nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Hollywood Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The name of the neighbourhood in Los Angeles (proper noun sense 1) was coined by real estate developer H. J. Whitley, from holly + wood. By metonymy, it became the name of the industry, and eventually also a name for decadence. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.li.wʊd/, /ˈhɑ.li.wʊd/ 1. Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry. Example: As many critics pointed out, the timely (but mostly tame and light) comedy was not too controversial, but too popular, too American, and too Hollywood to headline a festival that was scheduled to screen the likes of Robert Bresson's Un Feme Douce, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Gai Savior, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Agnes Varda's Lion's Love, Paola Pier Pasolini's Pigpen, and Bo Widenberg's Adelen '31. Example: What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war? 2. Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film. Example: A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast."
Word: Hollywood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The name of the neighbourhood in Los Angeles (proper noun sense 1) was coined by real estate developer H. J. Whitley, from holly + wood. By metonymy, it became the name of the industry, and eventually also a name for decadence. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.li.wʊd/, /ˈhɑ.li.wʊd/ 1. A waxing practice that removes all of the pubic hair, unlike a Brazilian which leaves a small strip behind. Example: If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […]
Word: Hollywood Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The name of the neighbourhood in Los Angeles (proper noun sense 1) was coined by real estate developer H. J. Whitley, from holly + wood. By metonymy, it became the name of the industry, and eventually also a name for decadence. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.li.wʊd/, /ˈhɑ.li.wʊd/ 1. To engage in Hollywooding (various senses).
Word: Bollywood Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Bombay + Hollywood. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒ.li.wʊd/, /ˈbɑ.li.wʊd/ 1. The Hindi-language film industry located in Mumbai. Example: Bollywood is also very commonly known as both tinsel town and B-town, neither of which is listed in the dictionaries. 2. The cinema of India in general, no matter the region. Labels: broadly Example: Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy, 18 months after an Indian court effectively ruled that a de facto industry ban on Pakistani talent imposed in 2016 was illegal.
Word: sheebeen Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shebeen. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shanty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Canadian French chantier (“lumberjack's headquarters”). An alternative theory that the word derives from Irish seantí (meaning "old house") is not considered likely by lexicologists. * (unlicensed pub): New Zealand from 1848. Pronunciation: /ˈʃænti/ 1. A roughly-built hut or cabin. Example: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Example: He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned. 2. A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned. Example: Shanties along canal banks and road reserves have emerged since independence in 1948 onwards, and consist of unauthorized and improvised shelter without legal rights of occupancy of the land and structures. Example: A few governments recognise the shanties as a form of self-help housing that places very little burden upon government funds. Such governments sometimes encourage shanty development by providing water, electricity and garbage collection services. 3. An unlicensed pub. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: The shanty-keeper is not, as a rule, a bachelor.
Word: shanty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Canadian French chantier (“lumberjack's headquarters”). An alternative theory that the word derives from Irish seantí (meaning "old house") is not considered likely by lexicologists. * (unlicensed pub): New Zealand from 1848. Pronunciation: /ˈʃænti/ 1. Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent. Labels: US, derogatory, not-comparable Example: That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen. Example: The Irish of the middle class were trying to live down the opprobrium derived from the brawling, hard-drinking, and raffish manners of the “shanty Irish” of an earlier generation. The shanty Irish might in some instances have been the individual′s own grandmother who did, indeed, smoke a clay pipe and keep a goat in what, forty years later, became Central Park. Or shanty Irish might be those fellow Irish who at the turn of the century still lived in slums and were poor, hard-drinking, and contentious.
Word: shanty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Canadian French chantier (“lumberjack's headquarters”). An alternative theory that the word derives from Irish seantí (meaning "old house") is not considered likely by lexicologists. * (unlicensed pub): New Zealand from 1848. Pronunciation: /ˈʃænti/ 1. To inhabit a shanty. Example: we came down the Alleghany in two canoes , and shantied on the Ohio
Word: shanty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French chantez, imperative of chanter (“to sing”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃænti/ 1. A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities. Example: A Scot called Macmillan, a man holding a master's square-rig ticket, gave me a portion of a shanty related in tune to the foregoing, and also to the British Rolling Home. Example: Today, shanties are a special feature of the folk music movement. The first International Shanty Festival, Shanty ′87, was held in 1987 in Krakow, Poland, with Stan Hugill, the “godfather of the shanty,” in attendance (see Folk Roots, September 1987, No. 51, “Hugill-Mania! Stan Hugill Godfather of the Shanty Mafia, Goes to Poland,” p.33ff.).
