nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: unfavorable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English favorable English unfavorable From un- + favorable. 1. US standard spelling of unfavourable. Labels: US, alt-of, standard Example: Microrefugia are sites that support populations of species when their ranges contract during unfavorable climate episodes. Example: Alternatively, unfavorable outcome with severe or even fatal consequences for the organism would be the development of fibrolipid plaque which would be prone to plaque rupture and thrombus formation [ 23 ].
Word: taquito Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taquito (literally “little taco”). Pronunciation: /tɑˈki.toʊ/ 1. A fried corn or flour tortilla, filled usually with beef or chicken and cheese, rolled up, and dipped in a form of salsa, or guacamole. Example: She preferred taquitos to regular tacos because she found them less messy. Example: But on a warm January night, I find her in a small pub called Distrito Catorce in a historically Mexican neighbourhood east of downtown, putting on a free concert to an audience of three dozen people sipping ale and snacking on taquitos.
Word: taquería Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of taqueria. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: There was an icehouse and a billiard parlor, a wine room, a lunch and eating counter, gambling saloons and taquerías.
Word: taqueria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Spanish taco Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin -āriader. Spanish -ería Spanish taqueríabor. English taqueria Borrowed from Spanish taquería. Pronunciation: /ˌtɑkəˈɹiːə/, /ˌtækəˈɹiːə/ 1. A restaurant specializing in tacos and other Mexican food. Labels: US Example: But as soon as I walked past the nearest taqueria, as I felt the grease settle on my skin, and heard the scrape of spatulas on the grill, as soon as I ordered and felt the immensity of my relief—I think I knew.
Word: trick-or-treater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trick-or-treat + -er. 1. One who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume. Example: Those darn trick-or-treaters egged my car.
Word: Sesame Street Part of Speech: name 1. A television show for children on PBS. Example: She parked the car on Rogers Avenue, which she called "Sesame Street," "for the unpredictable theatrics of its inhabitants." Example: A friend of mine described it as "Sesame Street" for adults and that's not a bad characterization.
Word: busy work Part of Speech: noun 1. Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness. Labels: US, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Until we have a system clearly established, entering more data is just busy work.
Word: durst Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɝst/ 1. simple past and past participle of dare Labels: archaic, dialectal, form-of, participle, past Example: Traditional rhyme Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail. Example: Pretty soul! She durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
Word: secco Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec. 1. dry Labels: not-comparable Example: Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster. 2. dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance Labels: not-comparable
Word: secco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec. 1. A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco. Example: The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]
Word: secco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of section commander + -o. 1. Section commander, an infantry soldier responsible for about 8 other soldiers. Labels: Australia
Word: saline solution Part of Speech: noun 1. A solution composed of sodium chloride (NaCl) and water.
Word: busywork Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of busy work. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: It's a beautiful afternoon! I'm not going to waste it doing ridiculous busywork for school!
Word: prosthesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via Latin, from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “to add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dʰédʰeh₁ti (“to be putting, to be placing”). By surface analysis, prosth- + -esis. Pronunciation: /pɹɒsˈθiːsɪs/, /ˈpɹɒsθəsɪs/ 1. An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Gong believes the fiber-reinforced hydrogel could be used to create biomaterials, such as artificial organs and prostheses, able to endure everyday wear-and-tear. 2. Prothesis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: prosthologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, prostho- + -log + -ist. 1. Someone skilled in the design, manufacture and fitting of prostheses. Labels: rare
Word: elpee Part of Speech: noun 1. An LP. Example: And another thing — there's a new elpee from The Supa anytime now. The B-side here features new singer Puddy Roots, well worth a listen.
Word: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɜː(ɹ)tʃ əv ˈdʒiːzəs ˈkɹaɪst əv ˈlætə(ɹ)ˌdeɪ ˈseɪnts/ 1. The major denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, founded in the United States by Joseph Smith; the Mormon Church. Example: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may be the largest, but dozens of other religious groups also trace themselves to Mr. Smith.
