nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: printing out Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of printing in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light, without subsequent development by means of chemicals. Labels: uncountable
Word: printing in Part of Speech: noun 1. A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative. Labels: uncountable
Word: pandanaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Pandanaceae + -ous 1. Of or relating to the plant family Pandanaceae. Labels: not-comparable
Word: wager of battel Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of wager of battle. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: wagers of battel Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wager of battel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wager of battle Part of Speech: noun 1. The giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes, and finally abolished in 1819. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus "waged", or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. Labels: UK, historical
Word: wagers of battle Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wager of battle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: writs of right Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of writ of right Labels: form-of, plural
Word: warp knitting Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of knitting in which the yarn zigzags along the length of the fabric, following adjacent columns ("wales") of knitting, rather than a single row ("course"). Labels: uncountable
Word: monkeyface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monkey + face. 1. The mussel Theliderma metanevra. 2. A term of abuse for an ugly person. Labels: childish, derogatory
Word: monkeyfaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monkeyface Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pimpleback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pimple + back. 1. Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.
Word: wartyback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From warty + back. 1. Synonym of pimpleback (mussel)
Word: pimplebacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pimpleback Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wartybacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wartyback Labels: form-of, plural
Word: netslang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From net + slang. 1. The slang used on the Internet. Labels: uncountable
Word: funny peculiar Part of Speech: adj 1. Strange or unusual, as opposed to humorous (the other meaning of funny). Labels: informal, not-comparable
Word: deertoe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deer + toe. 1. The freshwater mussel Truncilla truncata.
Word: deertoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deertoe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lilliput Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lilliput, in reference to their small size. 1. Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
Word: lilliputs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lilliput Labels: form-of, plural
Word: water monkey Part of Speech: noun 1. A jar or bottle, made from porous earthenware or similar, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
Word: water monkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water monkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: water pocket Part of Speech: noun 1. A waterhole in the bed of an intermittent stream, especially the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. Labels: US, Western
Word: water pockets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water pocket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: water parting Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of watershed, the ridge(s) separating rainfall into different streams.
Word: water partings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water parting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wet plate Part of Speech: noun 1. A plate whose film retains its sensitivity only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.
Word: wet plates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wet plate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wheatstone's rod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who devised them. 1. Either of a pair of flexible rods whose periods of vibration in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes through vibration the corresponding Lissajous figure.
Word: Lissajous figures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Lissajous figure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wheatstone Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. 2. A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Word: unmacho Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + macho. 1. Not macho.
Word: workways Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of workwise (in a position so that it can be worked upon) Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: The rail to be curved is laid on its side, the ends resting on two ties which in turn rest on another rail placed workways.
Word: stillyard Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of steelyard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: stillyards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stillyard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tac-au-tac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French riposter du tac au tac (“to parry”), where tac imitates the sound made by the steel. 1. The parry which is connected with a riposte. 2. A rapid series of attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
Word: tunnel stern Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of motorboat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.
Word: tunnel sterns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tunnel stern Labels: form-of, plural
Word: teleiconograph Part of Speech: noun 1. A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. Labels: historical 2. A form of facsimile telegraph. Labels: historical
Word: teleiconographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of teleiconograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: telenergy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + energy. 1. Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; telekinesis. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: This rapid movement of the hand and arm appears to me to develop a maximum of telenergy. Again, rubbing the feet on the floor, rubbing the hands, the back, the arms, in fact any quick or slightly violent movement appears to liberate this force […]
Word: teleseism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + seism. 1. A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument
Word: teleseisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of teleseism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Yodaesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Yoda + -esque. 1. Reminiscent of Yoda, the wise mentor from the Star Wars film franchise, who dispenses mystical advice in ungrammatical speak.
Word: terrepleins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terreplein Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thermochroic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thermo- + -chroic. 1. Having undergone selective absorption and therefore analogous to coloured rays of light. Labels: not-comparable
Word: thermodin Part of Speech: noun 1. A white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: toe drop Part of Speech: noun 1. foot drop Labels: uncountable
Word: torpedo catcher Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
Word: torpedo catchers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of torpedo catcher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tousy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From touse + -y. 1. tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy Labels: colloquial
Word: torpedo boom Part of Speech: noun 1. A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. Labels: historical
Word: torpedo booms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of torpedo boom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: RATM Part of Speech: name Etymology: Initialism. 1. Rage Against The Machine, an American rap metal band.
