nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: valedictorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed 1759, from valedictory (“of a speech made when leaving”) + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌvæl.əd.ɪkˈtɔɹ.ɪən/, /ˌvæl.ə.dɪkˈtoɹ.i.ən/, /ˌvæl.ə.dɪkˈtoɹ.i.ɪn/ 1. The individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell or valedictory address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades. Labels: Canada, US Example: Our oldest son was valedictorian of his high school class and went to a top university. But right about this time two years ago, our second son told us he wasn’t interested in college. Example: At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School. 2. The individual in a graduating class who graduates with the highest grades. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial Example: A social media firestorm erupted last week after two Texas high school valedictorians revealed that they were undocumented immigrants heading to well-respected U.S. colleges with financial aid.
Word: xylophagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ξῠ́λον (xŭ́lon) English xylo- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂g-der. Ancient Greek ἔφαγον (éphagon) Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos)bor. Latin -phagusbor. English -phagous English xylophagous From xylo- (“wood”) + -phagous (“eating”). Pronunciation: /zaɪˈlɒfəɡəs/, /zaɪˈlɑfəɡəs/ 1. Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.) Labels: not-comparable Example: Man has many times suffered from his attempts at extermination, and in no way, perhaps, would he suffer more, than by utterly destroying the mischievous teredo, and its active little ally, the xylophagous linmeria. 2. Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.) Labels: not-comparable
Word: xiphoid process Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈzɪˌfɔɪd ˈpɹɑˌsɛs/ 1. The small cartilaginous extension to the lower part of the sternum, usually ossified in the adult human. Example: The adult sternum is comprised of three main parts—the manubrium, sternal body, and xiphoid process. The manubrium (fig. 7.2a) is the thickest, most superior part of the sternum, while the xiphoid process is variable in appearance and forms the inferior terminus of the sternum. Example: In chondrosternal prominence where there is angulation at the sternoxiphoidal junction, the xiphoid process is detached and a 2 to 3 cm length of the lower sternum is resected.
Word: byzantine Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /bɪˈzæntaɪn/, /baɪˈzæntaɪn/, /ˈbɪzəntiːn/, /ˈbɪzəntaɪn/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Byzantine (figurative senses only). Labels: alt-of Example: The result is a byzantine system of government directed by 160 ministers, a structure that absorbs 50 percent of Bosnia’s gross domestic product of $15 billion, according to the World Bank.
Word: byzantine Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɪˈzæntaɪn/, /baɪˈzæntaɪn/, /ˈbɪzəntiːn/, /ˈbɪzəntaɪn/ 1. A byzant (coin). Labels: historical
Word: magnesian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English magnesium Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English magnesian From magnesium + -ian. 1. Containing magnesia (magnesium oxide) 2. Containing magnesium.
Word: pipes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (vocal capacity): As if one's lungs were composed of pipework. Pronunciation: /paɪps/ 1. plural of pipe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pipes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (vocal capacity): As if one's lungs were composed of pipework. Pronunciation: /paɪps/ 1. A single pipe organ. 2. One's vocal capacity. Labels: figuratively 3. Biceps. Labels: figuratively
Word: pipes Part of Speech: verb Etymology: (vocal capacity): As if one's lungs were composed of pipework. Pronunciation: /paɪps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pipe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: talents Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtælənts/ 1. plural of talent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: silvery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlvəɹi/, /ˈsɪlvɹi/ 1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white. Example: OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Example: Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight. 2. Sprinkled or covered with silver. 3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. Example: a silvery laugh Example: The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.
Word: functions Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌŋkʃənz/ 1. plural of function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: functions Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌŋkʃənz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of function Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Proxima Centauri Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin proximus (“nearest, next”) and centaurī (“of the constellation Centaurus”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mə sɛnˈtɔː.ɹi/, /ˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mə sɛnˈtaʊə.ɹi/, /ˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mə sɛnˈtɔ.ɹi/, /ˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mə sɛnˈtaʊ.ɹi/ 1. A red dwarf star, part of the Alpha Centauri system and the nearest star to Earth's solar system.
