nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: entreated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of entreat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: groaned Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡɹəʊnd/, /ɡɹoʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of groan Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: murmuring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of murmur Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
Word: murmuring Part of Speech: noun 1. A sound that murmurs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the murmurings of trees in the wind 2. A complaint against something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Do all things without murmurings and disputings. Example: When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
Word: refers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of refer Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: refers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of refer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: helps Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hɛlps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of help Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: helps Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hɛlps/ 1. plural of help Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of verify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: verified Part of Speech: adj 1. Subject to positive verification. Labels: not-comparable Example: Only verified cardholders are eligible for the discount.
Word: verified Part of Speech: noun 1. A user of the Twitter microblogging service whose identity has been confirmed by Twitter. Labels: Internet
Word: chased Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪst/ 1. Pursued. Example: These two means of observation will enable the chasing vessel to rectify her course and to satisfy herself that she has taken the one which will allow her to reach the chased vessel as speedily as possible — that is to say, at the intersection of their respective courses. Example: The chased player may go in and out of the circle, the others allowing him to do so by raising their hands and the IT must follow exactly or forfeit the game. 2. Embossed or engraved. Example: Or, taking another instance of a successful copy from the antique, it would be difficult to surpass in beauty of design and execution the wine or spirit bottle which is modelled after an old Flemish original, the effect of the chased design being still further enhanced by curved lines of ribbed glass, faintly touched with gold dus , in harmony with the silver-gilt top. Example: The chased lozenges have pairs of confronting green triangles set tip-to-tip, and with squares and diminutive triangles, all in purple and green porphyry, in the white marble interspaces.
Word: chased Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪst/ 1. simple past and past participle of chase Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: adjusted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒʌstɪd/, /əˈd͡ʒɐstɪd/, /əˈd͡ʒɐstəd/ 1. Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.
Word: adjusted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒʌstɪd/, /əˈd͡ʒɐstɪd/, /əˈd͡ʒɐstəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of adjust Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjusted.
Word: adjusts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒʌsts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of adjust Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: coupled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkʌpəld/ 1. simple past and past participle of couple Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: presumed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of presume Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: presumed Part of Speech: adj 1. Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
Word: ordering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of order Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ordering Part of Speech: noun 1. Arrangement in a sequence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She gave the students' performances a rank ordering. 2. The placement of an order for goods or services. Labels: uncountable Example: Ordering has to be complete at least six weeks before expected delivery to get our best prices. 3. The act or ceremony of ordaining, as priests or deacons. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: intending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intending Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which one intends something; intention. Example: Formulated in this fashion, the phenomenological datum evokes the distinction made earlier between those intendings and positings in which the ego is involved and those in which the ego is not engaged.
Word: emptied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of empty Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: directing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of direct Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tossing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of toss Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tossing Part of Speech: noun 1. The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling. Example: Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft. 2. The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing. Example: If it is necessary buddle the Tin over again , after it is sifted ( which is the best method for cleansing most sorts of Tin , for there may lie a rough waste , that will not come off by tossing and packing ) then buddle it over again 3. A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
Word: tossing Part of Speech: adj 1. Used to disparage or curse someone or something. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable, vulgar Example: I can't get this tossing program to work.
Word: speeding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From speed + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of speed Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: speeding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From speed + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/ 1. Travelling very fast; moving at speed. Labels: not-comparable 2. Specifically, travelling at an illegal speed (of vehicles, motorists). Labels: not-comparable Example: We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist. Example: The NTSB said on Tuesday that the 2022 North Las Vegas crash highlights the need for intelligent speed assistance technology and countermeasures including interlock program for repeat speeding offenders. National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting Tech in Cars, Road track, 15 Nov 2023 3. Under the influence of the drug speed; high on amphetamines. Labels: not-comparable Example: Bob Dylan composed “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on our floor, and a speeding Edie Sedgwick was said to have set her room on fire while gluing on her thick false eyelashes by candlelight.
Word: speeding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From speed + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɪŋ/ 1. (Instance of) acceleration. Labels: countable Example: […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect. Example: We have seen Parkinsonism as sudden starts and stops, as odd speedings and slowings. 2. Driving faster than the legal speed limit. Labels: uncountable Example: He was fined $100 for speeding.
