nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: inept Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɛpt/, /ɪˈnept/ 1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence. Example: As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen. Example: Stewing over recent legal defeats, he [Donald Trump] spent Sunday night posting a series of rambling rants assailing the “completely inept and embarrassing” Supreme Court, the “Deranged” former special counsel, […] and “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge” who ruled against him. 2. Unfit; unsuitable. Example: The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.
Word: transcendentalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English transcendental 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 transcendentalism From transcendental + -ism. 1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Asiaphile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Asia Latin -philalbor. English -phile English Asiaphile From Asia + -phile. 1. A person interested in Asia or its culture. 2. A Caucasian male with sexual interests in Asian women. Labels: derogatory
Word: nondescript Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/, /nɑndəˈskɹɪpt/ 1. Not described (in the academic literature). Labels: archaic 2. Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics. Example: He drove a nondescript silver sedan. Example: There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation.
Word: nondescript Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/, /nɑndəˈskɹɪpt/ 1. A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified. Example: Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript. 2. An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing. Example: In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts. 3. An unmarked police car. Labels: UK Example: By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.
Word: trans Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin trāns (“on the other side of”). Doublet of très. Pronunciation: /tɹænz/ 1. In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond. Labels: not-comparable, physical Example: A series of one electron shifts in this complex establish a new trans double bond at carbon ll which transfers the hydrogen to oxygen, forming the hydroperoxide and liberating the enzyme. Example: A cis double bond is one where the hydrogen atoms are both on the same side. In contrast, a trans double bond has them on the opposite side. 2. In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are on opposite sides of the central atom. Labels: not-comparable, physical Example: The trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands. 3. Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trans Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of transgender or transsexual. Pronunciation: /tɹænz/ 1. Transgender or transsexual. Labels: not-comparable Example: Template:WT:Guardian Example: The community also has faced political setbacks in recent years as states passed a flurry of laws, including health care bans like the one at issue in the case and measures that prohibit trans students from participating on sports teams that are consistent with their gender identity. 2. Alternative form of trans*. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: trans Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of transgender or transsexual. Pronunciation: /tɹænz/ 1. A trans person. Labels: humorous, informal, offensive, sometimes Example: Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.
Word: trans Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of transgender or transsexual. Pronunciation: /tɹænz/ 1. To cause to cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or similar). Labels: humorous, transitive Example: […] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces. Example: Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[.] […] People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be. 2. To render (someone) transgender. Labels: Internet, humorous, offensive, transitive Example: Doctors accused of transing kids. 3. To become transgender. Labels: Internet, humorous, intransitive, offensive Example: They thought of that. The proposals make an exception for "affirmative" practices. You can say yes to your kid transing, but not no.
Word: trans Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /tɹænz/ 1. Clipping of transaction. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Clipping of transmission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Most of the transes I've seen die started out by losing a gear, usually the high one. If this happens to you, first check the trans fluid level, *then* panic. Example: If there really had been a difference and the transes were so forgiving as to be able to tolerate it, then cheaper alternatives like Lubeguard and […]
Word: trans Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /tɹænz/ 1. plural of tran Labels: form-of, plural
Word: DLS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Downloadable Sound Format. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DLS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: stratocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós, “army”) + -cracy. 1. A military government.
