nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: change horses in mid-stream Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of change horses in midstream. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “It is not good to change horses in mid-stream”, is what the famous American President Abraham Lincoln said. Example: Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”
Word: changes horses in mid-stream Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of change horses in mid-stream Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: changing horses in mid-stream Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of change horses in mid-stream Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: changed horses in mid-stream Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of change horses in mid-stream Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mid-stream Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of midstream. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: So I was constrained to turn again to the mid-stream. Example: We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.
Word: Pitlochry Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /pɪtˈlɒxɹi/ 1. A town or burgh in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN9458).
Word: house brand Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of own brand. Example: Supermarkets are fighting national brands with house brands. Example: Some house brand products are even made on the same production line as the comparable name brand products.
Word: house brands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of house brand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: give a hang Part of Speech: verb 1. give a hoot; give a damn (to care about; to place value on something) Labels: idiomatic, slang
Word: Asherah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew אֲשֵׁרָה ('asherá). Pronunciation: /ˈæʃəɹə/ 1. A mother goddess in ancient Semitic religion, consort of the supreme god El. Example: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. Example: Asherah worship continued in many places, though.
Word: semi-daily Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + daily. 1. Occurring twice a day Labels: not-comparable Example: Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. Example: They’re also trying to cause more fumbles, evident by a semi-daily drill in camp …
Word: semi-daily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From semi- + daily. 1. Twice a day. Labels: not-comparable Example: The documents say the 17-year-old told police he had been carrying the gun to school semi-daily since the beginning of the school year, …
Word: semidaily Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + daily. 1. Alternative spelling of semi-daily. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: moronocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moron + -cracy. 1. A government run by morons. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: post-Homeric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + Homeric. 1. After Homer. Labels: not-comparable
Word: low life Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lowlife. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: South Ayrshire Part of Speech: name 1. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 formed in 1996; it has its headquarters in the town of Ayr.
Word: the fat is in the fire Part of Speech: phrase 1. Trouble will happen soon. Labels: informal Example: If the dear old emotional, pig-headed, Rule-Britannia! public had got it that French spies were stalking through the land at this crisis, then, indeed, the fat would have been in the fire!
Word: antiphlogiston Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + phlogiston. 1. Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis. Labels: historical Example: Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp. Example: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.
Word: rubber ducked Part of Speech: adj 1. Fucked. Labels: slang Example: 'That's good,' said my soon-to-be-ex-brother-in-law. 'Kravitz said he was a solid guy, and well-connected too. How you feeling, anyway'? ¶ I suppressed a yawn. 'Rubber ducked,' I told him, lapsing in to Edinburgh rhyming slang. Example: "Yeah, sort of. 'Ang abaht, there's a boozer other there," still short of breath Jimmy pointed to a corner they were approaching, "I'm rubber ducked, d'ya fancy a pint?"
Word: rubber ducked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rubber duck Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rubber-duck Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of rubber duck. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rubber-ducks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rubber-duck Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rubber-ducking Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of rubber ducking. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: rubber-ducking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rubber-duck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Heaton Park Part of Speech: name 1. A park in the city of Manchester and adjacent suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8203).
Word: ring-fenced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ring-fence Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: To have ring-fenced funding that can't be taken away when there's a change of political wind is immensely beneficial.
Word: ring-fencing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ring-fence Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rubber-ducked Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of rubber ducked. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 'Thanks, boss, but I won't if you don't mind. I'm rubber-ducked. So I'm bound for an early night, Saturday or not!' Example: If the world decides to move out of the dollar and into gold then we are, not to put too fine a point on it, totally rubber-ducked. See Seb, I'm definitely getting the hand of cockney!
Word: rubber-ducked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rubber-duck Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ring-fences Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ring-fence Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: West Hampstead Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb of London, and ward in the borough of Camden, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2585). 2. A village in the town of Hampstead, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Word: data-driven Part of Speech: adj 1. Dependent on or determined by the collection or analysis of data. Labels: not-comparable Example: Better characterisation of the individual is at the core of the emerging data-driven economy, which will be significantly expanded in scope and depth by the internet of things. We obtain free services from Google and Facebook because they are characterising our desires and matching us to companies that can satisfy them. Example: Buttigieg also speaks the language of the tech industry, from “data-driven” to “disruption”. Matt Hartman, a partner at Betaworks Ventures, appreciated how Buttigieg brought that data-driven mindset to municipal matters, such as the South Bend sewer system.
