nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: transfixion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English transfix Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English transfixion From transfix + -ion. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈfɪk.ʃən/ 1. In amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transfluence Part of Speech: noun 1. The flowing of a liquid through or across something. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transfluent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English fluent English transfluent From trans- + fluent. 1. flowing through or across something (such as under a bridge) Labels: not-comparable
Word: transfluvial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trans- + fluvial. 1. Across a river. Labels: not-comparable
Word: transformable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin fōrmō Latin transformo Old French transformer Middle French transfourmerbor. Middle English transformen English transform Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English transformable From transform + -able. 1. Able to be transformed.
Word: transformant Part of Speech: noun 1. a cell (bacteria, fungus, yeast or plant) into which foreign DNA has been introduced
Word: curd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud. Pronunciation: /kɜː(ɹ)d/ 1. The coagulated part of any liquid. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away. 2. The coagulated part of any liquid. Labels: India, countable, uncountable 3. The coagulated part of any liquid. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Broccoli should not be allowed to remain till the compactness of the head is broken, but should always be cut while the 'curd,' as the flowering mass is termed, is entire Example: This beautiful vegetable [Romanesco broccoli] looks rather like a green cauliflower designed by a mathematician and has lime-green 'spiralled' curds. The curds are nutty and tasty, and romanesco is worth growing just for its good looks. You can use romanesco in the same ways that you would normally use cauliflower but the flavour is sweeter and they look far more impressive. I try to leave them in large pieces when serving them because they're so beautiful.
Word: curd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud. Pronunciation: /kɜː(ɹ)d/ 1. To form curd; to curdle. Labels: intransitive 2. To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. Labels: transitive Example: Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother?
Word: Fourier transform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after French mathematician and physicist Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, who initiated the study of what is now harmonic analysis. 1. A particular integral transform that when applied to a function of time (such as a signal), converts the function to one that plots the original function's frequency composition; the resultant function of such a conversion. Example: Fourier transforms are not limited to acting on functions of time, but the domain of the original function is commonly called the time domain. Example: The Fourier transform of a function of time is a complex function of frequency, whose magnitude (absolute value) represents the amount of that frequency present in the original function, and whose argument is the phase offset of the basic sinusoid in that frequency.
Word: sinusoidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sinusoid + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/, /ˌsɑɪnəˈsoɪdəl/, /ˌsaɪnəˈsoɪdəl/ 1. Having the shape or characteristics of a sine wave. Example: An averager of the sort described earlier would operate such that, as the frequency of sinusoidal variation of ITD was increased, more and more samples of the dynamically varying ITD would fall within the averaging window and the effective ITD would tend toward their mean of zero. 2. Relating to any of several channels (the sinusoids) through which venous blood passes in various organs.
Word: sinusoidal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sinusoid + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/, /ˌsɑɪnəˈsoɪdəl/, /ˌsaɪnəˈsoɪdəl/ 1. A sine wave (or combination of such waves)
Word: transformer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin fōrmō Latin transformo Old French transformer Middle French transfourmerbor. Middle English transformen English transform Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English transformer From transform + -er. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈfɔːmə/, /tɹɑːns-/, /tɹænsˈfoɹməɹ/ 1. Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape. 2. A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately. Example: While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved. 3. A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input. Example: Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP. Example: The transformer helped machine-learning systems improve at a much faster pace, leading directly to last year’s release of ChatGPT and the attendant boom in interest around AI. (Transformers are the “T” in ChatGPT.) 4. Alternative letter-case form of Transformer. Labels: alt-of
Word: transformism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin fōrmō Latin transformo Old French transformer Middle French transfourmerbor. Middle English transformen English transform 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 transformism From transform + -ism. 1. The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom. 2. Synonym of trasformismo. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transformist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin transformo Old French transformer Middle French transfourmerbor. Middle English transformen English transform 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 transformist From transform + -ist. 1. A believer in or follower of transformism.
Word: transformist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin transformo Old French transformer Middle French transfourmerbor. Middle English transformen English transform 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 transformist From transform + -ist. 1. Of or relating to transformism.
