nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: barbule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ Borrowed from Latin barbula (“little beard”). 1. A small barb or beard. 2. Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather.
Word: radioligand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + ligand. 1. Any molecule that has a radioactive tracer attached, especially one used for radioimmunoassay
Word: radiolite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + -lite. 1. A form of igneous rock that has a radial, fanlike texture of crystals; a hippurite
Word: radiolocation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + location. 1. The detection and locating of distant objects using microwave radiation; especially radar Labels: uncountable 2. The locating of an object that is fitted with a radio tag Labels: uncountable 3. A location so identified Labels: countable
Word: radiologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English radiology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English radiologic From radiology + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to radiology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: radiological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English radiology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English radiological From radiology + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to radiation, radioactivity or nuclear weapons. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cupboardy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cupboard Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English cupboardy From cupboard + -y. 1. Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit. Labels: rare Example: Caroline and Amelia were rather short in their tempers that night at hair-brushing time, and Lucy was glad to have her funny little cupboardy room all to herself. Example: 1886, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney, Bonnyborough, Houghton, Mifflin, p. 129, I detest a room that is for nothing but eating; and one that is only for leather and paper and printer's ink gets cupboardy and musty in a hardly less undesirable way." 2. Associated with cupboard love. Labels: archaic Example: Down, Jack, you cupboardy dog!" The rough terrier thus unceremoniously addressed had been making a tour of inspection round Else ever since her arrival; but a sudden impression that there was such a thing as bread and butter to be had overmastered curiosity, and turning away...he sat up on end and wagged his paws just in front of his mistress.
Word: radiolucent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- English -lucent English radiolucent From radio- + -lucent. 1. transparent to X-rays
Word: radiolysis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + -lysis. 1. The dissociation of a molecule as a result of radiation Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: radiomimetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From radio- + mimetic. 1. Having a biological effect similar to that of radiation
Word: radiomimetic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + mimetic. 1. A radiomimetic drug
Word: radiomutation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + mutation. 1. A genetic mutation due to the effects of ionizing radiation
Word: radion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English radius Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbonbf. English -on English radion From radius + -on. 1. The radius modulus of an extra dimension in a compactification. Coined in 1998 by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and John March-Russell in the paper "Stabilization of Sub-Millimeter Dimensions: The New Guise of the Hierarchy Problem".
Word: radionecrosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- English necrosis English radionecrosis From radio- + necrosis. 1. Any necrosis caused by exposure to ionizing radiation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: radioneuritis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + neuritis. 1. neuritis caused by exposure to ionizing radiation Labels: uncountable
Word: radionics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- (“pertaining to rays or radiation”) + -onics. 1. Any of several techniques supposed to detect and modulate "life forces" and to provide healing using various electric black boxes. Labels: uncountable Example: Tiller observes that pendulums, dowsing rods and radionics devices all serve to reduce the signal/noise ratio. They help the average individual who is not blessed with the gifts of concentration that are apparently inherent in gifted healers […]
Word: radionics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- English -onics English radionics From radio- (“pertaining to radio waves”) + -onics. 1. electronics, especially in radio technology. Labels: historical, rare, uncountable Example: But it's also because the Cambridge is British made by Sinclair Radionics Ltd, Europe's largest calculator manufacturer, with all the cost advantages of scale that this entails.
Word: radionucleotide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + nucleotide. 1. Any nucleotide labelled with a radioactive tracer.
Word: radiopasteurization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + pasteurization or radiopasteurize + -ation. 1. pasteurization by exposure to ionizing radiation Labels: uncountable
Word: pasteurization Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pasteurisation. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: day late, dollar short Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of a day late and a dollar short.
Word: falda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian falda, from Lombardic *falda, from Proto-Germanic *faldō, *falþō, related to Middle High German falde, falte (“a fold”). More at English fold. 1. A white silk vestment worn by the pope, which is a long skirt, worn over the cassock, extending beneath the hem of the alb, reaching to the ground.
Word: sea-front Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of seafront. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: second-stringer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From second string + -er. 1. A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string" player is unavailable. 2. A person who is not good enough to be considered proficient but may be useful as a backup.
Word: secularist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English secular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English secularist From secular + -ist. 1. A person who believes in or supports secularism.
