nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: submissive Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /səbˈmɪsɪv/ 1. Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious. Example: The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court. Example: If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph. 2. Desiring or engaging in sexual submission.
Word: submissive Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /səbˈmɪsɪv/ 1. One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices. 2. One who submits. Labels: rare Example: These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.
Word: OFris. Part of Speech: name 1. Old Frisian. Labels: abbreviation
Word: Trevor Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛvɚ/, /ˈtɹɛvə/ 1. A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s. Example: He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - - Example: The designer of the study, Trevor Dupuy, was a decorated US Army colonel, a noted military historian and a founding faculty member of Harvard University’s Defense Studies Program. 2. A surname. 3. A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642). 4. A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
Word: OHG Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Old High German. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Icel. Part of Speech: name 1. Icelandic. Labels: abbreviation
Word: Goth. Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Gothic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: OE. Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of OE. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: OF. Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of OF. Labels: alt-of, alternative, initialism
Word: misologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English misology 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 misologist From misology + -ist. 1. One who hates or dislikes reasoning or argument.
Word: misoneist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English miso- Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- 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 misoneist From miso- + neo- + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪst/, /ˌmaɪsəˈniː.ɪst/ 1. One who hates or dislikes what is new or innovative.
Word: software architect Part of Speech: noun 1. An architect (not to be confused with a designer) of software based on technology, who prepares plans and superintends construction of that software.
Word: forty-two Part of Speech: num 1. Forty plus two; the cardinal number following forty-one and preceding forty-three. Example: "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
Word: naval architect Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who designs ships or who plans and superintends the construction of ships.
Word: strumpet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/ 1. A female prostitute. Example: Em[ilia]. Fie, fie vpon thee ſtrumpet. / Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee. 2. A woman who is promiscuous. 3. A female adulterer. 4. A mistress. 5. A trollop; a whore. Labels: derogatory Example: He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore. Example: We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat; Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on!
Word: strumpet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/ 1. To debauch. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: My blood is mingled with the crime of lust; / For if we two be one, and thou play false, / I do digest the poison of thy flesh, / Being strumpeted by thy contagion. 2. To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: That proud man, that vvas / Deny'd the honour of your bed, yet durſt / VVith his untrue reports, ſtrumpet your fame, / Compell'd by mee, hath given himſelfe the lye, / And in his ovvne blood vvrote it, […]
Word: amenable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”). Pronunciation: /əˈmiːnəbəl/, /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/, /əˈmin.ə.bəl/ 1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. 2. Willing to comply; easily led. Example: The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity. 3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable. 4. Liable to the legal authority of (something). Example: Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities. 5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
Word: centuries Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.t͡ʃə.ɹiz/ 1. plural of century Labels: form-of, plural
Word: change of innings Part of Speech: noun 1. The ten-minute interval between one side's innings ending and the other side's beginning.
Word: chucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chuck Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chucker From chuck + -er. 1. One who chucks; a thrower. 2. A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowling it.
Word: chucker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chukker. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] each chucker, which lasts only seven and one-half minutes. Sometimes when horses are sufficiently rested they are reinstated at a later period in relay fashion. Example: […] polo, with hundreds of girls, dressed very much like nurses, flattening out the hoof marks after each chucker; […]
Word: athletics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From athletic: see -ics. Probably formed on the model of gymnastics. Pronunciation: /æθˈlɛtɪks/ 1. A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking. Labels: UK, especially, plural, plural-only 2. Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill. Labels: US, especially, plural, plural-only Example: The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence.
Word: athletics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /æθˈlɛtɪks/ 1. plural of athletic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drabble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English drabelan. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæbəl/ 1. To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud. Labels: transitive Example: That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top. 2. To fish with a long line and rod. Labels: intransitive Example: to drabble for barbels
Word: drabble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; possibly derived in turn from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæbəl/ 1. A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.