Word: transformity Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of emergy to available energy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Transformity increases with the increase in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs. Example: Boggess (1994), studying the circulation of phosphorus in a Florida watershed, showed how the transformity zone of money circulation and market prices overlapped only the higher transformities of the circulation of phosphorus.
Word: emergy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of embodied + energy. 1. the total energy used in the life cycle of some product; the available energy of one kind that has to be used up directly and indirectly to make a product or service. Labels: uncountable
Word: transfuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From trans- + fusus, past participle of fundō (“to pour, to melt”). By surface analysis, trans- + fuse. Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈfjuːz/ 1. To administer a transfusion of. Labels: transitive Example: A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another. 2. To pour liquid from one vessel into another. Labels: transitive 3. To diffuse or permeate through something. Labels: transitive
Word: transfusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Latin trans Latin fundō Latin trānsfundō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin transfūsiōbor. English transfusion Borrowed from Latin transfūsiō. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈfjuʒən/ 1. The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blood transfusion Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously; an instance of it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A blood transfusion stabilized her condition until surgery to stop her internal bleeding could begin. 2. A refreshing or reinvigoration of something. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncommon, uncountable Example: Our extramural sports program was on life support until a generous philanthropic donation gave it a much-needed blood transfusion.
Word: transgress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser and Latin transgressus, past participle of transgredior. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈɡɹɛs/ 1. To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary. Labels: transitive Example: surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law Example: They sometimes transgressed colonial boundaries, forming border communities with Native Americans and escaped black slaves. 2. To act in violation of some law. Labels: transitive Example: For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Example: There were some young men who transgressed the ḥerem and danced with foreign women [i.e. non-relatives] and forbidden women. 3. To commit an offense; to sin. Labels: intransitive Example: Why give you peace to this untemperate beast That hath so long transgressed you? 4. To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate. Labels: intransitive
Word: transgressor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English transgressour, from Anglo-Norman transgressour, from Latin transgressor. Equivalent to transgress + -or. 1. Someone who transgresses.
Word: tranship Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English tran- Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.? Proto-Germanic *skipą Proto-West Germanic *skip Old English scip Middle English schip English ship English tranship From tran- + ship. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈʃɪp/ 1. To transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another. Labels: transitive 2. To be transferred from one ship or other conveyance to another. Labels: intransitive
Word: split hairs Part of Speech: noun 1. Tedious details; minutiae. Labels: idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: The Microsoft trial had been in danger of slipping out of the public eye. Its endless procession of less-than-riveting economics professors and forgetful executives, mixed with scads of legal and technical split hairs, just hasn't made for gripping headlines.
Word: split hairs Part of Speech: verb 1. To consider or argue about fine details; to worry about minutiae. Labels: idiomatic Example: Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet.
Word: kerching Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by an old-fashioned cash register when an amount is rung up. Pronunciation: /kəˈt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. Suggesting the arrival of a large amount of money. Labels: UK, humorous, informal, onomatopoeic Example: I asked a smiling lawyer what she thought of this policy. She replied, 'I have one word to say on the prospect of taking MPs to court: "Kerching!"'
Word: deforestation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English forest English deforest Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English deforestation From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870. Pronunciation: /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/, /ˌdiːfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/ 1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands. Example: The world leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements on Tuesday to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building momentum as the conference prepared to shift to a more grueling two weeks of negotiations on how to avert the planet’s catastrophic warming. 2. A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: global warming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s with Wallace Smith Broecker's paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” and Mikhail Budyko's statement in 1976 that “a global warming up has started”. 1. A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change. Labels: uncountable Example: As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. Example: In the popular imagination, global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this. […] But global warming is going to have just as great an impact—indeed, according to Silman, an even greater impact—in the tropics.
Word: climatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English climate Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English climatic From climate + -ic. Pronunciation: /klaɪˈmæt.ɪk/ 1. Of, relating to, or influenced by climate. Labels: not-comparable Example: The people of the United States, owing, no doubt, to climatic reasons, have been thoroughly educated in the use of ice[…] Example: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
Word: warming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/, /ˈwoɹmɪŋ/ 1. A small rise in temperature. 2. A beating; a thrashing. Labels: slang Example: More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.
