nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gubbins Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ante 1553. From gobbin (“piece, portion, slice”), from Middle English goboun, from Anglo-Norman gobon. Compare with English gobony (“line of alternating squares”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌb.ɪnz/ 1. Fragments; parings; scraps (especially of fish). Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only Example: [H]ough you hungerſtarued gubbins or offales of men, how thriue you, howe periſh you, [...] 2. Assorted stuff, especially if of little value; tat. Labels: UK, informal, plural, plural-only Example: I had to memorise so much dialogue that never makes it into the movie so I always have a plethora of extra gubbins I can't remember.
Word: gubbins Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ante 1553. From gobbin (“piece, portion, slice”), from Middle English goboun, from Anglo-Norman gobon. Compare with English gobony (“line of alternating squares”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌb.ɪnz/ 1. Silly person; fool. Labels: UK, informal Example: "Silly gubbins," she said. "You told me twice, and I was interested even the second time. […]"
Word: fettle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly: * from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or * from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”). Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛtl̩/ 1. A state of physical condition; kilter or trim. Example: These strong 2-8-2s […] appeared in good fettle, especially those shedded at Lublin and several arrivals and departures were photographed in the fine evening light. 2. One's mental state; spirits. 3. Sand used to line a furnace. 4. A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces. 5. The act of fettling. Labels: UK, dialectal 6. A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst. Labels: Cumbria, Geordie Example: What’s yer fettle marra?
Word: fettle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly: * from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or * from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”). Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛtl̩/ 1. To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair. Labels: Northern-England, especially Example: He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in. Example: For some time after the train had gone Oscar stood on the track conversing with members of the fettling gang […] 2. To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business. Labels: intransitive Example: Nor list he now go whistling to the car, But sells his team , and fettleth to the war 3. To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal. Labels: transitive 4. To be upset or in a bad mood. Labels: Geordie, reflexive Example: Divint fettle yersel ower that! 5. To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds. 6. To machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation. Labels: transitive Example: He wants to fettle his gearchange mechanism before the next competition. 7. To prepare. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next...
Word: generation loss Part of Speech: noun 1. The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: safety school Part of Speech: noun 1. The least desired among the colleges and universities that one applies to for admission, chosen as a contingency in case one is rejected from all others. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: gangbang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gang + bang. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋˌbæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋˌbæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋˌbeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋˌbeɪ̯ŋ], [ˈɡɛ̃ŋˌbɛ̃ŋ] 1. An act of two or more people having sex with one person who is the focus of the sexual activity. Labels: vulgar Example: ‘Man, that sure was some bum evening at Mr Vial's,’ he said. ‘I pulled out fast when I saw how it was shaping. They was having an orgy when I left, but me, I don't care for these pig-parties or gang-bangs whatsoever.’ 2. Synonym of gang rape. Labels: vulgar Example: One night the mob turned up in force and wrecked the joint. Left the girls alone, but had themselves a gang-bang with Tiffany. She was only sixteen at the time. 3. An act of a street gang committing crimes as a group, such as attacking random people on the streets. Labels: US, slang
Word: gangbang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From gang + bang. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋˌbæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋˌbæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋˌbeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋˌbeɪ̯ŋ], [ˈɡɛ̃ŋˌbɛ̃ŋ] 1. To participate in a gangbang. Example: We all got to gangbang the porn star. Example: The motherfuckers who gangbanged me to death were so cheap they did not even perform the proper rituals for my body! 2. To belong to a gang; to commit criminal acts as part of a gang. Example: It broke my heart to see him out there gangbanging.
Word: revoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvoʊk/, /ɹɪˈvəʊk/, /rɪˈvəʊk/ 1. To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. Labels: transitive Example: Your driver's license will be revoked. Example: I hereby revoke all former wills. 2. To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit. Labels: intransitive Example: They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof. 3. To call or bring back. Labels: obsolete Example: So well he did his busie paines apply, That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe, To her fraile mansion of mortality. 4. To hold back. Labels: obsolete Example: Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke, 5. To move (something) back or away. Labels: obsolete Example: A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke, And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke, Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke. 6. To call back to mind. Labels: obsolete Example: late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132, A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.