Word: Asperger's syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger (1906–1980). Pronunciation: /ˈæspɜːɡəz ˈsɪndɹəʊm/, /ˈæspɜːdʒəz ˈsɪndɹəʊm/, /ˈæspɝɡɚz ˈsɪndɹoʊm/ 1. An autism-related developmental disorder characterised by sustained impairment in social interaction and nonverbal communication and by repetitive behaviour as well as restricted interests and routines. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: Balkan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”), from which the name of the region of Turkmenistan is derived, too. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒlkən/, /ˈbɔːlkən/, /ˈbɔlkən/, /ˈbɑlkən/ 1. Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula. Labels: not-comparable Example: A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings. 2. Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Balkan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”), from which the name of the region of Turkmenistan is derived, too. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒlkən/, /ˈbɔːlkən/, /ˈbɔlkən/, /ˈbɑlkən/ 1. The Balkans. (This form is often used in international contexts perhaps because the languages native to the region also use a singular form.) Labels: rare 2. A region of Turkmenistan.
Word: Christie Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪsti/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Christine and of its variant forms; fairly common as a formal female given name in the 20th century. 2. A mostly Scottish and Irish diminutive of the male given name Christopher. 3. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Christopher or Christian. Example: It's been three full days since New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave his marathon press conference about the Bridgeghazi scandal and was squired to Fort Lee to apologize to Mayor Mark Sokolich.
Word: Moore's law Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. 1. An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. Example: The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate. Example: How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?
Word: Moore Part of Speech: name Etymology: The surname has converged from several different meanings; see Moore on Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /mʊə/, /mɔː/, /moː/, /mʊɹ/, /mʉɾ/ 1. Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor. 2. Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor. 3. A surname from English or Irish, similarly derived. Example: Twenty-six-year-old Josh Moore was banned because officials said he'd broken Xbox's code of conduct by saying he lives in Fort Gay, West Virginia - a name branded offensive by the company. Example: On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. 4. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 5. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 6. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 7. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 8. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 9. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 10. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 11. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 12. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 13. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 14. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 15. A number of places with their names taken from the surname: 16. Alternative spelling of More (“a Volta-Congo language”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: topographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to topography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: toponymic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English toponym Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English toponymic From toponym + -ic. 1. Of, relating to, or being a toponym, as: Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: The endonym is the basic toponymic exemplar and as such it needs to be understood properly. To do so we need to appreciate the context of space and place that produces it. Most endonyms arise from the elemental human relationship with space and place, and possess an intrinsic and enduring value which cannot normally be either bestowed or removed by political arbitrariness. 2. Of, relating to, or being a toponym, as: Labels: not-comparable
Word: topography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek τοπογραφία (topographía), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). Pronunciation: /təˈpɒɡɹəfi/, /təˈpɑɡɹəfi/ 1. A precise description of a place. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The features themselves. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The surveying of the features. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.
Word: seastar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sea star. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cat burglar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cat + burglar. Pronunciation: /kæt ˈbɜːɡlə/, /ˈkæt ˌbɝɡlɚ/ 1. A particularly stealthy burglar, especially one who gains undetected entry through the use of agility. Example: The police were baffled by the exploits of a cat burglar who only stole from the upper floors of high-rise apartments.
Word: burglarproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From burglar + -proof. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝɡlɚˌpɹuf/ 1. as secure as possible against burglary
Word: devise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪz/ 1. To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something). Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: lay, set, design, plan, create Example: to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing 2. To leave (property) in a will. Labels: transitive 3. To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer. 4. To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize, 5. To imagine; to guess. Labels: obsolete Example: I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee, But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise: Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue.