Word: secularization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From secularize + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkjələɹaɪˌzeɪʃən/, /ˈsɛkjələɹəˌzeɪʃən/ 1. The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable 2. The deconsecration of a church. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable 3. The act of becoming secular. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable Example: Wojtyla and Mazowiecki come from the same Krakow intellectual circles that advocated the secularization of politics and led the recent efforts for Polish-Jewish dialogue. Example: [C]onservative Christian organizations have pushed back against what they describe as the secularization of Christmas.
Word: secularize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English secular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English secularize From secular + -ize. 1. To make secular. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive
Word: Denny Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the male given names Denis or Dennis. 2. A surname of Scottish origin. 3. A town in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8082).
Word: semipermeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English permeable English semipermeable From semi- + permeable. Pronunciation: /ˌsɛmiˈpɜː(ɹ)miəbəl/, /ˌsɛmaɪ-/ 1. Permeable to some things and not to others, as a cell membrane which allows some molecules through but blocks other substances.
Word: sensuousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sensuous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English sensuousness From sensuous + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛns.juː.əs.nəs/ 1. The property of being sensuous. Labels: uncountable 2. The product or result of being sensuous. Labels: countable
Word: sensualist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sensual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English sensualist From sensual + -ist. 1. A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations. 2. One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
Word: sensuously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English sensuous Middle English -ly English -ly English sensuously From sensuous + -ly. 1. In a sensuous manner.
Word: sequestration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”). 1. The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the sequestration of juries Example: In possession of ample property, it was not from motives of retrenchment he had quitted the frequented scenes of life; sequestration during the first months of marriage had been his choice, equally as that of his partner;[…] 2. A budget cut resulting from a separation of funding mechanisms. Labels: US, countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: The company took a revenue hit when sequestration dried up some of its best contracts.
Word: shallowly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English shallow Middle English -ly English -ly English shallowly From shallow + -ly. 1. In a shallow manner, without depth. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sharer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English share 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 sharer From share + -er. 1. One who shares. Example: […] the true gamesters pretended to be ill, and refused their glass, while they plied heartily two young fellows, who were to be afterwards pillaged, as indeed they were without mercy. Of this plunder I had the good fortune to be a sharer, though I was not yet let into the secret. Example: He was densely distressed—and perhaps I should have sympathized with him if I had been able to detach my mental vision from the unsuspected sharer of my cabin as though he were my second self. There he was on the other side of the bulkhead, four or five feet from us, no more, as we sat in the saloon. 2. A dish at a restaurant, etc. intended to be shared between several people. Labels: informal Example: Can we order the seafood platter as a sharer?
Word: shouter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shout + -er. 1. One who shouts. 2. A singer with an expressive, loud vocal style seen as reminiscent of shouting. 3. A song performed in this manner. Example: It certainly had merit as a punkish shouter with its machine-gun-spatter underbeat.
Word: shovelful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shovel + -ful. 1. The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel. Example: One shovelful of dirt makes a molehill; a million shovelfuls make a mountain. Example: Two workers each had a shovelful of snow. There were two shovelsful of snow.
Word: shutterbug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shutter + bug, from their tendency to work the camera's shutter frequently. Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌtəbʌɡ/, /ˈʃʌtɚbʌɡ/ 1. A person who makes a hobby of photography. Labels: informal Example: Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other. Example: She was contrite, but presented herself as just another frustrated shutterbug with access to Photoshop.
Word: skinflick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of skin flick. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: douchebaggery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English douchebag Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English douchebaggery From douchebag + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˌduːʃˈbæɡəɹi/, /ˈduːʃˌbæɡəɹi/ 1. Contemptible or obnoxious behaviour. Labels: countable, humorous, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: This kind of douchebagery deserves no reply... Example: Perhaps he imagines that by planting this request and filling it so conveniently, those who have been downloading mp3s will fall for it. In this way he can "get" us and "teach us a lesson." A very immature and obvious attempt by the king of douchebagery.
Word: skyjacker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From skyjack + -er. 1. A person who commits skyjacking.
Word: skyjack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of sky + hijack. Pronunciation: /ˈskaɪd͡ʒæk/ 1. To steal or commandeer (hijack) an airplane, usually by threat of violence to the passengers and/or crew members.
Word: skyjack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the brand name Skyjack, from sky + jack. Pronunciation: /ˈskaɪd͡ʒæk/ 1. Synonym of scissor lift. Example: Concrete was placed continuously, with an observer in a skyjack above the column communicating with the pump operator to avoid overfilling[...] Example: A skyjack—a thirty-foot-high filming platform that rises on a hydraulic scissors lift—is in place, with a cameraman overseeing the practice.
