nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: adulthood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂oléyeti Proto-Italic *oleō Latin *oleō Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -sco Latin olēscō Latin adolēscō Latin adultuslbor. French adultebor. English adult Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood English adulthood From adult + -hood. 1. The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate) Example: Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness. 2. The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate) Example: The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.
Word: 9/11 Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the date September 11 written in numbers according the format often used in the United States, which puts the month before the day. Pronunciation: /naɪn.əˈlɛ.vən/ 1. September 11, 2001; The date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States. 2. The attacks themselves. Labels: metonymically Example: What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq. Example: Republican front-runner twisted his arms in apparent imitation of Serge Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as he reiterated controversial 9/11 claims
Word: 9/11 Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the date September 11 written in numbers according the format often used in the United States, which puts the month before the day. Pronunciation: /naɪn.əˈlɛ.vən/ 1. September 11, a date of the calendar. 2. An event comparable to the September 11 attacks. Example: Eleven million Spaniards responded to "their 9/11" by demonstrating in the rain against terrorism and their government's policies. Example: Moussaoui says he wants more 9/11s [title] 3. A negative event that a person or a group of people have experienced whose impact is, hyperbolically, comparable to that of the September 11 attacks. Labels: Internet, humorous Example: This was my 9/11. Example: 9/11 for unfunny people
Word: lambda calculus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Alonzo Church after the use of the Greek letter lambda (λ) as the basic abstraction operator in the calculus. 1. Any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to produce values, which may themselves be lambda expressions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the 1930s, while Turing was developing what are now called ‘Turing machines’ as a model for computation, Church and his student Kleene were developing a different model, called the ‘lambda calculus’ [29, 63]. While a Turing machine can be seen as an idealized, simplified model of computer hardware, the lambda calculus is more like a simple model of software.
Word: differential calculus Part of Speech: noun 1. The calculus that deals with instantaneous rates of change. Labels: uncountable
Word: quartz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Quarz, from Middle High German (Central East German) quarz, twarc, from a West Slavic language [compare Polish twardy (“hard”), Czech tvrdý (“hard”)], from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to enclose, grab”). Pronunciation: /k(w)ɔːts/, /k(w)ɔɹts/ 1. The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The telescope and collimator have each an object-glass consisting of a single lens of quartz 1½ inch diameter and a focal length of 18½ inches for the sodium yellow light, but not more than 16 inches for the highest rays measured. Example: Subsequently, the old Malay brought him the present specimen in a state of torpidity, telling him he had found it in a cavity of the quartz reef. 2. Crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: schlock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), related to German Schlag (“blow, strike, hit”). Pronunciation: /ʃlɒk/, /ʃlɑk/ 1. Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior. Labels: US, colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn. Example: “The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock. It is too individual, too original for that; […].
Word: twain Part of Speech: num Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁der. Proto-Germanic *twai Proto-West Germanic *twai-der. Old English twēġen Middle English tweyne English twain PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English tweyne, tweien, twaine, from Old English twēġen m (“two”), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognate with Saterland Frisian twäin, Low German twene, German zween. More at two. The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, then especially in the cases where the numeral follows a noun. Its continuation into modern times was aided by its use in KJV, the Marriage Service, in poetry (where it is commonly used as a rhyme word), and in oral use where it is necessary to be clear that two and not to or too is meant. Pronunciation: /tweɪn/, [tʰw̥eɪn] 1. two Labels: dated Example: But the warm twilight round us twain will never rise again. Example: Bring me these twain cups of wine and water, and let us drink from the one we feel more befitting of this day.
