nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mess hall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mess (“military meal”) + hall. 1. A military dining room or building on an army or marine base. Labels: US Example: In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread.
Word: Dearborn Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Daborne, Dabernoun, from Old Northern French d'Arborn (literally “of Arbornon”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪəbɔːn/, /ˈdɪɹboɹn/, /ˈdɪəboːn/, /ˈdiəboːn/ 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Yemeni American, who had been living in the Dearborn and Detroit area for four years, was preparing dinner while her mother took Amirah’s seven-year-old daughter, Saida, to a nearby playground to play with her friends. 3. A city in Buchanan County and Platte County, Missouri, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Dearborn County. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Dearborn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Daborne, Dabernoun, from Old Northern French d'Arborn (literally “of Arbornon”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪəbɔːn/, /ˈdɪɹboɹn/, /ˈdɪəboːn/, /ˈdiəboːn/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of dearborn. Labels: alt-of
Word: snake in the grass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Latin latet anguis in herbā (literally “a snake hides in the grass”), from Eclogue III by the Roman poet Virgil (traditionally 70 – 19 B.C.E.). Compare Dutch addertje onder het gras. Pronunciation: /ˈsneɪk ɪn ðə ˈɡɹɑːs/, /ˈsneɪk ɪn ðə ˈɡɹæs/ 1. A hidden enemy. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: The trouble is, I trusted him too much from the start. He has proved to be a snake in the grass. Example: Is he not here to throw us out—a thief, a spy, a snake in the grass?
Word: blech Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /blɛk/, /blɛx/ 1. An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or disdain. Labels: slang Example: Blech! Look at all those maggots! Example: Speaking of showering: after my dad’s passing, I realized I was more vested in my puppy’s grooming than my own. […] On more than one occasion, I had to ask myself if I brushed my teeth that day. Blech.
Word: blech Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /blɛk/, /blɛx/ 1. To have the vomiting reflex triggered. Labels: slang
Word: blech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish בלעך (blekh). Related to German Blech. Pronunciation: /blɛx/ 1. A metal sheet used to cover stovetop burners on Shabbat to allow food to be kept warm without violating the prohibition against cooking. Labels: Judaism
Word: dialectics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “competent debater”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”). Pronunciation: /daɪəˈlɛktɪks/ 1. A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas. Labels: uncountable Example: The dialectics of absolute and relative, concrete and abstract, subject and object, and theory and practice is focused on some of the most important questions in philosophy. Example: None of these processes and modes of thought enters into the framework of metaphysical reasoning. Dialectics, on the other hand, comprehends things and their representations, ideas, in their essential connection, concatenation, motion, origin and ending. Such processes as those mentioned above are, therefore, so many corroborations of its own method of procedure.
Word: dialectics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /daɪəˈlɛktɪks/ 1. plural of dialectic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dioptric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Greek διοπτρικός. Compare diopter. Pronunciation: /daɪˈɒptɹɪk/ 1. Acting as a medium for sight; making use of refraction (of lenses, etc.). 2. Pertaining to a diopter. Labels: obsolete Example: [W]ould the new Narcissus—without any dioptric or sciatherical computing—grasp the alternating skirmish of light and shadow. 3. Capable of being seen through. Labels: obsolete
Word: dioptric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Greek διοπτρικός. Compare diopter. Pronunciation: /daɪˈɒptɹɪk/ 1. The branch of optics concerned with refraction. Labels: in-plural 2. A dioptric telescope.
