nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: atom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English attome, from Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”, o-grade in τομ-) + -ος (-os). Atoms are so named because they were historically thought up as to be the smallest unit of matter, and thus indivisible. Doublet of atomus. Pronunciation: /ˈætəm/, [ˈæɾm̩], [ˈæɾəm] 1. The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. Example: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the water-oxidizing complex, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. 2. A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. 3. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. Example: Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction. Example: But at this critical moment the pirate astern sent a mischievous shot and knocked one of the men to atoms at the helm. 4. In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down. 5. The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second. Labels: historical 6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam. 7. A very small amount; a whit. Example: "Doctor, tell me one word more," said Theodore, quivering with suppressed emotion. "How do you think it will end?" / "I have hardly the faintest atom of hope," answered this honest, earnest man. Example: We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. 8. An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value. 9. An integer representing a particular string. 10. A non-zero member of a partially ordered set that has only zero below it (assuming that the poset has a least element, its "zero"). Example: In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line. 11. An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement. 12. An age group division in hockey for nine- to eleven-year-olds. Labels: Canada, attributive, usually
Word: nucleus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *knuks Latin nux Latin nucleuslbor. English nucleus Learned borrowing from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”). The earliest uses refer to the head of a comet and the kernel of a seed, both recorded in Lexicon Technicum in 1704. The sense in atomic physics was coined by British scientist Michael Faraday in 1844 in a theoretical meaning. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuː.kli.əs/, /ˈnuː.kli.əs/ 1. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled. Example: Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several industrial suburbs, including Pan-ch’iao and Nan-chiang. 2. An initial part or version that will receive additions. Example: This collection will form the nucleus of a new library. Example: This publishing project and the experience Power gained from wartime activities formed the nucleus for the development of the giant enterprise that today is University Microfilms, subsidiary of the Xerox Education Group, Xerox Corporation. 3. The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons. 4. A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material. 5. A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs. 6. The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel. 7. A small bee-hive used to create a colony from a larger existing one.
Word: pressure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pressūra. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛʃə/, [ˈpʰɹʷɛʃ.ə], /ˈpɹɛʒə/, /ˈpɹɛʃɚ/, [ˈpʰɹʷɛʃ.ɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɹʷɛʃ.ɹ̩] 1. A pressing; a force applied to a surface. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding. 2. The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An amount of pressure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the throttle valve should be partially closed which will allow a pressure of steam to accumulate and so determine at once the true water-level 4. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization. Example: When the pressure of danger was not felt. 5. Distress. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first. Example: My people's pressures are grievous. 6. Urgency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the pressure of business 7. Ellipsis of blood pressure. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 8. Impression; stamp; character impressed. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
Word: pressure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin pressūra. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛʃə/, [ˈpʰɹʷɛʃ.ə], /ˈpɹɛʒə/, /ˈpɹɛʃɚ/, [ˈpʰɹʷɛʃ.ɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɹʷɛʃ.ɹ̩] 1. To encourage or heavily exert force or influence. Labels: transitive Example: Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
Word: decibel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deci- + bel. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛsɪbɛl/, /ˈdɛsɪbəl/ 1. A common measure of intensity ratio (e.g. for sound) that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = 10 log₁₀(P₁ / P₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the relative intensities.
Word: area Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der. Proto-Italic *āzeā? Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-der. Proto-Italic *āreā? Latin ārealbor. English area Learned borrowing from Latin ārea. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹi.ə/, [ˈɛː.ɹi.ə], /ˈɛːɹɪjə/, /ˈeɹi.ə/, [ˈeɹi.ə ~ ˈɛəɹi.ə] 1. A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. Example: It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland. 2. A particular geographic region. Example: Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world. 3. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. Example: The photo is a little dark in that area. 4. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept. Example: The plans are a bit vague in that area. Example: Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory. 5. An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. Labels: UK Example: A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house. Example: This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released. 6. Penalty box; penalty area. Example: Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner. 7. Genitals. Labels: slang Example: But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!