Word: devise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French devise. Doublet of device. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪz/ 1. The act of leaving real property in a will. 2. Such a will, or a clause in such a will. Example: Fines upon devises were still exacted. 3. The real property left in such a will. 4. Design, devising. Example: I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]
Word: ocker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”). More at oker. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkə/ 1. Interest on money; usury; increase. Labels: dialectal
Word: ocker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”). More at oker. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkə/ 1. To increase (in price); add to. Labels: dialectal, transitive
Word: ocker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkə/ 1. A boorish or uncultivated Australian. Labels: Australia, slang Example: But Willesee was finding that entertaining ockers were in short supply. Ockers who could fart and belch and drop their trousers were plentiful. There was no shortage of ockers who could sing bawdy songs and abuse Poms and chunder on cue. Example: In terms of formal ‘experimentation’ Williamson proved to be the most conservative; Don′s Party was the most realist of contemporary texts. Here, an entire tribe of Ockers may be observed within the confines of the suburban sprawl.
Word: ocker Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkə/ 1. Uncultivated; boorish. Labels: Australia, slang Example: page 44: What a contrast was Jack Hibberd's next exercise—from highbrow obscurantism to a show that was to spray the audiences of a score of theatres with the ockerest of ocker humour and set them going off to tell their friends. It was a play destined to set Jack Hibberd on the road to legendary popularity and financial wealth (in playwright terms, anyway). Example: I sidled up to a particularly Ocker character on the edge of a group and nervously explained my mission.
Word: leave someone to their own devices Part of Speech: verb 1. to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking. Example: Let's leave her to her own devices and see what she comes up with.
Word: unsupervised Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + supervised. 1. Not supervised; not being constantly observed. Example: unsupervised learning Example: Stop letting your children run around unsupervised!
Word: handheld Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hand-held. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: All three listened intently as the tech guy demonstrated where to find the on-off switch on the handheld microphone.
Word: handheld Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hand-held. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: user name Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of username. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: TLD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of top-level domain. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Abbreviation of thermoluminescent detector. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of thermoluminescent device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 4. Abbreviation of thermoluminescent dosimeter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Côte d'Ivoire Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Côte d'Ivoire. Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊt diːˈvwɑː/, /ˌkoʊt diˈvwɑɹ/ 1. The Ivory Coast, a country in West Africa. Example: Cocoa farmer Issiaka Ouedraogo, seen through the leaves of cocoa trees, lays cocoa beans out to dry on reed mats, on a farm on the Côte d’Ivoire. […] Like many other cities in southern West Africa, Abidjan on the Côte d’Ivoire, is growing fast, and with the expansion comes increasing air pollution.
Word: white elephant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In Siam, elephants were working animals. However, white (albino) elephants were considered sacred and therefore were not to be put to work. The owner was then left to feed the elephant but could get no work from it. It is said that the King of Siam used to make a present of a white elephant to courtiers he wanted to ruin. 1. A possession that is unwanted or is a financial burden; an unprofitable investment. Labels: figuratively Example: South Australia's "white elephant" was really going to prove a valuable possession after all! Example: Some of the stadiums being built for the World Cup soccer tournament, scheduled for next year, have also been criticized for delays and cost overruns, and have become subjects of derision as protesters question whether they will become white elephants. 2. Ellipsis of white elephant exchange. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, elephant.