Word: lapidary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English lapidari, lapidarie (“person who cuts, polishes, or engraves precious stones; expert in precious stones; treatise on precious stones”) [and other forms], from Old French lapidaire (“gemsmith, lapidary”) (modern French lapidaire), or from its etymon Latin lapidārius (“(adjective) of stones, stony; (noun) stonecutter”), from lapidis (the genitive singular of lapis (“stone; (poetic) jewel, precious stone”), possibly from Pre-Greek or Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel”)) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives). Noun senses 3.2 (“jewellery”) and 3.3 (“treatise on precious stones”) are derived from Latin lapidāria or lapidārium, a noun use of the neuter plural or genitive plural respectively of lapidāris (“of stone”, adjective), from lapidis (the genitive singular of lapis; see above) + -āris (suffix forming adjectives). The stone-referent adjective is either: * a learned borrowing from Latin lapidārius (adjective); or * derived from the noun. Adjective sense 6 (“succint”) is by metaphor: the speaker or writer has cut and polished their locution, as it were. Pronunciation: /ˈlæpɪdəɹi/, /ˈlæpɪdɹi/, /ˈlæpəˌdɛɹi/ 1. A person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An excellent lapidary ſet theſe ſtones ſure, / Doe you mark their vvaters? Example: [T]he method of eſtimating diamonds is altogether arbitrary; and Ratchkali, vvho vvas an exquiſite lapidary, had ſet it in ſuch a manner as vvould have impoſed upon any ordinary jevveller. 2. The field in which such a person works, a subfield of gemology. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets. 4. Gems and precious stones collectively; jewellery. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. A treatise on (precious) stones. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: lapidary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English lapidari, lapidarie (“person who cuts, polishes, or engraves precious stones; expert in precious stones; treatise on precious stones”) [and other forms], from Old French lapidaire (“gemsmith, lapidary”) (modern French lapidaire), or from its etymon Latin lapidārius (“(adjective) of stones, stony; (noun) stonecutter”), from lapidis (the genitive singular of lapis (“stone; (poetic) jewel, precious stone”), possibly from Pre-Greek or Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel”)) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives). Noun senses 3.2 (“jewellery”) and 3.3 (“treatise on precious stones”) are derived from Latin lapidāria or lapidārium, a noun use of the neuter plural or genitive plural respectively of lapidāris (“of stone”, adjective), from lapidis (the genitive singular of lapis; see above) + -āris (suffix forming adjectives). The stone-referent adjective is either: * a learned borrowing from Latin lapidārius (adjective); or * derived from the noun. Adjective sense 6 (“succint”) is by metaphor: the speaker or writer has cut and polished their locution, as it were. Pronunciation: /ˈlæpɪdəɹi/, /ˈlæpɪdɹi/, /ˈlæpəˌdɛɹi/ 1. Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of cutting or otherwise working them. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to monumental stones, and particularly to the art of inscribing them. Labels: not-comparable 3. engraved on stone. Labels: not-comparable Example: The vvriter of an epitaph ſhould not be conſidered as ſaying nothing but vvhat is ſtrictly true. Allovvance muſt be made for ſome degree of exaggerated praiſe. In lapidary inſcriptions a man is not upon oath. Example: He's dead—and upper earth with him has done: / He's buried; save the undertaker's bill, / Or lapidary scrawl, the world is gone / For him, […] 4. Senses relating to speech or writing. Labels: not-comparable Example: My chances, slender at best, rested with (the barrister Emmet Bourke), and I was sorry to find myself developing a thin, sharp dislike for the man. He had too great a fondness for lapidary formulation. 5. Senses relating to speech or writing. Labels: not-comparable Example: His grand principle is, that lapidary inscriptions, of what sort soever, should be Historical rather than Lyrical. Example: They were the encouragers of a numismatic and lapidary erudition, elegant in itself, and throwing for ever its little sparks of light on the still ocean of the past, but not very favourable to comprehensive observation, and tending to bestow on an unprofitable pedantry the honours of real learning. 6. Of or pertaining to stones in general. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, rare Example: Yet such is the temper of this world, that, if a grave philosopher, by shaking his fist, and other acts of bravado, should happen to provoke a company of mischievous boys to reply with a shower of stones, people in general suffer their resentment to settle upon the philosopher for his wanton provocation, rather than on the boys for that lapidary style of retort in which their wrath has been trained to express itself. 7. Succinct, laconic. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon
Word: rhizome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/ 1. A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes. Example: All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome. 2. A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities. Example: The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren. A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams. Example: Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear as a rhizome, its day-to-day usage by millions via search engines precludes experiencing the random interconnectedness and potential democratizing function.
