nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: oestrus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂-der. Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros)der. Latin oestrusbor. English oestrus Borrowed from Latin oestrus (“gadfly, sting, frenzy”), from Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eys-, used to form words denoting passion; see also Latin īra (“anger”), Lithuanian aistra (“violent passion”), Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”). Pronunciation: /ˈiːstɹəs/, /ˈɛstɹəs/ 1. A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly. Labels: countable Example: […] and which is produced by the larvae of oestri and particularly of Oestrus hemorrhoidalis. Example: If this is inseparable from the oeconomy of nature, it necessarily follows that man must be subject to the depredations of oestri, ichneumons, . . . and perhaps, thousands of others, which the senses, aided by the directions of a correct understanding, may be able to trace in a way that will fall very little short of absolute demonstration. 2. A bite or sting. Labels: countable 3. A passion or frenzy. Labels: archaic, countable 4. A female animal's readiness to mate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In those monoestrous species in which the male is capable all the year round, it is found that the oestri of individual females come at different seasons. Example: A vasectomized Philippine carabao bull was used as a teaser to determine the occurrence and recurrence of oestri.
Word: stupidly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Latin stupidusder. Middle French stupideder. English stupid Middle English -ly English -ly English stupidly From stupid + -ly. 1. In a stupid manner. Example: She gazed stupidly after him. Example: She was so modest, so expressive, she had looked so soft in her thin white gown that he felt he had acted stupidly. 2. To an extreme or excessive degree; absurdly. Example: He is so—so proud of his money, and thinks every one ought to be as stupidly rich as he is himself. Example: As well as being stupidly hungry I had a raging thirst.
Word: oka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish اوقه (okka). Doublet of ounce, inch, uncia, ouguiya, and awqiyyah. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkə/ 1. A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram. Labels: historical Example: At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois... Example: Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔). 2. A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.
Word: olisbos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄλισβος (ólisbos), possibly from ὀλισθάνειν (olisthánein, “to slip, glide”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒlɪzbəs/ 1. A dildo. Example: I had blazed in her face an olisbos-like flashlight. Example: At quiet hour in the afternoon they were adepts of the olisbos, baubon, and finger.
Word: zip-front Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a garment worn on the upper body, fastened by a zip fastener that runs the full length of the garment. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ollamh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish ollamh, from Old Irish ollam (“doctor”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒlæm/ 1. In Irish history, a man of science or learning, equivalent to a university professor. Labels: historical
Word: ollav Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ollamh. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face, bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed.
Word: omophagia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὠμοφαγία (ōmophagía), from ὠμός (ōmós, “raw”) (see omo-) + -φαγία (-phagía) (see -phagia for more). By surface analysis, omo- (“raw, uncooked”) + -phagia. Pronunciation: /əʊməˈfeɪd͡ʒɪə/ 1. The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh. Example: Omophagia, that’s it! Do you like that word? Take it away with you! Example: Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. There was a word for it in Greek: omophagia.
Word: oncer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From once + -er (relational suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈwʌnsɚ/ 1. A one-pound note. Labels: historical, informal Example: On whatever point Jane’s eyes rested, through whichever line her gaze ran, she saw cheques being signed, credit-card counterfoils being scrawled across, standing orders being arranged, and cash – wholesome dosh, ponies, monkies, oncers, coins of the realm – flowing around like mercury, like some element. 2. A person who does something once. Labels: poetic Example: Could he but once see Nature as / In truth she is for ever, / What oncer would not fall in love? 3. A single sexual encounter between two individuals, a one-night stand. Labels: informal 4. A person with whom one shares a single sexual encounter, a one-night stand. Labels: informal
Word: oreibasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Greek ορειβασία, literally ‘mountain-treading’. Pronunciation: /əɹeɪˈbæsɪə/ 1. A nocturnal ceremony of Bacchic women in Ancient Greece. Example: Besides, it was getting cold. They say that the oreibasia took place in midwinter, but I daresay the Peloponnesus is considerably milder that time of year than Vermont.
Word: snowfall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From snow + fall. Pronunciation: /ˈsnoʊfɔːl/ 1. An instance of falling of snow. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There has been snowfall every day this week. 2. The amount of snow that falls on one occasion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: London recorded a snowfall of 10 centimetres last night.