Word: Umberleigh Part of Speech: name 1. A small village on the River Taw in Atherington parish and Chittlehampton parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6023).
Word: Eggesford Part of Speech: name 1. A civil parish and railway station in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6810).
Word: light money Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light (noun) + money (noun). 1. Money levied for the maintenance of lighthouses; light dues. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Lapford Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, England (OS grid ref SS7308).
Word: light due Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light (noun) + due (noun). 1. A duty or toll levied on ships navigating certain waters, for the maintenance of lighthouses; light money.
Word: Copplestone Part of Speech: name Etymology: Perhaps from Old English copel (“unsteady, rocking”) + stān (“stone”). Alternatively, the first element might be related to Old English copp (“top, summit”), through the adjective coppel (“peaked, rounded”). 1. A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7602). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fleeky Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfliːki/ 1. On fleek. Labels: slang Example: 2016 February 26, Tinie Tempah, “Girls Like”, Youth (2017), Parlophone, Disturbing London Man of the year, I’m fleeky / Had a couple man wanna be me.
Word: feed back Part of Speech: verb 1. To provide informational feedback to. Labels: transitive Example: His employees fed back a lot more than he wanted. 2. To convey by means of specialized communications channel. Labels: transitive Example: Customers fed back their complaints and some praise. 3. To return electrical current generated by some means (such as solar panels, regenerative braking) to the power grid. Example: Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.
Word: Yeoford Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the local River Yeo + ford. 1. A village in Crediton Hamlets parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7898).
Word: risk one's life and limb Part of Speech: verb 1. Misconstruction of risk life and limb. Labels: alt-of, misconstruction, rare
Word: King's Nympton Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6819).
Word: off-side Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of offside. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: off-side Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of offside. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: near-side Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of nearside. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Stoke Gifford Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6279).
Word: cooking on gas Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of cooking with gas. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: handweed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hand + weed. 1. To remove weeds using only hand tools, that is, without spraying or using other weed-suppression technology. Example: Snce the plots were wheel-hoed and handweeded twice, the number of man-minutes to handweed each plot is a good indication of the effect of the different treatments on the different weed species. Example: Filipino farmers usually handweed upland rice twice.
Word: handweeds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of handweed Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: handweeding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of handweed Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: handweeded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of handweed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ECCCM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of electronic counter-counter-countermeasures. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: Everything we want to tell you about our extensive work in ECM, ECCM, ECCCM, etc., is classified, so we won’t tell you what we've been up to. Example: There are countermeasures to deceptive jamming, too, just as there are ECCCM to ECCM, all the way to infinity. It’s a giant chess game out there, moves to countermoves, and it never stops.
Word: bodalicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of bodacious + delicious. 1. Sexy; seductive. Example: Pull up to Tosha's bodalicious bumper. Example: No amount of soil in her capris could ever weigh down such a bodalicious babe.
Word: cheese bus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cheese + bus. 1. A bus that transports cheese from the factory to retailers. Example: Distribution and sales are maintained with the help of a "cheese bus", which covers eleven routes, each of which take two days. Example: The driver of each cheese bus (which, when loaded, weighs 10,500 kg) is a really skilled truck driver who has received sales training. The bus visits the customers in accordance with a fixed programme and the buyers take the cheeses they require direct from the bus. 2. A yellow school bus, especially the smaller kind that is used to transport students with special needs. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: He was singing what he had been humming earlier that morning, first quietly, then as loud as he could: If you ride on the short bus clap your hands If you ride on the cheese bus, clap your hands. Example: Then the cheese buses pulled up and all the kids except us headed for the bus.
