nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: vanishing Part of Speech: adj 1. That vanishes. Labels: not-comparable Example: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
Word: vanishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vanish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inadvertently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Medieval Latin inadvertēnsbor. English inadvertent 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 inadvertently From inadvertent + -ly. 1. Unintentionally; because of an oversight. Labels: not-comparable Example: 'Dear me! I may have inadvertently touched the handle,' said he. Example: Neven Subotic hooked a volley wide after Ramsey inadvertently headed a Reus free-kick back into the danger zone, and Blaszczykowski was also off target when he met Kevin Grosskreutz's cross.
Word: indigence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English indigence, late 14th century, from Old French indigence (13th century), from Latin indigentia, from indigentem, form of indigēre (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egēre (“be in need, want”). Only relation to antonym affluence is common Latinate suffix + -ence. Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɪd͡ʒəns/ 1. Extreme poverty or destitution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
Word: indeterminate Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/ 1. Not accurately determined or determinable. Example: Four miles to the east of Warmington, the River Cherwell flows into Cropredy under a bridge that in 1644 was the scene of another Civil War battle - with an equally indeterminate result. 2. Imprecise or vague. 3. Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations. 4. With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless. 5. Not topped with some form of terminal bud. 6. Intersex. 7. Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known. Example: It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area.
Word: indeterminate Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/ 1. A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value; Labels: strict-sense Example: 1862, H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers—Part III, Report of the 31st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science, page 292, The form is linear, quadratic, cubic, biquadratic or quartic, quintic, &c., according to its order in respect of the indeterminates it contains; and binary, ternary, quaternary, &c., according to the number of its indeterminates. Thus x²+y² is a binary quadratic form, x³+y³+z³-3xyz is a ternary cubic form. Example: 1892, Henry B. Fine, Kronecker and His Arithmetical Theory of the Algebraic Equation, Thomas S. Fiske, Harold Jacoby (editors), Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, Volume 1, New York Mathematical Society, page 179, Such a factor is therefore an integral function of x and the indeterminates u_1,u_2,…u_n with coefficients belonging to the domain of rationality (R',R,..) and may be represented by g(x,u_1,u_2,..u_n). 2. A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value; (loose sense) a variable. Labels: strict-sense
Word: incongruity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French incongruité, from Medieval Latin incongruitās, from Latin incongruus. Pronunciation: /ɪnkɑŋˈɡɹuɪti/, /ɪnkɒŋˈɡɹuːɪti/ 1. The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I was told that the Australian Government had had to send my name to London before agreeing to my appointment. My credentials were actually addressed to Her Majesty, despite the fact that the Government of the United Kingdom had recognized the Chinese Communist regime in Peking as early as 1950. No one, however, seemed to notice the incongruity of such an arrangement. 2. An instance or point of disagreement. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A thing that is incongruous. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: implode Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from implosion. 1. To collapse or burst inward violently. Labels: intransitive Example: The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth. 2. To collapse or burst inward violently. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: Ragusa's campaign imploded after she confused coal mining with oil drilling during a speech. 3. To cause to collapse or burst inward violently. Labels: transitive 4. The opposite of explode, array to string conversion. 5. To compress (data) with a particular algorithm. Labels: transitive Example: I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
Word: implacable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English implācāble (“immitigable, unappeasable”) from Old French implacable (“harsh, unrelenting; implacable”) (modern French implacable), from Latin implācābilis (“unappeasable, implacable; irreconcilable”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + plācābilis (“placable; appeasing, moderating, pacifying, propitiating; acceptable”) (from plācō (“to assuage, pacify, placate; to appease; to reconcile”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon)). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplækəb(ə)l/, /-ˈpleɪ-/, /ɪmˈplækəbəl/ 1. Not able to be placated or appeased. Example: He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't. Example: [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter. 2. Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable. Example: The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease. 3. Adamant; immovable. Example: Indeed Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood.