Word: orexis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin orexis (“longing; appetite”), from Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “desire”), from ὀρέγω (orégō, “to reach, stretch”). Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛksɪs/ 1. The affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act; desire, appetite. Example: A sweet orexis rising in his cock, a blush of fever mixing tickles in his balls, Adriaan slid his briefs off and began to lay out the makings for supper.
Word: orgone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of organism + hormone, after German Orgon. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɡəʊn/ 1. In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer. Example: So, boys, when those hot licks play over your balls and prick and dart up your ass like an invisible blue blow torch of orgones, in the words of T. J. Watson, Think.
Word: oriflamme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French oriflambe, oriflamme, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪflæm/ 1. The red silk banner of St Denis, which the abbot of St Denis gave to French kings as they rode to war in the Middle Ages. Labels: historical Example: The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel. 2. Any banner, idea or principle which serves as a rallying point for those involved in a struggle. Labels: figuratively Example: And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. Example: Please remember that the vocabulary of our readers isn’t very extensive, so don’t go using words like ‘oriflamme’ or ‘inelectable’. 3. Something resembling the banner of St Denis; a bright, shining object. Labels: literary Example: This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its 'Drapeau Rouge:' in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, has but henceforth to hang out that new Oriflamme of his; then to read or mumble something about the King's peace; and, after certain pauses, serve any undispersing Assemblage with musket-shot.... Example: On the other side Mailey's yellow beard flamed like an oriflamme.
Word: bushwhacking Part of Speech: noun 1. Travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress. 2. Fighting as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country. 3. Criticizing on policies and stances by George W. Bush.
Word: bushwhacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bushwhack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: orpiment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English orpyment, from Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːpɪmənt/, /ˈɔɹpəmənt/ 1. Arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
Word: supermen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orrery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1676–1731), for whom such a device was made. The placename is from Irish Orbhraighe, originally the name of a tribe (Orbh-raighe (“Orb's people”)), and then of a territory and a barony. Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹ.ə.ɹi/, /ˈɔɹ.ə.ɹi/, /ˈɑɹ.ə.ɹi/ 1. A clockwork model of any given solar system. Example: In the mean time I have another trouble to give you, if you will oblige me in it; and that is to get me a sight of the famous Orrery, which I have heard you and others so often speak of; and which I think was made by Mr. Rowley, the famous Mathematical Instrument-Maker. Example: To conclude; the Candor and Forgiveness of the Reader is here entreated for Errors or Imperfections he possibly may discover in the following pages, as they are the production of one, whose engagements in business will admit but a small portion of time for an endeavor to explain the most conspicuous, and interesting phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies, by his new portable Orrey. 2. A conceptual model of someone's worldview. Labels: figuratively Example: This book is the result of fourteen thousand miles in the saddle and four years in the library. It describes the lives of the inhabitants of France – wherever possible, through their own eyes – and the exploration and colonization of their land by foreigners and natives, from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. It follows a roughly chronological route, from the end of the reign of Louis XIV to the outbreak of the First World War, with occasional detours through pre-Roman Gaul and present-day France. Part One describes the populations of France, their languages, beliefs and daily lives, their travels and discoveries, and the other creatures with whom they shared the land. In Part Two, the land is mapped, colonized by rulers and tourists, refashioned politically and physically, and turned into a modern state. The difference between the two parts, broadly speaking, is the difference between ethnology and history: the world that was always the same and the world that was always changing. I have tried to give a sense of the orrery of disparate, concurrent spheres, to show a land in which mule trains coincided with railway trains, and where witches and explorers were still gainfully employed when Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris.
