nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: confession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English confessioun, from Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiō, cōnfessiōnem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”). Displaced native Old English andetnes. Doublet of confessio. Morphologically confess + -ion. Sense 6 is a calque of 告白 (kokuhaku). Pronunciation: /kənˈfɛʃən/ 1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed. Example: With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state. 2. A formal document providing such an admission. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He forced me to sign a confession! Example: Both the basic idea of confession, and the techniques devised by Yezhov for extracting them, however, were to receive significant employment in Asia in the 1950s. The Chinese accused the Americans of waging bacteriological warfare in Korea. The evidence they produced consisted of feathers, insects, clams, rats, and other things riddled with germs and allegedly dropped from American planes. Such evidence was not, on the face of it, very convincing - though even this was accepted by one type of Westerner. To fortify their case, the Chinese resorted to confessions, extracted from American pilots. 3. The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done. Example: Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd. 4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 5. A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The act of professing one's love. Labels: Japanese, countable, uncountable
Word: flawless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’). Pronunciation: /ˈflɔːləs/, /ˈ-lɪs/, /ˈfloːləs/, /ˈflɔləs/, /ˈflɑləs/ 1. Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect. Example: The pianist’s performance this evening was flawless. Example: [W]hen I write of Sacred ſubjects, I had rather a Book of mine ſhould reſemble the Moon, which, though ſhe be but Small, leſs Elevated, and full of Imperfections, lends yet an Uſeful Light to Men, and produces here and there a Motion that obeys a Heavenly Influence; than a Star of the Firſt Magnitude, which though more High, more Vaſt, and more Flawleſs, ſhines only bright enough to make it Self Conſpicuous.
Word: flawless Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’). Pronunciation: /ˈflɔːləs/, /ˈ-lɪs/, /ˈfloːləs/, /ˈflɔləs/, /ˈflɑləs/ 1. To win a fight against (a player) without losing health. Labels: transitive Example: I got flawlessed again. I'm so bad at this game.
Word: color blindness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From color blind + -ness or color + blindness. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd.nəs/ 1. Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 2. An indifference to a person's skin color or race. Labels: US, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Despite the fact that race is embedded in American social life, "color blindness" has recently emerged as the dominant ideology of race.
Word: Daltonism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dalton + -ism. Named after John Dalton (1766–1844), who suffered from the condition and conducted early research on it. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːltənɪzəm/ 1. An inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, especially red-green color blindness. Labels: uncountable Example: A person with Daltonism may be said to lack a discriminatory power that others have: his perceptions of red and green are, as such, not to be relied on. Example: The Ishihara plates were developed for the assessment of congenital colour anomalies (Daltonism) and so there is considerable detail in the testing that is not relevant to optic nerve disease where the losses do not follow the specific patterns seen in Daltonism but show largely global losses. 2. Achromatopsia. Labels: uncountable
Word: hot-button Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hot button. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits. Example: What will trigger my hot-button?
Word: hot-button Part of Speech: adj 1. Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy. Labels: not-comparable Example: a hot-button issue Example: The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention.
Word: pitiful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩/ 1. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. Example: Scotland has a pitiful climate. 2. Eliciting contempt. 3. Of an amount or number: very small. Example: A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up. 4. Feeling pity; merciful. Labels: archaic Example: Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull. Example: Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.
Word: pitiful Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩/ 1. In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically. Labels: colloquial, dialectal Example: ‘She followed ’em, cryin’ pitiful, to the old boat on the Wall[.]’
Word: underpaid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English paid English underpaid From under- + paid. 1. Getting too little financial compensation for one's work. Example: I am underpaid and overworked. Example: The accusation that he lives like the “rat” he is, cutting down wages by his underpaid labor, he throws back in the teeth of the trades unions with the counter-charge that they are the first cause of his attitude to the labor question.
Word: tactless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English tact Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English tactless From tact + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈtæktləs/ 1. having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings Example: It was tactless of you not to attend your sister's wedding.
