nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: trade-last Part of Speech: noun 1. A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker. Labels: US Example: American adolescents regularly deal in "trade-lasts," compliments in exchange for another. They will tell you something flattering about yourself after you tell them a flattering remark you have heard about them. Example: So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]
Word: deserts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɝts/, /dəˈzɝts/, /dɪˈzɜːts/, /ˈdɛzɚts/, /ˈdɛzəts/ 1. plural of desert Labels: form-of, plural Example: On the inspector of the constabulary informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts.
Word: deserts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɝts/, /dəˈzɝts/, /dɪˈzɜːts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of desert Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: triadic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English triad Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English triadic From triad + -ic. 1. Of or relating to a triad. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to a triad. Labels: not-comparable 3. Trivalent. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 4. Being or relating to interpreting that involves three parties, i.e. the two clients and the interpreter. Labels: not-comparable Example: The notion that one is doing a worthwhile job and the interpretation of just what kinds of intervention are possible are key in the issues of triadic interpreting...
Word: desertion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French désertion. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɜːʃən/, /dɪˈzɝʃən/ 1. The act of deserting. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trimorphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tri- + -morphic. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹaɪˈmɔɹfɪk/ 1. Having three different forms. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having three different forms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: drugs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɹʌɡz/, [dɹʌɡz], [d͡ʒɹʌɡz] 1. plural of drug Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drugs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɹʌɡz/, [dɹʌɡz], [d͡ʒɹʌɡz] 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of drug Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: trophoblastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English trophoblast Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English trophoblastic From trophoblast + -ic. 1. Of, or relating to a trophoblast. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trophoblast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tropho- + -blast. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒfə(ʊ)blɑːst/ 1. The membrane of cells that forms the wall of a blastocyst during early pregnancy, providing nutrients to the embryo and later developing into part of the placenta.
Word: brushed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌʃt/ 1. Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish. Example: The brushed aluminum vase had a soft appearance. Example: One of the most pleasing finishes which is put upon art metal lamps, gas and electric portable reading lamps is the clouded finish of either brushed copper or brushed brass. 2. Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush. Example: This boy is standing there with very brushed hair . Example: His posture balletic, his white whiskers mad as a cat's, his formal coat very brushed and very blue , muttering infamies at me all the while . 3. Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush. Example: The decay in sound unbrushed, brushed, and washed fruit, and in fruit all of which has been injured by the clippers in picking, by stems puncturing other oranges or by abrasions of other kinds. Example: Most of the shipments have included duplicate lots of apparently sound brushed or unbrushed fruit, sound washed; the regular commercially packed fruit and oranges showing visible mechanical injury. 4. Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb. Example: I recommended the forming of brushed swarms about 15 years ago, in the American Apiculturist, and made them on the old stand as well as on a new stand in uncounted numbers, with the result that these swarms always worked with the same vigor as natural swarms, so I know what I say. Example: When I make shaken or brushed swarms I usually wait till queen cells are found with eggs or larvae in them, although I do not think this is essential. 5. Having been written or painted using a brush. Example: The sparse drip patterns of his "preliminary" drip paintings were deposited over a foundation of brushed paint (see, for example, Water Birds, shown in color plate 13). Example: The fact that Blakeney's "boy" had been murdered as well as his master, that he was most likely a member of the Win Hu Tong, that Ligan—if it were really he—had been guildty of the double murder and caught by Win Hu men, the terrible torutre that could only have been inflicted by Chines pointed strongly enough to the affair being one of Chinese tong vengeance; and the "brushed" characters on the rice paper seemed to give additional weight to the evidence. 6. Covered in brush or scrub. Example: Other data obtained indicate that an average holding having 20 to 25 acres cleared and also 6 or 8 acres of brushed pasture can support 4 milk cows and 3 head of young cattle. Example: The mounted detachments at hand had found the heavily brushed country to be difficult for cavalry operations. 7. Having had brush or scrub removed. Example: The following year, some of last year's brushed land is stumped, the clover turned under, manure from the stock used on it, and roots for the following winter planted, any surplus land being used for the Upper Wis consin cash crop, potatoes . Example: Unless the brushed areas are quickly seeded they grow up to weeds and are useless for forage.