Word: ort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”); for more, see Old English or-, English eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oɹt/, /ɔːɹt/ 1. A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. Labels: plural-normally Example: […]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor. Example: Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals. 2. A small coin, formerly used in central Europe. Labels: historical Example: ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick. Example: The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]
Word: ort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”); for more, see Old English or-, English eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc. Pronunciation: /ɔːt/, /oɹt/, /ɔːɹt/ 1. To turn away from with disgust; refuse. Labels: dialectal, transitive
Word: outfangthief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From out- + fang + thief, formed—probably in Middle English [Term?]—after the model of infangthief, with the only Old English [Term?] attestation a spurious charter forged in the 1st half of the 12th century. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtfaŋθiːf/ 1. A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction. Labels: historical, rare Example: A grant of outfangthief imports the trial of those of his fee taken for felony in another precinct. Example: The addition of outfangandthef is much less usual [than infangthief]; it seems to have meant the right to try a man of the barony taken stealing outside the barony, if necessary repledging him to the barony court. 2. A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon all thieves captured within their estates, regardless of their origin. Labels: historical, rare Example: But feudalism also contained another principle, and that was, that within his own territory each lord was absolute; his suzerain could not interfere with his jurisdiction; infangthief and outfangthief implied a very perfect and intelligible power of hanging and imprisoning as he pleased. 3. A thief so captured and tried. Labels: countable, historical, rare
Word: grungy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably a blend of grunt + dingy, influenced by grimy. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌnd͡ʒi/ 1. Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
Word: grungy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: grunge + -y, usage probably influenced by etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌnd͡ʒi/ 1. Of or relating to grunge music.
Word: forceps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin forceps. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːsɛps/, /ˈfɔːsəps/, /ˈfoɹsɛps/, /ˈfɔ(ː)ɹsɛps/ 1. An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers. 2. A pair of appendages on the abdomen of some insects, such as earwigs, resembling the medical instrument.
Word: dredger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dredge 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 dredger From dredge + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛdʒ.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed. Example: The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter. 2. One who fishes with a dredge. 3. A dredging machine. 4. A container with a perforated lid, used to sprinkle sugar or flour. Example: In the kitchen Mrs. Piper was busy with a flour dredger, a rolling pin, and a basin of dough.
Word: overexertion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English exertion English overexertion From over- + exertion. 1. excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mixed blessing Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that has both good and bad features. Labels: idiomatic Example: Near-synonym: double-edged sword Example: Moving house has been a mixed blessing: we're closer to the shops, but the railway is noisy.
Word: improvised explosive device Part of Speech: noun Etymology: As a descriptive term, appearing in the early 20th century. In the narrower sense describing weapons of irregulars and terrorists, popularized in the British Army during the Troubles and in the US during the Iraq War. 1. An unconventional or amateur explosive weapon made from nonmilitary components, especially one used by guerrillas, commandos or terrorists.
Word: roadside bomb Part of Speech: noun 1. An explosive device placed at the side of a road and detonated when the target passes.
Word: spokesperson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + person. Pronunciation: /ˈspəʊkspɜːɹsən/, /ˈspoʊksˌpɝsən/ 1. A person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people. Example: News subsidies thus include making spokespersons available, producing press releases or staging pseudo-events designed to suit the media's production needs and attract the media's attention […] Example: Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
Word: tinfoil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tin + foil. 1. A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Aluminium foil. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: tinfoil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tin + foil. 1. To cover in tinfoil. Labels: transitive
Word: tinge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Latin tingere, present active infinitive of tingō (“to dip; to moisten; to colour, dye, tinge”). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /tɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Though a ſingle grain of copper diſſolved in upwards of twenty gallons of clear water may be detected by a viſible blue tinge appearing on the addition of a few drops of volatile alcali, yet this is by no means the caſe in turbid high-coloured liquors, [...] Hence the neceſſity of diluting ſuch liquors in varying the experiments. In no inſtance did the blue tinge appear with the alcalis, even after the wine was diluted, and yet its abſence does not prove the liquor to be abſolutely free from an impregnation of copper. Example: And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoning—the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; [...] all these are but subtile deceits, [...] 2. The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [page 51] The following are the results of experiments made with rhubarb, to ascertain the best modes of detecting it in the urine and blood, and the time it takes to pass from the stomach to the urinary bladder. [...] [page 52] In 17 minutes, half an ounce of urine was voided, which when tested had a light tinge. In 30 minutes another half ounce was made, in which the tinge was stronger; and in 41 minutes a third half ounce was made, in which it was very deep. In an hour and ten minutes 7 ounces were voided, in which the tinge of rhubarb was very weak, and in two hours twelve ounces were voided, in which it was hardly perceptible. 3. A draper's or clothier's markup. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: A retail house […] are in the habit of cutting up, say, a fourpenny Croydon, into dozens; these dozens are marked four shillings and threepence, with one penny "tinge;" so that the privileged customer pays threepence more for the calico "marked up cheap!" […]