Word: mile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)). Pronunciation: /maɪ̯l/, [maɪ̯ɫ], /maɪ.əl/ 1. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. Example: Turn left in 1.2 miles. Example: You need to go about three mile down the road. 2. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. Example: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. Example: Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall. 3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. 4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889. 5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile. 6. An airline mile in a frequent flyer program. 7. Any similarly large distance. Labels: informal Example: The shot missed by a mile. Example: My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking. 8. A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters) Example: The runners competed in the mile. 9. One mile per hour, as a measure of speed. Labels: colloquial Example: five miles over the speed limit
Word: wok Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶). Pronunciation: /wɒk/, /wɑk/ 1. A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking. Example: The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone. 2. Any dish prepared using such a pan. Labels: Europe
Word: wok Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶). Pronunciation: /wɒk/, /wɑk/ 1. To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
Word: archduke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French archeduc (modern French archiduc), from Latin archidux. Equivalent to arch- + duke. 1. The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Labels: historical Example: World War I traditionally started with the assassination of Archduke Francis (Franz) Ferdinand. 2. The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria. Labels: historical
Word: archduchess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French archiduchesse, feminine of archiduc, corresponding to archduke + -ess or arch- + duchess. 1. A daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary Example: If that weren’t enough, in 1993 she married Karl von Habsburg, otherwise known as Archduke Karl of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and the couple set up home in Salzburg, producing two archduchesses and an archduke.
Word: mayoress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English meyresse, mayresse, mairasse; equivalent to mayor + -ess. Pronunciation: /meɪɚˈɛs/, /mɛəˈɹɛs/, /meɪəˈɹɛs/ 1. A female mayor. Example: The blonde mayoress was apparently a member of the MPLA and there were indications that spies in the town were sending radio messages to the enemy. Life was monotonous and the troops took to fishing to supplement their rations. Example: With the Spanish port of Cadiz doubling for the Cuban capital Havana, its striking blonde Mayoress Teofila Martinez was offered a small role as a nurse, but she politely declined. 2. The wife of a (male) mayor. Example: To a Lady Majoress. WHen I behold your head and limbs all shaking Much like a Custard newly come from baking, Your Velvet hood on tipto rais’d upright As if your Hinch boy challenge would to fight. Your pretty mouth, like Oyster gaping wide, As if it did expect ere long the tyde; Your Chin like Aple, both so red and shrivel’d, So scalded by a hot rhume hourly drivel’d. Example: Prophets wives were anciently called Prophetesses; like as Bishops wives (saith à Lapide the Jesuit) were also called Bishoppesses, Presbyters wives Presbyteresses, Deacons wives Deaconesses: Jesuits have still their Jesuitesses, as Majors their Majoresses, &c. 3. A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress.
Word: echo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-der. Proto-Hellenic *wākʰā́ Ancient Greek ἠχή (ēkhḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Ancient Greek -ώ (-ṓ) Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ)bor. Latin ēchō Medieval Latin ēccōbor. Middle English eccho English echo From Middle English eccho, ecco, echo, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough. Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.əʊ/, /ˈɛk.oʊ/ 1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Example: To you I mourn; nor to the Deaf I ſing, / The Woods ſhall anſwer, and their Echo ring. 2. An utterance repeating what has just been said. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them. Example: Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart. 5. Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The frustration with the political process that in the '60s led to the formation of resistance groups finds an echo in today's increasingly confrontational tactics. 6. An insignificant indirect result; a ripple. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 7. The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. An individual discussion forum using the echomail system. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks. 9. Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable 10. A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. Clipping of echocardiography. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable 14. Clipping of echocardiogram. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable Example: […] his echocardiogram had been read as normal. […] Joseph interrupted, "But my echo was normal. How could it be my heart?"
