nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: waning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ.nɪŋ/ 1. Becoming weaker or smaller. Labels: not-comparable Example: my patience is waning 2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth. Labels: not-comparable Example: the waning moon
Word: waning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ.nɪŋ/ 1. The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading. Example: the waning of her energy Example: And boyhood is a summer sun Whose waning is the dreariest one — For all we live to know is known And all we seek to keep hath flown — […] 2. The fact or act of becoming smaller. Example: 17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B. This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.
Word: smell a rat Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsmɛl ə ˈɹæt/ 1. To sense something suspicious. Labels: idiomatic Example: Oh, Are you thereabouts, Sir; then I ſmell a Rat Ifaith; but I'll ſay nothing. Example: [O]ur conjectures were like arrows ſhot in the dark—they were wide of the mark—till an old gentleman came into the room, who after affixing his ſpectacles on the ſuperior part of an aquiline noſe, told us—"he ſmelt a rat!" / "He ſmelt a rat!" and ſhaking his head with all the ſolemnity of Attic ſagacity—whiſpered to the perſon next his elbow, / "I know it!"
Word: discotheque Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French discothèque (“record library; discotheque”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/, /ˈdɪskoʊˌtɛk/ 1. A nightclub where dancing takes place. Labels: dated Example: By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.
Word: Lewis Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg. Doublet of Louis. Pronunciation: /ˈluːɪs/ 1. A male given name from Frankish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And tell false Edward, thy supposed king, That Lewis of France is sending over masquers, To revel it with him and his new bride. Example: They named me Lewis and called me Louie as though my name was Louis, and I never saw the difference until Sammy pointed it out. And even then, I still don't see much difference. 2. An English surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The first line of dialogue is from an off-screen Field Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), asking the team to stay in sight and “make NASA proud”. 3. The title given to a partially apprenticed Freemason who is normally the Master or Son of a practicing Freemason; one practising or learning the degrees of Freemasonry after introduction to the degrees and before full induction or before becoming a Worshipful Brother. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It’s a bit of a surprise to be driving through farmlands near Lewis, Kansas, and suddenly spot a series of tall chalk towers on the horizon. 8. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A locale in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Lewis Part of Speech: name Etymology: An anglicization of Irish Lobhaois, itself from Old French Louis. Pronunciation: /ˈluːɪs/ 1. A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Word: Lewis Part of Speech: name Etymology: An adopted anglicization of Welsh Llywelyn, from Old Welsh, from Proto-Brythonic *Lluɣβelen, from Proto-Celtic *Lugus + *Belinos, whose origin is disputed; see Belenus. Pronunciation: /ˈluːɪs/ 1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Word: Lewis Part of Speech: name Etymology: Derived from Scottish Gaelic Leòdhas, of uncertain origin; traditionally referred to Old Norse Ljóðahús, from ljóð (“song, poem”) + hús (“house”); but may be related to the Pictish name of the island recorded in Ptolemy's Geography as Λίμνου (Límnou). Pronunciation: /ˈluːɪs/ 1. Ellipsis of the Isle of Lewis: an island of Scotland, United Kingdom. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: benefactive case Part of Speech: noun 1. A case used to indicate beneficiary, or the receiver of the benefit, roughly corresponding to English prepositions such as for, for the benefit of, in the interests of, intended for, or on behalf of. Example: Basque and Quechua are languages with a benefactive case.
Word: Lewis acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any electrophilic compound that can accept a pair of electrons and form a coordinate covalent bond. Labels: physical
Word: Lewis base Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist. 1. Any nucleophilic compound that can donate a pair of electrons and form a coordinate covalent bond.
Word: absolutive case Part of Speech: noun 1. case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action. The absolutive case is used to mark the subject of an intransitive verb, as well as the object of a transitive verb (inasmuch as they are codified in the English nominative-accusative system). Some languages that employ the absolutive case include Abkhaz, Basque, Chechen, Dyirbal, Hindi, Inuktitut, Hiligaynon, and Yup'ik.
Word: well-fed Part of Speech: adj 1. Properly or adequately fed or nourished.