Word: apodal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English -podal English apodal From a- + -podal. 1. Without feet or foot-like body parts; legless ; footless ; feetless. Labels: not-comparable
Word: apodal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English -podal English apodal From a- + -podal. 1. Any moth of the genus Apoda. 2. Any caecilian of the order Apoda.
Word: takeout double Part of Speech: noun 1. A double, usually indicating strength and a desire to play the hand; partner is expected to "take out" by making a bid.
Word: dimensional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin mētior Latin dīmētior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīmēnsiōder. English dimension English -al English dimensional From dimension + -al. Pronunciation: /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, [daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nɫ̩], /dɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, [dɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nɫ̩], /dɪˈmen.ʃə.nəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to dimensions. 2. Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional. Labels: comparable Example: There is the world dimensional for those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable 3. Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional. Labels: comparable Example: What is the meaning of an n-dimensional space when n is greater than three, and what purposes can it serve? 4. Pertaining to dimensional lumber: having a standardized, nominal width and depth, which may differ from the actual width and depth. Example: dimensional boards, dimensional sizes, dimensional wood
Word: commune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmjuːn/, /ˈkɑmjuːn/ 1. A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The town of Chu-chou in Hunan Province, carrying out the great directive of Chairman Mao that "educated youths must go to the villages," has put into practice factory-commune links, and under the leadership of cadres, has made a collective settlement of educated youths in commune and brigade farms, forest areas, and tea plantations. 2. A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The commonalty; the common people. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: For days of happy commune dead. 5. A self-governing city or league of citizens. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: In 1117 the commune and archbishop had separate consuls at Milan.
Word: commune Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comuner (formed from comun (“common”)) and comunier (“to share”) (from Latin commūnico). Doublet of communicate. Pronunciation: /kəˈmjuːn/ 1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel. Example: I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours. 2. To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb. Labels: intransitive Example: He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature. 3. To receive the communion. Labels: intransitive Example: Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the People whole Communers, or in suffering them to Commune under both kinds […]
Word: apolune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From apo- (“far”) + Latin lūna (“moon”). 1. The point of an elliptical lunar orbit where the distance between the satellite and the Moon is at its maximum.
Word: jumbo jet Part of Speech: noun 1. A large transport aircraft, especially the Boeing 747. Labels: informal
Word: apophyge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποφυγή (apophugḗ), from ἀπο- (apo-, “away”) and φυγή (phugḗ, “flight”). 1. A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
Word: auditory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) + -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/, /ˈɑː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/ 1. Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: auditory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin audītōrius Latin audītōrium English -y English auditory From Latin audītōrium (“the place where something is heard; the assembled hearers”) + English -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/, /ˈɑː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/ 1. Synonym of audience. Labels: archaic Example: ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory... Example: Preaching of Sermons is Speaking to a few of Mankind: Printing of Books is Talking to the whole World. The Parson Prescribes himself, and addresses to the particular Auditory with the Appellation of My Brethren; but he that Prints a Book, ought to Preface it with a Noverint Universi, Know all Men by these Presents. The proper Inference drawn from this remarkable Observation, is, That tho' he that Preaches from the Pulpit ought to be careful of his Words, that nothing pass from him but with an especial Sanction of Truth; yet he that Prints and Publishes to all the World, has a tenfold Obligation. 2. Synonym of auditorium. Labels: archaic
Word: Hebe Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hḗbē, literally “Youth, Prime of Life”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːbi/ 1. The goddess of youth, and a daughter of Zeus and Hera. Her Roman counterpart is Juventas. Labels: Greek 2. A female given name from Ancient Greek. 3. 6 Hebe, a main-belt asteroid.