Word: echo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-der. Proto-Hellenic *wākʰā́ Ancient Greek ἠχή (ēkhḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Ancient Greek -ώ (-ṓ) Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ)bor. Latin ēchō Medieval Latin ēccōbor. Middle English eccho English echo From Middle English eccho, ecco, echo, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough. Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.əʊ/, /ˈɛk.oʊ/ 1. Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound. Labels: intransitive Example: With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific. 2. Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene. 3. To reflect back (a sound). Labels: transitive Example: Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Example: The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever. 4. To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Sid echoed his father’s point of view. Example: ‘I want nothing.’ ‘Nor I,’ echoed Sydney. 5. To repeat its input as input to some other device or system. Labels: transitive Example: The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing. 6. To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds. Labels: intransitive
Word: echolocation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944, from echo- + location. Pronunciation: /ˌɛkoʊloʊˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since there is no convenient term available to describe this process of locating obstacles by means of echoes, I suggest the word echolocation[…]. The meaning of this word, and a corresponding verb to echolocate, are likely to be clear when first heard or read, since they are formed simply by joining echo and locate. It seems best to accent the first syllable in order to make clear that the word echo is employed. Example: Now similarly with the aquatic mammals, we know that they can make sounds. We are beginning to get information—although no curves yet—on their sensitivity of hearing. These need to be followed up and we should look for this process of echo-ranging or echolocation.
Word: sonar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By anacronymic evolution from SONAR. Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/, /ˈsəʊ.nɑː/ 1. Artificial echolocation by use of electronic equipment, with hydrophones to locate objects underwater, using the same wave-analysis principles that radar uses. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: They were able to detect the sunken wreck using sonar. 2. A device that provides such echolocation. Labels: countable Example: They finally bought a new sonar to replace the 40-year-old unit that sometimes didn't work right. 3. Any echolocation. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Submarines and bats both use sonar to navigate.
Word: milligram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- + gram. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm/ 1. An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻³ grams. Symbol: mg Example: Holonyms: gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram Example: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram
Word: fag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”). Pronunciation: /fæɡ/, /faɡ/, /fæːɡ/, /fɛɡ/, /ˈfeɪɡ/ 1. In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. Labels: US 2. A cigarette. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: He′d Phase Out Fag Industry Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops. Example: Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school 3. The worst part or end of a thing. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, obsolete Example: Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.
Word: fag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”). Pronunciation: /fæɡ/, /faɡ/, /fæːɡ/, /fɛɡ/, /ˈfeɪɡ/ 1. A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, colloquial Example: We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death. Example: Keeping up appearances is a bit of a fag, I grant, but if a girl respects herself it’s up to her not to let herself get slack. 2. A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way). Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, historical Example: I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it. Example: “He was my fag at Eton,” Warrington said. “I ought to have licked him a little more.”
Word: fag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”). Pronunciation: /fæɡ/, /faɡ/, /fæːɡ/, /fɛɡ/, /ˈfeɪɡ/ 1. To make exhausted, tired out. Labels: archaic, colloquial, transitive 2. To droop; to tire. Labels: archaic, colloquial, intransitive Example: a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12, Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground. 3. (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. To be the servant in fagging. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, historical, intransitive 4. To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way, in fagging. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, historical, transitive Example: It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers. 5. To work hard, especially on menial chores. Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, intransitive Example: This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably. Example: I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.
Word: fag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of faggot. Pronunciation: /fæɡ/, /faɡ/, /fæːɡ/, /fɛɡ/, /ˈfeɪɡ/ 1. A homosexual man. Labels: Canada, US, endearing, offensive, sometimes, usually, vulgar Example: [1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716. Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”] Example: In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag," " fruit," etc.). ... 2. An effeminate or unusual homosexual man. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, usually, vulgar 3. An annoying or contemptible person. Labels: US, derogatory, offensive, vulgar Example: Why did you do that, you fag?
Word: density Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French densité or Latin densitas. Morphologically dense + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛn.sɪ.ti/, /ˈdɛn.sə.ti/, [ˈdɛn.sə.ɾi] 1. The amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron. Example: The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds). 2. The amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume. Example: Density, which is genetically linked, deals with the number of strands per square inch on your scalp. Normal density can range from slight to substantial, varying from person to person. 3. The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Stupidity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There's only so much density that pedagogy can penetrate.
Word: Muganda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Luganda language. 1. A person of the Baganda people
Word: T. rex Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtiː ɹɛks/ 1. Abbreviation of Tyrannosaurus rex. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. (The physical discrepancies between younger and older T. rexes can be so vast that experts have argued over whether certain specimens are different species altogether, rather than different ages.)