Word: imperturbable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *né From Late Middle English imperturbable (“undisturbed; impossible to disturb”), borrowed from Late Latin imperturbābilis, from Latin im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + Late Latin perturbabilis (“perturbable”) (from Latin perturbō (“to confuse; to alarm, disturb, trouble, perturb”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives denoting a capacity or worth of being acted upon)). Perturbō is derived from per- (intensifying prefix) + turbō (“to agitate, disturb, unsettle, perturb; to upset”) (from turba (“disorder, disturbance, turmoil”) (possibly from Ancient Greek τῠ́ρβη (tŭ́rbē, “confusion, disorder, tumult”), either from Pre-Greek, or Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to agitate, stir up; to urge on, propel”)) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of regular first-conjugation verbs)). By surface analysis, im- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + perturbable. Pronunciation: /ˌɪmpəˈtɜːbəbl̩/, /ˌɪmpəɹˈtɜɹbəb(ə)l/ 1. Not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed, excited, or upset; calm and collected, even under pressure. Example: [T]o a vviſe man there can happen no iniury or offence at all, to moleſt the felicity of his minde, vvhich (in the Stoicks opinion) ought to bee imperturbable, and his heart adamantine. Example: [T]he good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity equally imperturbable. "Prodi-gi-ous!" was the only ejaculation they ever extorted from the much-enduring man.
Word: impermeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Apparently from im- + permeable. Compare French imperméable, from Latin impermeābilis, from im- + permeābilis (“permeable”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɜːmɪəbəl/, /ɪmˈpɝmɪəbəl/, /ɪmˈpɝmiəbəl/ 1. Impossible to permeate. 2. Not allowing passage, especially of liquids; waterproof.
Word: crocked Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See crock (verb) Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of crock Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crocked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See crock (verb) Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒkɪd/ 1. injured (of a person) Labels: UK Example: St Johnstone boss Derek McInnes had made two changes, with Callum Davidson, who has now recovered from injury, the replacement for crocked fellow defender David McCracken and David Robertson taking the place of Chris Millar in midfield. 2. broken (of a thing) Labels: UK
Word: crocked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒkt/ 1. drunk (of a person) Labels: Canada, US, informal
Word: judicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French judicieux, ultimately derived from Latin iudico. Related to judge, judicial. Pronunciation: /dʒuˈdɪʃ.əs/ 1. Having, characterized by, or done with good judgment or sound thinking. Example: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […] Example: One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof [...]
Word: pantyhose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From panty + hose. Pronunciation: /ˈpæntɪhəuz/ 1. Thin nylon tights worn over the legs, usually tan in color. Labels: Canada, US, plural, plural-only Example: The last stall on the left is oversized, big enough for two people. Y.T.’s mom goes in, followed by the proctor, who closes and locks the door. Y.T.’s mom pulls down her panty hose, pulls up her skirt, squats over a pan, pees.
Word: imbrute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From im- + brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar. 1. To make brutal Example: It was his belief in his father's indifference or dislike that hardened and imbruted him; it is only when he hears how that father loved him that I now melt his pride and curb his passions. 2. To degrade to the state of a brute Example: How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question. Example: So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom!
Word: internecine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin internecīnus (“deadly”), from internecium (“a massacre, bloodbath; an eradication”) + -īnus. In Latin, the sememe 'between' was here not expressed by the prefix, it instead either had a somewhat emphatic meaning or meant "down, under", comparable to its use in other Latin terms related to death: see interficiō and intereō. The English current sense is thus a reanalysis of the Latin through English inter-. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn/, /-sɪn/, /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsin/, /ˌɪntɚˈnisin/, /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsən/ 1. Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare. Labels: not-comparable Example: Internecine strife in Gaza claimed its most senior victim yesterday when militants assassinated one of the most hated security chiefs there. 2. Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Mongol people were plagued by internecine conflict until Genghis Khan unified them by focusing their aggression outwards on other peoples. Example: During the year of my engagement — 1869 — while I was out on the lecture platform, the daily letter that came for me generally brought me news from the front — by which expression I refer to the internecine war that was always going on in a friendly way between these two orthographists about the spelling of words.
