nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm Proto-Italic *kəntom Latin centum Old French centbor. Middle English cent English cent From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Pronunciation: /sɛnt/ 1. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. Example: It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true. 2. A small sum of money. Labels: informal Example: He blew every last cent. Example: Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies. 3. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. 4. A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses). 5. A hundredth of a semitone or half step. 6. A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar. 7. Abbreviation of century. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 8. Abbreviation of Latincentum (“one hundred”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, obsolete Example: And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges. Example: The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent. 9. Abbreviation of centigrade. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 10. Abbreviation of center. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: reception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English recepcion, reception, from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiōn- (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/ 1. The act of receiving. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals. Labels: uncountable Example: We have poor TV reception in the valley. Example: The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal. 3. A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After the wedding we proceeded to the reception. Example: "There was warmth, but there was also trepidation," said the head of one gay group, who attended the reception. 4. A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception. Example: At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly. 5. The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right. 6. The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 7. The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term. 8. The act of catching a pass. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie. 9. Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vulcanologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin Vulcan (Roman god of fire) + -ologist. Pronunciation: /ˌvʌl.kəˈnɒ.lə.dʒɪst/ 1. A person who studies volcanos.
Word: volcanologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English volcanology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English volcanologist From volcanology + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌvɒl.kəˈnɒ.lə.dʒɪst/ 1. One who is skilled in, professes or practices volcanology. Example: An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon is gearing up for an eruption, according to volcanologists who are monitoring for activity.
Word: vulcanology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Vulcan (“the god of fire”) + -ology. Pronunciation: /ˌvʌl.kəˈnɒ.lə.dʒi/ 1. The study of volcanoes. Labels: uncountable
Word: volcanology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French volcanologie, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcano + -logy. Pronunciation: /ˌvɒl.kəˈnɒ.lə.dʒi/ 1. The study of volcanoes. Labels: uncountable
Word: outrage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these are etymologically related. The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈaʊt.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…] 2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Police went to the cemetery at Trafalgar, near Yallourn, and discovered that a woman's body had been stolen from a grave. They were satisfied it was the same body found at Yallourn - but made no progress in running down the ghouls responsible for the outrage. Example: I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage. 3. The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts. Labels: uncountable 4. A destructive rampage. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The Lords acknowledge the great and happy Providence of Almighty God, in the preventing of ſo horrid an Outrage, which might have endangered the Lives of the Chief Magiſtrates, and alſo hazarded the Spoil of the whole City of London.
Word: outrage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these are etymologically related. The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈaʊt.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse. Labels: transitive Example: August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return. Example: 1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency. 2. To inspire feelings of outrage in. Labels: transitive Example: The senator's comments outraged the community. 3. To sexually violate; to rape. Labels: archaic, transitive 4. To rage in excess of. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm
Word: climatology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From climate + -ology. Pronunciation: /klaɪ.mɪˈtɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /klaɪ.mɪˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The science that deals with climates, and investigates their phenomena and causes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: egyptology Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Egyptology. Labels: alt-of, uncommon Example: People who think they may have priceless Egyptian relics "are coming out of the wood work" as a result of the interest in egyptology which has accompanied the national tour of King Tut's treasures. Example: from the popular corpus of sixteenth-century emblematics, bestiaries, encyclopedias, egyptologies, and the like.
Word: atrocity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French atrocité, from Latin atrōcitās, from atrōx (“terrible, cruel”) + -tās, from āter (“matte black”). Pronunciation: /əˈtɹɒsɪti/, /əˈtɹɑsɪti/ 1. An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice. Labels: countable Example: to carry out / commit / perpetrate an atrocity Example: The regime is guilty of mass atrocities including forced displacement and the use of chemical weapons. 2. The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty. Labels: uncountable Example: 1553, John Bradford, letter, in Miles Coverdale (ed.), Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters, London: John Day, 1564, pp. 481-482, Thys wil I muse on, & way with my self, [tha]t I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to [th]e lord Christ my Sauiour, Example: What character is so detestable as that of one who takes pleasure to sow dissention among friends, and to turn their most tender love into mortal hatred? Yet wherein does the atrocity of this so much abhorred injury consist? […] It is in depriving them of that friendship itself, in robbing them of each others affections […] 3. An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable. Labels: countable Example: [S]ome of the printers were good singers and others good performers on the guitar and on that atrocity the accordeon—[…] Example: The Pools had given them a “hanging lamp,” coveted by the farmer’s wife; a hideous atrocity in yellow, with pink roses on its shade and prisms dangling and tinkling all around the edge.