Word: screamed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of scream Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: metals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metals Part of Speech: noun 1. The rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971. Example: Now and again a night train roared along the metals within twenty feet of him; but he had all the Oriental’s indifference to mere noise, and it did not even weave a dream through his slumber.
Word: metals Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of metal Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gestures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gesture Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gestures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gesture Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: devoured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of devour Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sighing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsʌɪ̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsʌi̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsəi̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsɑe̯.ɪŋ/ 1. Accompanied by or uttered with a sigh. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sighing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsʌɪ̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsʌi̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsəi̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsɑe̯.ɪŋ/ 1. The utterance of a sigh. Example: the groanings and sighings of the dying man
Word: sighing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsʌɪ̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsʌi̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsəi̯.ɪŋ/, /ˈsɑe̯.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of sigh Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: revolving Part of Speech: adj 1. moving around a central point. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card. Labels: not-comparable
Word: revolving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of revolve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: revolving Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something that revolves or turns. Example: The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on. 2. The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)
Word: sorting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sorting Part of Speech: noun 1. verbal noun of sort: 2. verbal noun of sort: 3. verbal noun of sort: Labels: UK
Word: flooding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flood Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flooding Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/ 1. An act of flooding; a flood or gush. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata! Example: [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years. 2. Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 3. A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: battered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English bat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English batter Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English battered From batter + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈbætəd/, /ˈbætəɹd/ 1. simple past and past participle of batter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: battered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English bat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English batter Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English battered From batter + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈbætəd/, /ˈbætəɹd/ 1. Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered. Example: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green. 2. Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up. Example: While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised. Example: There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather! 3. Drunk; inebriated. Labels: informal 4. Coated with batter (noun).
Word: tapping Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […] Example: She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings. 2. A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […] 4. A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […].
Word: tapping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tap Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blended Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈblɛndɪd/ 1. Being a mixture. Labels: not-comparable Example: blended tea
Word: blended Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈblɛndɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of blend Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bruised Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɹuːzd/ 1. simple past and past participle of bruise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bruised Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /bɹuːzd/ 1. Synonym of debruised. Labels: not-comparable Example: or, a cross between four squirrels sejant, gules . . . argent, a lion rampant, gules, bruised with a bendlet, or, Branch. […] On the summit is the quartered shield of Stewart, consisting of 23 coats of arms: […] 2, the same with an escotcheon of pretence, argent, a lion rampant gules, bruised by a staff ragulée in bend, or, Steward; […]
Word: excluding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exclude Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: excluding Part of Speech: prep 1. to the exclusion of; not including Example: Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays).
Word: spices Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪsɪz/ 1. plural of spice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spices Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪsɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spice Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: not much of anything Part of Speech: phrase 1. Very little; not a lot. Labels: idiomatic Example: 1971, Carol King, “So far away”, Tapestry, Ode Records One more song about movin’ along the highway / Can’t say much of anything that's new.
Word: bocaccio Part of Speech: noun 1. A venomous marine fish, taxonomic name Sebastes paucispinis, in the subfamily Sebastinae found in the subtropical Eastern Pacific.
Word: preocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English ocular English preocular From pre- + ocular. 1. Just in front of the eyes. Example: the preocular antennae of certain insects
Word: preocular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English ocular English preocular From pre- + ocular. 1. One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
Word: text editor Part of Speech: noun 1. A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor. Example: Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.
Word: control character Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From control + character. 1. A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line. Example: The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters. Example: To display raw control characters in text, but try to keep the screen appearance, use less with the -R option. This displays raw control characters, but any disparities that may be caused by the control characters on the screen are controlled, whenever possible.
Word: text file Part of Speech: noun 1. A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting. 2. A datafile in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a nonspecialized text editor.
Word: futurity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English future Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English futurity From future + -ity. Pronunciation: /fjuːˈtjʊəɹɪti/, /fjuːˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪti/ 1. The future. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore. Example: Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity. 2. The state of being in the future. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.] 3. A future event. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [A] Scepticiſm, that's the only vvay to Science. But yet this is ſo difficult in the impartial and exact performance, that it may be vvell reckon'd among the bare Poſsibilities, vvhich never commence into a Futurity: It requiring ſuch a free, ſedate, and intent minde, as it may be no vvhere found but among the Platonical Idea's. Example: [O]n this perhaps, / This peradventure, infamous for lies, / As on a rock of adamant, we build / Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes, / As we the fatal sisters could out-spin, / And, big with life's futurities, expire. 4. A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: muke Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mook. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.