Word: substantival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From substantive + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbstənˈtaɪvəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a substantive. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to physical substance; material. Labels: not-comparable
Word: residual risk Part of Speech: noun 1. The risk left over after safeguards (mitigation strategies) have been implemented. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Karditsa Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Greek Καρδίτσα (Kardítsa), probably derived ultimately from the Proto-Slavic *gordъ + *-ica (cf. Greek -ίτσα (-ítsa)). 1. A city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece; it is the capital city of the prefecture with the same name. 2. A prefecture in western Thessaly.
Word: coprophil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From copro- + -phil. 1. a coprophilous microorganism
Word: coprophilous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱókʷr̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱókʷ-ro-sder. Ancient Greek κόπρος (kópros) English copro- English -philous English coprophilous From copro- + -philous. 1. living in, or growing on excrement Labels: not-comparable
Word: radiopharmaceutical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- English pharmaceutical English radiopharmaceutical From radio- + pharmaceutical. 1. Any radioactive substance used as a pharmaceutical.
Word: radiopharmacology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + pharmacology. 1. The science of the manufacture and use of radiopharmaceuticals Labels: uncountable
Word: house poor Part of Speech: adj 1. In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income. Labels: idiomatic
Word: Demiurge Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δημιουργός (Dēmiourgós), see demiurge. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmɪɜːdʒ/, /ˈdɛmɪˌɝd͡ʒ/ 1. The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas. 2. A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible. Example: For the rest, we meet in the Demiurge of the Valentinians all the traits of the world-god with which we have by now become familiar and can therefore deal here very briefly
Word: listful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From list (“to listen”) + -ful (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪstfʊl/ 1. Attentive, listening. Example: The boundless, — infinite, — Almighty Power, Is ceaseless rolling on our listful ears — Through all th' immensity which every where appears. Example: His color is tan or lightbrown, his tail long and bushy, his ears straight and listful, and in those little eyes there glows a reckless cunning, a tire-less vigilance which few animals possess.
Word: listful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From list (“a compilation of items”) + -ful (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪstfʊl/ 1. Using or based on lists (compilations of items). Example: Unfortunately, listful style can be very inefficient. This is due to the space required to store the intermediate lists, and the time required to traverse them. Example: True joy permeates from the commander of common grace, his matrix of pleasure flows throughout with a listful liberation of joy.
Word: listful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From list (“a compilation of items”) + -ful (nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪstfʊl/ 1. As many as fill a list (a compilation of items). Example: Tony had the rest of the day off so he went on to Winslow, for a haircut, parts for a generator, several listsful of groceries and miscellaneous other items. Example: And these loving couples and individuals are waiting by the listful to adopt children regardless of race; children with terminal illnesses, like AIDS; and children with special medical needs, like Downs Syndrome and Spina Bifida.
Word: listful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From list (“to tilt”) + -ful (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪstfʊl/ 1. Tending to list or tilt. Labels: rare Example: Leaving the coach sitting there horseless of shaft and decidedly listful at the front end.
Word: Capoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cape + -oid. 1. a member of the racial classification of humanity composed of the Khoi and San people of Southern Africa.
Word: gabi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tagalog gabi, from Proto-Philippine *gabi. 1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. 2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc. 3. Food from a taro plant.
Word: acalculiacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acalculiac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bennies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bennies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of benny Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plateaux Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /plæˈtoʊ(z)/ 1. plural of plateau Labels: form-of, plural Example: 1957: Justin O’Brien, The Fall, 1976 reprint, ch. 2, pp20–21 (Penguin Books; →ISBN; a translation from the original 1956 French work La Chute, by Albert Camus In the mountains I used to flee the deep valleys for the passes and plateaux; at the very least, I was a man of the uplands.
