nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: neoplastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō? Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der. Latin plasticusder. English plastic English neoplastic From neo- + plastic. 1. of or relating to a neoplasm, neoplastics, neoplasty or neoplasia Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ngoreme Part of Speech: name 1. a Bantu language of Tanzania
Word: nisus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”). 1. A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos of the nisus of moral categoriality, is the sensus plenior of the nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives. Example: The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such. 2. The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 1833, James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), The Medico-Chirurgical Review, New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series), page 7, The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, transverse and descending portions of the colon.
Word: clinkery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clinker + -y. 1. Having the characteristics of a clinker.
Word: no good Part of Speech: adj 1. worthless or of no merit Labels: not-comparable Example: That boy's no good: it's no use our trying to fix it! 2. useless Labels: not-comparable Example: What good is it asking you? It's no good talking to you: you never listen. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, good. Labels: not-comparable Example: You have no good excuse to do that!
Word: nomologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nomology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English nomologic From nomology + -ic. 1. Of or relating to nomology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Deseret Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Book of Mormon, in which the word is said to mean honey bee in the language of the Jaredites. Pronunciation: /dɛz.əˈɹɛt/, /dɛz.ɚ.ɛt/, /dɛˈsiːɹɛt/ 1. A state, proposed in 1849 and never recognized, which would have included most of Utah and Nevada and parts of other states. Labels: historical Example: In 1849 the Mormons organized a "free and independent" government and erected the "State of Deseret," with Brigham Young as its head. But the very next year Congress deliberately snubbed it and created the "Territory of Utah" out of the same accumulation of mountains, sage-brush, alkali and general desolation, -- but made Brigham Governor of it. 2. The state of Utah itself, especially the Salt Lake Valley and environs. Labels: poetic Example: Nearly 1,000 people attended tours of the 15,000-resident city, a dinner and a ceremony to commemorate Utah's Jan. 4 birthday, when the land of Deseret became an arm of the Union. 3. A script, invented in Utah, conceived of as a radical reform and replacement of the Latin script, intended for writing English phonetically. Example: the word seven in Deseret is 𐑅𐐯𐑂𐐮𐑌.
Word: indecision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French indécision. Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/, [ɪndɪˈsɪʒən] ~ [ɪndɪˈsɪʒn̩], /ɪndəˈsɪʒən/, [ɪndəˈsɪʒən] ~ [ɪndɪˈsɪʒn̩] 1. The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it. Example: There was no indecision or delay in the establishment of their relations; Rebecca's heart flew like an arrow to its mark, and her mind, meeting its superior, settled at once into an abiding attitude of respectful homage.
Word: assemblage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French assemblage. By surface analysis, assemble + -age. Pronunciation: /əˈsɛmblɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The process of assembling or bringing together. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the assemblage of words and recordings 2. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered. Discovered in 1977, near the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in central China, the tomb, from the fifth century B.C., has long been considered "one of the most significant archeological discoveries of the 20th century," said Peter A. Young, editor in chief of the magazine. 3. A gathering of people. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them. Example: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. 4. A group of different artifacts found in association with one another. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: worrying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From worry + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈwɝ.i.ɪŋ/, /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋɡ/, /ˈwʌɾe.ɪŋ/ 1. Inducing worry. Example: Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night. Example: Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."
Word: worrying Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From worry + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈwɝ.i.ɪŋ/, /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋɡ/, /ˈwʌɾe.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of worry Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: worrying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English werying, equivalent to worry + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈwɝ.i.ɪŋ/, /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋɡ/, /ˈwʌɾe.ɪŋ/ 1. The act of worrying or harassing somebody. Example: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
Word: guardianship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English guardian Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English guardianship From guardian + -ship. 1. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity. Example: Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. Example: An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.
Word: embellishment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English embellish Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English embellishment From embellish + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/ 1. An act of embellishing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.