Word: argan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tashelhit argan. Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)ɡən/ 1. A tree of species Sideroxylon spinosum (formerly Argania spinosa), of southwestern Morocco, particularly prized for its oil. Example: When pressed, the argan tree’s fruit produces a luxurious oil which is rich in fatty acids, omega-6 and vitamin E. Argan is said to help treat many skin and hair conditions. 2. Fruit of this tree.
Word: messages Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/ 1. plural of message Labels: form-of, plural
Word: messages Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/ 1. Shopping, groceries, errands. Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, plural, plural-only Example: I was going up the town to buy some messages. Example: A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […]"
Word: messages Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of message Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nigiri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 握り (nigiri, “grasping, gripping”, short for 握り寿司 nigirizushi, literally “gripped sushi” from the way the sushi rice is molded in the hand). 1. Regular sushi: a piece of raw fish (or other topping) on top of a small oblong brick of sticky white rice. Labels: uncountable
Word: nori Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 海苔(のり) (nori), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *nǝri. The kanji literally mean "ocean moss", although this does not represent actual etymology as they are jukujikun (熟字訓). 1. A type of seaweed, a red alga, laver (genus Pyropia, including species P. yezoensis and P. tenera). Labels: uncountable 2. The seaweed, chopped and formed into sheets, used in the preparation of sushi. Labels: uncountable
Word: nori Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of norry. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hijiki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese ひじき (hijiki). 1. Sargassum fusiforme, a brown seaweed used in Japanese cuisine. Labels: uncountable Example: “We're going to start you out, for the first three days, on psyllium seeds and hijiki.” Example: A. Hijiki, the branched seaweed frequently used in small amounts in salads and garnishes, and other kinds of seaweed do contain more arsenic than other foods, but no arsenic-related health problems have been traced to hijiki in the United States.
Word: kombu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 昆布 (こんぶ, konbu). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmbuː/ 1. Edible kelp (“a type of brown seaweed”) (from the class Phaeophyceae) used in East Asian cuisine. Labels: uncountable Example: [T]he productions of Jeso, in particular, are as follows: konbu, or sea-cabbage, birds of prey for hawking, whales and other sea-fish, skins of otters, beavers, seals, and stags, castoreum, gold, silver, adamantine spar. Example: The chief occupation along the shore is gathering the seaweed called kombu (something like our kelp, or quite the same), which is sent in such large quantities to China; and a certain amount of fishing is also done. The kombu grows upon submarine rocks, but for drying it a wide, flat space is needed, and the houses, therefore, are placed along the sandy beaches; and almost every beach however small is occupied.
Word: kombu Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of long horn instrument from Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Word: wakame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 若布(ワカメ) (wakame). 1. Undaria pinnatifida, an edible seaweed. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Loosely, any seaweed in the family Alariaceae. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Atlantic wakame is actually badderlocks.
Word: cromulent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism and nonce word coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for “Lisa the Iconoclast”, a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons. The ending resembles corpulent, temulent and other Latinate adjectives (derived from -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”)). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt/, /-jə-/, /ˈkɹɑmjʊlənt/ 1. Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid. Labels: humorous Example: Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield. Ms. Hoover: I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word. […] Principal Skinner: He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance. Example: Nerdcore could rise up, it could get elevated. Oh, and wouldn’t all of those tough rappers hate it if the nerdcore rose up and got elevated. We consider the possibleness of this not overstated. And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word; every syllable injected is intended to be the one you heard (an absurd juxtaposition of mission and goal).
Word: damnable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damn + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmnəbl̩/ 1. Capable of being damned. 2. Deserving of damnation; very bad. Example: That damnable fridge has stopped working again. Example: Great God! They were moving! They were rushing swiftly and noiselessly downwards! Black, black as night, huge, ill-defined, semi-human and altogether evil and damnable.