Word: forty two Part of Speech: num 1. Alternative form of forty-two. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: professional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/, [pɹəˈfɛʃ.nəl], /pɹəˈfeʃ.ə.nəl/, [pɹəˈfeʃ.nəl] 1. A person who belongs to a profession. 2. A white-collar worker, especially one with a specialized, high-earning job such as a doctor or engineer. Example: […]extra income earned this way is normally used for buying consumer goods, such as a cottage, car, boat, and so on, irrespective of whether the recipient is a professional or a tradesman. Example: They devised their own categories in which the working class formed a smaller proportion of the electorate: • I Salariat (managers, administrators, professionals, semi-professionals) 3. A person who earns their living from a specified activity. Example: My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return. 4. A prostitute. Labels: euphemistic Example: There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional. 5. A reputation known by name. 6. An expert. Example: I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening. 7. One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
Word: professional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/, [pɹəˈfɛʃ.nəl], /pɹəˈfeʃ.ə.nəl/, [pɹəˈfeʃ.nəl] 1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession. Example: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…]. Example: The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were. 2. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood. 3. Expert. Labels: broadly
Word: neap tide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neap + tide. Compare Danish niptid (“neap tide”), German Nipptide (“neap tide”), Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”). Pronunciation: /ˈniːpˌtaɪd/, /ˈnɪpˌtaɪd/ 1. The tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide. Example: Spring tides occur when the Sun and Moon line up, since the gravities of the two bodies add together to create larger tidal forces. Neap tides occur when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to one another as seen from Earth. In this case, the gravitational forces counteract each other, creating weaker tidal forces. Example: Rear Adm. Harry Hill, put in command of the amphibious force, consults with local mariners and reaches a cautious consensus that neap high tide in the lagoon on November 20 will surely be close to five feet deep.
Word: spring tide Part of Speech: noun 1. The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced so that this tide is of maximum range. Example: Spring tides at Chepstow rise 40 ft., and there is a rapid current except for a very short time. Example: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
Word: savannah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of savanna. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: savanna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish sabana, from Taíno. Pronunciation: /səˈvænə/, /səˈvɛnə/, /səˈvɑnə/ 1. A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: clean bowl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: clean (“without mistakes or errors”, adverb) + bowl. 1. To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.
Word: fast food Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfæst ˈfuːd/, /ˈfɑːst ˈfuːd/ 1. Restaurant food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food Example: Everyone loves some junk food some of the time. That's why there are more than 140,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. 3. Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons. Example: Guys are good for two things: 1) help when you need to move something heavy, and 2) fast-food sex where you always know what's on the menu and, with a little work, you can supersize it
Word: élan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French élan. Pronunciation: /eɪˈlɑːn/, /eɪˈlæn/ 1. Spirit; zeal; ardor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sam, carried away by the élan of the performance, was unable to resist joining them. Example: The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to radicalize the whole society, to create mass participation at all levels of decision-making, and to restore the revolutionary élan of the 1940s. 2. Grace; style (especially apparently effortless). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mary Ellen had never seen any woman, with the exception of Abigail, take such an active role in the company of men, though Abigail did it with élan and never directly or conspicuously. Example: Despite [the] Holmesian frame story, the overall voice of the series is fresh and original, Horowitz writing with the effortless élan that distinguishes all of his work.
Word: unfreeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + freeze. 1. To defrost something. Labels: transitive 2. To thaw. Labels: intransitive 3. To resume movement. Labels: intransitive Example: He lowered the gun, and we unfroze. 4. To release from a previously locked or frozen state. Labels: transitive 5. To release previously suspended financial assets. Labels: transitive Example: The indictment said that after Mr. Bankman-Fried received confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, the rest of the bribe money was paid.