Word: cheese buses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cheese bus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cheese busses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cheese bus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tram-train Part of Speech: noun 1. A design of tram which can operate over standard railway track as well as tram track. Labels: UK Example: One million passengers have used the Sheffield tram-train in the first year of its trial, according to South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE). [...] Tim Bilby, Stagecoach Supertram Managing Director, said passenger numbers and customer satisfaction had exceeded expectations, showing that tram-trains offer an affordable and efficient way to connect Sheffield city centre and Rotherham. Example: One of the key features associated with VLR [very light rail] vehicles is that they are not interoperable with main line trains. That is the domain of tram-trains.
Word: tram-trains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tram-train Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lightliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Middle English lightlines, lightlinesse, from Middle English lyghtly, liȝtliche, lihtliche + -nes, -nesse. Equivalent to lightly + -ness (suffix forming nouns). 1. The quality or condition of one who acts lightly; ease; facility. Labels: uncountable
Word: between two stools Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From an old proverb, "Between two stools, one falls to the ground", which dates from 1390. This, in turn, is most likely a translation of the medieval Latin proverb labitur enitens sellis herere duabus ("he falls trying to sit on two seats"). 1. Not fitting neatly into either of two categories or positions. Example: Accusing the opposition of attempting to "sit between two stools," he further explained: We will unite with no party, as a party -- and with individuals of all parties, if we believe them to be sincerely the friends of the people. Example: There are many obstacles to the attainment of position, these being largely caused by clergymen or lawyers; moreover, the native is sometimes apt to come to grief “between two stools,” or from want of decision in professional or business matters, while secret enemies injure the position, though the marriage partner benefits it. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see between, two, stool.
Word: caught between two stools Part of Speech: phrase 1. Unable to fit into either of two conflicting categories, and as a result likely to fail. Example: Scientists are caught between two stools. On the one hand, they have been brought up to apply rigorous experimental procedures to precisely defined problems with results that have to meet standards of peer review. On the other hand, they are being told that such reductionism is insufficient and that unless they broaden the scope of their work they will suffer reduced support. Example: No matter how hard they tried to clarify their position, the universalists found themselves “caught between two stools”—that is, Nazism and Austrofascism— rejected by the former and rejecting the latter.
Word: roadburner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From road + burner. 1. A motor vehicle (car or motorcycle) designed for fast acceleration, high speeds, and good handling. Example: Unfortunately, it fell between two stools: it was not good enough to be a competition car and those who wanted a roadburner preferred the Iso Grifo, which was better equipped. Example: With more power and 600 lbs less weight, the GTO was a real roadburner.
Word: roadburners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roadburner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: do cheetah flips Part of Speech: verb 1. To exhibit a strong emotional reaction to something; to lose one's cool. Labels: slang Example: The first step is to get a grip on why the client is not doing cheetah flips over the creative. Example: You almost did cheetah flips when we were in Lebanon and Coop brought Liz out of that refugee camp.
Word: does cheetah flips Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of do cheetah flips Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: doing cheetah flips Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of do cheetah flips Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: did cheetah flips Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of do cheetah flips Labels: form-of, past
Word: done cheetah flips Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of do cheetah flips Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: character density Part of Speech: noun 1. A measure of the number of characters that are represented in a specified unit of text stream. Labels: uncountable Example: The mean character density for the survey was 4060 characters per page. No recommendations on character density were found in the literature. Example: Assuming an inch as the given unit length of space and a character density of 5 cpi; a numeric coding structure of 10 characters has an information density of 10 to the 5th power, i.e., 100,000 units and an alphanumeric coding structure of 36 characters has an information density of 36 to the 5th power, i.e. 60,466,176 units. 2. The number of strokes required to form a Chinese character. Labels: uncountable Example: Based on the findings and research designs of relevant studies done in the past (cf. Jin, 2006; Ke, 1996; Ping, 2006; Xiao, 2002), the threshold of the character density in this study was set at 11 strokes. Example: With regards to this strand of research, Hayes (1987) finds that character recognition is independent of character density, whereas Chin (1973), whose data were collected from a different level of learning Chinese, reports the opposite.