Word: Borda count Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after French mathematician Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), who devised the system in 1781, although it is claimed he was preceded by German cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464). 1. A voting system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference and points are awarded to candidates based these rankings, and in which the winning candidate is the one with the most points.
Word: hansom Part of Speech: noun 1. Ellipsis of Hansom cab. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical Example: I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house. Example: "Yes, if you have nothing better to do." A minute later we were both in a hansom, driving furiously for the Brixton Road.
Word: Hansom cab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after British architect Joseph Hansom (1803–1882), its designer. 1. A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, once used as a vehicle for hire. Labels: historical Example: “There will soon be very few hansom cabs left,” said Mrs. Elliot. “And four-wheeled cabs—I assure you even at Oxford it’s almost impossible to get a four-wheeled cab.”
Word: voting system Part of Speech: noun 1. A system used to determine the result of an election based on the preferences expressed by voters.
Word: vegetal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/, /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/ 1. Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). Labels: archaic, historical Example: Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […]. 2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. Example: The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos. Example: The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost. 3. Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
Word: vegetal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/, /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/ 1. Any vegetable organism. Labels: obsolete Example: This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
Word: oleo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin oleum (“oil”). 1. oil or oil-based materials Labels: morpheme
Word: alternative vote Part of Speech: noun 1. A voting system in which each voter lists the candidates in order of preference. At each stage the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes transferred according to the voters' preferences.
Word: vermillion Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of vermilion. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: vermillion Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of vermilion. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: vermillion Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of vermilion. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic
Word: diorism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek διορισμός (diorismós), from διορίζω (diorízō, “to delimit, distinguish”). 1. logical distinction; definition Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: nipple clamp Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of a pair of metal clamps, usually joined by a chain, meant to be worn on the nipples to cause pain. Example: If you were to examine a standard nipple clamp, you would find it resembles a pair of tiny alligator jaws and with good reason – Earl’s first nipple clamps were a pair of live baby alligators trained to bite nipples on sight.
Word: endeavouring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛvəɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of endeavour Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: endeavouring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛvəɹɪŋ/ 1. Alternative form of endeavoring. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: boff Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɒf/ 1. To have sexual intercourse with (someone). Labels: slang Example: Deke and LaVerne could go out to Cascade Lake together and plow the back forty all night; he would not be delighted with the knowledge that they were boffing each other's brains out, yet neither would he be surprised.
Word: boff Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɒf/ 1. A big laugh. Labels: slang 2. A line in a film etc that elicits such a laugh. Labels: slang Example: [Churchy, directing a comedy:] All right, Albert, here's your boff gag... You say, "What's that in the road a-head?" [Albert, actually seeing one:] A head! A head in the road! [Churchy... eventually seeing it:] Stop clownin'... This sure-fire joke is serious—you got the line all... wrong? 3. A great success; a hit. Labels: slang
Word: boff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly shortened from boffin. Pronunciation: /bɒf/ 1. A pupil who works hard; a swot. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: boff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /bɒf/ 1. To hit; to strike. Labels: slang, transitive Example: […] something he'd found out the hard way when he was dating Kimberly Haney back in high school and her brother, Chad, big linebacker on the Roosevelt Roughriders football team, had taken exception and boffed him upside the head.
Word: boff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /bɒf/ 1. A hit or smack. Labels: slang Example: I am paying no attention to them, because they are drinking local ale, and talking loud, and long ago I learn that when a Boston character is engaged in aleing himself up, it is a good idea to let him alone, because the best you can get out of him is maybe a boff on the beezer.
Word: appose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant form of oppose. Pronunciation: /əˈpəʊz/ 1. To interrogate; to question. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste. Example: Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].