Word: warming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmiġende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/, /ˈwoɹmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of warm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: heart-warming Part of Speech: adj 1. Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy. Labels: idiomatic Example: It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity. Example: Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
Word: warming pan Part of Speech: noun 1. A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed. Example: Good Bardolfe / Put thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan. 2. A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over. Labels: dated, figuratively Example: […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship. Example: We used to call him in my parliamentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a young fellow who was in his minority.
Word: warming up Part of Speech: noun 1. a regime of gentle exercise undertaken before some strenuous exercise or sport Labels: uncountable
Word: warming up Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of warm up Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: treason Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tresoun, treison, from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”), from trair, or from Latin trāditiō (“a giving up, handing over, surrender, delivery, tradition”), from trādō (“give up, hand over, deliver over, betray”, verb), from trāns- (“over, across”) + dō (“give”). Doublet of tradition and traitor; also related to betray. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiː.zən/ 1. The crime of betraying one’s own country. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Treaſon doth never [pro]ſper: what's the reaſon? / For yf yt [pro]ſper none dare call yt treaſon Example: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unleſs on the Testimony of two Witneſses to the same overt Act, or on Confeſsion in open Court. 2. An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: van der Waals force Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From van der Waals + force. From Dutch van der Waals. from Johannes Diderik van der Waals, who first described them. 1. The relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles. Labels: in-plural, often
Word: Van de Graaff generator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Invented by Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901–1967), American physicist. 1. A device in which an electric charge is built up on a large spherical electrode by means of a rapidly moving belt.
Word: crouching Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of crouch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: crouching Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb crouch. Example: […] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.
Word: crouching Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. That crouches or crouch. Example: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Word: optical character recognition Part of Speech: noun 1. The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software. Labels: uncountable Example: Texts were scanned, converted via optical character recognition, and part of speech tagged using CLAWS 7.
Word: transhuman Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional). 1. More than human; superhuman. Example: Turning fallible human foot soldiers into transhuman machines who need neither sleep nor food, and are incapable of resistance and independent thought, is a Napoleonic dream . Example: A template for those who will become transhuman. 2. Related to transhumanism. Example: I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous. Example: The transhuman ideal is based upon a reconception of evolution, a perfecting and transcending of the human race through the next step in progress: not through biological mutation but through science and technology. 3. Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries. Example: Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous) Example: This "other world" is transcendent because the experience of the sacred—an encounter with a reality transcending immanent life—gives birth to the idea that there are absolute, that is, transhuman, realities.
Word: transhuman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional). 1. An enhanced human: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.” 2. An enhanced human: Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans. Example: In practice, this technological transhumation would wreak havoc on the earth. While modern transhumans are meant to come into being through technology, Augustine offers two models of transhumans made by a divine rather than a human creator -- Adam and Eve in Eden and the resurrected saints in heaven. 3. A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love. Example: Imagine a living computer running a simulation where math functions within the simulation think. Then consider an implication of anthrocosmology: if human consciousness created reality and transhumans can simulate any reality they can imagine, that suggest the physical universe has no special status above any other virtual reality.
Word: transhumanism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trans- + humanism, coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957. 1. A philosophy favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: posthumanism (in one of its senses) Example: Those who favor transhumanism speak the language of individual choice and freedom from institutional authoritarianism; those who challenge it speak the language of human dignity and human nature as embodied in the individual.
Word: transhumanist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism. 1. An advocate of transhumanism. Example: Many transhumanists such as [Ray] Kurzweil contend that they are carrying on the legacy of the Enlightenment – that theirs is a philosophy grounded in reason and empiricism, even if they do lapse occasionally into metaphysical language about “transcendence” and “eternal life”. Example: [Eliezer] Yudkowsky was a transhumanist: human brains were going to be uploaded into digital brains during his lifetime, and this was great news.