Word: twain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁der. Proto-Germanic *twai Proto-West Germanic *twai-der. Old English twēġen Middle English tweyne English twain PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English tweyne, tweien, twaine, from Old English twēġen m (“two”), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognate with Saterland Frisian twäin, Low German twene, German zween. More at two. The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, then especially in the cases where the numeral follows a noun. Its continuation into modern times was aided by its use in KJV, the Marriage Service, in poetry (where it is commonly used as a rhyme word), and in oral use where it is necessary to be clear that two and not to or too is meant. Pronunciation: /tweɪn/, [tʰw̥eɪn] 1. twofold Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: twain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁der. Proto-Germanic *twai Proto-West Germanic *twai-der. Old English twēġen Middle English tweyne English twain PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English tweyne, tweien, twaine, from Old English twēġen m (“two”), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognate with Saterland Frisian twäin, Low German twene, German zween. More at two. The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, then especially in the cases where the numeral follows a noun. Its continuation into modern times was aided by its use in KJV, the Marriage Service, in poetry (where it is commonly used as a rhyme word), and in oral use where it is necessary to be clear that two and not to or too is meant. Pronunciation: /tweɪn/, [tʰw̥eɪn] 1. Pair, couple. Example: The susceptible twain, on the search for adventure, dropped in. Example: The twain immediately proffered their companionship. ‘I will come with you,’ said Mr Lessingham. ‘And I,’ echoed Sydney.
Word: twain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English twaynen, from twayne (“two”, numeral) (see Etymology 1 above). Pronunciation: /tweɪn/, [tʰw̥eɪn] 1. To part in twain; divide; sunder. Labels: transitive
Word: arccosine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine English cosine English arccosine From arc- + cosine. 1. Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function.
Word: arcsine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine English arcsine From arc- + sine. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹkˌsaɪn/ 1. Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the sine function. Symbol: arcsin, sin⁻¹
Word: sine wave Part of Speech: noun 1. A periodically oscillating waveform as described by the sine function, possibly multiplied by some amplitude, shifted by some phase, and translated by an additive constant.
Word: hypotenuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hypotenusa, from Ancient Greek ὑποτείνουσα πλευρά (hupoteínousa pleurá, “side subtending [the right angle]”), from ὑποτείνουσα (hupoteínousa, “stretching, extending, subtending”), active participle of ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “subtend, stretch under”). Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɒtənjuːz/, [haɪˈpɒʔn̩juːz], /haɪˈpɑtənus/, /haɪˈpɑtənjus/, [haɪˈpɑʔənuːs] 1. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
Word: licensee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From license + -ee. Pronunciation: /ˌlaɪsənˈsiː/ 1. A person to whom a license is granted. 2. A person to whom a license is granted. Labels: UK
Word: bestiary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”). By surface analysis, beast + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːstiˌɛɹi/, /ˈbɛstiˌɛɹi/ 1. A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals. Example: Back in the 60s, Robin Boyd told us how ugly Australian architecture was. As his valediction, he has left us a bestiary of ugly Australians. Example: This book is not actually a bestiary. It is what most people think a bestiary is—namely an assemblage of vividly imagined beasts who behave somewhat quirkily, bear only the vaguest application to real life, […] 2. A collection of various beasts, depicted in art, literature, or the like. Example: More commonly known to the English speaker as “Genie”; the “dijn” is a powerful demon in the bestiary of the Middle East, mistaken in this instance for the Buddha. Example: Later artworks showed many animals and gods, some of which were clearly identified with heavenly bodies. [...] Each shows a splendidly vivacious bestiary and pantheon, including the Sun-Moon-Venus symbols and a lion-versus-bull combat scene with an eagle or man-bull joining in. 3. A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.
Word: equilateral triangle Part of Speech: noun 1. A triangle having all three sides equal.
Word: isosceles triangle Part of Speech: noun 1. A triangle having at least two sides equal.
Word: love triangle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlʌv ˌtɹaɪ.æŋɡəl/ 1. A situation in which two suitors vie or compete for the love of the same person. Example: La Battaglia di Legnano is a patriotic melodrama with a love triangle theme included. Example: By placing Max and Onno in a love triangle with Ada, Mr. Mulisch achieves an emotional depth that recalls Francois Truffaut's classic film “Jules and Jim.”