Word: phone number Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of telephone number. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: Brobdingnagian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian, fictional country inhabited by giants in Gulliver's Travels. Pronunciation: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag. 2. Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing. Labels: figuratively Example: When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough. Example: The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
Word: Brobdingnagian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian, fictional country inhabited by giants in Gulliver's Travels. Pronunciation: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/ 1. A creature from Brobdingnag. 2. A giant. Labels: figuratively
Word: hora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”). Doublet of choir, chorus, and quire. 1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
Word: hora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”). Doublet of hour and year. 1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. Labels: uncountable
Word: vagina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāgīnā Latin vāgīnalbor. English vagina Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”). Pronunciation: /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/ 1. A sex organ for copulation and birth, found in female therian mammals, consisting of a passage between the vulval vestibule and the cervix of the uterus. Example: The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope. 2. A sex organ for copulation and birth, found in female therian mammals, consisting of a passage between the vulval vestibule and the cervix of the uterus. 3. A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. 4. The vulva, or the vulva and vaginal passage collectively. Labels: colloquial Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina. 5. A coward; a weakling; a pussy. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, rare Example: 2002, "The New Terrance And Phillip Movie Trailer" (South Park TV episode) 6. The anus. Labels: sometimes, uncommon
Word: clavus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin clāvus (“a nail”). Doublet of clove. 1. A callous growth, especially on the foot; a corn. Example: In a review of over 1000 interdigital clavuses, 65% were found in the fourth interspace, while the first and third web space clavuses were found in 17% and 16% of the patients respectively[…]
Word: clavus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Claviceps; the young grain is malformed and club-shaped. 1. Synonym of ergot. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The clavus, or ergot of grain, consists in the enlargement and elongation of the seeds […]
Word: pile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”). Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap. Example: I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me. 2. A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. Labels: informal Example: When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile. 3. A mass formed in layers. Example: a pile of shot 4. A funeral pile; a pyre. Example: Jove with a Nod, comply'd with her Deſire; / Around the Body flam'd the Funeral Fire; / The Pile decreas'd that lately ſeem'd ſo high, / And Sheets of Smoak roll'd upward to the Sky: [...] 5. A large amount of money. Labels: slang Example: He made a pile from that invention of his. Example: When they are at work they live most frugally, denying themselves every comfort and luxury till they have made a "pile." 6. A large building, or mass of buildings. Example: The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture; […] Example: The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. 7. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot. 8. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile. Example: The word "pile" is used specifically to mean the column of superposed electrodes, such as that of Volta or Zamboni. 9. A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation. 10. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor. 11. The reverse (or tails) of a coin. Labels: obsolete 12. A list or league Example: And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable. Example: Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
Word: pile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”). Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate Labels: often, transitive Example: They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow. 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. Labels: transitive Example: We piled the camel with our loads. Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 3. To add something to a great number. Labels: transitive Example: But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages. 4. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up. Labels: transitive 5. To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other. Labels: transitive 6. To form a pile or heap. Labels: intransitive Example: Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums. Example: I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo.
Word: pile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pile, from Old English pīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum. Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. A dart; an arrow. Labels: obsolete 2. The head of an arrow or spear. 3. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. Example: All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done. 4. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Word: pile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pile, from Old English pīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum. Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. Labels: transitive
Word: pile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from Late Latin pilus. Doublet of pilus. Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. A hemorrhoid. Labels: plural-normally
Word: pile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus. Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.) Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
Word: pile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus. Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. To give a pile to; to make shaggy. Labels: transitive
Word: pile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French pile (“battery”), with the pronunciation adapted to the existing English word pile. Doublet of Etymology 1, which may have influenced the sense development by emphasizing the stack (“pile”) out of which early batteries were made. Pronunciation: /paɪl/ 1. A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity). Labels: historical 2. A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity). Labels: historical
Word: transcendentalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English transcendental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English transcendentalist From transcendental + -ist. 1. One who believes in transcendentalism. Example: “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!” 2. Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
Word: transept Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French transept, from New Latin transeptum, from Latin trans- (“across”) + saeptum (“fence, partition, enclosure”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænsɛpt/, /ˈtɹɑːnsɛpt/ 1. The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts. Example: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
Word: transversal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈvɜːsəl/, /tɹænz-/, /tɹænsˈvɝsəl/ 1. Running or lying across; transverse. Example: a transversal line 2. Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc). Example: This kind of politics acknowledges what Yuval-Davis characterizes as transversal feminism which, much like the second wave feminist standpoint theory, “aims to be an alternative to the universalism/relativism dichotomy […]" Example: First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive, […]
Word: transversal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈvɜːsəl/, /tɹænz-/, /tɹænsˈvɝsəl/ 1. A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely. 2. A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely. Example: Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil. 3. A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.
Word: trant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tranten, from or cognate with Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”). Pronunciation: /tɹænt/ 1. To walk; go about. Labels: intransitive 2. To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle. Labels: intransitive 3. To turn; play a trick. Labels: intransitive
Word: trant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trant, from Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”). Cognate with Dutch trant (“style, manner fashion, mode”), Swedish trant (“a step”). Pronunciation: /tɹænt/ 1. A turn; trick; stratagem.
Word: tranter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trant + -er. 1. a peddler. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the left hand, of a character between pantry and cellar, was Dick Dewy’s father, Reuben, by vocation a ‘tranter’, or irregular carrier. Example: 1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead An’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast Vrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past. He wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear, Vor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;
Word: trapezium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, borrowed from Ancient Greek τρᾰπέζῐον (trăpézĭon, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “small table”), from τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). First attested in 1570. Doublet of trapeze. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈpiː.zi.əm/, /tɹæˈpi.zi.əm/ 1. A quadrilateral with two sides parallel. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK 2. A quadrilateral with two sides parallel. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK 3. A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral. Labels: US, dated 4. The trapezium bone of the wrist. 5. A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Word: tren Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹɛn/ 1. Clipping of trenbolone (a steroid used to increase muscle growth). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable Example: While on "tren" (trenbolone acetate), one of the most potent steroids, [Tom] Powell couldn't keep a hard-on as long as he wanted. He had night sweats and nightmares.
