nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rifle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English riflen (“to rob, plunder, search through”), from Old French rifler (“to lightly scratch, scrape off, plunder”), from Old High German riffilōn (compare German riffeln (“to score, make grooves in, ripple”), archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪfəl/ 1. To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). Labels: intransitive Example: Near-synonym: riffle Example: She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document. 2. To commit robbery or theft. Labels: intransitive Example: Thither repair at accustomed times their harlots […] not with empty hands, for they be as skilful in picking, rifling, and filching as the upright men. 3. To search with intent to steal. Labels: transitive Example: thine enemies […]shall ransack and rifle all the things of Edom; and shall search out all thy hidden commodities, and carry them away at once 4. To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage. Labels: transitive Example: Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. Example: Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton — it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up […] 5. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. Labels: transitive Example: Time shall rifle every youthful grace. 6. To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy. Labels: transitive 7. To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory. Labels: transitive Example: Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box. Example: 2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net. 8. To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet). Labels: intransitive Example: The ball rifled off the bat. 9. To dispose of in a raffle. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I've at one throw / Rifled away the diadem of Spain; […] Example: If you like not that course but intend to be rid of her , rifle her at a tavern , where you may swallow down some fifty wiseacres ' sons and heirs to old tenements and common gardens , like so many raw yolks with muscadine to bedward Kate. 10. To engage in a raffle. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: We'll strike up a drum, set up a tent, call people together, put crowns apiece, let's rifle for her
Word: rifled Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rifled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rifle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rifling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/ 1. The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. 2. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves. 3. The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.
Word: rifling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of rifle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: centrifugal force Part of Speech: noun 1. In everyday understanding, the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. In a rotating reference frame, the apparent force that seems to push all bodies away from the centre of rotation of the frame and is a consequence of the body's mass and the frame's angular speed. It works in conjunction with the Coriolis force to give correct motion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Although the Citadel is equipped with mass-effect-generating element-zero cores, most of the gravity on the station is generated by the centrifugal force of rotation. 3. In circular motion, the 'reactive' centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. In polar coordinates, the apparent radial force that acts away from the center and is a consequence of the body's angular speed around the origin. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Centripetal force. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The abolition of feudal serfdom in 1861 and the demand for wage labor created by industrialization drew large numbers of peasants to the growing cities in search of paid work. It was this centrifugal force of capitalism in Russia that centralized an urban industrial class in the 1880s and 1890s.
Word: twenty-one Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/, /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/, /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/ 1. The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.
Word: twenty-one Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/, /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/, /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/ 1. Blackjack. Labels: uncountable Example: They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone …. 2. A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points. Labels: uncountable
Word: sartorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin sartorius (“pertaining to a tailor”), from Late Latin sartor (“tailor”), from Latin sarcire (“to patch, mend”) + -ial. Pronunciation: /sɑːˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/, /sɑɹˈtɔɹ.i.əl/ 1. Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing. Labels: not-comparable Example: His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials. Example: Suits are full of joy. They are the sartorial equivalent of a baby’s smile. 2. Of or relating to the quality of dress. Example: In his smart suit Jacob was by far the most sartorial of our party. Example: The UPI report noted that demonstrators sported "neon hairdos and tight leather clothes" as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in a "Stop the City" demonstration. Sartorial descriptions were the order of the day in the UPI dispatch, as it went on to describe a protesting teenager with "pink hair and 11 earrings" and "youths with rainbow hairdos." 3. Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
Word: twenty-two Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈtuː/, /ˌtwʌntiˈtu/ 1. The number after twenty-one and before twenty-three. Represented in Arabic digits as 22.
Word: twenty-two Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈtuː/, /ˌtwʌntiˈtu/ 1. A .22 calibre pistol or rifle. Example: He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.