Word: limestone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lime Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old English stān Middle English ston English stone English limestone From lime + stone. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪmˌstoʊn/, /ˈlaɪmˌstəʊn/ 1. An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO₃); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a limestone viaduct Example: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Word: enclosure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English enclosure, from Old French enclosure, from enclore, from Latin inclūdere, inclūdō, from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Alike to inclusion. Pronunciation: /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, /ɪnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, /ɪnˈkləʊʒə/, /ɘnˈklɐʉʒɘ/ 1. Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package. Labels: countable Example: There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo. Example: Mr Carlyle cut open the envelope, glanced at the enclosure, and in spite of his disappointment could not restrain a chuckle. 2. The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package. Labels: uncountable Example: The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated. 3. An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers. Labels: countable Example: He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park. Example: The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor. 4. The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier. Labels: uncountable Example: The enclosure of public land is against the law. Example: The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube. 5. The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: Copyright, from day one, was designed to be both an impediment and an incentive, a mechanism of enclosure (one that prevented the unlicensed printing of texts, thereby limiting access) and a catalyst of sorts, a structure to stimulate the production of literary goods by rewarding writers and publishers for their labor. Example: The commons evokes resistance to “enclosure” in all its forms, whether in its early proto-capitalist form of fencing in commonly shared land, or in its contemporary forms of marshalling judicial restraints such as “patent” and “intellectual property” to police the ownership of ideas. 6. The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership. Labels: uncountable Example: Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure. 7. The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: parochial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from παρα- (para-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/, /pəˈɹoʊki.əl/ 1. Pertaining to a parish. Example: The parish council handles parochial affairs. [civil context] Example: The rector and vestry handle parochial affairs. [church context] 2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook. Labels: derogatory Example: The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel. Example: Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
Word: parochial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from παρα- (para-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/, /pəˈɹoʊki.əl/ 1. A parochial individual. Example: If the vast majority of the citizens of our Southeast Asian countries are subjects rather than parochials, the question is: are they also participants? Example: Australia is divided between cosmopolitans and parochials.
Word: frugal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native Old English spærhende (literally “spare-handed”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹuːɡəl/ 1. Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste. Example: frugal advice Example: By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come. 2. Obtained by or characterized by frugality. Example: frugal fortune; frugal fare Example: frugal breakfast
Word: mythical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin mȳthicus + -al; by surface analysis, myth + -ical. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪθɪkəl/ 1. Existing in myth. Example: mythical creature Example: mythical figure 2. Not real; false or fabricated. Labels: broadly 3. Very rare.
Word: parasite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French parasite, from Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”), from noun use of adjective meaning "feeding beside", from παρά (pará, “beside”) + σῖτος (sîtos, “food”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/, /ˈpɛɹəˌsaɪt/ 1. To parasitize. Labels: rare Example: ... parasiting upon her husband, taking everything and giving nothing in return, this woman had brought her husband to a condition of serious ill health because of his grief, anxiety, and despair over her failure.
Word: augury Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.ɡjʊ.ɹi/ 1. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn. Example: No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring! 3. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
Word: hedge fund Part of Speech: noun 1. Any unregistered investment fund, often characterised by unconventional strategies (i.e., strategies other than investing long only in bonds, equities or money markets). Example: Hedge funds date to 1949, when Alfred Winslow Jones, a writer at Fortune, opened a private investment firm using sixty thousand dollars he had raised from friends and forty thousand he had saved. To boost his returns, Jones borrowed heavily and bought stocks he liked “on margin”—a practice that had been discredited in the late nineteen-twenties.
Word: augure Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of augur. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: onerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os Proto-Italic *onos Latin onus Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin onerosuslbor. Old French onereus Middle French onereuxbor. Middle English onerous English onerous Inherited from Middle English onerous, borrowed from Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, a learned borrowing from Latin onerosus, from onus (“burden”) + -ōsus. Compare exonerate. Pronunciation: /ˈɒnəɹəs/, /ˈəʊnəɹəs/, /ˈɑnəɹəs/, /ˈoʊnəɹəs/ 1. Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome. Example: That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. Example: Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous, how irksome.