Word: tribble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. The Century Dictionary suggests possibly a corruption of cribble (“sieve”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪbl̩/ 1. A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.
Word: tribble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably invented for alliteration with trouble; the creatures first appeared in an episode called "The Trouble with Tribbles". Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪbl̩/ 1. A fictional alien creature in Star Trek, a fast-breeding, cooing ball of fur. Example: Scales have proliferated like tribbles in quadra-triticale: just intonations, equal temperaments, scales based on overtones, scales generated from a single interval or pair of intervals, scales without octaves, scales arising from arcane mathematical formulas, scales that reflect cosmological or religious structures, scales that "come from the heart." Example: The Hyper-Producing Playwrights of Edmondton: Or Why Alberta’s Capital Breeds New Plays Like Tribbles.
Word: trink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English treinekys or trynk, but earlier origin is unknown. Attested in Anglo-Norman or Middle English legal texts from the 14th century. Pronunciation: /tɹɪŋk/ 1. A kind of fishing net that is attached to a post or anchor; set net. Labels: obsolete Example: 6. Item, That no Trinckerman or other Fisherman shall buy any Trincke, or take to receive any Copy under the seal of the Office of Mayoralty until he be allowed and thought fit by the Lord Mayor of LONDON, or by his Substitute, the Water-Bailiff for the Time being, 2. A fisherman who uses a trink. Labels: obsolete Example: 8. Item, That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy Night hang forth out of his said Trincke-boat one Lantern with sufficient Candle Light, for the better and safer Passage of Ships,
Word: tumbler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tumble + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌmblɚ/ 1. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body. Labels: archaic Example: […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […] Example: […] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. 2. A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking. 3. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts. 4. A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. 5. A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure. Example: I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him. Example: "You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain. "You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied. "I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club. 6. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. 7. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India. 8. Something that causes something else to tumble. 9. A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits. Labels: obsolete 10. A kind of cart; a tumbril. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete 11. The pupa of a mosquito. 12. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms. 13. A porpoise. Labels: obsolete 14. A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering. Example: The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds.
Word: obstruction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obstructio (“hindrance”), from obstruo (“build against, block, stop”). Pronunciation: /əbˈstɹʌk.ʃən/ 1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The referee stopped play because of an obstruction by the defender. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ouroboros Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”, a compound of οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -βόρος (-bóros, “-devouring”, which is derived from the verb βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”))). Pronunciation: /uːˈrɒbəˌrɒs/, /uːˈrɒbərəs/, /ˌuːrəˈbɒrəs/, /(j)ʊ(ə)rə(ʊ)ˈborəs/, /ˌorəˈborəs/ 1. A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death. Example: The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process. Example: Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break. 2. Anything of a circular or recursive nature. Labels: broadly Example: Like an ouroboros, the story created and informed by the writer’s own experience suddenly flipped back on itself, Childress’s life now reflecting the story rather than the other way around. Example: The result is a statistical ouroboros: a self-reinforcing discrimination machine that amplifies social inequalities under the guise of technical neutrality.
Word: obtainer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obtain + -er. 1. One who obtains.
Word: stupefaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“to be stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“to do, make”). Pronunciation: /ˌstjʊu̯pəˈfækʃən/, [ˌstjʊu̯pəˈfækʃən] ~ [ˌstjʊu̯pəˈfækʃn̩], /ˌst͡ʃʊu̯pəˈfækʃən/, [ˌst͡ʃʊu̯pəˈfækʃən] ~ [ˌst͡ʃʊu̯pəˈfækʃən], /ˌstuːpəˈfækʃən/ 1. The state of extreme shock or astonishment. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A state of insensibility; stupor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Suddenly roused from the state of stupefaction to which fear had reduced her, the female filled the air with shrieks. Disengaging herself from the officers, and rushing towards her husband, she clung with all her strength to his arm, imploring him, with frantic violence, not to let them kill her.