Word: brushed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of brush Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: He brushed past, doing no harm but not apologizing for his contact either.
Word: turf toe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So named from the common occurrence seen in American football players, who commonly play on turf. 1. A metatarsophalangeal joint sprain; an injury to the joint and connective tissue between the foot and one of the toes; frequently a sporting injury. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Turkic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Partly from Medieval Latin turcicus and partly from Turk + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈtɝkɪk/, /ˈtɜːkɪk/ 1. Of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Turkic Part of Speech: name Etymology: Partly from Medieval Latin turcicus and partly from Turk + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈtɝkɪk/, /ˈtɜːkɪk/ 1. The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash, Yakut, and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family. 2. Any branch of that family. Example: [...] (3) the southeastern (se) branch or Uyghur Turkic; (4) the northeastern (ne) branch or Siberian Turkic; (5) Chuvash, representing Oghur or Bulghar Turkic; [...] 3. Any language of that family.
Word: tussic Part of Speech: adj 1. of or relating to a cough
Word: tussicular Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to a cough.
Word: tympanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English tympanum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English tympanic From tympanum + -ic. Pronunciation: /tɪmˈpæn.ɪk/ 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a drum. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to the tympanum, eardrum or middle ear. Labels: not-comparable 3. Resonant. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tympanal Part of Speech: adj 1. tympanic Labels: not-comparable
Word: tympanal Part of Speech: noun 1. The tympanic bone.
Word: typhogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English typhus French -gènebor. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -genic English typhogenic From typhus + -genic. 1. causing typhus
Word: typologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English typology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English typologic From typology + -ic. 1. Of or relating to typology; typological. Labels: not-comparable
Word: spas Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /spɑːz/ 1. plural of spa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: typology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English type Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English -ology English typology From type + -ology. Pronunciation: /taɪˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The study of symbolic representation, especially of the origin and meaning of Scripture types. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The result of the classification of things according to their characteristics. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to ancestrality like Romance languages). Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The doctrine of Scripture types or figures. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: typological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English type Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English -ology English typology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English typological From typology + -ical. 1. Of or relating to typology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: storage organ Part of Speech: noun 1. A part of a plant, such as a bulb, specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or of water.
Word: Soave Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Soave. 1. A comune of Veneto, Italy. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A dry white wine made in that region from grape varieties that include the Garganega. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A surname from Italian. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Slovenian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Slovene (from German, from Slovene) + -ian. Pronunciation: /sləˈviːni.ən/, /-njən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenian people or the Slovenian language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Slovenian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Slovene (from German, from Slovene) + -ian. Pronunciation: /sləˈviːni.ən/, /-njən/ 1. The official language of Slovenia. Labels: uncountable Example: Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian. 2. A person from Slovenia. Labels: countable Example: Mom had called Cory, who contacted Vlado, who brought a crew of Slovenians over to help.
Word: comune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian comune. Doublet of commune. Pronunciation: /kəˈmuːneɪ/ 1. the smallest civil administrative unit in Italy, a municipality in Italy 2. civil administrative unit in Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland
Word: steering wheel Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstɪə.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wiːl/, /ˈstɪɹ.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wil/, /ˈstiə̯.əŋ ˌ(h)wiːl/, /ˈstiɹ.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wil/, /ˈsʈɪjəʳ.ɪŋ ˌ(h)wiːl/ 1. A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles.
