nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: skylab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cebuano skylab, from English Skylab, from its crude resemblance in shape to the space station. 1. A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam across the pillion. Labels: Philippines Example: At the very beginning of my time in Lake Sebu the jeepneys coming from the lowland would go until Lëm-Delag. Later on, the barangay officials decided that only skylabs were allowed to carry passengers to Lëm-Delag. Example: Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.
Word: Cyrillic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the name Cyril + -ic, from Medieval Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κῡ́ρῐλλος (Kū́rĭllos), denoting Saint Cyril, who devised a predecessor to the Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet, and whose students later devised the Cyrillic script itself. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɪl.ɪk/ 1. Denoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Cyrillic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the name Cyril + -ic, from Medieval Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κῡ́ρῐλλος (Kū́rĭllos), denoting Saint Cyril, who devised a predecessor to the Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet, and whose students later devised the Cyrillic script itself. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɪl.ɪk/ 1. The Cyrillic alphabet or writing system. Example: Russian is typically written in Cyrillic. Example: Hidden behind a Cyrillic veil of mystery, it’s one of the harder languages to master, so much so that even many Russians speak it incorrectly.
Word: dobber Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dauber (“marker pen used for bingo cards”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dobber or a betting pencil? 2. A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills. Labels: UK, derogatory 3. One who dobs (someone) (informs against them or implicates them to authority). Labels: Australia, UK, derogatory Example: Nikki is such a dobber, she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground. Example: In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers? 4. Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device. Labels: UK, informal 5. A large marble. Labels: Ireland, UK, dialectal Example: They were the biggest rosary beads I ever saw, the beads were the size of big marbles or dobbers or taws. Dobbers and taws we used to play with in the channels beside the footpaths, when we used to play the road games. 6. A float (as used by an angler). Labels: US, regional Example: In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph. 7. Spirit, pluck, self-esteem. Labels: US, broadly, figuratively, regional Example: I went to the ballgame [in San Francisco] in April, and I was booed. I never was before that. It affected my dobber, my psyche. Example: Well, I got my dobber down, and I thought I was on my way back to Montreal. And I recall sitting down at the end of the dugout by myself and feeling damn dejected, I'll tell ya. 8. A dabchick. 9. A part of a planter. Labels: rare Example: Plate 17. The wheels of a potato planter which are adjustable on the axle to control row spacing, while the ‘dobbers’ may have their position adjusted around the slots in the wheels (Farmland Museum, Haddenham) Example: […] including their soil block planter, tractor mounted and suitable for use in 1.8 and 1.9m systems. The standard machine is fitted with 35 by 7cm rear depth wheels and a 55cm diameter drum, complete with bands of dobbers spaced at 30cm. 10. A penis, especially a relatively large one. Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, UK, especially, slang Example: He puts a hand around it, tries to mind what it means, the having of a penis. Nothing's doing but. His dobber's no sure about it either, and the two of them dither there for a while, waiting for something to happen, a connection. Example: "Yes, but to jump into bed with another woman right after being with you. That's just plain disgusting. He needs to keep his dobber in his bloody pants.' Caitlin huffed indignantly.
Word: working class Part of Speech: noun 1. The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others. Example: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Example: It may seem that the Met was a snobbish outfit, a betrayer of the egalitarian dreams of Charles Pearson, but in being one of the pioneers of working men's fares the company had helped to bring about a revolution that would allow the working classes to live in London. Cheap trains would supersede Gladstone's well-meant Parliamentary Trains.
Word: working class Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of working-class. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for an obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand.
Word: scritch Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /skɹɪt͡ʃ/ 1. a screech Labels: obsolete Example: Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ? 2. A thrush. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: scritch Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skɹɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To screech. Labels: obsolete
Word: scritch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of scratch. 1. To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing. 2. To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation. Example: One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching Example: There once was a cat with a terrible itch. She had a flea in her fur which was making her twitch. She scratched herself here and she scritched herself there 3. To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner. Example: And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
Word: scritch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of scratch. 1. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing. 2. The act of scratching an itch. 3. The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner. Example: Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her. Example: “It really does have to work out,” she said, setting Toby's carrier up on the kitchen table. “Because otherwise you'll be reduced to standing on a street corner and offering kitty head scritches for money. And none of us want to see you stoop that low."