Word: pronunciatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to pronunciation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ageusia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- (negative prefix) + Ancient Greek γεῦσις (geûsis, “taste”) + -ia. See also γεύω (geúō, “to taste”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡjuːsi.ə/, /əˈɡjuːzi.ə/, /əˈɡjuːʒ(i.)ə/, /əˈɡjuːʃə/, /eɪ-/ 1. Absence of the sense of taste. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Partial or complete loss of the sense of taste. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ageusias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ageusia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ageustias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ageustia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hemophiliac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hemo- + -philiac. 1. A person with hemophilia. 2. A person with an attraction to blood. Labels: rare Example: Wasn't the vampire really the haemophiliac of today? He certainly got some kind of a thrill from sucking blood Example: She is, it quickly transpires, a haemophiliac vampire who, after being transported to the mother ship, sets about killing the crew one by one
Word: hemophiliacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hemophiliac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ageusiac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ageusia + -ac. Pronunciation: /əˈɡjuːzɪæk/, /æˈɡjuːzɪæk/, /əˈɡjuːʒæk/, /æˈɡjuːʒæk/ 1. A person who has no sense of taste, or who has lost the sense of taste.
Word: daimyos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of daimyo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rebake 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 *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake English rebake From re- + bake. 1. To cook something by baking again. Labels: transitive Example: "Do not attempt to rebake the tubes at home, as the housewife's oven is no more suited to that work than it is to firing china."
Word: good-natured Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɡʊdˈneɪtʃəd/ 1. Having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition. Example: “It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children.[…]” Example: For the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball—better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest—laughing heartily if it went right, and not less heartily if it went wrong.
Word: saber-toothed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having long, sharp, curved fangs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: three-fourths Part of Speech: noun 1. Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75). Labels: uncountable Example: three-fourths of a ton is too much Example: a three-fourths majority
Word: harvest mite Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various mites of family Trombiculidae that inhabit forests and grasslands and which, in their larval stage, attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching. Example: I wonder what I look like to the intrepid harvest mite, with his six red hungry legs, nosing through the crusted dirt of the Via Solis to find a soft pouch of blood at the base of my forefinger?
Word: paralepsis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of paraleipsis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rhetoric
Word: paraleipsis Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹəˈliːpsɪs/, /ˌpæɹəˈleɪpsɪs/, /ˌpæɹəˈlaɪpsɪs/ 1. Alternative form of paralipsis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: azuki bean Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈzu(ː)ki ˈbi(ː)n/ 1. An annual vine (Vigna angularis), widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalayas for its small bean. Example: The Chinese characters for azuki bean [Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi], 小豆, means^([sic]) “small bean,” while the kanji characters for soybean, 大豆, mean “big bean.” These characters also reflect the relative importance of these two crops in East Asia, where they are the main legumes in people's diets. 2. A bean of this vine.
Word: adsuki bean Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of azuki bean. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aduki bean Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of azuki bean. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: adzuki bean Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of azuki bean. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Lughnasadh Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Irish Lughnasadh (obsolete form of Lúnasa (“August”)), from Old Irish Lugnasad. 1. A Gaelic/Celtic holiday celebrated on the full moon nearest the midpoint between the summer solstice and autumnal equinox, during the time of the harvesting. Example: The Celtic people of Ireland viewed they year in two equal halves, Samhain, side of dark, and Beltaine, side of light. Dividing these halves are the harvest festival of Lughnasadh and the spring festival of Imbolc. The Celtic year begins November 1st, but I have started my collection in the fall harvest festival of Lughnasadh, a time of year where memories abundant dance in my head like the leaves in which my brothers and I played. Example: It was first light and the kitchens were alive with activity, this was Thar's day, the day of the festival of Lughnasadh, the beginning of a new year.
Word: bean-feast Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of beanfeast. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: There was to be no official opening ceremony, but nevertheless the inhabitants of Chard were not going to neglect this opportunity for a bean-feast, for they were also to celebrate the demolition of the town's East Gate.
Word: bean-pole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of beanpole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: autumnal equinox Part of Speech: noun 1. The moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator while tilting away from the observer, taking place in September in the northern hemisphere and March in the southern hemisphere.
Word: JavaBean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Java + bean, continuing the coffee association of the name, now often shortened to just bean. 1. A reusable software component written in Java, allowing access to its properties using standardized getter and setter methods. Example: You then simply access the compiled JavaBean from all your JSP script pages. Example: Every Java user interface class is a JavaBeans component.
Word: jumping bean Part of Speech: noun 1. A Mexican jumping bean.
Word: Mexican jumping bean Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of seed of a shrub of the genus Sebastiania in which a larva has hatched from an egg laid there by a moth (Cydia deshaisiana, the movement of the larva causing the seed to move around.