Word: shanty Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈʃænti/ 1. Jaunty; showy.
Word: burka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindustani برقع / बुरक़ा (burqā), from Classical Persian برقع (burqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ). Pronunciation: /ˈbɝkə/ 1. Alternative form of burqa. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: burka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian бу́рка (búrka); further etymology is disputed. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝkə/ 1. A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name), traditionally worn by men of the Caucasus region.
Word: character encoding Part of Speech: noun 1. A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.
Word: ambit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from ambīre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs). Ambīre is the present active infinitive of ambiō (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + eō (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus. Pronunciation: /ˈæmbɪt/ 1. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. Example: Nickle shrugged his shoulders to indicate the inexpressible ambit of Mr. Bronsky's obvious shortcomings. 2. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. Labels: broadly Example: He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by. 3. The boundary around a building, town, region, etc. Labels: archaic 4. The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit. Labels: archaic, rare 5. Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place. Labels: obsolete
Word: magnum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin magnum, neuter of magnus (“great”). * (bottle): Ellipsis of magnum bonum. * (handgun): Name registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnəm/, /ˈmeɪ̯ɡnəm/ 1. A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle. Example: So please don’t ask me when / There may be wine and roses / And magnums of champagne 2. A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet. 3. A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre. Labels: broadly Example: I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Word: horror Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒɹ.ə/, /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/, /ˈhɑɹ.ɚ/, /ˈhɑɹ.ə/, /ˈhɔɚ/ 1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim. 2. Something horrible; that which excites horror. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I saw many horrors during the war. Example: The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc. 3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ” 4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. Labels: uncountable Example: Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’ Example: A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House." 5. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. Labels: countable 6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. Labels: colloquial, countable Example: The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors! 7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 8. Delirium tremens. Labels: countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable Example: `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'
Word: hypertext Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + text; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪpəɹˌtɛkst/ 1. Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks. Labels: uncountable Example: We do not read hypertext the same way we read a novel, and browsing the Web is a different experience from reading a book or newspaper. Example: Further, hypertext systems, because of their ease of construction, are very rich in text, graphics and visual illustrations. 2. A hypertext document. Labels: countable Example: A hypertext system, then, is a memex-like device for creating and manipulating hypertexts, both for on-line browsing, and for reducing selected portions of such texts to . .
Word: blockhole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From block + hole. 1. A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block. 2. The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard. Labels: broadly
Word: take guard Part of Speech: verb 1. (For a new batsman, with help from the umpire) to mark a point on the popping crease in front of his wicket so that he knows where it is behind him; to guard. Labels: idiomatic
Word: yank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ˈjæŋk/, [ˈjæŋk], /ˈjeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈjeɪ̯ŋk], /ˈjɛ̃ŋk/ 1. A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force). Example: He unjammed the rope with a short yank. 2. An act of masturbation. Labels: slang Example: He rested his hand on his bare chest, an innocent enough spot, but soon it drifted of its own accord down his stomach to slide beneath the waistband of his briefs. Fine. A quick yank would relieve the sexual tension that simmered in him. 3. Alternative form of shank (“stabbing weapon”). Labels: Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, alternative, slang Example: Tell my young bad, she can vouch for me I was only thirteen with a yank on me
Word: yank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ˈjæŋk/, [ˈjæŋk], /ˈjeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈjeɪ̯ŋk], /ˈjɛ̃ŋk/ 1. To pull (something) with a quick, strong action. Labels: transitive Example: Now a white-backed rams its head down the wildebeest’s throat and yanks out an eight-inch length of trachea, ribbed like a vacuum hose. Example: [Regarding risks of AI] And you just have to have somebody close to the power cord. [Laughs.]^([sic]) Right when you see it about to happen, you gotta yank that electricity out of the wall, man. 2. To remove; to recall or revoke. Labels: informal, transitive Example: They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe. Example: The cops yanked my driver's license. 3. To masturbate. Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: In the dark protection of the auditorium and his Baltimore cape, with two coiled females only inches beneath his feet, completely in his power and ignorant of the invisible force that held them captive, only this shadow knew, the True Dildough, with great pleasure and tremendous gutsy motions, yanked his full-grown penis to a gigantically pleasurable orgasm.