Word: nonplus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /nɒnˈplʌs/, /ˌnɑnˈplʌs/ 1. A state of bewilderment or perplexity. Labels: obsolete Example: [A]ltering Vaudemont, to Vallemontanus, and metamorphoſing them, by ſuting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know not what to make of them, and are often at a non-plus. Example: Being now made much abler to make their queries, of the ſecrets of that myſtery, by how much their often failings, had put them to often ſtops and nonpluſſes in the work.
Word: nonplus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /nɒnˈplʌs/, /ˌnɑnˈplʌs/ 1. To bewilder or perplex (someone); to confound, to flummox. Labels: transitive Example: You couldn’t have told it from my manner, but I was feeling more than a bit nonplussed. The spectacle before me was enough to nonplus anyone.
Word: wasabi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山葵 (wasabi). Pronunciation: /wəˈsɑːbi/ 1. A plant of the species Eutrema japonicum, cultivated for its edible root. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant Eutrema japonicum (syn. Wasabia japonica). Labels: uncountable, usually 3. An imitation of this condiment made from horseradish with green dye. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: horseradish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horse + radish. Pronunciation: /ˈhɔɹsɹædɪʃ/, /ˈhɔːsɹædɪʃ/ 1. A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its edible root. Labels: countable 2. A pungent condiment made from the root of the plant. Labels: uncountable 3. Nonsense. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: scent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell, sense”), from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel, sense”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”), Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), German Sinn (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science. Pronunciation: /sɛnt/ 1. A distinctive smell. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the scent of flowers / of a skunk Example: to give off / release / exude a scent 2. A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it. Example: He […] twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent; / Trust me, I take him for the better dog. 3. The sense of smell. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs. Example: His houndes espyde him where he was, and Blacksoote first of all / And Stalker speciall good of sent began aloud to call. 4. A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell. Labels: uncountable Example: a scent shop Example: a scent bazaar 5. Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up. Example: The tip put the detectives on a false scent / the wrong scent. 6. Sense, perception. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.
Word: scent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell, sense”), from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel, sense”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”), Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), German Sinn (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science. Pronunciation: /sɛnt/ 1. To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell. Labels: transitive Example: The hounds scented the fox in the woods. Example: methinks I scent the morning air. 2. To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something). Labels: ambitransitive Example: I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley. Example: One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, 3. To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me. Example: Cope seemed to scent a challenge and accepted it. 4. To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell. Labels: transitive Example: Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation. Example: Balm, from a Silver box distill’d around, / Shall all bedew the roots and scent the sacred ground; 5. To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Thunderbolts & lightnings […] do sent strongly of brimstone: Example: 1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p. 325, I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor? 6. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Word: horn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu. (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes. Pronunciation: /hɔːn/, /hɔɹn/, /ˈhɑːɹˠn/, /ˈhoːɹˠn/, /ˈhoːɻn/ 1. Of an animal, to assault with the horns. Labels: transitive 2. To furnish with horns. Labels: transitive 3. To cuckold. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive 4. To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk. Labels: India, Singapore, intransitive Example: , His Precious Gem He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.
Word: half brother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English half broþer, equivalent to half + brother. Cognate with Dutch halfbroer (“halfbrother”), German Halbbruder (“halfbrother”), Danish halvbroder (“halfbrother”), Swedish halvbroder, halvbror (“halfbrother”), Icelandic hálfbróðir (“halfbrother”). Pronunciation: /ˌhæfˈbɹʌðɚ/ 1. A male sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full brother or brother-german, from a step-brother, or from a brother-like figure such as a blood brother. 2. A male half sibling (same dam, different sires).