Word: locust bean Part of Speech: noun 1. A seed of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
Word: mescal bean Part of Speech: noun 1. The shrubs or small trees of genus Dermatophyllum of the pea family Fabaceae, native to southwestern North America from western Texas to Arizona in the United States and from Chihuahua to Nuevo León in Mexico, that bear toxic beans used in ordeal rituals by native peoples.
Word: slough of despond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of a bog in The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by English writer and preacher John Bunyan (1628–1688). Pronunciation: /ˈslaʊ əv ˈdɛspɒnd/, /ˈslaʊ əv dɛˈspɑnd/, /ˈsluː/, /ˈdɛspɑnd/ 1. A dreary bog or marsh. Example: The road is winding, and consists of a succession of short, steep descents, diversified by occasional sloughs, which might well be called "sloughs of despond," into one of which Manuel was thrown rather unceremoniously, by the bursting of his saddle-girths at the top of one of these short hills, by which means he took a flight over the head of his beast, and found a soft resting place in the mud at the bottom. Example: The road was scarcely passable; there were no longer cheerful farms and clearings, but the dark pine forest, and the rank swamp, crossed by those terrific corduroy paths (my bones ache at the mere recollection!) and deep holes and pools of rotted vegetable matter, mixed with water, black, bottomless sloughs of despond! The very horses paused on the brink of some of these mud-gulfs, and trembled ere they made the plunge downwards. 2. A state of disheartening hopelessness; pit of despair. Labels: figuratively Example: Amy laughed too, and, kissing her mother, said, 'Well, I never had such a "Day of Misfortunes" as Rosamund's. I think it is because I have got such a dear darling mother that she helps me out of my troubles, my "Sloughs of Despond," as Clara calls them, quicker.' / 'The best thing is to try not to fall into sloughs of despond, and the way to do that is to examine carefully how you have come to get into them.[…]' Example: Thus the colony - for owing to its enormous area the Territory can claim to be considered something more than a settlement - was at last attracting notice, and rising from the Slough of Despond into which different causes had placed it.
Word: session bean Part of Speech: noun 1. In Samsung Enterprise Edition specifications of the Java Platform, a type of Enterprise Bean that maintains the state for a particular session with a client.
Word: wax bean Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several forms of Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean); the butter bean.
Word: idée fixe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French idée fixe (literally “fixed idea”). Pronunciation: /ˌiː.deɪ ˈfiːks/ 1. An idea dominating the mind and maintained despite evidence to the contrary; (loosely), an obsession. Example: “There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an ‘idée fixe’ and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.” Example: [“]A foreign policy of domination through spiritual means is [Jorane Sutt’s] idée fixe, but it’s my notion that his ultimate aims aren’t spiritual.[”] 2. A recurring musical theme; a leitmotif. Example: a definite musical figure, called the 'idée fixe,' unifying the work throughout by its constant reappearance in various aspects and surroundings
Word: wouldn't've Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: From would + -n't + -'ve. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊd(ə)n(t)ə(v)/ 1. Contraction of would + not + have. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction Example: Anyway, my Daddy said if you wasn’t such a coward, trying to haze that boy with a big bunch of others, you wouldn’t’ve got shot in the first place […] Example: […] if there had been a man around, taking hold of things, her father’s partner wouldn’t’ve been able to get away with most of the estate the way he did…
Word: Sitzfleisch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Sitzfleisch. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪtsflaɪʃ/ 1. The ability to endure or carry on with an activity. Labels: uncountable Example: Sitzfleisch: a term used in chess to indicate winning by use of the glutei muscles--the habit of remaining stolid in one's seat hour by hour, making moves that are sound but uninspired, until one's opponent blunders through boredom. Example: He never dallied with the image, beloved of the Renaissance, of the lean and shrunk-shanked scholar, possessed of infinite Sitzfleisch and inured to pain. 2. A person's bottom; the posterior. Labels: slang Example: Just as he was snorting and puffing like a grampus, I chanced to observe a quite formidable scar on his Sitzfleisch. With an apology for the personal nature of the question, I asked if it was a war wound of some kind.
Word: hydrocele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French hydrocèle or Latin hydrocēlē, from Ancient Greek ὑδροκήλη (hudrokḗlē), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪdɹəsiːl/ 1. An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle. Example: For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.