Word: cigars Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sɪˈɡɑɹz/, /sɪˈɡɑːz/ 1. plural of cigar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bolts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bəʊlts/, /bɒlts/, /boʊlts/ 1. plural of bolt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bolts Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bəʊlts/, /bɒlts/, /boʊlts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bolt Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: paise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪseɪ/ 1. plural of paisa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paise Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /peɪz/ 1. Obsolete form of poise. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Amongst the high munition heap, a mighty marble stone Lay highest, near the pinnacle, a stone of such a paise That one of this time's strongest men with both hands could not raise.
Word: bolting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bolt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bolting Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of bolting or running away. 2. A sifting, as of flour or meal. 3. A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
Word: leuco form Part of Speech: noun 1. The 'colorless' form of a dye created as a result of its insoluble form interacting with an alkaline liquor. Color returns to the dye upon oxidation.
Word: cozy Part of Speech: adj 1. US standard spelling of cosy. Labels: US, alt-of, standard Example: Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House. Example: He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.
Word: cozy Part of Speech: noun 1. US standard spelling of cosy. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: cozy Part of Speech: verb 1. US standard spelling of cosy. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: reactor scram Part of Speech: noun 1. An automatic safety feature of nuclear reactors where the control rods are automatically dropped into the reactor core when any of several emergency conditions are reached. 2. The process of dropping the control rods into the reactor core. 3. The procedure technicians follow in the hours following the instantaneous event of the rods dropping.
Word: PAYGO Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of pay-as-you-go. Labels: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: ground out Part of Speech: verb 1. To provide proper grounding for a circuit. 2. To become out by hitting a ground ball which is fielded and leads to a force or tag of a runner. Example: Jones grounded out to lead off the third. Example: Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.
Word: ground out Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of grounding out. Example: A ground out was recorded on the scorecard.
Word: ground out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of grind out Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”). Pronunciation: /ɡæn/, /ɡan/ 1. To go. Labels: North, Northumbria, Yorkshire Example: The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".
Word: gan Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡæn/, /ɡan/ 1. simple past of gin Labels: archaic, form-of, past
Word: lamprey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English laumprei, from Old French lampreie (modern French lamproie), from Medieval Latin lampreda, possibly alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though it is traditionally thought to be a combination of lambō (“to lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of limpet, which derives from Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈlæm.pɹi/, /ˈlæm.pɹeɪ/ 1. Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: late innings Part of Speech: noun 1. The seventh, eighth, and ninth innings of a game. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: He is at his best in the late innings.
Word: punch out Part of Speech: verb 1. To repeatedly hit a person. Labels: transitive 2. To hit a person so that they become unconscious (knocked out). Labels: transitive Example: I'm going to punch out that SOB and leave him lying on the ground bleeding. 3. To use a punch to remove a piece of material or to remove a piece already scored. Labels: transitive Example: I spent all day punching out the die cut decals. 4. To leave a workplace by punching a timecard. Labels: US, intransitive Example: I'm going to punch out a bit early today. 5. To leave a workplace. Labels: intransitive 6. To eject from an airplane. Labels: intransitive Example: With the engine on fire he had to punch out and hit the silk. 7. To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard. Labels: intransitive, transitive 8. To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically. Labels: transitive Example: The ump punched out the batter with relish to close out the game. 9. To throw a called third strike; to strike (someone) out. Labels: transitive Example: Jones punched out the batter to start in the sixth.
Word: punch out Part of Speech: noun 1. Nonstandard spelling of punchout. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard
Word: pay-as-you-go Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pay + as you go (“while one progresses”). 1. A financial policy by which capital projects are financed from current revenue in the operating budget rather than through borrowing. Labels: uncountable 2. A payment method where the charge of a service is taken automatically, usually in small amounts, after the usage, in contrast of paying before usage. Used especially of mobile phones and transport ticketing. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: From January 2, passengers will be able to use contactless pay-as-you-go between London and Reading.
Word: ofer Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈoʊfɚ/ 1. Alternative form of oh for. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oh for Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oh (“zero”). Clipped from scorekeeping expressions like "0-4" (read "oh for four"), indicating a baseball player recorded zero hits in four at-bats. 1. A game or time period in which a player did not manage to sustain a particular attainment. Example: Jones has gone oh for on his scoring opportunities this season. 2. An instance in which a player did not get a hit in a game. Example: Yesterday's oh for made him overly aggressive today at the plate.