Word: Hebe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for Hebrew. Pronunciation: /ˈhiːb/ 1. A Jew. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang Example: Well, that's what you get for betting on a Hebe. What did you say? I'm just saying Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Word: squadron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian squadrone. See squad. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒd.ɹən/ 1. A body of troops drawn up in a square. Labels: obsolete Example: Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined. 2. A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers. Labels: historical 3. A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major. 4. A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer Example: the North Atlantic Squadron 5. A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force). 6. A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison. Labels: Space-Force, US
Word: squadron Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian squadrone. See squad. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒd.ɹən/ 1. To divide up into squadrons. Labels: transitive
Word: homozygote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homo- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery". Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/ 1. A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Word: kk Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: The Internet slang meaning is a reduplication of k (“okay”). 1. Okay (indicates that no further explanation is necessary for a subject, or that the message was understood and will be acted upon without further confirmation). Labels: Internet 2. Confirm (originally a GDS status code, now often used as shorthand).
Word: serendipitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English serendipity Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English serendipitous From serendipity + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛ.ɹɛnˈdɪp.ɪ.təs/, /ˌsɛ.ɹənˈdɪp.ɪ.təs/ 1. by serendipity; by unexpected good fortune 2. good, beneficial, favorable Example: The weather was serendipitous for our vacation.
Word: serendipitously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English serendipitous Middle English -ly English -ly English serendipitously From serendipitous + -ly. 1. By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident. Example: And that was a few years before the serendipitously named American politician Anthony Weiner reminded us once again that a high-powered job is no guarantee of knowing what to do with your penis, through his "sexting" use of Twitter (Snapchat hadn't been invented yet.) Example: And then unexpectedly, and serendipitously, Mr. Trump won the White House. Ending legal abortion appeared within their reach.
Word: Commonwealth English Part of Speech: noun 1. The generalised variety of English spoken and written primarily in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, sometimes excluding Canada (especially in the context of pronunciation); always excluding the United States of America. (i.e. non-American English) Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: The written form of the language universally taught in schools is Commonwealth English with a slight emphasis on a few words which might be more common in the specific areas than others. Example: 2005, Wikipedia contributors, “Amnesia”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 24227472: 2. The group of varieties of English used in the ex-colonial member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, in distinction to the varieties used in Britain itself Labels: rare, uncountable Example: There are also other reasons to account for differences between British English on the one hand and American and Commonwealth English on the other. Example: 17: The three major forms of Modern English—British, American, and Commonwealth—are very nearly identical on the printed page, a great source of the linguistic unity and cultural solidarity of the Anglo-Saxon civilization. 25: Commonwealth English is very young in the prestige of its independent status.
Word: British English Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪ.tɪˌʃɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ 1. Of or relating to, or spoken or written in British English.
Word: British English Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪ.tɪˌʃɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ 1. The English language as written and spoken in the United Kingdom; (often) that which is spoken in both the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, considered as a single variety. Labels: uncountable Example: We shall not say that this is British English; but we willingly confess that it is not American English. Example: Some noticeable and general differences between American and British English may be explained by the fact, that considerable bodies of Englishmen sometimes emigrated from the same vicinity, and that in their new home they and their multiplied descendants have kept together and continued to employ dialect peculiarities of their native speech, or retained words of general usage which elsewhere perished.
Word: blumpkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Portmanteau of blowjob + dump, with added suffix -kin in imitation of pumpkin; also compare words like munchkin and ciderkin. Pronunciation: /ˈblʌmp.kɪn/ 1. The act of performing fellatio whilst the recipient is defecating on the toilet. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I said to Mark Wahlberg yesterday, had he ever gotten a blumpkin from a girl.
Word: kinematics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French cinématique, from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “motion”) + -ics. Pronunciation: /ˌkɪnəˈmætɪks/ 1. The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved. Labels: uncountable
Word: coreligionist Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of co-religionist. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ashy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈæʃi/ 1. Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc. Example: Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets, / Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale, Example: Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand, / Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes, 2. Comprising, containing, or covered with ash. Example: Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie / Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest, Example: […] where yet the Embers glow, / Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw, / And deep subsides the ashy Heap below. 3. Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored). Example: It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs[…] Example: After passing it under her runny nose, a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.