Word: millilitre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milli- + litre, from French millilitre. 1. A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml. Labels: UK Example: Holonyms: litre < kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre Example: Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre < microlitre
Word: milliliter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlleder. French milli- English milli- English liter English milliliter From milli- + liter. 1. Alternative spelling of millilitre. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: A slurry of 10 grams of powder in 100 milliliters distilled water was carried on a cotton swab and the panels scrubbed until free from waterbreak when rinsed. Example: The following day, nonattached cells were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in growth medium at a density of 1 × 10⁷ per milliliter.
Word: cesta Part of Speech: noun 1. A hook-shaped basket used to catch and throw the ball in jai alai.
Word: blvd. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of boulevard. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: frwy. Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of freeway. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: proto Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the prefix proto-. 1. Clipping of prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: […] he photographed his tenant, the proto male supermodel Matt Collins, for Italian Harper’s Bazaar.
Word: proto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the prefix proto-. 1. A prototype of a design. Labels: informal Example: […] attending various fabric trade shows across the country and internationally; reviewing protos (prototypes) and strike-offs; approving final designs; and communicating with overseas mills. 2. A protogen. Labels: informal, slang
Word: MSN Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Microsoft Network. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), an instant messaging client from Microsoft. Labels: informal Example: M.T. maintains the primary suspect is Stefanie's boyfriend, the couple recently breaking up. Despite other Facebook and MSN messages indicating M.T. had talked with at least three friends about wanting Stefanie dead, she doesn't seem to think suspicion will fall on her as a murderess-once-removed. 3. Initialism of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar, the forward of FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2017. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism
Word: MSN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Master of Science in Nursing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Other nurses choose to go on for MSN and PhDs in nursing. Example: Education: BS and MSN
Word: MSN Part of Speech: verb 1. To talk (to someone) via Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), an instant messaging client from Microsoft; to send (someone) a message via this client. Labels: ambitransitive, informal Example: Then we drove home and had a long sit-in-car talk and kissey-kissey,^([sic]) then eventually I am somehow inside just in time to get a e-mail from Marc asking plaintively if I am there because he wants to MSN and he'd just sent it and I was there so we MSNed. Example: it does sound quite amazing actually. Did you see that on the new Top Gear? I was really impressed with it. Vicky Butler Henderson gone, Tiff gone, Quentin gone... but Clarkson is back and LOVE the fact they've got their own circuit ah yes I remember you MSNed me whilst it was on, drooling over the Zonda ^_^
Word: TVNZ Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Television New Zealand: the national state-owned broadcaster of New Zealand. Labels: New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PS2 Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of PlayStation 2. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Misspelling of PS/2. Labels: alt-of, misspelling 3. Abbreviation of PostScript Level 2. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: un- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English un-, from Old English un-, from Proto-West Germanic *un-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-. Cognate with Scots un-, on- (“un-”), North Frisian ün-, Saterland Frisian uun-, West Frisian ûn-, on-, Dutch on-, Low German un-, on-, German un-, Danish u-, Swedish o-, Norwegian u-, Icelandic ó-. More distant cognate with Latin in-, Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (whence English a-, modern Greek α- (a-)) and Sanskrit अ- (a-). Doublet of in- and a-. Pronunciation: /ʌn/, /an/ 1. not Labels: morpheme Example: un- + educated → uneducated (“not educated”) 2. lack of Labels: morpheme Example: un- + conformity → unconformity (“lack of conformity”) 3. contrary to traditional norms; unconventional Labels: morpheme Example: un- + conference → unconference
Word: un- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Middle English on-, from Old English on-, ond-, and- (“against, facing, toward; in return, back, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *anda-, from Proto-Germanic *anda-, *andi- (“against”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“across, forth, forward, ahead”), from *h₂énts (“end, limit, forehead”). In some cases the meaning is influenced by un- (“not”, etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ʌn/, /an/ 1. the inverse of a specified action Labels: morpheme Example: un- + dress → undress (“to take one's clothes off”) Example: un- + lock → unlock (“to undo the locking of”) 2. deprive of, release from, free from, remove from, extract from Labels: morpheme Example: un- + cage → uncage (“to release from a cage”) Example: un- + tangle → untangle (“to remove the tangling of”) 3. intensifying a verb that already suggests opposition or removal Labels: morpheme, rare Example: un- + loosen → unloosen Example: un- + decipher → undecipher