Word: appose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc. Pronunciation: /əˈpəʊz/ 1. To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose. Labels: transitive 2. To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). Labels: transitive Example: The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
Word: subserve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subservire; by surface analysis, sub- + serve. Pronunciation: /səbˈsɜːv/, /səbˈsɚv/ 1. To be subservient to. Example: Ah, if only he had asked her to subserve him, to be his slave! 2. To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to. Example: Calculating by spherical trigonometry, and assuming the same obliquity, I obtain 3 dundas and 40 pulas for the ascensional arc, giving a difference in time of 3 pulas, or about one of our minutes; an error so small, that even were the Indian astronomer aware of its existence he would disregard it, satisfied that the practical purposes which his labours subserve, are, notwithstanding, carried out with sufficient accuracy. Example: Their principles will cease to be dear to them, whenever they shall cease to subserve the purposes of good order. 3. To assist in carrying out. Example: 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learnt all the intrigues of policy. Example: The unlearned capacities that underpin language acquisition constitute a uniquely human complex of non-linguistic dispositions and mechanisms that also subserve other cognitive functions.
Word: bravos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bravo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bravos Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bravo Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: refection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French réfection, from Latin refectiōnem, accusative singular of refectiō (“recovery, refection”), from reficiō (“restore, renew”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfɛkʃən/ 1. Mental or spiritual refreshment. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter not their roots; [...] Example: [S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us. 3. A meal, especially a light meal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
Word: execrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/, /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/ 1. To feel loathing for; to abhor. Labels: transitive Example: Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […] Example: And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in anguish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise. 2. To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce. Labels: transitive 3. To invoke a curse; to curse or swear. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
Word: briquet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In most senses, a variant spelling of briquette. As a lighter, a borrowing of French briquet, from Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique (“brick, block”) + -et (suffix forming masculine diminutives). The sword is so called due to its small size and perceived resemblance to a firelighter. 1. Alternative form of briquette in all its senses. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1911, F. H. King, Farmers of Forty Centuries Another pinch of charcoal was added and the process repeated until the mold was filled, when the briquet was forced out. 2. Synonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes. Labels: dated Example: Out of the corner of his eye he caught the flash of a man's "briquet" lighting a cigarette. 3. A small short sword or sabre of a particular European (especially French) style. Example: '[…]blade. I'd say an infantry sword. Briquet sabre, if I know as much as I think I do. Napoleonic.' Jenna's heart galloped. Stacks upon stacks of classics used the Napoleonic War as a backdrop. She'd been right. […] Example: […]swords had the Emperor's profile inlaid in silver in the thumb piece. Some NCO's briquets had similar ornaments. The officers' blades were inscribed 'Garde impériale' and either 'Grenadiers à pied' or 'Chasseurs à pied'.
Word: briquet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In most senses, a variant spelling of briquette. As a lighter, a borrowing of French briquet, from Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique (“brick, block”) + -et (suffix forming masculine diminutives). The sword is so called due to its small size and perceived resemblance to a firelighter. 1. Alternative form of briquette. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: briquette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈkɛt/ 1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. Example: […] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […] 2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving. 3. A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
Word: briquette Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈkɛt/ 1. To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks. Labels: transitive
Word: clomp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”). Pronunciation: /klɒmp/, /klɑmp/ 1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly. Example: There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house. Example: "Hello?" he called toward the closed door. "Anybody here?" Somebody must have heard him, because he heard something move on the opposite side of the door. First a distant sound like animals grunting, then a clomp, clomp, clomp like boots approaching.
Word: clomp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”). Pronunciation: /klɒmp/, /klɑmp/ 1. To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs. Labels: intransitive Example: […] so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went; […] Example: The next day I couldn't use my black pair to school and in order not to spoil my white pair I used my bakias or wooden clogs instead. As I clomped into the classroom, for I was late that morning, my school teacher—a German nun—looked up and I saw her face wrinkle with displeasure, […] 2. To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound. Labels: transitive Example: When Sarah pointed at the door, Thea took a few steps toward it, clomping her feet with each stride. Example: Kurt Fuehlen's brother, Helmut, waited at the basement doorway behind the cathedral, stomping his feet and clomping his mittened hands against his beefy arms.