Word: stretcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stretch + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/, /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈstɹet͡ʃə/ 1. Someone or something that stretches. 2. A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person. Example: This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room. Example: After all this has been done, the funeral-procession begins. The stretcher is borne to the burialplace by male persons, even when the deceased is a woman; this work is to be done carefully. 3. A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting. Example: A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box. 4. A device to stretch shoes or gloves. 5. A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed. Example: The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately 6. A piece of timber used in building. 7. A lie; an overstretching of the truth. Labels: slang 8. A board against which a rower places his feet. Example: The jointed stretcher is used in place of the sectional bottom board, with two sideboards, one each side of stretcher. The boat set up this way only weights 20 pounds, and makes a very convenient boat for trout-fishing, duck-hunting, or exploring in ponds or streams where the paddle will do as well as the oars. Example: Directly the oar has been disengaged from the water, all pressure on the stretcher ceases, and the strain of the recovery of the body is eased by a slight pull with the feet on the straps of the stretcher. 9. One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle. 10. A penis, especially a long penis. Labels: obsolete Example: When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
Word: stretcher Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From stretch + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/, /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈstɹet͡ʃə/ 1. To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher. Labels: transitive Example: Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night. Example: But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez briefly stretchered off[…], Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl turned star centre-forward of the new right – is shooting at an open goal.
Word: well off Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a person: in fortunate circumstances, especially having financial security, at any level from intermediate (comfortably off) to high (wealthy). Example: Near-synonyms: well-endowed, wealthy; see also Thesaurus:wealthy Example: He is very well off as a result of his stock portfolio containing some big winners over the years. 2. Of a person or thing: in a good position or circumstance. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: He would be well off if he would simply quit this place and never look back. Example: When Lord Carhampton's strong measures came into operation, and the people found him act in so arbitrary a manner, there was not, in a fortnight after, almost one shopkeeper in Dublin who was not regularly sworn, and had not taken the oath of the United Irishmen. He was in fact their agent and recruiting sergeant [as it were]. His conduct to the Reverend Mr. Berwick will be best understood by detailing it as I had it from that individual. He was a clergyman of a parish not far from Luttrelstown, where Lord Carhampton resided; and in 1797, two soldiers came to his house, and took prisoner a man in his service, to bring to the General. Mr. Berwick accompanied them. Lord Carhampton knew him, both by name and profession; but he was so insolent and haughty—his manner and voice so arrogant, that Mr. Berwick thought he would be well off if he got safe out of the house. "Well, sir, who are you?—why do you protect this man! Don't you know that he is a rebel?" Berwick replied, he did not; that he had only just come from Longford, and before he went, had known the man to have been a very well-conducted person. "Sir, you must have known it? Where do you live?" "At Esker," Mr. Berwick replied. "Oh! no honest man would live there! Why do you harbour rogues and rebels in your place?" Mr. Berwick said, his profession and station, as chaplain to Lord Moira, should have sufficed, as he thought, to protect him from such an imputation. "Well, sir," replied Carhampton, "you may go!" Berwick now became a marked man; […].
Word: well-read Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌwɛl ˈɹɛd/ 1. Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively. Example: You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books You are very well-read It's well known
Word: well read Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of well-read. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: well-wisher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From well (“in a desirable manner; so as one could wish”, adverb) + wisher. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃə/, /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃɚ/ 1. Someone who extends good wishes, or expresses sympathy, to someone else. Example: [T]hose honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and raillery of their well-wishers and companions; that are pelted by men, women, and children, friends and foes, and in a word, stand as butts in conversation, for every one to shoot at that pleases. Example: [T]he actual traytor or rebel is guilty of perjury in the eye of the lavv; the ſecret promoter, or vvell-vviſher of the cauſe, is ſo before the Tribunal of conſcience. 2. Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: I never saw your chancellor, nor his chaplain. The latter has a good deal of learning, and is a well wisher to be an author: your chancellor is an excellent man.
Word: well-wisher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From well (“hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, etc.”) + wisher. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃə/, /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃɚ/ 1. Someone who makes a wish at a wishing well. Labels: nonce-word, rare Example: They strolled on and passed a smiling man standing by the Village wishing well. "Well," said the well-wisher. Ah … must be the Village idiot. Example: "I'll put a removable lid on it [a wishing well]," he assured her. "That way, it'll be safe for the nippers, but accessible to, um, well wishers. Have a wish in mind, Bree?"