Word: Laestrygonians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Laestrygonian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crepuscule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French crepuscule m, ultimately from Latin crepusculum n. Doublet of crepuscle and crepusculum. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛp.ʊˌskjuːl/, /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjul/, /ˈkɹɛp.əˌskjul/ 1. Twilight. Labels: archaic Example: Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.
Word: quantization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English quantize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English quantization From quantize + -ation. 1. The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values Labels: uncountable 2. A procedure for constructing a quantum field theory starting from a classical field theory; to represent by quanta Labels: countable
Word: tercentenary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ter- + centenary, after Latin ter centēnī (“three hundred each”). 1. Synonym of tricentennial (“a 300th anniversary”). Example: Adventures and romance only take on their adventurous and romantic qualities at second-hand. Live them, and they are just a slice of life like the rest. In literature they become as charming as this dismal ball would be if we were celebrating its tercentenary.
Word: tercentenary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ter- + centenary, after Latin ter centēnī (“three hundred each”). 1. Synonym of tricentennial (“of or relating to a 300th anniversary”). Labels: not-comparable
Word: damp squib Part of Speech: noun 1. A firework that has been wet and therefore fails to go off correctly. Labels: literally 2. Anything that does not work properly, or fails to come up to expectations; a dud. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: The anonymous oracle, the author of this pamphlet, is an example of entertaining dullness. He has manufactured a very damp squib; he is a serious man in motley; and practical ideas occasionally drop in among his fantastic vaticinations. Example: It sounds very token, another damp squib which will probably end up benefiting more bureaucrats than artists or scientists.
Word: squib Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly imitative of a small explosion. Pronunciation: /skwɪb/ 1. A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. Example: English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th-century battle against the Spanish Armada. Example: The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about on any street, is […] punishable by fine. 2. A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. 3. A kind of slow match or safety fuse. 4. Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit. Labels: US 5. A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck. 6. The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag. 7. In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface or a gunshot wound on an actor. 8. A short piece of witty writing; a lampoon. Labels: dated Example: Ye nevvs-paper vvitlings! ye pert ſcribbling folks! / VVho copied his ſquibs, and re-echoed his jokes, […] Example: Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. 9. A writer of lampoons. Labels: dated Example: November 1, 1709, Richard Steele, The Tatler The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libellers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. 10. In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases. 11. A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses. Example: In this squib I will prove that the number of possible metrical parsings into feet under these assumptions […] 12. An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person. Example: Its a hard case when men of good deserving / must either driven be perforce to sterving / or asked for their pas by everie squib. 13. A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed. 14. A coward or wimp. Labels: Australia Example: I'm putting my foot down, Janelle. We're raising a nation of squibs!
Word: squib Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly imitative of a small explosion. Pronunciation: /skwɪb/ 1. To make a sound like a small explosion. Example: A Snider squibbed in the jungle. 2. To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute. Labels: ambitransitive, colloquial, dated Example: to squib a little debate 3. To dodge something difficult, to bottle. Labels: Australia Example: He squibbed the opportunity to push the claim that Kyoto should remain the flagship for international action - because deep down those on the other side know that the world has moved on beyond Kyoto.
Word: taffrail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From either tafferel or aft rail, by false alteration. 1. The curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing man-of-war or East Indiaman, usually carved or decorated. 2. The rail around the stern of a ship. Example: One evening, leaning over the taffrail, I observed a very singular, isolated cloud, to the N.W. Example: […] with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast […] 3. The deck area at the stern of a vessel.
Word: etching scribe Part of Speech: noun 1. a needle-sharp steel tool for incising into plates in etching and the production of dry points.
