nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: unattractive 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 attractive English unattractive From un- + attractive. 1. Not handsome or beautiful or appealing. Example: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles. 2. Lacking the power to attract interest. Example: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return. Example: In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.
Word: unattractive Part of Speech: noun 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 attractive English unattractive From un- + attractive. 1. An aesthetically unattractive person
Word: unattractiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English unattractive 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 unattractiveness From unattractive + -ness. 1. Synonym of ugliness. Labels: uncountable
Word: unauthorized 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 authorized English unauthorized From un- + authorized. 1. Not having any authority. Labels: not-comparable 2. Without official authorization. Labels: not-comparable Example: The dangers of scofflawry vary wildly. The person who illegally spits on the sidewalk remains disgusting, but clearly poses less risk to others than the company that illegally buries hazardous chemical waste in an unauthorized location.
Word: unavoidable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/ 1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen. Example: an unavoidable urge 2. Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Example: A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable
Word: unavoidable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/ 1. Something that cannot be avoided. Example: Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least[…]
Word: unbaked 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 baked English unbaked From un- + baked. 1. Not baked; (often) neither baked nor otherwise cooked. Labels: not-comparable
Word: half baked Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of half-baked. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: If we would have hired a good mechanic instead of a half baked kikuyu driver, he would have checked the oil and never burned out that bearing in the truck.
Word: teddy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See teddy bear. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛdi/ 1. Abbreviation of teddy bear. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Any stuffed toy. Labels: broadly
Word: teddy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly named after a German-American designer, Theodore Baer. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛdi/ 1. A type of all-in-one women's undergarment. Example: Silk teddies and negligées up front, knickers fanned out on tables in the centre, bras hanging in the back - there are no minutes lost finding your bearings.
Word: matt Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of matte. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative Example: Outside the sky was low and hard and cold, with a matt texture I recognized from when I'd lived around here.
Word: matt Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative spelling of mat (“an alloy in coppersmithing”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 3. Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: matt Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ninny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; the synonym ninnyhammer appears around the same time. Possibly related to innocent or Italian ninno (“small child”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɪni/ 1. A silly or foolish person. Labels: informal Example: Byd. […] a good cheeke, an inticing eye, a smooth skinne, a well shapt leg, a faire hand, you cannot bring a wench into a fooles parradize for you? Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? Example: Caliban: What a py'de Ninnie's this? Thou ſcvrvy patch: […]
Word: picaninny Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pickaninny. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: roam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble. Pronunciation: /ɹəʊm/, /ɹoʊm/ 1. To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. Labels: intransitive Example: Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, ⁠My blessing, like a line of light, ⁠Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home. Example: Oh, never will I roam / Now I know my place is home / Where the ocean meets the sky / I'll be sailin' 2. To range or wander over. Labels: transitive Example: Gangs of thugs roamed the streets. Example: And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam. 3. To use a network or service from different locations or devices. Labels: intransitive 4. To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. Labels: transitive Example: At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.
Word: roam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble. Pronunciation: /ɹəʊm/, /ɹoʊm/ 1. The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination Example: Glass in hand, he set off on a roam of the first floor.
Word: pickney Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pickaninny. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪk.ni/ 1. A child. Labels: Belize, Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, informal Example: And he tell my father about country and where he can go and he can take him pickney with him and when he say pickney I shake but nobody know that me under the cover.
Word: peccadillo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish pecadillo, diminutive form of pecado (“sin”), from Latin peccatum (“sin, error, fault”), from peccō (“to sin, offend”). Pronunciation: /ˌpɛ.kəˈdɪ.loʊ/, /ˌpɛ.kəˈdɪ.ləʊ/ 1. A small flaw or sin. Example: We tolerate Irene and Phil’s mild racist quirks and planet-destroying peccadilloes (“I could never own any car smaller than my Cutlass Supreme”) because their existence acts as a tranquilizer in an otherwise slightly-out-of-control world. Example: The sex scandal issue isn’t really central, since Americans have a long record of voting for the candidates they think can deliver, regardless of private peccadilloes. 2. A petty offense. Example: When he comes to the prayer, he sometimes does me the honor of personally recommending me to the Lord, advising him that I am a worthy man and begging him to condone my occasional peccadillos. Example: No sexual peccadillo is left unremarked upon.