Word: rafter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English ræfter, of Germanic origin, related to the origin of raft. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːftəː/, [ˈɹʷɑːftəː], /ˈɹæftɚ/, [ˈɹʷæftɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷæftɹ̩] 1. One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads. Example: […] the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters 2. A flock of turkeys. Labels: collective
Word: rafter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English ræfter, of Germanic origin, related to the origin of raft. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːftəː/, [ˈɹʷɑːftəː], /ˈɹæftɚ/, [ˈɹʷæftɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷæftɹ̩] 1. To make (timber, etc.) into rafters. Labels: transitive 2. To furnish (a building) with rafters. Labels: transitive 3. To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge. Labels: UK
Word: rafter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From raft + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːftəː/, [ˈɹʷɑːftəː], /ˈɹæftɚ/, [ˈɹʷæftɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷæftɹ̩] 1. A raftsman.
Word: well-worn Part of Speech: adj 1. Showing signs of wear because of extensive use. Example: Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire, And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire. 2. Trite or hackneyed; repeated too often. Labels: broadly Example: The decay of social norms and status quo systems triggering an authoritarian tightening of the screws is a well-worn pattern throughout human history.
Word: well-being Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /wɛlˈbiː.ɪŋ/ 1. A state of health, happiness or prosperity. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: which concernes our whole three Kingdomes, Parliaments, Religion, and every one of our well-beings, in this preſent world Example: Other pursuits and avocations of life, far less intimately connected with the comfort and well-beings of humanity, seem by their own spontaniety to be more and more flowing into utilitarian channels.
Word: well-bred Part of Speech: adj 1. Of good breed. 2. Well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education (and, originally and literally but usually not in current usage, because well-born in a eugenic sense). Example: Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism. Example: Ideally you should relax—though well-bred English people do no feel entirely at ease in a room full of naked strangers beating one another.
Word: well-founded Part of Speech: adj 1. Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement. 2. Properly substantiated. Example: After the crisis had passed, certain well-founded proposals were revived, and resulted in important additions to the railway network of the country. 3. Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation. Example: well-founded relation
Word: Wellington boots Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who wore and popularised a similar style of boot, if not made of rubber. 1. Waterproof rubber boots, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions. Short forms: wellies (singular welly or wellie) Labels: UK, plural, plural-normally
Word: well-known Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English well knowen. By surface analysis, well + known. Pronunciation: /ˌwɛlˈnoʊn/, /ˌwɛlˈnəʊn/ 1. Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known. Example: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells. Example: There are a number of diseases that are considered to be universally fatal. AIDS and rabies encephalitis are well-known examples. 2. Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose. Labels: not-comparable Example: We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known Example: If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
Word: well-mannered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Middle English wel ymanerede, wel y-manerit. 1. Having good manners; polite, courteous, and socially correct; conforming to standards of good behaviour. Example: A well-mannered gentleman always allows others first.
Word: Welshman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Walishman, equivalent to Welsh + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlʃmən/ 1. A man who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
Word: westerly Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/, /ˈwɛs.tɚ.li/ 1. Facing the west; directed towards the west. Example: a westerly course or voyage Example: Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies. 2. Located towards or in the west. Example: the westerly side of a lake Example: The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder. 3. Coming from the west. Example: a westerly wind Example: Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
Word: westerly Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/, /ˈwɛs.tɚ.li/ 1. Towards the west.
Word: westerly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/, /ˈwɛs.tɚ.li/ 1. A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west. Example: A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
Word: participation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English participacioun, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō. By surface analysis, participate + -ion. Pronunciation: /pɑːˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/, /pɑɹˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/, /pɑɹˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, /pɐːˌtɪs.əˈpæɪ.ʃən/, /pɐːˌtəs.əˈpæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of participating, of taking part in something. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being related to a larger whole. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a decision made based on the participation of the shareholders 4. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: entirely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English entyerly, entierly, enterely, entyreliche, equivalent to entire + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtaɪəli/, /ɪnˈtaɪɹli/ 1. To the full or entire extent. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere. Example: The cake hadn’t entirely been eaten, so some was saved for later. 2. To the exclusion of others; solely. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'm entirely to blame. Example: This part of the park is used entirely by the workers; everyone else will have to go to the other side.