Word: starfucking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From star + fucking; see star (“celebrity”). 1. Seeking inordinate personal benefits from the wishes and needs of a celebrity. Labels: not-comparable, vulgar Example: By virtue of his celebrity, he would be coddled by worshipful cops, pumped up by star-fucking attorneys, indulged by a spineless judge, and adored by jurors every bit as addled by racial hatred as their counterparts on the Rodney King jury.
Word: starfucking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From star + fucking; see star (“celebrity”). 1. The activity of having sexual relations with celebrities. Labels: uncountable, vulgar Example: Nine percent says they’d be likelier to cheat on their partners if they could sleep with a celebrity. After all, starfucking doesn’t really count as cheating anyway.
Word: starfucking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From star + fucking; see star (“celebrity”). 1. present participle and gerund of starfuck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: snuffle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈsnʌfəl/ 1. To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly. Labels: intransitive 2. To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. Labels: intransitive Example: One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
Word: snuffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈsnʌfəl/ 1. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.
Word: ascribe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre (“inscribe, attribute, impute”), from Latin āscrībere (“to state in writing”), equivalent to a- + scribe. Pronunciation: /əˈskɹaɪb/ 1. To regard as arising from a specified cause or source. Labels: transitive Example: One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them. Example: Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back. 2. To attribute (a book, painting, or any other work of art or literature) to a writer or creator. Labels: transitive Example: It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare. Example: […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum. 3. To believe in or agree with; to subscribe. Labels: nonstandard Example: A survey of the literature reveals that many who have commented on the signaling of animals ascribe to the view that all of their communicative signals are manifestations of emotion or affect. Example: If we take a holistic view of human beings, we ascribe to the idea that humans are multidimensional and that they are greater than the sum of their parts – for example, their physical, psychological and spiritual aspects.
Word: aslope Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English aslop, aslope (“at an angle or slant; aside”); further etymology uncertain, probably either: * from Old English āslopen (“slipped away”), the past participle of āslūpan (“to slip away”), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + slūpan (“to glide, slip”) (from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“to glide, slide, slip”) or *slewp- (“to glide, slip”)); or * from Middle English a- + *slope (adjective). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adjective slope (now obsolete) is attested later than aslope and is probably an aphetic form of the latter. The adverb is more common than the adjective. Pronunciation: /əˈsləʊp/, /əˈsloʊp/ 1. Slanted, sloping. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: VVhere Porters Hogſheads roll from Carts aſlope, / Or Brevvers dovvn ſteep Cellars ſtretch the Rope, / VVhere counted Billets are by Carmen toſt; / Stay thy raſh Steps, and vvalk vvithout the Poſt. Example: [S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope. / Methinks, I see them group'd in seemly show, / The straiten'd arms upraised, the palms aslope, / And robes that touching as adown they flow, / Distinctly blend, like snow emboss'd in snow.