Word: ain't Part of Speech: verb Etymology: According to Etymology Online, the term was first attested in 1706 meaning am not, and it was used with that sense until the early 19th century, when it began to be used as a generic contraction for are not, is not, etc. in the Cockney dialect. It was then “popularized by representations of London cockney dialect in Dickens, etc., which led to the word being banished […] from correct English”. The shift from /ænt/ to /eɪnt/ parallels a similar change some dialects made to can't. In other dialects, the pronunciation shifted to /ɑːnt/, and the spelling aren't, when used to mean “am not”, is due to the fact that both words are pronounced /ɑːnt/ in some non-rhotic dialects. Historically, ain't was present in many dialects of the English language, but not in the southeastern England dialect that became the standard, where it is only found in the construction ain't I. It has become widely known through modern media, although it is much more common in some areas of the English-speaking world than others (e.g. it is less common in Yorkshire). As a contraction of have not and has not, ain't derives from the earlier form han't, which shifted from /hænt/ to /heɪnt/, and underwent h-dropping in most dialects. Pronunciation: /eɪnt/, /ɪnt/, /ɛnt/, /ænt/ 1. Am not. Labels: dialectal, informal, nonstandard Example: I ain’t ready yet; gimme a sec. Example: Ain’t I a woman? 2. Are not, aren’t; is not, isn’t. Labels: dialectal, informal, nonstandard Example: That ain't right. Example: We figure in lively paint: Our attitude’s queer and quaint — You’re wrong if you think it ain’t, oh! 3. Have not, haven’t; has not, hasn’t, when used as an auxiliary. Labels: dialectal, informal, nonstandard Example: 'Okay, okay. Keep yo shirt on. Ah ain't done nuthen wrong.' Example: These people ain’t seen a brown skin man since their grandparents bought one 4. Don’t, doesn’t. Labels: dialectal, informal, nonstandard Example: Well, I ain’t wanna do that though. Example: “I ain’t like it; I ain’t like it a tall.^([sic])” Jesse leaned down to help Israel. Then he stood back up and shouted again, “Youes crazy! Youes both crazy!” “Crazy we’z may be, but we’z still living and Ben dare ain’t.” 5. Didn’t. Labels: dialectal, informal, nonstandard Example: I ain’t go into the bathroom last night that late. Example: My son died, he ain’t live but I still try to think positive ’cause in life God take, God give.
Word: ‘ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Indicating the omission of the letters ac in the patronymic Mac-, or the letter c in the patronymic Mc-. Example: PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, BRIDGE STREET, BLACKFRIARS, BY B. M‘MILLAN, BOW STREET, COVENT GARDEN. Example: So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.
Word: ’ Part of Speech: punct 1. Indicating the omission of letters or digits. Example: tho’, they’ll, ’65, ’ospital, intl.
Word: tantalic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. the hydrated form of tantalum oxide, Ta₂O₅ Labels: uncountable
Word: tartaric acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin tartarum (“tartar”). 1. The aldaric acid, 2,3 dihydroxy-succinic acid, that occurs naturally in many plants, in wine and in tamarind; it is used as the salts cream of tartar and Rochelle salt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: escapade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre. Pronunciation: /ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/, /ˈeskəˌpæɪd/, /ˌɛskəˈpɑːd/ 1. A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention. Example: The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. […] The beſt of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Viſits of Eſcapade or Recreation; […] Example: [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
Word: tartrate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tartaric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt or ester of tartaric acid.
Word: cream of tartar Part of Speech: noun 1. Potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites. Labels: uncountable
Word: tartar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct. Arabic etymon from Persian درد (dord, “dreg”) from Proto-Iranian *dr̥ti- (“manure, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰṛ-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd- (“to have diarrhea”), whence also doublet of dirt. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑɹ.tɚ/, /ˈtɑː.tə/ 1. A red compound deposited during wine making, mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate; wine stone — a source of cream of tartar. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tartar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From figurative use of Tartar. Pronunciation: /ˈtɑɹ.tɚ/, /ˈtɑː.tə/ 1. A fearsome or angrily violent person. Labels: dated Example: Mrs. Begg said she liked Mrs. Dain, who was a sensible woman and a first-rate housewife, but that Gabrielle was a tartar.
Word: baking powder Part of Speech: noun 1. A dry leavening agent used in baking; a mixture of baking soda, an acid (often cream of tartar) and starch to keep it dry; when wetted, carbon dioxide is released. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: leavening agent Part of Speech: noun 1. Any organism or substance added to a food product (such as dough or batter) that makes it rise when cooked.
Word: leavening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of leaven Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: leavening Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is leavened. Example: For these lighter leavenings of the heavy dough of debate, members were in Sir Winston's debt. 2. Synonym of leavening agent.
Word: leavening Part of Speech: adj 1. Making light by aeration. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vertical bar Part of Speech: noun 1. The symbol |.
Word: equality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity Pronunciation: /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/, /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, [ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ɾi] 1. The fact of being equal. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The most powerful of these general ideas which have shaped political development in recent times is of course the ideal of material equality. 2. The fact of being equal, of having the same value. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes in equality. Example: Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.