Word: zij Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Persian zīg (literally “cord”). 1. An Islamic book that tabulates parameters used for various astronomical events and movements. Example: Zijes are comprised of a set of canons and a set of tables. These tables can be grouped as follows: calendar conversions; mean motions; solar, lunar, and planetary equations; trigonometry and spherical astronomy; planetary latitudes, visibilities, and retrogradations; lunar visibility; precession or trepidation; solar and lunar eclipses; astrological tables; geographical coordinates; and star lists. Some zijes may not have had all these items, and others may have had [more]. In particular, planetary velocity tables appear in only [those] that derive from the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib.
Word: unbalanced 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 balanced English unbalanced From un- + balanced. 1. not balanced, without equilibrium 2. irrational or mentally deranged 3. expressing support for a certain point of view; biased Example: unbalanced reporting 4. not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond 5. of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses 6. an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other
Word: unbalanced Part of Speech: verb 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 balanced English unbalanced From un- + balanced. 1. simple past and past participle of unbalance Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbearable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable. 1. So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable. Example: The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
Word: homoscedasticity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Hellenic *homós Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der. English homo- English scedasticity English homoscedasticity From homo- + scedasticity. Pronunciation: /həʊməʊskɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/, /hoʊmoʊsɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/ 1. A property of a set of random variables such that each variable has the same finite variance. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Before analysis, homoscedasticities of sample variances were assessed by Cochran's C and Bartlett's Box tests. Example: Unlike OLS^([Ordinary Least Squares]) regression, logistic regression does not assume linearity of relationship between dependent and independent variables; does not require normally distributed variables; does not assume homoscedasticity; and in general has less stringent requirements.
Word: unbecoming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing Pronunciation: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/ 1. Not flattering, attractive or appropriate. Example: She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle. Example: A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it. 2. Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position. Example: He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Example: No proceedings in respect of unbecoming conduct shall be taken in respect of the lawful political opinions or activities of any bishop, priest or deacon.
Word: unbecoming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing Pronunciation: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of unbecome Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unbecoming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing Pronunciation: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/ 1. The process by which something unbecomes. Example: By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
Word: unbelievable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + believable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, /bi-/, /bə-/ 1. Not to be believed. Labels: literally Example: ‘Come on, girls,’ said Steve, ‘be honest, we won.’ / ‘Yeah,’ said Raymond, ‘we let you off because you’re girls.’ / ‘You’re unbelievable,’ said Liz. / ‘Well, if we’re unbelievable,’ said Steve, ‘then you’re unbelievabler.’ 2. Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe. Labels: figuratively Example: The most unbelievable thing happened to me today! Example: This restaurant makes unbelievable pizza! 3. Implausible or improbable. Example: His excuse seems rather unbelievable.
Word: puissance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English puissaunce, from Anglo-Norman puissance, pusaunce, and other forms, from Old French puissant (“powerful”). Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːɪ.s(ə)ns/, /ˈpwɪ-/ 1. power, might or potency Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Sarazin ſore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his ſword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: / Each others equall puiſſaunce enuies, / And through their iron ſides with cruelties / Does ſeeke to perce: repining courage yields / No foote to foe. Example: We easily pronounce puissance, truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive. 2. The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was in Dublin that San Lucas scored his first success in what has become something of a speciality for him, the puissance. Example: Pat [Moss] then went to Oxford to qualify for the Horse of the Year Show, and Danny was fourth in the Puissance, an event with very high jumps.
Word: potentate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English potentat, from Old French, from Late Latin potentātus (“rule, political power”), from Latin potēns (“powerful, strong”), the active present participle of possum (“to be able”). Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊ.tən.teɪt/, /ˈpoʊ.tən.teɪt/ 1. A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler. Example: But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die, For that's the end of humane miſerie. Example: She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem. 2. A powerful polity or institution. 3. A self-important person. Labels: derogatory 4. Someone acting in an important role. Labels: humorous Example: "Those foreigners," thought the female potentate of the Sun, "won't know what to order; but I'll show them what a good supper is."