Word: morganite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Morgan + -ite, after financier J. P. Morgan. 1. A gemstone of pegmatite deposits. Morganite is a transparent pink variety of beryl. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: quantum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒntəm/, /ˈkwɑntəm/, [ˈkʰwɑ̃ntʰə̃m], [ˈkʰwɑ̃ɾ̃ə̃m] 1. The total amount of something; quantity. Labels: South-Asia, countable, uncountable Example: The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity. Example: A certain quantum of power must always exist in the community, in some hands, and under some appellation. 2. The total amount of something; quantity. Labels: South-Asia, countable, uncountable 3. The total amount of something; quantity. Labels: South-Asia, countable, uncountable 4. The amount or quantity observably present, or available. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Each man has only a quantum of compassion, he argued, and mine is used up for the day. Example: The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus [translating Reizquantum] proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness. 5. The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The quantum of light energy was later called a photon. 6. The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Ellipsis of quantum computing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Developing for quantum has never been more accessible. 8. The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Amount of goods produced or demanded. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Defined parts of a manifoldness are called Quanta
Word: quantum Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒntəm/, /ˈkwɑntəm/, [ˈkʰwɑ̃ntʰə̃m], [ˈkʰwɑ̃ɾ̃ə̃m] 1. Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a change, significant. Labels: informal, not-comparable 3. Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics. Labels: not-comparable Example: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories. 4. Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: crunchy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English crunch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English crunchy From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/ 1. Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten. Example: I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy. Example: Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out? Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it? 2. Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: San Francisco was a very crunchy town. Example: Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama. 3. Of a chord, containing dissonant intervals. Labels: informal 4. Of an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression. Labels: informal Example: This can result in the image looking very crunchy as pixels are skipped - especially if you choose the "Fit" option in the Magnification popup. Don't panic; your final image won't look that bad[…] Example: […] pixels that look hideous on screen to a printing device. But if the pixels don't look seriously crunchy on the display, you're almost certainly undersharpening your images. The only reliable way to evaluate print sharpening is to[…] 5. Of a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about. Labels: slang
Word: crunchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English crunch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English crunchy From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/ 1. A pellet of dry cat food. Labels: plural-normally Example: Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it. Example: He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly. 2. An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank). Labels: slang Example: "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies." Example: Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did.
Word: crunch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /kɹʌnt͡ʃ/, /kɹɐnt͡ʃ/, /kɹʊnt͡ʃ/, /kɾʌnt͡ʃ/, /kɾənt͡ʃ/ 1. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound. Example: When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery. Example: And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, 2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound. Example: Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked. 3. To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators. Labels: slang Example: That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries. 4. To grind or press with violence and noise. Example: The sound of our vessel crunching her way through the new ice is not easy to be described. Example: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity. 5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise. Example: There were sounds in the air above his head – sounds of the crunching and rattling of the loose, smooth stones as his neighbors moved about[…] 6. To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised. Labels: transitive 7. To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching. Labels: transitive Example: PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so. 8. To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: crunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /kɹʌnt͡ʃ/, /kɹɐnt͡ʃ/, /kɹʊnt͡ʃ/, /kɾʌnt͡ʃ/, /kɾənt͡ʃ/ 1. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching. Example: I like the crunch of those crackers. 2. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching. Example: Smear the peanut butter, fluff, and a bit of the nutella all over, even to the very edge of the wrap. Sprinkle the crunches on top and then start rolling from one of the non-trimmed edges 3. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching. 4. A critical moment or event. Example: It always pains me (slightly) when a flaming young radical like Neil Miller turns out when the crunch comes to be such an ardent defender of the status quo. Example: The friends, on the contrary, argue that Job does not "know", that only God knows; yet, when it comes to the crunch, they themselves seem to know as much as God knows: for example, that Job is a guilty sinner. 5. A critical moment or event. Example: The crunch is characterized by extremely depressed liquidity and deteriorated balance sheet positions for households, corporations, and financial institutions[…] 6. A critical moment or event. Labels: slang 7. A critical moment or event. Labels: slang Example: But a supply crunch, which is already affecting the drive, could slow it down further. 8. A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor. Example: But even I draw the line at “doing crunches” in designer clothes. Fashion sneakers are for swanking around the shops, not for running in. And so, like everyone else, I wear grotty old tracksuits earmarked for Oxfam, and tragic free festival T-shirts that give away my age. 9. The symbol #. Labels: US 10. Moderate distortion.