Word: transition zones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transition zone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: traverse drill Part of Speech: noun 1. A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth. 2. A drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
Word: multiple transformer Part of Speech: noun 1. An electrical transformer connected in multiple or in parallel with the primary circuit. 2. An electrical transformer with more than one primary or more than one secondary coil.
Word: multiple transformers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of multiple transformer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tres-tine Part of Speech: noun 1. The third tine above the base of a stag's antler.
Word: Troilus butterfly Part of Speech: noun 1. A large American butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
Word: small-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From small-minded + -ly. 1. In a small-minded manner. Example: Like many of us, philosophers (and writers) can be small-mindedly unkind to their partners and friends.
Word: turret steamer Part of Speech: noun 1. A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft. Labels: historical
Word: turret steamers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turret steamer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: turret deck Part of Speech: noun 1. A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.
Word: melon cactus Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the genus Melocactus of cacti, distinguished when mature by their cephalium, a wool- and bristle-coated structure at the apex, containing a mass of areoles from which the small flowers grow.
Word: Turk's cap Part of Speech: noun 1. A melon cactus (Melocactus). 2. A martagon lily (Lilium martagon). 3. Certain mallows (Malvaviscus).
Word: two-name paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Negotiable paper on which at least two persons are severally liable as separate makers, or, usually, one as maker and one as endorser. Labels: uncountable
Word: two-throw Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another. Labels: not-comparable Example: a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch 2. Having two cranks set near together and opposite to one another. Labels: not-comparable Example: a two-throw crankshaft
Word: typograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From type + -o- + -graph. 1. A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them. Labels: historical
Word: typograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From type + -o- + -graph. 1. To prepare type in such a machine. Example: It is the merest chance in the world whether you’re born a countess or a washerwoman. I’m neither one nor t’other; I’m only a mot who does a little typographing by way of variety.
Word: typographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of typograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tychism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τύχη (túkhē, “chance”), and -ism; proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. 1. A theory suggesting that absolute chance, or indeterminism, is a real factor operative in the universe. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: smallminded Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of small-minded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Let smallminded people whine about the horrid cost of Dreadnoughts; as long as every nation in Europe spends, year after year, much more money on wine, beer, and brandy than on her army and navy, there is no reason to dread our impoverishment by militarism.
Word: PCl. Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Proto-Celtic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: telethermometric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tele- + thermometric. 1. Relating to telethermometry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: telethermometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + thermometry. 1. measurement with a telethermometer Labels: uncountable
Word: PBr. Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Proto-Brittonic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: smallmindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From smallminded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of small-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It would be smallmindedly chauvinistic to pretend that Scotland was other than a strong participant in the furthering of British Imperial ambitions.
Word: tintometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tint + -o- + -meter. 1. Synonym of colorimeter.
Word: tintometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tintometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: struggle session Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque from Chinese 批鬥大會／批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì) 1. A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals. Labels: historical Example: Wang also delivered a sensational “August 7” speech at the Foreign Ministry in a Red Guard struggle session aimed at Ch’en Yi. Example: On January 8, Zhou Enlai noted, “You and your friends have come to Zhongnanhai [Liu’s official residence] ... and dragged out Liu and Deng many times.¹²⁴ Yet after a break-in and 40-minute struggle session at his home in Zhongnanhai on January 3 and Wang’s public struggle session on January 6, Liu was granted what would be his last chance to see the chairman. At midnight, January 13, Mao sent his secretary in a nondescript auto to bring Liu to the Great Hall of the People for a talk. 2. A meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Look at K-12 indoctrination to see how the Woke Army is racializing every issue and turning classrooms into ideological indoctrination centers, and faculty and staff training into struggle sessions, […]
Word: struggle sessions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of struggle session Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bloody-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From bloody-minded + -ly. 1. In a bloody-minded manner. Example: ...some agents can anticipate the predictions which observers make about them sufficiently well to bloody-mindedly falsify them.
Word: bloodymindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From bloodyminded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of bloody-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I wonder now if I've under-achieved because of this attitude. I didn't write, paint etc. because it was expected that I would. So I bloodymindedly wanted to do something else. Example: Kyiv too can breathe again[…]although it can still be struck by missiles from Belarus, if the Russians bloodymindedly choose to launch them.