Word: yank Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Yank (“Yankee”). Labels: alt-of, derogatory, often
Word: omnis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of omni Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aliquot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/, /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/, /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/ 1. Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1794, George Adams (Jr), Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing, in a Familiar and Easy Manner, The Principal Phenomena of Nature, and Shewing, That They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God, If, therefore, every aliquot diviſion produced a ſenſible effect by it's vibration, we ſhould hear in every muſical ſtring an infinite variety of chords, diſſonant and conſonant, in ſharp and flat keys at the ſame time. Example: The United States standard yard … has a thin strip of silver, ¹⁄₅ inch broad, let into it through its entire length. It is divided into small divisions, each being an aliquot part of an inch.
Word: aliquot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/, /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/, /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/ 1. A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension). Labels: broadly Example: Meronym: subaliquot Example: 1965 December 1, Martha Smith Richmond, Analysis of Uranium Concentrates at the National Bureau of Standards, National Bureau of Standards, NBS Misc. Publ. 260-8, page 26, Two aliquots each of 57 sample solutions and 15 solutions of NBS Standard No. 950a were assayed. 2. A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension). Labels: broadly Example: Meronym: subaliquot
Word: aliquot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot. Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/, /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/, /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/ 1. To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. Labels: informal, transitive Example: 1994, Patricia Viola Racenis, Phosphatidate Biosynthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan, page 34, The nuclear pellet was resuspended in homogenizing buffer (about 25 ml), aliquoted into Eppendorf tubes and stored at -80°C. Example: The final solution is filtered, aliquoted into 150 μL portions, and stored at –70°C.
Word: squamous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English squamous, from Latin squāmōsus, from squāma (“scale(of a fish or reptile)”). Pronunciation: /ˈskweɪ.məs/, /ˈskwɑː.məs/ 1. Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly. Example: In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth. Example: I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh! 2. Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal 3. Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).
Word: blase Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of blasé. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In mid-February a colleague mentioned that for the first time in his life he was more concerned than his mother, who had been relatively blase about the risks of Covid-19.
Word: vicissitudes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vicissitude Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Q-tips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Q-tip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Q-tips Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Q-tip 1. Cottontop, a plant of species Micropus californicus Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: reparation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin reparatus Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tio Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnisbor. English reparation Borrowed from Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnis. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s). Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able. Example: A feature of locomotive operation on the Region de l'Est of the French National Railways, not only on the old Alsace-Lorraine lines, but also on the Est proper, is the wide use still made of ex-German engines received as reparations after the 1914-19 war. 2. The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: the reparation of a bridge or of a highway Example: The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.
Word: bodyline Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of body line. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: bodyline Part of Speech: adj 1. Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket. Labels: historical, not-comparable Example: The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.
Word: mythology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested as Middle English in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mȳthologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία (muthología, “legend”) μυθολογέω (muthologéō, “to tell tales”), from μυθολόγος (muthológos, “legend”), from μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + λέγω (légō, “to say”). By surface analysis, myth + -ology or mytho- + -logy. Pronunciation: /mɪˈθɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now the great obstacle in tracing the identity of any of the basic forms of worship lies in the vast number of names which appear in the ancient idolatries and mythologies, creating the illusion of a miscellany of gods, whereas many of these different names refer to the same deity. Thus the sun has been personified and worshipped under as many different names as there are nations on the surface of the earth. Example: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll. 2. A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity. 3. Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously. 4. The set of misconceptions and false attitudes that are held about something and contribute to its perception. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Straight people who do not know, or do not know that they know, any gays, can accept all the mythology about us that is paramount in the propaganda of our enemies. 5. The systematic collection and study of myths. Labels: uncountable
Word: interface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face English interface From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪntəfeɪs/, /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/ 1. The point of interconnection or contact between entities. Example: Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press. 2. A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance. Example: If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between. Example: The surface of a lake is a water-air interface. 3. The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems. Example: The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system. 4. The connection between a user and a machine. Example: The options are selected via the user interface. 5. The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module. Example: This interface is implemented by several Java classes. Example: Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't. 6. In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement. Example: The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface. 7. In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it. 8. The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
Word: interface Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face English interface From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪntəfeɪs/, /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/ 1. To construct an interface for. Labels: transitive 2. To connect through an interface. Labels: ambitransitive 3. To serve as an interface. Labels: intransitive 4. To meet for discussion. Labels: intransitive Example: Let's interface on Wednesday.