Word: transhumanist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism. 1. Relating to transhumanism. Example: It wasn't like what you see in the now-popular clichés of tech culture and Silicon Valley. It was not a transhumanist cult.
Word: beat off Part of Speech: verb 1. To drive something away with blows or military force. Labels: figuratively, often, transitive Example: ...which Action did not so much grieve the English, as trouble and vex the Picts and Scots, who were incessantly gauled and frequently beat off by these Danish Troops. Example: First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured. 2. To masturbate by stimulating one's own penis. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar Example: Example 1: "I don't need a girlfriend. I just need some swimsuit catalogs, so I can beat off six or seven times a day." 3. To waste time. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar Example: I beat off at work all day; I didn't get anything done. 4. To shoot (a gun). Labels: slang, transitive Example: He beat his pistol off into the air.
Word: transhydrogenase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-)lbor. French hydro- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor. French -gène French hydrogènebor. English hydrogen Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-) Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs) English diastase English -ase English transhydrogenase From trans- + hydrogen + -ase. 1. A mitochondrial enzyme that transports protons across a cell membrane.
Word: mitochondrial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mitochondrion English -a English mitochondria English -al English mitochondrial From mitochondria + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪ.təˈkɑːn.dɹi.əl/, /ˌmaɪ.təˈkɒn.dɹi.əl/ 1. Of, or relating to mitochondria. Example: Sperm pass on none of their mitochondria during conception, so all mitochondrial information is transferred from generation to generation through mothers alone. Example: A coenzyme that exists in all living cells, NAD+ plays a central role in the body’s biological processes, such as regulating cellular energy, increasing insulin sensitivity and reversing mitochondrial dysfunction.
Word: transience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From transient + -ence. 1. The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: impromanga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From impro + manga. 1. A comic story told in relay format. Typically, one person begins the story, taking it to a cliffhanger ending. Later artists then follow up the story taking it in new and different directions. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: -trophy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *tʰrépʰō Ancient Greek τρέφω (tréphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ)der. English -trophy From Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “food, nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I congeal, thicken”). Pronunciation: /tɹə.fi/ 1. nutrition Labels: morpheme 2. growth, development Labels: morpheme
Word: tieback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tie + back. 1. A loop of cloth, cord, etc., which is placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side. 2. A newspaper rewrite or short synopsis of the information presented in the original story. in order to refresh the memories of readers who saw the old story and to update new readers. 3. in the oil industry, a new well drilled on a currently licence area.
Word: uffdah Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A term with Scandinavian origins (either Swedish or Norwegian). 1. A term for sensory overload. Can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment and sometimes dismay. Labels: US
Word: quesadilla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quesadilla. [Alt: Slices of a quesadilla piled on top of one another] Pronunciation: /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/, [ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə], /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiːjə/, /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdijə/, [ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈdijə] 1. A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted. 2. A Salvadoran pan dulce made with rice flour and queso duro blanco and topped with sesame seeds. Example: In the Salvadoran bakery, the quesadilla is king, whether cut into squares from a cake tray or baked into discus-sized round coffee cakes.
Word: mung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga). Pronunciation: /mʌŋ/, /muːŋ/ 1. mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mung Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s. Potentially related to mangle. Pronunciation: /mʌŋ/ 1. To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data. Labels: informal 2. To harm, to damage; to destroy. Labels: broadly, informal
Word: petrol sniffer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who sniffs petrol to experience a high. 2. An Australian Aboriginal. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
Word: fremitus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fremitus. 1. A vibration which is perceptible on palpation or auscultation.
Word: Müllerian mimicry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after German naturalist Fritz Müller. 1. The resemblance of two or more poisonous species to each other (for example, the monarch butterfly and the viceroy butterfly), making them all more recognisable to potential predators. Labels: uncountable
Word: mish Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of mission Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang Example: I haven't been on a mish in ages. I need some excitement. Do you get mad toey and hungry afterwards? Example: “Well, now that we're wrapped up, I gotta do recon for the big mish. Be back in two or three or ten days.” 2. Clipping of missionary (sex position) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable Example: The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along. Example: Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.