Word: show one's claws Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the way a feline will extend its claws when attacking, as opposed to leaving them retracted so that they do not show. 1. To demonstrate one's ability to hurt another. Example: In this event he really showed his claws by winning ten games, drawing four while losing four. Example: Perhaps if I'd been dressed in conventional clothes and carried a suitcase they would have been more sure of themselves, but right up until the time that I reached my final destination, a transit camp outside Liverpool, I was handled with kid gloves, as if they suspected my present tractability were transient and that if they made a false move I would show my claws. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, claw.
Word: shows one's claws Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of show one's claws Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: showing one's claws Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of show one's claws Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: showed one's claws Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of show one's claws Labels: form-of, past
Word: shown one's claws Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of show one's claws Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Ugarit Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ugaritic 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚 (ủgrt /⁠ʾugarītu⁠/). 1. An ancient port city in northern Syria, discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugaritic texts.
Word: Iesvs Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of Jesus. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: book-ending Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of bookending. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: book-ended Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of bookended. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Psy.D. Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of New Latin psychologiae doctor. 1. Abbreviation of Doctor of Psychology. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: linkboy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of link boy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: link boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of link boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: man-mountain Part of Speech: noun 1. A physically large, powerful, and imposing man. Example: Frank was squashed by having this man-mountain on top of him, but didn’t feel this was the right moment to complain.
Word: man-mountains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of man-mountain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: milk albuminate Part of Speech: noun 1. lactalbumin
Word: lacticol Part of Speech: noun 1. A polyhydric alcohol (polyol) derived from lactose, used as a sweetener Labels: uncountable
Word: lecithinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lecithin + -ate. 1. To add lecithin to. Example: Lecithinated Soy Flour -- Soy flour to which lecithin is added. The lecithin contributes emulsification and pan release properties. It is used in breading, caked foods, and dough mixes.
Word: linalyl isobutyrate Part of Speech: noun 1. 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadien-3-yl isobutrate; a flavouring agent that is liquid, slightly yellow and has a fruity odour. Labels: uncountable
Word: carubin Part of Speech: noun 1. Scientific name for locust bean gum Labels: uncountable
Word: magnesium caseinate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From magnesium + caseinate. 1. The magnesium form of caseinate; a food additive used in baked goods and drinks. Labels: uncountable
Word: dysphemistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dysphemistic + -ally. 1. In a dysphemistic manner. Example: They then give some twenty slang expressions used dysphemistically as a designation for a house or place of residence.
Word: great-grandnephew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From great- + grandnephew. 1. A great-grandson of one's sibling, a grandson of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's great-grandson: fraternal great-grandnephew. Sister's great-grandson: sororal great-grandnephew.)
Word: great-grandniece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From great- + grandniece. 1. A great-granddaughter of one's sibling, a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's great-granddaughter: fraternal great-grandniece. Sister's great-granddaughter: sororal great-grandniece)
Word: short-leggedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From short-legged + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being short-legged. Labels: uncountable Example: A special characteristic of the LTI is the shameless shortleggedness of their lies. Example: The shortleggedness of the Dexter cattle is determined by a dominant factor K (heterozygote Kk).
Word: Wellesley Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the name of the town Wells (“springs”) + lēah (“woodland”), thus 'the woodland by the springs'. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlɪzli/, /ˈwɛlzli/ 1. An English surname. 2. A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts; named for the estate of local benefactor Horatio Hollis Hunnewell 3. A township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 4. Ellipsis of Wellesley College. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: Cricklade Part of Speech: name 1. A small town and civil parish in northern Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1093).
Word: Marsh Barton Part of Speech: name 1. An area and trading estate in the city of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9290).
Word: rantiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of ranty: most ranty Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: rantier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of ranty: more ranty Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: Stokie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Stoke + -ie. 1. A person from Stoke-on-Trent, England. Labels: UK, slang Example: Stoke are a decent club fallen behind, League Cup winners back in 1971. […] My mate Alec, a Stokie, suggests later that in earlier times good professionals would have stopped at, say, five in a game like this: […]
Word: Stokies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Stokie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trading estate Part of Speech: noun 1. An area of land used by a number of businesses for commercial and industrial purposes. Labels: UK
Word: trading estates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trading estate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: like stink on shit Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In very close proximity; following closely. Labels: derogatory, vulgar
Word: Eastalgia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of East + nostalgia, a calque of German Ostalgie. 1. Nostalgia for East Germany; Ostalgie Labels: uncountable
Word: Clemmie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutive + -ie. 1. A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.