Word: revoke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvoʊk/, /ɹɪˈvəʊk/, /rɪˈvəʊk/ 1. The act of revoking in a game of cards. Example: Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand! 2. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. 3. A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
Word: IR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of inertial reference. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The pilot checked the IR system before takeoff. 2. Initialism of industrial relations. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: She is studying IR as part of her business degree. 3. Initialism of investor relations. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The company’s IR team held a quarterly earnings call. 4. Initialism of information retrieval. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Search engines rely on advanced IR techniques. 5. Initialism of intermediate representation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The compiler translated the code into LLVM IR. 6. Initialism of incident report. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The officer filed an IR after the accident. 7. Initialism of immediate release. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The doctor prescribed an IR tablet for quick pain relief. 8. Abbreviation of infrared. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: The camera detects IR light beyond the visible spectrum. 9. Initialism of infrared radiation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Scientists measured levels of IR radiation. Example: IR communication 10. Initialism of international relations. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: She is majoring in IR at university. 11. Initialism of injured reserve. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The player was placed on IR for the remainder of the season. 12. Initialism of indoor rowing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: He competes in IR events at the Paralympics. 13. Initialism of interstate route. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, rare, uncountable Example: We drove on an IR through rural Ohio.
Word: IR Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of interracial. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: The site featured an IR category for interracial content.
Word: infrared Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From infra- + red. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnfɹəˈɹɛd/, /ˌɪnfɹəˈɹed/, /ɪn.fɾɑ.ɾĕɖ/ 1. The electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation, having a wavelength between 700 nm and 1 mm. Labels: uncountable Example: Collisions of these 'transparent' molecules with the molecules that do have absorption bands in the infrared can have a considerable influence on the intensities of the observed absorption bands. 2. A specific wavelength in this range. Labels: countable Example: Sonne has shown that by means of the luminous rays the temperature in the tissue may be raised to a higher degree than by the use of the infrareds. Example: Exposure of spectral pieces at centimeters, millimeters, and infrareds, which provide a top steadiness of the dependence "MCW radiation vs. parameter Δt" and its interannual (seasonal) dynamics. 3. A device that emits infrared radiation. Labels: countable Example: In his room, he could install his infrareds without being discovered. Example: Beams are the active counterparts of passive infrareds (PIRs). Since these are active infrareds, they require two parts: a transmitter and a receiver.
Word: infrared Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From infra- + red. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnfɹəˈɹɛd/, /ˌɪnfɹəˈɹed/, /ɪn.fɾɑ.ɾĕɖ/ 1. Having a wavelength in the infrared spectrum. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to very low energies or very large distances or time spans. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: Unless otherwise stated, we will be working in Euclidean space compactified to a sphere in order to avoid infrared problems. Example: Secondly, as stated already by Osborne & Provenzale, pure k^(-α)-behaviour is impossible since there would have to be infinite power at zero frequency (this would correspond to an infrared catastrophe).
Word: tetralogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tetra- + -logy. Pronunciation: /tɛˈtɹæləd͡ʒi/ 1. A set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games. 2. A set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games. Labels: historical 3. A combination of four symptoms. 4. Tetralogy of Fallot. Labels: colloquial
Word: stump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop. Pronunciation: /stʌmp/ 1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. 2. The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. 3. A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. Labels: figuratively Example: Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump!' 4. One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball. 5. An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media. 6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house. 7. A leg. Labels: humorous, slang Example: to stir one's stumps 8. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key. 9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Word: stump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop. Pronunciation: /stʌmp/ 1. To stop, confuse, or puzzle. Labels: informal, transitive 2. To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: This last question has me stumped. 3. To campaign. Labels: intransitive Example: He’s been stumping for that reform for months. 4. To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes. Labels: US, colloquial, transitive 5. To get a batsman out stumped. Labels: transitive 6. To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket). Labels: transitive Example: A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket. 7. To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge. Labels: intransitive Example: Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle. 8. To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of. Labels: transitive 9. To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed. Labels: transitive
Word: warm fuzzy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Claude Steiner in 1970 for his children's story A Warm Fuzzy Tale, where it is used in a technical sense to illustrate a concept, namely, positive stroke, that is used in a type of therapy called transactional analysis. 1. A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust. Labels: informal Example: I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman. Example: Nostalgia. Walks down memory lane fill me with warm fuzzies—right up there with a warm bubble bath and a good cup of café mocha. 2. A sense of accomplishment after performing an act. Labels: derogatory, in-plural, informal, often Example: John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies.
Word: two cents Part of Speech: noun 1. One's opinion or thoughts. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: That's just my two cents, you can believe what you like. 2. A nearly worthless amount, alluding to placing a copper penny on each of the eyelids of a pauper's or slave's body before burial. Labels: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, US, colloquial, idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: That car won't last a week, it's not worth two cents.