Word: buddha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Buddha. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: What the fuck are you doing with a buddha as a lampstand? O that's not a buddha that's some high goddess or other. 2. Marijuana. Labels: US, slang, uncountable Example: I know how it feel to wake up fucked up Pockets broke as hell, another rock to sell People look at you like you's the user Sellin' drugs to all the losers, mad buddha abuser Example: It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail The mic is contacted, I attract clientele My mic check is life or death, breathin' a sniper's breath I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps
Word: gack Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic and believed to have first appeared in comic strips. Compare gag (“to choke; to retch”) and hack (“to cough noisily”). The "cocaine" and "meth" senses apparently comes from the fact that snorting the drugs often activates a person's gag reflex. Pronunciation: /ɡæk/ 1. A sharp, sudden sound from someone's throat while they're coughing, vomiting, gagging, etc. Example: Sports was immediately consigned to a recycle pile where it was handy in case she heard the unmistakable gack-gack-gack machine-gun regurgitation sound of Midnight Louie about to deposit a hairball on some particularly cherished piece of paper or furniture. Example: With loud pops, a cloud of blue smoke exploded from the beetle's behind. A steaming spray that stunk worse than burning rubber shot into the air. "Ack!" gagged Andrew. "Gack! Gack! Gack!" coughed Judy. 2. An expression of disgust or disapproval. Example: The family wanted me to try marmite, which is some sort of dark brown yeast extract that many Kiwis seem to enjoy. […] The family asked me to try it saying that it "tastes better than it smells." They were completely wrong. Gack! No more marmite for this boy. 3. An expression of trepidation. Example: “Gack,” said Judith. “I don’t remember that. I wish you hadn’t. […]” Example: Gack! Me too! I spent the whole decade of my 20s too afraid to try even online dating and I just focused on my career and doing things that interested me, and I feel SO AFRAID that if I return to focusing on my life that another decade will go by before I know it and I'll still be single and childless.
Word: gack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic and believed to have first appeared in comic strips. Compare gag (“to choke; to retch”) and hack (“to cough noisily”). The "cocaine" and "meth" senses apparently comes from the fact that snorting the drugs often activates a person's gag reflex. Pronunciation: /ɡæk/ 1. To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc. Labels: intransitive Example: I slipped the punch, dropped the paper, and closed my right hand around his throat. I backed him into his desk and pushed him onto his back. […] He rubbed his throat, gacked like a cat spitting up a hair ball. Example: Then we hear the unmistakable gacking of a dog about to puke. Ooah. Ooah. Ooaah... And puke Loki does, right under the coffee table. 2. To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat. Labels: intransitive Example: I mean, if cheese could make me gack, you know that poop snake, coiled around that worthless pen, wasn't going to calm my jumpy stomach down. 3. To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat. Labels: transitive Example: It reminded me of the time Willy tried to get a whole hamburger in his mouth on a bet. […] he almost choked to death before we figured out how to do the Heimlich maneuver on him. […] finally Pete Honer said, "He's turning blue," and we all just grabbed something and squeezed and he gacked it up and out. Pickles and all. 4. To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat. Labels: intransitive Example: […] Chutsky came around and kicked the other one in the throat, so hard I could hear it crack, and he went over backward making gacking noises and clutching at his windpipe.u 5. To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat. Labels: intransitive Example: My throat made some gacking noises, though. No, no crying! Stiff lip, stiff lip, stiff lip—you got an interview! I stood in the kitchen, shaking and swallowing everything down.