Word: potentate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English potentat, from Old French, from Late Latin potentātus (“rule, political power”), from Latin potēns (“powerful, strong”), the active present participle of possum (“to be able”). Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊ.tən.teɪt/, /ˈpoʊ.tən.teɪt/ 1. Regnant, powerful, dominant. Labels: obsolete
Word: cut to the chase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cinema usage: to cut (edit a film) so as to get to the exciting part. Also, preceded by Chaucer c.1400, "The Wife of Bath's Tale"- "And shortly forth this tale for to chace" (To cut a long story short). 1. To get to the point; to get on with it; to state something directly. Labels: idiomatic Example: We don't have much time here. Could you cut to the chase? Example: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I don't like to play games, the whole wait three days to text you, flirt with other women in front of you. It's exhausting. Let's just cut to the chase. We're in love with each other.
Word: small talk Part of Speech: noun 1. Idle conversation, typically regarding innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: [T]o the credit of the lady it may be added, that […] without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her. Example: If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.
Word: flank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-West Germanic *hlanku (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank. Pronunciation: /ˈflæŋk/, [ˈflæŋk], /ˈfleɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈfleɪ̯ŋk], /ˈflɛ̃ŋk/ 1. To attack the flank(s) of. Labels: transitive 2. To defend the flank(s) of. Labels: transitive 3. To place to the side(s) of. Labels: transitive Example: Stately colonnades are flank'd with trees. Example: [...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines. 4. To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side). Labels: intransitive
Word: flank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-West Germanic *hlanku (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank. Pronunciation: /ˈflæŋk/, [ˈflæŋk], /ˈfleɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈfleɪ̯ŋk], /ˈflɛ̃ŋk/ 1. The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip. Example: Holonym: side 2. A cut of meat from the flank of an animal. 3. The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc. 4. The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects. 5. The side of something, in general senses. Example: Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth. Example: Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape. 6. Either of the two pockets located on the seat of a pair of pants. Example: I took the quarter and hid it in my right flank. 7. An ideological faction within a political party. Example: Ford survived a primary challenge in 1976 from the right flank of the Republican Party by Ronald Reagan. 8. The outermost strip of a road. 9. The wing, one side of the pitch. Example: The hosts also had Paul Robinson to thank for a string of saves, three of them coming against Jerome Thomas, who gave Michel Salgado a torrid time down the left flank. 10. That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
Word: flank Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-West Germanic *hlanku (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank. Pronunciation: /ˈflæŋk/, [ˈflæŋk], /ˈfleɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈfleɪ̯ŋk], /ˈflɛ̃ŋk/ 1. Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: All ahead flank!
Word: politeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English polite Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną 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 politeness From polite + -ness. Pronunciation: /pəˈlaɪtnəs/, /pəˈləɪʔnəs/, /pəˈlo̞ɪʔnəs/ 1. The quality of being polite. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: At school, where politeness is not one of the compulsory subjects, I was "Pup", "Puggy", "Ki-ki", "Balcombe Beauty", "Snarleywow", and other shafts of endearment. I was not petted. 2. A polite act. Labels: countable, usually Example: These politenesses left Miss Marley floundering for initiative, holding Jasper and being solemnly inspected by Podson, who clearly depended on her the convention of an afternoon call.
Word: barefoot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹfʊt/, /ˈbɛəfʊt/, /ˈbɑːɹfʊt/, /ˈbæɹfʊt/ 1. Wearing nothing on the feet. Labels: not-comparable Example: After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot. Example: [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […] 2. Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains. Labels: informal, not-comparable 3. Transmitting without the use of an amplifier. Labels: not-comparable, slang
Word: barefoot Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹfʊt/, /ˈbɛəfʊt/, /ˈbɑːɹfʊt/, /ˈbæɹfʊt/ 1. Wearing nothing on the feet. Labels: not-comparable Example: She likes to go barefoot in the summertime. Example: Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window. 2. Transmitting without the use of an amplifier. Labels: not-comparable
Word: soliloquy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“to speak”). Pronunciation: /səˈlɪləkwi/ 1. The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist. Example: Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare. 2. A speech or written discourse in this form. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […] Example: Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.
