nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: UEFA Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /juˈeɪfə/ 1. Acronym of Union of European Football Associations. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: Having won the UEFA Champions League title in May – the premier club competition in European soccer – PSG now has the chance to crown an excellent 12 months by becoming world champion.
Word: w/e Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of week ending. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Abbreviation of weekend. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: For Qishan, Meinong and Foguangshan you’re best off catching a bus outside Kaohsiung Zuoying HSR Station/Zuoying KMRT Station. From there Freeway Bus #10 is the quickest and cheapest service to Qishan (departs every 20mins on w/days 🕘 06.30-23.00 Mon-Fri, less frequent at w/ends; takes 40mins; NTD50).
Word: w/e Part of Speech: intj 1. Abbreviation of whatever. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Example: - Did you hear about what happened to John yesterday? Example: - w/e, I don't care.
Word: w/e Part of Speech: pron 1. Abbreviation of whatever. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: w/e Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of whenever. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: w/i Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of within. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Initialism of with intent. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: pegmatite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to attach, join”) + -ite Pronunciation: /ˈpɛɡmətaɪt/ 1. A coarsely crystalline igneous or plutonic rock composed primarily of feldspar and quartz, normally with muscovite and/or biotite mica. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: supra Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Proto-Italic *superos Proto-Italic *superād Old Latin suprād Latin suprābor. English supra Borrowed from Latin suprā. 1. Used to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text. Labels: not-comparable 2. Above, mentioned earlier in a text. Labels: not-comparable Example: Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
Word: supra Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of supranational. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras.
Word: supra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Georgian სუფრა (supra). 1. A traditional Georgian feast. Example: When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality. Example: We might add here the tendency of kinto poetry to be associated with articulating and eliciting love and desire (whether heterosexual, homoerotic or homosexual), as well as the noted homoeroticism of the supra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated.
Word: infra Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infra (“below”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.fɹə/ 1. Discussed later. Labels: not-comparable
Word: infra Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.fɹə/ 1. Clipping of infrastructure. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal, uncountable Example: However, as the nations 70% is^([sic]) covered with mountains, gathering of the meteorological information of particular regions (mountains, canyons, islands etc) by wired transmission system is difficult and it costs a lot of money. This is one of the obstacles of the construction of an infra for the prevention of disasters caused by meteorological changes. Example: In this paper we focus on the context of infra construction and development – the problem being: lack of relevant tools for management of BIM [building information modelling] implementation actions.
Word: meatspace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag. 1. The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet. Labels: Internet, derogatory, idiomatic, sometimes, uncountable Example: In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace. Example: The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.
Word: begrip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + grip. Compare begripe. 1. To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp. Labels: transitive Example: Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...] Example: They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.
Word: calcareous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), derived from calx (“lime”). Similar to calcium. Pronunciation: /kælˈkɛəɹi.əs/ 1. Resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky. Example: The next morning I went to see the hot-springs and mud volcanoes, for which this place is celebrated. A picturesque path among plantations and ravines brought us to a beautiful circular basin about forty feet in diameter, bordered by a calcareous ledge, so uniform and truly curved, that it looked like a work of art. Example: The traveller from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly reaches the verge of one of these escarpments[.] 2. Growing in a chalky habitat.
Word: dipteral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Translingual Diptera + English -al. 1. Having two wings only. Labels: not-comparable 2. Belonging to the order of insects Diptera. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having a double row of columns on each of the flanks, as well as in front and rear, often said of a temple. Labels: not-comparable
Word: biphasic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- English phase Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English phasic English biphasic From bi- + phasic. 1. Having two phases. Labels: not-comparable
Word: diptych Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪptɪk/ 1. A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. 2. A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges. 3. A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church. 4. A catalogue of saints. 5. Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence (transferred sense) a list of magistrates. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical 6. A novel published in two volumes forming one continuous story (as opposed to a duology or dilogy). 7. A literary work consisting of two contrasting parts, such as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view. Example: A very simple narrative, a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ […] first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus. 8. Any work made up of two parts treating complementary or contrasting aspects of one general topic. Example: “Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert” is the first volume of a diptych “Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert,” for which Ira L. Wiggins is to write the companion volume on the flora.