Word: etching Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/ 1. The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. Labels: uncountable 2. The image created by this process. Labels: countable Example: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
Word: etching Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of etch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dry point Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of drypoint. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: midwifery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English medewifry; equivalent to midwife + -ery. Pronunciation: /mɪdˈwɪfəɹi/, /ˈmɪdˌwaɪfəɹi/ 1. The practice and science of being a midwife. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: impasto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian impasto. 1. The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ Example: […]all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable black topsoil in which anything could grow, not the least being bananas.
Word: impasto Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian impasto. 1. To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style. Example: "She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […]"
Word: consent decree Part of Speech: noun 1. A decree of a court giving effect to an agreement between the litigating parties.
Word: diarize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English diary Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English diarize From diary + -ize. 1. To record (events) in a diary. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: Neptunian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Neptūnius (“of or pertaining to the Roman god Neptune”), from Neptūnus (“the Roman god Neptune”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- (“to become damp, cloudy”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as Neptune + -ian. The English word is cognate with French neptunien (“pertaining to the Roman god Neptune, pertaining to the sea, pertaining to Neptunism, Neptunian; proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”), German Neptunier (“proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”). Pronunciation: /nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/, /nɛpˈt(j)u.ni.ən/, /-ˈtʃuː-/ 1. Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. Labels: Roman, not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: Poseidonian Example: The Tomb disburd'ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe / Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes / (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o'rethrew, / And the white hair'd Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune's son] ſlew. 2. Of or pertaining to water or the sea. Labels: broadly, not-comparable, rare Example: Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom. Example: Where the inſulting ſtreams of Chaos roar, / Where boiſt'rous waves the rugged ſhores ſurround, / And ſtorms and whirlwinds in the air abound, / There meet two rivals of Neptunian race, / Hoſtilities begin with fierce grimace: [...] 3. Formed by the action of water. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: neptunian dyke Example: A special character of these mounds [the Kess-Kess carbonate mud mounds] is the numerous Neptunian dikes. These are fracture systems, which have been filled with other sediments and minerals. It is suspected that these dikes represent spring conduits (seeps) during the formation of the mounds, and that the seeping fluids were of a hydrothermal nature [...]. 4. Of, pertaining to, or supporting Neptunism (“a discredited theory that rocks were formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans”). Labels: broadly, historical, not-comparable Example: In the Neptunian ſyſtem it is ſuppoſed that the poſitions of the ſtrata have been determined, partly by the figure of the baſe or ground on which they have been depoſited, and partly by their depoſition having been a ſpecies of cryſtallization. Example: In several important cases, it is difficult to determine to what degree the metamorphosis has extended, since it remains uncertain whether the form and structural relations of the mountain-mass are to be considered as remains of the neptunian sedimentary formation, or as a product of the metamorphosis itself; for the original form of the neptunian, as well as of the volcanic sedimentary rocks have often become so changed by erosion, and so much alike in both classes of rocks, that this distinctive character is wholly lost; [...]
Word: Neptunian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Neptūnius (“of or pertaining to the Roman god Neptune”), from Neptūnus (“the Roman god Neptune”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- (“to become damp, cloudy”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as Neptune + -ian. The English word is cognate with French neptunien (“pertaining to the Roman god Neptune, pertaining to the sea, pertaining to Neptunism, Neptunian; proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”), German Neptunier (“proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”). Pronunciation: /nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/, /nɛpˈt(j)u.ni.ən/, /-ˈtʃuː-/ 1. A sailor. Labels: obsolete Example: You braue Neptunians, you ſalt water crew, / Sea-plowing Marriners; I ſpeake to you: [...] 2. A proponent of Neptunism. Labels: historical Example: We are not ourselves, bigotted Neptunians or Vulcanians: we perceive difficulties whichever theory be adopted: and provided the earth be but stable under us, we are not anxiously jealous for the dignity of the trident-wielding power, or for the honour of the hammer-working deity. Example: Its [obsidian's] origin is warmly contested between the Neptunians and Plutonians, many of the latter denominating it a vitreous lava.