Word: soliloquy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“to speak”). Pronunciation: /səˈlɪləkwi/ 1. To issue a soliloquy. Labels: rare
Word: forensic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”) + -ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”). Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɛn.zɪk/, /fəˈɹɛn.sɪk/ 1. Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law. Labels: not-comparable Example: forensic analysis; forensic examination; forensic evidence; forensic investigation; forensic pathologist Example: In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented. 2. Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors. Example: Mr. Philips’ incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill. 3. Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: A forensic account of history Example: With forensic precision 4. Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk. Labels: not-comparable Example: a forensic learning disability Example: patients with forensic needs 5. Relating to, or used in, debate or argument. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: prætor Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːtɔː/ 1. Alternative spelling of praetor. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]” Example: Further, this Italia was reduced in size by Sulla (in 81), if not earlier. All the northern districts had at first been administered directly by the magistrates of the city of Rome, but now we find prætores or proprætores of Cisalpine Gaul, which had come to rank as a province, separated from the rest of the country by the Arno on the side of the Tyrrhenian sea by the little stream of the Rubicon which flows into the Adriatic between Ravenna and Rimini.
Word: fane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane. Pronunciation: /feɪn/ 1. A weathercock, a weather vane. Labels: obsolete Example: The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered. 2. A banner, especially a military banner. Labels: obsolete Example: So fate fell-woven forward drave him, and with malice Mordred his mind hardened, saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly. ‘Let their fanes be felled and their fast places bare and broken, burned their havens, and isles immune from march of arms or Roman reign now reek to heaven in fires of vengeance! [I.18-25]
Word: fane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fane (“temple”), from Latin fānum (“temple, place dedicated to a deity”). Doublet of fanum. Pronunciation: /feɪn/ 1. A temple or sacred place. Example: And Pallas rear'd him; her ovvn unctuous fane / She made his habitation, vvhere vvith bulls / The youth of Athens, and vvith ſlaughter'd lambs / Her annual vvorſhip celebrate. Example: Crown me, therefore,—and minstrelling near to thy fanes, Bacchus, thickly-adorned with rosy chaplets will I dance with a full-bosomed maid.
Word: darkey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dark + -ey. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑɹki/, /ˈdɑːki/ 1. A person with dark skin. Labels: dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: The windmill under the care of Mr. Kinney, a kind hearted old Englishman, was to me a source of infinite interest and pleasure. The old man always seemed pleased when he saw a troop of darkey little urchins, with their tow-linen shirts fluttering in the breeze, approaching to view and admire the whirling wings of his wondrous machine. Example: Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. 2. A dark lantern. Labels: obsolete, slang 3. A luderick, blackfish, parore (Girella tricuspidata). Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, offensive
Word: grad Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɹæd/ 1. Clipping of graduate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Clipping of graduation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 3. Abbreviation of gradian. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: grad Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Grad. Labels: alt-of
Word: RDF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Resource Description Framework, used for conceptual modelling of information on the Web. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of radio direction finding. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of reality distortion field, used for describing how exposure to a charismatic person can change people's behavior. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of random dopant fluctuation, used in semiconductor process development. RDF is a significant cause of MOS Threshold Voltage variation in nanometer scale devices. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of radial distribution function. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of refuse-derived fuel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of Rwanda Defence Force. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: æstival Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of estival. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: chevalier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Latin caballus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Late Latin caballārius Old French chevalier Anglo-Norman chevalerbor. ▲ Old French chevalier Middle French chevalierbor. Middle English chivaler English chevalier From Middle English chivaler or chevaler (also shyvalere while code-switching), from Anglo-Norman chevaler or chivaler, later refashioned after French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of caballero and cavalier. Pronunciation: /ˌʃɛvəˈlɪɚ/ 1. cavalier; knight Labels: historical 2. In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame.
Word: Punic apple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Translation of Latin mālum Pūnicum. 1. The pomegranate (Punica granatum).