Word: St Erth Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5535).
Word: Sanfilippo syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the US doctor Sylvester Sanfilippo who described the condition. 1. A rare autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disease that primarily affects the brain and spinal cord, caused by a buildup of glycosaminoglycans in the body's lysosomes. Labels: uncountable
Word: be right Part of Speech: verb 1. To be correct in one's judgment or statement about something. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Word: cherry top Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cherrytop. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The cops turned on their cherry top lights and were approaching them fast. Example: When I caught up to the swirling cherry top lights, I stopped to rest and to check out what was happening.
Word: cherry tops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cherry top Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Toddington Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0028). 2. A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0332). 3. A suburb of Littlehampton, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0303).
Word: cherrytop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cherry + top, from the resemblance to a maraschino cherry on top of a dessert. 1. A round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car. Example: And it was less than five minutes before a black-and-white turned off Wisconsin Avenue onto P Street to investigate, its spotlight sweeping back and forth and its cherrytop spinning. Example: But we could hear it, we were happy, and we were as unprepared as we possibly could have been for the piercing white strobe and swirling red cherrytop of the police car that swooped in from nowhere and pulled up behind us.
Word: cherrytops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cherrytop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: booch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of kombucha. Pronunciation: /buːt͡ʃ/ 1. Kombucha. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: After a night of worrying, nothing soothes the stomach like a tangy bottle of ginger booch. Example: Want hooch with your booch? Make a kombucha cocktail.
Word: booch Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /buːt͡ʃ/ 1. Cocaine. Labels: New-York-City, slang, uncountable Example: The fellows left and were probably going to get some booch, but that was their business. Floyd was standing by his car wondering what was taking Susan so long, when a cab pulled up. Example: All of these hoes, I made off records I produced. I might take all my exes and put 'em all in a group. Hit my eses, I need the booch. 'Bout to turn this function to Bonnaroo.
Word: dynamilogy Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of the powers of the soul; the study of the capabilities of living or sentient beings. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: The plan of the book as to speculative philosophy has, unless we are greatly mistaken, been adapted in the main from Sanseverino, and if so, we only regret that the great master has not been followed in his arrangement which places dynamilogy immediately after formal logic. Example: In short, the present volume covers the ground which is generally known as Dynamilogy, and has for its subject matter the various powers of the soul and their respective acts.
Word: Haltwhistle Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːltwɪsəl/ 1. A small town and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY7064).
Word: Howdon Part of Speech: name 1. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3267).
Word: South Gosforth Part of Speech: name 1. A residential area of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2567).
Word: Gosforth Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY0603). 2. A residential area of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2468). Example: Pardew has high hopes that one young Englishman, Paul Dummett, a left-back from Gosforth, the same Newcastle suburb that produced Alan Shearer, will make at least 10 appearances for his side this season. 3. A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Word: downwell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From down- + well. 1. To sink below material of lower density. Example: Some of the northward-flowing waters turn eastward and enter the Throughflow sponge above 1300 m (Figure 5b), where they downwell and return to the interior and spread both to the south and the north (Figure 5c). Example: Ozone in the upper troposphere which downwells to the surface can also result from photochemical production enhanced by high levels of NOx from the natural stratosphere, aircraft emissions of NOx in the upper troposphere [Liu et al., 1980], 2. To penetrate water downward. Example: This measurement, as Region 4 stated, has been "commonly used to measure marine turbidity; it does not measure downwelling ambient light." Example: There is a practical depth limit from which the radiance is reflected. Gordon & McCluny (1975) call the depth at which the spectral radiance downwelled from the surface falls to 1/e of its initial energy 'the first optical attenuation length'.
Word: downwell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From down- + well. 1. A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward. Example: The proposed work includes enlarging the basin and installing downwells for percolation. Example: A 14-foot by 14-foot shaft, or downwell, located downstream of the intake structure permits flow to fall approximately 36 feet to a pool Torraed by a 10-foot deep rock trap. 2. Synonym of downwelling. Example: Warm-water eddies are downwells and cold-water eddies facilitate vertical mixing rather than induce upwelling.