Word: serviceberry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of service (“sorb tree”) + berry. (The first part is from Latin sorbus, not English service (“assistance”).) 1. Several species of trees in the genus Sorbus, especially Sorbus domestica and Sorbus torminalis. Labels: Europe 2. Several species of trees in the genus Sorbus, especially Sorbus domestica and Sorbus torminalis. Labels: Europe 3. Any plant of the genus Amelanchier of small deciduous trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Labels: Canada, US 4. Any plant of the genus Amelanchier of small deciduous trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Labels: Canada, US
Word: serviceberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of serviceberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stilton Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Stilton (“type of cheese”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: asphalt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin asphaltum, from Ancient Greek ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, “asphalt, bitumen”). Displaced native Old English eorþteoru. Pronunciation: /ˈæʃfɑlt/, /ˈæsfɑlt/, /ˈæʃfɔlt/, /ˈæsfɔlt/, /ˈæʃfɛlt/ 1. A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mining of asphalt was big business in this area in the early twentieth century. Example: Felltham wrote in the beginning of the 17th century of the “Bitumated walls of Babylon;” the source of its supply, the fountains of Is, on a tributary of the Euphrates, still yields asphalt. 2. Ellipsis of asphalt concrete, a hard ground covering used for roads and walkways. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: tarmac, tarmacadam, blacktop, bitumen Example: Please hose off the asphalt near the top of the driveway if the trucks get lots of mud on it.
Word: asphalt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin asphaltum, from Ancient Greek ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, “asphalt, bitumen”). Displaced native Old English eorþteoru. Pronunciation: /ˈæʃfɑlt/, /ˈæsfɑlt/, /ˈæʃfɔlt/, /ˈæsfɔlt/, /ˈæʃfɛlt/ 1. To pave with asphalt. Labels: transitive
Word: asphalt concrete Part of Speech: noun 1. A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: blacktop, tarmac, tarmacadam Example: Before this street was paved with asphalt concrete, it was paved with cobbles.
Word: dobro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the trade name Dobro, used by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, the name of the inventors + brothers, and also a pun on Slovak dobro (“good”). Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊbɹəʊ/ 1. An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator. Example: The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.
Word: Schwendiman Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German of Swiss German derivation, variant of Schwendeman.
Word: typhon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Ancient Greek Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”); see typhoon. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪfən/ 1. A violent whirlwind; a typhoon. Labels: obsolete Example: The circling typhon whirled from point to point.
Word: quadruplicate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin quadruplicatus. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ 1. having four parts Labels: not-comparable Example: The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […] 2. four times over, multiplied by four Labels: not-comparable Example: […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.
Word: quadruplicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin quadruplicatus. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ 1. in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies Example: Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.
Word: quadruplicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin quadruplicatus. Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ 1. To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.
Word: quarterstaff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quarter + staff, attested since about 1550. Probably originally referred to a staff cut from the heartwood of a certain size of tree which was cleft into four parts, per the OED. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɔɹtəɹˌstæf/ 1. A wooden staff with an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern period. Example: Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. Example: [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists. 2. Fighting or exercise with a wooden staff of this sort. Example: He was very adept at quarterstaff. Example: First, several couples stood forth at quarterstaff, and so shrewd were they at the game, and so quickly did they give stroke and parry, that […]
Word: neo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈniːəʊ/ 1. Clipping of neofan. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, dated, slang Example: Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of a neo who is reading sf for the first time. Example: This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: the neo, the trufan, and the BNF. 2. Clipping of neoconservative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: The neos seem to be no less uncomfortable with the paleos than the paleos are with the neos, […] Example: Some say the neos are good for what ails us on both foreign and domestic fronts, while others are quick to debate that. 3. Clipping of neopronoun. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-plural 4. Clipping of neodymium. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: The most important application of dysprosium and terbium, which belong to a subgroup known as the heavy rare earths, is in devices called neodymium boron magnets, or neo magnets for short.