Word: triptych Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρίπτυχος (tríptukhos, “consisting of three layers, threefold”), from τρι- (tri-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “a fold”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪp.tɪk/ 1. A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges. Example: I never thought breastfeeding would be hard. When I thought about it at all, my mind conjured beatific scenes suffused with a sort of religious glow. […] These days I envisage more of a triptych: the infant Jesus spluttering at the breast, face purple with hangry fury; the infant Jesus possetting milk down Mary’s front; the infant Jesus and the nappy explosion. 2. A group of three people or works, especially when considered representative of a particular field or theme. Labels: broadly Example: Thus, with the passing years, Papa Wemba, a hardworking and introverted man, has come to embody “African pop,” forming a triptych with Youssou N’Dour and Salif Keita. Example: Woodson, the recipient of four Newbery Honor awards, has written her first adult novel in 20 years, returning to the Brooklyn setting of “Autobiography of a Family Photo” (1995) and her recent award-winning memoir, “Brown Girl Dreaming.” These works form a triptych of bildungsromans taking place in the author’s hometown and tracking her generation’s coming to adulthood. 3. A group of three people or works, especially when considered representative of a particular field or theme. Labels: broadly Example: The centerpiece of the show is a poised, luminous, tender, and diabolically clever video installation, “Le Triptyque de Noirmoutier” (The Noirmoutier Triptych), which Varda shot on 35-mm. film[…]. The man gets himself a bottle of beer; the older woman heads with dishes from the sink toward the cupboard—and crosses the dividing line of the triptych exactly like crossing a threshold. 4. A group of three people or works, especially when considered representative of a particular field or theme. Labels: broadly 5. Any set of three closely connected ideas or objects. Labels: figuratively Example: Witchcraft, heresy, and counterfeiting formed a triptych in popular imagination and in the law. Example: The interest here is […] to construct for heuristic purposes a triptych of different “roads to salvation” as reflected in domains of preaching of contemporary Egypt.
Word: hyalin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hyaline. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: eon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”). Pronunciation: /ˈi.ɑn/, /ˈeɪ.ɑn/, /ˈiː.ɔn/, /ˈeɪ.ɔn/, /ˈiː.ən/ 1. Eternity, the duration of the universe. 2. An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time. 3. A long period of time. Labels: US, excessive, informal Example: It’s been eons since we last saw each other. Example: Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon. 4. A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years; a gigayear. Example: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. 5. The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras. 6. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
Word: hyaline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪəlɪn/, /ˈhaɪəliːn/ 1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous. Example: And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […]. Example: They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.
Word: hyaline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪəlɪn/, /ˈhaɪəliːn/ 1. Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky. Labels: countable, poetic, uncountable Example: The clear hyaline, the glassy sea. Example: Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. 2. A clear translucent substance in tissues. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked
Word: aeon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”). 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of eon. Example: When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew. 2. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead. 3. Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
Word: amyloid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *mólā Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē) Ancient Greek ἄμῠλος (ámŭlos) Ancient Greek ἄμῠλον (ámŭlon)der. Latin amylumder. English amyl Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English amyloid From amyl + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈæmɪlɔɪd/ 1. A waxy compound of protein and polysaccharides that is found deposited in tissues in amyloidosis. 2. Any of various starchlike substances.
Word: amyloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *mólā Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē) Ancient Greek ἄμῠλος (ámŭlos) Ancient Greek ἄμῠλον (ámŭlon)der. Latin amylumder. English amyl Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English amyloid From amyl + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈæmɪlɔɪd/ 1. Containing or resembling starch. 2. Applied to a mushroom that turns blue-black upon application of Melzer's reagent.
Word: myxoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, myx(o)- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪksɔɪd/ 1. Synonym of mucoid. Example: Myxoid liposarcoma (M-LPS) is the second most frequent subtype of liposarcoma. Foci of fat on MRI are strongly suggestive of this diagnosis. The aims of this study are to (i) assess the prevalence of perfectly homogeneous M-LPS-mimicking cyst and characterize their associated clinical and pathological features and to (ii) identify helpful clues to prevent misdiagnosis when encountered with a cyst-like lesion in soft tissue parts.
Word: transgressive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English transgress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English transgressive From transgress + -ive. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɪv/, /tɹɑːnzˈɡɹɛsɪv/ 1. Involving transgression; that passes beyond some acceptable limit; sinful. 2. Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive. Example: 'P.S.' is the second movie in two weeks to use reincarnation as the excuse for transgressive sex. Example: Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
Word: transgressive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English transgress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English transgressive From transgress + -ive. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɪv/, /tɹɑːnzˈɡɹɛsɪv/ 1. A kind of verb expressing a concurrently proceeding or following action, often found in Balto-Slavic languages. 2. A person who transgresses or breaks social rules.
Word: barmy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Barm is derived from Middle English berm, berme (“foam rising upon ale or beer fermenting; leaven, yeast; foam or head of beer produced by pouring”) [and other forms], from Old English beorma (“foam or head of beer; leaven, yeast”), from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“barm; yeast”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”) or *gʷʰer- (“warm; hot”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi/, /ˈbɑɹmi/ 1. Containing, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”). Labels: also, archaic, figuratively Example: [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […] Example: Their jovial Nights, in frollicks and in play / They paſs, to drive the tedious Hours avvay. / And their cold Stomachs vvith crovvn'd Goblets cheer, / Of vvindy Cider, and of barmy Beer. 2. Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited. Labels: archaic, figuratively Example: Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, / My barmie noddle's working prime, […]
Word: barmy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably an alteration of balmy (“foolish; slightly crazy or mad, eccentric”), influenced by barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) (see etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi/, /ˈbɑɹmi/ 1. Crazy, mad; also, eccentric, odd, strange. Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, informal Example: [T]he exercise yard of the "barmy fellows," as he called the madmen, (meaning, I suppose, that their brains were in an unnatural state of working,) was but a stone's throw from himself and his rational companions, […] Example: "Bli'me if I know wot yer all talkin' abaht. You're all barmy on the crumpet," said Liza indignantly, and, turning her back on them, made for home. 2. Very foolish. Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, informal
Word: barmy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian бармы (barmy). Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi/, /ˈbɑɹmi/ 1. plural of barma (“a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems”) Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, form-of, informal, plural
Word: mandate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”). Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat. Pronunciation: /ˈmændeɪ̯t/, [ˈmændeɪ̯t], /ˈmeə̯ndeɪ̯t/, [ˈmeə̯ndeɪ̯t], /ˈmɛə̯ndeɪ̯t/ 1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization. Example: Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison. 2. The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate. Example: John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas. Example: Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds. 3. A period during which a government is in power. Labels: Canada Example: Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation. 4. An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I. Labels: historical 5. An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I. Labels: historical
Word: mandate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1623; partly directly borrowed from Latin mandātus (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more), partly from the above noun by metanalysis. Pronunciation: /ˈmændeɪt/, /mænˈdeɪt/ 1. To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command. Example: A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance. Example: Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports. 2. To make mandatory. Example: Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues. Example: As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday. 3. To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate. 4. To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud. Labels: Scotland, especially Example: After I have mandated my exercices. Example: He [sc. Archbishop Secker] then proceeds to express his disapprobation of what is called Mandating of Sermons, or repeating them from memory. This custom prevails much among foreign Divines, and throughout the whole Church of Scotland.
Word: mandate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From man + date. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.deɪt/ 1. Alternative form of man date: a date between two men. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon Example: Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him. Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!
Word: mischievous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English myschevous, mischevous, from Anglo-Norman meschevous, from Old French meschever, from mes- (“mis-”) + chever (“come to an end”) (from chef (“head”)). By surface analysis, mischief + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.t͡ʃɪ.vəs/, /ˈmɪs.t͡ʃə.vəs/, /mɪsˈt͡ʃiː.vi.əs/, /mɪsˈt͡ʃiː.vəs/ 1. Causing mischief; injurious. Example: ...; that good and bad actions at present are naturally rewarded and punished, not only as beneficial and mischievous to society, but also as virtuous and civious; ... Example: On the whole, therefore, he concludes that the point of indulgence at which these self-passions or self-affections begin to be mischievous to the individual coincides with that at which they begin to be mischievous to society; ... 2. Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do. Example: Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.
Word: envious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English envious, from Anglo-Norman envious, from Old French envieus, envious (modern French envieux), from Latin invidiōsus; more at envy. Doublet of invidious, borrowed directly from Latin. Displaced native Old English æfestiġ. Pronunciation: /ˈɛnviːəs/ 1. Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging. Example: an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues Example: Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie. 2. Excessively careful; cautious. Example: for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable 3. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. Labels: obsolete Example: Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. 4. Inspiring envy. Labels: obsolete, poetic Example: He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.
Word: spiteful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English spytefulle. By surface analysis, spite + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪtfʊl/ 1. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm. Example: It's not like you killed someone It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why He did it all for you
Word: ignorance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ignoraunce, ignorance, from From Old French ignorance, from Latin ignōrantia. By surface analysis, ignor(e) + -ance. Pronunciation: /ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹəns/, /ˈɪɡ.nɚ.əns/, /ˈəɡ.nə.ɹəns/ 1. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand. Example: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards. 2. Sins committed through ignorance. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 3. Existential blindness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-). Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. Example: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. 2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. Example: bushes to support pea vines 3. A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space. 4. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. Labels: historical Example: If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. Example: "Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush." 5. A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion. Example: I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue. 6. The tail, or brush, of a fox.
Word: bush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-). Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. Labels: intransitive Example: Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene. 2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes. Example: to bush peas 3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush. Example: to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground 4. To become bushy (often used with up). Example: I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
Word: bush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. A tavern or wine merchant. Labels: archaic
Word: bush Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A semantic expansion of bush (see Etymology 1, archaic and dialectal sense of “thicket” or “small wood”), which survived in English dialects and London‐area toponyms (such as Shepherd’s Bush). In its native English form, the term inherently denoted a scrubby, localized feature. In British colonies, this specific sense was applied to the broader landscape, evolving into a mass noun for the wilderness. This development was likely reinforced by, or originated as a semantic loan from, the cognate older Dutch bosch (modern bos (“wood, forest”)), which had undergone a similar semantic shift in the Dutch settlements of North America (such as New Netherland) and later the Cape Colony. From the North American Dutch loan, English acquired the concept of “the bush” as a vast, untamed wilderness. Evidence of this early linguistic integration appears in late 17th‐century English records via compound calques from both major Dutch contact zones: the 1695 North American use of “bushloopers” (anglicized from Dutch boschlooper (“woods‐runner”)) and the 1699 Cape Colony reference to “Wild‐bush‐Men” (translating Cape Dutch Bosjesman). However, as an independent topographical noun describing the South African landscape, the English term is not securely attested until circa 1780. In Australian English, the term was used as early as 1790 by First Lieutenant Ralph Clark. As a native of Edinburgh, Clark would have been familiar with the Scots cognates buss and bush (retaining the archaic sense of a wood or clump of trees); this native linguistic framework likely made him highly receptive to the broader Dutch usage he encountered during his prior military service in the Netherlands and North America. Australia served as the crucible where these semantic threads merged. The widely spaced, scrubby eucalypt woodlands perfectly matched the native British English visual of a low‐canopied thicket, while their vastness fulfilled the Dutch concept of an untamed expanse. This convergence caused the term to rapidly supplant the traditional English woods and forest, as the open Australian landscape differed markedly from the dense, deciduous canopies of Europe. Via early 19th‐century trans‐Tasman trade and settlement routes out of New South Wales, the term was subsequently exported to New Zealand, where it was applied to the region’s dense, temperate rainforests. The adverbial usage of the term (dropping the preposition and article, as in go bush or head bush) likely originated in early 19th‐century New South Wales Pidgin. As documented by contact linguists, this syntax reflects typical pidginization (preposition deletion) alongside the substrate influence of Indigenous Australian languages, which frequently utilize absolute locatives or directional adverbs rather than prepositions for spatial movement. From this contact language, the grammatical shorthand permeated the broader colonial vernacular. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. Towards the direction of the outback. Labels: Australia, not-comparable Example: On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
Word: bush Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from bush league. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. Not skilled; not professional; not major league. Labels: colloquial Example: They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
Word: bush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from bush league. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
Word: bush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal. 2. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand. 3. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Word: bush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃ/, [ˈbʊʃ], /ˈbɵʃ/, [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ], [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] 1. To furnish with a bush or lining; to line. Labels: transitive Example: to bush a pivot hole
Word: wander Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɒndə/, /ˈwɑndɚ/, /ˈwʊndə/, /ˈwʌndə/ 1. To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. Labels: intransitive Example: to wander over the fields Example: They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. 2. To stray; stray from one's course; err. Labels: intransitive Example: A writer wanders from his subject. Example: O, let me not wander from thy commandments. 3. To commit adultery. Labels: intransitive 4. To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path. Labels: intransitive 5. Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention. Labels: intransitive
Word: wander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɒndə/, /ˈwɑndɚ/, /ˈwʊndə/, /ˈwʌndə/ 1. An act or instance of wandering. Labels: countable Example: to go for a wander in the park 2. Deviation from a correct or normal value. Labels: uncountable Example: baseline wander in ECG signals
Word: adultery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: With change of suffix, from the Old French adultere (“violation of conjugal faith”) (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), a learnèd borrowing from Latin adulterium, from adulterō. Replaced the older form avoutrie, from the inherited Old French forms avouterie or aoulterie, while keeping its suffix. Compare French adultère (“adultery”). Displaced Old English ǣwbryċe. Not related to adult. Pronunciation: /əˈdʌltəɹi/ 1. Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high. Example: So also that copulation which in one City is Matrimony, in another will be judged Adultery. 2. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the sixth/seventh commandment; sinful sexual behavior as a category. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 3. Faithlessness in religion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 4. The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Adulteration; corruption. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Injury; degradation; ruin. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] you might wrest the Caduceus out of my hand, to the adultery and spoil of Nature […]
Word: procrastinative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English procrastinate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English procrastinative From procrastinate + -ive. 1. Tending to procrastinate; supporting or suggesting procrastination. Labels: not-comparable
Word: grappa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grappa. Doublet of grape. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑpə/, /ˈɡɹæpə/ 1. An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace. Labels: uncountable 2. A variety or serving of grappa. Labels: countable Example: Wines, a few cocktails and grappas but no mixed drinks: 34 Downing Street (Bedford Street)
Word: pomace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: [Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds] From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum. Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France). Pronunciation: /ˈpʌmɪs/, /ˈpɒ-/, /ˈpʌməs/ 1. The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the vvork more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: […] Example: [O]ne of the Hintocks (several of which lay thereabout)—where the people make the best cider and cider-wine in all Wessex, and where the dunghills smell of pomace instead of stable refuse as elsewhere. 2. The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Sovv, as yet, Pomace of Cider-preſſings to raiſe Nurſeries; and ſet all ſorts of Kernels, Stones, &c. Example: Next to the VVhite is the Black Thorne and the Crab, vvhich make a very good Fence, and is raiſed as the VVhite Thorne, only if you ſovv the Pummace vvith them, they vvill come up the firſt Year. 4. Synonym of pulp (“a soft, moist mass formed by mashing something”). Labels: UK, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable 5. Sheep offal. Labels: broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: To haſh a Lamb's Pumice. Boil the head and neck at moſt a quarter of an hour, the heart five minutes, and the lights half an hour, the liver boil'd or fry'd in ſlices (but not haſh'd) ſlice all the reſt very thin, put in the gravy that runs from it, and a quarter of a pint of the liquor they are boiled in, […]
Word: meat-space Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of meatspace. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: meat space Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of meatspace. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: homologate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin homologō + -ate. Pronunciation: /həˈmɒləɡeɪt/, /həˈmɑləɡeɪt/, /hoʊˈmɑləɡeɪt/ 1. To confirm, ratify or approve, especially officially or legally. Labels: transitive
Word: mastodon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested 1813, from translingual Mastodon (1806), coined by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, from masto- (“breast”) + -odon (“tooth”), due to the mammilloid (“nipple-shaped”) projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars. Pronunciation: /ˈmæs.tə.dɒn/, /ˈmæs.tə.dɑn/, /ˈmæs.tə.dən/ 1. Extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus †Mammut that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differs from elephants and mammoths in the form of the molar teeth. Example: When, exactly, Europeans first stumbled upon the bones of an American mastodon is unclear. An isolated molar unearthed in a field in upstate New York was sent off to London in 1705; it was labeled the “tooth of a Giant”. 2. Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy. Labels: figuratively Example: The battery is dying, and Natalia's iPhone charger doesn't fit my mastodon of a phone anyway. Example: Nor does it work for governance: the policy has become such a mastodon that we can't adapt it quickly enough to different regions or different circumstances.
Word: jewfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: For Australian fish such as Argyrosomus species, jewel and fish; see jewie. For New World species, from 17th century Jamaican English and refers to the kosher status of the Atlantic goliath grouper from at least 1697 onwards, likely as a derogatory term despite Jamaican Jews being treated better in the rule of the English than the Spanish rule. 1. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 2. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 3. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 4. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 5. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 6. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 7. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 8. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish 9. Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Word: somatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *twoH-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *twṓmə? Proto-Indo-European *styeH- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *(s)tyoH-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *styṓmə? Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós)der. English somatic From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”). Pronunciation: /səˈmætɪk/, [səˈmæɾɪk] 1. Part of, or relating to the body of an organism. Labels: not-comparable Example: The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s. 2. Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable. Labels: not-comparable Example: a somatic epitype 3. Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal. Labels: not-comparable Example: the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo
Word: trevally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of cavally. 1. Any of certain fishes of the family Carangidae, especially of the genera Caranx and Pseudocaranx. 2. A trevalla (family Centrolophidae). Labels: archaic
Word: flathead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flat + head. Pronunciation: /ˈflætˌhɛd/ 1. Any fish in the family Platycephalidae. 2. Ellipsis of flathead catfish Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal 3. A type of screw or bolt designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface. 4. Synonym of side valve.
Word: Buckinghamshire Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Buccingahāmsċīr (“district of Bucca's home”), from Buccingahām + sċīr, first element from Bucca (see bucca (“he-goat”)) + -inga + ham. By surface analysis, Buckingham + -shire. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk.ɪŋ.əm.ʃə(ɹ)/ 1. An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Example: The flames will then be joined together next week at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Paralympics, and the united flame will make its final journey to London for the opening of the 14th Paralympic Games next Wednesday. 2. Buckinghamshire Council, a local government unitary authority which replaced the county council in 2020 in all of Buckinghamshire except Milton Keynes.
Word: lowering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/, /ˈloʊ.ɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.