Word: o-fer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of oh for. Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang
Word: ride the pine Part of Speech: verb 1. To sit on the bench, to not be used in a game. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Jones rode the pine much of the season.
Word: vintner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vyntener, variant of viniter, from Old French vineter, vinetier (“wine-merchant, grape-harvester”), from Medieval Latin vīnētārius (“wine dealer”), from vīnētum (“vineyard”), from vīnum (“wine”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪntnɚ/, /ˈvɪntnə/ 1. A seller of wine. 2. A manufacturer of wine.
Word: pinch hit Part of Speech: noun 1. A hit made by a pinch hitter. Example: Jones drove in a run with a pinch hit for Smith in the sixth. Example: And two days from now, the original player could be entering in a pinch hit appearance of his own.
Word: pine tar Part of Speech: noun 1. A dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. This or a similar material used by batters to improve their grip. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: transmogrified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of transmogrify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: transmogrified Part of Speech: adj 1. Altered, transformed, or mutated into a form that is grotesque or amusing.
Word: panicked Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From panic + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of panic Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: panicked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From panic + -ed. 1. Experiencing or in a state of panic. Example: I really wasn’t panicked. Despite the four feet of aluminum pole dangling like a misplaced tail, I knew I wasn’t attached to some demon, but had slipped the grip of the man, who then raced after me, yelling invectives guaranteed to emphasize his mistake rather than my escape.
Word: autoclave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔt.əˌkleɪv/, /ˈɔt.oʊˌkleɪv/, /ˈɑt.əˌkleɪv/, /ˈɑt.oʊˌkleɪv/ 1. A strong, pressurized, heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, cooking or mineral processing.
Word: autoclave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔt.əˌkleɪv/, /ˈɔt.oʊˌkleɪv/, /ˈɑt.əˌkleɪv/, /ˈɑt.oʊˌkleɪv/ 1. To sterilize laboratory equipment in an autoclave. Labels: transitive
Word: autoclave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔt.əˌkleɪv/, /ˈɔt.oʊˌkleɪv/, /ˈɑt.əˌkleɪv/, /ˈɑt.oʊˌkleɪv/ 1. Synonym of autokey. Labels: not-comparable
Word: autocross Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- (“automobile”) + cross(-country). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəʊˌkɹɒs/ 1. A form of motorsport that tests the skill and speed of a driver over a course marked out with traffic cones Labels: uncountable
Word: autocross Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From auto- (“automobile”) + cross(-country). Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəʊˌkɹɒs/ 1. To take part in this sport. Labels: intransitive Example: It may be helpful to join a car club that autocrosses because the club will have organized, periodic events that someone else has already set-up ^([sic]) and coordinated. Example: Russ wanted to get better and faster, so he autocrossed often.
Word: fanfic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin fānāticuslbor. ▲ French fanatiqueinflu. English fanatic English fancyinflu. English fan English fiction English fan fiction English fanfic Clipping of fan fiction. Pronunciation: /ˈfænfɪk/ 1. Fan fiction. Labels: informal, uncountable 2. A work of fan fiction. Labels: countable, informal
Word: fanfic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin fānāticuslbor. ▲ French fanatiqueinflu. English fanatic English fancyinflu. English fan English fiction English fan fiction English fanfic Clipping of fan fiction. Pronunciation: /ˈfænfɪk/ 1. To write fan fiction. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: I haven't seriously fanficced in years, and I'm aware of what the exercise requires in terms of structure and theme etc. 2. To write fan fiction about (something). Labels: informal, transitive Example: […] in fact, Paramount Legal sent over a memo to Goddenberry pointing out that so many "Vulcan" stories had been "fanficced" that it probably wasn't worth his time to try to come up with anything that he could do safely. Example: See above on Charlie's Angels. They never seemed to have lives of any sort and weren't interesting to me; they always seemed like soft porn for the guys, but a lot of girls fanwanked and fanficced them into more, so I guess they could qualify.