Word: wetness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wetnes, wetnesse, from Old English wǣtnes (“moisture, wetness”). By surface analysis, wet + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛt.nəs/ 1. The condition of being wet. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The young man looked long and fixedly on the place, the sight of which interested him so much that he had forgotten, in the eagerness of youthful curiosity, the wetness of his dress. Example: The first business was to make a fire, an operation which was a little delayed by the wetness of the fuel and the ground, owing to the heavy showers of the afternoon. 2. Moisture. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “Oh! if I had my gravity,” thought she, contemplating the water, “I would flash off this balcony like a long white sea-bird, headlong into the darling wetness. Heigh-ho!” Example: And so nature was not interfered with in the middle of the rainy season. Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness. 3. Rainy or damp weather. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 1797, Tobias Smollett et al., The History of England, from the Revolution to the End of the American War and the Peace of Versailles in 1783, Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, Volume 4, Book 5, p. 484, They complained, that the wetness of the season, and the scarcity of fodder in the year 1762, with other natural causes, had reduced the quantity of fat cattle, by discouraging the farmers from rearing them. Example: Tanoo, Skedans and Cumshewa lie fairly close to each other on the map, yet each is quite unlike the others when you come to it. All have the West Coast wetness but Cumshewa seems always to drip, always to be blurred with mist, its foliage always to hang wet-heavy.
Word: exclusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English exclusion, exclusioun, from Old French [Term?] and Latin exclusiō, from exclūdō. By surface analysis, exclude + -sion. Pronunciation: /ɪksˈkluːʒən/ 1. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mr. JOHNSON: But this amendment does not go far enough. I suppose the framers of the amendment thought it was necessary to provide for such an exigency. I do not see but that any one of these gentlemen may be elected President or Vice President of the United States, and why did you omit to exclude them? I do not understand them to be excluded from the privilege of holding the two highest offices in the gift of the nation. No man is to be a Senator or Representative or an elector for President or Vice President—— Mr. MORRILL: Let me call the Senator's attention to the words "or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States." Mr. JOHNSON: Perhaps I am wrong as to the exclusion from the Presidency: no doubt I am; but I was misled by noticing the specific exclusion in the case of Senators and Representatives. But I submit to the Senate whether it is advisable, whether it is politic, looking to the end which we all seek to accomplish, the true restoration of the Union, a union of hearts as well as a union of hands, that you should exclude the large mass of people from participating in the honors of the Government who will be excluded by this provision. Example: Two Dutch journalists entering the country were detained at JFK International Airport March 30 because they openly declared that they were homosexuals. They were subsequently released on parole pending an exclusion hearing in Manhattan April 2. 2. The act of pushing or forcing something out. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...]. 3. An item not covered by an insurance policy. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: wet nurse Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child. 2. Someone who treats someone else with excessive care. Labels: broadly, figuratively
Word: wet nurse Part of Speech: verb 1. To act as a wet nurse (in either sense). Labels: transitive
Word: wetting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɛtɪŋ/, [ˈwɛɾɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of wet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wetting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɛtɪŋ/, [ˈwɛɾɪŋ] 1. The act of making something wet. Example: It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […] 2. The act of accidental urination on or in something. 3. An act of murdering or seriously injuring someone. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, US, slang Example: Earned my name name for all of them wettings If I let you live, then give blessings
Word: wetting Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈwɛtɪŋ/, [ˈwɛɾɪŋ] 1. That makes (something) wet. Labels: not-comparable
Word: wetting agent Part of Speech: noun 1. A substance, such as a surfactant, that reduces the surface tension of a liquid, allowing it to spread across and penetrate the surface of a solid.
Word: woodland Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi. Eclipsed non-native Middle English salt (“woodland”), borrowed from Latin saltus (“woodland, forest”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊd.lənd/, /ˈwɵd.lənd/, /ˈwʉd.lənd/ 1. Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland. Example: The woodland creatures ran from the fire. Example: This species [[[w:Red-bellied Woodpecker|Red-bellied Woodpecker]]] is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests. 2. Having the character of a woodland. Labels: obsolete Example: It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent. Example: […] understanding that their next fixture was in a very woodland country, and at a distance, I deferred this pleasure to another opportunity.