Word: Neptunian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Neptune (“eighth planet in the solar system”) + -ian. Pronunciation: /nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/, /nɛpˈt(j)u.ni.ən/, /-ˈtʃuː-/ 1. Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Neptune. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Sun represents a masculine principle—assertion, expression and spirit. Neptune touching it brings in the qualities of sensitivity and creativity as well as weakness, dissolution, dissipation and elusiveness. If we take the Sun to represent the image of father, the person's experience of father (the Sun) will be coloured by Neptune. The father will receive the Neptunian projection and the child with this aspect will be sensitive to the father's Neptunian side. 2. Of or pertaining to the planet Neptune. Labels: not-comparable Example: After making a sketch of the Neptunian regions for the dates from 1790 to 1800, I soon came to the conclusion that the nights of the 8th and 10th of May, 1795, were the only ones that afforded a reasonable prospect of furnishing an observation of Neptune, and accordingly computed for the evening of the 10th of May, the limits of the Neptunian region, or in other words the locus of Neptune as a fixed star, [...] Example: The planet Uranus, in like manner, detached, in process of time, a satellite, followed, in the progress of the cosmic ages, by seven others. A slow disturbing influence, supposed also to be recognized in the Neptunian system, has manifested itself in the Uranian, in an excessive obliquity of the plane of the Uranian satellites—an obliquity which considerably exceeds a right angle, [...]
Word: Neptunian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Neptune (“eighth planet in the solar system”) + -ian. Pronunciation: /nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/, /nɛpˈt(j)u.ni.ən/, /-ˈtʃuː-/ 1. A person under the astrological influence of the planet Neptune. Example: To a Neptunian the common satisfaction of life seems too banal, and he often seeks the hidden mysteries of life. The advanced soul however realises that life is a dream, and a divine dream at that. Example: Often the Neptunian cannot bring his or her fantasies to birth in form because the fantasy world remains a surrogate womb, static rather than flowing, a place of painless oblivion rather than a bridge between human and divine. 2. An (imaginary) inhabitant of the planet Neptune. Example: I need not say that from Neptune the earth is completely invisible, as well as Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter. Saturn is a little star which departs from the sun up to 18°. For the Neptunians the solar system appears to be composed of the sun, Saturn, Uranus, their own world, and the planet which doubtless gravitates beyond Neptune. Example: We learn the energy quotient of a bogus Earthling, note how much it varies from that of a genuine one, and then proceed to carefully single out every Neptunian. It will take time, no doubt, but not perhaps as long as we think, as the percentage of Neptunians to Earthlings is small.
Word: pataphysics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French pataphysique, where it was coined by author Alfred Jarry from a pun deriving from the Ancient Greek title of a work by Aristotle; see pataphysique for more. 1. An absurdist philosophy or pseudoscience studying things "beyond" metaphysics. Labels: uncountable
Word: radio telescope Part of Speech: noun 1. A device for observing astronomical sources of radio waves, normally having one or more large parabolic dishes.
Word: air mattress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + mattress. 1. A mattress that is inflated with air, and used as a temporary or permanent bed.
Word: undecillion Part of Speech: num Etymology: From Latin undecim (“eleven”) + -illion. By surface analysis, undec- + -illion. Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəˈsɪl.i.ən/ 1. 10³⁶. Labels: US Example: Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company. 2. 10⁶⁶.
Word: Leamington Part of Speech: name 1. Leamington Spa or Royal Leamington Spa, a health resort in Warwickshire, England. 2. A municipality in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. 3. A town in Millard County, Utah, United States. 4. A suburb of Cambridge, Waipa district, Waikato region, New Zealand.
Word: proem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English proheme, from Old French proheme, from Latin prooemium, from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊ.əm/ 1. An introduction, preface or preamble. Labels: rhetoric Example: Near-synonyms: foretale, prologue; see also Thesaurus:foreword Example: Thus much may serve by way of proem; / Proceed we therefore to our poem.