Word: Renner Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: akka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from a Dravidian language such as Tamil அக்கா (akkā), Kannada ಅಕ್ಕ (akka), Malayalam അക്ക (akka), Telugu అక్క (akka), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *akka. 1. An elder sister. Labels: India
Word: soaking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum. 1. present participle and gerund of soak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: soaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum. 1. Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains". 2. The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by Mormons in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking. Example: Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments[…]the Amazon series Alpha House[…]made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking basically allows for penis-vagina penetration but absolutely no friction. Insertion is OK; pumping will send you to hell.
Word: soaking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum. 1. Extremely wet; saturated. Example: I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. 2. Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
Word: secreted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkɹə.tɪd/, /ˈsi.krə.tɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of secret Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: secreted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /sɪˈkɹiːtɪd/, /səˈkɹi.tɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of secrete Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pop someone's cherry Part of Speech: verb 1. To take the virginity of someone. Labels: idiomatic, vulgar
Word: employing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of employ Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spanning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of span Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spanning Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is spanned. Example: The immediate symbolism of these spannings of musical space is evident, but they also contain references to the work's musical motto […]
Word: deified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sanctum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sānctum (“that which is holy”). Pronunciation: /ˈsæŋktəm/ 1. A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom. Example: As he descended the stairs, two persons passed him, so remarkably dissimilar in their persons, dress, and carriage, that he could not forbear to look earnestly at them, as forming a criterion of the mixed character of company admissible in such places, and which was to him (with his preconceived notions of the inviolability of the female sanctum) an insuperable objection to such scenes of general resort. Example: For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; for a sanctum it was now become to me, – "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
Word: redivider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From redivide + -er. 1. Agent noun of redivide: something that divides or apportions again. Labels: agent, form-of Example: The communes are still very real, of course, but their organs serve primarily as communications conduits and allocations redividers. Example: TRIANGLE REDIVIDER 2. A sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences Example: Latter-day puzzle makers in a direct lineage from Carroll’s tradition and even more extreme instances of segmentation oddities in what are called redividers (Michaelsen, 1998), for example, observing that the sentence “In every ode linger many” can be resegmented to read “I never yodel in Germany” (Shortz, 1997); such cases serve to point out the duality of the problems of gap assignment and boundary detection, and also inject a combinatorial flavor.
Word: redivide Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Italic *wiðō Latin *vidō Latin dīvidōder. Middle English dividen English divide English redivide From re- + divide. 1. To divide again. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: racecar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of race car. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unaffected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + affected. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪd/ 1. Not affected or changed. Example: Since I work from home, I was unaffected by the office move. Example: I've lost my mind, I've spent the night / Crying on the floor of my bathroom / But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it / But I guess good for you 2. Lacking pretense or affectation; natural. Example: Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
Word: unaffected Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + affected. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪd/ 1. Someone not affected, as by a disease.
Word: unaffected Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of unaffect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rotavator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Proprietary name clearly influenced by rotary tiller and cultivator. 1. A machine with rotating blades designed to break up or till soil.
Word: catty-corner Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Corruption of cater-corner under influence from catty. Pronunciation: /ˈka.tiˌkɔː.nə/, /ˈkæ.tiˌkɔɹ.nɚ/ 1. Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from. Labels: Canada, US, not-comparable Example: He takes the Brewer turnoff off the Pike and the road takes him through the town where he first bought gas. As he takes the road marked BREWER 16 he can see cattycornered across the main street the dirtdigger's pumps and his dark window full of glinting shovels and fishing rods.