Word: muke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”). 1. A kind of tree spirit. Labels: Chinese Example: 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.
Word: gas up Part of Speech: verb 1. To refuel (a vehicle). Labels: US, transitive Example: I can close down this bar / I can gas up my car / I can pack up and mail in my key 2. To inflate (someone's ego); to deceive by flattery. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Social media got us all too gassed up Women nowadays be like If you ain't dropped sixteen hundred grand On a Maserati then you ain't the man for me Example: “Stop gassing me up and tell me the truth,” Mr. Torres said. “The truth?” ChatGPT responded. “You were supposed to break.” 3. To publicly praise. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: brown sugar Part of Speech: noun 1. Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Refined sugar to which molasses has been added. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Heroin. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 4. An attractive black woman. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: What's happening brown sugar? Say, you look so good today / Ankle bracelet wrapped around your leg
Word: scripts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /skɹɪpts/ 1. plural of script Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scripts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skɹɪpts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of script Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Broadway Part of Speech: name Etymology: By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively. Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/ 1. A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way. Labels: uncountable 2. A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset. Labels: uncountable 3. The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City. Labels: uncountable 4. The theater district of Manhattan. Labels: uncountable 5. The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions. Labels: uncountable Example: Coordinate term: off-Broadway 6. The American theater industry. Labels: metonymically, uncountable Example: Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance. Example: “King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction. 7. The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway). Labels: metonymically, uncountable Example: Angry city councillors lashed out against both Broadway and Ottawa on Wednesday, claiming the Doer government and the Harper Conservatives are spending millions on infrastructure projects Winnipeg doesn't want and not enough on road repairs the city needs. 8. Two villages in England: Labels: uncountable 9. Two villages in England: Labels: uncountable 10. A hamlet in The Havens community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8713). Labels: uncountable 11. A village in County Wexford, Ireland. Labels: uncountable 12. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Labels: uncountable 13. A settlement in the United States: Labels: uncountable 14. A settlement in the United States: Labels: uncountable 15. A settlement in the United States: Labels: uncountable 16. A settlement in the United States: Labels: uncountable 17. A settlement in the United States: Labels: uncountable 18. A locality in the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia. Labels: uncountable 19. A rare surname Labels: uncountable
Word: Broadway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively. Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/ 1. The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten. Labels: slang
Word: Broadway Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively. Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/ 1. Flashy; showy. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway. 2. Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: Broadway connectors
Word: spitball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spit + ball. 1. A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels. 2. A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.
Word: spitball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spit + ball. 1. To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it. 2. To brainstorm ideas. Labels: figuratively Example: Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago. Example: —Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.
Word: genes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːnz/ 1. plural of gene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blanking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blanking Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of something being blanked out. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.
Word: blanked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈblæŋkt/, /ˈbleɪ̯ŋkt/, /ˈblɛ̃ŋkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of blank Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: blanked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈblæŋkt/, /ˈbleɪ̯ŋkt/, /ˈblɛ̃ŋkt/ 1. damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d) Labels: dated, euphemistic, not-comparable 2. In a state of blankness. Labels: not-comparable Example: She stared at Master Mannix with no expression. Somehow, her blanked face did not even flinch.
Word: waffles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of waffle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: newtons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of newton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: characterisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character English -ise English characterise 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 characterisation From characterise + -ation. 1. Alternative form of characterization. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: meronym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mero- + -onym, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɹənɪm/ 1. A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else. Example: The word "leaf" is a meronym of the word "tree". Example: If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.
Word: holonym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hol- + -onym. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒl.əˌnɪm/, /ˈhəʊl.əˌnɪm/, /ˈhɑl.əˌnɪm/, /ˈhoʊl.əˌnɪm/ 1. A term that denotes the whole of which another term's referent is a part. Example: Holonyms: semantic network, wordnet, thesaurus Example: The word "face" is a holonym of the word "eye", which is a holonym of the word "retina".