Word: -phasia Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “utterance”), from φημί (phēmí, “I say”). 1. Used to form the names of disorders and phenomena relating to words and speech. Labels: morpheme Example: aphasia, dysphasia, monophasia, schizophasia
Word: tough-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tough-minded + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being tough-minded; lack of sentimentality and unswerving conviction. Labels: uncountable Example: Subsequently turning the new insight into action—embodying the idea, producing the revolutionary behavior—requires tough-mindedness, the willingness to try out behavior and allow his or her ideas to die in his or her stead...
Word: tough-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From tough-minded + -ly. 1. In a tough-minded manner; lacking sentimentality. Example: We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance.
Word: toughminded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tough + minded. 1. Alternative form of tough-minded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Thus communist tendencies would be consistent with toughminded radicalism while fascism would be characterised by toughminded conservatism.
Word: toughmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toughminded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of tough-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.
Word: toughmindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From toughminded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of tough-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: We need to reflect more toughmindedly than Sandel does (and more toughmindedly than I have done in some of my writings on citizenship) on the utopian character of a civic-republican regime.
Word: double-minded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From double + mind + -ed. 1. Of two minds; indecisive, vacillating, or ambivalent. Example: Although I am usually very decisive, I have been known to be double-minded about little things, like what to wear or where to go and eat.
Word: double-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From double-minded + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being double-minded; vacillation, indecisiveness, or ambivalence. Labels: uncountable Example: Such a double-minded person is perhaps hardly recognizable in this world, because his double-mindedness not evident inside the world.
Word: double-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From double-minded + -ly. 1. In a double-minded manner; ambivalently or indecisively Example: His own insecurities drive him to double-mindedly worship his wife, while at the same time, loathing her.
Word: doubleminded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From double + minded. 1. Alternative form of double-minded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When we oscillate between being for God and not for God we become unstable. James 4:8 tells us to purify our hearts when we are doubleminded.
Word: doublemindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From doubleminded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of double-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: This petition for Jesus to "help my unbelief" is itself a request for singlemindedness -- or, more precisely, for the healing of doublemindedness, of doubt.
Word: doublemindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From doubleminded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of double-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I still do not know to what extent it is my heeding some of their challenges, and to what extent it is my succeeding doublemindedly to evade the challenges that has gradually eased the "bad" and yet so meaningful dreams that would awaken me.
Word: fruitie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fruit + -ie. 1. A fruit machine. Labels: slang Example: 'Breaking my sister's heart then getting pissed with his mates in the very next pub while she's sobbing alone?' I dragged this clown away from the fruitie and back to Amy next door, running my mouth off at him as we went.
Word: Virginia stock Part of Speech: noun 1. A fragrant flower of species Malcolmia maritima, related to the stock (Matthiola spp.), native to Greece and Albania, but widely grown in gardens elsewhere.
Word: Virginia stocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Virginia stock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agrammaphasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is + -phasia. 1. A speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: On the other hand, when answering she always tended to limit her answer to the linguistically essential minimum, and sometimes she ended in some slight agrammaphasia […] Example: Mixed aphasia: characterized by such disorders as agrammaphasia, syntactical aphasia, word-salad speech, groping speech, repetitious speech or paraphasia.
Word: anoikism Part of Speech: noun 1. The splitting up of a town into smaller units Labels: uncountable Example: As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it. Example: In one respect conditions were more favorable for the synoikism of Megalopolis than for the anoikism at Olynthos.
Word: heterophasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hetero- + -phasia. 1. A form of aphasia characterized by habitual substitution of meaningless or inappropriate words for those intended. Labels: uncountable
Word: exophasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + -phasia. 1. Audible speech. Labels: uncountable Example: While articulation disorders are caused by impaired exophasia (motor speech disorder), aphasia is considered to correspond to impaired endophasia (impairment of the language center of the cerebrum).
Word: crab cake Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of fishcake popular in the United States composed of crab meat and various other ingredients such as bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs and seasonings. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “I have to say, without pause, it was one of the most profound, important days of my life,” Ms. Witherspoon told the Bagger in October at a fancy New York restaurant, between sips of cappuccino and bites of crab cake. Example: I'm cooking crab cakes with arugula and mayonnaise, griddled lamb with rosemary potatoes and buttered spinach, then a trio of desserts.