Word: Pyrénées Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Pyrenees. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only Example: The Pyrénées form a chain of rocks continuing without any interruption from the ocean to the Mediterranean, and are the most considerable of Europe after the Alps. Example: The Pyrénées were only about eleven hundred meters high at the point where we were to begin the climb on foot. But already there was a lot of snow.
Word: casuistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English casuist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English casuistic From casuist + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌkæzjuˈɪstɪk/, /ˌkæʒuˈɪstɪk/ 1. Of or related to casuistry, attempting to solve moral dilemmas by application of general rules. 2. Similar to the arguments of casuists, particularly (figurative, derogatory) overly subtle, hair-splitting. Example: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, "Is a blind man sound?"
Word: censorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cēnsōrius + -al. By surface analysis, censor + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛnˈsɔɹi.əl/ 1. Relating to a censor. Example: 1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son Nothing less than the relation between you and me can possibly authorize that freedom; but fortunately for you, my parental rights, joined to my censorial powers, give it me in its fullest extent, and my concern for you will make me exert it. Example: The printing department has no censorial powers. It is bound to print all that is offered it, ... 2. Relating to censorship. Example: Pornography is not the real issue, abuse is. If Ms. Dworkin were serious, she would admit that this is the real thrust of her argument. Instead, she regularly slanders women and proposes prohibitive and censorial legislation.
Word: concentre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: (late 16th century) From a Romance language, see French concentrer, Italian concentràre, Spanish concentrar; alternatively from Medieval Latin/New Latin concentrō. By surface analysis, con- + centre. Doublet of concentrate. Pronunciation: /kɑnˈsɛntɚ/, /kɒnˈsɛntə/ 1. To come together at a common centre. Labels: UK, dated, intransitive Example: As from each angle of the Vault / Wherein thou lyeſt, a line is brought / Vnto the Kingly founders heart; / So vnto thee, from euery part, / See how our loues doe runne by line, / And dead, concenter in thy Shrine. Example: Hence, […] whatsoever perfections or properties (except such as are purely personal) are attributed to any of these divine Persons, are the same in all, and may equally be attributed to every one; they being all and every one the same God, in whom all perfections concentre, or, rather, who is all perfection itself. 2. To coincide. Labels: UK, dated, intransitive Example: Are we not ſufficiently Brutes, to call that work brutiſh which begets us? […] All Opinions concenter in this, […] 3. To bring together at a common centre. Labels: UK, dated, transitive Example: For one ſo rarely tun’d to fit all parts; / For one to whom eſpous’d are all the Arts; / Long have I ſought for: but co’d never ſee / Them all concenter’d in one man, but Thee. Example: [T]hir bright officious Lamps, / Light above Light, for thee alone, as ſeems, / In thee concentring all thir precious beams / Of ſacred influence: […] 4. To focus. Labels: UK, dated, transitive Example: For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentred on the ghastly miracle; […] Example: At Princess Paryli’s Ball two young men of singular elegance were observed by Diana, little though she concentered her attention on any figures of the groups. 5. To condense, to concentrate. Labels: UK, dated, transitive Example: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! […] The wretch, concentered all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Example: Ah, I wish you were of my humble temper: the more we limit and concentre happiness, the more certain, I think, we are of securing it—they who widen the circle, encroach upon the boundaries of danger; […]
Word: concenter Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛntə(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative spelling of concentre. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: concessionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English concession Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English concessionary From concession + -ary. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛʃəˌnɛɹi/ 1. one who owns a concession or a franchise Example: 1890, Benjamin Harrison, State of the Union Address That Government seized the Delagoa Bay Railway, which was constructed under a concession granted to an American citizen, and at the same time annulled the charter. The concessionary, who had embarked his fortune in the enterprise, having exhausted other means of redress, was compelled to invoke the protection of his Government.