Word: woodland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi. Eclipsed non-native Middle English salt (“woodland”), borrowed from Latin saltus (“woodland, forest”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊd.lənd/, /ˈwɵd.lənd/, /ˈwʉd.lənd/ 1. Land covered with woody vegetation. Labels: also, broadly, in-plural, uncountable, usually Example: Meronym: woodlot Example: Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water ſeem to ſtrive again ; / Not Chaos-like together cruſh’d and bruis’d, / But, as the world, harmoniouſly confus’d : / Where order in variety we ſee, / And where, tho’ all things differ, all agree. 2. Land covered with woody vegetation. Labels: also, broadly, in-plural, uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonym: grove
Word: exclusion zone Part of Speech: noun 1. A geographic area in which some sanctioning authority prohibits specific activities, see also Restricted Area. Example: the Chernobyl exclusion zone Example: Although the exclusion zone around each test case is the same for all inputs, the area of each zone decreases with successive attempts.
Word: non-existent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + existent. 1. Alternative spelling of nonexistent. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Roads were practically non-existent and travel was undertaken mainly by water, streams and rivers providing the only practical routes. Example: It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the present rail passenger service is meagre and between Wetherby and Church Fenton almost non-existent.
Word: chimney pot Part of Speech: noun 1. A short earthenware pipe, placed on top of a chimney to improve the draft. Example: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
Word: chimney sweep Part of Speech: noun 1. A person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.
Word: there is Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of there be. Used to indicate the existence of something physical or abstract. See also there are. Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: There is a man here to see you. Example: There is a flaw in your argument.
Word: em dash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter m or M, or approximately twice the width of an en dash. 1. The symbol (—) (used to demarcate a parenthetical thought or to indicate a break, or for emphasis); a one-em or long dash. Example: So now, no matter where it’s coming from or why, millions of people recognize the em dash as a sign of zero-effort, low-quality algorithmic slop.
Word: what do you know Part of Speech: phrase 1. What a surprise; guess what. Labels: colloquial, often, rhetoric, sarcastic Example: Near-synonym: who would have thunk it Example: Well, what do you know, it's raining again. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, do, you, know.; especially, synonym of you don't know what you're talking about. Example: You think so, eh? Well what do you know?
Word: en dash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter n or N, or approximately half the width of an em dash. 1. The punctuation mark –, which is used, for instance, to indicate a range.
Word: what for Part of Speech: adv 1. For what purpose. Labels: not-comparable Example: What is this tool for? Example: That's what friends are for. 2. For what reason; why. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: He wants four copies of it? What for? Example: Ow! What did you do that for?
Word: what for Part of Speech: noun 1. An unspecified punishment or rebuke. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, usually Example: When your dad gets home, he'll give you (a) what for. Example: - Fagin, I'm waiting. - Waiting, my dear? What for? - Bill will give you "what for" if you don't fork out.
Word: injustice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English injustice, from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- + justice. Displaced native Old English unrihtwīsnes. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/ 1. Absence of justice; unjustice. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Violation of the rights of another person or people. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price. Example: I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue. 3. Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
Word: what is more Part of Speech: adv 1. used to introduce a statement which builds on the preceding statement, but expresses a stronger sentiment. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: I've done it wrong, and what's more, I don't care. Example: I'm the lappet-faced vulture. I'm ugly and bald. No wonder that everyone looks so appalled. I have flaps on my face that are wrinkled and pink, My beak is gigantic and, what's more, I stink.
Word: impersonal verb Part of Speech: noun 1. A verb used only in the infinitive or in the third person. In the third person, the subject is either implied or a dummy.