Word: eraser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English erase 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 eraser From erase + -er. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹeɪzə/, /ɪˈɹeɪsɚ/, /ɛ~ɪˈresə(r)/ 1. One who erases. 2. An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US Example: I have worn out the eraser on this pencil. 3. An object used to erase something written either by chalk on a chalkboard, by a marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US 4. An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.
Word: tawny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English tauni, tawne (“having a brownish-orange colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman taune, tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“of a tan colour”), an adjective use of the past participle of taner (“to turn hide into leather, tan”), from tan (“pulped oak bark used to tan leather, tanbark”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰnwos, *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). The -aw- spelling (also -au- in Middle English) seems to have been due to the pronunciation of Old French tané. The verb is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Breton tann * Medieval Latin tannāre (“to dye a tawny color; to tan”) * Old Irish caerthann (“rowan”) Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːni/, /ˈtɔni/, /ˈtɑ-/ 1. Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold. Example: And if any of your nation attempte once to ſtoppe me in my iorney now towards Calais, […] I in my defence ſhall colour and make red your tawny ground with the effuſion of chriſtian bloud: […] Example: The VVooſell cock, ſo blacke of hevve, / VVith Orange tavvny bill, / The Throſtle, vvith his note ſo true, / The VVren, vvith little quill.
Word: tawny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English tauni, tawne (“having a brownish-orange colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman taune, tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“of a tan colour”), an adjective use of the past participle of taner (“to turn hide into leather, tan”), from tan (“pulped oak bark used to tan leather, tanbark”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰnwos, *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). The -aw- spelling (also -au- in Middle English) seems to have been due to the pronunciation of Old French tané. The verb is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Breton tann * Medieval Latin tannāre (“to dye a tawny color; to tan”) * Old Irish caerthann (“rowan”) Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːni/, /ˈtɔni/, /ˈtɑ-/ 1. To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. Labels: transitive Example: So many friends, their friendſhips daily breake, / That fevve are faithfull, if that fevve be any: / The Sunne ſo ſoone, the painted face vvill tavvny. Example: He [Vulcan] ſmels all ſmoake, and vvith his naſty ſvveate / Tavvnies my skinne, out on him vgly knaue, / Mars is my loue, and he my ſvveets ſhall haue. 2. To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. Labels: intransitive Example: The countenance alone bespoke the years and the cares of John M‘Whirter. The deep wrinkled brow—the cheek plaited, and tawnied in the sun and the frosts of the north— […] Example: In his drowse it all turned gleaming and mixing in him, his whole life, like the river gleaming taut between the trees. And everything that had ever happened to him tawnied over by the voluptuous light of the last fall, and his mouth watered for it all.
Word: pancake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake Middle English panne cake English pancake Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”). The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan. Pronunciation: /ˈpæn.keɪk/, /ˈpæŋ.keɪk/ 1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular: Labels: England, countable, uncountable 2. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular: Labels: Australia, Canada, Scotland, US, countable, uncountable Example: Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other. 3. A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder. Labels: uncountable Example: And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park. 4. A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop. Labels: countable Example: have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible. 5. Anything very thin and flat. Labels: countable Example: pancake lens Example: Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […] 6. Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles. Labels: uncountable Example: &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels. 7. A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller. Labels: countable, slang 8. A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor. Labels: countable 9. An attractive young woman. Labels: US, countable, dated, slang Example: Damon Runyon, The Brakeman's Daughter 'To tell the truth,' The Humming Bird says, 'I neglect these details, because,' he says, 'I am already dated up to go out with Big False Face to-night to call on a doll who is daffy to meet me. Otherwise,' he says, 'I will undoubtedly make arrangements to see more of this pancake I just save from rack and ruin.'
Word: pancake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake Middle English panne cake English pancake Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”). The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan. Pronunciation: /ˈpæn.keɪk/, /ˈpæŋ.keɪk/ 1. To make a pancake landing. Labels: intransitive 2. To collapse one floor after another. 3. To flatten violently. Labels: transitive Example: Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters[…] 4. To lie out flat, like a pancake; sploot. Labels: intransitive
Word: stick up for Part of Speech: verb 1. To speak or act in defence (of); to defend or protect. Labels: transitive Example: You really need to stick up for yourself against that bully.
Word: dry run Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dry (“impotent; harmless”) + run. First attested in print in 1941, but apparently much older in spoken English. 1. A practice or rehearsal; especially, one that goes through all the motions of a physical process but without the raw material or workpiece present. Labels: idiomatic Example: They did a dry run of the demonstration before showing it to the CEO. Example: When the dry run mode of a machine tool control is on, the machine can move rapidly because it is cutting only air, not metal. The operator can do a dry run and verify that the motions look correct.