Word: concessionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English concession Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English concessionary From concession + -ary. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛʃəˌnɛɹi/ 1. relating to concessions or franchises Labels: not-comparable, usually 2. making concessions or compromises Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are Concessionary, not Conservative principles.
Word: concessionaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French concessionnaire. Pronunciation: /kənˌsɛʃəˈnɛɹ/ 1. One who holds a concession or a right granted (for example, by the government) to conduct a certain business. Example: 1920, Frederick Spencer Hamilton, The Days Before Yesterday From 1830 to 1871 there were public gaming-tables in Heligoland, and the Concessionaire paid such a high price for his permit that the colonial finances were in the most flourishing condition. Example: And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers. 2. Someone who runs a concessions stand typically selling food and drinks.
Word: crimination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin criminatio, criminationis. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1837, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella […] and when the ambassadors, after a fruitless attempt at negotiation, which evaporated in mutual crimination and recrimination, set out on their return to Aragon, they were twice detained, […]
Word: curdle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Metathesis of earlier dialectal cruddle, crudle, equivalent to curd + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː.dəl/, /ˈkɝ.dəl/ 1. To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk) Labels: ambitransitive Example: Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea. 2. To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood) Labels: ambitransitive Example: "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!" Example: Trust in the science did not curdle at the same instance as trust in the tech conglomerates, but they are not so dissimilar when weighed against the hype of progress. 3. To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly. Labels: transitive Example: It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'
Word: decrepitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtʃuːd/, /dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd/ 1. The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature. Example: This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude?
Word: demission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French démission, from Latin dēmissiō, from dēmittō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɪʃ(ə)n/, /dəˈmɪʃən/ 1. Resignation; abdication. Labels: archaic Example: And that this demission of our royal authority may have the more full and solemn effect, and none pretend ignorance, we give [our cousins authority] ... in our name and behalf, publicly, and in their presence, to renounce the Crown, guidance, and government of this our kingdom of Scotland. Example: She had just slipped her demission, with a footnote on the young lady's conduct, under the door of Madame.
Word: demiurgic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English demiurge Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English demiurgic From demiurge + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛmiˈɝ.d͡ʒɪk/, /ˈdɛmiˌɝ.d͡ʒɪk/ 1. Relating to a demiurge. Example: 1887, Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion Lastly, man is occasionally represented as having been framed out of a piece of the body of the Creator, or made by some demiurgic potter out of clay.
Word: derange Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French déranger, from Old French desrengier (“throw into disorder”), from des- + rengier (“to put into line”), from reng (“line, row”), from a Germanic source. See rank (noun). Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/, /diˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged. Labels: transitive 2. To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state. Labels: transitive Example: Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society; 3. To cause to malfunction or become inoperative. Labels: transitive Example: 4-16. All lighting was cut off by a close detonation but was partially restored after a short while. Many auxiliary motors were short-circuited or deranged. There were at least nineteen cracked jars in the forward battery and one in the after battery, causing loss of electrolyte and full grounds. All of the electric alarm and telephone circuits were out of commission. 4. To disrupt (somebody's) plans, to inconvenience; to derail. Labels: archaic Example: "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body." Example: A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.