Word: echelon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French échelon (“rung; echelon”), from échelle (“ladder”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Échelle is derived from Latin scāla (“ladder”), from scandō (“to ascend, climb”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/, /ˈeɪ-/, /ˈɛk.ə.lɒn/, /ˈɛʃ.əˌlɑn/ 1. A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society. Example: Other important functions performed by the GP [general practitioner] are those of referring patients to other (health) care facilities and acting as contact person for other providers of aid, both for other facilities in first echelon care and with respect to second echelon care (outpatient care and treatment in hospital). Example: Officials in China are divided into three echelons, or generations. The first echelon joined the Communist Party in the 1920s, soon after the party was founded. […] The second echelon joined the Communist Party before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The party was then still struggling, and many of the second echelon died during the wars. They were again true patriots. The third echelon joined the Communist Party after the founding of the People's Republic. 2. A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road. Example: In an echelon, in which several cyclists are sitting in on one another, each rider takes his turn of about 200 meters at the front before dropping to the rear. Example: Cyclists in an echelon take up more room in the traffic lane than they do when riding single or double file. 3. A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows. Example: The troops selected by his Royal Highness for this daring exploit, consisted of the war battalions of the 3d, 6th, and 7th regiments of the Royal Guard, forming the first echelon, […] Example: The order in echelons is favorable for attack, because it readily conforms to the nature of the ground, and does not necessitate engaging more than a part of the forces; it is adopted for the purpose of attacking a particular point of the enemy's line.
Word: echelon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French échelon (“rung; echelon”), from échelle (“ladder”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Échelle is derived from Latin scāla (“ladder”), from scandō (“to ascend, climb”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/, /ˈeɪ-/, /ˈɛk.ə.lɒn/, /ˈɛʃ.əˌlɑn/ 1. To form troops into an echelon. Labels: transitive Example: July 1, Montcalm made a movement in advance, echeloning his troops from Fort Carillon to the foot of Lake George, to curb the enemy, and obstruct their landing. Example: Behind the 17th Panzer Division the corps echeloned the main force of its other division, the 16th Panzer Division.
Word: echelon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French échelon (“rung; echelon”), from échelle (“ladder”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Échelle is derived from Latin scāla (“ladder”), from scandō (“to ascend, climb”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/, /ˈeɪ-/, /ˈɛk.ə.lɒn/, /ˈɛʃ.əˌlɑn/ 1. Of a matrix: having undergone Gaussian elimination with the result that the leading coefficient or pivot (that is, the first nonzero number from the left) of a nonzero row is to the right of the pivot of the row above it, giving rise to a stepped appearance in the matrix. Labels: not-comparable Example: An echelon matrix is a matrix, not necessarily square, with the following two properties: (i) There is at least one non-zero entry; rows consisting entirely of zeros, if any, lie below rows with at least one non-zero entry. (ii) In each non-zero row after the first, the left-most non-zero entry lies to the right of the left-most non-zero entry in the preceding row. […] In each of the non-zero rows of an echelon matrix, the left-most non-zero entry is called the pivot, […]
Word: Karm Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Hindi कर्म (karm, “fate”).
Word: Black Muslim Part of Speech: noun 1. a member of an African-American religious movement with political overtones; either of the Nation of Islam or the American Muslim Mission (open to all races)
Word: kalif Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of caliph. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. A rank in the Ku Klux Klan
Word: kaliph Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of caliph. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: khalif Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of caliph. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: khalifa Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kəˈliːfə/ 1. Alternative form of caliph. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: caliphate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin calīphātus, equivalent to caliph + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈkælɪfeɪt/, /ˈkeɪlɪfeɪt/ 1. Monarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.