Word: twenty-three Part of Speech: num Etymology: From Middle English twenty-thre, twenti-thre, twenti-thrie, twenty-thrie, ultimately derived from Old English þrēo and twēntiġ (“twenty-three”, literally “three and twenty”); see also three-and-twenty. The reason for the numerical swap across the spellings for all English numbers is unknown, but it may have been influenced by the Old French system, i.e. see vint trois (literally “twenty three”). By surface analysis, twenty (“the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one”) + three (“the cardinal number 3, occurring after two and before four”). Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛntiˈθɹiː/ 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-two and preceding twenty-four; 23. Example: Reſolved, &c. That this Houſe doth accept of the Sum of One hundred Twenty-three Pounds of James Whitewick, of Coventry in the County of Warwick, Gentleman; his Delinguency being, That he went and reſided in the Gariſons held againſt the Parliament: Submitted before December 1645: His Eſtate, per Annum, Sixty Pounds; Perſonal Eſstate, Thirty Pounds: For which the Fine, at a Tenth, is One hundred Twenty-three Pounds. Example: Admiral Rooke, with twenty-three Men of War, having the Turky Fleet under his Convoy, was attacked off Cape St. Vincent by the whole French Fleet, under the Command of Admiral Tourville; twelve Engliſh and Dutch Men of War, and above four-ſcore Merchant-men, were taken or deſtroyed by the French.
Word: twenty-three Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Uncertain. First attested 17 March 1899. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛntiˈθɹiː/ 1. Get lost; get out: leave. Labels: US, obsolete
Word: twenty-four Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈfɔː/, /ˌtwɛntiˈfɔɹ/, [-ɾi-], /ˌtwɛntiˈfo(ː)ɹ/, /ˌtwɛntiˈfoə/ 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five. Example: "The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."
Word: twenty-five Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈfaɪv/ 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-four and preceding twenty-six.
Word: twenty-five Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈfaɪv/ 1. A solitaire card game with the goal of making a five-by-five square of cards so that every row and column is valid. Labels: uncountable 2. Synonym of spoilfive. Labels: uncountable
Word: twenty-six Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈsɪks/ 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven. Example: There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. Example: It was certainly an old smell – of that I could be certain. But it was not, I was sure, produced by any of the three thousand one hundred and twenty-six cheeses, yoghurts and fromages blancs that were being stored in the crypt.
Word: twenty-seven Part of Speech: num 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-six and preceding twenty-eight.
Word: twenty-eight Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛntiˈeɪt/ 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine. Example: The lunar quality of Osiris's body is emphasized by his age of twenty-eight, the number of the phases of the moon.
Word: twenty-nine Part of Speech: num 1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-eight and preceding thirty.
Word: queer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more. Pronunciation: /kwɪə/, /kwɪɹ/, /kwiə̯/, /kwiɹ/, /kwɪr/ 1. Homosexual. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, sometimes Example: “Such a Momma’s boy.” The old men had started up again—or perhaps they had never stopped. “No matter who he schtupped. Even Marilyn. I wouldn’t be surprised he was queer.” / “Strange, yes. Weird, yes. Queer, I don’t think.” Example: This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here. […] You know I ain’t queer. 2. Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, sometimes 3. Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc. Labels: broadly Example: the queer community Example: If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts? 4. Strange, odd, or different; whimsical. Labels: dated Example: An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look Example: “I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.” 5. Slightly unwell. Labels: UK, dated, informal Example: I felt queer after eating those shrimp. Example: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. 6. Drunk. Labels: UK, dated, slang
Word: queer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more. Pronunciation: /kwɪə/, /kwɪɹ/, /kwiə̯/, /kwiɹ/, /kwɪr/ 1. A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, sometimes Example: Now that the first flush of this catastrophe and grief is passed, I write to tell you that it is a judgement on the whole lot of you. Montgomerys, The Snob Queers like [the Earl of] Rosebery & certainly Christian hypocrite [William Ewart] Gladstone [...] Example: [...] fourteen young men were invited [...] with the premise that they would have the opportunity of meeting some of the prominent 'queers,' [...] and the further attraction that some 'chickens' as the new recruits in the vice are called, would be available. 2. A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, sometimes 3. A person of any genderqueer identity. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, sometimes Example: Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color. 4. Counterfeit money. Labels: archaic, informal, with-definite-article Example: You're shoving the queer.