Word: aslope Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English aslop, aslope (“at an angle or slant; aside”); further etymology uncertain, probably either: * from Old English āslopen (“slipped away”), the past participle of āslūpan (“to slip away”), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + slūpan (“to glide, slip”) (from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“to glide, slide, slip”) or *slewp- (“to glide, slip”)); or * from Middle English a- + *slope (adjective). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adjective slope (now obsolete) is attested later than aslope and is probably an aphetic form of the latter. The adverb is more common than the adjective. Pronunciation: /əˈsləʊp/, /əˈsloʊp/ 1. Sloping, in a sloping manner; slanted along a slope. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: But the Flemynges with theyr arbalasters and theyr longe mareys pykes set aslope before them / wounded so theyr horses, that they lay tumbelynge one in the others necke / so that they were the letters^([sic – meaning fetters?]) of the other whiche were on fote, that they myght not exercyse theyr feat of armes. Example: If a ſarcell, or other feathers be broken aboue the quyll, towards the poynt of yͤ fethers twoo or three fingers bredth, you muſt cut it off with a ſharpe penknife, aſlope, and (as they ſay) a ſwaſhe, ⁊ then take another feather to the ſame, cutting it in like manner, as you did the other, ſo as it may fitte with yͤ ſame feather, both for length and cutte. 2. Indirectly, obliquely. Labels: archaic, figuratively, not-comparable Example: [N]euertheleſſe he would that point ſhould be leſſe and more finely and cloſely handled, not euen fully playne and directly, but touched a ſlope craftily, as though men ſpared in that point to ſpeake al the truth for feare of his diſpleaſure. 3. In an unfavourable or unintended direction. Labels: archaic, figuratively, not-comparable Example: [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope. Example: On mee the Curſe aſlope / Glanc'd on the ground, vvith labour I muſt earne / My bread; vvhat harm? Idleneſs had bin vvorſe, / My labour vvill ſuſtain me; […]
Word: aslope Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English aslop, aslope (“at an angle or slant; aside”); further etymology uncertain, probably either: * from Old English āslopen (“slipped away”), the past participle of āslūpan (“to slip away”), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + slūpan (“to glide, slip”) (from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“to glide, slide, slip”) or *slewp- (“to glide, slip”)); or * from Middle English a- + *slope (adjective). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adjective slope (now obsolete) is attested later than aslope and is probably an aphetic form of the latter. The adverb is more common than the adjective. Pronunciation: /əˈsləʊp/, /əˈsloʊp/ 1. Diagonally across or over; aslant. Labels: archaic Example: [T]he King, […] puts the Belt ouer the necke of the Knight, aſlope his breaſt, placing the Svvord vnder his left Arme: […] Example: A lute, aslope / The curious baldric of his tunic, glints / With pearl-reflections of the moon, that seem / The silent ghosts of long-dead melodies.
Word: claudication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin claudicātiō (“limping”, noun), from claudicō (“to limp, halt, be lame”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌklɔː.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌklɔː.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. Limping. Labels: uncountable 2. A condition in which temporary cramp-like pain in the calf muscles is induced by exercise, typically caused by obstruction of the arteries. Labels: countable Example: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
Word: pood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian пуд (pud). Doublet of funt, pfund, pound, and punt. Pronunciation: /puːd/ 1. An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). Example: About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets. 2. A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).
Word: miniver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French menu vair (“squirrel, squirrel fur”), from menu (“small”) + vair (“a type of fur”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnɪvə/, /ˈmɪnɪvɚ/ 1. A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thenne came forth a lykely knyghte and wel apparaylled in scarlet furred with myneuer / And anone as he sawe syr launcelot / he demed that he shold be oute of his wytte / And thenne he said with fayre speche good man leye doune that swerd / for as me semeth / thow haddest more nede of slepe and of warme clothes / than to welde that swerd / As for that said syr Launcelot come not to nyȝ for and thow doo wete thou wel I will slee the
Word: karass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle. 1. A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually. Example: We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon […] Example: I do want to go to Arlinghurst, even though it's moronic and awful and there's no privacy at all, because I have started to build my karass there. I have the book club,I have the library—both libraries.
Word: CMIIAW Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of correct me if I am wrong. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bastillion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bastillion, augmentative of bastille. 1. A fortress or fortified position. Example: Here's a picture of us in a medieval bastillion.
Word: modillion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian modiglione. Doublet of moellon. 1. A decoratively carved supporting block atop a column, often underneath a cornice, and usually smaller and more ornamental in function than a corbel. Example: It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere. Example: The familiar classic console or modillion is an example: although in general contour it is well adapted to its function as a supporting bracket, embedded in, and projecting from a wall, yet the scroll-like ornament with which its sides are embellished gives it the appearance of not entering the wall at all, but of being stuck against it in some miraculous manner.