Word: desuetude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English desuetude, dissuetude (“discontinuance of a practice, disuse”), from Middle French désuétude (“obsolescence”) (modern French désuétude), from Latin dēsuētūdo (“discontinuance of a practice or a habit, disuse”), from dēsuētus + -tūdō (“suffix forming abstract nouns indicating conditions or states”). Dēsuētus is the perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō (“to make unaccustomed”), from de- (prefix having a reversing or undoing effect) + suēscō (“to become accustomed or used to; (Late Latin) to accustom, habituate, train”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”), in the sense “to set as one’s own”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛswɪtjuːd/, /dɪˈs(j)uːɪtjuːd/, /-tʃuːd/, /ˈdɛswəˌt(j)ud/, /dəˈsuəˌtud/ 1. The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence. Labels: formal, uncountable Example: And they being in a capacity to forget by reaſon of deſuetude, it will be a nevv pleaſure to them to recall to minde their almoſt obliterate ſpeculations. Example: For whatſoever is derived from the law of God cannot by men admit variety, nor ſuffer diminution, or goe into deſuetude, or be extinguiſh'd by abrogation: […] 2. The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence. Labels: countable, formal Example: Owing, I will believe, to Fred's sudden flurry in the unprovided moment,—unprovided, by reason of prior desuetudes and discouragements to speech, on Papa's side. Example: The spirit of that little school is wholly incompatible [with those] who cling to obsolete opinions and customs, and seem to be enamoured with the desuetudes of older times as such, and praising their own former times as vehemently is if they would sell them. 3. Chiefly followed by from or of: a cessation of practising or using something. Labels: countable, formal, obsolete Example: [T]he beſt Chriſtians, and (vvitneſs David) the greateſt Proficients in Scripture-Knovvledge, have the keeneſt Stomacks to this Food of Souls; and the vigorouſeſt Piety, by a Deſuetude and Neglect of it, is ſubject to Faint and Pine avvay. Example: Again, ſome Countries were benè morati, well diſciplined in Learning, Arts, and Knowledge, but poſſibly by the Irruption of numerous Armies of Barbarous People, thoſe Countries were quickly over-grown with Barbariſm and deſuetude from their former Civility and Knowledge, and degenerated into the Ignorance and Barbariſm of their Conquerors; ſo that in a reaſonable Period of time much of their ancient Knowledge and Arts was forgotten, as if they never had it.
Word: diplomatist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French diplomatiste, or from diplomat(ic) + -ist. Pronunciation: /dɪˈploʊməˌtɪst/ 1. Synonym of diplomat. Labels: uncommon Example: It was not so easy to penetrate the motives of the Pawnees. Calm, dignified, and yet far from repulsive, they set an example of courtesy, blended with reserve, that many a diplomatist of the most polished court might have strove in vain to imitate. Example: She flung back the fortnight on his hands as if he had been an idler indifferent to dates, instead of an active young diplomatist who, to respond to her call, had had to hew his way through a very jungle of engagements! 2. A person trained in diplomatics. Example: Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.
Word: disutility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English utility English disutility From dis- + utility. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsjuːˈtɪlɪti/ 1. uselessness, a lack of utility Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface Up to a certain point doctors, like carpenters and masons, must earn their living by doing the work that the public wants from them; and as it is not in the nature of things possible that such public want should be based on unmixed disutility, it may be admitted that doctors have their uses, real as well as imaginary. 2. negative utility Labels: countable, uncountable 3. illbeing Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: veleta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Spanish vela Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etbor. Spanish -eta Spanish veletabor. English veleta Borrowed from Spanish veleta. 1. A dance to waltz music in triple time.
Word: sprinter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sprint + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɪn.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈspɹɪn.tɚ/ 1. One who sprints. 2. One who sprints. 3. A sprint car.
Word: sprinter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of spring + winter. Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɪn.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈspɹɪn.tɚ/ 1. The transition period between winter and spring: late winter. Labels: uncountable
Word: chronicles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩z/, /ˈkɹɒnɪkl̩z/ 1. plural of chronicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chronicles Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩z/, /ˈkɹɒnɪkl̩z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chronicle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Chronicles Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒnɪkl̩z/, /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩z/ 1. A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.