Word: scram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably either: * a clipping of scramble by apocope; or * from dialectal German schramm, the imperative singular form of schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. To leave in a hurry; to go away. Labels: imperative, intransitive, often Example: What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram! Example: Maybe when he found that Chet's jalopy was gone, he felt he'd better scram, and forgot the coat and hat.
Word: scram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably either: * a clipping of scramble by apocope; or * from dialectal German schramm, the imperative singular form of schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. A gun, firearm. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang Example: Bad be say she don’t usually do this In the trap with a stick, I do this Get ’round there with a scram I don’t give a damn Example: My manager says I'm stupid for still rollin' with a scram I hate explainin' myself and I don't think he'll understand
Word: scram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; the verb is possibly derived from etymology 1. It has been suggested that the word is an acronym for phrases like “safety control rod actuator mechanism”, “safety cut rope axe man”, “safety control rod axe man”, and “safety control rods activation mechanism”, but these are most likely backronyms. The noun is probably derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency. Labels: transitive Example: The NCR [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] further demands the plant conform to all the safety requirements put into effect during construction. This means constant re-design. There must also be several ways to scram (emergency shut down) the reactor. Some of these are automatic and some are manual. Example: Startup of reactor recirculating pump resulted in flux spike scraming plant. 2. Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency. Labels: intransitive Example: This shut off current to the control rod mechanism, and the reactor scrammed (shut off) automatically. Example: As soon as the earthquake struck, the reactors "scrammed"—shut down automatically—as they were supposed to.
Word: scram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; the verb is possibly derived from etymology 1. It has been suggested that the word is an acronym for phrases like “safety control rod actuator mechanism”, “safety cut rope axe man”, “safety control rod axe man”, and “safety control rods activation mechanism”, but these are most likely backronyms. The noun is probably derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency. Labels: also, attributive Example: During scram operation, a scram signal de-energizes the inlet and outlet scram valves. The outlet scram valve vents the volume above the drive piston to a scram dump tank. The inlet scram valve supplies scram pressure obtained from an accumulator to the under side of the vented piston. Example: Of the 14 scrams experienced, none was caused by operation exceeding the design parameters. Eight scrams occurred with the control rods withdrawn. [...] Six scrams occurred while the rods were inserted. Five were intentional to prevent accidental rod withdrawal, and one was the unintentional result of an instrument adjustment. 2. The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown. Example: Each room housing a radiation source has a red-buttoned "scram" switch on the wall. One touch of the switch and all equipment stops abruptly. Example: She watched as the Marine technical team leader pressed the red SCRAM buttons for each reactor, setting off a chorus of alarms.
Word: scram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is a variant of dialectal English scramb (“to pull or rake together with the hands; to gather a handful of something from the ground; to scratch with the claws or nails; to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about; a handful of something from the ground”), possibly related to Dutch schrammen (“to graze, scratch”) and German schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”); see etymology 1. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw. Labels: Derbyshire, Wales, transitive Example: scram [...] Verb. [...] 2. To scratch, with claws or fingernails. E.g. "It's my own fault the cat scrammed me, I was teasing it." [South Wales use] Example: A woman has praised firefighters and her cat for saving her life following an alleged arson attack. Two-and-a-half-year-old tortoiseshell Taffy repeatedly bit owner Tracie Horgan-Hodgkiss on the hand until she woke up when her flat filled with acrid smoke in the early hours of this morning. [...] "I’d like to say thank you very much to the firefighters for coming to rescue me. And I am sorry that Taffy scrammed one of them!" 2. To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed. Labels: US, archaic, transitive Example: Just west of this pit is another one, which has been nearly worked out; but three men are scramming about five tons per day in it. Example: Recently, Capt. Oliver, [...] set a couple of experienced miners to work scramming in this underground pit, when it was soon discovered that what the former mining captain had conceived to be a regular foot-wall, was, in fact, a thin shale of rock, which hid from view what now appears to be a very large body of clean blue ore.