Word: radiophony Part of Speech: noun 1. The use of the radiophone Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: radiophoto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English radio- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photographclip. English photo English radiophoto From radio- + photo. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪdɪəʊˌfəʊtəʊ/ 1. A radiophotograph.
Word: radiophotograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph English radiophotograph From radio- + photograph. 1. A photograph transmitted using radio; an early form of facsimile 2. A radiographic photograph
Word: radioprotection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English radio- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin pro- Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der. Proto-Italic *tegō Latin tegō Latin prōtegō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Late Latin prōtēctiōder. Old Frenchbor. Middle English English protection English radioprotection From radio- + protection. 1. Any form of protection against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation, especially caused by artificial sources. Labels: uncountable
Word: radioreceptor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + receptor. 1. Any receptor that responds to radiation (such as heat and light)
Word: radioresistance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + resistance. 1. Any form of resistance that an organism has to protect itself against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: radioresistant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- English resistant English radioresistant From radio- + resistant. 1. Having a certain amount of radioresistance
Word: radiosensitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- English sensitive English radiosensitive From radio- + sensitive. 1. Having a certain amount of radiosensitivity
Word: radiosensitivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + sensitivity. 1. The relative sensitivity of cells or organisms to any form of radiation, but especially to the harmful effects of ionizing radiation
Word: radiosurgery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon) Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós) Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek χειρουργίᾱ̆ (kheirourgíā̆)bor. Latin chīrūrgiader. Old French surgie Old French surgeriebor. Middle English surgerie English surgery English radiosurgery From radio- + surgery. 1. The use of a directed beam of X-rays or other ionizing radiation to destroy diseased tissue. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: radiotelemetry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + telemetry. 1. Alternative form of radio telemetry. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: radiotelephony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + telephony. 1. the transmission of sound (in both directions) using modulated radio waves rather than wires Labels: uncountable
Word: radious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English radyouse, radious, radiouse, radyvs, from Old French radieuse, variant of radieux; also compare Latin radiōsus. 1. radiant Labels: obsolete
Word: trenchermanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English trencherman Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English trenchermanship From trencherman + -ship. 1. The quality or fact of being a trencherman. Labels: uncountable Example: Energetic trenchermanship was a prudent form of preventative medicine.
Word: topos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic. Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊpɒs/ 1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. Example: The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement. 2. A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site). 3. A toilet. Labels: slang
Word: radioteletype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + teletype. 1. A communication system consisting of teletypewriters linked by radio.
Word: radioteletypewriter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + teletypewriter. 1. A teletypewriter connected to a radio as part of a radioteletype system.
Word: teletypewriter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- English typewriter English teletypewriter From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + typewriter. 1. Synonym of teletype (“telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols”).
Word: radiotoxic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós) Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der. Latin toxicum Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Italic *-kos Latin -cus Latin toxicusbor. French toxiquebor. English toxic English radiotoxic From radio- + toxic. 1. toxic because of its radioactivity
Word: radiotoxicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin radiusder. English radio- Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós) Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der. Latin toxicum Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Italic *-kos Latin -cus Latin toxicusbor. French toxiquebor. English toxic English radiotoxic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English radiotoxicity From radiotoxic + -ity. 1. The state of being radiotoxic. Labels: uncountable
Word: radiovision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From radio- + vision. 1. An early television system. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: hào Part of Speech: noun 1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one tenth of a Vietnamese dong.
Word: mashing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mash Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mashing Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the culinary process, there are none of those peelings and washings as in the case of potatoes and turnips, […] none of those squeezings and mashings and choppings, before the worthless mess can be got upon the table. 2. The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: More hot water is added, and the mashing process repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, four mashings[…] 3. The process of preparing tea in a teapot. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: divine right Part of Speech: name 1. The Christian doctrine that monarchs have a God-given right to rule, that they are answerable only to God, and that rebellion is sinful.