Word: crab cakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crab cake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fake book Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fake (verb) + book, since a fake book helps a musician to "fake" knowing how to play a song. 1. A collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Example: Contemporary popular music tends to be specific in indicating slash cords, while older fake books generally indicate only root chord names. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fake, book.
Word: lead sheets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lead sheet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fake books Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fake book Labels: form-of, plural
Word: factory resets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of factory reset Labels: form-of, plural
Word: factory resets Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of factory reset Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: makes an appearance Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of make an appearance Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: making an appearance Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of make an appearance Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: master reset Part of Speech: noun 1. A factory reset.
Word: hard reset Part of Speech: noun 1. The reinitialization of the core hardware components of a computer system, ending any software processes and restarting the operating system. 2. A factory reset.
Word: made an appearance Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of make an appearance Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hard resets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hard reset Labels: form-of, plural
Word: master resets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of master reset Labels: form-of, plural
Word: principal investigator Part of Speech: noun 1. lead researcher on a grant-funded project Example: „"This is pure exploration; we're going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "New Horizons is flying to Pluto — the biggest, brightest and most complex of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. This 21st century encounter is going to be an exploration bonanza unparalleled in anticipation since the storied missions of Voyager in the 1980s."“
Word: principal investigators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of principal investigator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: evadee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From evade + -ee. 1. Someone who evades. 2. Someone who evades.
Word: up to 11 Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Alternative form of up to eleven. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig. Example: All of our ring personas are elements of our real personalities, but turned up to 11.
Word: SwRI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Southwest Research Institute, one of the oldest and largest applied R&D organizations in the United States. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: technicity Part of Speech: noun 1. The efficacy, functionality, or experience of a particular technology. Example: The ramjet is well placed to answer this^([sic]) new functions, as it is simple, inexpensive, that its technicity is well known, and its consumption is five to six times less than that of the rocket motor. Example: For an individual technical element such as a tool like a carpenter's saw, its technicity might be its hardness and flexibility (a product of human knowledge and production skills) that enables it in conjunction with human mediation to cut well […] 2. The prevalence of or reliance upon (a particular) technology by a specific group of people or by humanity as a whole. Example: The consequence of assuming that the outstanding characteristic of the modern planetary order is its technicity (rather than the existence of a global market) is that an unnecessary stress is laid on the relationship (treated, possibly correctly, as radically distorted) between the individual and "things." Example: For instance, the world wide web itself enables the formation of particular kinds of social bonds based on a position towards and facility with technology alongside particular cultural tastes and interests. This technicity does not bring about the disappearance of other types of ethnic identities or communities but extends them, […]
Word: scumbagginess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scumbaggy + -ness. 1. The condition or quality of being a scumbag. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: The fact that he's a minor scumbag himself makes him all the more qualified to comment on the scumbagginess of others - takes one to know one, and all that. Example: however, I consider it this way: humans have the potential for evil/general scumbagginess. Animals do not.
Word: twangster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twang + -ster. 1. A musician who plays a twangy instrument. Labels: informal Example: The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
Word: Samee Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic سَمِيع (samīʕ, “hearer”). 1. A male given name from Arabic.
Word: zoolite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo- + -lite. 1. A fossilized animal.
Word: zoomorphosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo- + morphosis. 1. The formation of a plant structure (such as a gall) by means of animal activity Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The transformation of a human into an animal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the manner of the Nights, the action-packed plot features antirealist narrative devices such as magical ornaments, air transport, supernatural beings, and zoomorphosis.
Word: A.B.C. Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of ABC. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: A.B.C. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ABC. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: A.B.C. Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of ABC. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: unsubordinated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + subordinated. 1. Not subordinated; not diminished in rank or value.
Word: evadees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of evadee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: successorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From successor + -ship. 1. The state, condition, or status of being a successor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The union may have won a successorship clause in its agreement. Such a clause states that the employer will not sell the plant unless the buyer agrees to honor the agreement. If this is the case, the union has some real leverage.
Word: successorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of successorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Szolnok Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Hungary.
Word: inbounder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inbound + -er. 1. A player making an inbound pass.
Word: technicities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technicity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pistonphone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piston + -phone. 1. An acoustic calibrator based on a piston pushing on a fixed volume of air.
Word: pistonphones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pistonphone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stabilisable Part of Speech: adj 1. UK standard spelling of stabilizable.