Word: cryptogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crypto- + -gram. 1. Encrypted text. Example: It's a big help in solving cryptograms if you know how a cryptogram is constructed. The constructor normally uses two alphabets, one for plaintext, one for the substitute cipher letters. Example: To anyone who does not know the key, the five characters of the cryptogram are different but the genuine receiver is in no danger of confusion. 2. A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded. Example: You already know this if you are an amateur codebreaker. On the comics pages of many newspapers, you will find a little puzzle known as a cryptogram. It's usually a famous quotation that has been encrypted in a very straightforward way […]
Word: capitalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin capitālisbor. Old French capitalbor. Middle English capital English capital 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 ▲ French capitalistecalq. English capitalist From capital + -ist. Calque of French capitaliste. Pronunciation: /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/ 1. Of, or pertaining to, capitalism. Example: capitalist economy Example: capitalist countries 2. Supporting or endorsing capitalism. Example: Well, I thank you for your question, but I have to say we're capitalist—and that is just the way it is. However, we do think that capitalism is not necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in our country. 3. American. Labels: nonstandard
Word: capitalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin capitālisbor. Old French capitalbor. Middle English capital English capital 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 ▲ French capitalistecalq. English capitalist From capital + -ist. Calque of French capitaliste. Pronunciation: /ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/ 1. The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person. Example: Very little of capital acquired in commerce is directed towards agriculture, save where a wealthy capitalist purchases lands for his own use; but it is seldom, if ever, applied to the improvement of the country, in the hands of the original landholders. Example: Were a wealthy English capitalist to dispose of the property that belongs to him in Êngland, which has been realised by former industry, and take it to Van Diemen's Land, where he could have land for nothing, he would probably discover that he had made no very judicious change. 2. Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit. Example: Near-synonyms: businessman, financier, industrialist Example: The labourers do only receive, and ever have only received, as much as will subsist them, the landlords receive the surplus produce of the more fertile soils, and all the rest of the whole produce of labour in this and in every country goes to the capitalist under the name of profit for the use of his capital. 3. A person who is a supporter of capitalism. Example: In a world of cheap airfares, laptops, and the Internet, we proudly regard mobility as a sign of how advanced we are. Hey, we're nomadic hipster capitalists!
Word: occasional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English occasyonal, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnālis and Old French ocasionel. By surface analysis, occasion + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/ 1. Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time, but not often; incidental. Example: He was mostly solitary, but enjoyed the occasional visitor. Example: He took an occasional glass of wine. 2. Created for a specific occasion. Example: Elgar's music was not created to be occasional music for high-school graduations. 3. Intended for use as the occasion requires. Example: What your living room needs are some occasional chairs. 4. Acting in the indicated role from time to time. Example: He is an occasional writer of letters to the editor.
Word: occasional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English occasyonal, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnālis and Old French ocasionel. By surface analysis, occasion + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/ 1. A person who does something only occasionally.
Word: limited Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, [ˈlɪm.ɪ.ɾɪd], /ˈlɪm.ə.tɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of limit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: limited Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, [ˈlɪm.ɪ.ɾɪd], /ˈlɪm.ə.tɪd/ 1. With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. 2. Restricted, small, few, not plentiful. Example: There are limited places available. Enrol now or you will miss out. Example: I have a limited understanding of quantum physics.
Word: limited Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, [ˈlɪm.ɪ.ɾɪd], /ˈlɪm.ə.tɪd/ 1. An express train that only halts at a limited number of stops. Example: Twentieth Century Limited
Word: slacker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slack + -er; compare especially slack off. Pronunciation: /ˈslækɚ/ 1. One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight. Example: Some evil fellows said behind his back that Beowulf was white-livered and a slacker. 2. A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever. Example: You're a slacker, McFly. You've got aptitude, but you don't apply yourself. You remind me of your father: He was a slacker, too. Example: “I don’t think this is a generation of slackers,” said Carl Van Horn, a labor economist at Rutgers. “This image of the kid who goes off and skis in Colorado, I don’t think that’s the correct image. Today’s young people are very focused on trying to work hard and to get ahead.” 3. A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X. Example: Kevin Smith wrote and directed the slacker hits “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy,” but lately it is his other life—maintaining six Web sites that he describes as “devoted to my fans and my films”—that seems to consume him. Example: Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors. 4. A person who seeks to avoid military service. Labels: US, dated Example: [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today[…] Example: Senator Burton K. Wheeler opened his fight in the Senate today[…], raising the cry of "slackers" against deferred workers in Government establishments and industry. 5. A user of the Slackware Linux distribution. Labels: rare, slang Example: I'm a slacker from way back btw Example: Hope you become a happy slacker.