Word: downwell Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From down- + well. 1. In the lower part of a well. Example: By measuring downwell and wellhead temperature, wellbore heat losses through the casing to the formation can be measured. Example: In general, the present-day measured downwell temperatures are lower than those indicated by the alteration mineralogy (i.e. epidote, wairakite, laumontite, and clays) 2. towards the nearest planet or other gravity well. Example: "[...] spend the two weeks after Translator Dlique's funeral on her estate downwell. Example: I bought some land downwell.
Word: downwell Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From down- + well. 1. In the lower part of a well. Example: These identification plaques will serve as one aspect of continuing control and are intended to be a long-term indication of a sealed radioactive source downwell. Example: One of the principal techniques available for estimating the distribution of cracks in HDR reservoirs is by the analysis of acoustic events recorded downwell on three-component geophones during hydraulic fracturing. 2. toward the nearest planet or other gravity well. Example: To be safe, we'll have to go downwell.
Word: downwells Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of downwell Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: downwells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of downwell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: downwelled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of downwell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dead-eye Dick Part of Speech: noun 1. A marksman who never misses. Example: Unless the hunter is a dead-eye Dick, lighter guns may not kill cleanly. Example: "What a shot! What a dead-eye Dick!" the guy with the apron would say as he pointed to me and yelled out to the passing crowd.
Word: dead-eye Dicks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dead-eye Dick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tanning butter Part of Speech: noun 1. A skin preparation or ointment designed to assist in tanning, while not providing any ultraviolet protection. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tanning butters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tanning butter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steppic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From steppe + -ic. 1. Pertaining to a steppe. Example: Of the steppic goat (the Antilope Saiga of Pallas) which is accustomed to spend its winter in the southern parts on Lake Aral, I saw numerous herds returning with the warmer season to the Northern Steppe, where, both for their skin and flesh, they become valuable objects of the chace to the Cossacks. Example: The groups include a steppic, a Mediterranean / temperate forest, and a montane group for larger herbivores; a rabbit group (as they are the most numerous of the fauna and possibly the most local to the rocky cliffs and sandy foreshore in the immediate vicinity of the site); and a carnivore group (to assess the potential for non-human carnivores being responsible for the assemblage).
Word: bedbox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bed + box. 1. A box-bed. Example: In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace. Example: Her gaze swept the room, taking in the oatcakes cold on the stones of her firebox, the dusty loom she never used, her storage shelf above the bedbox stacked with baskets of dried berries and grain. 2. A nest box. Example: She was a good deal excited, and ran frantically into and out of her little bedbox, which had a hole at each end. Soon this tiny gust of rage passed over. She now, though running about her cage, indulging in little gambols, indicating grace and agility, struck off into a truly beautiful strain of song. Example: We transferred Minnie to her new quarters after dark, carrying her in her bedbox and putting it inside the V-shaped pig house within the pen. 3. A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed. Labels: slang Example: The rooms which in the introduction have been described as "bedboxes" are actually only about twice as large as the bed. Example: It's essentially a budget hotel (the £69 room rate is valid every day), but comes with a reasonably stylish design that sets it apart from most cheapo bedboxes.
Word: bedboxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedbox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grapefruit spoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grapefruit + spoon. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪpfɹuːt ˌspuːn/, /ˌɡɹeɪpfɹut ˈspun/ 1. A spoon with a pointed and/or serrated tip designed for separating the flesh of a grapefruit from its rind.