Word: kevlar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Kevlar, a trademarked name Pronunciation: /ˈkɛvlɑɹ/, /ˈkɛvlɑː/ 1. (Fabric, cordage, etc made of) aramid fiber, an exceptionally strong, light, man-made fibre used to strengthen cables and sheet materials, e.g. in stab-resistant vests. Labels: uncountable 2. A piece of personal protective equipment made from Kevlar, such as a helmet or a vest. Labels: US, countable, slang
Word: harmless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English harmles, from Old English *hearmlēas, from Proto-Germanic *harmalausaz (“without harm; harmless”), equivalent to harm + -less. Cognate with German harmlos (“harmless”), Danish harmløs (“harlmess”), Swedish harmlös (“harmless”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːmləs/, /ˈhɑɹmləs/ 1. Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe. Example: Near-synonyms: benign, innocuous, innocent, undamaging, nonthreatening, unthreatening Example: This snake looks nearly the same as its poisonous cousin but is harmless. 2. Not intended to harm; inoffensive. Example: His humor can be annoying but is harmless. Example: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? 3. Unharmed. Labels: obsolete
Word: operational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos Proto-Italic *opos Latin opus Latin opera 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 -or Latin operor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin operātiōder. Old French operacionbor. Middle English operacioun English operation English -al English operational From operation + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, /ˌɑ.pɚˈeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, /ˌɔp.əˈɹæɪ.ʃə.nəl/, /ˌɒp.əˈɹæɪ.ʃə.nəl/ 1. Of or relating to operations, especially military operations. Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. 2. Functioning and ready for use. Example: Princess Leia, before your execution, you will join me at a ceremony that will make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now. Example: Despite somewhat faded paintwork, 87017 Iron Duke is clearly very much operational, as confirmed here on September 4. 3. Effective or operative. 4. Determined by means of practical measures.
Word: Nation of Islam Part of Speech: name 1. An Islamic and political organization with the declared aim of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the black people of America and the world.
Word: chador Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चादर (cādar) / Urdu چادَر (cādar), from Classical Persian چَادُر (čādur) or چَادَر (čādar), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra). Doublet of chatra and chatta. Spelling possibly influenced by modern Iranian Persian چادُر (čâdor) or another language. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑdɚ/, /ˈtʃɑːdə(ɹ)/, /ˈtʃaːd̪ər/ 1. A loose robe made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by chiefly Muslim women (and occasionally by those of other faiths) in Iran and South Asia. Example: Holonym: hijab Example: The Commodities are infinite: […] Pintados, Chints and Chadors, Shashes and Girdles, Cannakens[…]
Word: chadar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of chador. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chuddar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of chador. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: da'wa Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dawah. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: du'a' Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ, “supplication”), from دَعَا (daʕā, “to summon”). Pronunciation: /ˈduː.ə/ 1. A prayer; (specifically), a private prayer by an individual said in addition to the five daily prayers of Islam. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ramy murmured a quiet du'a, and they traipsed through the gate.
Word: 'eid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd, “holiday, carnival”). 1. Alternative form of Eid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: eid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Eid. 1. Alternative letter-case form of Eid. Labels: alt-of
Word: eid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse eið (“an isthmus, neck of land”), from Proto-Germanic *aidiją (“isthmus, strait”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”). Cognate with Icelandic eið, eiði, Faroese eið, eiði (“isthmus”), Norwegian eid (“isthmus”), Swedish ed. Compare Latin eō (“go, proceed”, verb). 1. An isthmus or narrow neck of land jutting out into the sea; a sandbank cast up by the sea across the head of an open bight or inlet and having a lagoon inside it. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: Eid al-Fitr Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عِيد الْفِطْر (ʕīd al-fiṭr, literally “festival of breaking the fast”), in reference to the previous avoidance of food from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan. Pronunciation: /ˌiːd æl ˈfiː.təɹ/ 1. The religious festival at the end of Ramadan, on the first day of the tenth month of the Muslim lunar calendar. Example: Eid ul-Fitr is one of the main celebrations in the Islamic calendar. […] Prior to Eid ul-Fitr celebrations people give an extra donation of food or money that is distributed to needy people so that no one will be without the means to celebrate the event. This donation is called Zakat ul-Fitr. Example: At the end of Ramadan, Muslims celebrate one of the most important Islamic holidays, Eid al-fitr. It is a one-day celebration after the last day of fasting. In the evening on the twenty-ninth day of Ramadan, we go out to see if the moon has appeared. If the moon is not seen, we fast one more day. If it is seen, the next day is Eid al-fitr. During Eid al-fitr, we visit friends and family and have people over to our houses. It is a very happy and special holiday for children.