Word: neo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈniːəʊ/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of NEO. Labels: alt-of
Word: quoits Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɔɪts/, /kwɔɪts/ 1. plural of quoit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quoits Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɔɪts/, /kwɔɪts/ 1. A competitive game in which players throw rings, aiming to land them over vertical sticks. Labels: uncountable Example: And now they were ready to set forth by twos and threes into the parks and pleasaunces, some to take their pleasure about the fair gardens and fishponds, some to hunt wild game among the wooded hills, some to disport themselves at quoits or tennis or riding at the ring or martial exercises; […]
Word: quadrennial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadriennium (“four-year period”), from quattuor (“four”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, quadr- + -ennial. Pronunciation: /kwɒˈdɹɛn.i.əl/, /kwɑˈdɹɛni.əl/ 1. Happening every four years. Labels: not-comparable Example: The quadrennial election of Chief Magistrate has passed off with less than the usual excitement. 2. Lasting for four years. Labels: not-comparable
Word: quadrennial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadriennium (“four-year period”), from quattuor (“four”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, quadr- + -ennial. Pronunciation: /kwɒˈdɹɛn.i.əl/, /kwɑˈdɹɛni.əl/ 1. A four-year period, a quadrennium. Example: International rowing's elite tend to think in terms of quadrennials — the four-year cycle between Olympic Games — but the addition of the light women's double to Olympic program prior to the 1996 Atlanta Games has also brought distinct eras to the event.
Word: yachts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yacht Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yachts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of yacht Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: surmised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of surmise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gambler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English gamble Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English gambler From gamble + -er. 1. One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles. 2. One who takes significant risks.
Word: gambles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gamble Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gambles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gamble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bees Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbiːz/ 1. plural of bee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: computer program Part of Speech: noun 1. A sequence or a set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. 2. A complete piece of software.
Word: executable code Part of Speech: noun 1. Instructions for a computer in a form the computer can directly use (i.e. which it can execute). Derived from source code by compiling or assembling and linking. Labels: uncountable Example: Other types of macros, shell scripts, batch files, interpretable source code, even Postscript files also contain executable code, and are, in theory, vulnerable to virus attack. Example: The script itself contains variable and command substitution, the read command, and a while loop to get everything done in less than 10 lines of executable code!
Word: compiling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of compile Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: compiling Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of something being compiled; a compilation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: offertory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin offertorium, from the participle stem of offere (“to offer”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒfət(ə)ɹi/, /ˈɑfəɹˌtɔɹi/ 1. A prayer said or sung as an anthem while offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar during the Roman Catholic Mass or the Anglican Communion service. Example: There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory. 2. The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected. Example: Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the offertory, as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it. Example: I sat through the sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional. 3. A linen or silken cloth anciently used in various ceremonies connected with the administration of the Eucharist. Labels: historical
Word: offhandedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English offhanded Middle English -ly English -ly English offhandedly From offhanded + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˌɑfˈhændədli/ 1. in an offhand manner
Word: offhandedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English offhanded Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English offhandedness From offhanded + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˌɑfˈhændədnəs/ 1. The property of being offhand. Labels: uncountable Example: Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation. Example: In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.
Word: sapsucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sap + sucker. Pronunciation: /ˈsæpˌsʌkəɹ/ 1. A woodpecker of the eastern United States (of the genus Sphyrapicus) that feeds mainly on the sap of trees 2. Any woodpecker that punctures the bark of trees and feeds upon the sap.
Word: offload Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From off- + load. Pronunciation: /ˌɒfˈləʊd/, /ˌɑfˈloʊd/, /ˈɑfloʊd/ 1. To unload. Labels: transitive Example: The driver of the car carrier offloaded the cars at the dealership. 2. To get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else. Labels: transitive Example: He offloaded the defective car onto an unsuspecting buyer. 3. To pass the ball. Labels: transitive 4. To deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space. Labels: transitive 5. To change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not). Labels: transitive 6. To use a complementary network technology to deliver data originally targeted for cellular networks.