Word: que Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkjuː/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q. Alternative form of cue. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: having lost their own pees and ques, by some pitiful attempt in our alphabetical orchard Example: he was about to be interviewed by German television and he had to be on his pees and ques. 2. Clipping of barbeque. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal, rare, uncountable Example: Then about 1950 two German brothers who had a meat market began cooking BBQ in their market to use up left over meat. One got the idea to smoke a brisket as he was smoking sausage one weekend. He left it all weekend in his smokehouse and on Monday as they were serving their que, pork, sausage & chicken, he cut a slice […] Example: Instead please join in the sharing of que methods and recipes, or questions. 3. Alternative form of queue. Labels: Internet, South-Asia, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: establish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Proto-Italic *staðlis? Latin stabilis Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin stabilīre Old French establirbor. Middle English establissen English establish Inherited from Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir (modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, /əˈstɛb.ləʃ/, /ɪˈstab.lɪʃ/, /ɪˈsʈa(ː)b.lɪʃ/ 1. To make stable or firm; to confirm. Labels: transitive Example: Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on). 2. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business. Labels: transitive Example: But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 3. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain. Labels: transitive Example: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect. 4. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate. Labels: transitive Example: to establish a fact Example: to establish a pattern
Word: Narita Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 成田 (Narita). 1. A city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Example: Narita City spread out below her, a vast, sprawling patchwork of densely packed residential neighborhoods and industrial farmlands, threaded through by freeways and broken up by small, rectilinear forests. 2. An international airport serving Tokyo, Japan.
Word: fundamentally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English fundamental Middle English -ly English -ly English fundamentally From fundamental + -ly. 1. In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter. Example: What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict. Example: Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
Word: funny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fun Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English funny From fun + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌni/, /ˈfʊni/, /ˈfʌne/, /ˈfənːi/, [fɐ(n).niˑ] 1. Amusing; humorous; comical. Example: I know you'll enjoy chatting with her — she's really funny and smart. Example: She's full of funny stories. 2. Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way. Labels: figuratively Example: The milk smelt funny so I poured it away. Example: I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work. 3. Showing unexpected resentment. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: Near-synonyms: touchy, tetchy Example: Don't mention it to her — she's funny about it. 4. Homosexual: gay. Labels: Jamaica, derogatory, offensive Example: Funny man ah get drop like a bad habit.
Word: funny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fun Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English funny From fun + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌni/, /ˈfʊni/, /ˈfʌne/, /ˈfənːi/, [fɐ(n).niˑ] 1. A joke. Labels: informal Example: After church I am met by a dear parishioner who says, "Got a funny for you. Father." Now I'll have "funnies," so I can reply. "Got one for you too, Mary!" Example: Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day. 2. A comic strip. Labels: informal Example: Chic Young, who created his funny funny, “Blondie,” in 1930, and kept it the most popular comic strip in the world right through the unfunny generation, was quick to see the difference between the innocent funnies and the new generation of comics that started after the Second World War: Example: The artist gave priority to “Mark Trail,” usually spending at least eight hours a day on it, then working at night on “The Ryatts,” a funny that featured the foibles of a family much like his own, which included four children. 3. Humor in general. Labels: Internet, ironic Example: Where's the funny? Your meme sucks. Example: Finally, the funny.
Word: funny Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English fun Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English funny From fun + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌni/, /ˈfʊni/, /ˈfʌne/, /ˈfənːi/, [fɐ(n).niˑ] 1. In an unusual manner; strangely. Labels: nonstandard Example: She was breathing funny now. Example: At this the farmer gets to breathing funnier, hiccuping, little stray burps roll out—uncontrolled, we’re talking here. 2. In a manner seen as being typical of a homosexual, or indicating homosexuality. Labels: Jamaica, derogatory, offensive Example: Dem nuh waan nuh honey, dem only waan di money. Dat’s how me know seh dem bwoy deh all a move funny. Example: He walked away, pushing the napkin in his pink pants pockets. By the way, he dresses and walks funnier out of school. He likes tight feminine colored clothes and walks like he is holding a stick between his butt cheeks. You probably wouldn’t notice him if you didn't hear his voice and looked him in the eye. Jenna assumed he liked men.
Word: funny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a jocular use of funny. See above. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌni/, /ˈfʊni/, /ˈfʌne/, /ˈfənːi/, [fɐ(n).niˑ] 1. A narrow, clinker-built double-ender for sculling. Labels: Ireland, UK, dated Example: I myself recollect the funnies at Eton, which were certain little boats, capable of containing one person only, who, like an Indian in his canoe, was constantly obliged to balance himself, with such critical nicety, that the least mistake was certain of producing a ducking. Example: As I do not belong to the boat-club, I always row by myself in a funny […] or at least go in a two-oared boat, with some friend with whom I should otherwise be walking.