Word: catty-corner Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Corruption of cater-corner under influence from catty. Pronunciation: /ˈka.tiˌkɔː.nə/, /ˈkæ.tiˌkɔɹ.nɚ/ 1. Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from one another. Labels: Canada, US, not-comparable
Word: cattycorner Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of catty-corner. Labels: Canada, US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: cattycorner Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of catty-corner. Labels: Canada, US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: kittycorner Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of kitty-corner. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: kittycorner Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of kitty-corner. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: denned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of den Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: assignation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English assignacioun, from Old French assignacion, from Latin assīgnātiō. Pronunciation: /æsɪɡˈneɪʃən/ 1. An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Example: As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his assignation. 2. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. 3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dewed Part of Speech: adj 1. Full of, or covered in, dew
Word: dewed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: compleat Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of complete. Labels: Late, Modern, alt-of, archaic Example: This I was forc'd to before I had executed half my Deſign, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to compleat it. Example: He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation...
Word: compleat Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of complete. Labels: Late, Modern, alt-of, archaic Example: in that Family he might have compleat Oeconomical Power Example: Mr Salteena had put on a compleat evening suit as he thought it was the correct idea
Word: reviver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From revive + -er. 1. One who revives. 2. A chemical compound for making something (such as clothes or a varnished surface) look new again.
Word: munition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/ 1. Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition. Labels: in-plural Example: Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after. 2. Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns). Labels: in-plural 3. A tower or fortification. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
Word: munition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/ 1. To supply with munitions. Labels: transitive Example: Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
Word: rotator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rotate + -or. 1. One who or that which rotates. 2. A muscle by which a joint can be rotated. 3. A revolving reverberatory furnace. 4. A banner ad that cycles through multiple advertisements. Labels: Internet
Word: shahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: devived Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of devive Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: devive Part of Speech: verb 1. To render lifeless. Example: Near-synonyms: kill, deanimate, devitalize, unalive
Word: streetcar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/ 1. A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car. Labels: Canada, US Example: Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses. Example: Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof.
Word: frilled lizard Part of Speech: noun 1. A lizard of species Chlamydosaurus kingii, native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, which has a large contractile membranous frill around its neck that usually stays folded against its body but is extended in territorial and courtship display.
Word: retter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ret + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtə/, /ˈɹɛtə(ɹ)/, /-ɾə(ɹ)/ 1. One who rets.
Word: rover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English rover, rovere (“pirate”), borrowed from Middle Dutch rôver, rôvere (from rôven (“to pillage, plunder, rob”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs)), or Middle Low German rōver (“plunderer, robber; pirate, reaver”) (from rōven (“to pillage, plunder, rob”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs)), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raubōną (“to plunder, rob, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break, tear (up)”). Doublet of reaver. cognates * Danish røver (“brigand, highwayman, robber, thief”) * German Räuber * Norwegian røver (“brigand, highwayman, robber, thief”) Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊvə/, /ˈɹoʊvɚ/, /ˈɾovəɾ/, /ˈɾoːvə/ 1. A pirate. Example: [T]he king ſent to the ſea ſixe good ſhippes, well manned and vitayled for the warre: […] for ſaffegarde of the Merchauntes, and other the kinges ſubiectes, that were greuouſly ſpoyled and robbed on the ſea, by Frenchmen, Scottes and other rouers. Example: Diogenes vvill deſpiſe thee for all that, vvho being expoſed and offered to ſale by the rovers and theeves that tooke him, cried and proclaimed himſelfe aloud: VVho vvill buy a maſter who? 2. A pirate ship. Example: Our Ship making her Courſe tovvards the Canary Iſlands, or rather betvveen those Iſlands and the African Shore, vvas ſurpriſed in the Grey of the Morning by a Turkiſh Rover of Sallee, vvho gave Chaſe to us vvith all the Sail ſhe could make. Example: [W]hen coming Home again from the Banks of Nevvfoundland, vve vvere taken by an Algerine Rover, or Man of VVar; […] 3. A plunderer, a raider, a robber. Labels: obsolete Example: In his daies came vp Nabuchodonoſor [Nebuchadnezzar II] the king of Babylon, and Ioakim vvas made his ſeruant three yeares: and he rebelled agaynſt him againe. And our Lord ſent in vpon him the rouers of the Chaldees, and the rouers of Syria, and the rouers of Moab, & the rouers of the children of Ammon: and he ſent them into Iuda, to deſtroy it, according to the vvord of our Lord, vvhich he had ſpoken by his ſeruantes the prophetes. Example: [H]ee began to rob and ſpoyle with a great band of rouers, and afterward he attempted to ſet vpon all men.