Word: offload Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From off- + load. Pronunciation: /ˈɒf.ləʊd/, /ˌɑfˈloʊd/, /ˈɑfloʊd/ 1. The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For environments that do not allow FTP traffic out to the Internet, the DS8870 also supports offload of data by using SSL security. 2. The act of passing the ball to a team mate when tackled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.
Word: pudic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French pudique, from Latin pudīcus, from pudet (“it shames”). Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːdɪk/ 1. Easily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste. Example: Is it not extraordinary, by the way, that all over Europe, even in the pudic nurseries of your own country, this should be regarded as a children's book? Example: a big mulberry-colored cake of soap slithered out of her hand, and her black-socked foot hooked the door shut with a bang which was more the echo of the soap's crashing against the marble board than a sign of pudic displeasure. 2. Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.
Word: Pict Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Pictus, probably rendering a Pictish autonym; see the Latin entry for details. Compare Old English Peohtas, which appears to show the effects of Grimm's law. Pronunciation: /pɪkt/ 1. A member of an ancient people of northern and central Scotland.
Word: Paula Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Paula, feminine form of Paulus (“Paul”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːlə/, /ˈpɑlə/ 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: Names are fascinating, aren't they? I love mine. I think my parents had very good taste calling us Peter and Paula and Melinda. Example: U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said Wednesday she will extend her temporary restraining blocking his removal until Abrego Garcia's latest deportation challenge in court is resolved.
Word: ogress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed in the early 1700s from French ogresse, equivalent to ogre + -ess. Piecewise doublet of orcess. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊɡɹɛs/, /ˈoʊɡɹɛs/ 1. A female ogre. Example: And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.] Example: Dear me, Mimsey!. . . you are perfectly outrageous! Do you think I'm an ogress ready to eat her up? On the contrary, I mean to be a friend to her. 2. A fierce, unfriendly woman. Example: I remember being the fall guy for the family, having to take the rent down to the ogress of a landlady so that my parents wouldn't have to face her.
Word: ogress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Attested in this form since 1572. The French term ogoesse is only attested later (1611 in an English dictionary, 1690 in a French dictionary) and may be derived from English. The 1486 Book of Coat Armour in the Book of St. Albans says "gonestonys" are called "oglys" in heraldic blazon; perhaps someone in the 1500s misread ogles as ogres(s) and mistook the plural for a singular, compare the use of pommeis (“roundel(s) vert”) as a singular. The form agresses is found in some 18th century works, alongside ogresses. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊɡɹɛs/, /ˈoʊɡɹɛs/ 1. A roundel sable. Example: Beareth Verte, fiue Fermaulxz in Crosse D'Or, a Border d'Argent, charged with eight Ogresses: or, after the French blazon, 'Ogressée de huit pieces'.
Word: Punic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːnɪk/ 1. Of or relating to ancient Carthage, its inhabitants, or their language. 2. Perfidious, treacherous, faithless. Labels: ethnic, figuratively, slur
Word: Punic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːnɪk/ 1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage; a Carthaginian.
Word: Punic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːnɪk/ 1. The language of Carthage.
Word: oligarch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French oligarque, olygarche, from Late Latin oligarcha, from Ancient Greek ὀλιγάρχης (oligárkhēs). By surface analysis, olig- (“few”) + -arch (“ruler, leader”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒlɪˌɡɑːk/, /ˈɑləɡɑɹk/, /ˈoʊləɡɑɹk/ 1. A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country. 2. A very wealthy business owner who wields political power. Example: Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus. Example: Economic disaster loomed, as the rotting remains of the Soviet economy were exposed to free-market reforms, which brought inflation and the sale of state-owned assets at low prices to a new class of ultra-rich businessmen called "oligarchs," who made America's robber barons of the late nineteenth century look like Puritan preachers. 3. A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion. Example: In the inner Solar System, only the asteroid Ceres was able to grow fast enough to become a dwarf planet, but in the outer Solar System huge numbers of icy bodies formed, ranging from pebbles to the oligarchs now recognized as dwarf planets.