Word: pragmatics Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of the use of language, especially meaning, in a social context; it includes extratextual aspects of language including exophoric reference, phatic utterances, and nonverbal channels. Labels: uncountable Example: Holonym: linguistics Example: […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, […]
Word: pragmatics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pragmatic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: high priest Part of Speech: noun 1. A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest. 2. In the Bible, the male individual who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); always a descendant of Aaron, the older brother of Moses. See Kohen Gadol. 3. Jesus Christ. 4. The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood. Labels: Mormonism Example: Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric. 5. A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement. Labels: figuratively Example: The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention. Example: He perorated in a distinctly disturbed, and disturbing, manner, at least for a CIA high priest: “Technology is moving faster than government or law can keep up. It’s moving faster … than you can keep up: you should be asking the question of what are your rights and who owns your data.” 6. A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.
Word: Jain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- Sanskrit जि (ji)der. Sanskrit जिन (jina)vṛd. Sanskrit जैन (jaina)bor. English Jain Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪn/, /d͡ʒaɪn/ 1. Of or pertaining to Jainism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Jain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- Sanskrit जि (ji)der. Sanskrit जिन (jina)vṛd. Sanskrit जैन (jaina)bor. English Jain Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪn/, /d͡ʒaɪn/ 1. An adherent or follower of Jainism. Example: Donovan, The Universal Soldier He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain, A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew, And he knows he shouldn't kill, And he knows he always will Example: While Diwali is a major religious festival for Hindus, it is also observed by Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists.
Word: Jain Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- Sanskrit जि (ji)der. Sanskrit जिन (jina)vṛd. Sanskrit जैन (jaina)bor. English Jain Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪn/, /d͡ʒaɪn/ 1. A surname.
Word: Nehemiah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה (“consolation of Yahweh”). Pronunciation: /ˌniː(h)əˈmaɪə/ 1. A governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Example: Nehemiah stood firm by rejecting the imaginative and wicked spin the enemies put on reality and persisted in what God had called him to do. Then he prayed that, rather than his hands dropping from the work, God would strengthen them in...[…] 2. The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh. 3. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. 4. A surname. Example: But Skeets is patient and polite. When it all gets too tiresome he gets away with Kim to "relate to Renaldo Nehemiah as a person not affiliated with track."
Word: Ecclesiastes Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Ecclesiastes, from Latin Ecclēsiastēs, from Ancient Greek Ἐκκλησιαστής (Ekklēsiastḗs) according to the Septuagint. The Greek word is a loan translation of Hebrew קֹהֶלֶת, from Hebrew קָהָל. Pronunciation: /ɪˌkliːziˈæstiːz/, /əˌkliːziˈæstiːz/ 1. A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Word: Jainism Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- Sanskrit जि (ji)der. Sanskrit जिन (jina)vṛd. Sanskrit जैन (jaina)bor. English Jain Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Jainism From Jain + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪnɪzm̩/ 1. An ancient Dharmic religion, with a focus on nonviolence and personal effort to elevate the reincarnating soul towards moksha by liberating it from samsara. Example: Jainism is similar to other eastern religions in believing in reincarnation. Example: I know enough about Jainism to know that Jains are some of the most extreme vegetarians around. 2. A nontheistic heterodox Indian philosophy
Word: Song of Solomon Part of Speech: name Etymology: A calque of Latin Canticum Solomonis (“song of Solomon”), from its supposed authorship by the Israelite king Solomon. 1. Synonym of Song of Songs, a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
Word: Isaiah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἠσαΐας (Ēsaḯas) from Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (yəšaʿyā́hū). Pronunciation: /aɪˈzeɪ.ə/, /aɪˈzaɪ.ə/ 1. A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh. 2. A prophet, the author of the Book of Isaiah. Example: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself. 3. A male given name from Hebrew. Example: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.
Word: C13 Part of Speech: symbol 1. the 1200s or thirteenth century.
Word: abzyme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of antibody + enzyme. Pronunciation: /ˈæb.zaɪm/ 1. An antibody with catalytic properties. Example: and the intensity and features of specific abzyme-driven response in MS patient's sera.
Word: C14 Part of Speech: symbol 1. the 1300s or 14th century.