Word: Lakritz Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: low-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From low-minded + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being low-minded; vulgarity or lack of honor. Labels: uncountable Example: I miss her when we aren't working together, and for her part, she's been know to enjoy jokes of mine, proving that she has her human share of low-mindedness.' Example: The injustice, she was thinking, the low-mindedness of people, to think Roger could do anything wrong.
Word: low-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From low-minded + -ly. 1. In a low-minded manner. Example: The first animals made were men. Some, acting low-mindedly, were turned into women; and so on, all the way down the full array of species to the lowest life.
Word: lowminded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From low + minded. 1. Alternative form of low-minded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ...nor were the benefits inconsiderable, which we had conferred on him nor was I lowminded and unambitious enough to aliene his property... Example: I do not mean to say that Frank is positively lowminded, but he is decidedly not high minded, and I believe he does not, nor ever will, do you justice...
Word: lowmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lowminded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of low-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Lack of courage produced a hundred diseases— Poverty, pusillanimity, lowmindedness. Example: It deals with the lowmindedness of the busybody. We must not dwell on the past, or present, shortcomings of others, but concentrate on keeping our own lives right with God.
Word: narrow-mindednesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of narrow-mindedness Labels: form-of, plural Example: But when it came to action I found myself between the fires of two professional narrow-mindednesses.
Word: narrowmindednesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of narrowmindedness Labels: form-of, plural Example: Sanitation despises all such narrowmindednesses and jealousies, no matter whence they come, and for myself, my highest ambition is to be worthy of the title sometimes bestowed upon me, of being a sanitarian.
Word: soft-minded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From soft + minded. 1. Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated. Example: The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself. 2. Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality. Example: The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions. Example: Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age.
Word: softminded Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of soft-minded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Softminded individuals among us feel that the only way to deal with oppression is by adjusting to it. Example: They lay there in wait of travelers too weak or stupid to defend themselves, or too softminded to resist tossing them a coin.
Word: soft-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From soft-minded + -ness. 1. the state or quality of being soft-minded. Labels: uncountable Example: Building on the case for tough-mindedness, King identifies the dangers of soft-mindedness. He writes that the soft-minded are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions. Example: The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
Word: softmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From softminded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of soft-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: This prevalent tendency toward softmindedness is found in man's unbelievable gullibility.
Word: soft-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From soft-minded + -ly. 1. In a soft-minded manner. Example: However, I do not see the policy effectively and consistently applied by a soft-mindedly liberal policymaker aspiring to a world free of conflict and a future cleansed of past aberrations.
Word: strong-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strong-minded + -ness. 1. the state or quality of being strong-minded. Labels: uncountable Example: Nan, troubled by the pleasure she finds in ordinary social activities of the charming young people she meets, has occasional doubts about the wisdom of her commitment, and it is only when she has to defend herself from the dreaded accusations of "strong-mindedness" on the part of some women that she begins to understand the strength of her feeling for her profession. Example: Archbishop Cranmer thought them deceptive, and when James I refused to allow an inauspicious dream of his wife's to deter him from a proposed journey to Scotland his subjects were impressed by his strong-mindedness.
Word: strong-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From strong-minded + -ly. 1. In a strong-minded manner. Example: To complicate matters, father and sons changed their names to 'Bigg-Wither', while the girls strong-mindedly kept to their simple original 'Bigg'.
Word: strongmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strongminded + -ness. 1. Alternative spelling of strong-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: To account for Edith's coldness on the subject of Hollebone is easy, for, with the natural tendency for fair-brown haired women, who by some racial accident not uncommon in so mixed a nation as ours, have inherited a certain but insufficient amount of strongmindedness, Edith was somewhat hysterical in character, given to obeying her moods and impulses unduly... Example: Such a formulation at least would recognize the importance of his Germano-Scottish origins while doing justice to the Puritan determination of his atheism and hedonism, the stubborn assiduity of his pederasty, and the strongmindedness of his performance as a British eccentric abroad.
Word: strongmindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From strongminded + -ly. 1. Alternative spelling of strong-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Her friend threw the novels rather a longing look, then turned strongmindedly to the cabinet of belles lettres.
Word: tenderminded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tender + minded. 1. Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving. Example: According to this theory, sexual and aggressive impulses are conditioned into tenderminded social attitudes, and the qualities associated both with femininity and with religiosity belong to this domain of tenderminded social attitudes. 2. Idealistic. Example: Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.
