pantograph instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
Word: micrograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph. 1. To produce such an image by micrography.
Word: electron micrograph Part of Speech: noun 1. A micrograph produced using an electron microscope.
Word: Walia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਵਾਲੀਆ (vālīā), a surname of unexplained origin. 1. A surname from Punjabi.
Word: zerging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of zerg Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: SEATO Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, in existence from 1955 to 1977. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical
Word: as a matter of fact Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Actually, in fact. Labels: adverbial Example: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth; a pocket-edition of the larger mansions of their friends, but with less excuse for the overelaboration since the dimensions were only twenty by a hundred. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space the eyes might rest on[…]." Example: Greedo: Going somewhere, Solo? / Han Solo: Yes, Greedo. As a matter of fact, I was just going to see your boss. Tell Jabba that I've got his money.
Word: hierocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hiero- + -cracy. Pronunciation: /haɪəˈɹɑkɹəsi/ 1. Government by ecclesiastics. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power. Labels: Middle-Ages, countable, historical, uncountable
Word: plantocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English plant Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)bor. English -cracy English plantocracy From plant + -o- + -cracy. Pronunciation: /plɑːnˈtɒkɹəsi/, /plænˈtɑkɹəsi/ 1. Government by plantation owners. Example: Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish. 2. The group of plantation owners who have power in such a government. Example: Although remnants of the plantocracy retained positions of economic and political importance into the 1960s and represented the hardest core of Jamaican conservatism, its significance was historical rather than contemporary.
Word: pigmentocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pigment Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)bor. English -cracy English pigmentocracy From pigment + -o- + -cracy. 1. Government by or social hierarchy of those with a certain skin tone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.
Word: phylarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phylo- + -archy. 1. Government by a class or tribe. Labels: countable, uncountable