Word: white belt Part of Speech: noun 1. The lowest rank; beginner level. Labels: uncountable Example: A new student is appointed to the tenth kyu (step), or initial white belt stage. Example: A typical school might start beginner students at white belt. 2. A student at the white belt level. Labels: countable Example: He decided to stay and clean the floor, as he had done when he was a white belt. Example: When a karate student is a white belt, the student aspires to be a black belt, the top color of karate belts, someday. 3. The belt worn by a student of white belt rank as a symbol of rank. Labels: countable Example: For example students holding a white belt who pass the exam for high white, will wear a yellow stripe on their white belt. Example: My one hope as I tie this white belt on you, sir, is that one day you do me the honor of tying on your black belt. 4. A region in which the majority of residents are white. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And in this white belt borderland between the black belt South and the free labor North, few whites lamented that the slave drain continued to thin blacks out of their area and to thicken the institution in the most southern South, repeating the turtle-slow erosion of slavery in the most southern North between 1776 and 1830 Example: "White prostitutes and gamblers and vicious resorts” come into the “Black Belt,” explained a black minister in Chicago, because “it is black; they operate with more safety than they do in the white belt." 5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, belt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: white belts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of white belt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eat away at Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From eat away + at. 1. To erode. Labels: transitive Example: The river is eating away at the river bank. Example: The battery acid ate away at the metal until a large hole appeared. 2. To consume or use up, erode or wear away gradually. Labels: transitive Example: The expenses ate away at our profits. 3. To cause to feel uneasy, troubled, worried, guilty, or vexed; to bother about something. Labels: transitive Example: Not confessing that I had stolen the money ate away at me until I could no longer sleep.
Word: chaffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of cheese + waffle. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɒ.fl/, /ˈt͡ʃɑ.fl/, /ˈt͡ʃɔ.fl/ 1. A low-carb or keto-style waffle, made from cheese and eggs rather than from traditional waffle batter. Labels: neologism
Word: chaffles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chaffle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: airfarer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + farer, modelled after seafarer, wayfarer, etc. 1. One who travels by air. Example: The first is that a string of small lands such as Great Britain, the Faroes, Iceland, is an isthmus connecting Europe with North America, for the short strips of sea between them are only bits of desert to an airfarer.
Word: airfarers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of airfarer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: land-farer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From land + farer, modelled after seafarer, wayfarer, etc. 1. One who travels by or over land.
Word: land-farers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of land-farer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pickle fork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pickle + fork. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkl̩ ˌfɔːk/, /ˌpɪk(ə)l ˈfɔɹk/ 1. A fork with a long handle and usually two or three tines, used for extracting pickles from a tall jar. 2. A long-handled tool with two prongs used to unseat ball-and-socket joints. 3. A structure attaching an aircraft's wings to its body, having an arched shape with prongs at each end. Labels: informal
Word: cocktail fork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cocktail + fork; cocktail may refer either to: * a dish consisting of small pieces of fruit, vegetables, or seafood with a dressing, usually served chilled in a glass as an appetizer; or * a mixed alcohol beverage such as a martini, which is often garnished with an olive. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒkteɪl ˌfɔːk/, /ˌkɑkˌteɪl ˈfɔɹk/ 1. A small fork usually with two or three tines, used for eating dishes served as appetizers (such as fruit cocktails and shrimp cocktails), and for picking up olives and other small snacks. Example: Oyster and cocktail forks are placed at the extreme right of the cover beyond the teaspoons, or they may be laid across the right side of the service plate underlining the cocktail glass or the oyster service. Example: No fairy tale this. Just the story of Soviet slave labor in icy camps, dumping millions of pounds of fish for your dainty cocktail forks each month—and so beginning to kill off a multi-million dollar American fishing industry, canneries, boatbuilding and gear production.
Word: egg spoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From egg + spoon. Known to be attested since at latest 1759. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡ ˌspuːn/, /ˌɛɡ ˈspun/ 1. A spoon, usually smaller than a teaspoon, which is used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell; the bowl of the spoon is shaped to make it easier to scoop out the contents of the eggshell. Example: [T]he egg spoon must also be untarnishable—stainless steel, or horn. I've never seen a gold egg spoon, but I'm sure it would do. Whatever the material, the spoon has to have a small bowl with a fine edge on it: a thick edge can't coax all the egg white off the inside of the shell. The handle is short, for good balance and easy handling. An egg spoon is a tiny implement that, like the Viennese breakfast, cannot be improved.
Word: Foleshill Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP3582).