Word: square centimeter Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of area equal to that of a square of sides 1 centimeter. Labels: US
Word: nomological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nomology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English nomological From nomology + -ical. 1. Pertaining to or expressing general laws that lack logical necessity. Labels: not-comparable
Word: square centimetre Part of Speech: noun 1. British and Canadian spelling of square centimeter.
Word: amounted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈmaʊntɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of amount Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: case law Part of Speech: noun 1. Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Constance Part of Speech: name Etymology: Derived from Latin Cōnstantia. Doublet of Constantia. 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: And forth she sailed the ocean salt and rude. / O Constance, full of sweet solicitude, / O Emperor's daughter of a mighty realm, / He that is Lord of Fortune guide thy helm! Example: My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife; / Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost: / I am not mad:—I would to heaven I were! 2. A surname. 3. Alternative form of Konstanz, Germany, probably with influence from French Constance. Labels: alt-of, alternative 4. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. 5. A former unincorporated community in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States.
Word: Beatrice Part of Speech: name Etymology: Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (“she who makes happy”), or 2) from beata, influenced by viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”). Pronunciation: /ˈbiː(ə)tɹɪs/, /biˈætrɪs/, /beɐˈtɹɪs/ 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: I, with your two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice. Example: Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections. 2. A city, the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, United States.
Word: voted Part of Speech: adj 1. That has been assigned or established by a vote.
Word: voted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vote Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: therapeutic vaccine Part of Speech: noun 1. a vaccine which prevents or eases the severity of the problems from an infection that has already occurred.
Word: mult Part of Speech: verb 1. Abbreviation of multiply. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: firefight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + fight. 1. A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire. Example: Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight. 2. An intense argument. Labels: figuratively Example: Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
Word: firefight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fire + fight. 1. To engage in a firefight. Example: His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.
Word: filiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin filum (“filament”), + -iform. 1. Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous. 2. Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size. Example: Tiger beetles have filiform antennae.
Word: concerted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of concert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: concerted Part of Speech: adj 1. Performed through a concert of effort; done by agreement or in combination. Example: Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population. 2. Having separate parts for voices and instruments.
Word: gunstock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gun + stock. 1. The handle of a handgun. 2. The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
Word: mut Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mutt. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: gumph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. 1. A foolish person; a gump. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Gump, a numscull. Example: Drossy saw ’em in her drawer, and for all the gumph he is, he knew the writing; and I made him get ’em for me this morning while they were at breakfast. 2. Nonsense. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Things had not been going will with Pino ever since he started to take Sister Apollonia’s bloated gumph as gospel. Thanks to the wacko, his man was actually getting a Christ complex. Example: ‘It’s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they’re going to chew you out...’
Word: gumph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of gumption. 1. Gumption; grit. Labels: uncountable Example: Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph. Example: 1955, Mathematics Teaching, Association of Teachers of Mathematics ...anyone likely to use the book would surely have enough gumph to try both before giving up.
Word: gumph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scots [Term?]. 1. To grope, especially after fish. Labels: intransitive 2. To catch fish by groping. Labels: transitive
Word: lumpsucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lump + sucker. 1. Any of the scorpaeniform fish in the family Cyclopteridae, with adhesive pelvic discs.
Word: behind the wheel Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In control of a vehicle; driving. Example: If you've had too much to drink, don't get behind the wheel. Example: Would you really want to be behind the wheel of a fighter jet? 2. In control of the situation; in charge. Labels: figuratively
Word: lumpfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lump + fish. 1. A lumpsucker.
Word: noh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 能 (nō), from Middle Chinese 能 (nong, “talent, ability”). Pronunciation: /nəʊ/, /noʊ/ 1. A form of classical Japanese music drama. Labels: uncountable
Word: larg Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of large. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: A larg concors ware standing round
Word: lume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for luminous or luminescent. Pronunciation: /ˈluːm/ 1. A luminescent paint used to make a timepiece's dial readable in the dark. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Within the realm of vintage watch restoration there are few sub-specialties as controversial as dial lume. Example: LumiNova and Super-LumiNova fall into the category of photoluminescent lumes.