Word: toilet humour Part of Speech: noun 1. Scatological or vulgar language intended to be amusing. Labels: UK, euphemistic, uncountable
Word: mister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪstə/, [ˈmɪstə], /ˈmɪstəɹ/, [ˈmɪstɚ] 1. Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name. Example: You may sit here, mister. Example: You keep away from my wife, mister. 2. A man. Example: There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.
Word: mister Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪstə/, [ˈmɪstə], /ˈmɪstəɹ/, [ˈmɪstɚ] 1. To address by the title of "mister". Labels: ambitransitive Example: 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist “Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!” “None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”
Word: mister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪstə/, [ˈmɪstə], /ˈmɪstəɹ/, [ˈmɪstɚ] 1. Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. Labels: obsolete 2. A kind, type of. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd[…]. Example: What mister-chance hath brought thee to the field Without thy sheepe? 3. Need (of something). Labels: obsolete Example: He is richt gude, Ane man of wealth and nobill blude, Bot hes mair mister of ane Hude. Example: England, that stands muckle in mister of a Reformation. 4. Necessity; the necessary time. Labels: obsolete Example: That the portis be mendytt and lokit and reformit as mister is. Example: Which works the church had in its treasury to sell at mister.
Word: mister Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪstə/, [ˈmɪstə], /ˈmɪstəɹ/, [ˈmɪstɚ] 1. To be necessary; to matter. Labels: impersonal, obsolete Example: As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well. Example: I mister not to write mair of Bissiness to zour Lordschip; bot, as I hear, how soon the Compris of thair Factoris is hard, that thai will gif thame new Commissionis again, or utheris in thair Placis.
Word: mister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: mist + -er Pronunciation: /ˈmɪstə/, [ˈmɪstə], /ˈmɪstəɹ/, [ˈmɪstɚ] 1. A device that makes or sprays mist. Example: Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California. Example: Use a mister and steamer. If you're avoiding fat, use an oil mister while cooking. Using a steamer for cooking can also cut down on the amount of oil you consume.
Word: kitty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kitt(en) + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch katje (“kitty”). Etymology 1 sense 2 (“vulva and/or vagina”) is probably modelled after the use of pussy to refer to the body part, from the appearance of an unshaven vulva. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/, [ˈkʰɪɾi], [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː] 1. A young cat; a kitten. Labels: informal Example: He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty. Example: A pretty young Kitty, / She had that could Purr; / 'Tvvas gameſome and handſome, / And had a rare Furr; […] 2. An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age. Labels: broadly, informal Example: Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty! 3. Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”). Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: Looking at Lynn's naked body one last time, Mia decided to try something else. She waited for Lynn to bend down to grab her underwear and then came up behind her and began licking her kitty with long, wet strokes. Example: The way Tariq was licking her kitty had her clutching the sheets.
Word: kitty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain; etymology 2 sense 2 (relating to card games) is possibly from kit (“collection of items”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/, [ˈkʰɪɾi], [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː] 1. Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”). 2. A pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use. Labels: especially, slang Example: Your business is busted up, your thousand dollars is gone into the kitty of this corrupt country on that last bluff you made, […] Example: They told me you always had to come back to the band with your hand open so they could see what tip you got and you put that in the kitty. 3. Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”). Labels: especially, slang 4. Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”). Labels: especially, slang
Word: kitty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain, possibly a clipping of kid(cote) (“lockup, prison”) (UK, dialectal, obsolete) + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/, [ˈkʰɪɾi], [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː] 1. A jail, a prison; also, a lockup. Labels: Northern-England, slang Example: Besides we had a nice tollbooth, / To pull'd down was a pity, / And in its stead we've got—forsooth— / A vile pernicious kitty. / […] / Like convicts in a condemn'd cell, / They're fed on bread and water; / 'Midst winter's cold and putrid smell, / Thus tort'ring human nature.