Word: fascicule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus. 1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle. Example: In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days. 2. A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus. Labels: obsolete Example: Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […] Example: In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […] 3. Alternative form of fascicle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dagnasty Part of Speech: adj 1. Extremely distasteful; horrible. Labels: slang Example: But, hey, if it gets too dagnasty, I can go spin tonight and be sure... Example: it'd make unlife dagnasty for wraiths with no fetters
Word: free will Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fre will, fre wil, fre wille. 1. Voluntary choice; (the power of) unforced, uncoerced choice. Labels: uncountable Example: (insane/worst/best/amazing) use of free will Example: He did not say it of his own free will, but because his captors coerced him. 2. The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: Some people deny that humans have free will, and argue that every thought and action is preordained by God. Example: You can bind my limbs, but you can never deprive me of my free will.
Word: determinism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/ 1. The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument. 2. The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: non-determinism Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of nondeterminism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: angelic non-determinism Part of Speech: noun 1. A notional ability always to choose the most favorable option, in constant time. Labels: uncountable Example: With angelic non-determinism, any problem in NP would be solvable in polynomial time.
Word: sean Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of seine. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: sean Part of Speech: verb 1. Dated form of seine. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards[…]
Word: Shaun Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant of Sean, from Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Johannes, variant of Ioannes, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of John, Jack, Johan, Johann, Johannes, Jean, Ian, Evan, Ivan, Sean, Shawn, Shane, and Giovanni as a male name. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shauna, and Sheena as a female name. Pronunciation: /ʃɔːn/, /ʃoːn/, /ʃɔn/, /ʃɑn/ 1. A male given name from Irish. 2. A female given name from Irish.
Word: Shawn Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant of Sean, from Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Jōhannēs, variant of Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (yōḥānān, yokhanán, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of Evan, Giovanni, Ian, Ivan, Jack, Jean, Johan, Johann, Johannes, John, Juan, Sean, Shane, and Shaun as a male name. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena as a female name. Pronunciation: /ʃɔːn/, /ʃoːn/, /ʃɔn/, /ʃɑn/ 1. Alternative form of Shaun, a unisex given name. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales. Example: Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.
Word: xeric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English xeric From Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) + English -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪɚ.ɪk/, /ˈzɛɹ-/, /ˈzɪə.ɹɪk/ 1. Very dry, lacking humidity and water. 2. Adapted to live in a very dry habitat.
Word: sycophant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a σῦκον (sûkon), which also meant vulva. The story behind this etymology is that politicians in ancient Greece steered clear of displaying that vulgar gesture, but secretly urged their followers to taunt their opponents by using it. Cognate with Italian sicofante, Spanish sicofanta. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkəfænt/, /ˈsɪkəfənt/, /ˈsaɪkəfænt/, /ˈsaɪkəfənt/ 1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer. Example: A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire Example: VVhile a mean Crovvd of Sycophants attend, / And favvn and flatter, creep and cringe and bend; / The Fav'rite bleſſes his ſuperior State, / Riſes o'er all, and hails Himſelf the Great. 2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential. 3. An informer; a talebearer. Labels: obsolete Example: [H]is mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.
Word: sycophant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a σῦκον (sûkon), which also meant vulva. The story behind this etymology is that politicians in ancient Greece steered clear of displaying that vulgar gesture, but secretly urged their followers to taunt their opponents by using it. Cognate with Italian sicofante, Spanish sicofanta. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkəfænt/, /ˈsɪkəfənt/, /ˈsaɪkəfænt/, /ˈsaɪkəfənt/ 1. To inform against; hence, to calumniate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. 2. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: exuberant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French exubérant, from Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”). Put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/ 1. Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic. Example: exuberant feeling Example: He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. 2. Abundant, luxuriant. Labels: literary Example: exuberant foliage Example: It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green. 3. Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue
Word: bespoke Part of Speech: adj Etymology: In sense “custom-made”, 1755, from earlier bespoken (c. 1600), form of bespeak, in sense “arrange beforehand” (1580s), a prefixed variant of speak; compare order, made-to-order. Pronunciation: /bɪˈspəʊk/, /bəˈspoʊk/, /bɪˈspəʉk/, /bəˈspɐʉk/ 1. Made or done in a way adjusted to the needs of a specific person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique. Labels: Ireland, UK, not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: custom-made, tailored, tailor-made, custom-built, purpose-built; see also Thesaurus:custom-made Example: Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions. 2. Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items. Labels: Ireland, UK, not-comparable Example: a bespoke tailor
Word: bespoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In sense “custom-made”, 1755, from earlier bespoken (c. 1600), form of bespeak, in sense “arrange beforehand” (1580s), a prefixed variant of speak; compare order, made-to-order. Pronunciation: /bɪˈspəʊk/, /bəˈspoʊk/, /bɪˈspəʉk/, /bəˈspɐʉk/ 1. simple past of bespeak Labels: Ireland, UK, form-of, past 2. past participle of bespeak Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, form-of, participle, past
Word: fasciculus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle. Pronunciation: /fəˈsɪkjʊləs/ 1. A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers. 2. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.