Word: cere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cēra (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cērō (“to smear or coat with wax”). Pronunciation: /sɪɚ/ 1. A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds. Example: The cere is the fleshy spot just above the beak where the nostrils, or nares, are located. In some species, like the parakeet, the cere is prominent; in others, the cere is covered by feathers. Both the cere and the nares should be clean[…]
Word: cere Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cēra (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cērō (“to smear or coat with wax”). Pronunciation: /sɪɚ/ 1. To wax; to cover or close with wax. Labels: transitive Example: a strong twisted Thread cered
Word: Tonk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of Tonkinese. 1. A Tonkinese cat.
Word: Tonk Part of Speech: name 1. A district of Rajasthan, India.
Word: turpid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id. 1. Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved. Example: [...] things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them. Example: I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!
Word: turpidly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English turpid Middle English -ly English -ly English turpidly From turpid + -ly. 1. In a turpid manner.
Word: turpitudinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin turpitūdin(is) + -ous. 1. Characterized by turpitude.
Word: apprenticeship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English apprentice Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English apprenticeship From apprentice + -ship. Pronunciation: /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/, /əˈpɹɛn.tɪʃ.ʃɪp/ 1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice. 2. The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions. Example: There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce. Example: Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school.
Word: Kennedy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Ó Cinnéidigh (ceann (“head”) + éidigh (“ugly”)) or Scottish Gaelic Ceannaideach (ceann (“head”) + aideach (“ugly”). Compare Kenneth and Irish eitigh (“refuse, reject”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɛnədi/ 1. A surname from Irish. Example: A study Kennedy discussed on multiple podcast episodes exposed male African clawed frogs to atrazine in a lab, castrating 75% of the male frogs and turning one in 10 males into females. 2. A surname from Scottish Gaelic. 3. A unisex given name. 4. A unisex given name. Labels: rare 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A railway point and unincorporated place in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. 16. A village in the Rural Municipality of Wawken No. 93, Saskatchewan, Canada. 17. A neighbourhood (locality) in Bogotá, Colombia. 18. A coastal locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
Word: pretensions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pretension Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sixpence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From six + pence. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪks.pəns/ 1. The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling. Labels: British, Irish, obsolete, uncountable Example: Finest apples, sixpence each. Example: When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft. 2. A former British or Irish coin worth six pennies, first minted in 1551. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Have you got two sixpences for a shilling? Example: "One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
Word: old pennies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old penny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Benedict Arnold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Benedict Arnold, famous for betraying the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. 1. A traitor. Labels: US Example: A Negro hotelkeeper in a free city of the North views with disdain a Benedict Arnold in the colored camp who crosses the lines to a "white" hotel. Example: I am no longer an American; I am a traitor, a Judas, a Benedict Arnold.
Word: take out the stops Part of Speech: verb 1. To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop loss orders lie, with a view to profiting from the resulting acceleration of the move when those orders hit the market.
Word: stop loss order Part of Speech: noun 1. A conditional order placed with a stockbroker (or similar) to close one's position if the market drops (or rises in some cases) to a specified price level. Example: The shares are currently trading at $4.40 and he has issued a stop loss order to sell if they fall to $4.20.
Word: meline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin mēlīnus. 1. Having the qualities of or relating to a badger. Labels: not-comparable Example: A meline musteloid carnivorous mammal, usually burrowing, nocturnal, and having a flat stout body, short legs with long-clawed toes, and a long snout.
Word: ennoble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- + noble. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnəʊbəl/ 1. To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. Example: We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles. Example: There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister. This was certainly a left-field move, taking everyone (perhaps even himself) by surprise. 2. To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing. 3. To inarch. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: Kamilaroi Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪlərɔɪ/ 1. Alternative form of Gamilaraay. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kamilarai Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Gamilaraay. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ingenuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/ 1. Naive and trusting. 2. Demonstrating childlike simplicity. Example: "Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?" "Of course not." "On your word of honour?" I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me. 3. Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious. Example: The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction. Example: […] Semitic agitation by stating 'the truth' in terms of facts and figures, the practice of self-criticism represented a well-intended but ingenuous effort to defend Jewry against anti-Semitism. 4. Unable to mask one's feelings. 5. Straightforward, candid, open, frank. Example: [H]is Grace’s Man at his club, in company doubtless with other Men of equal social rank, talks over his master’s character and affairs with the ingenuous truthfulness which befits gentlemen who are met together in confidence.
Word: boning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊnɪŋ/, /ˈboʊnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bone Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present