Word: tinge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Latin tingere, present active infinitive of tingō (“to dip; to moisten; to colour, dye, tinge”). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /tɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. Labels: transitive Example: [T]he water being ting'd red, cant it off, iterate it ſo long till the Vitriol tingeth the water no more. Example: A Saline liquor therefore, mixt with another ting'd liquor, may alter the colour of it ſeveral ways, either by altering the refraction of the liquor in which the colour ſwims: or ſecondly by varying the refraction of the coloured particles, by uniting more intimately either with ſome particular corpuſcles of the tinging body, or with all of them, [...] 2. To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Hail! nurse of thought, with brow serene; / Who, as the sun, so wont, retires, / And leaves the sky to milder fires, / Tingest with shadowy forms the fading scene, [...] Example: For the very intensity of the light is all-consuming and it consumes this very vibration of the liar and his lie tingeing the word, the murderer and his murder tingeing their works! 3. To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing. Labels: intransitive Example: [H]is virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. Example: Taint is here a metaphorical expression. It means literally something which tinges. "The mean and malignant passions" are therefore, first of all, a substance which tinges. This substance which tinges "will creep."
Word: tingle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tinglen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English tingen (“to tink”) + -len, equivalent to ting + -le. Alternatively, possibly a variant of Middle English tinclen (“to tinkle”) or from Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). More at tinkle. Compare also West Frisian tingelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tingelen (“to tinkle, jingle”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/ 1. To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. Labels: intransitive Example: My hands were tingling from the cold. Example: I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles. 2. To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. Labels: intransitive Example: I tingled Example: This made me tingle 3. To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. Labels: transitive Example: Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes. 4. To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. Labels: transitive Example: tingle someone 5. To ring; to tinkle or twang. Labels: intransitive Example: Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes. Example: 1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round sharp tingling bells 6. To cause to ring, to tinkle. Labels: transitive Example: Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled. Example: […]the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.
Word: tingle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tinglen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English tingen (“to tink”) + -len, equivalent to ting + -le. Alternatively, possibly a variant of Middle English tinclen (“to tinkle”) or from Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). More at tinkle. Compare also West Frisian tingelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tingelen (“to tinkle, jingle”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/ 1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson. 2. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson. Labels: in-plural Example: get/give tingles 3. A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle. Example: Their every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature. Example: The tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.
Word: tingle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: cognate with the Middle High German zingel Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/ 1. A nail of the very smallest size; a tack. Example: From the diminutive "tingle" or baby tack up to the massive ship spike, almost every kind of nail is shown, not only in iron and steel, but also in copper, zinc, and brass,, and on the partition will be noticed a somewhat novel application of nails. Example: Figs. 16, 17, 18 show method of forming a double welt, notice the copper tack or tingle to same as further security. 2. A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat. Example: If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle. Metal tingles are not ; they require a lot of fastenings and even then are not easily made really watertight. Example: With tin snips, cut the tingle to shape (some people bend the edges over to form a 1/4-inch hem), and lather it with polysulfide seam compound. 3. An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging. Example: The tingle is fastened on the top of the brick by a small pat of mortar, on which is placed a piece of brick to keep the tingle firm. Example: a tingle is used to prevent the line from sagging in the middle if it is being used on a long wall
Word: tingle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: cognate with the Middle High German zingel Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/ 1. To fasten with a tingle; to tack. Labels: transitive Example: Tingle the middle down by placing a tingle at the toe, and a couple at the joints. 2. To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that requires it to be watertight. Labels: transitive Example: If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle. Example: To put her on the other tack while we tingle a started butt would lose us twenty-four hours at least, maybe more. 3. To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle. Labels: transitive Example: If there is much length of line it will require tingling up to keep it from sagging. To tingle a line it is best to have a plumbing place at that point were the tingle is to be fixed so as to ensure the work beging kept true.
Word: tingling Part of Speech: adj 1. That tingles. Example: tingling sensation in one's wrists Example: tingling sound in the ears
Word: tingling Part of Speech: noun 1. A tingling sensation; pins and needles.