Word: claustration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin clōstra (“lock, enclosure”). 1. Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He could scare find it in his heart to accuse Roderick of neglect of that function, united to him though the girl might be by a double bond; for it was natural that the inspirations of a man of genius should be both capricious and imperious, and on what plan had he ever started moreover but on that of diligence and claustration? 2. A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ned Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. The suggested initialism from "non-educated delinquent" is a backronym and folk etymology. Several other suggestions include a contraction of ne'er-do-well, neanderthal, or some kind of relationship with Teddy Boy although its use much predates the 1950s origin of that phrase. Ostensibly unrelated to "Ned" as a diminutive of the personal name "Edward" but the Scottish use of 'ned' for hooligan or lout is cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as dating from the early 19th century. The OED also attributes a possible derivation from the 'Edward' diminutive. Pronunciation: /nɛd/ 1. A person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour. Labels: Scotland, derogatory, offensive, slang Example: The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk. Example: You could live in a place for twenty years, you could clean up its streets and lock up its neds.
Word: monkeys Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋkiz/ 1. plural of monkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monkeys Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋkiz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of monkey Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Oedipus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Latin Oedipus, from the Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, “swollen foot”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɪpəs/, /ˈiːdɪpəs/ 1. A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Labels: Greek
Word: fasciculi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fasciculus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably an alteration of tuft, referring to the gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities. Pronunciation: /tɒf/, /tɔːf/, /tɔf/, /tɑf/ 1. An elegantly dressed person. Labels: obsolete Example: Last week down our alley came a toff, / Nice old geyser with a nasty cough, / Sees my missus, takes his topper off, / Quite in a gentlemanly way Example: The cabman scratched his head. "Well, he wasn't altogether such an easy gentleman to describe. I'd put him at forty years of age, and he was of a middle height, two or three inches shorter than you, sir. He was dressed like a toff, and he had a black beard, cut square at the end, and a pale face. I don't know as I could say more than that." 2. A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority. Labels: Ireland, UK, derogatory Example: Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a toff), and speaks like one; […] Example: ‘Well, I got Parkes for one, and I got Atkinson for two, and got Ward of Dawson Street. Fine old chap he is, too—regular old toff, old Conservative! “But isn’t your candidate a Nationalist?” said he.[…]’
Word: DVC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of digital video compression. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: tutti-frutti Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sicilian tutti frutti (“all fruits”), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet. Pronunciation: /ˌtuːtɪˈfɹuːtɪ/, /ˌtutiˈfɹuti/ 1. A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Candied raw papaya (unripened papaya). Labels: India, countable, uncountable 3. A male homosexual. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: Yeah, hell, yeah. And the men, they're mostly tutti-fruttis. 4. A type of flavored cocaine. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A type of inhalable, powdered drug. Labels: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
Word: a priori Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1610. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā priōrī (“involving reasoning from cause to effect; from first principles”, literally “from the former”). Pronunciation: /ˌɑː pɹiˈɔːɹi/, /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹaɪ/, /ˌɑ pɹiˈoɹi/, /ˌæ pɹiˈoɹi/, /ˌeɪ pɹiˈoɹi/ 1. Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 2. Presumed without analysis. 3. Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. Example: In his opening argument, the student mentioned nothing beyond his a priori knowledge. Example: While the great critics drew their authority from the breadth of their reading, New Criterion critics often base their authority on an a priori rejection of the contemporary. 4. Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. Example: Conlangers can also create a priori languages, which have no basis in existing languages. You might be familiar with more a priori conlangs than you think: The Klingon language from the television series “Star Trek,” the Na’vi language from the movie “Avatar,” and the Dothraki language from the television series “Game of Thrones” are all examples of a priori languages.
Word: a priori Part of Speech: adv Etymology: First attested in 1610. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā priōrī (“involving reasoning from cause to effect; from first principles”, literally “from the former”). Pronunciation: /ˌɑː pɹiˈɔːɹi/, /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹaɪ/, /ˌɑ pɹiˈoɹi/, /ˌæ pɹiˈoɹi/, /ˌeɪ pɹiˈoɹi/ 1. In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.