Word: slacker Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slack + -er; compare especially slack off. Pronunciation: /ˈslækɚ/ 1. Comparative form of slack: more slack. Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Trains normally pass at Bricket Wood, except at the slacker times of the day and on Sundays, when only one unit is in operation.
Word: explosive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin explōs-, stem of the perfect passive participle of explōdō + the suffix -ive. Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspləʊsɪv/, /ɪkˈspləʊsɪv/, /ɛkˈsploʊsɪv/, /ɪkˈsploʊsɪv/, /ekˈspləʉsɪv/ 1. Able to, or likely to, explode. Example: an explosive device 2. Having the character of an explosion. Example: an explosive fire 3. Having the character of an explosion. Example: Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population. Example: For example, putting a 1 at (0: 1,1) will cause explosive growth in all directions, putting a 1 at (0: 0,2A) will cause pairs of diagonal cells in a 2x2 square to alternate on and off, putting a 1 at (1: 4,4) will cause all solid 1 areas to stay 1 for another cycle, etc. 4. Rapidly accelerating. Labels: figuratively Example: Near-synonym: plyometric Example: explosive movements 5. Shocking; startling. Labels: figuratively Example: an explosive accusation 6. Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person. Labels: slang Example: He has an explosive personality. 7. Synonym of plosive. Labels: archaic Example: the explosive consonants
Word: explosive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin explōs-, stem of the perfect passive participle of explōdō + the suffix -ive. Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspləʊsɪv/, /ɪkˈspləʊsɪv/, /ɛkˈsploʊsɪv/, /ɪkˈsploʊsɪv/, /ekˈspləʉsɪv/ 1. Any explosive substance. 2. A plosive. Labels: dated Example: The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g.
Word: Türkiye Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Türkiye, from Ottoman Turkish تركیه (türkiye), from earlier Ottoman Turkish تركیا (türkiya), from Latin Turcia, ultimately from Byzantine Greek Τουρκίᾱ (Tourkíā, “Turkey”). Thus a doublet of Turkey. First adopted in 2020 by the Turkish Exporters Assembly and then by the Turkish government in December 2021 to replace the exonyms of Turkey in other languages. In English, the change has been attributed to confusion with the noun senses of the homonym turkey. In June 2022, the United Nations accepted the country's request to change its official name there. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːkiːˌjeɪ/, /ˈtɜːkɪə/, /ˈtɝːkiːˌjeɪ/, /ˌtɝːˈkiːə/ 1. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia Labels: neologism, uncommon Example: THE IRAQI ASYLUM SEEKERS AND TÜRKİYE Example: Türkiye is going to commemorate March 18th Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day and 105th anniversary of the Çanakkale Land Battles held at Gallipoli Peninsula in Çanakkale on March 18th.
Word: Cambridgeshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cambridge + -shire. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪmˌbɹɪdʒ.ʃə(ɹ)/, /kæmˈbridʒʃae̯ar/ 1. An inland county in East Anglia, England. County town Cambridge, bordered by Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.
Word: mox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of moxie. 1. Energy, vigor, courage, pluck. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. A gemstone with magical properties. Labels: countable Example: WE MADE IT UP The word "mox" was derived from the English slang term "moxie." In case you didn't know, "moxie" has long been associated with energy and vigor. The origin of this word traces back to the early 1930s, when America's most popular soft drink was called Moxie.
Word: carb-face Part of Speech: noun 1. A condition in which the face swells, attributed to water retention caused by carbohydrate intake. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: priapus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek Πρίαπος (Príapos). Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈeɪpəs/ 1. An image of the god Priapus, often used as a scarecrow in ancient gardens. 2. A representation of a phallus. Example: In the digging of the Ruins & foundations of London (after the great Conflagration) there were found severall little Priapusses of Copper about an inch long, w^ch the Romans did weare about their necks.