Word: tingling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tingle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pins and needles Part of Speech: noun 1. A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations. Labels: informal Example: The sensations caused by the loss of this nerve vary from numbness or "pins and needles" to severe pain.
Word: tinkerer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tinker + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋk.ɚ.ɚ/ 1. Agent noun of tinker; one who tinkers with things. Labels: agent, form-of Example: Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities. Example: Make magazine, which celebrates “your right to tweak, hack and bend any technology to your own will,” has joined with the New York Hall of Science to gather more than 500 of the craftiest inventors, artists, technology enthusiasts, tinkerers and hobbyists to share their expertise. 2. A meddler.
Word: tinkling Part of Speech: noun 1. A tinkle; a tinkling sound. Example: The merry piano tinklings were gone. 2. The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger. Labels: Jamaica 3. The action of the verb to tinkle
Word: tinkling Part of Speech: adj 1. That tinkles. Labels: not-comparable Example: A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you. Example: American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 2. That works as a tinker Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: tinkling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tinkle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tin plate Part of Speech: noun 1. A thin sheet of steel coated with tin to prevent rusting; used to make cans, roofing, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tinplate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tin Vulgar Latin *platta Old French platebor. Middle English plate English plate English tinplate From tin + plate. 1. Alternative spelling of tin plate. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: [...] 4,000 tons of slabs will be sent to the R.T.B. works at Ebbw Vale and a further 8,000 a week will be rolled at the new R.T.B. Newport Works and returned to the Steel Co. of Wales at Trostre and Llangyfelach in coil form for processing into tinplate.
Word: tinplate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English tin Vulgar Latin *platta Old French platebor. Middle English plate English plate English tinplate From tin + plate. 1. Alternative spelling of tin-plate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tin-plate Part of Speech: verb 1. To coat (something, especially steel sheet) with tin, either by dipping or electroplating. Labels: transitive
Word: tin-plating Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of applying a protective layer of tin, especially to steel sheet. Labels: uncountable
Word: tin-plating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tin-plate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tin pyrites Part of Speech: noun 1. the mineral stannite Labels: uncountable
Word: stannite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English stann- Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English stannite From stann- + -ite. 1. a dark-gray lustrous mineral, a mixed sulfide of copper, iron, and tin, Cu₂FeSnS₄, used as an ore of tin Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tire gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. A device used to measure the pressure of vehicle tires. Labels: Canada, US 2. A type of crack pipe, with its innards removed. Labels: slang
Word: tyre gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of tire gauge. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: tyre-pressure gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of tire-pressure gauge. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: tire-pressure gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. A tire gauge. Labels: Canada, US
Word: tyre-pressure Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of tire-pressure. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: respite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French respit (“rest”), from Latin respectus. Doublet of respect. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛsˌpaɪt/, /ˈɹɛs.pɪt/ 1. A brief interval of rest or relief. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I crave but four day's respite. Example: Some pause and respite only I require. 2. A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thenne spake sir gawayn and sayd my lord Arthur I wold counceylle yow not to be ouer hasty but that ye wold putte it in respyte this Iugement of my lady the quene for many causes. "Then spake Sir Gawaine, and said: My lord Arthur, I would counsel you not to be over-hasty, but that ye would put it in respite, this judgment of my lady the queen, for many causes." Example: The PACC Act [Post-Appeal Applications in Capital Cases Act] also amends the CPC [Criminal Procedure Code] to provide that a capital sentence may be carried out unless:[…]The President has ordered a respite. 3. The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: respite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French respit (“rest”), from Latin respectus. Doublet of respect. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛsˌpaɪt/, /ˈɹɛs.pɪt/ 1. To delay or postpone (an event). Labels: transitive 2. To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation. Labels: transitive
Word: tire-pressure Part of Speech: noun 1. the pressure of the air in a vehicle tire Labels: Canada, US
Word: tissue culture Part of Speech: noun 1. the process or technique of propagating tissue (either cells or plants) in a culture medium Labels: countable, uncountable 2. the culture of tissue grown by this process Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: titbit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tidbit. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative Example: But our particular friends were the rats, that dwelt by the stream. They were long and black. We brought them such titbits from our ordinary as rinds of cheese, and morsels of gristle, and we brought them also bird's eggs, and frogs, and fledgelings.