Word: half sister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English halfesister, half-suster, half sister, equivalent to half + sister. Compare Dutch halfzus, halfzuster (“half-sister”), German Halbschwester (“half-sister”), Swedish halvsyster (“half-sister”), Icelandic hálfsystir (“half-sister”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæf sɪstɚ/ 1. A female sibling sharing a single parent. 2. A female half sibling (same dam, different sires).
Word: Achillean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean. Pronunciation: /əˈkɪliən/, /ˌækɪˈliːən/ 1. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. Example: Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake. Example: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has offered salutary warnings against seeing in male homosexuality a simple "epitome, ... The two genres of homosocial behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric, Hectoresque or Achillean: the first is active, specular, militant, conservative, apparently (not really) heterosexually inflected; the other is listless, covert, pacifistic, and passively subversive, clearly (not entirely) homosexually inclined. 2. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. 3. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. 4. Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer. Example: There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia. Example: We are once again reaching a period in our collective cultural history when we may resume the post-Platonic, Achillean conversation. 5. Pertaining to the Achilles tendon. Example: Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered. Example: The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis. 6. Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus. Example: Historically, there was indeed an Achillean, homosexual flavor of the declassé bachelorhood out of which Hitler and others formed the advance guard of National Socialism. Example: Thus, he exalts as a means of republican cohesion, as the unshakeable basis of the modern nation what he calls "manly love," a sort of Achillean friendship, but at the same time it is this love, this passionate friendship that he sings.
Word: Achillean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean. Pronunciation: /əˈkɪliən/, /ˌækɪˈliːən/ 1. A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean. Example: [A] singular genius, whose mathematical studies gave him in his own day the reputation of a necromancer, espousing fervently the cause of Hector, called out in a voice of thunder, "Let us see whether the Achilleans can fight as well as speak?" Example: Even the romantic and glorious vision of this war is mostly rhetoric because the cunning Ulysses with the Achilleans invented the successful stratagem of the horse for committing great evils with the destruction of the city, ...
Word: achilous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”). Pronunciation: /ˌeɪˈkaɪləs/ 1. Without a lip. Labels: not-comparable
Word: something Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/, [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌn̪θɪŋ], [ˈsɐm(p)θəŋ] 1. An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. Labels: indefinite, pronoun Example: I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what. Example: I have something for you in my bag. 2. A quality to a moderate degree. Labels: colloquial, indefinite, pronoun Example: The performance was something of a disappointment. Example: That child is something of a genius. 3. A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. Labels: colloquial, indefinite, pronoun Example: She has a certain something. 4. Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way. Labels: colloquial, indefinite, often, pronoun Example: He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice. Example: She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
Word: something Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/, [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌn̪θɪŋ], [ˈsɐm(p)θəŋ] 1. Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. Labels: not-comparable Example: She was so something that she cried all the way home. Example: "Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?"
Word: something Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/, [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌn̪θɪŋ], [ˈsɐm(p)θəŋ] 1. Somewhat; to a degree. Labels: not-comparable Example: The baby looks something like his father. Example: Angelo. Yet giue leaue (my Lord,) That we may bring you something on the way 2. Used to adverbialise a following adjective Labels: colloquial, especially, not-comparable Example: I miss them something terrible/rotten. (I miss them terribly) Example: You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.
Word: something Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/, [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌn̪θɪŋ], [ˈsɐm(p)θəŋ] 1. Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song. Labels: colloquial Example: 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said. Example: 2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1887128913&id=qB-D32yV1VAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&sig=9AYyYLA-MQqTgAbptreoe3VyOzQ She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
Word: something Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/, [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ], [ˈsʌn̪θɪŋ], [ˈsɐm(p)θəŋ] 1. An object whose nature is yet to be defined. Example: Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within. Example: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip. 2. An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense). Example: What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for? Example: 2004, Theron Q Dumont, The Master Mind http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0766185435&id=-n_jW7BVfawC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=ou-CrIyWbKyZQ0s3q0uaJTiHdsI Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.