Word: un- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnusbor. English un- Borrowed from Latin ūnus. Pronunciation: /ʌn/, /an/ 1. Used for the digit one to form systematic element names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name. Labels: morpheme Example: un- (“1”) + bi- (“2”) + un- (“1”) + -ium (element suffix) → unbiunium (“element 121”) 2. Used to form large numbers as the first in the sequence. Labels: morpheme Example: un- + decillion (“10³³”) → undecillion (“10³⁶”) Example: un- + vigintillion (“10⁶³”) → unvigintillion (“10⁶⁶”)
Word: lithium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪθi.əm/ 1. The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94. It is a soft, silvery metal. Labels: uncountable Example: The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource. Example: Already, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush. Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia. 2. A single atom of this element. Labels: countable 3. Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used as a mood stabiliser to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders. Labels: uncountable Example: It seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium. Example: There's more: Part of the reason I am so meek is that I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. It's not that I have a death wish, and it's not that I'm like Axl Rose and think that lithium makes me less manly (he supposedly stopped taking it after his first wife told him that his dick wasn't as hard as it used to be and that sex with him was lousy;[…]). 4. A lithium battery. Labels: countable
Word: beryllium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beryl + -ium, so called because the element is a key component of the mineral beryl. Pronunciation: /bəˈɹɪl.i.əm/ 1. The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications. Labels: uncountable 2. An atom of this element. Labels: countable
Word: boron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Persian *bōragbor. Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der. Medieval Latin boraxder. Anglo-Norman boreisbor. Middle English boras English borax English boro- Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbonbf. English -on English boron From the stem of borax (boro-) + -on (based on carbon). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy as a modification of his earlier word boracium. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːˌɹɒn/, /bo.rɔn/ 1. The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The B₆-type octahedral borons are each bonded to five other boron atoms; four are part of the same octahedron, and one is external to this octahedron. Example: PIRG noted the European Union has a limit of 300 ppm for boron and that there should be a “full-fledged investigation to determine if limits should be established” in the US. 2. An atom of this element. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B₆ cluster provide these orbitals.
Word: fluorine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fluor (“flow”) + -ine. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1813. Pronunciation: /ˈflʊ(ə)ɹˌin, -ɪn/, /ˈfloɹˌin 1. The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals. Labels: uncountable 2. An atom of this element. Labels: countable Example: an octahedron of fluorines
Word: neon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νέον (néon), neuter of νέος (néos, “new”), from earlier *νέϝος (*néwos), from Proto-Hellenic *newos, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos. By surface analysis, neo- + -on (suffix used in all noble gases). Pronunciation: /ˈni.ɒn/, /ˈniˌɑn/ 1. The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas. Labels: uncountable 2. A form or sample of the element. Labels: countable 3. Neon signs or lights, collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Bring a song and a smile for the banjo Better get while the getting's good Hitch a ride to the end of the highway Where the neons turn to wood Example: Neons and LED lighting can be controlled by remotes. 4. A neon tetra fish. Labels: countable Example: There were all kinds - Swordtails, Guppies, Platys, Terras [sic], Neons, Cichlids, Labyrinth and Paradise fish, and every variety of exotic Goldfish. 5. Describes bright and vibrant colors having a fluorescent look. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable
Word: neon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νέον (néon), neuter of νέος (néos, “new”), from earlier *νέϝος (*néwos), from Proto-Hellenic *newos, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos. By surface analysis, neo- + -on (suffix used in all noble gases). Pronunciation: /ˈni.ɒn/, /ˈniˌɑn/ 1. That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent Labels: not-comparable
Word: magnesium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium. Pronunciation: /ˌmæɡˈniːzi.əm/, /ˌmæɡˈnizi.əm/, /ˌmæɡˈniʒəm/ 1. The chemical element with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal. Labels: uncountable Example: 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness. Example: A sample of carbon removed from the ocean in the solid form of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from UCLA's SeaChange program -- now known as Equatic -- in 2023.