Word: purfle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜːfəl/, /ˈpɝfəl/ 1. An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. Example: the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes /[…]/ wherfor he sente for his berd or els he wold entre in to his landes /[…]/ & neuer leue tyl he haue the hede and the berd / wel sayd Arthur thow hast said thy message / the whiche is the most vylaynous and lewdest message that euer man herd sente vnto a kynge / Also thow mayst see / my berd is ful yong yet to make a purfyl of hit 2. An ornamental border, edge, or line of a different tincture or material. Example: Adumbration (or Transparency) is a clear Exemption of the Substance of the Charge, so that there remaineth only the outward Strokes or Purfle of a Thing; Example: Cross […] has its extremities ending in a flower of three leaves, or flower-de-luces, with a purfle, or line between them and the ends of the cross.
Word: purfle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜːfəl/, /ˈpɝfəl/ 1. To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And this was his message gretynge wel kynge Arthur in this manere wyse sayenge / that kynge Ryons had discomfyte and ouercome xj kynges /[…]/ they gaf hym their berdys clene flayne[…]/ wher for the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes / and there lacked one place of the mantel Example: He had a faire companion of his way, / A goodly Lady, clad in ſcarlot red, / Purfled with gold and pearle of rich aſſay, […] 2. To ornament with purfle. Labels: transitive Example: Crest; a dragon passant proper, wings elevated and purfled gules.
Word: Sabellian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Sabellus + -ian, pertaining to the Sabellī, an Italic tribe, from Proto-Italic *saβn- (whence also Samnium, Samnones, Sabus, Sabīnus), perhaps from an uncertain Proto-Indo-European root, sometimes identified with the reflexive pronoun *swé (“self”) for the assumed meaning “one's own” (compare Proto-Germanic *swēbaz for a similar etymology), but this is highly suspect on phonetic grounds. 1. A certain language once spoken in Umbria, Italy.
Word: Sabellian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Sabellus + -ian, pertaining to the Sabellī, an Italic tribe, from Proto-Italic *saβn- (whence also Samnium, Samnones, Sabus, Sabīnus), perhaps from an uncertain Proto-Indo-European root, sometimes identified with the reflexive pronoun *swé (“self”) for the assumed meaning “one's own” (compare Proto-Germanic *swēbaz for a similar etymology), but this is highly suspect on phonetic grounds. 1. Of or pertaining to the Sabellian language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Sabellian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Sabellus + -ian, pertaining to the Sabellī, an Italic tribe, from Proto-Italic *saβn- (whence also Samnium, Samnones, Sabus, Sabīnus), perhaps from an uncertain Proto-Indo-European root, sometimes identified with the reflexive pronoun *swé (“self”) for the assumed meaning “one's own” (compare Proto-Germanic *swēbaz for a similar etymology), but this is highly suspect on phonetic grounds. 1. A member of a group of early Italian peoples comprising the Sabines, Samnites, and others.
Word: Sabellian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sabellius + -an. 1. A follower of the Roman Christian prelate and theologian Sabellius. 2. A Modalistic Monarchian; someone who believes that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the same person.
Word: dermic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English derm Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English dermic From derm + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mɪk/ 1. Of or relating to the dermis or skin. Labels: not-comparable Example: Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified.
Word: saccadic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree French saccadebor. English saccade Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English saccadic From saccade + -ic. 1. Relating to saccade. 2. Relating to saccade.
Word: saccade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French saccade. Pronunciation: /səˈkɑːd/ 1. A rapid movement of the eye (either voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. (Often described as a jerky movement, but this word denotes all such quick eye movements, which happen continually, not just exaggerated or weird ones, and not nystagmus.) Example: He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes. Example: Then 130 milliseconds or thousandths of a second later, each made a "saccade" - an extremely fast eye movement - to roughly where the ball was likely to bounce. 2. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins. 3. The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow. 4. Any sudden jerking movement. Labels: rare
Word: saccade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French saccade. Pronunciation: /səˈkɑːd/ 1. To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere. Labels: intransitive
Word: Sambo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish zambo. Pronunciation: /ˈsæmboʊ/ 1. A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom. Labels: derogatory 2. A person of three quarters African descent and one quarter Caucasian descent. Labels: obsolete, offensive
Word: Sambo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the given names. Pronunciation: /ˈsæmboʊ/ 1. A nickname from the given name Samuel. 2. A nickname from the given name Samantha.