Word: gack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic and believed to have first appeared in comic strips. Compare gag (“to choke; to retch”) and hack (“to cough noisily”). The "cocaine" and "meth" senses apparently comes from the fact that snorting the drugs often activates a person's gag reflex. Pronunciation: /ɡæk/ 1. Crystal meth. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. Powder cocaine. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: —What, an he deals gack on the side? / —Aye, yeh. Dead easy for him to get a hold of, innit? / —How's that, well? / —Every fuckin ozzy's gorra supply of charlie, Dar. Skag n all. Best fuckin painkillers goin, lar. Example: Getting gilled on gack without the precious reward of a drink on top, though, really sucked. Alcohol was my great love. Cocaine was just something I did to keep my altitude up […]
Word: gack Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic. Compare German gack (“call of a hen”), German gackern (“(of a chicken) to loudly and repetitive cry”), and Dutch gakken (“(of a goose) to honk”). Comparison to more terms Pokorny compared German gackern to words including English gaggle, Latvian gâgát (“cry like a goose”), Russian gogotátь (gogotátʹ, “(of geese) cackle; laugh loudly”), Old Norse gaga (“mock, ridicule”), and Albanian gogësínj (“yawn, burp”), among others. Pokorny considered common origin or separate innovation both as possibilities to explain the similarities. Pronunciation: /ɡæk/ 1. The sound of a bird's call in response to disturbance. Example: It was a big downy chick, about twenty-three days old. […] Steve shot ptargmigan for it, and every time it ate or saw Steve it would scream, Gack gack gack gack, […] Example: k’eikw’w, Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla, a cliff-nesting gull and an important clan symbol or ‘totem’. […] The bird is described as a smaller version or relative of the ‘seagull’, a colonial cliff-nesting species that when disturbed forms swirling masses of birds overhead which call ‘gack, gack, gack, gack’.
Word: gack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic. Compare German gack (“call of a hen”), German gackern (“(of a chicken) to loudly and repetitive cry”), and Dutch gakken (“(of a goose) to honk”). Comparison to more terms Pokorny compared German gackern to words including English gaggle, Latvian gâgát (“cry like a goose”), Russian gogotátь (gogotátʹ, “(of geese) cackle; laugh loudly”), Old Norse gaga (“mock, ridicule”), and Albanian gogësínj (“yawn, burp”), among others. Pokorny considered common origin or separate innovation both as possibilities to explain the similarities. Pronunciation: /ɡæk/ 1. To call in response to disturbance. Example: During a disturbance the young run to the water and dive from fear, […] On other occasions the adults swim or walk about, incessantly gacking.
Word: hairball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hair + ball. 1. A trichobezoar; a small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming. 2. A messy, tangled, intractable issue. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: The contract negotiations are turning into a real hairball.
Word: disfunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English function English disfunction From dis- + function. 1. Nonstandard spelling of dysfunction. Labels: alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
Word: Platonic hydrocarbon Part of Speech: noun 1. A hydrocarbon whose structure matches one of the five Platonic solids.
Word: cubane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cube + -ane. 1. One of the Platonic hydrocarbons, C₈H₈, having the carbon atoms placed at the vertices of a cube.
Word: dodecahedrane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dodecahedron + -ane. 1. One of the Platonic hydrocarbons, C₂₀H₂₀, having the carbon atoms at the vertices of a regular dodecahedron. Labels: uncountable
Word: tetrahedrane Part of Speech: noun 1. A hypothetical Platonic hydrocarbon with the chemical formula, C₄H₄, and a tetrahedral structure. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: telluric acid Part of Speech: noun 1. The hydrated form of tellurium oxide, H₆TeO₆, with some use as a reagent. Labels: uncountable
Word: tellurate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From telluric acid + -ate (“derivative, salt or ester”). 1. Any oxyanion of tellurium; any salt of telluric acid.
Word: charlotte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French charlotte, or possibly from Middle English charlet, charlette (“dish made from eggs, meat, milk, etc.”), probably from Old French char laitée (“meat with milk”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːlət/, /ˈʃɑɹlət/ 1. A dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard. Example: A charlotte consists of a mold lined with buttered bread, filled with a fruit mixture and baked. […] A savory charlotte, also made with a bread lining, is an excellent way to dress up ratatouille, especially if picked up from a catering shop.