Word: queer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more. Pronunciation: /kwɪə/, /kwɪɹ/, /kwiə̯/, /kwiɹ/, /kwɪr/ 1. To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null. Labels: dated, transitive Example: I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it. 2. To puzzle. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal Example: "But lor-a-mussy, Jacob, how could a woman get away from here with all her boxes in the middle of the night?" "That's what queered me," and Spink slowly shook his head, "and queered a good many; for of course it got newsed about […]" Example: "Where do you come from?" Stanley queered. 3. To ridicule; to banter; to rally. Labels: dated, slang 4. To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil. Labels: dated, slang Example: "Food is what queered the party. We ordered a big supper to be sent up to the room about two o'clock. Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched." Example: Well, then I got buried—shell dropped, and the dug-out caved in—and that queered me. They sent me home. 5. To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory. Example: If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian. Example: Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume. 6. To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters. Labels: neologism, slang
Word: queer Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more. Pronunciation: /kwɪə/, /kwɪɹ/, /kwiə̯/, /kwiɹ/, /kwɪr/ 1. Queerly. Labels: not-comparable, usually 2. Very, extremely. Labels: Ireland, not-comparable, usually Example: Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night! Example: Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes!”
Word: bicarbonate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbon Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English carbonate English bicarbonate From bi- + carbonate. Pronunciation: /baɪˈkɑɹ.bə.neɪt/, /baɪˈkɑɹ.bə.nət/, /baɪˈkɑː.bə.nət/ 1. the univalent anion HCO₃⁻; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced. Example: The next question that occurs relates to the composition of this crystallized carbonate of potash, which I am induced to call bi-carbonate of potash, for the purpose of marking more decidedly the distinction between this salt and that which is commonly called a subcarbonate, and in order to refer at once to the double dose of carbonic acid contained in it. 2. Clipping of sodium bicarbonate, especially that used as a mild antacid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Fans will pump air through the alkaline stream, which causes carbon dioxide to form solid calcium carbonate, the material from which seashells are formed, which will look like a fine sand, as well as dissolved bicarbonate.
Word: paper plane Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of paper airplane. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Clipping of paper aeroplane. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: paper airplane Part of Speech: noun 1. A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper. Labels: US 2. An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense). Labels: US
Word: clines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eng Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also compare Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *angī, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz. No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”). Pronunciation: /ɛŋ/ 1. Narrow. Labels: obsolete, regional Example: The hole was too eng for him to get through.
Word: eng Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably created by analogy with other names for nasal consonants em (m) and en (n). Pronunciation: /ɛŋ/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter Ŋ/ŋ, formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Sami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. 2. The velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink.
Word: las Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /lɑːz/ 1. plural of la Labels: form-of, plural
Word: essential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/, /əˈsɛn.tʃəl/ 1. Necessary. Example: There’s canker at the root, your seed Denies the blessing of the sun, The light essential to your need. Your hopes are murdered and undone. Example: Thus, research-based resources with the potential to assist teachers prepare secondary students for tertiary education are essential. 2. Very important; of high importance. Example: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […] 3. Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 4. Being in the basic form; showing its essence. Example: Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred. 5. Really existing; existent. Example: Or is it true, that thou art but a bare name, / And no eſſential thing? 6. Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 7. Idiopathic. Example: essential blepharospasm 8. Having the nature of essence; not physical. Example: It is usually allowed that there is the natural body, as St. Paul called it, which is dissolved at death, and the etheric or spiritual body which survives and functions upon an etheric plane. Those are the essential things. But we may really have as many coats as an onion and there may be a mental body which may shed itself at any spot where great mental or emotional strain has been experienced.
Word: essential Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/, /əˈsɛn.tʃəl/ 1. A necessary ingredient. 2. A fundamental ingredient.
Word: go Dutch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A derivative of Dutch treat, from Dutch (“poor imitation; ersatz”), a derogatory term originally referring generically to German-speaking peoples as a whole; first attested 1914. 1. To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment. Labels: idiomatic, informal, slang Example: GOING DUTCH Some girls are quite willing to pay part of the expenses on special dates. When something is planned which is beyond the boy's means. . . . Example: Ashley Olsen may be a teenage zillionaire, but when she's out on the town with pals, she goes dutch.