Word: Zambo Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Sambo. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Clipping of Zamboanga Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 3. Clipping of Zamboanga City Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: Zambo Part of Speech: noun 1. A person with African and Native American/indigenous heritage; Afro-Indian.
Word: sideshow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *skawwōną Proto-West Germanic *skauwōn Old English scēawian Middle English schewen English show English sideshow From side + show. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪdˌʃoʊ/ 1. A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair or music festival. Example: 1999 November 8, Frank Hayes, The Back Page: The main event, Computerworld, page 86, And IT people dismiss IT′s impact because, hey, we like being a sideshow to the real action. Example: 1999, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book, Australia, Number 81, page 349, Other recreation services, including amusement parks or arcades, sideshows, circuses and agricultural shows, accounted for another 666 businesses. These businesses employed 10,318 persons and a further 3,518 volunteers. 2. An incidental spectacle that diverts attention from a larger concern. Labels: figuratively Example: Far from learning from the failures of ‘economic rationalism,’ the Liberals want us to swallow more of the snake oil medicine while diverting our attention to the consumption tax sideshow. Example: Even the reality shows focused on addiction, like “Intervention,” “Rehab With Dr. Drew” (thankfully canceled) or that show where people have bizarre addictions like eating chalk or scouring powder, have done almost nothing to educate Americans. All they’ve really achieved is keeping addiction an oddity, a sideshow. 3. An incident in which drivers block traffic to perform stunts like donuts and burnouts for an extended period of time. Labels: US, slang Example: The spontaneous street party is the center of Oakland's recently developing Hyphy culture, but has a long history in Oakland car culture and hip hop. A sideshow is essentially a spontaneous street party in which one might “ghostride the whip” (get out while driving), “gas brake dip,” or even “scrape” (spin donuts in the middle of the street). Example: On July 3, 2016, at 10:35pm, Sergeant Cleveland and Officer Henderson (“the Officers”) were on patrol near Fullerton, California looking for illegal street racing and “sideshows,” events where streets are blocked off for drivers to perform unlawful maneuvers like burnouts and donuts. […] During their patrol, the Officers found an approximately twenty-car sideshow taking place in the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet parking lot.
Word: Spello Part of Speech: name 1. A town and comune in the province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy.
Word: strangler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strangle + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)lə/ 1. Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling. 2. An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows.
Word: mince words Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mince (“to say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly)”, transitive figurative verb) + words. First attested in the mid-1500s. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪns ˈwɜːdz/, /ˌmɪns ˈwɜɹdz/, /ˌməns ˈwøːdz/, /ˌmɪns ˈwʌɹdz/, /ˌmɪns ˈwəːʳɖz/ 1. To restrain oneself when speaking by withholding some comments or using euphemisms in order to be polite, tactful, etc. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Near-synonym: pull punches Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mince words.