Word: what's cooking Part of Speech: intj 1. A greeting, similar to how are you?; what's happening?; what's up?; what's new? Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Hi there babe, what's cooking? Example: What's cooking, good-looking? 2. Expression of concern, asking for an explanation, similar to what's going on?; what's the problem?; what gives? Labels: idiomatic
Word: what gives Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: First attested in 1940, in John O'Hara's novel Pal Joey. The term is considered by the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition (2013) and several other references to be a calque of German “was gibt's?” and/or a Yiddish equivalent. Brian Joseph disputes this, and speculates that despite extremely late attestation, it and the German was gibt's may "allow[] for a reconstruction of a Proto-West-Germanic existential use of 'give', which survives marginally into present usage." 1. What is wrong? Why is this happening? Labels: colloquial Example: Not even thirty minutes after leaving the shower, my head starts itching. What gives? 2. What is happening? What is going on? Labels: colloquial Example: What gives with you and Martha? 3. How are you? Labels: colloquial
Word: what's eating you Part of Speech: intj 1. What is annoying or bothering you? Labels: idiomatic Example: You're in a bad mood today. What's eating you?
Word: Internet Protocol Part of Speech: name 1. A communication protocol that enables networking a large number of computers to the Internet by providing the basis for packet switching, routing, addressing and other essential functions of the net. Labels: Internet
Word: what's the good of Part of Speech: phrase 1. What is the purpose or advantage of Labels: idiomatic Example: You can't do anything about it, so what's the good of crying?
Word: breast-feed Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of breastfeed. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: back out Part of Speech: verb 1. To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space. Labels: transitive Example: He backed out of the garage. Example: A dirt road ran from the highway past the dump, down to a small Negro settlement some five hundred yards beyond the Ewells‘. It was necessary either to back out to the highway or go the full length of the road and turn around; most people turned around in the Negroes’ front yards. 2. To withdraw from something one has agreed to do. Labels: intransitive Example: She backed out of organizing the fund-raising. Example: The girl threw back her head and laughed merrily. "You poor young man," she cried; "put that way it does sound alarming." Then she grew serious again. "There's plenty of time for you to back out now if you like. Just call the waiter, and ask for my bill. We'll say good-bye, and the incident will finish." 3. To convince (someone) to withdraw from a challenge. Labels: transitive Example: "I can back you out." "How? Doin' what?" they asked. "Crossing the canal on the pole." "Shucks, you can't back me out," declared one of the boys, at which he darted across the swaying pole, and with a jump, landed safely across. Another boy went at it gingerly, and with the antics of a tight-rope walker, he managed to get to the other side. […] "All right, Carlia," shouted the boys on the other bank. […] Carlia placed her foot on the pole as if testing it. The other girls protested. She would fall in and drown. "You dared us; now who's the coward," cried the boys. 4. To bet on someone losing. Example: 1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way. Example: See also: sell short 5. To undo (a change). Labels: transitive Example: I had to back out the changes made to the computer when it became apparent that they had stopped it working properly. 6. To exit a mode or function. Labels: intransitive Example: I chose that menu option by accident, so I pressed Escape to back out. 7. To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also bare back). Labels: Multicultural-London-English, transitive Example: Anything 4 get bun, back it out see the paigons run Can't believe that my door got spun, I just got nicked for a loaded gun
Word: wheedle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”). Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent. The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological. Pronunciation: /ˈʍiː.dəl/, /ˈwiː.dəl/ 1. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it. Example: […]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William. 2. To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery. Labels: transitive Example: If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...] Example: She tore off my cap, scratched, kicked, and buffetted me, till she had exhausted her strength, declaring, as she rested her arm, ‘that I had wheedled her husband from her.
Word: wheedle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”). Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent. The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological. Pronunciation: /ˈʍiː.dəl/, /ˈwiː.dəl/ 1. A coaxing person. Labels: archaic
Word: wheelbarrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der. Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ Proto-West Germanic *barwijā Old English *bearwe Middle English barwe Middle English whelbarwe English wheelbarrow From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlbæɹəʊ/, /ˈwilbæɹoʊ/, /ˈwilbɛɹoʊ/, /ˈwiːlbæɹəʉ/, /ˈwiːlbæɹə/ 1. A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads. Example: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions. Example: Space for the concrete batching plant was found some little distance down the line, and from here a total of 60 tons of concrete was despatched in a wheelbarrow on a railway trolley.