Word: unpleasant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/ 1. Not pleasant. Example: O sweet Portia, / Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words / That ever blotted paper! Example: It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]
Word: cumulonimbus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cumulus (“heap”) + nimbus (“cloud”). Pronunciation: /ˌkjuː.mjʊ.ləʊˈnɪm.bəs/, /ˌkju.mjə.loʊˈnɪm.bəs/ 1. A cloud with a tall structure and flat base, often associated with thunderstorms. Example: The one to the east (which at the moment seemed to be leaping straight out of the heart of a sinister slaty-purple patch of cumulonimbus) drained the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers; that to the west a desolate rock and ice-walled valley which was rimmed by some of the highest summits in the Selkirks.
Word: mafficking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mafeking (now known as Mahikeng), a city in South Africa. After the Siege of Mafeking was lifted in 1900, there were immense celebrations in Britain; the word mafficking was used to describe these celebrations. 1. Extravagant rejoicings of a multitude. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: tædium Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of tedium. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: estival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English estival, from Old French estival, from Latin aestivalis. Pronunciation: /iːˈstaɪv(ə)l/, /ˈiːstɪv(ə)l/, /ɛˈstaɪv(ə)l/, /ˈɛstaɪv(ə)l/ 1. Of or relating to summer. Example: A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber. 2. Coming forth in the summer. Example: […] begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits. The birds now begin to be very active in devouring the fruits, ... Example: To the first or aestival class must also be referred a small number of early spring flowerers, such as the Alyssums and Drabas.
Word: sanctity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sanctity, from Old French sanctete, from Latin sānctitās. Pronunciation: /ˈsæŋktɪti/ 1. Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness Labels: uncountable 2. The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability Labels: uncountable 3. Something considered sacred. Labels: countable Example: Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides? Example: […] allowed the Israeli occupation over 75 years to commit the worst crimes ever against the Palestinian people, land and sanctities.
Word: tedium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin taedium, from taedēre (“to weary”). Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.di.əm/ 1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. Example: Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.
Word: hybrid car Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhaibɹidkɑː/ 1. An automobile powered by both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. 2. A European car fitted with American components. Labels: US
Word: cumulo-nimbus Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cumulonimbus. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unbending Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + bending. 1. inflexible and not yielding 2. very reserved, aloof and asocial
Word: unbending Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From unbend + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of unbend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unbending Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unbend + -ing. 1. The act of one who unbends. Example: He was a frequent visitor at Wimbledon where Mr. Wilberforce now resided, and the following account is given of his social unbendings.
Word: unbeneficed 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 beneficed English unbeneficed From un- + beneficed. 1. not having a benefice Labels: not-comparable
Word: baffie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbæfi/ 1. Alternative form of baffy. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. A slipper, or a worn, comfortable shoe. Labels: Scotland Example: […]; the inhabitants' benign indifference to idiosyncratic behavior (the way, for example, that you could walk down the street in nothing but a pair of baffies with a budgerigar on your head and no-one would think twice of it). Example: […] put him oot the door in his semmit an his baffies.
Word: bancassurance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bancassurance. 1. A banking and insurance structure in which insurance is sold through the bank or the bank's distribution channels. Labels: uncountable
Word: barrulet Part of Speech: noun 1. The smallest diminutive of the bar, one quarter as wide. Example: It is crossed by a fesse argent (silver band) for the roads, and two pairs of narrow barrulets argent for the railways.
Word: tis Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /tɪz/ 1. Alternative form of 'tis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, contraction
Word: tis Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɪz/ 1. plural of ti Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dipso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of dipsomaniac. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪpsəʊ/ 1. A dipsomaniac; an alcoholic; a drunk. Labels: informal
Word: carfax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English carfukes, an Anglicisation of Latin quadrifurcus (“four-pronged, four-forked”). Doublet of carfour. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑr.fæks/, /ˈkɑː.faks/ 1. A junction of four roads. 2. The main intersection in a town.
Word: bobbysoxer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bobby soxer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: HYIP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of high-yield investment program: a kind of Ponzi scheme. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: There were forums promoting promising new HYIPs; scam warnings; advice on creating one’s own Ponzi, or how to get out early enough to profit; and offers of payment to boost fraudulent schemes on the site.