Word: cathedral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedrālis, from cathedra + -ālis, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”). Pronunciation: /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, /kəˈtiːdrəl/ 1. Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cathedral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church serving as the bishop's or archbishop's office”), from Latin ecclēsia + cathedrālis. Displaced Old English hēafodċiriċe (literally “main church, head church”). Pronunciation: /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, /kəˈtiːdrəl/ 1. The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra. Example: The bishop presided over the ceremony from his seat in the cathedral. 2. A large or important church building. Labels: broadly, informal 3. A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind. Labels: figuratively Example: a cathedral of commerce 4. A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
Word: basilica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐκή (băsĭlĭkḗ), from βᾰσῐλῐκὴ στοά (băsĭlĭkḕ stoá, “royal hall”), ultimately from βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Doublet of basoche. Pronunciation: /bəˈsɪlɪkə/ 1. A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory. 2. A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance. 3. An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose. Labels: obsolete
Word: chapel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ], [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩], /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ] 1. A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church. Labels: especially 2. A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer. Example: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” 3. A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations. Labels: UK 4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services. 5. A trade union branch in printing or journalism. Labels: UK 6. A printing office. 7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Word: chapel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ], [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩], /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ] 1. Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel. Labels: Wales, not-comparable Example: The village butcher is chapel.
Word: chapel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ], [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩], /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/, [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ] 1. To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing. Labels: transitive 2. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!
Word: vicar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”). Doublet of vicarious. Displaced native Old English ġespelia. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪkɚ/ 1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes. Example: Near-synonyms: priest, rector, curate Example: Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli. 2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy. 3. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person. Example: Near-synonyms: proxy, representative, agent
Word: rector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛktɚ/, /ˈɹɛktə/ 1. In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it. Example: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers. 2. In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution. 3. A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy. Labels: uncommon 4. In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined. 5. A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university. 6. An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body. Labels: Scotland
Word: priory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman priorie. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪəɹ.i/, /ˈpɹaɪ.əɹ.i/ 1. A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
Word: q-tip Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Q-tip. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: benefit of the doubt Part of Speech: noun 1. A favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight. Example: The former Manchester United player had handled outside his area to thwart Erling Haaland and if there was considerable doubt over his continued involvement, he was given the benefit of it. 2. A trust that something will turn out or happen as hoped for or expected despite concerns. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “We consider this to be an act of modern piracy. This is no way to treat transatlantic partners. Even in times of global crisis, we shouldn’t resort to the tactics of the wild west,” said Andreas Geisel, a leading Berlin politician. Significantly, Merkel has refused to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. 3. The principle employed by umpires in cases of uncertainty concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision must be in the batsman's favour. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bottom edge Part of Speech: noun 1. The edge of a bat closest to the ground. 2. A deflection of a ball off of the bottom edge of a bat, onto the ground and potentially into the wicket. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bottom, edge.
Word: bottom edge Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit the ball with the bottom edge of the bat. Labels: transitive
Word: rort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a back-formation from rorty (“boisterous or rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué”). Originally slang but now in common usage. Pronunciation: /ɹɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. A scam or fraud, especially involving the misappropriation of public money or resources. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: 2008, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 4067, Not all of the projects were bad or rorts; the majority were no doubt valuable to their communities. Example: It′s one of the great rorts in Australia that for overstaying your welcome (even by five minutes) in a space that may cost only a few dollars to park in, local councils are prepared to fine you anywhere from $50 to $120.
Word: rort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a back-formation from rorty (“boisterous or rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué”). Originally slang but now in common usage. Pronunciation: /ɹɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. To cheat or defraud. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, transitive Example: He wants to change the system for the benefit of all and wants to stop the incredible rorting that has occurred within the prisons system. Example: SINGLE pensioners living together will come under scrutiny from Centrelink looking for same-sex couples rorting welfare.