Word: tender-minded Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of tenderminded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The philosophers who had come on the expedition were, as usual, divided into two warring camps: the tender-minded ones who thought philosophy should aim at Significance, and the tough-minded philosophers who thought that it should aim at Truth. Example: Through [his] love for the deities living in the parish, they become tender-minded and protect him with a thorough-going and suitable protection.
Word: tendermindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tenderminded + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being tenderminded. Labels: uncountable Example: Reflecting on the perfect humility and meekness that Christ demonstrated during his whole life, and especially in his death, I learn the measure of my own humility and meekness, my presumption and impatience, I become greatly affected in love of humility and tendermindedness. Example: That Jesus was straightforward and that Paul and Jesus were both high on tendermindedness are conjectures on which few would disagree.
Word: tender-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tender-minded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of tendermindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: For example, anxiety, depression, and anger/hostility are among the components of neuroticism; gregariousness and warmth are part of extroversion; trust, altruism, and tender-mindedness are part of agreeableness...
Word: tendermindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From tenderminded + -ly. 1. In a tenderminded manner. Example: Both men and women were more outgoing, less intelligent, less emotionally stable, more practical, more controlled, and more tendermindedly emotional than the normative sample.
Word: tender-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From tender-minded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of tendermindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: William tough-mindedly adopted the ideology of the expanding bourgeoisie, while Henry, Jr., tender-mindedly turned to the philosophy of the leisure class and "joined himself, therefore, to the great aristocratic tradition in European literature." Example: They are either tough-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is the real world or tender-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is somehow an illusion, or at any rate an imperfect, changing, and therefore an unreal copy or reflection […]
Word: Irish Free State Part of Speech: name 1. An autonomous dominion under nominal British sovereignty that included most of the island of Ireland, created in 1922 as part of a treaty between the British government and Irish republicans. Labels: historical Example: The appearance of the pier was scarcely improved by these additions, or by the wooden huts and offices from time to time, especially after the establishment of the Irish Free State customs-post in 1922.
Word: wrongminded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wrong + minded. 1. Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning. Example: The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent. 2. Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil. Example: It is no answer to protest that the defense may become a “false and diversionary stratagem[ ], or that “wrongminded individuals [could] contrive” an “infinite number of mistake of law defenses”; for it is the very business of the courts to separate the true claims from the false.
Word: wrong-minded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wrong + minded. 1. Alternative form of wrongminded. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The argument about difference is wrong-minded on several counts. First, Saussure's argument about difference is based on a methodological leap of faith that consists in using phonology as a model for all higher levels of analysis of language... Example: People will become more and more wrong-minded. They will engage in more and more wrongdoing.
Word: wrongmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wrongminded + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being wrongminded; mistaken reasoning Labels: uncountable Example: No doubt he thought he had critically exposed its wrongmindedness and destroyed its claims to acceptance as a serious or coherent theory of law. 2. Corruption; the state or quality of being evil or wrongminded. Labels: uncountable Example: If someone attributes these miracles to Beelzebub's spirit, not through ignorance but through malice, his wrongmindedness is past hope.
Word: wrong-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wrong-minded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of wrongmindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: There was a lot of libertarian wrong-mindedness in his piece—some crazy ideas about tort reform, some misguided nonsense about allowing insurance companies to go across state lines... Example: Energy going in wrong-mindedness will affect wrong action. Ego in wrong action brings one clear message and can only generate the one reaction, lack of joy.
Word: wrongmindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From wrongminded + -ly. 1. In a wrongminded manner. Example: There were Americans who had a dream of schools which were diverse and which were, in fact, sectarian and which would persist wrongmindedly in the perpetuation of Amish views on matters or Catholic or Lutheran and so forth.
Word: wrong-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From wrong-minded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of wrongmindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Much more sweeping were the reforms proposed by Sir Thomas Smith (1568), who understandably but wrong-mindedly wanted letter forms to be “pictures” of speech sounds, that is, to have an iconic relationship to the sounds.
Word: teleiophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From teleio- (“fully grown”) + -philia. 1. Sexual attraction to adults. Labels: uncountable Example: Often, this body age preference is determined by mature secondary sexual characteristics of an adult. The sexual preference for the adult, fully developed body age is referred to as teleiophilia (gr. “teleos”—fully grown) […]
Word: law of identity Part of Speech: noun 1. The logical principle that anything equals itself, expressed by the symbolic equation A=A. Example: The law of identity states that an apple is an apple.