Word: kitty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Kitty (“diminutive of the female given name Katherine”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/, [ˈkʰɪɾi], [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː] 1. In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”). Labels: UK, dialectal Example: [T]he male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like the males of our distinct Kitty-wrens,—a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird.
Word: kitty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of kitt(iwake) + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/, [ˈkʰɪɾi], [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː] 1. Synonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”). Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: In the parish of Gaurie three curiosities upon the coast are exhibited to travellers: 1st, A perpendicular rock, of very great extent, full of shelves, and possessed by thousands of birds called kittywakes. […] Some people are fond of eating the young kitties; but the shooting of them is a favourite diversion every year.
Word: thier Part of Speech: pron 1. Misspelling of their. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: clearly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English clerli, clerely, clerelych, cleerliche, clerliche. By surface analysis, clear + (adverbial) -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈklɪɚli/, /ˈklɪəli/, /ˈkliːɹli/ 1. In a clear manner. Example: He enunciated every syllable clearly. 2. Without a doubt; obviously. Labels: modal Example: Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion. Example: While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on. 3. To a degree clearly discernible. Example: He was clearly wrong on all points but one.
Word: noxious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent. Pronunciation: /ˈnɒkʃəs/, /ˈnɑkʃəs/ 1. Harmful; injurious. Example: In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; [...] Example: [...] many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
Word: mysticism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mystic + -ism, from Old French mistique (“mysterious, full of mystery”), from Latin mysticus (“mystical, mystic, of secret rites”), from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated, initiate”) from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “to close one's lips or eyes; initiate into the mysteries”). Compare Asturian misticismu, Catalan misticisme, French mysticisme, German Mystizismus, Italian misticismo, Portuguese misticismo, Sicilian misticisimu, Spanish misticismo. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.tɪˌsɪz.əm/, /ˈməs.təˌsəz.əm/ 1. The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the history of Christian mysticism the problem how to discriminate between such messages and experiences as were really divine miracles, and such others as the demon in his malice was able to counterfeit, thus making the religious person twofold more the child of hell he was before, has always been a difficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience. 3. A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Obscure thoughts and speculations. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thaumaturgic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, or relating to, the working of magic or performance of miracles. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lastly, powerfulest of all, least recognised of all, a Noblesse of Literature; without steel on their thigh, without gold in their purse, but with the “grand thaumaturgic faculty of Thought” in their head. Example: It was the conferring of thaumaturgic powers. We can't do it now as rapidly as that.
Word: misinform Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English inform English misinform From mis- + inform. 1. To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to. Labels: transitive Example: It is clear that the politician misinformed the public on the issue. Example: Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed.
Word: reuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English use English reuse From re- + use. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈjuːs/ 1. The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of using again, or in another place. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Code reuse can save programmers a lot of typing.
Word: reuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English use English reuse From re- + use. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈjuːs/, /ɹiːˈjuːz/ 1. To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). Example: The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment. 2. To use again, or in another place. Example: The estimated 2.7 million cubic metres of chalk and flint excavated from each tunnel (and then mixed with water to create slurry) will be treated and then reused to landscape the site and create a 127-hectare chalk grassland habitat.
Word: mystery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from μύστης (mústēs, “initiated one”), from μυέω (muéō, “to initiate”), from μύω (múō, “to shut”). Displaced native Old English ġerȳne. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ 1. Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The truth behind the events remains a mystery. Example: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. 2. Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That man is a mystery. Example: Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery. 3. An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A mystery play. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Moralities displayed something more of art and invention than the Mysteries; in them virtues, vices and qualities were personified, and something like a plot was frequently to be discovered. 5. A secret or mystical meaning. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] and, not knowing the meaning or misterie of her pollicie, forgat no termes of reproche or rigorous rebuke against his chast doughter. 6. A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind. 7. A sacrament. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism (a rite peculiar to this church), the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil. 8. A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: the Eleusinian mysteries Example: the Mysteries of Mithras 9. A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns. 10. A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers.