Word: obtain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English obteinen, from Anglo-Norman obtenir, optiner et al., and Middle French obtenir, from Latin obtinēre (“to gain, achieve, succeed, possess”), from ob- + tenēre (“to hold”). Pronunciation: /əbˈteɪn/ 1. To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way. Labels: transitive Example: obtain permission Example: obtain information 2. To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: he was condemned to die for the felony, and being so well known for an old offender, had certainly died, but the merchant, upon his earnest application, had obtained that he should be transported, on condition that he restored all the rest of his bills, which he had done accordingly. 3. To prevail, be victorious; to succeed. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: “O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit; / For never sore but might a salve obtain [...].” Example: This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained, and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth. 4. To hold; to keep, possess or occupy. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: His mother then is mortal, but his Sire / He who obtains the monarchy of Heav'n, / And what will he not do to advance his Son? 5. To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force. Labels: especially, intransitive Example: Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt could obtain; for the act in question […] was on a par with countless other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists. Example: In connection with the various courses of practical instruction, the companies maintain signalling schools fitted with standard railway equipment in which the staff can be given instructions under conditions exactly similar to those which obtain in signal boxes.
Word: obtund Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Latin obtundere (“to dull", "deaden", "deafen”), from ob- (see ob-) + tundere. More at obtuse. Pronunciation: /əbˈtʌnd/, /ɒbˈtʌnd/, /ɑbˈtʌnd/ 1. To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. Labels: transitive Example: […] the use of alcoholic decoctions[…] which are given as medicines to allay pain, obtund nerve sensibility, to cure the little sufferer of his vital manifestations […] Example: Small doses of opioids are also useful in obtunding airway reflexes […]
Word: obtundent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obtundens, present participle of obtundere. 1. A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; – nearly the same as demulcent. Labels: dated 2. Something which obtunds. Labels: dated
Word: obtunder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obtund + -er. 1. That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility. Labels: dated 2. An obtundent. Labels: dated
Word: occasionate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English occasionaten, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnātus, perfect passive participle of occāsiō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, occasion + -ate. 1. To occasion. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: occasion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English occasioun, from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occāsiōnem, noun of action from perfect passive participle occāsus, from verb occidō, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cadō (“fall”). Pronunciation: /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, [əˈkʰeɪ̯ʒən] ~ [əˈkʰeɪ̯ʒn̩] 1. A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation. Example: Foꝛ ſynne toke occaſiõ by the meanes of the cõmaundement and ſo diſceaved me / and by the ſilfe cõmaundemẽt ſlewe me. 2. The time when something happens. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On this occasion, I'm going to decline your offer, but next time I might agree. Example: And Vickers launched forth in a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with supreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. 3. An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had no occasion to feel offended, however. 4. Something which causes something else; a cause. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [I]t were too vile to ſay, and ſcarce to be beleeued, what we endured: but the occaſion was our owne, for want of prouidence, induſtrie and gouernment, […] 5. An occurrence or incident. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 6. A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me. Example: a momentous occasion in the history of South Africa 7. A need; requirement, necessity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have no occasion for firearms. Example: […] after we have ſerved our ſelves, and our own occaſions. 8. A special event or function. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Having people round for dinner was always quite an occasion at our house. 9. A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: VVhoſe manner was all paſſengers to ſtay, / And entertaine with her occaſions ſly, […]
Word: occasion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English occasioun, from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occāsiōnem, noun of action from perfect passive participle occāsus, from verb occidō, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cadō (“fall”). Pronunciation: /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, [əˈkʰeɪ̯ʒən] ~ [əˈkʰeɪ̯ʒn̩] 1. To cause; to produce; to induce Labels: transitive Example: It is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity. Example: To the Author's private circle the appearance of this singular Work on Clothes must have occasioned little less surprise than it has to the rest of the world.
Word: occident Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem (“western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets”), from occido (“go down, set”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪdənt/ 1. The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west. 2. The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
Word: occidental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis, equivalent to occident + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western. Example: occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet. 2. Of a gem or precious stone: of inferior value or quality.
Word: occidental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis, equivalent to occident + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/ 1. A Western Christian of the Latin rite Example: Most occidentals resident in South China have joined the Chinese in their zealous enthusiasm for the lychee.
Word: occiduous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin occiduus, from. occido (“to go down”). 1. Western; occidental.
Word: occision Part of Speech: noun 1. A killing; the act of killing.
Word: octic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin octo (“eight”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktɪk/ 1. Of the eighth degree or order. Labels: not-comparable Example: Unfortunately, an analogous attack on the octic polynomial becomes exceedingly complicated.
Word: octic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin octo (“eight”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktɪk/ 1. A quantic of the eighth degree.