Word: palpate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”). Pronunciation: /ˈpælpeɪt/ 1. To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body. Example: I palpated his expired heart. Example: David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.
Word: palpate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”). Pronunciation: /ˈpælpeɪt/ 1. Of palp, or having palp. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Batesian mimicry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for Henry Walter Bates. 1. The resemblance of one or more non-poisonous species to a poisonous species, for example, the scarlet king snake and the coral snake. Labels: uncountable
Word: palp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”). Pronunciation: /pælp/ 1. Synonym of pedipalp. Example: Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache.
Word: palp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”). Pronunciation: /pælp/ 1. A fleshy part of a fingertip. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin. Example: The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head. Plunge into the dust-moted rough blackness of his hair, smooth back downward over the deep-brown nape of his neck. 2. Clipping of palpation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable Example: pain on palp
Word: palp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”). Pronunciation: /pælp/ 1. To feel, to explore by touch. Example: It is not possible to examine a male patient without making him undress and actually palping him all over.
Word: palp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: * (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”). Pronunciation: /pælp/ 1. Palpatory; obtained by palpation. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: palp blood pressure
Word: fearful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəfəl/, /ˈfɪəfʊl/, /ˈfɪːfəl/, /ˈfɪjəfəl/, /ˈfɪːfɵl/ 1. Frightening; causing fear. Example: Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me, But let them hear what fearful words I utter. Example: In the later Hebrew midrash Lilith is presented as the woman who knows how to recite the fearful name of God to work calamity; that this little girl cries out the fearful name of the sun god and thereby causes an earthquake would indicate that this girl is linked in the structure of the myth with Lilith. 2. Tending to fear; timid. Example: a fearful boy 3. Terrible; shockingly bad. Labels: dated Example: But every day after dinner, for an hour, we were all together, and then the Favourite and the rest of the Royal Hareem competed who should most beguile the leisure of the Serene Haroun reposing from the cares of State — which were generally, as in most affairs of State, of an arithmetical character, the Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum. Example: "What an awful infliction for you, Max. You were always such an impulsive, reckless sort of fellow—never quiet. You must miss such a fearful lot." 4. Frightened; filled with terror. Labels: archaic Example: kings ſhall crouch vnto our conquering ſwords, And hoſtes of Souldiers ſtand amazd at vs, When with their fearfull tongues they ſhall confeſſe Theſe are the men that al the world admires, Example: Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns […]
Word: fearful Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəfəl/, /ˈfɪəfʊl/, /ˈfɪːfəl/, /ˈfɪjəfəl/, /ˈfɪːfɵl/ 1. Extremely; fearfully. Labels: dialectal Example: “He is fearful handsome, as you know,” she said remorsefully, “you cannot imagine, Georgiana, the joy when I first fell in love with him.” Example: “It's a fearful strong charm needs dragon's blood,” he said plaintively.
Word: frightening Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frighten + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/, /ˈfɹaɪtnɪŋ/ 1. Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary. Example: Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience. Example: The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye. The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly. Danger is his business. 2. Awful, terrible, very bad. Labels: figuratively
Word: frightening Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From frighten + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/, /ˈfɹaɪtnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of frighten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The scientist was frightening the timid children.
Word: scary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English scare Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English scary From scare + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/, /ˈskɛː.ɹi/, /ˈskɛɹ.i/, /ˈskeːɹi/, /ˈskeəɹi/ 1. Causing fear or anxiety Labels: informal Example: The tiger's jaws were scary. Example: She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film. 2. Uncannily striking or surprising. Labels: informal Example: Linda changed her hair, and it’s scary how much she looks like her mother. 3. Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened. Labels: US, colloquial Example: “Whist! whist!” said Natty, in a low voice, on hearing a slight sound made by Elizabeth, in bending over the side of the canoe, in eager curiosity; “’tis a sceary animal, and it’s a far stroke for a spear. […]” Example: “She’s cursed,” said the skipper; “speak her fair: I’m scary always to see her shake Her wicked head, with its wild gray hair, And nose like a hawk, and eyes like a snake.”
Word: scary Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English scare Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English scary From scare + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/, /ˈskɛː.ɹi/, /ˈskɛɹ.i/, /ˈskeːɹi/, /ˈskeəɹi/ 1. To a scary extent; scarily. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.] Example: [T]he main reason I don't want to give her a GA is she's so scary fat!
Word: scary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialectal English scare (“scraggy”). 1. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
Word: expertise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Proto-Italic *parjō Latin pariō Latin experior Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin expertusder. French expert French -ise French expertisebor. English expertise Borrowed from French expertise. Pronunciation: /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/, /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtis/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtiz/, /ˌekspɜːˈtiːz/ 1. Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor. Example: Two HIV-positive teens, Jennifer Jako and Rebecca Guberman, had decided to make a film out of their own and other teens' experience with HIV, although they had no expertise when they started. 2. Advice, or opinion, of an expert. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: expertise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Proto-Italic *parjō Latin pariō Latin experior Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin expertusder. French expert French -ise French expertisebor. English expertise Borrowed from French expertise. Pronunciation: /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/, /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtis/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtiz/, /ˌekspɜːˈtiːz/ 1. To supply with expert knowledge or advice. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Since 1979, we have developed a method for expertising the design of the processes and improving them. Example: Including a plurality of different expertise in the decision-making processes corresponds to expertising the democratic procedures.
Word: regatta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from ricattare; or from Italian regata (“boat race, regatta”), via Vulgar Latin *aurigata from Latin auriga. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡætə/, /ɹɪˈɡɑtə/ 1. A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race. Labels: countable Example: […] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions. Example: The novice eights race demonstrated one of the reasons UVa manages to be so good year after year; the UVa novs finished first and second in the event, while Clemson's novice crew, the surprise of the regatta, took third. 2. A striped cotton fabric. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pedal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛdəl/, /ˈpiːdəl/ 1. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano. Example: There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics. Example: A piano usually has two or three pedals. 2. an orthopedic structure or a footlike part. 3. An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on. 4. A stirrup. Labels: humorous 5. The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ. Example: A small organ commonly has only one or two ranks on the pedal.
Word: pedal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛdəl/, /ˈpiːdəl/ 1. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion. Example: to pedal one's loom 2. To operate a bicycle. Labels: intransitive Example: He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill. Example: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
Word: pedal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛdəl/, /ˈpiːdəl/ 1. Of or relating to the foot. Labels: not-comparable
Word: murmurer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English murmur Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English murmurer From murmur + -er. 1. One who murmurs Example: […] in a genre dominated by loud beats and wailing pleas, Mr. Thicke is a hard-core murmurer.
Word: cedar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cedre, probably from Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros). Some suggest that the Middle English word was partially from Old English ċeder, but the gap in attestation between the two words makes this proposal unlikely. Possible doublet of citrus. Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.də/, /ˈsi.dɚ/ 1. A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae. Labels: countable 2. A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja. Labels: countable Example: There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock. 3. A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona. Labels: countable 4. The aromatic wood from a tree of genus Cedrus or from any of several not closely related trees. Labels: uncountable
Word: frame rate Part of Speech: noun 1. The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per second (often abbreviated "fps") or, equivalently, hertz (Hz). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fps Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of frames per second. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps. 2. Initialism of feet per second. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: fess up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of confess up. 1. To confess to something; to admit something. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: "‛Fess up," she persisted. "Have you boys been quarreling again?" Example: And you know, one of the things that I hope is that the American people will find when we make a mistake, we're willing to 'fess up to it and change.
Word: mumble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English momelen, a frequentative of mum (sense 3) (“silent”). Compare German mümmeln, Middle Dutch mommelen and Dutch mompelen. Perhaps related to Norwegian Nynorsk mumpa (“to gum, to chew without teeth”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌmbəl/, /ˈmʊmbəl/ 1. To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better. Example: Peace, you mumbling fool. 2. To chew something gently with closed lips.