Word: famished Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inflected forms. Pronunciation: /ˈfæmɪʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of famish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: famished Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inflected forms. Pronunciation: /ˈfæmɪʃt/ 1. Extremely hungry. Example: I'm famished; I haven't eaten since yesterday.
Word: extreme Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːm/, /ɛkˈstɹiːm/, /ɪkˈstɹim/, /ɛkˈstɹim/ 1. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. Example: At the extreme edges, the coating is very thin. 2. In the greatest or highest degree; intense. Example: He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor. Example: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. 3. Excessive, or far beyond the norm. Example: His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home. Example: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes. 4. Drastic, or of great severity. Example: I think the new laws are extreme, but many believe them necessary for national security. 5. Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment. Example: Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding. 6. Ultimate, final or last. Labels: archaic Example: the extreme hour of life
Word: extreme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːm/, /ɛkˈstɹiːm/, /ɪkˈstɹim/, /ɛkˈstɹim/ 1. The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition. Example: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme. 2. Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale. Example: extremes of temperature Example: Most public discussion about heat extremes refers to risks faced by the general community. Yet even greater extremes of heat exposure do and will occur in many occupational settings, posing special risks to health, behavior, and work capacity. 3. One of the last moments of life. Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only 4. A drastic expedient. Example: Some people go to extremes for attention on social media. 5. Hardships, straits. Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only Example: a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, And might, if my extreames had ful euents, Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death. 6. Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
Word: extreme Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːm/, /ɛkˈstɹiːm/, /ɪkˈstɹim/, /ɛkˈstɹim/ 1. Extremely. Labels: archaic Example: In the empty and extreme cold theatre.
Word: spelunking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spelunk + -ing. Back-formation from spelunker. Attested since 1946. 1. The practice or hobby of exploring underground caverns. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the great myths, the adventures are external, even when they involve such metaphorical spelunkings as the voyage into the underworld.
Word: spelunking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spelunk + -ing. Back-formation from spelunker. Attested since 1946. 1. present participle and gerund of spelunk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bowels Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊ.əlz/ 1. The deepest or innermost part. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: down in the bowels of the Earth Example: O momentary grace of mortal men, / Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! / Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, / Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, / Ready, with every nod, to tumble down / Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 2. The concept or quality that defines something at its very core. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: the project’s bowels 3. The intestines. Labels: plural, plural-only 4. Compassion, sympathy. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, / In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, / That, if requiring fail, he will compel; / And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, / Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy / On the poor souls for whom this hungry war / Opens his vasty jaws Example: If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 5. The body as the source of offspring. Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only Example: And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? Example: 1751, Thomas Skinner, “A Sermon preach’d at the Ma’nor of Peace, in the County of Hampshire, on May the 9th, 1751” in Alfred Baylies Page, Reverend Grindall Rawson and his Ministry, 1907, p. 9, Had you been their natural Parents, and they the Children of your own Bowels, Methinks, you could not have Contributed much more Bountifully to their Assistance […]
Word: bowels Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊ.əlz/ 1. plural of bowel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: search Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin circō Anglo-Norman sercherbor. Middle English serchen English search Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek. Pronunciation: /sɜːt͡ʃ/, /sɝt͡ʃ/, /sɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/, /sɛːrt͡ʃ/, /sɛrt͡ʃ/ 1. An attempt to find something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest. Example: At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out. 2. The act of searching in general. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently. Example: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
Word: search Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin circō Anglo-Norman sercherbor. Middle English serchen English search Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek. Pronunciation: /sɜːt͡ʃ/, /sɝt͡ʃ/, /sɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/, /sɛːrt͡ʃ/, /sɛrt͡ʃ/ 1. To look in (a place) for something. Labels: transitive Example: I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch. 2. To look thoroughly. Labels: intransitive Example: The police are searching for evidence in his flat. Example: It sufficeth that they have once with care and fairness sifted the matter as far as they could, and searched into all the particulars. 3. To look for, seek. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where[…]. Example: For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. 4. To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google. Labels: transitive Example: I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories. 5. To probe or examine (a wound). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple Example: Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound. 6. To examine; to try; to put to the test. Labels: obsolete