Word: hittable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English hit Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English hittable From hit + -able. 1. Able to be hit; fit to be hit Example: Actually, we are both forgetting the most important step in why children are legally hittable and by whom. Example: he almost stops being a threat altogether because the pitcher knows there's nearly a 2-in-3 chance that Dunn won't even make contact. There's no incentive to throw him an even remotely hittable pitch.
Word: Sepharose Part of Speech: name Etymology: Trade name, from Separation-Pharmacia-Agarose. 1. A cross-linked polysaccharide bead-formed gel based on agarose.
Word: agarose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Malay agarbor. English agar Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der. French glucose English glucosebf. English -ose English agarose From agar + -ose. 1. A polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from the seaweed agar; used to make gels that are used in electrophoresis.
Word: cross-linked Part of Speech: adj 1. Having links between adjacent chains. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cross-linked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cross-link Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cross-link Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross- + link. 1. A covalent bond (or series of bonds) between adjacent chains of a polymer 2. A similar bond between strands of nucleic acid 3. An internal hyperlink to another webpage belonging to the same web domain. Labels: Internet Example: There's no downside to providing reasonable cross links, and several reasons for providing them. For example, effective cross-linking keeps visitors on your site longer (as opposed to heading off-site because they can't find what they need on your site." 4. A connection between data. Labels: broadly Example: (12)For the identification of cross-links between terrorism investigations and judicial proceedings against suspects of terrorist offences, reliable identification data is crucial. Due to the uncertainties regarding alphanumerical data especially for third country nationals, it should be possible to exchange biometric data. Due to the sensitive nature of biometric data and the impact processing of biometric data has on the respect for private and family life and the protection of personal data, as enshrined in Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, a strict necessity test should be applied by the competent authorities and Eurojust in each case. (13)As information about existing cross-links to other judicial proceedings is most useful at an early stage of the investigation, it is necessary that the competent authorities provide information to Eurojust as soon as judicial authorities are involved. If the competent national authorities are already aware of cross-links, they should inform Eurojust accordingly.
Word: cross-link Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cross- + link. 1. To join polymer chains together to form one single molecule. An object made from a crosslinked material contains only one supergiant molecule. Crosslinking may take place through covalent bonds or ionic bonds 2. To add an internal hyperlink between two webpages belonging to the same web domain. Labels: Internet Example: There's no downside to providing reasonable cross links, and several reasons for providing them. For example, effective cross-linking keeps visitors on your site longer (as opposed to heading off-site because they can't find what they need on your site." 3. To connect the references of a pool of data to each other. Labels: broadly Example: Article 20 of the "General Data Protection Regulation” concerns immunity from automated profiling except under specified circumstances. It is conceivable that this may affect future applications of e.g. ANPRS systems (which already permit the automated and undetected identification of vehicles) combined with CCTV and face recognition software, especially if cross-linked to other individual data. (Presumably, no issues arise when the transport data are anonymised instead of cross-linked and cross-linked on a locational rather than an individual basis.) However, such cross-linking could conceivably be necessary in order to model and understand the behaviour of drivers and the extent to which it can be explained by other attributes, even if ‘measures’ such as personalised traffic management are not implemented. Example: Over 220 news items on Chafea’s website were cross-linked with social media promotion, webinars on funding opportunities, communication guidance for beneficiaries and an upgrade of the database’s download features. In addition, cross-linking with DG SANTE’s website and the Health-EU Newsletter improved the communication of Commission measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Word: electrophoresis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + -phoresis. 1. The migration of electrically charged molecules through a medium under the influence of an electric field. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The separation and analysis of large molecules (such as proteins) by migrating a colloidal solution of them through a gel; gel electrophoresis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interpunct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interpunctus, from inter- (“between, mid-”) + punctus (“point”). 1. The punctuation mark ⟨·⟩. Example: As is to be expected in every good inscription of the period, the interpunct is used regularly and systematically throughout to divide words from one another. As is usual, the interpunct is frequently omitted between a monosyllabic preposition and the noun that it governs, thus presumably indicating that the preposition was treated as a proclitic. [...] I feel certain that the interpunct used within compound verbs on the Ancyran text does not differ in any way from the interpunct normally used between words ; [...]. Example: An interpunct is a typographic glyph consisting of a vertically centered dot and used to indicate syllabic separation of words. Also called interpoint, middle dot or raised dot.