Word: top edge Part of Speech: noun 1. The edge of a bat farthest from the ground. 2. A deflection of a ball off of the top edge of a bat, into the air and potentially for a catch. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see top, edge.
Word: top edge Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit the ball with the top edge of the bat.
Word: inside edge Part of Speech: noun 1. The edge of a bat closest to the body of the batsman. 2. A deflection of a ball off of the inside edge of a bat, sometimes to the wicket keeper for a catch. 3. The edge of the blade or side of the wheels facing towards the other foot.
Word: inside edge Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit the ball with the inside edge of the bat. 2. To place one's weight on the inside edge of the skate, thereby moving in a curve in that direction.
Word: outside edge Part of Speech: noun 1. The edge of a bat farthest from the body of the batsman. 2. A deflection of a ball off of the outside edge of a bat, often to the slips or wicket keeper for a catch. 3. The edge of the blade or side of the wheels facing away from the other foot.
Word: outside edge Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit the ball with the outside edge of the bat. 2. To place one's weight on the outside edge of the skate, thereby moving in a curve in that direction.
Word: shindig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/ 1. A noisy party or festivities. Example: They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise. Example: "That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]" 2. A noisy argument.
Word: muri Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of murus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: muri Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of moori. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: muri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 無理. 1. A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work processes have not been simplified through standardization. Labels: uncountable
Word: feck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect. Pronunciation: /fɛk/ 1. Effect, value; vigor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: some of which have earned a small academic following for their technical feck and for a pathos that was somehow both surreally abstract and CNS-rendingly melodramatic at the same time. 2. The greater or larger part. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable Example: I hae been a devil the feck o' my life
Word: feck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect. Pronunciation: /fɛk/ 1. To steal. Labels: Ireland, slang Example: —But why did they run away, tell us? —I know why, Cecil Thunder said. Because they had fecked cash out of the rector's room. —Who fecked it? —Kickham's brother. And they all went shares in it. But that was stealing. How could they have done that? Example: And isn't it pure gangsters run the car parks, the price of them, and security cameras my arse, begging your pardon, sure it's watching videos they'd be, while some scut of a ten-year-old's fecking your tape machine and maybe going back to break off the aerial if they don't approve of your taste in music.
Word: feck Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɛk/ 1. Used in place of fuck. Labels: Ireland Example: Earlier there was a dispute between the Chair and Proinsias de Rossa concerning the words used when a wife is getting rid of her husband. In the case of Deserted Wives' Allowance, Mr de Rossa said, it had to be proved that the wife didn't tell her husband to "feck off". Mr Tunney suggested that "get lost" might be a more appropriate expression for Mr de Rossa to use. Example: "Why are you fecking around with this Family Planning Bill when people are dying?" - Senator David Norris to the Minister for Health, Dr O'Connell, on the Bill which does not allow condoms to be sold from vending machines.
Word: Hollywood Irish Part of Speech: noun 1. Irish people and culture as stereotypically portrayed by the film industry, particularly from the United States. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Hollywood Irish Part of Speech: name 1. Irish idiom as portrayed by the film and television industry.
Word: duomo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome and domus. Pronunciation: /ˈdwəʊməʊ/, /duːˈəʊməʊ/ 1. A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy. Example: Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet. Example: There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.
Word: Bristolian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Bristol Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Bristolian From Bristol + -ian. Pronunciation: /bɹɪsˈtəʊ.li.ən/ 1. Of, from, or relating to Bristol.
Word: Bristolian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Bristol Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Bristolian From Bristol + -ian. Pronunciation: /bɹɪsˈtəʊ.li.ən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Bristol
Word: Bristolian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Bristol Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Bristolian From Bristol + -ian. Pronunciation: /bɹɪsˈtəʊ.li.ən/ 1. The dialect sometimes spoken by the people of Bristol.