Word: TOC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of table of contents. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of train operating company. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of translocon on outer chloroplast membrane. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of tactical operations center. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TOC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of theory of constraints. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Member of Parliament. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: One unidentified man spoke of how he was approached to "go to the Gents" with an MP at an event for young political activists while another man described how an MP invited his entire office staff to a gay bar. Example: In particular, this all-party group of MPs has been scathing about the decision-making process, which has resulted in the Department of Transport having no ideas as to how "HS2 will operate as a functioning railway following recent changes". 2. Initialism of military police or military policeman. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of mana points or magic points. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of megapixel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The new Canon has a 12MP ccd sensor. 5. Initialism of machine pistol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of morning prayer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: MP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Mandatory Palestine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 2. Initialism of Madhya Pradesh: a state of India. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Missouri Pacific. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Mountain Province: a province of the Philippines Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MP Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of multiplayer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: APL Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (computer language): From the book A Programming Language (1962). 1. Initialism of acute promyelocytic leukemia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: The disease that stood at the pivotal crossroads of oncology was yet another rare variant of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia—APL. 2. Initialism of assistant patrol leader. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Word: APL Part of Speech: name Etymology: (computer language): From the book A Programming Language (1962). 1. Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, a Johns Hopkins University laboratory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, at the University of Washington. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations. Example: The language APL presents a number of novel problems for a compiler writer: weak variable typing, run time changes in variable shape, and a host of primitive operations, among others. 4. Initialism of Adaptive Public License. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of AROS Public License. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MD5 Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Message Digest 5, a cryptographic hash function. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ABM Part of Speech: name 1. Ellipsis of ABM Treaty or Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: ABM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of anti-ballistic missile. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of automated bank machine. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of automatic bread machine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of activity-based management. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of accountancy and business management, one of the strands under the academic track in senior high school. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: WTC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of world trade center (any of many around the world). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of willingness to communicate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: WTC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of World Trade Center (located in New York City). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: “If truth be told, this discussion is irrelevant. One WTC will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere,” said Steve Coleman, the port authority’s spokesman.
Word: famine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames. Cognate with Spanish hambruna (“famine”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæmɪn/ 1. Extreme shortage of food in a region. Labels: uncountable Example: It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils. Example: Dr. Bhatia pointed out that famine had occurred in all ages and in all societies where means of communication and transport were not developed. 2. A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. Labels: countable Example: 1986, United States Congress, House Select Committee on Hunger, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Famine and Recovery in Africa The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards.... 3. Starvation or malnutrition. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated. 4. Severe shortage or lack of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the Lancashire Cotton Famine
Word: senatus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sénosder. Proto-Italic *senos Proto-Italic *seneks Latin senex Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus, -tūs Latin -ātus Latin senatusbor. English senatus Borrowed from Latin senatus. 1. A governing body in certain universities.
Word: cousin-in-law Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr? Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *-sōr ? Proto-Indo-European *swésōr Proto-Italic *swezōr Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Proto-Italic *swezrīnos Latin sobrīnus Latin cōnsobrīnus Old French cosinbor. Middle English cosyn English cousin English -in-law English cousin-in-law From cousin + -in-law. 1. Husband or wife of one's cousin. 2. Cousin of one's husband or wife.
Word: Kasetsart Part of Speech: name 1. A public research university in Bangkok, Thailand.
Word: verlan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French verlan, itself a verlan of à l'envers (“upside down or back to front”). Pronunciation: /vɛə(ɹ)ˈlɑːn/ 1. A type of backslang used in French, in which the order of the syllables or sounds of words is changed. Labels: uncountable
Word: tired Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: [ˈtaɪ̯əd], [ˈtɑjəd], [ˈtajəd], [ˈtæ̞ːəd], [ˈtaɪ̯ɚd] 1. simple past and past participle of tire Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tired Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: [ˈtaɪ̯əd], [ˈtɑjəd], [ˈtajəd], [ˈtæ̞ːəd], [ˈtaɪ̯ɚd] 1. In need of some rest or sleep. Example: The famous words of Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty read: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Until 1921 this was an accurate picture of our society. Under present law it would be appropriate to add: “as long as they come from Northern Europe, are not too tired or too poor or slightly ill, never stole a loaf of bread, never joined any questionable organization, and can document their activities for the past two years.” 2. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of. Example: I'm tired of this 3. Overused, cliché. Example: a tired song 4. Old and worn. Example: a tired-looking hotel room 5. Played out, ineffectual; incompetent. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: They even went so far as to question whether indigenous peoples are 'peoples' in a tired attempt to deny the status of indigenous peoples in order to deny their right to self-determination. Example: A tired attempt at a smile worked its way across Akechi's lips, lopsided and faint.