Word: interpunct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin interpunctus, from inter- (“between, mid-”) + punctus (“point”). 1. To place points between clauses, words or some letters. Labels: transitive Example: The three brass jetons (Nos. 5-7) are all of the early anonymous ‘orb/rose’ types minted between 1550 and 1585. They all bear meaningless legends interpuncted with rosettes and dots, signifying the initials of the jeton-master who produced them. Example: Look, at its heart WALL·E is, I suppose, a love story, and it’s not as if the eco-message is insultingly hammered home as it was, say, in Happy Feet. Much of the film is wonderfully imagined, and there is something utterly winning about this tin can topped with binoculars. (I cried; twice). Kiddies will see it, I know, so obviously it can’t be too dystopian, although, come on, every meal as a milkshake? YIPP·E! The film goes so far, but ultimately doesn’t see it through. Is it worth seeing? Yes, probably. It’s just a shame that, at the end, it trips itself up with its own SENTIMENTALIT·E. (I don’t know about you, but I find that once I start interpuncting I just cannot stop.)
Word: madrassah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of madrasa. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Sunni Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Sunna + -i. Pronunciation: /ˈsʊni/ 1. Belonging or relating to the branch of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Kutub al-Sittah (the hadiths which record the Sunnah) and that places emphasis on the Sahabah. Example: I therefore strongly advocate the formation of a local capital but not at Hillah, which is too Sunni and near Baghdad Example: members […] came to view themselves collectively as the righteous descendants of Husayn confronting an evil and fundamentally alien ruler: a shah more Zoroastrian than Muslim, more Sunni than Shi'i, more Arab than Iranian, more Yazid than Husayn.
Word: Sunni Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Sunna + -i. Pronunciation: /ˈsʊni/ 1. A follower of Sunni Islam.
Word: Sunni Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Sunna + -i. Pronunciation: /ˈsʊni/ 1. Ellipsis of Sunni Islam. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted. Example: Sunni has four schools of Islamic doctrine and law — Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali — which uniquely interpret the Hadith, or recorded oral traditions of Muhammad.
Word: Shi'a Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʕat ʕalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːə/ 1. Shi'a Islam. Labels: usually Example: In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted. Example: Shi’a is one of the two larger divisions of Islam, […] 2. The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites. Labels: collective Example: Throughout the Umayyad period, the Shi'a were confined to southern 'Iraq [...]
Word: Shi'a Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʕat ʕalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːə/ 1. Synonym of Shiite.
Word: Muhammad Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “praised, commendable, laudable”), the passive participle of حَمَّدَ (ḥammada, “to praise, commend, laud, extol”). From the same triconsonantal root ح م د (ḥ m d) as, but distinct from, Mahmud. Pronunciation: /mʊˈhɑməd/, /mʊˈhæməd/, /məˈhæmɪd/ 1. The figure who introduced Islam, and the man to whom the Qur'an was revealed; considered a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís. Labels: uncountable 2. The 47th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an. Labels: uncountable 3. A male given name from Arabic, very popular among Muslims. Labels: countable 4. A surname from Arabic.
Word: Mohammed Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /moʊˈhɑːmɛd/ 1. A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad. 2. Alternative spelling of Muhammad (the prophet who introduced Islam). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said. 3. A surname.
Word: Shiah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Shi'a. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: duck butter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps a corruption of dick, or from the use of duck in sexual slang. Attested since at least 1973. 1. Sweat, smegma, or semen found on or around the penis, testicles, or perineum. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:duck butter.
Word: Shiite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Shi'a Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Shiite From Shi'a + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːaɪt/ 1. Of or relating to the Shi'a. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Shiite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Shi'a Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Shiite From Shi'a + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːaɪt/ 1. A member of the Shi'a.