Word: priapism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin priapismus, from Priapus (“the god of procreation, the penis”) + -ism, from Ancient Greek πριαπισμός (priapismós). Pronunciation: /ˈpraɪ.əˌpɪ.zəm/ 1. A potentially painful or harmful medical condition in which the erect penis does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation), often as a result of a spinal injury. Labels: uncountable 2. An instance of this. Labels: countable Example: Phosphorus has long been considered a powerful stimulant. It acts upon the generative organism, it is recorded, in a manner to cause the most violent priapisms. 3. The obsessive focus on one's genitals or on the need for genital gratification. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: [M]any on the right have found themselves justifying our current president's priapism with the same arguments that liberals once used to excuse Clinton.
Word: Holy Bread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English holy brede, holibrede, halibred, equivalent to holy + bread. 1. The consecrated bread used in the Eucharist. Labels: uncountable
Word: Holy Land Part of Speech: name 1. That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set. 2. The Seven Dials area of London, England. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: Before returning to Dickens's accounts of these places, it is interesting to read what Charles Booth had to say of Shelton Street as he saw it in 1889, at a time when wholesale demolitions carried out for the construction of New Oxford Street in 1847 and Shaftesbury Avenue in 1885 had cut a swathe through “the Holy Land”.
Word: hologamy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From holo- + -gamy. 1. A form of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are approximately the same shape and size as the somatic cells Labels: uncountable
Word: holocaust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-). By surface analysis, holo- + -caust. The verb is derived from the noun. As regards verb sense 3 (“to subject (a group of people) to a holocaust”), compare the use of genocide as a verb. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒl.ə(ʊ)ˌkɔːst/, /ˈhɑl.əˌkɔst/, /ˈhoʊ.lə-/, /ˈhɑl.əˌkɑst/ 1. To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: Such acts muſt needs be his, who did deviſe / By crying Altars down, to ſacrifice / To private malice; where you might have ſeen / His conſcience holocauſted to his ſpleen. Example: In 1767 [Alexander] Pope's rhymed Iliad had been in everybody's hand during forty years. What portion of that period had Doctor [Samuel] Langley devoted to his own blank verse? Did he survive to compare and compete it with [William] Cowper's? Has it been holocausted to Vulcan? or is it slumbering in the Langleian archives? 2. To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire. Labels: transitive Example: The meek and candid persecutor, Cardinal [Reginald] Pole, who killed and took possession when [Thomas] Cranmer was holocausted, built the chapel, and became the voucher for the truth of the absurd legend. Example: I at once holocausted / My clothes to stamp out the infection—infection. 3. To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. Labels: transitive Example: Over the centuries, we [Jews] were expelled, pogromed, crusaded, inquisitioned, jihaded, and holocausted out of countries that we helped to make great. Example: Some of these unshared poems are quite lengthy, about 90 lines each, and they work off the historical fact that Isaac was indeed holocausted, not once, but many times. And as a result, much of Europe and Islam are now happily free of Jews.
Word: silicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From silicic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlɪkət/, /ˈsɪlɪkɪt/, /ˈsɪlɪkeɪt/ 1. Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates.
Word: silica group Part of Speech: noun 1. A large group of silicate minerals having a silicon to oxygen ratio of 1:2. This group includes many silicates of sodium, potassium, calcium, and aluminum in an open network structure.
Word: equipartition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Latin aequi-der. English equi- English partition English equipartition From equi- + partition. 1. The division of something into equal parts. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The partition of its vertex set into sets whose sizes differ from each other by no more than 1. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Ellipsis of equipartition theorem. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: equipartition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Latin aequi-der. English equi- English partition English equipartition From equi- + partition. 1. To divide into equal parts. Labels: transitive
Word: tridymite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The name refers to the peculiar habit of crystallizing in groups of three individuals. 1. A rare mineral of volcanic rocks that solidified at a high temperature, with the chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. Tridymite is chemically identical to quartz, but has a different crystal structure. Sometimes contains sodium aluminum silicate, which seems to be expelled when quartz solidifies at lower temperatures. Labels: countable, uncountable