Word: spirulina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name Spirulina. Pronunciation: /ˌspɪɹəˈliːnə/, /ˌspɪɹjʊˈliːnə/, /ˌspaɪɹəˈliːnə/ 1. A food supplement prepared from blue-green algae of the genus Arthrospira found in soda lakes. Labels: uncountable Example: Another interesting factor in Spirulina is its effect upon appetite. Either it is so concentrated that the body signals a satisfaction feeling from the digestive tract where Spirulina has a remarkable 85% digestibility […] Example: Research by the meat and dairy industries has been slanted. New discoveries show that B12 can be found in numerous non-meat sources, such as olives, mushrooms, bananas, spirulina, bee pollen, concord grapes, […]
Word: malapert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mal- (“not, badly”) + apert (“open, revealed; direct, straightforward; clever, expert”), or from Middle French malappert, Old French mal apert (“ill-skilled”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæləpɜːt/, /mæləˈpɜːt/, /ˈmæləpɝt/, /mæləˈpɝt/ 1. A cheeky, impudent, or saucy person. Labels: archaic
Word: malapert Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mal- (“not, badly”) + apert (“open, revealed; direct, straightforward; clever, expert”), or from Middle French malappert, Old French mal apert (“ill-skilled”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæləpɜːt/, /mæləˈpɜːt/, /ˈmæləpɝt/, /mæləˈpɝt/ 1. Cheeky, impudent, saucy. Labels: archaic Example: The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […] Example: Nevertheleſſe I finde him [Iohn Bodine] ſomewhat malapert and bolde in that paſſage of his Methode of Hiſtorie, when he accuseth Plutarke, not onely of ignorance […] but alſo that he often writeth, things altogether incredible and meerely fabulous (theſe are his very words).
Word: rectus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rēctus (“straight, upright”), clipping of mūsculus rēctus (“straight muscle”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk.təs/ 1. Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc.
Word: DI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of detective inspector; a police rank. Labels: Commonwealth, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of dens invaginatus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of diabetes insipidus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of disposition index. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of diffused illumination. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of dependency injection. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of direct injection (“fuel injection”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of ductile iron. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of direct input. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: DI unit 10. Ellipsis of DI unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: recorded with a DI 11. Initialism of directional influence (“the ability to change one's direction of movement while falling”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: recti Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkˌtaɪ/ 1. plural of rectus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ass crack Part of Speech: noun 1. The gluteal cleft. Labels: Canada, US, slang, vulgar
Word: butt crack Part of Speech: noun 1. The gluteal cleft. Labels: US, mildly, slang, vulgar Example: "The black slip rode up over her hips and revealed a red thong buried in her butt crack."
Word: cupboard love Part of Speech: noun 1. Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange. Labels: uncountable Example: 1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103, This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage. Example: Besides, Sandy includes a little cupboard love in the detail of his sentiments. Nothing can be a more undeniable proof of the truth of this statement than the trials of Mrs. K—— and Mrs. D——. In both instances the lovers were nice, attentive fatherly men.
Word: lactescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lactescens, present participle of lactescere. 1. milky
Word: dog-ear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is a variant of dog's-ear, from dog + -’s + ear, due to the similarity of their appearance to the folded ears of certain dogs. The verb is either: * directly from dog + ear; * a back-formation from dog-eared; or * a variant of dog's-ear (verb). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡɪə/, /ˈdɔɡˌɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈdɑɡ-/ 1. The folded corner of the page of a book or other publication, either due to having been read many times or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.
Word: dog-ear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is a variant of dog's-ear, from dog + -’s + ear, due to the similarity of their appearance to the folded ears of certain dogs. The verb is either: * directly from dog + ear; * a back-formation from dog-eared; or * a variant of dog's-ear (verb). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡɪə/, /ˈdɔɡˌɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈdɑɡ-/ 1. To fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication). Labels: transitive Example: His eyes went to his book and stayed there long enough to finish a paragraph. He dog-eared it and put it down.
Word: mulla Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of mullah. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: A certain Afridi being desirous to learn to read, went into a village to a Mulla and said to him, that it would be a great favour if he would give him lessons. Example: For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their faith.
Word: ligneous conjunctivitis Part of Speech: noun 1. A rare condition characterized by chronic, recurrent conjunctivitis associated with a pseudomembrane, and it may involve other mucous membranes in the mouth, nasopharynx, trachea, and vagina. Labels: uncountable
Word: rabbinate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rabbin- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus, -tūs Latin -ātusder. English -ate English rabbinate From rabbin- + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæbənət/ 1. The office or function of a rabbi. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Adam [...] thought the call to the rabbinate should be entirely pure, a discussion a man has with God. 2. A body of rabbis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Rabbinate now uses computers to keep lists of women without proper religious divorces (a get) and children born to women without them (mamzerim) -- who are without status under Jewish law. 3. Rabbis collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable