nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: junior Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/, /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/ 1. To work in a junior role (on something). Labels: ambitransitive Example: Greenspan had juniored the Demeter murder trial with defence lawyer Joe Pomerant and was, by 1980, well on his way to becoming the most renowned criminal lawyer in Canada. Example: Stephens brought with him a general manager, Bob Rodgers. Bob […] never let adversity faze him. He was always in charge. Mr. Rodgers could dance just enough to do some junioring, but acted primarily as a sales manager. 2. To have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners). Labels: transitive Example: 2006, Jim and Leann Rathbone, James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo The technique of "junioring" beginners and the first five lesson plan and private lessons were adaptations developed at that time. They are credited with the Americanization of Karate as a business as well as a martial art.
Word: tautology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταὐτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”). By surface analysis, tauto- + -logy. Pronunciation: /tɔˈtɒləd͡ʒi/, /toːˈtɔləd͡ʒi/, /tɔˈtɑləd͡ʒi/, /tɑˈtɑləd͡ʒi/, /tɔˈtɔləd͡ʒe/ 1. Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable Example: It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning". 2. An expression that features tautology. Labels: countable, rhetoric Example: The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground". Example: Pure mathematics consists of tautologies, analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated. 3. A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. Labels: countable 4. A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms. Labels: countable
Word: gluggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glug + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlʌɡi/ 1. Liquid and viscous; moving slowly when poured. Labels: informal Example: The jelly was not yet set, but quite gluggy. 2. Easy to guzzle. (of a wine) 3. Lazy or sluggish. Labels: informal Example: The morning after the party I felt gluggy.
Word: pogrom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒɡɹəm/, /pəˈɡɹoʊm/, /ˈpoʊɡɹəm/, /pəˈɡɹʌm/, /pəˈɡɹɑm/ 1. A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group (usually Jews). 2. An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators. Example: More strikingly, when blood ran on the streets of Pittsburgh after the pogrom at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, Trump did not meet with community leaders of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, nor the family members of the dead, nor even the city’s mayor. He spoke with Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
Word: pogrom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm). Pronunciation: /ˈpɒɡɹəm/, /pəˈɡɹoʊm/, /ˈpoʊɡɹəm/, /pəˈɡɹʌm/, /pəˈɡɹɑm/ 1. To persecute or massacre a particular group of people. Labels: transitive
Word: Sikh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha). Pronunciation: /siːk/, /sɪk/ 1. An adherent of Sikhism. Example: Last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had credible information linking the Indian government to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an Indian-born Canadian national and Sikh dissident who was an outspoken supporter of Khalistan, a proposed autonomous homeland for Sikhs in northern India.
Word: Sikh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha). Pronunciation: /siːk/, /sɪk/ 1. of, or relating to the Sikhs or to Sikhism. Example: A year earlier, the Canadian leader was seen at a Sikh event in Toronto where separatist flags and posters depicting an extremist Sikh leader killed in a 1984 Indian Army operation were displayed.
Word: AstroTurf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From astro- + turf, from its namesake trademark, in turn a reference to the Astrodome stadium in Houston, the first major sports venue to install artificial turf in 1966. The venue was named by its developer Roy Hofheinz, presumably a reference to the emerging identity of Houston as Space City. Originally marketed as ChemGrass. Pronunciation: /ˈæstɹoʊˌtɝf/ 1. A synthetic material used in sports grounds as a durable substitute for natural grass. Labels: uncountable Example: And then there's AstroTurf. Invented in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and patented by Monsanto in 1965, AstroTurf is the world's first synthetic turf used as a sports playing surface, coming to fame—and its name—when it was put into the Houston Astrodome in 1966. 2. Alternative form of Astroturf. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: clamber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clambren, clameren, clemeren (“to climb, clamber; to crawl, creep”), then either: * possibly from clam, clamb, clemb, past tense of climben (“to climb, get over; to ascend, rise”), and influenced by Old English clæmman (“to press”); or * from Old English *clambrian, from Proto-Germanic *klambrōną or *klambizōną. The English word is cognate with Low German klemmern, klempern (“to climb”), Scots clammer (“to clamber”); and compare also Danish klamre (“to cling”), Icelandic klambra, klembra (“to pinch closely together; clamp”), Swedish klamra (“to cling”). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈklæmbə/, /ˈklæmbɚ/, /ˈklæmɚ/ 1. To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The children clambered over the jungle gym. Example: Now, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares: / Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares; / Or leades the dogs, or clambers mountaines; led / By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed.