Word: skillion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialect skilling, from Middle English skyling. 1. A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
Word: skillion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See + -illion. 1. Any indefinitely large number. Labels: excessive, slang Example: In fact, human experience requires not just one society but a nest of such societies, ordered in special ways. For instance, there need to be societies drawing out all the trains of thought that come together in a single judgment, and there need to be skillions of societies (a skillion is a very large number) tracing causal inputs from the body, the atmosphere, gravitation, human culture, the New York Times, and whatever else provides the context for a single thought. Example: The trouble with the multiple-universe model is that, however elegantly it may fit the quantum equation for the state vector, most of us simply can't believe in skillions and skillions of universes—each as vast in space and time as the one we think we're in—where everything that can happen really does happen.
Word: practise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from prāctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”), from πρᾱ́σσειν (prā́ssein, “to do”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per(h₂)- (“to go over, cross”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪs/ 1. To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity. Labels: transitive Example: You should practise playing piano every day. 2. To repeat an activity in this way. Labels: intransitive Example: If you want to speak French well, you need to practise. 3. To perform or observe in an habitual fashion. Labels: transitive Example: They gather to practise religion every Saturday. Example: Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.] 4. To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine). Labels: transitive Example: She practised law for forty years before retiring. 5. To conspire. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 6. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do. Example: Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity. Example: As this advice ye practise or neglect. 7. To make use of; to employ. Example: In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her. 8. To teach or accustom by practice; to train. Example: In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.
Word: practise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪs/ 1. Obsolete spelling of practice. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: And againe You ſaw that I ſpake to you from Heauen, therefore yee ſhall make no Gods of Golde nor ſiluer: as if he ſhould haue ſaide, my practiſe in ſpeakeing to you by voyce and not by Image ſhoulde teach you that by my word and not by image, I am be remembred. Example: By heauen (fond vvretch) yͧ knovvſt not vvhat thou ſpeak'ſt, / Or elſe thou art ſuborn'd againſt his honor / In hatefull practiſe: […] 2. Misspelling of practice. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, uncountable, usually
Word: completion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin completio(n), from complere (“to fill up, complete”). By surface analysis, complet(e) + -ion. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpliː.ʃən/ 1. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time. Example: The building is nearing completion. 2. The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of making a metric space complete by adding points. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The space resulting from such an act. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Synonym of autocomplete. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: tab completion 7. Orgasm. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: The hot pants of her mouth against his neck as he'd plunged into her wet heat had almost brought him to completion immediately.
Word: datestamp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From date + stamp. 1. The date on which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
Word: datestamp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From date + stamp. 1. To mark with a datestamp. Labels: transitive
Word: brainchild Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brain + child. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪnt͡ʃaɪld/, /ˈbɹeɪnˌt͡ʃaɪld/ 1. A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc. Labels: informal Example: The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries. Example: A brayne-child o' mine ovvne! and I am proud on't!
Word: brainchild Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From brain + child. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪnt͡ʃaɪld/, /ˈbɹeɪnˌt͡ʃaɪld/ 1. To think up (an idea or innovation); to come up with. Labels: rare, transitive Example: John Law brainchilded the establishment of a national bank to expedite and secure the creation of credit.
Word: monotreme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -treme (“hole”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/ 1. Any of the order Monotremata of mammals that lay eggs and have single orifices for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca); an echidna, platypus or one of their extinct relatives.
Word: monotreme Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -treme (“hole”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/ 1. Having a single trema, or aperture. Labels: not-comparable Example: Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.
Word: amuse-bouche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French amuse-bouche. Pronunciation: /a.muːz.buːʃ/ 1. A bite-sized hors d'oeuvre or appetizer that is served before a meal.
Word: capitate bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The largest of the bones in the human wrist.
Word: cervical vertebra Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the seven vertebrae of the neck.