Word: titillation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tītillātiō, tītillātiōnem. 1. A pleasurable or sexually exciting sensation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: there feeling, and most gently indeed, squeezing those tender globular reservoirs; the magic touch took instant effect, quicken'd, and brought on upon the spur the symptoms of that sweet agony, the melting moment of dissolution, when pleasure dies by pleasure, and the mysterious engine of it overcomes the titillation it has rais'd in those parts, by plying them with the stream of a warm liquid that is itself the highest of all titillations 2. The process or outcome of titillating. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: title deed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From title + deed. 1. A deed or similar document by which the title to property is conveyed between parties.
Word: title page Part of Speech: noun 1. The page, near the front of a book, that gives its title and, normally, its author and publisher.
Word: tittle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪt.əl/ 1. Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j. Example: The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle. Example: The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation. 2. A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck. Labels: broadly Example: I am living fast to see the time when a book that misses its tide shall be neglected, as the moon by day, or like mackerel a week after the season. No man has more nicely observed our climate than the bookseller who bought the copy of this work; he knows to a tittle what subjects will best go off in a dry year, and which it is proper to expose foremost when the weather-glass is fallen to much rain.
Word: tittle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English titillen, tytyllen, perhaps variants of Middle English tutelen (“to whisper, chatter”), from tutel (“mouth”), from Old English *tūtel, *tȳtel, related to Old Frisian tūte (“mouth”). Compare Middle English touten (“to jut out, project, protrude”), Middle English toute (“projection, mound, hill”), Middle Dutch tûte (whence modern Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle, nose, point, peak, summit”)), Old Norse túta (“a teat-like prominence”), Danish tude (“spout”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪt.əl/ 1. To chatter. Labels: Scotland
Word: tittle-tattle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reduplication of tattle. 1. Petty, idle gossip. Labels: uncountable Example: Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […] Example: She has trouble enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby. 2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.
Word: tittle-tattle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Reduplication of tattle. 1. To engage in gossip. Example: ‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’ 2. To spread gossip.
Word: barfly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bar + fly. Pronunciation: /bɑːflaɪ/, /bɑɹflaɪ/ 1. A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment Labels: derogatory, slang 2. A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: pachuco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mexican Spanish pachuco (“flashily dressed”). Pronunciation: /pəˈt͡ʃuːkəʊ/ 1. A Mexican American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area. Labels: US, countable Example: Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that. Example: I moved farther and farther into the Chicano community. I took Spanish in school and found willing tutors among my friends, who taught me a real-life version of the standard textbook language. I began to dress and comb my hair in the pachuco style of the day. I acquired the social customs and mannerisms of those around me. 2. An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló. Labels: uncountable Example: Like the zoot suit, the Pachuco caló was adopted by a large part of the Chicano youth who did not, in essence, identify themselves as Pachucos.
Word: pakeha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha. Labels: alt-of Example: The same director's film The Quiet Earth (1984), from a novel by Craig Harrison, lands us back in futuristic territory with a pakeha "mad scientist" (plus female pendant for "mateship" interest) and a Vietnam-scarred Maori guerrilla surviving a cosmic catastrophe. Example: i.e. they'll spend the first four hours enthusiastic as can be, then get bored, want some kai, go down to the local fish and chip shop & bottle store & spend the rest of the episode telling drunken stories of how they used to steal from the "pakeha that owned the store on the corner" and about days spent down at the social welfare office.