Word: rover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rove (“to card (wool or other fibres)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs). Rove is probably a variant of row (“(Scotland, obsolete, rare) to make (cotton, wool, etc.) into rovings”), probably from row (“(Ireland, Scotland, archaic) rove or roving of cotton, wool, etc.”), probably a variant of roll (“thing which is rolled up”), ultimately from Latin rota (“wheel”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to roll; to run”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊvə/, /ˈɹoʊvɚ/, /ˈɾovəɾ/, /ˈɾoːvə/ 1. One who forms cotton, wool, or other fibres into rovings (“long, narrow bundles of fibres”), specifically using a roving frame in a mill. Labels: historical Example: A Manufacture of Cotton is lately eſtabliſhed in this City, and is arrived at a very great Perfection; and I could not but be greatly pleaſed, vvhen I vvas there laſt, to ſee a very handſome Proceſſion made on this Occaſion, viz. on May-day 1740, at vvhich Time Mr. Clough, the Maſter of the Manufactory, together vvith the ſeveral Artificers concern'd therein, marched thro' the City in the follovving manner, preceded by the City Muſick; viz. There vvere Three Stages borne, each by Six Porters: On the firſt Stage vvere the Teazer, Carder, Rover, Spinner, and Reeler of the Cotton-vvool. 2. A machine used to make rovings, especially a roving frame. Labels: historical Example: The cotton being spread upon one of the cards, it was repeatedly combed with another till all the fibres were laid straight, when it was stripped off the card in a fleecy roll ready for the rover.
Word: harshness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English harsknes; equivalent to harsh + -ness. 1. The quality of being harsh. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day. Example: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Word: virginal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/ 1. Being or resembling a virgin. 2. Uncontaminated or pure. 3. Parthenogenic.
Word: virginal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/ 1. A musical instrument in the harpsichord family. Example: His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart, and to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.
Word: curare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a Cariban language; compare Kari'na urari, Trió urari, wïrari, Akawaio urari, Pemon urari, Macushi urari, referring to various vines of genus Strychnos. Pronunciation: /kjʊˈɹɑː.ɹi/, /kjʊˈɹɑ.ɹi/ 1. A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: doper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dope (verb) + -er. 1. One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally. Labels: derogatory Example: 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers" especially XC skiing. Example: ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up. 2. One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner. Labels: derogatory Example: That crafty old doper breaks out a "stick" of "tea" and they sit in the sun handing it back and forth, offering the waiter a hit... Example: 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong. 3. A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture. Labels: dated
Word: doper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English dope Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English doper From dope (adjective) + -er. 1. comparative form of dope: more dope Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: quadrille Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra. Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/ 1. A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance. Example: There is plenty of company, consisting of young men and women, all very neatly dressed in white and black - a true Portuguese habit. Quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, and mazurkas are danced with great vigour and much skill. Example: The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed. 2. The music for this dance. Example: There was ol' Mickey Coote Who played hard on his flute When the ladies lined up for a set He was tootin' with skill For each sparkling quadrille Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet 3. A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck. Example: It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors. 4. A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Word: quadrille Part of Speech: verb Etymology: French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra. Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/ 1. To dance the quadrille. Labels: intransitive Example: We quadrilled, waltzed, and conversed, in all of which my clever partner excelled; and her charms, combined with the excellent champagne I imbibed, fairly dazzled my imagination.