Word: lips Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /lɪps/ 1. plural of lip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lips Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /lɪps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lips Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /lɪps/ 1. To kiss (passionately), to smooch. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: Nah, that's not me / Act like a wasteman? That's not me / Sex any girl? Nah, that's not me / Lips any girl? Nah, that's not me
Word: labia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bi.ə/ 1. The folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vulval vestibule. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: She wiped the warm wax on the left side of Ola’s outer labia and placed a white strip on the last tuft of hair.
Word: labia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bi.ə/ 1. plural of labium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Balkanize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English Balkan Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English Balkanize From Balkan + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl.kə.naɪz/ 1. To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis. Labels: transitive Example: The Pentagon and the CIA were being Balkanized, partially dismantled, and a Congressional investigation had focused on Screaming Fist.
Word: sedition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French sedicion, from Latin sēditiō (“sedition, discord”), from sēd- (“apart”) (an alternative form of sē-) + itiō (“going”). Pronunciation: /səˈdɪʃən/ 1. Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed. Example: But there are also strong objections to such a plan. It is not to be doubted, that a single man of prudence and good sense is better fitted, in delicate conjunctures, to balance the motives which may plead for and against the remission of the punishment, than any numerous body whatever. It deserves particular attention, that treason will often be connected with seditions which embrace a large proportion of the community; as lately happened in Massachusetts. 2. Insurrection or rebellion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: against the grain Part of Speech: prep_phrase Pronunciation: /əˈɡɛnst ðə ɡɹeɪn/ 1. Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface. 2. Contrary to what is expected; especially, of behavior different from what society expects. Labels: idiomatic Example: By going against the grain and going to work nude, you've made yourself a laughing stock. Example: Get the thinkers out into the open like Vidal and Buckley, a really radical idea, against the grain. 3. Unwillingly, reluctantly; contrary to one's nature. Labels: idiomatic Example: It went much against the grain with him. Example: Say, you chose him / More after our commandment than as guided / By your own true affections, and that your minds, / Preoccupied with what you rather must do / Than what you should, made you against the grain / To voice him consul: lay the fault on us. 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see against, the, grain. Example: In all ordinary processes of grinding, the friction of the rapidly revolving millstones against the grain, or even of the stones against each other, develops a large amount of heat, so that the crushed wheat comes from the stones quite hot Example: There simply was not enough grain in each elevator to satisfy the known claims against the grain.
Word: TBA Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of to be announced. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of to be arranged. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of to be advised. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of to be aired. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of to be affirmed. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of to be answered. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of to be assigned. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of to be assessed. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 9. Initialism of to be added. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TBA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of tracheobronchial amyloidosis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of tert-butyl alcohol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of traditional birth attendant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: TBC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of timebase correction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TBC Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of to be confirmed. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Melbourne Victory W-League Draw [list header] […] Sat 19 November 2011 Melbourne Victory v Adelaide United, Veneto Club Bulleen (time TBC) […] Sat 3 December 2011 Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets, Venue TBC 3pm 2. Initialism of to be continued. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of to be concluded. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: n/a Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin non + applicabilis, from applicō (“join to, attach, apply”). 1. not applicable Labels: not-comparable 2. not available Labels: not-comparable 3. not assigned, no assignment Labels: not-comparable 4. non-assessable Labels: not-comparable 5. not attested Labels: not-comparable 6. not approved Labels: not-comparable 7. nonalcoholic (used in the restaurant industry) Labels: not-comparable
Word: n/a Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin non + applicabilis, from applicō (“join to, attach, apply”). 1. Initialism of no answer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of nothing added. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: bight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland Frisian Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), West Frisian bocht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Dutch bocht (“bay, bight”), German Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Icelandic bót (“bight, cove, small bay”); also Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”), Ukrainian бга́ти (bháty, “to crumple, twist”), Sanskrit भुज् (bhuj, “to bend, curve; to sweep”). Pronunciation: /baɪt/ 1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow Example: the bight of a horse's knee Example: the bight of an elbow 2. An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf. 3. A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. 4. A curve in a rope. Example: I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
Word: bight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland Frisian Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), West Frisian bocht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Dutch bocht (“bay, bight”), German Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Icelandic bót (“bight, cove, small bay”); also Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”), Ukrainian бга́ти (bháty, “to crumple, twist”), Sanskrit भुज् (bhuj, “to bend, curve; to sweep”). Pronunciation: /baɪt/ 1. To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights. Labels: transitive
Word: antelope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/, /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/, /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/ 1. Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed. 2. The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana. Labels: US Example: Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound. Example: "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her. 3. A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch. Labels: archaic
Word: gazelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl). Pronunciation: /ɡəˈzɛl/ 1. An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods. Example: “One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.