Word: badmintons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of badminton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fair-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fair-minded + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being fair-minded. Labels: uncountable Example: Although they did not want to risk wasting money, faster-climbing managers did value generosity and fair-mindedness.
Word: fairmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fairminded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of fair-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: More than just a requirement of etiquette, fairmindedness is based on these important realities: Everyone is capable of error; generally, in complex issues the truth does not lie entirely on either side of the argument; and familiar views often seem superior even when they are not.
Word: fair-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fair-minded + -ly. 1. In a fair-minded manner. Example: The goal is to teach students how to take a position and defend it strongly and with passion, and yet fair-mindedly.
Word: fairmindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fairminded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of fair-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "Course, I could be mistaken," he added fairmindedly.
Word: weak-mindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weak-minded + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being weak-minded. Labels: uncountable Example: That same model can be invoked to explain how Isotta and Christine reconciled Eve's purported ignorance and weak-mindedness with their own clear intellectual resolve and considerable learning.
Word: weakmindedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weakminded + -ness. 1. Alternative form of weak-mindedness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: In the end, the reviewer concludes, Rachel “attains a satisfactory ideal of weakmindedness,” giving up her ambition in order to marry a soldier
Word: weak-mindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From weak-minded + -ly. 1. In a weak-minded manner. Example: I know you, too, are concerned with the basic question: How could one, at that time, surrender so weak-mindedly to those holding power and commit crimes for them?
Word: weakmindedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From weakminded + -ly. 1. Alternative form of weak-mindedly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Guenn and George asked permission to see it, and I weakmindedly agreed, making them promise to run.
Word: improper noun Part of Speech: noun 1. A noun that describes something general, rather than that which is purely unique.
Word: falciger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin falc- (“sickle, scythe”) + -i- + Latin -ger (“carrier, bearer”), from gerere (“bear, carry”). 1. A seta that has a curved tip.
Word: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Anglo- + Egyptian + Sudan. Pronunciation: /ˌæŋɡləʊ ɪˌdʒɪpʃən suːˈdɑːn/ 1. A former condominium of Egypt and the United Kingdom (a de-facto British protectorate) in modern Sudan and South Sudan, from 1899 until Sudan became independent in 1956. Labels: historical
Word: Kinsey scale Part of Speech: name 1. A scale devised by Alfred Kinsey, used to measure a person's sexuality, ranging from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual), passing through different stages of bisexuality, including the 3 in the middle (bisexual, attracted to men and women equally). There is also an X option, for those exhibiting no sexual attraction (asexual).
Word: in pig Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Pregnant; also (humorous) used of a woman. Example: ‘I am in pig, what d'you think of that?’ ‘A most hideous expression, Linda dear,’ said Aunt Emily, ‘but I suppose we must congratulate you.’
Word: unsnobbish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + snobbish. 1. Not snobbish; humble, sociable and friendly, treating everybody including inferiors equally.
Word: bike taxi Part of Speech: noun 1. A pedicab.
Word: rightlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rightless + -ness. 1. Lack of rights; the state of being rightless. Labels: uncountable
Word: door handle Part of Speech: noun 1. A mechanism attached to a door and used to open or close it.
Word: join forces Part of Speech: verb 1. To combine labour, to come together, to unite. Labels: idiomatic Example: The poor [banana] is even further shrunken. It is no longer spotted. The flecks have joined forces to form brown blotches all over the fruit. Example: It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. […] From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.
Word: Gwendy Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the female given name Gwendoline.
Word: dugout canoe Part of Speech: noun 1. A canoe made by digging out the centre of a tree trunk.
Word: zooculture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *gʷyéh₃-w-os Proto-Hellenic *ďōwós Ancient Greek ζωός (zōós) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek ζώῐ̈ον (zṓĭ̈on) Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon)der. English zoo- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English zooculture From zoo- + culture. 1. The cultivation of animals. Labels: uncountable
Word: play-by-plays Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of play-by-play Labels: form-of, plural
Word: down-hearted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From down + hearted. 1. Alternative form of downhearted. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: one-eyed trouser snakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of one-eyed trouser snake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: one-eyed snake Part of Speech: noun 1. The penis Labels: slang, vulgar Example: You can feel and kiss and stroke and suck, but you won't make that old one-eyed snake stand up.
Word: one-eyed snakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of one-eyed snake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bought it Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of buy it Labels: form-of, participle, past