Word: feminism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). In the original sense of “women's movement or advocacy”, the French word was probably directly derived from fēmina, as if from Neo-Latin feminismus. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning “the state of being feminine”. Sense of “advocacy of women's rights” is from 1895. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/ 1. The state of being feminine; femininity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism. 2. A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand... Example: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous.
Word: ahistorical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/ 1. Lacking historical perspective or context. Example: Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives. Example: Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it. 2. Not historically true or accurate; unsupported by historical evidence. Example: The American historian John van Engen argues that Le Goff's and Schmitt's idea of a semi-pagan medieval Europe filled with remnants of 'Indo-European folklore' is rather dogmatic and ahistorical.
Word: airing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air (“substance constituting Earth’s atmosphere”, noun) and air (“to bring (something) into contact with the air; to let fresh air into (a place); to make public (an opinion, etc.); to broadcast (something)”, verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like terms from verbs, denoting acts of doing something, actions, or the embodiment of action; and forming the present participles of verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪŋ/, [ˈɛː-], /ˈɛɹɪŋ/ 1. Exposure of something to the air, especially fresh or warm air for the purpose of ventilating or drying; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: uncountable Example: Hee'll ſend ſuch vvord, for ayring o' the houſe / As you ſhall haue ſufficient time, to quit it. Example: Ventilation. […] [A] vvinnovving, or airing in the vvind; […] 2. Exposure of something to the air, especially fresh or warm air for the purpose of ventilating or drying; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: countable Example: [R]yde out your Horſe euery night, two howers after Sunne ſette, ⁊ abide abroade with him three howres at the leaſt, not exceeding foote-pace, which we call night ayrings. Example: Touching ayring or vvalking of grey-hounds, vvhich is a great nouriſher and increaſer of vvinde, it muſt devvlie be done euerie morning before ſunne-riſe, and euery euening before ſunne ſet in […] 3. Exposure of something to the air, especially fresh or warm air for the purpose of ventilating or drying; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: countable, dated Example: According to this my vvarrant heere, I muſt this morning fetch my priſoner to ayring, hee had need bee hung out, leaſt his fleſh ſhould mould, for I am ſure, his clothes are muſtie already; […] Example: Hovv do you like / Your ayring? is it not a fauour? 4. An act of broadcasting a radio or television show; a broadcasting. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: Seldom was he [Sanford Clark] seen, and almost never were his recordings given mass airings. 5. Public disclosure or discussion of a subject, or expression of an opinion; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: airing of grievances Example: I really felt that I was justified in giving my irritability an airing by curious allusions to Janet; yet, though I made him wince, it was impossible to touch his conscience.
Word: airing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From air (“substance constituting Earth’s atmosphere”, noun) and air (“to bring (something) into contact with the air; to let fresh air into (a place); to make public (an opinion, etc.); to broadcast (something)”, verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like terms from verbs, denoting acts of doing something, actions, or the embodiment of action; and forming the present participles of verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪŋ/, [ˈɛː-], /ˈɛɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of air. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: irk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work. Pronunciation: /ɜːk/, /ɝk/ 1. to irritate; annoy; bother Labels: transitive Example: It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it. Example: Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?
Word: irk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work. Pronunciation: /ɜːk/, /ɝk/ 1. An annoyance. Example: The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.
Word: moonbat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moon + bat. Originally the name of the XP-67 experimental aircraft, developed by McDonnell Aircraft in 1941. Used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist). Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnˌbæt/ 1. A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology). Labels: derogatory, informal Example: So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans? Example: As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”
Word: moonbat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From moon + bat. Originally the name of the XP-67 experimental aircraft, developed by McDonnell Aircraft in 1941. Used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist). Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnˌbæt/ 1. (of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: 20204: The Bulwark Trump, who said last month at the Republican National Convention that he would never again retell the story of the attempt on his life “because it’s too painful to tell,” told that story with relish. He expounded at length on his usual moonbat fables about how countries around the world are emptying their prisons and mental institutions to send their convicts and lunatics to the United States.
Word: certainly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English certeynly; equivalent to certain + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.tn̩.li/, /ˈsɝ.tn̩.li/, [ˈsɝ.ʔn̩.li] 1. In a way which is certain; with certainty. Example: he verily thought he had young live frogs in his belly, qui vivebant ex alimento suo, that lived by his nourishment, and was so certainly persuaded of it, that for many years following he could not be rectified in his conceit. Example: The torque was "built up" in the special back axle and the car crawled tankwise but very certainly over the obstacles without a jar or hesitation. 2. Without doubt, surely. Example: The accident was certainly caused by human error. Example: That was certainly sweet of him. 3. An emphatic affirmative answer; of course. Example: Would you like it with ice? Certainly, and with lemon please.