Word: palilogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin palilogia (“palilogy”), from Ancient Greek παλιλογία (palilogía, “palilogy”), from πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -λογία (-logía, “pertaining to speech, discourse”) or -λόγος (-lógos, “word, speech”). Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪləd͡ʒi/ 1. Emphatic repetition of a word or phrase. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable, usually
Word: palillogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin palillogia (“palillogy”), from Ancient Greek παλιλλογία (palillogía, “palillogy”), from πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -λογία (-logía, “pertaining to speech, discourse”) or -λόγος (-lógos, “word, speech”). Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪləd͡ʒi/ 1. Alternative form of palilogy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: hooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hood + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈhʊdɪd/, /ˈhɵdɪd/, /ˈhʉdɪd/ 1. Wearing a hood. Labels: not-comparable 2. Covered with a hood. Labels: not-comparable 3. Shaped like a hood. Labels: not-comparable 4. Having a crest or similar elastic skin or muscle or bone in the neck or behind-the-head area. Labels: not-comparable 5. Having a single, unbroken line of colour from the full head down to the spine and possibly towards the tail. Labels: not-comparable 6. Fitted with a hood. Labels: not-comparable Example: A hooded anorak. 7. Having thick, drooping eyelids. Labels: not-comparable 8. Uncircumcised. Labels: not-comparable, slang, uncommon
Word: hooded Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hood + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈhʊdɪd/, /ˈhɵdɪd/, /ˈhʉdɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of hood Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: quizzes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪzɪz/ 1. plural of quiz Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quizzes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪzɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of quiz Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: palliard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English payllart (1484), Middle French paillard, from Middle French paille (“straw”). Pronunciation: /ˈpælɪəd/, /ˈpælɪɑːd/, /ˈpæljɚd/ 1. A beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one; (earlier especially) a lecher. Labels: archaic Example: A most luxurious and effeminate Palliard he was. Example: They all knew him. A palliard, some said on Henley Street, a wild rogue.
Word: palliation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palliation, from Latin palliare (“to cloak; to conceal”), from Latin pallium (“cloak”). By surface analysis, palliate + -ion. Pronunciation: /pælɪˈeɪʃən/ 1. The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. Example: Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure. 2. Extenuation; mitigation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The strong hand of the law is around your life and your wealth, but he who takes from you all that renders them valuable, the chances are, that his offence will find palliation and excuse; nay, that the laughers will be on his side.
Word: Derrick Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈdɛɹɪk/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek. 2. A surname.
Word: pallium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall. Pronunciation: /ˈpæ.li.əm/ 1. A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. Labels: historical 2. A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. Example: Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped? Example: Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials. 3. The mantle of a mollusc. 4. The cerebral cortex. 5. A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms. 6. A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. Labels: obsolete
Word: paraclete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Paraclete. Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəkliːt/ 1. An advocate or helper. Example: He passed a block of bright posters. One of them extolled domestic gas: a smiling toy paraclete called Mr Therm presided over a sort of warm Holy Family. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Paraclete, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost. Labels: alt-of
Word: plagiarism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin plagium Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin plagiārius English plagiary 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 plagiarism From plagiary + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹɪzəm/, /ˈplæɪd͡ʒəɹɪzəm/ 1. Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing. Labels: uncountable Example: Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon. Example: Copy from one, it's plagiarism. Copy from two, it's research. 2. Text or other work resulting from this act. Labels: uncountable Example: The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim. 3. The instance of plagiarism. Labels: countable
Word: snowshoe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From snow + shoe. Pronunciation: /ˈsnoʊʃu/ 1. A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow. 2. Synonym of mukluk
Word: snowshoe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From snow + shoe. Pronunciation: /ˈsnoʊʃu/ 1. To travel using snowshoes. Labels: intransitive
Word: skill set Part of Speech: noun 1. A set of skills. 2. The skills needed to accomplish a specified task or perform a given function. Example: But after the Scottish Parliament gained reponsibility for the ScotRail franchise, it decided in 2015 to separate what is now known as the Caledonian Sleeper services from the overall contract in the belief that a different skill set was needed to promote the trains.
Word: propre Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of proper. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Shatneresque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Shatner French -esquebor. English -esque English Shatneresque From Shatner + -esque. 1. In the style of William Shatner, particularly in overacting or singing
Word: two-four Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the two digits used to form the number twenty-four, decimal 24, in place notation. Pronunciation: /tuˈfɔɹ/ 1. A case of twenty-four bottles or cans of beer. Labels: Canada, slang Example: Happy and me chip in together and buy a two-four of Labatt's plus a couple of bags of potato chips. Example: “Winston, Maxine and I are going to the beer store to buy a two four, would you mind staying here with baby until I get back?”
Word: stores Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stɔɹz/, /stɔːz/, /sto(ː)ɹz/, /stoəz/ 1. plural of store Labels: form-of, plural