Word: scram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is a variant of dialectal English scramb (“to pull or rake together with the hands; to gather a handful of something from the ground; to scratch with the claws or nails; to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about; a handful of something from the ground”), possibly related to Dutch schrammen (“to graze, scratch”) and German schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”); see etymology 1. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails. Labels: Derbyshire, Wales Example: scram [...] Noun. [...] 2. A scratch. [South Wales use] 2. A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale. Labels: US, archaic Example: [page 64] Many of these old openings still afford places where ore is mined. A man can start in almost anywhere and fine ore. There is a great deal of this "scramming" done at the Jackson. Quite a proportion of the annual product comes in this way. Not unfrequently one of these "scrams" leads to the finding of a large deposit of ore. [...] [page 67] South from the east part of the Incline pit they have a scram of good ore which furnished a small product. Example: There are numbered workings running to about 20, representing small pits and scrams, sometimes worked by contract by "scrammers."
Word: scram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin unknown. Pronunciation: /skɹæm/ 1. Of one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive Example: The bean-setters can fully appreciate the nipping, biting keenness of the air, and avow frankly, in their own peculiar idiom, "that they be pretty nigh scrammed!" Example: But though he had breeches and waistcoats to spare, / He had nothing quite seemly for Barbee to wear, / Who, half shrammed to death, stood and cried on a chair / At the caddle she found herself in. 2. To be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive Example: "But they will be scrammed!^* the children will be scrammed, Mary, before morning," cried Jim, scratching his head with perplexity and distress at the very thought of two young creatures sleeping on the bare boards, in a cold garret with only a shawl to cover them. [Footnote *: Starved.]
Word: pig Latin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The word Latin derives from the language itself (though it is not linguistically related; that is an intentional misnomer), but the origin of pig is unknown. 1. A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the onset consonants of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case -way [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change. Labels: uncountable
Word: underwire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English wire English underwire From under- + wire. 1. A semicircular wire placed in a bra to support the breasts. 2. A bra that includes such wires.
Word: underwire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English wire English underwire From under- + wire. 1. To fix such a wire in place.
Word: semicircle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin circulus Old French cerclebor. Middle English circle English circle English semicircle From semi- + circle. 1. A half of a circle. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring angles; a graphometer. 3. An arc whose center is the penalty spot, extending from the top of the penalty area.
Word: semicircle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin circulus Old French cerclebor. Middle English circle English circle English semicircle From semi- + circle. 1. To travel or move around in a semicircle. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: semicircular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English circular English semicircular From semi- + circular. 1. In the shape of half of a circle or a semicircle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stop and smell the roses Part of Speech: verb 1. To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life. Labels: idiomatic
Word: cleanroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clean + room. 1. A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices. 2. The method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights. Labels: attributive 3. Being or relating to a software development process intended to produce software with a certifiable level of reliability. Labels: attributive
Word: cleanroom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From clean + room. 1. To copy (a design) by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights. Labels: transitive Example: Based on OSF's Motif, this technology was “clean roomed” and is not in violation of any Apple copyright or patent […]
Word: airborne Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attested since the 1640s; air + -borne 1. In or carried by the air. Labels: not-comparable Example: Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies. Example: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone. 2. In flight. Labels: not-comparable Example: There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack. 3. Fitted to an aircraft. Labels: not-comparable Example: airborne radar 4. Transported by air in an aircraft. Labels: not-comparable Example: airborne troops
Word: airborne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since the 1640s; air + -borne 1. Military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.
Word: particulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin particulātus (“divided into small parts”) (also particulāta (“small parts”), from its neuter plural), from Classical Latin particula (“particle”), from pars (“part, piece”) + -cula (diminutive suffix), + -ātus (-ate). The verb is probably independently from the adjective rather than from Etymology 2. Pronunciation: /pɑːˈtɪk.jʊ.lɪt/, /pɑːˈtɪk.jʊˌleɪt/, /pəˈtɪk.jʊ.lɪt/, /pəˈtɪk.jʊˌleɪt/, /pɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/ 1. Composed of separate particles. Example: particulate air pollution Example: particulate matter 2. Pertaining to heritable characteristics which are attributable discretely to either one or another of an offspring's parents, rather than a blend of the two. Example: The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic.
Word: particulate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin particulātus (“divided into small parts”) (also particulāta (“small parts”), from its neuter plural), from Classical Latin particula (“particle”), from pars (“part, piece”) + -cula (diminutive suffix), + -ātus (-ate). The verb is probably independently from the adjective rather than from Etymology 2. Pronunciation: /pɑːˈtɪk.jʊ.lɪt/, /pɑːˈtɪk.jʊˌleɪt/, /pəˈtɪk.jʊ.lɪt/, /pəˈtɪk.jʊˌleɪt/, /pɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/ 1. Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material. Labels: in-plural Example: Particulates in engine oil can abrade moving parts.