Word: octuple Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, oct- + -u- + -ple. Pronunciation: /ɒkˈtuː.pəl/, /ˈɑk.t(j)u.pəl/, /ɑkˈtʌp.əl/, /ˈɑk.tə.pəl/ 1. eightfold Labels: not-comparable
Word: octuple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, oct- + -u- + -ple. Pronunciation: /ɒkˈtuː.pəl/, /ˈɑk.t(j)u.pəl/, /ɑkˈtʌp.əl/, /ˈɑk.tə.pəl/ 1. An eightfold amount or number
Word: octuple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, oct- + -u- + -ple. Pronunciation: /ɒkˈtuː.pəl/, /ˈɑk.t(j)u.pəl/, /ɑkˈtʌp.əl/, /ˈɑk.tə.pəl/ 1. To increase eightfold. Labels: intransitive 2. To increase or multiply something by eight. Labels: transitive
Word: oddly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English oddely, odly, equivalent to odd + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɑdli/, /ˈɒdli/ 1. In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually. Labels: not-comparable Example: For December, it was oddly warm. Example: Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […] 2. In a manner measured by an odd number. Labels: not-comparable Example: The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.
Word: Trekker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (1970) Trek + -er. From Star Trek. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛk.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A fan of the TV science fiction series Star Trek. Labels: slang
Word: ode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede. Pronunciation: /oʊd/, /əʊd/, /od/ 1. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Example: write an ode to someone Example: [title]
Word: ode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly. Labels: slang
Word: odelet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ode Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English odelet From ode + -let. 1. A little or short ode.
Word: odist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ode Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English odist From ode + -ist. 1. A writer of an ode or odes.
Word: odium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odiumlbor. English odium Learned borrowing from Latin odium, from Proto-Italic *odjom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.di.əm/, /ˈoʊ.di.əm/ 1. Hatred; dislike. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him. Example: And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. 2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She threw the odium of the fact on me.
Word: odometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter. Pronunciation: /əʊˈdɒmətə/, /əʊˈdɒmɪtə/, /oʊˈdɑːmətɚ/ 1. An instrument, usually embedded within the speedometer of a vehicle, that measures the distance the vehicle has traveled since production. Example: When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised. Example: On Sunday, the robot rover advanced another 157 feet (48 meters) as it continued along the rim of a Martian crater, putting Opportunity's total odometer at 25.01 miles (40.25 km), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California. 2. A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.
Word: odometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From odo- + -metry. 1. Measurement of distances by the odometer. Labels: uncountable
Word: odor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Cognates * Swedish odör (“bad smell”) Pronunciation: /ˈəʊdə/, /ˈoʊdəɹ/ 1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. Example: Both chemicals are solid oxidizers in granular form and have a chlorine odor. […] Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also release bromine gas and hydrogen bromide upon decomposition. 2. A strong, pervasive quality. Labels: US, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity." 3. Esteem. Labels: US, figuratively, uncountable 4. Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume. Labels: US, archaic, countable, uncountable Example: On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.
Word: offense Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English offence, from Old French offense, from Latin offensa (“a striking against; displeasure; injury”). Pronunciation: /əˈfɛns/, /ˈɔf.ɛns/, /ˈɑf.ɛns/ 1. The act of offending. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: The slave fully appreciates the saying, "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." When old master's gestures were violent, ending with a threatening shake of the head, and a sharp snap of his middle finger and thumb, I deemed it wise to keep at a respectable distance from him; for, at such times, trifling faults stood, in his eyes, as momentous offenses; and, having both the power and the disposition, the victim had only to be near him to catch the punishment, deserved or undeserved. Example: The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood. 2. The act of offending. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Thus I have ventur'd to give my Opinion on this Subject againſt the Authority of tvvo great men, but I hope vvithout offence to either of their Memories, for I both lov'd them living, and reverence them now they are dead. 3. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 4. A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 5. The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense. Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: olf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin olfactus (“smelled”). 1. A unit measuring the strength of an olfactory pollution source as detected by an average adult in typical conditions.
Word: olf Part of Speech: noun 1. The European bullfinch.
Word: olympiad Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Olympiad. Labels: alt-of Example: The reckoning by olympiads, or any other fixed æra, was not yet in uſe among the Greeks. The Arundelian marbles were compoſed ſixty years after the death of Alexander the Great, and yet mention not the olympiads, nor any ſtanding æra, but reckon backward from the time then preſent. In the next olympiad, Timæus Siculus wrote a hiſtory down to his own times, according to the olympiads. Example: [N]ot Hellas can unroll / Through her olympiads two such names, though one / Of hers be mighty;—and is this the whole / Of such men's destiny beneath the sun?