Word: cervical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cervīx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis New Latin cervīcālislbor. French cervicalbor. English cervical Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, cervic- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩/, /sɜːˈvaɪ.kl̩/, /ˈsɝ.vɪk.l̩/ 1. Of or pertaining to the neck. Labels: not-comparable, relational Example: cervical pain 2. Of or pertaining to the cervix. Labels: not-comparable, relational Example: cervical cancer
Word: cervical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cervīx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis New Latin cervīcālislbor. French cervicalbor. English cervical Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, cervic- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩/, /sɜːˈvaɪ.kl̩/, /ˈsɝ.vɪk.l̩/ 1. Ellipsis of cervical vertebra. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: gerontocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geronto- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek. Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/ 1. Government by elders; government by elderly rulers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: senilocracy, graocracy (archaic) Example: It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.
Word: monied Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of moneyed. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete. Not to mention more saleable too, his role closer to the way Europe’s monied giants in Spain and France allow their stars to function.
Word: cuboid bone Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the seven tarsal bones, the most lateral of the bones in the distal row of the tarsus, and roughly cubical in shape.
Word: storied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From story + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːɹid/ 1. Much discussed or written about. Example: Not long after, the couple caught the attention of S. Somasegar, the storied Indian American technology executive, who was at Microsoft at the time. Example: Sure, they could have held onto the ball better at times, but they were compact, organised, and hardly gave their storied visitors a sniff from there on in. 2. Historical. Example: Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
Word: storied Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From story + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːɹid/ 1. simple past and past participle of story Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: storied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From story (“floor, level”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːɹid/ 1. Having multiple storeys; multistoried. Labels: US Example: [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings. Example: Just as the first ray of the rising sun shot like a golden arrow athwart this storied desolation we gained the further gateway of the outer wall[.]
Word: pigeonhole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from pigeon + hole. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪdʒ(ɪ)nhəʊl/, /ˈpɪdʒənˌ(h)oʊl/ 1. To construct pigeonholes (noun sense 1 or 3.1) in (a place); also, to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes. Labels: transitive Example: I had proposed to pigeon-hole the walls of the drawing-room for the reception of the dictionary material. 2. To put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; also, to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes. Labels: transitive Example: I would rather have my ashes scattered over the soil, to help the growth of the grass and daisies; but still I should not murmur much at having them decently pigeon-holed in a Roman tomb. 3. To arrange (items) for future reference or use. Labels: figuratively, transitive 4. To put aside (advice, a proposal, or other matter) for future consideration instead of acting on it immediately; to shelve. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: [S]everal laws and regulations were enacted for the prevention of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and diphtheria. These laws were not carried into effect: they were pigeon-holed. Example: This year, and in former years, politicians have set up that they were cheated, and have vociferously declared that they had the evidence. But no one prosecutes. No one swears out a warrant. The evidence is pigeonholed. 5. To place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive; to categorize, to classify, to label. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek. Example: He prided himself on his largeness when he granted that there were three kinds of women […] Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions. He refused to classify her at all. He did not dare.
Word: cuboid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cube Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English cuboid From cube + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːbɔɪd/ 1. Of the shape of a cube.
Word: cuboid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cube Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English cuboid From cube + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːbɔɪd/ 1. The cuboid bone. 2. A hexahedron.
Word: phalange Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English phalange, from Middle French phalange, from Old French phalange, from Latin phalanx (accusative phalangem), from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx). Doublet of phalanx, planch, plancha, planche, and plank. Pronunciation: /ˈfælændʒ/, /fəˈlændʒ/, /ˈfeɪlændʒ/ 1. Synonym of phalanx (“group of soldiers, people etc.”). Labels: obsolete 2. Synonym of phalanx (“one of the bones of the finger or toe”). 3. Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus. 4. A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments. 5. A phalanstery. Example: The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]
Word: water melon Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of watermelon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: distal phalange Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the phalanx bones at the tip of the fingers or toes.
Word: penitente Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish penitente, from the resemblance to white-hooded monks, from Latin paenĭtens, from paeniteō. Doublet of penitent. 1. A tall thin blade of hardened snow or ice, found closely spaced in large quantities at high altitudes.