Word: tired Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: [ˈtaɪ̯əd], [ˈtɑjəd], [ˈtajəd], [ˈtæ̞ːəd], [ˈtaɪ̯ɚd] 1. Alternative form of tyred. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: With the replacement of the horse by the automobile these detrimental effects would disappear. The cost of road maintenance in parks and elsewhere would be reduced to a minimum, with the action of the elements as the only cause of “wear,” while the “tear,” which proceeds entirely from the impact of horses’ feet and the cutting of metal-tired carriage wheels would be entirely done away with. Example: From Lathrop hall, Madison’s steel tired locomobiles will take the picnickers out to the suburb of South Madison.
Word: GB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of gigabyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes Example: We’ve found the T7 Touch SSD to be fast, secure and quite portable. But the inclusion of a fingerprint sensor for security onboard increased the price: $129.99 for 500GBs, $229.99 for 1TB and $399.99 for 2TB. 2. Abbreviation of gibibyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal Example: . 3. Initialism of gallbladder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of goofball (“a barbiturate”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism Example: Goofballs usually produce a quiet drowsiness, but also at times a tense aggressiveness that can be frighteningly unpredictable. Irene's behavior when she is high on GBs, which is most of the time, has created such havoc in the neighborhood restaurants that they no longer let her in. 5. Initialism of grain boundary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of green bean galaxy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Great Britain. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Gilgit-Baltistan. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Abbreviation of Green Bay in Wisconsin, USA. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 4. Initialism of Game Boy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of German agent B (US designation for the nerve gas sarin). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Guantanamo Bay. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of Government and Binding. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GB Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of God bless. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ROTFL Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of ROFL; initialism of rolling on the floor, laughing. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: IMO Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Initialism of in my opinion. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism
Word: IMO Part of Speech: noun 1. Template:init of. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: IMO Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of International Maritime Organization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Sri Lanka has asked the IMO to classify plastic pellets as toxic substances, and Vanuatu is calling for better reporting of containers lost at sea. 2. Initialism of International Mathematical Olympiad. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: IMHO Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of in my humble opinion. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: IMHO she just devalues the rest of us who want to be judged by what we do and what we are, not how we look and who we discuss Uganda with. Example: While they worked together, [Frank] Marks quickly learned that when [Peter] Dodge offered his thoughts in an email and wrote “IMHO,” meaning “in my humble opinion,” Marks should heed them because “that meant I was screwing up,” he said. 2. Initialism of in my honest opinion. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: nazi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See Nazi. 1. Alternative form of Nazi. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Auschwitz was a nazi concentration camp.
Word: nazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Nazi. 1. Alternative form of Nazi. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The most prominent and well-known nazi was Adolf Hitler. Example: I tried to get into the club, but the door nazi threw me out.
Word: WWF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of World Wide Fund for Nature, formerly World Wildlife Fund. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of World Wrestling Federation (became WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, in May 2002) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism Example: As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.
Word: ASP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of application service provider. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of average selling price or (more rarely) average sale(s) price. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of ammunition supply point. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of accessibility / assistance / accompaniment service provider. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of answer set programming. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ASP Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Armament Systems and Procedures, a US manufacturer of batons, restraints, and other products targeted at police and security. 2. Acronym of Armament Systems and Procedures, a US manufacturer of batons, restraints, and other products targeted at police and security. 3. Initialism of Active Server Pages. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PHP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: PHP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Primary Health Properties. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: It has fielded seven proposals from PHP and a U.S. consortium of KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab and Stonepeak Partners in recent weeks.