Word: 'Eid ul-Fitr Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Eid al-Fitr. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Eid al-Adha Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عِيد اَلْأَضْحَى (ʕīd al-ʔaḍḥā). 1. An Islamic festival commemorating the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail to Allah.
Word: Ibrahim Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor. Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām)bor. Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm)bor. English Ibrahim Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm), borrowed from Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm). Doublet of Abraham. 1. The prophet Abraham in Islam. 2. 14th chapter (sura) of Quran. 3. A male given name from Arabic
Word: Ismail Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl). Doublet of Ishmael. 1. Ishmael, the first son of Abraham; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs and a prophet of Islam. 2. A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Исмаил (Ismail).
Word: Ishmael Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él (yišmāʿēl), “God hears, God will hear”). Doublet of Ismail. Pronunciation: /ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əl/, /ˈɪʃ.meɪl/ 1. The eldest son of Abraham and his wife's handmaiden Hagar who were cast out after the birth of Isaac; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs via the Ishmaelites. Example: And Hagar bare Abram a ſonne: and Abram called his ſonnes name, which Hagar bare, Iſhmael. 2. A male given name from Hebrew. Example: Call me Ishmael.
Word: Ishmael Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él (yišmāʿēl), “God hears, God will hear”). Doublet of Ismail. Pronunciation: /ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əl/, /ˈɪʃ.meɪl/ 1. An outcast. Example: Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. Example: His new friend was evidently a young Ishmael — his hand against every man and every man's hand against him.
Word: TUPE Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /tjuːpi/ 1. Acronym of Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006. Labels: UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: TUPE Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tjuːpi/ 1. To transfer (an employee or group of employees) to another employer under TUPE regulations. Labels: UK, colloquial
Word: Avram Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Abram.
Word: Ramadan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān). Pronunciation: /ɹæməˈdɑːn/, /ˈɹæmədæn/, /ɹɑːməˈdɑːn/, /ˈɹɑːmədɑːn/, /ɹəməˈðɑːn/ 1. The holy ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which Muslims fast between the break of dawn until sunset; they also refrain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sexual relations. Example: Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening. At the same time, Ramadan is all about discipline and faith. Example: This Tuesday and Wednesday, four holidays from different cultures and religions overlap in a rare calendar year. The celebrations of Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) and Lunar New Year both occur on Tuesday, Feb. 17 [2026]. This won't happen again until Feb. 13, 2029, according to the websites chinahighlights.com and mardigrasneworleans.com. Ramadan is expected to start Tuesday evening, pending official confirmation, and Lent ([which begins on] Ash Wednesday) begins on Feb. 18. Last year, Ramadan and Lent began within a week of each other on Feb. 28 and March 5. The holidays are all happening within two days this year because several long solar, lunar and lunisolar calendar cycles sync up. Lunar New Year happens on the second new moon after winter solstice, which is also Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) — 47 days before Easter Sunday. 2. A male given name from Arabic, of Muslim usage.
Word: emir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French emir, from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”). Doublet of amir, Amir, admiral, and amira. Pronunciation: /ɛˈmɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈɛmɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. 2. A descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
Word: vlog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videōbor. English audioinflu. English video Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *wīdaz Old English wīd English wide English -wide English worldwide Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English World Wide Web English Web Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti Proto-Germanic *ligjaną Old Norse liggjader.? Middle English logge English log Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English logbook English log English weblog English blog blend English vlog Blend of video + blog, itself a rebracketing of weblog. Pronunciation: /ˈvlɒɡ/, /ˈviːˌlɒɡ/, /ˈvlɑɡ/, /ˈviːˌlɑɡ/ 1. A weblog using video as its primary presentation format. Labels: Internet Example: When you create this kind of videoless vlog, where you don't have the video recorded on a camcorder, you have to be more conscious of the story you want to tell.