Word: aluminium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin alūmen Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English aluminium First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was coined in the same year. From Latin alūmen + -ium. * For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article. Pronunciation: /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.i.əm/, /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/, /ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.i.əm/, /ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.jəm/, /əˈluːmɪnəm/ 1. A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are plenty of reasons, Australians may reason, why our nation might be exempted from the threatened next round of Trumpian tariffs, on stuff like aluminium and pharmaceuticals. 2. A single atom of this element. Labels: countable 3. Aircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: phosphorus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros) Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor. Latin phōsphorusbor. English phosphorus Borrowed from Latin phōsphorus, from Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros, “the bearer of light”), from φῶς (phôs, “light”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒs.fə.ɹəs/, /ˈfɒs.fɹəs/, /ˈfɑs.fɚ.əs/ 1. A chemical element (symbol P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:phosphorus. 2. Any substance exhibiting phosphorescence; a phosphor. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:phosphorus.
Word: sulfur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin sulpur Latin sulfur Latin sulphur Anglo-Norman sulfrebor. Middle English sulphur English sulfur From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.fə/, /ˈsʊl.fə/, /ˈsʌl.fəɹ/, /ˈsʌl.fɚ/ 1. A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: A Dungeon horrible, on all ſides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from thoſe flames / No light, but rather darkneſs viſible / […] but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed / With ever-burning Sulphur unconſum’d: Example: Sure only that man is mortal; that with the life of one mortal snaps irrevocably the wonderfulest talisman, and all Dubarrydom rushes off, with tumult, into infinite Space; and ye, as subterranean Apparitions are wont, vanish utterly,—leaving only a smell of sulphur! 2. A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!” 3. A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually 4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: sulfur Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin sulpur Latin sulfur Latin sulphur Anglo-Norman sulfrebor. Middle English sulphur English sulfur From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.fə/, /ˈsʊl.fə/, /ˈsʌl.fəɹ/, /ˈsʌl.fɚ/ 1. Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. 2. Having a characteristic sulfur-like smell, reminiscent of rotten eggs. Example: On the November morning when the sulfur burps began, Derron Borders was welcoming prospective students at the graduate school where he works in New York. […] Sulfur burps appear to be a somewhat rare side effect of semaglutide, tirzepatide, and other drugs in their class, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists.
Word: sulfur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin sulpur Latin sulfur Latin sulphur Anglo-Norman sulfrebor. Middle English sulphur English sulfur From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.fə/, /ˈsʊl.fə/, /ˈsʌl.fəɹ/, /ˈsʌl.fɚ/ 1. To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests. Labels: transitive
Word: chlorine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English chlorine Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1810 from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈklɔɹin/, /ˈklɔːɹiːn/, /ˈkʰlorɪn/, /ˈkʰlɔrɪn/, /-in/ 1. A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: When TCCA touches a small amount of water and doesn’t dissolve, “it can experience a chemical reaction, generating heat and causing the decomposition of the chemical, which in turn produces toxic chlorine gas and can produce explosive nitrogen trichloride,” a 2023 report by the CSB said. 2. A single atom of this element. Labels: countable, usually 3. A chlorine-based bleach or disinfectant. Labels: countable, usually Example: The mechanism involved in the explosive reaction between swimming pool chlorine (calcium hypochlorite) and brake fluid (polyethylene glycol), a possible improvised explosive mixture, has been studied by means of the gaseous products produced. Example: Chlorines are useful for disinfecting water and for housekeeping disinfectants.
Word: argon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ργός (ārgós) Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbonbf. English -on English argon From Ancient Greek ἀργός (argós, “idle, lazy”), because of its inertness, + -on, used for all noble gases. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹɡɒn/ 1. The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An atom of this element. Labels: countable
Word: calcium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin calx Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English calcium Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) because it occurs in limestone. By surface analysis, calc- + -ium. Pronunciation: /ˈkælsi.əm/, /ˈkalʃɪəm/, /ˈkæl.ʃum/ 1. The chemical element (symbol Ca) with atomic number 20: a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. Example: “This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing. 2. An atom of this element. Labels: countable
Word: scandium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Scandia Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English scandium From Scandia + -ium. Pronunciation: /ˈskændi.əm/ 1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Sc), atomic number 21, obtained from some uranium ores; it is a transition element. Labels: uncountable