Word: gazelle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl). Pronunciation: /ɡəˈzɛl/ 1. To leap like a gazelle. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon gazelling again. Example: The biplane gazelled into the air. 2. To go fast; to speed; to rush. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […] Example: I actually heard the air move as about five people gazelled towards Lord Mandelson to try to stop another of his ill-timed leaks.
Word: oryx Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ory̆x, from Ancient Greek ὄρῠξ (órŭx, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔɹ.ɪks/, /ˈoʊɹ.ɪks/ 1. Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns
Word: wildebeest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed in the early 19th century from early Afrikaans wildebeest, modern wildebees (literally “wild ox”), with influence from beast. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪldəbist/ 1. The gnu. Example: Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests. Example: Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.
Word: flamingo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese flamengo (“flamingo”) and Spanish flamenco (“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant (“flamingo”). *The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings; this etymology is supported by Corominas. (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking".) * Alternatively, the dance flamenco, the bird name, or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latin flamma (“flame”): i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama (“flame”) + -enc. Compare also Portuguese -engo. Pronunciation: /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/ 1. A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes. Labels: countable Example: After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos, and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left. 2. A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: flamingo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Portuguese flamengo (“flamingo”) and Spanish flamenco (“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant (“flamingo”). *The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings; this etymology is supported by Corominas. (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking".) * Alternatively, the dance flamenco, the bird name, or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latin flamma (“flame”): i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama (“flame”) + -enc. Compare also Portuguese -engo. Pronunciation: /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/ 1. Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cheetah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”), ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “multicolored, speckled”) (akin to Old High German haitar (“bright”) > German heiter; Old Norse heiðr (“bright”)) + Sanskrit काय (kāya, “body”), thus “having a spotted body”. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːtə/, /ˈt͡ʃiːtɑ/ 1. A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
Word: hyena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hiena, variant of hyene, from Old French hiene, from Medieval Latin hyēna, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina). Displaced native Old English nihtgenġe (literally “night walker”). Pronunciation: /haɪˈiːnə/ 1. Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. Example: The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman. Example: I took no systematic data on the costs to cheetahs and hyenas, but some anecdotes suggest that both parties took numerical advantage and hunger into account. 2. A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls. Example: see Citations:hyena
Word: jackal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šaġâl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækəl/ 1. Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf. Example: In passing, it also mentions how the jackal and the tiger acquired their reddish spots. All of the animals referred to, except the deer, have tricksterlike personalities, both in this tale and in other story contexts. But the jackal is the most renowned of all for roguishness. Example: Until recently, scientists thought Ethiopian wolves were a type of jackal. They gave Ethiopian wolves names like Semien jackal, Simenian jackal, or Ethiopian jackal. 2. A person who performs menial or routine tasks; a dogsbody. Example: A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required. 3. A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator. Labels: derogatory 4. A jack (the playing card). Labels: rare, slang 5. A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
Word: jackal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šaġâl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækəl/ 1. To perform menial or routine tasks Example: They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.
Word: leopard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian [script needed] (palang), Khwarezmian [script needed] (plyk), Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛp.əd/, /ˈlɛp.ɚd/ 1. Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia. Example: During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself. Example: The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common. 2. Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia. Labels: especially 3. A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard. Labels: broadly Example: There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo. 4. A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard. Labels: broadly 5. A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard. Labels: broadly 6. A lion passant guardant. Example: Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but when rampant it was a lion. Nowadays a leopard is the genuine spotted article and quite unmistakeable. Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means. 7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.