Word: wheelbarrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der. Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ Proto-West Germanic *barwijā Old English *bearwe Middle English barwe Middle English whelbarwe English wheelbarrow From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlbæɹəʊ/, /ˈwilbæɹoʊ/, /ˈwilbɛɹoʊ/, /ˈwiːlbæɹəʉ/, /ˈwiːlbæɹə/ 1. To convey in a wheelbarrow. Labels: transitive 2. To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel. Labels: transitive
Word: wheelbase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base English wheelbase From wheel + base. 1. The horizontal distance between the front and rear axles of a road or rail vehicle. Example: Beneath the snow, and after we had left it behind, the road was as greasy as vaseline, as steep as a scenic railway, and often not a yard wider than the lorry’s wheelbase. Example: The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
Word: Republic of the Congo Part of Speech: name 1. A country in Central Africa, the smaller of the two countries named Congo. Capital: Brazzaville.
Word: anally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English anal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English anally From anal + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪnəli/ 1. Involving the anus. Example: Martin penetrated his partner anally. Example: The doctor will examine the patient anally. 2. In an anal manner.
Word: crwth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier crowd, from Middle English crowde, reinforced by and cognate to Welsh crwth; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round thing”). Pronunciation: /kɹuθ/, /kɹuːθ/ 1. An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing. Labels: historical Example: We find in one period crwths, with the strings twanged with the right hand, and stopped above with the left, being held as we hold a violoncello to-day, but being small, on the lap.
Word: wholphin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of whale + dolphin Pronunciation: /ˈwɒlf.ɪn/, /ˈwɑlf.ɪn/ 1. The fertile hybrid produced by cross-breeding a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (mother), and a false killer whale Pseudorca crassidens (father).
Word: creche Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of crèche. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: crèche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French crèche (“manger”), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ. Doublet of crib. Daycare meaning comes from recent use in France French (whereas in Canadian French garderie is used instead). Pronunciation: /kɹɛʃ/, /kɹeɪʃ/ 1. A representation of the nativity scene. Example: At last, all was complete. The creche at Greccio looked like a new Bethlehem. The baby Jesus would be placed in the manger at midnight Mass. 2. A day nursery. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: They drop their two-year-old off at the crèche in the morning before they go to work. Example: If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine. 3. A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital. Labels: historical Example: One road leads to desertion of the child in a convenient hallway; another to the creche of a foundling hospital; a third, to a boarding home, good or indifferent, for the child. Example: In line with this policy, a couple could adopt a Crèche foundling only if one or both of them were Roman Catholics. 4. A group of young who stay together for protection. Labels: collective
Word: carpetbag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carpet + bag. 1. A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century. Example: Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
Word: carpetbag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From carpet + bag. 1. To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain. Labels: US Example: The Five Star Movement has long railed against carpetbagging, but for all of Ms. D’Alessandro’s efforts to seem of the place — talking about her childhood in Naples and showing the bar where she had her first date — she clearly isn’t.
Word: carpetbag Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From carpet + bag. 1. Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: carpetbag travels
Word: dogi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 道(どう)着(ぎ) (dōgi). 1. A judo or karate uniform. Labels: US Example: Ninpo is a living art and that means the shidoshi-level teachers are all artists of a very physical nature with their own creative viewpoint being exercised to bring the traditional learnings of the schools into alignment with their own personality and the reality of our times. This means that dogi are sometimes replaced with cammies when people are training in the woods or street clothes when training in town. Example: We were standing on the lawn near the pool in our bright white dogis, he with his black belt and I with my white.
Word: dogi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See doge. 1. plural of doge (“chief magistrate”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Nipponese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Nippon (romanized version of 日本, the native Japanese name for Japan) + -ese. 1. Japanese. Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: Nipponese Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Nippon (romanized version of 日本, the native Japanese name for Japan) + -ese. 1. The Japanese language. Labels: dated
Word: Nipponese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nippon (romanized version of 日本, the native Japanese name for Japan) + -ese. 1. A Japanese person. Labels: dated
Word: frug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to frig. Pronunciation: /fɹʌɡ/ 1. A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. Example: She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf. Example: Like I figure it would be best at that point to break for a fifteen minute Frug or Watusi.
Word: frug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to frig. Pronunciation: /fɹʌɡ/ 1. To perform this dance. Labels: intransitive Example: Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party. Example: "Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.