Word: adaptive intelligence Part of Speech: noun 1. The human mind model, in that human intelligence as represented by the brain/mind model will tend to change (adapt) toward positive modes of survival. Labels: uncountable 2. A branch of artificial intelligence dealing with training neural networks using not only the statistical estimation of data, but combining it with specific domain knowledge. Labels: uncountable 3. A branch of artificial intelligence where the objective is to program how the system is to interpret information and react rather than to program how a system solves specific problems (example: Knowledge Enhanced Electronic Logic: KEEL Technology). Labels: uncountable
Word: maxed out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of max out Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: I have maxed out my savings account.
Word: maxed out Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of maxed-out. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The maxed out mother fell asleep almost immediately.
Word: maximize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin maximus + English -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈmæksəmaɪz/ 1. To make as large as possible. Labels: transitive Example: I need to maximize performance. Example: Strive to maximize your potential. 2. To expand (a window) to fill the main display area. Example: Since I only have one window open, I maximized the window so that the desktop is not visible.
Word: yield Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Doublet of geld. The noun is from Middle English ȝeld (“tax, payment”), from Old English ġield (“payment”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld (“payment”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid, matter, count, be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjelde, gjelda (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Swedish gälda (“to pay”), gälla (“to apply, be regarded”). The noun is cognate with West Frisian jild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), Low German and German Geld (“money”), Danish gæld (“debt”), Faroese and Icelandic gjald (“fee, payment”), Norn gild (“payment”), Norwegian gjeld (“debt”), and Swedish gäld (“debt”). See also geld. Pronunciation: /jiːld/ 1. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. Example: This method generally yields better results. Example: The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more. 2. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. Example: Historically, that security yields a high return. 3. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. Example: Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7. 4. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. Example: Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-. 5. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render. Labels: obsolete Example: God 'ild [yield] you, sir! Example: Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't. 6. To give up; to surrender or capitulate. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: They refuse to yield to the enemy. Example: Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point. 7. To give up; to surrender or capitulate. Labels: US, especially, intransitive, transitive Example: Yield the right of way to pedestrians. Example: It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction. 8. To give up; to surrender or capitulate. Labels: intransitive Example: I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield. Example: One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 9. To give up; to surrender or capitulate. Labels: intransitive Example: The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield. 10. To give up; to surrender or capitulate. 11. To give up; to surrender or capitulate. Labels: rare Example: I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
Word: non-threatening Part of Speech: adj 1. Not posing a threat.
Word: sustained yield Part of Speech: noun 1. The continuing yield of a biological resource by controlled periodic harvesting 2. The quantity of a resource harvested in this manner
Word: hand-holding Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of handholding. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: African lily Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of certain flowering plants of the genus Agapanthus, especially Agapanthus umbellatus. Example: African Lily Agapanthus umbellatus full fl. The African Lily is a beautiful blue umbelled liliaceous flower, having long contorted roots, and blowing in July. Example: As Gene and I began to really look at our backyard, we discovered tall, magnificent lilac-colored African lilies, and, to my surprise, our yard displayed its own vibrant orange, white, and blue birds of paradise.
Word: African violet Part of Speech: noun 1. Any perennial plant of section Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia (formerly genus Saintpaulia), especially Streptocarpus ionantha, with fine haired round leaves and velvety petals.
Word: Amaryllis Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.
Word: Gregorian calendar Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Pope Gregory XIII who decreed it should be used. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeˈɡɔːɹiən kæləndɚ/ 1. The calendar currently used in the western world. It replaced the Julian calendar and was devised to halt the slow drift of the vernal equinox towards earlier in the year.
Word: western Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛstɚn/, /ˈwɛstən/ 1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west. Example: the western approaches Example: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer. 2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly. 3. Occidental. Example: Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.
Word: western Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛstɚn/, /ˈwɛstən/ 1. A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
Word: circumflex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.kəmˌflɛks/, /ˈsɝ.kəmˌflɛks/ 1. A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
Word: circumflex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.kəmˌflɛks/, /ˈsɝ.kəmˌflɛks/ 1. Having a circumflex mark. Example: ê is e circumflex. 2. Curving around. Example: The circumflex coronary artery