Word: immobile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile. Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/, /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/, /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/ 1. Fixed, not movable. Labels: not-comparable Example: This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.
Word: immobile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile. Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/, /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/, /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/ 1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere). Example: […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […] Example: Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
Word: llamah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: lamer influenced by llama 1. Alternative form of lamer. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative Example: Cheat codes are for llamahs... Example: Ever notice llamahs pop up at the end of the scholastic year... usualy^([sic]) when kiddygarten lets out (if the IQ of their txt contents are any indication).
Word: permissible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English permyssyble, from Old French permissible, from Medieval Latin permissibilis. Pronunciation: /pɚˈmɪsɪbl̩/, /pəˈmɪsɪbl̩/ 1. permitted. Example: [...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines. Example: The units will be allowed to run up to 90 m.p.h. between Chelmsford and Colchester, but their maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. is not permissible on the G.E. line. 2. permissive Labels: uncommon Example: As regards the incorporation of anglicisms and despite the efforts of the Real Academia Española (an official regulatory body which aims at the purity of the language), Spanish has usually been considered a rather permissible language. Example: Japanese zoning is specified at a national level, and while local governments do have some control over their local developments, the end result is a zoning code that is very permissible compared to most other countries.
Word: permissible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English permyssyble, from Old French permissible, from Medieval Latin permissibilis. Pronunciation: /pɚˈmɪsɪbl̩/, /pəˈmɪsɪbl̩/ 1. Any tool or device permitted for use in potentially explosive mine environments.
Word: hedonist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d-der. Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English hedonist From Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + English -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdənɪst/, /ˈhiːdənɪst/ 1. Someone devoted to hedonism.
Word: invariant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English variant English invariant From in- + variant. 1. Not varying; constant. 2. Unaffected by a specified operation, especially by a transformation. Example: The fundamental 2-tensor also leads to a new class of invariant linear differential operators that are canonically associated to these geometries; included is a third equation studied by Gallot et al. We apply the results to study the metrisability equation, in the nullity setting described. 3. Neither covariant nor contravariant.
Word: invariant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English variant English invariant From in- + variant. 1. An invariant quantity, function etc. Example: In the present paper this criterion is reformulated in terms of pseudotensorial invariants of the form.. 2. Ellipsis of class invariant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: blogosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blog + -o- + -sphere, possibly under the influence of biosphere, atmosphere, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈblɒɡ.əʊˌsfɪɚ/ 1. The totality of blogs, especially the unique jargon, cultures and shared interests created by their interconnection. Labels: Internet Example: 2004 Air America Radio http://www.airamericaradio.com/ Regular guest and blogger, Kos of DailyKos.com, provides Sam and Janeane the latest information from the blogosphere. Example: The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.
Word: meltdown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From melt (verb) + down (adverb), a deverbal from melt down (verb). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛltdaʊn/, /ˈmɛltdawn/, /ˈmɛltˌdaʊn/ 1. An act or process of melting. Labels: countable 2. An act or process of melting. Labels: uncountable Example: Thus began by far the gravest crisis in the troubled, 32-year history of commercial atomic power. A catastrophe had occurred over the weekend at the Chernobyl plant, 80 miles north of Kiev, where a reactor meltdown and explosion caused untold death and suffering and raised the prospect of long-term health and environmental damage on a far greater scale than anything yet unleashed by peaceful nuclear use. 3. A mass of melted material. Labels: countable, rare 4. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: uncontrolled disorder which often has disastrous consequences; (countable) a situation involving this; a crisis. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex. Example: Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. 5. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: uncontrolled disorder which often has disastrous consequences; (countable) a situation involving this; a crisis. Labels: countable, figuratively 6. (Sudden) loss of control over one's behaviour, emotions, etc.; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: countable, figuratively, informal 7. (Sudden) loss of control over one's behaviour, emotions, etc.; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: countable, figuratively, informal Example: I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in my forties. […] Now if I am really anxious, I can take a moment to think about what is making me anxious and what to do about it; before I would just spiral into a meltdown really quickly, with no understanding of why. Example: As the brain starts becoming overwhelmed with stress chemicals, it has two primary ways of responding. […] [I]f the accumulation of stress chemicals, stimulation and/or demands are occurring too fast or are too intense to block out, then a meltdown is probable. 8. (Sudden) loss of control over one's behaviour, emotions, etc.; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: countable, figuratively, informal Example: I had a major meltdown at work today. After being instructed one more time about additional work that I was to delegate to my direct reports, I snapped, but in a very polite manner. I excused myself from the boss' office and broke down completely in my cubicle. Example: After the huntsman raced across my windscreen, I had an arachnophobic meltdown on the side of the road.