Word: nanobiodiagnostics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō) Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs) ▲ Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) ▲ Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-) Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder. Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis) ▲ Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós) Ancient Greek δῐαγνωστῐκός (dĭagnōstĭkós)bor. English diagnostic Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English diagnostics English biodiagnostics English nanobiodiagnostics From nano- + biodiagnostics. 1. nanoscale biodiagnostics Labels: uncountable Example: The method is based on the inhibition of nanoparticle aggregation in the presence of MgCl₂ and it can be used as a basic technique for development of clinical scale gold nanoprobe nanobiodiagnostics for detection of hTERT gene expression with a limit of detection at fmol/µl concentrations.
Word: nanoelectropore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + electropore. 1. A nanoscale electropore
Word: nanoelectropores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nanoelectropore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nanorosette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + rosette. 1. A nanoscale rosette
Word: nanostandard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + standard. 1. A nanotechnology standard
Word: nanostandards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nanostandard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: necriscence Part of Speech: noun 1. serotiny as a result of the death of a plant Labels: uncountable
Word: necriscent Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to necriscence Labels: not-comparable
Word: neoatherogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neo- + atherogenesis. 1. The formation of new atheromas Labels: uncountable
Word: nicotinaldehyde Part of Speech: noun 1. The aldehyde 3-pyridinecarboxaldehyde related to nicotinic acid Labels: uncountable
Word: nitrohydroxylate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nitro- + hydroxylate. 1. To introduce a nitro and a hydroxyl group into a molecule
Word: nitrohydroxylated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of nitrohydroxylate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nonadministration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + administration. 1. The failure to administer a drug
Word: nonechogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + echogenic. 1. Not echogenic Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonteratomatous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + teratomatous. 1. Not teratomatous Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonvectorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + vectorial. 1. Not vectorial Labels: not-comparable
Word: Goostrey Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7770).
Word: Oxenholme Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English oxna, genitive plural of oxa (“ox”) + Old Norse holmr (“pasture near a water source”). 1. A village in Kendal parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5389).
Word: fanimorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Yoruba fanimọ́ra + -ous. 1. beautiful, attractive, captivating Labels: Nigeria, slang Example: Your birthday outfits are really fanimorous. Example: And we laughed because he was fanimorous kokonbility.
Word: Tide Mills Part of Speech: name 1. A derelict village in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4500).
Word: ploonet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of planet + moon. Coined in 2019 by the research team of Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone (see quotations below). 1. A theoretical planetary body that formed as a moon orbiting a planet, but which has become tidally detached, so that it enters orbit about its star, separated from its parent planet. Labels: neologism Example: This paper explores the scenario where large regular exomoons escape after tidal interchange of angular momentum with its parent planet, becoming small planets by themselves. We name this hypothetical type of object a ploonet. Example: The researchers, who used simulations to explain the same, found that the simulated Ploonets were quite short-lived, crashing into the star or their parent planet in 0.5-1 million years.
Word: turn the knife Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of twist the knife. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: twist the knife in the wound Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of twist the knife. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: turn the knife in the wound Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of twist the knife. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Boreham Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English bor (“elevated place; hill”) + hām (“village, hamlet”). 1. A village and civil parish in the city of Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7509). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A former hamlet, now a suburb of Warminster, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8844). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: climate strike Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Firstly coined in 2015 during a mass demonstration at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the expression took off only in 2018 after the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays in order to protest in front of the national parliament. In September 2019 around six million people joined the climate strike worldwide. Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪmət straik/ 1. A protest in which people absent themselves from professional or educational activities in order to join demonstrations calling for action to counter climate change.
Word: fall into a trap Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔːl ɪntə ə træp/, /fɑːl ɪntə ə træp/ 1. To make a mistake, a bad decision or act senselessly and get into an extremely difficult situation. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: If you are not careful, you can fall into a trap of focusing too much on getting more loans instead of paying off other bills. 2. To be fooled and get into a difficult situation by relying on someone or responding to a scam, trick or prank. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: He fell into a trap by believing his childhood friend and giving away all of his savings.
Word: Barmouth Part of Speech: name 1. A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6115).