Word: quadrille Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective). Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/ 1. Marked with squares. Labels: not-comparable Example: Penknife, hand-lens, padlock key, marching compass and small cash went in his trouser pockets, leaving the tunic pockets for the little black quadrille notebook, pencil and pen, and the breast pockets for his breviary on one side and cigarettes and matches on the other. Example: He would write “one paragraph at time”, always beginning each novel in longhand – he favoured notebooks with quadrille lines (those little squares).
Word: quadrille Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective). Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/ 1. Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
Word: quadrille Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Term used by John Horton Conway. Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/ 1. A square tiling of the plane.
Word: nargery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the uncommon slang word narg (“nerd”), from NARG (“not a real gentleman”), said to have originated at Cambridge. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑɹɡəɹi/, /ˈnɑɹdʒəɹi/, /nɑːɡəɹi/, /ˈnɑːdʒəɹi/ 1. Technical discussion, shop talk. Labels: uncountable Example: Anyway, most email I send, and I suspect most email most people send, is not particularly interesting, consisting mostly of unix nargery, photocopier humour and the occasional attempt to organise social events. Example: It has become TGGD[i] with a side order of nargery about cyperpunk books and virtual reality (occasioned by the comment that "Paradigm Shift" sounds vaguely Gibson-esque or something).
Word: worsted Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English worstede, worsted, from Worstede (now Worstead; Old English *Wurϸestede), a town in Norfolk, England. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/, /ˈwɝ.stɪd/ 1. Yarn made from long strands of wool. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined. Example: [T]he kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; […] 2. The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]he undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark, forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated “the kitchen,” wherein sat a slatternly girl in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair. Example: He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck—Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge—an ornament—a charm—a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?
Word: worsted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Participle adjective of the verb worst. Pronunciation: /ˈwəː.stɪd/, /ˈwɝ.stɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of worst Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: worsted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Participle adjective of the verb worst. Pronunciation: /ˈwəː.stɪd/, /ˈwɝ.stɪd/ 1. Defeated, overcome. Example: The worsted army fled in disarray.
Word: archdeacon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English arcedekne, archdecon, archdekne, archdekyn, archedeken, archedekyn, archedyacun, archideken, archidiacon, ardekne, ercedekene, ercedekne, erchdekene, erchedekene, erchedekne, erresdeken, ersedekne, ersedekyn, from Old English ærcedæcne, ærcediæcne, earcedæcne (from Late Latin archidiāconus) and Old French arc(h)ediacne. 1. A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
Word: censer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English censer, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.sə/, /ˈsɛn.sɚ/ 1. An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies. Example: A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume. Example: Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. 2. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
Word: rewards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reward Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rewards Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reward Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reputed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpju.tɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of repute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reputed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpju.tɪd/ 1. Accorded a reputation. Example: He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother. Example: The other young ladies of Sulaco stood in awe of her character and accomplishments. She was reputed to be terribly learned and serious. 2. Supposed or assumed to be true.
Word: nex Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of next. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: contemplative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/, /ˈkɒntəmˌpleɪtɪv/, /ˈkɒntəmplətɪv/, /ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪtɪv/ 1. Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative. Example: Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he. 2. Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties. Example: Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts. 3. Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation. Example: contemplative faculties 4. In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as one's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Word: contemplative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/, /ˈkɒntəmˌpleɪtɪv/, /ˈkɒntəmplətɪv/, /ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪtɪv/ 1. Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation. Example: Like the white page that surrounds the darkness of each letter you are reading here, eternity surrounds each heartbeat, and as the contemplative watches his breath, he can move out of time through the doorway which opens in the interval between each heartbeat. Example: The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].
Word: peasantry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peasant + -ry, from Middle English paissaunt. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛzəntɹi/ 1. Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned. 2. Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity. 3. The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: How much low pezantry would then be gleaned / From the true ſeede of honor? And how much honor, / Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times / To be new verniſh’d? Example: He ſhall be armed at all peeces from the mid-thigh vpward with a faire Sword by his ſide, and his Captaines Colours or Enſigne in his hand, which Colours if they belong to a priuate Captaine ought to bee mixt equally of two ſeuerall colours, that is to ſay (according to the rules of Herauldry) of Colour and Mettall, and not colour on colour, as Greene and Red, or Blacke and Blew, or ſuch like, nor yet mettall on mettall as White and Yellow, or Orangetawny and White: for colours ſo borne, ſhew Baſtardy, peaſantry, or diſhonor.