Word: stagnation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stagnate + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result), Stagnate is derived from stagnāt-, the participial stem of Latin stagnāre, the present active infinitive of stāgnō (“of waters: to cover the land as a lake, to become a pool, to stagnate”), from stāgnum (“body of standing water (lake, swamp, etc.)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to drip; to seep”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Pronunciation: /stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/, /stæɡˈneɪʃən/, /stæɡˈnæɪʃən/, /stɛɡˈnæɪʃən/ 1. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: uncountable Example: Factors known to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria inside cooling systems include the stagnation of the water. Example: [S]ometimes at the Bottom of the Deep vvaters there ſeem'd to be a ſtagnation of the Sea for a great depth, ſo that till ſuch a height they [divers] could riſe directly upvvards, but that at other heights they vvould be carried avvay by the leſſe deep-vvaters; ſo as to be found vvhen they came to emerge a great vvay off from that point of the ſurface vvhich vvas perpendicular to that place at the Bottom, vvhence they began to aſcend. 2. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: The general concern about industrial stagnation inspired an overhaul of the patent system. Example: I am now in the sixty-fifth year of my age, and having been the greater part of my days a man of pleasure, the decay of my faculties is a stagnation of my life. 3. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: [T]he Credit Cycle, though guilty of disastrous excesses and grave crimes, has a part to play in a progressive society, and […] an attempt to check it altogether might produce stagnation as well as stability.
Word: brats Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɹæts/ 1. plural of brat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brats Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɹæts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of brat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Angelina Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌænd͡ʒəˈliːnə/ 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, an Italian diminutive of Angela. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What happened to Angelina Resendiz is a mystery, but her mother wants to get to the bottom of it. 2. Ellipsis of Angelina County. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 3. Ellipsis of Asteroid Angelina, 64 Angelina. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: Angelina Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌænd͡ʒəˈliːnə/ 1. A young, inexperienced hobo (of either gender). Labels: slang Example: He had a plug of tobacco fixed firmly in his left cheek and talked around it in fluent hobo slang. "You Angelinas lookin' to catch a blind?" he said as Violet and Myrtle stood on the platform in Penn Station[…] Example: You'll like yourself better for it in the end, and when the next optimistic “Angelina” saunters in fresh from the rails looking for some work, he may benefit from your good conduct. 2. A female denizen of Los Angeles. Alternative form of Angelena (“a female resident of Los Angeles”); feminine of Angelino (“a male resident of Los Angeles”); Synonym of Angelino/Angeleno (“a resident of Los Angeles of either gender”); Labels: rare
Word: enemy combatant Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enemy, combatant. 2. Any person in an armed conflict who may be properly detained under the laws and customs of war. Labels: US
Word: queer as a clockwork orange Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Cockney phrase from East London indicating something bizarre internally, but appearing natural and normal on the surface. Author Anthony Burgess appropriated the phrase for the title of his novella A Clockwork Orange. 1. Strange, odd, unusual. 2. Unusually camp, unusually homosexual. Example: He sauntered the flunkied restaurant, queer /As a clockwork orange and not scared. /God, I was grateful for the nights we shared.
Word: achar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindustani اچار / अचार (acār), from Classical Persian آچار (āčār). Doublet of acar, atchara, and atsara. 1. A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine. Labels: India, North, countable, uncountable
Word: phonemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English phoneme Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English phonemic From phoneme + -ic. Pronunciation: /fəˈniː.mɪk/, /fəʊˈniː.mɪk/, /fəˈni.mɪk/, /foʊˈni.mɪk/ 1. Relating to phonemes. Labels: not-comparable Example: We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology. 2. Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language. Labels: not-comparable Example: Tone is phonemic in Chinese. 3. Corresponding precisely and consistently with the phonemes. Labels: not-comparable Example: Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled.
Word: acharya Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “Practice and Discipline”) Sanskrit आर्य (ārya, “Virtuous and Reverend”) Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “Practitioner and Teacher”). Doublet of ajari. 1. an individual who practices or is knowledgeable on any of the prevalent disciplines of customs, learning, rituals, arts, traditions, schools etc., especially one imparting them into pupils. Labels: historical, rare 2. a scholar, practitioner, professional, specialist, disciplinarian imparting knowledge. Labels: historical, rare
Word: signet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French signet (“small seal”), from Medieval Latin signētum, diminutive of Latin signum (“sign”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nɪt/ 1. An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin. Labels: historical Example: I had my fathers Signet in my Purse, / Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale: Example: To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!