Word: particulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From New Latin particulātus (“divided into small parts”) (also particulāta (“small parts”), from its neuter plural), from Classical Latin particula (“particle”), from pars (“part, piece”) + -cula (diminutive suffix), + -ātus (-ate). The verb is probably independently from the adjective rather than from Etymology 2. Pronunciation: /pɑːˈtɪk.jʊ.lɪt/, /pɑːˈtɪk.jʊˌleɪt/, /pəˈtɪk.jʊ.lɪt/, /pəˈtɪk.jʊˌleɪt/, /pɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/ 1. To reduce to particles, make particulate. Labels: transitive Example: Only after the explosion has particulated the poison and given it every opportunity to vaporize can any appreciable concentration of gas be present in the air. Example: The study proved that Sialon particulated smaller than 0.5 micron could be sintered without using any auxiliary additives.
Word: particulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin particulāt-, past participial stem (compare the verbal suffix -ate) of particulō (“to particularize”), from particula (“particle”) + -ō (verbal suffix). 1. Synonym of particularize. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete Example: And I am bolde (contrary to the cuſtome of ſome vvriters) to leaue to particulate in my Epiſtle any part of the argument vvhich vvith ſo great grauitie he hath digeſted ar large in ſo great a volume: […] Example: But what particulate we thus, that much in few would write?
Word: deburr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English burr English deburr From de- + burr. Pronunciation: /diːˈbɜː(ɹ)/ 1. To remove burrs from (a workpiece). Labels: transitive Example: After drilling the hole, use an abrasive to deburr the edges. 2. To remove debris from (raw wool). Labels: transitive
Word: home stretch Part of Speech: noun 1. The final part of a racecourse from the last curve to the finish line. 2. The final part of a distance or the final effort needed to finish. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: I think we're finally on the home stretch with this project.
Word: chill out Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chill and out. 1. Alternative form of chillout. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chill out Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From chill and out. 1. To relax or take time out; to calm down; reduce or go easy on something. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Since I'm between projects, I think I'll just chill out. Example: I wish I could chill out about the neighbor's barking dog, but it wakes me up every night. 2. To hang out; spend time together with another person or group. Labels: dated, intransitive, slang Example: Hey, we should chill out together this weekend.
Word: cold call Part of Speech: noun 1. A sales call either by telephone or personal presence, made without a referral or without preparing the recipient of the call. Example: I got a cold call in the middle of dinner from someone trying to sell roofing and siding because they're allegedly working in my area this week. 2. A call of a bet and one or more raises made by a player who has not already contributed to the pot in the current betting round, usually with further action from the original bettor or raiser yet to come.
Word: cold call Part of Speech: verb 1. To call someone without preparation or referral. Labels: intransitive 2. To make a cold call.
Word: out of the blue Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Short for out of the blue sky, likening an unexpected event to lightning or rain coming suddenly from a cloudless sky. Pronunciation: /aʊt əv ðə ˈbluː/ 1. Unexpectedly; without warning or preparation. Labels: idiomatic Example: After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called me out of the blue to meet for lunch. Example: I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue.
Word: sneak peek Part of Speech: noun 1. A preview, especially of something not yet public. Labels: informal Example: Visit the website for a sneak peek of their new movie.
Word: seventh inning stretch Part of Speech: noun 1. A more extended than usual break taken between the top half and the bottom half of the seventh inning.
Word: get cold feet Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌɡɛt ˈkəʊld fiːt/, /ˌɡɛt ˈkoʊld fit/ 1. To become nervous about going through with something. Example: Near-synonym: chicken out Example: As we accelerate after leaving Didcot, we pass a lot of masts erected for wires that have not yet materialised - and probably won't for years to come. That's because halfway through the Great Western Electrification Programme, ministers suddenly got cold feet as the cost escalated.
Word: get one's feet wet Part of Speech: verb 1. To begin gaining experience; to tentatively try something new. Labels: idiomatic Example: Let the new hire do that project so she can get her feet wet. Example: Why don't you try getting your feet wet on the beginner slopes.
Word: see-through Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from see through. 1. Transparent or translucent; that can be seen through. Example: If you are planning to wear a see-through dress, wear something underneath. Example: I love white, off-white and cream pants for women (and men for that matter), but unless they are jeans, they are often see-through, with the pockets and seams visible through the fabric.
Word: vigilant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (“stay awake”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/ 1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary Example: Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden. 2. In vigilance. Labels: rare Example: von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony. Example: [...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or,[…]