Word: restiff Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of restive. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic
Word: in vivo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in vīvō. 1. Within a living organism.
Word: in vivo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in vīvō. 1. Within a living organism.
Word: Deutschland Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Deutschland. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔɪt͡ʃ.lænd/, /-lɑːnd/ 1. Germany Labels: rare
Word: in vitro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in vitro, from vitrum (“glass”). 1. In an artificial environment outside the living organism. Labels: not-comparable Example: In recent years, scientists have moved beyond in vitro fertilization. They are starting to assemble stem cells that can organize themselves into embryolike structures. Example: So you know, we have a good case with an increasing body of evidence, supported by a trifecta of research from human epidemiology, animal and in vitro studies, which suggests that prenatal acetaminophen or paracetamol might alter fetal development, increasing the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Word: in vitro Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in vitro, from vitrum (“glass”). 1. In an artificial environment outside the living organism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: etymon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *set-? Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós)der.? Ancient Greek ἔτῠμος (étŭmos) Ancient Greek ἔτῠμον (étŭmon)bor. English etymon From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛt.ɪ.mɒn/, /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/, /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/ 1. The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language. Example: Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed. Example: The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
Word: blanco Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈblæŋkəʊ/ 1. To polish using Blanco. Labels: transitive Example: The Independence celebrations were coming, contingents of police had to be drilled and blancoed and starched before proceeding to Kuala Lumpur to represent the state. Example: 2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything ......: A Life-Story of Fear, Heartbreak, Love, Trickery and Triumph Eddie went back to his sea cadets, leading the band on Sunday mornings. He always looked very smart. He used to spend most of Saturday evening blancoing his kit and pressing his blue uniform.
Word: mulatto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules. Doublet of mulato. Pronunciation: /mʊˈlɑtoʊ/, [məˈlɑɾoʊ̯], /mʊˈlaːtoː/, /m(j)ʊˈlætəʊ/ 1. A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents. Labels: derogatory, historical, sometimes Example: Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […] Example: The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.
Word: encyclopædia Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of encyclopaedia.
Word: laminak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Basque. 1. A kind of fairy in Basque mythology, related to the Little People in Celtic lore. Example: Basque folklore is full of references to a type of creature called the lamiñak, who, as we have seen, are the female counterparts of the cromlech-building Maide. Example: She smiled, remembering the Basque story Zak had told her about the laminaks — little people who live in caves in the mountains and come into the house during the night, […]
Word: hojillion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See -illion. 1. An unspecified large number (of). Labels: excessive, slang Example: One of my school psychologist friends called the world of special education assessment the Department of Redundancy Department because you end up writing the same thing in a bunch of different places, requiring parents to sign virtually the same thing over and over, and then filing everything in hojillion different places. (A hojillion is somewhere between a million and infinity.) Example: Okay, so apparently there's like a hojillion generations of gods in Japan. In fact, there are so many generations that it takes seven of them JUST TO GET US TO THE DUDES WHO CREATE THE EARTH.
Word: polystyrene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax)der. Latin styrax French -ènebor. English -ene English styrene English polystyrene From poly- + styrene. Pronunciation: /pɒliˈstaɪriːn/ 1. A vinylic polymer of styrene, CH₂CHphenyl. Example: It was 30 times lighter and more flexible than the polystyrene that had previously been used. Example: Gerri (Gemma Arterton): Well, he might not be begging. He might be waiting for somebody. / Tom: Of course he's begging. He's got a polystyrene cup in front of him. 2. An alkane chain of benzene molecules, RCH₂CHphenylR.
Word: fingerstyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From finger + style. 1. A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum.
Word: Meg Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /mɛɡ/ 1. A diminutive of the female given names Margaret or Megan. Example: Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen, And tall as Amazon: An old red blanket cloak she wore, A chip-hat had she on. Example: My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name. 'What kind of name is that,' she said. 'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.' 'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'
Word: Meg Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɛɡ/ 1. Megalodon. Labels: colloquial Example: The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.
Word: Meg Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /mɛɡ/ 1. Abbreviation of Meghalaya. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of