Word: shipshape and Bristol fashion Part of Speech: adj Etymology: As regards the adjective, Bristol was the most prosperous port of west-coast Britain, and its shipping was regarded as maintained at a high quality. The adverb is probably derived from the adjective as it is first attested slightly later. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp n̩ ˌbɹɪstəl ˈfæʃn̩/, /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp n̩ ˌbɹɪstəl ˈfæʃən/ 1. Of a vessel: tidy, and with its equipment in good order, properly stowed, etc.; shipshape. Labels: UK, dated, not-comparable Example: It was there I first got alongside of Moll [a ship]. She is as pretty a girl as ever stepped between the stem and stern of a vessel. And to see her upon a lee-shore! It made me change colour in the face like a dolphin. "My box of diamonds," says I to the girl, "this is neither ship-shape, nor Bristol fashion. It was this fashion that made the people at Constantinople turn Turks. If the master-at-arms that put you in here ever comes athwart my hawse, I'll cut his cable." Example: L'Atriveda Spanish privateer, which has been in our harbour several weeks, is now completely refitted in all the graces of "ship shape and Bristol fashion," and on the point of sailing for whatever chances the fortune of war may bestow. 2. Neatly and properly arranged or organized; neat and tidy, tidy. Labels: UK, dated, figuratively, not-comparable Example: He must be a little dictator. In all well-run businesses there is such a man. In the Secret Service, it is Paymaster Captain Troop, RN Retired, Head of Admin., whose job it is, in his own words, ‘to keep the place shipshape and Bristol fashion’. Example: She [Segovia] looks like a fine old clipper ship, there in the morning sun, full-rigged, full-blown, ship-shape and Bristol-fashion.
Word: shipshape and Bristol fashion Part of Speech: adv Etymology: As regards the adjective, Bristol was the most prosperous port of west-coast Britain, and its shipping was regarded as maintained at a high quality. The adverb is probably derived from the adjective as it is first attested slightly later. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp n̩ ˌbɹɪstəl ˈfæʃn̩/, /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp n̩ ˌbɹɪstəl ˈfæʃən/ 1. In a neat and tidy, or proper, manner; properly, tidily. Labels: UK, dated, not-comparable Example: It is often the custom of men-of-war's men, when they deem anything to be going on wrong aboard ship, to refer to last cruise, when of course everything was done shipshape and Bristol fashion. Example: Everything Bob did was done shipshape and Bristol fashion, which is to say, as well as it was possible for a first-class seaman to do it.
Word: shipshape Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/, /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/ 1. Meticulously neat and tidy. Example: SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c. Example: [I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]
Word: shipshape Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/, /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/ 1. Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent. Example: No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity. Example: I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. [...] Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.
Word: PIVKA Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of protein induced by vitamin K absence. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of 2. Acronym of protein induced by vitamin K antagonist. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: familiar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English familiar, familier, from Latin familiāris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). By surface analysis, family + -ar. Piecewise doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþ. Pronunciation: /fəˈmɪl.i.ə/, /fəˈmɪl.jɚ/, /fəˈmɪl.i.ɚ/, /fɚˈmɪl.jɚ/, /fəˈmil(ɪ)jə(r)/ 1. Known to one, or generally known; commonplace. Example: There’s a familiar face; that tune sounds familiar. Example: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad. 2. Acquainted. Example: I'm quite familiar with this system; she's not familiar with manual gears. 3. Intimate or friendly. Example: We are on familiar terms now; our neighbour is not familiar Example: Don’t be familiar with me, boy! 4. Of or pertaining to a family; familial. Example: 1822, Lord Byron, Werner familiar feuds
Word: familiar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English familiar, familier, from Latin familiāris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). By surface analysis, family + -ar. Piecewise doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþ. Pronunciation: /fəˈmɪl.i.ə/, /fəˈmɪl.jɚ/, /fəˈmɪl.i.ɚ/, /fɚˈmɪl.jɚ/, /fəˈmil(ɪ)jə(r)/ 1. An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form. Example: The witch’s familiar was a black cat. Example: The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted. 2. A member of one's family or household. Labels: obsolete 3. A member of a pope's or bishop's household. 4. A close friend. Labels: obsolete Example: [A] friend of mine, that finding a Receipt in Braſsivola, would needs take Hellebor in ſubſtance, & try it on his own perſon; but had not ſome of his familiars come to viſite him by chance, he had by his indiſcretion hazarded himſelfe; many ſuch I have obſerued. 5. The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people. Labels: historical