Word: kick the tires and light the fires Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From kick the tires, referring to a preflight check of the landing gear, and light the fires, referring to the ignition of the afterburners, a part of the engine which burns extra fuel for a speed boost. 1. To take off. Labels: US, slang Example: His face appears in the open window of the pilot's seat on the flight deck. He is ready. I am ready. It's time to kick the tires and light the fires.
Word: Mereon Part of Speech: name 1. A surname, recorded for three families in the USA and Canada. Labels: rare
Word: amn't Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi Proto-Germanic *immi Proto-West Germanic *im Old English eom Middle English am English am English -n’t English amn't From am + -n’t. Pronunciation: /ˈæm(ə)nt/, /əm(ə)nt/ 1. am not Labels: Ireland, Scotland, nonstandard Example: If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine, He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine Example: Amn’t I with you? Amn’t I your girl?
Word: Xizang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of Chinese 西藏 (Xīzàng). Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːˈzɑːŋ/ 1. Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. Example: India’s National Center for Seismology reported two more earthquakes in Tibet on Monday — a 4.2 magnitude quake at 4:01 a.m. IST and a 4.5 magnitude quake at 11:49 a.m. IST. Both occurred in Gerze (Gaize) county, Xizang province.
Word: chaff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæf/, /t͡ʃɑːf/ 1. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff. Example: So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. 2. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it, and time is given for the commencement of digestion, before fermentation can occur. In this way chaff is very useful, especially after long fasts. 3. Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: the chaff and ruin of the times Example: Who that has prided himself on his spiritual strength has not seen it humbled to the dust? A knowledge of religion, as distinguished from experience, seems but chaff in such moments of trial. 4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: As for Huxter, perfectly at good-humour with himself, and the world, it never entered his mind that he could be disagreeable to anybody; and the little dispute, or “chaff,” as he styled it, of Vauxhall, was a trifle which he did not in the least regard. Example: It was the chaff of the College at the time, but I could not help it. 5. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: chaff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæf/, /t͡ʃɑːf/ 1. To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. Labels: intransitive 2. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language. Labels: transitive Example: We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter. Example: I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they call it. 3. To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed. Labels: transitive
Word: cybercrud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + crud; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in Computer Lib (1974). 1. Computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse. Labels: uncountable Example: If the signature is formatted innocuously, it just looks like cybercrud in the mail header to non-crypto-capable recipients. 2. Any worthless material supplied by or relating to computers. Labels: uncountable Example: The headaches of junk mail fiber-crud pale beside the anxieties triggered by vivid multimedia cybercrud, served up on optical disks and communication links.
Word: rolling stone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss. 1. A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant. Labels: idiomatic Example: Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job. Example: I'm sorry; I'm a bit of a rolling stone, I suppose. When Darrish came back to Netherhempsfield my job was done there. I felt uncommonly restless. 2. A womanizer. Labels: slang Example: Papa was a rolling stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home And when he died, all he left us was a loan 3. A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention. 4. A meteoroid.
Word: piston Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French piston. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪstən/ 1. A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump) 2. A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
Word: piston Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French piston. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪstən/ 1. To move up and down or in and out like a piston. Labels: intransitive Example: The Latino warrior fucked like a man possessed. His lean hips powered the pistoning rod in short, vicious jabs, so rapidly that the shit-streaked cock was a blur as it pounded Captain Randall's butthole, churning the screaming soldier's ass-juices, rectal blood, and smashed turds into a slimy froth.
Word: importune Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French importuner and its etymon Medieval Latin importūnor (“to make oneself troublesome”), from Latin importūnus (“unfit, troublesome”), originally "having no harbor". Pronunciation: /ɪmpɔːˈtjuːn/, /ɪmˈpɔːtjuːn/, /ɪmpɔɹˈtuːn/ 1. To bother, irritate, trouble. Labels: transitive Example: To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me. Example: But I will no longer importune my young cousin. 2. To harass with persistent requests. Labels: transitive Example: Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […] Example: You were kneel'd to, & importun'd otherwiſe / By all of vs; […] 3. To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals. Labels: transitive 4. To import; to signify. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: It importunes death.