Word: clamber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clambren, clameren, clemeren (“to climb, clamber; to crawl, creep”), then either: * possibly from clam, clamb, clemb, past tense of climben (“to climb, get over; to ascend, rise”), and influenced by Old English clæmman (“to press”); or * from Old English *clambrian, from Proto-Germanic *klambrōną or *klambizōną. The English word is cognate with Low German klemmern, klempern (“to climb”), Scots clammer (“to clamber”); and compare also Danish klamre (“to cling”), Icelandic klambra, klembra (“to pinch closely together; clamp”), Swedish klamra (“to cling”). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈklæmbə/, /ˈklæmbɚ/, /ˈklæmɚ/ 1. The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb. Example: Against intruding uncalled, and without a proper Sybilline conductress, into the realms of grim Pluto, he might have objections, not easily removed; but against a clamber to the scene of Jove's own Court [Mount Olympus], no objection could possibly lie, except the danger of breaking his neck, in coming down again;—much too trivial to deter a true virtuoso adept. Example: The entrance to the caves is not far from the further gate of the park. Their position is truly disappointing. I had anticipated a clamber half up the side of the mountain, and then some vast rift of chasm, not attainable without difficulty and danger.
Word: credophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by L. Sprague de Camp from Latin credo (“to believe”) + -phile (“liker, lover”). First known use is in a personal letter from de Camp to James Randi (which is thought to still exist in Randi's archives but is not readily available for study). The word "credophile" and the adjective form "credophilic" were used by L. Sprague de Camp at least as early as 1952 in "Lands Beyond" which he co-authored with Willie Ley (De Camp, L. Sprague & Willie Ley. Lands Beyond. NY: Rinehart, 1952, pp. 268, 272 Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛd.ə.faɪl/ 1. One who gets positive pleasure from belief and pain from doubt; one who collects beliefs not for utility but for glitter and for whom, once he or she has embraced a belief, it takes something more than mere disproof to make to let go. 2. One who is especially gullible. Example: The mere advent of the Spiritual Science Chair seemed to have been received as a beacon of opportunity for all manner of credophiles, so I guessed, rightly, that Miriam would come a-running if I dangled the prospect of an alternative analysis of the efficacy of homeopathic remedies.
Word: sexy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Italic *sekaō Latin secō Latin secāre? Latin sexusder. Old French sexeder. Middle English sexe English sex Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English sexy From sex + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksi/, /ˈseksi/, /ˈsɛkse/ 1. Having sex appeal; attractive. Example: The participants in the swimsuit competition are all very sexy. Example: She has a sexy voice! 2. Intriguing, appealing, likely to excite interest. Example: The manufacturers have launched a sexy new car. Example: We have some sexy ideas on how to improve sales. 3. Sexual; relating to or involving sex. Labels: rare Example: He didn't really like me; all he wanted was for me to be sexy with him.
Word: sexy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sex (“six”) + -y, intended as a pun. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksi/, /ˈseksi/, /ˈsɛkse/ 1. Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six. Labels: not-comparable Example: (73,79) is a sexy prime pair.
Word: aggregation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aggregātiō, from aggregō (“aggregate”). Pronunciation: /æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ 1. The act of collecting together, of aggregating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A collection of particulars; an aggregate. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Summarizing multiple routes into one route. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics. 7. A component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coup d'état Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French coup d'État (literally “strike (or blow or cut) of state”). Pronunciation: /ˌku deɪˈtɑ/, /ˌkuː deɪˈtɑː/ 1. The sudden overthrow of a government, differing from a revolution by being carried out by a small group of people who replace only the leading figures. Example: The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police of being part of a criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil’s democratic system through a rightwing coup d’état.
Word: aggressor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin aggressorder. English aggressor Derived from Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɛsə/, /əˈɡɹɛsɚ/ 1. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. Example: Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.
Word: agio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian aggio. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.d͡ʒoʊ/, /ˈɑː.d͡ʒoʊ/, /ˈæ.d͡ʒiˌoʊ/ 1. The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. Example: 1989, Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, →ISBN, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16), Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels. Example: The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.
Word: agiotage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio. 1. Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: agitator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English agitate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English agitator From agitate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈædʒɪteɪtə/, /ˈædʒɪteɪtɚ/ 1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers. Example: Near-synonyms: instigator; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker Example: In addition, they kept a watch on political agitators and foreigners arriving and departing at the port. 2. An implement for shaking or mixing. 3. One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Oliver Cromwell's time, to look after their interests. Labels: historical
Word: agere Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /eɪdʒˈɹiː/, /eɪdʒˈɹi/ 1. Clipping of age regression. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable 2. Clipping of age regressor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable
Word: babe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō-redup. Proto-Germanic *babô Proto-West Germanic *babō Old English *baba Middle English babe English babe From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”). cognates and related terms Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub. Pronunciation: /beɪb/ 1. A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. Labels: literary, poetic Example: These events came to pass when he was but a babe. Example: Though he possess sweet babes and loving wife, A home of peace by loyal friendships cheered, And love them more than death or happy life, 2. An attractive person, especially a young woman. Labels: slang Example: She's a real babe! Example: During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle. 3. A darling (a term of endearment). Labels: endearing Example: Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together? Example: But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.
Word: saint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sānctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancīre (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Doublet of Sanctus. Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English hālga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)). Pronunciation: /seɪnt/, /sən(t)/, [sn̩(t)], [sɨn(t)], /sɛnt/ 1. A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. Example: The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012. 2. One of the blessed in heaven. Example: Then ſhall thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure / Farr ſeparate, circling thy holy Mount / Unfained Halleluiahs to thee ſing, 3. A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world. Example: Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, called to be Saints, with all that in euery place call vpon the Name of Iesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. 4. Alternative letter-case form of Saint (“a Mormon, a Latter-day Saint”). Labels: Mormonism, alt-of, specifically 5. A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Dorothy Day was a living saint. Example: Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint! 6. A holy object. Labels: archaic Example: It is ruine to a man to deuoure ſaintes, and afterward to retracte the vowes.
Word: saint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above). Pronunciation: /seɪnt/, /sən(t)/, [sn̩(t)], [sɨn(t)], /sɛnt/ 1. Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint. Labels: transitive Example: Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.
Word: sanctus Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of Sanctus. Labels: alt-of Example: Egypt, however, developed its own unique supplicatory use of the sanctus.
Word: Agnus Dei Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Agnus Deī (“Lamb of God”). Pronunciation: /ˌæɡnəs ˈdeɪ.i/, /ˌɑːnjus ˈdeɪ.i/ 1. A liturgical chant recited as part of the Mass, beginning with those words, or the music to which it is set. 2. A small model, picture, or heraldic representation of a lamb with a cross and sometimes a flag (usually white with a red cross). 3. A bar of wax imprinted with a similar shape and blessed by the Pope. Example: Matilda continued her incantations; at intervals she took various items from the basket, the nature and name of most of which were unknown to the friar: but among the few which he distinguished, he particularly observed three human fingers, and an agnus dei, which she broke in pieces. Example: The most common of these amulets was the agnus dei, a small wax cake, originally made out of paschal candles and blessed by the Pope, bearing the image of the lamb and flag.
Word: dei Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of dey (“informal term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.”). Labels: Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Word: sol-fa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sol and fa, two of the sung syllables. 1. a method of sight singing music that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The fixed-do system uses do for C, and the movable-do system uses do for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is do if the piece is in the key of B). Labels: uncountable
Word: sol-fa Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sol and fa, two of the sung syllables. 1. To sing a sol-fa
Word: major scale Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone. Example: {c' d' e' f' g' a' b' c}
Word: simplex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin simplex (“plain, simple; single”). The first part, sim-, comes from Proto-Indo-European *sem-, *sm̥- (“one; together”). The second part, -plex, may be from *pleḱ- (“to weave”). The noun is derived from the adjective. The plural forms simplices and simplicia are learned borrowings from Latin simplicēs (masculine or feminine) and simplicia (neuter), respectively plural forms of simplex. Noun sense 1 (“generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension”) was apparently coined by the Dutch mathematician Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913) as a short version of Simplicissimum in Mehrdimensionale Geometrie (in German, 1902). (In his pioneering works on algebraic topology, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) had previously introduced the concept, but not the actual term simplex.) Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɛks/, /ˈsɪmˌplɛks/ 1. Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary. Labels: dated, not-comparable 2. Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation. Labels: historical, not-comparable 3. Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional. Labels: not-comparable 4. Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes. Labels: not-comparable 5. Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”). Labels: archaic, not-comparable, obsolete 6. Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded. Labels: not-comparable 7. Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey. Labels: not-comparable
Word: simplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin simplex (“plain, simple; single”). The first part, sim-, comes from Proto-Indo-European *sem-, *sm̥- (“one; together”). The second part, -plex, may be from *pleḱ- (“to weave”). The noun is derived from the adjective. The plural forms simplices and simplicia are learned borrowings from Latin simplicēs (masculine or feminine) and simplicia (neuter), respectively plural forms of simplex. Noun sense 1 (“generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension”) was apparently coined by the Dutch mathematician Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913) as a short version of Simplicissimum in Mehrdimensionale Geometrie (in German, 1902). (In his pioneering works on algebraic topology, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) had previously introduced the concept, but not the actual term simplex.) Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɛks/, /ˈsɪmˌplɛks/, /ˈsɪmplɪsiːz/, /ˈsɪmpləˌsiz/, /sɪmˈplɪsiə/ 1. A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space. 2. A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word. Example: The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not. 3. In full simplex sentence: in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence. Labels: archaic Example: The question is: is 139. [“Priexal Vanja. ‘arrived Vanya’”] a simplex or is it a cleft structure in which all 'superfluous' constituents were deleted. […] The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject. 4. An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
Word: duplex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex. Pronunciation: /ˈdu.plɛks/ 1. Double; made up of two parts. Labels: not-comparable 2. Double; made up of two parts. Labels: not-comparable 3. Double; made up of two parts. Labels: not-comparable Example: Duplex stainless steels have been classified according to the first period (1930–1960) and second period (1960–1990). The designations for these duplex alloys in the United States have been primarily according to Unified Numbering System (UNS) numbers in the S3xxx.x series. 4. Bidirectional (in two directions). Labels: not-comparable Example: duplex telegraphy 5. Having horizons with contrasting textures. Labels: not-comparable Example: Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts […]
Word: duplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex. Pronunciation: /ˈdu.plɛks/ 1. A house made up of two dwelling units. Labels: Australia, Canada, US Example: The house had been renovated into a duplex and he’d put in a phone line. 2. A dwelling unit with two floors. Labels: US 3. A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting. 4. A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time. 5. A double-stranded polynucleotide. 6. A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust. Example: In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex. Example: It has been noted, using a combination of surface geologic and seismic reflection data, that a duplex, although formed in response to movement of a thrust sheet, frequently arches the thrust sheet as the duplex is built by duplication of rocks beneath it […]
Word: duplex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex. Pronunciation: /ˈdu.plɛks/ 1. To make duplex. 2. To make into a duplex. 3. To make a series of duplex throws.
Word: cynosure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French Cynosure (“Ursa Minor; Polaris”), from Latin Cynosūra (“Ursa Minor”), from Ancient Greek Κυνόσουρα (Kunósoura, “Ursa Minor”, literally “dog’s tail”), from κυνός (kunós, “dog's”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnəzjʊə/, /-sjʊə/, /-ʃʊə/, /ˈsaɪnəʃʊɹ/, /ˈsɪn-/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Cynosure: Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators. Labels: alt-of 2. That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star. Labels: figuratively Example: let faith be your cynosure to walk by 3. Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration. Labels: figuratively Example: Towers, and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Example: Meanwhile the fair young Queen, in her halls of state, walks like a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it.
Word: north and south Part of Speech: noun 1. The mouth. Labels: Cockney, slang Example: He's grassing me up; he could never keep his north and south shut, the huge toe rag that he is.
Word: achroödextrin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek privative ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “color”) + dextrin. 1. Dextrin not colorable by iodine. Labels: uncountable
Word: dad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”). Pronunciation: /dæd/ 1. A father, a male parent. Labels: informal Example: His dad was always there for him. Example: A lot of the power for dads comes in the form of modeling. As much as dads can teach their sons directly and guide them in the world, they also provide an example of who their children can aim to be as they grow up, Singley said. “There are going to be the times when as the dad I’m going to screw up,” he said. 2. Used to address one's father; often capitalized. Example: Happy Father's Day, dad! 3. Used to address an older adult male. Labels: slang
Word: dad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”). Pronunciation: /dæd/ 1. To be a father to; to parent. 2. To act like a dad.
Word: dad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /dæd/ 1. A lump or piece. 2. A blow; act of striking something.
Word: dad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /dæd/ 1. To throw against something; to dash. Labels: transitive
Word: dad Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dæd/ 1. Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: agoraphobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin agoraphobia, from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly”) + φοβία (phobía, “fear”). By surface analysis, agora + -phobia. Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871. Pronunciation: /ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /əˌɡɔː.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/, /əˌɡɔɹ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/, /əˌɡoː.ɹəˈfəʉ.biː.ə/ 1. The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions. Example: Now, you know that the classical analytical explanation of agoraphobia of the early 1900s was that it represented a street phobia because the patient equated streetwalking with prostitutional activity[…] 2. An aversion to markets. Labels: rare Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia.
Word: agro Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of aggro Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Trolls turns to me agro/sexy. "You're a weirdo who makes others feel weird cause you don't fit in...leave!"
Word: ala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated 1730–40, borrowed from Latin āla (“wing”). Doublet of aisle. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lə/ 1. A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone. 2. The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family. 3. In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.
Word: ala Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Borrowed from French à la, by way of its English derivation a la. 1. Alternative form of a la. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial Example: The film is told in reverse ala Memento. Example: […] interactive plasma screens with flashing digits and what not, ala “Minority Report,” […]
Word: vale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displaced native Old English dell. Pronunciation: /veɪl/, [veɪɫ] 1. A valley. Labels: poetic Example: In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease, Example: "Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.
Word: vale Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō (“be well”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɑːleɪ/ 1. Farewell. Example: Vale, Sarah Smith
Word: dale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą. Pronunciation: /deu/, /deɪl/ 1. A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. Labels: UK Example: And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields Example: Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...] 2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
Word: dale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century. Pronunciation: /deu/, /deɪl/ 1. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. Labels: archaic Example: The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.
Word: calve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English calven, from Old English *calfian, cealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *kalbōn, from Proto-Germanic *kalbōną (“to calve”), from *kalbaz (“calf”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian koolvje, Dutch kalven, German Low German kalven, German kalben, Swedish kalva, Icelandic kálfa. Pronunciation: /kɑːv/, /kæv/, /kav/ 1. To give birth to a calf. Labels: intransitive Example: The farmer could tell Bessie was about to calve. 2. To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf. Labels: intransitive Example: The farmer calved Bessie for almost two hours. 3. To give birth to (a calf). Labels: transitive 4. To shed a large piece. Labels: especially, figuratively, intransitive Example: The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched. 5. To break off. Labels: especially, figuratively, intransitive Example: The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier. 6. To shed (a large piece); to set loose (a mass of ice). Labels: especially, figuratively, transitive Example: The glacier was starting to calve an iceberg even as we watched.
Word: pasty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From paste + -y (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪsti/ 1. Like paste, sticky. Example: These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty. 2. Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor. Example: He is pasty-faced. Example: (figuratively) He was feeling pasty. 3. Whiteskinned. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!" Example: “So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.
Word: pasty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty. Pronunciation: /ˈpæsti/, /ˈpɑːsti/ 1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.
Word: pasty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paste + -y (diminutive suffix). 1. Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, in-plural Example: Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast. Example: One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple
Word: pastie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paste + -ie. First use appears c. 1954, in the publications of E. J. Abbot. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪsti/ 1. An item worn (often by strippers) to conceal one's nipples. Example: My health has much improved; I could probably go back to wearing bras if I wanted to. But I’ve grown fond of my strange-looking pasties.
Word: pastie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty. 1. Alternative spelling of pasty (“a type of seasoned meat pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. A circular, battered and deep-fried meat pie usually consisting of minced pork, onion, potato and seasoning and served in a bap or with chips. A peculiarity of Northern Irish "chippy" cuisine, rarely (if ever) seen outside the area. Labels: Northern-Ireland
Word: saintly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *saintli (suggested by seyntly (adverb)), equivalent to saint + -ly. Compare saintlike. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪntli/ 1. Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike. Example: Sophie led a saintly life. Example: Since my sother is nothing short of saintly, she fetches me daily from work and transports me here and there.
Word: clothing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding. Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/, /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, /ˈkloðɪŋ/, /ˈkloːðɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of clothe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clothing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding. Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/, /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, /ˈkloðɪŋ/, /ˈkloːðɪŋ/ 1. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Marco runs a clothing brand. Example: You should wear warm clothing when it is cold outside. 2. An act or instance of putting clothes on. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance. 3. The art or process of making cloth. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [M]any of the poor diſtreſſed People, being bereft of their Habitation, came into England, vvhere the King, in Compaſſion of their Condition, and alſo, conſidering that they might be beneficial to his Subjects, by instructing them in the Art of Cloathing, firſt placed them about Carliſle in the North, and after removed them into South-VVales, vvhere their Poſterity hath ever ſince remained. 4. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jacket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old French jaque Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒæk.ət/ 1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. 2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US) 3. An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status. 4. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.) 5. A police record. Labels: slang Example: We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail. Example: Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years. 6. In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired. 7. The tough outer skin of a baked potato. Example: Cook the potatoes in their jackets. 8. A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father. Labels: Jamaica 9. A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK). Labels: Appalachia
Word: jacket Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Old French jaque Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒæk.ət/ 1. To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. Example: ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’ 2. To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. Labels: transitive Example: ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length. Example: By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.
Word: magus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος for details). Doublet of mage. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪɡəs/ 1. A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster. Example: In the middle of the fifth century, Empedocles testified to the vitality of these maguses, who were capable of commanding the winds and of bringing the dead back from Hades and who presented themselves, not as mortals, but as gods. Example: It’s from our venerable maguses Gominik Halvor and his son. They’ve cast the runes for our enterprise. 2. A Zoroastrian priest. Example: Court astrologers, who were drawn from the race of the Magi, were among those that formed the royal court [...] Example: Mocenigo / [satisfied at last] / Good! Now, tell me, Prior, / What is Rome’s greatest fear? What gives the Pope / More night-mares than bad sausage? / Prior Gabrielli / Heresy! / The rendering of the seamless robe of truth. / This rabble of mountebanks and maguses / Who shout reform, defile the Eucharist, / Flout all authority, elect false bishops, / Deny the Trinity and saving grace, / Abolish marriage, set their private minds / Against the long tradition of the Faith / And Peter’s dictates and the Holy Writ . . .
Word: arcanum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin arcānum. Pronunciation: /ɑɹˈkeɪnəm/, /ɑɹˈkɑːnəm/ 1. A mystery or deep secret. 2. An elixir or secret remedy.
Word: stella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stēlla (“a star”). Doublet of estoile, étoile, and stelo; related to aster and star. Pronunciation: /ˈstɛl.ə/ 1. A star-shaped structure. Example: Plants of this collection are several decimeters taller; the pedicels are more remote in the inforescence; the stellae are larger and form a less dense cover on plant parts, and the siliques are slightly larger than in the usual form of the species. Example: Stems and young branches terete, viscid, densely ferruginous-tomentose with sessile to short-stalked pauciradiate stellae bearing greatly prolonged 4-6-celled midpoints, these 0.1-0.2 cm long, gland-tipped, strongly armed with ferruginous laterally compressed prickles, these broad-based and sparsely glandular in the basal quarter. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Stella. Labels: US, alt-of