Word: octadic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English octad Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English octadic From octad + -ic. 1. of or pertaining to an octad; eightfold Labels: not-comparable
Word: octad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oct- + -ad. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktæd/, /ˈɑkˌtæd/ 1. A group of eight things. 2. hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 10⁸ Labels: historical
Word: eightfold Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold. 1. Eight times as much; multiplied by eight. Labels: not-comparable 2. Containing eight parts. Labels: not-comparable Example: 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213, The scheme, which Gell-Mann called the eightfold way, grouped mesons and baryons into families.
Word: eightfold Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold. 1. By a factor of eight. Labels: not-comparable
Word: eightfold way Part of Speech: name Etymology: Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1961, as an allusion to the noble eightfold path in Buddhism. 1. a theory that organizes subatomic particles into octets
Word: nonadic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nonad Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English nonadic From nonad + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to a nonad; ninefold. Labels: not-comparable Example: The five fingers on each hand are punctuated continua like the nonadic nine planets.
Word: barnstorming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of barnstorm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: barnstorming Part of Speech: adj 1. Highly theatrical. Labels: especially Example: The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.
Word: barnstorming Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who barnstorms, or travels making political speeches. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He'd been to plenty of barnstormings, but he had been one of those who watched, mainly because he could ill afford to spend the dollar or two the pilot charged for the ride. Example: Testy voters have peppered GOP lawmakers at town halls, and tens of thousands continue to turn out for a barnstorming tour by Sen. Bernie Sanders. 2. Aviation stunts performed for a public audience. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: petrescence Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of changing into stone; petrification. Labels: uncountable
Word: refurbish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1605, from re- + furbish, from Middle English furbishen, from Middle French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”). Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈfɜːbɪʃ/, /ɹiˈfɝbɪʃ/ 1. To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance. Labels: transitive Example: We're having the sitting room refurbished, after a leak damaged a large part of the room. Example: He also makes the point that in France, SNCF is currently refurbishing some TGVs built in 1988.
Word: refurbish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1605, from re- + furbish, from Middle English furbishen, from Middle French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”). Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈfɜːbɪʃ/, /ɹiˈfɝbɪʃ/ 1. A refurbishment. Labels: informal Example: My bedroom needs a refurbish.
Word: nonad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nona- + -ad. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊnæd/, /ˈnɒ-/, /ˈnoʊnæd/, /ˈnɑ-/ 1. Synonym of ennead (“collection or series of nine things”). Labels: rare Example: By Trisection of the three sections of a Tripartite circle. Symbolical of a nonad or nine fold nature of the Deity. Example: The nonuply perspective nonads of Milne are distinct from all cases of cyclic nonads given by the theory of section I. of this paper […]
Word: stiff-necked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stiff + neck + -ed. (figurative): Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף (Exodus 33). A biblical term similar to Swedish styvnackad, Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), German halsstarrig etc. 1. Having a stiff neck; suffering from torticollis Labels: literally 2. Stubborn and arrogant. Labels: figuratively Example: For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Word: ethanoic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. The systematic alternative name for acetic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: untrammelled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English trammelled English untrammelled From un- + trammelled. 1. Alternative form of untrammeled. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Doctrinal prejudices shut you off from the joy of untrammelled thinking, moral prejudices from the joy of untrammelled living. Example: If building a baby is such an intricate cooperative venture, and if every gene needs several thousands of fellow genes to complete its task, how can we reconcile this with my picture of indivisible genes, springing like immortal chamois from body to body down the ages: the free, untrammelled, and self-seeking agents of life?