Word: bouche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bouche (“mouth, victuals”). Doublet of bocca. Pronunciation: /buːʃ/ 1. A slit, notch or opening in the edge of a (physical or heraldic) shield, through which the bearer's lance or sword could be used or in which it could be rested. Labels: historical
Word: bouche Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /buːʃ/ 1. Alternative form of bush (to line) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bouche Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /buːʃ/ 1. Alternative form of bush (a lining) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: menton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French menton (“chin”). Doublet of mentum. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛn.tən/ 1. The lowest point of the chin / mandibular symphysis.
Word: versipellous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Formed from versi- ‘turning, changing’ (combinatory form of Latin versus ‘turn’) + ultimately Latin pellis ‘skin’. (Used initially as a word of unknown origin in Nathaniel Ward's Discolliminium, or A Most Obedient Reply to a Late Book called 'Bounds and Bonds' By B.) By surface analysis, Latin vers- + -i- + Latin pell- + -ous. Pronunciation: /vɜːˈsɪpələs/ 1. changeable; protean; having a form, nature or appearance that changes often Labels: rare
Word: versipel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently coined by Nabokov (see citation below) from versipellous. Pronunciation: /ˈvɜːsɪpɛl/ 1. A versipellous object or thing. Example: And that odd muse of mine, / My versipel, is with me everywhere, / In carrel and in car, and in my chair
Word: sleight of hand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slegthe of hande, sleght of hond, equivalent to sleight + of + hand. Compare Old French léger de main (cf. the contemporary French léger de main and the contemporary English legerdemain). 1. The required manual dexterity used to perform magic tricks and illusions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A large portion of natural magic and sleight of hand is only the severance of sights and feels that we are accustomed to experience in unison. Example: Frequently this practitioner would keep a stock of elf-shot from which one would be produced by sleight of hand from the ailing animal's flank as evidence that it had indeed been elf-shot. 2. A performance of such a skill. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any form of clever or skillful trickery or deception. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: "Gave his consent! For his son to marry an actress?" "Ah, there was a little sleight of hand there. He only knew Miss Roscastle as Miss Eileen O'Rourke, the last representative of a line of Irish kings. […]" Example: The Man Who Broke Britain (BBC2) was a heady concoction of fact and fiction. Real politicians assured us everything was going to be just fine while actors, playing city traders, groaned that it was hopeless, hopeless. It was part of the film's sleight of hand that the actors, who were deliberately chosen because they were not well known, looked real too.
Word: commie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.mi/, /ˈkɑ.mi/, /ˈkɔ.mi/ 1. A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café. Example: “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.” 2. Synonym of anticapitalist. Labels: broadly, derogatory, slang
Word: commie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.mi/, /ˈkɑ.mi/, /ˈkɔ.mi/ 1. Communist. Labels: derogatory, not-comparable, slang
Word: commie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Commodore (“name of a car model”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.mi/, /ˈkɑ.mi/, /ˈkɔ.mi/ 1. A Holden Commodore. Labels: Australia, colloquial
Word: commie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From commercial vehicle. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.mi/, /ˈkɑ.mi/, /ˈkɔ.mi/ 1. A commercial vehicle. Labels: colloquial
Word: tightly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English tight Middle English -ly English -ly English tightly From tight + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪtli/ 1. In a tight manner. Example: tightly clenched fingers Example: Clutching my cure / I tightly lock the door / I try to catch my breath again 2. Curtly in a way that suggests anger or other intense emotion is being contained.
Word: restitution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French restitucion, from Latin restitutio. By surface analysis, restitute + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛstɪˈtjuːʃən/, /ˌɹɛstɪˈtuʃən/ 1. A process of compensation for losses. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown. Example: He […]restitution to the value makes. 3. A return or restoration to a previous condition or position. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the restitution of an elastic body Example: The force–displacement curve of perfectly plastic contact partners does not show elastic restitution. 4. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks. Example: “Restitution is a very delicate issue,” says Erika Jakubovits, head of restitution for the Jewish community in Vienna. 5. The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lobotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)). Pronunciation: /ləˈbɒtəmi/, /ləˈbɑtəmi/, [-ɾə-] 1. A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses. Labels: historical Example: Old psychiatric hospitals are even more frightening. They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour. 2. A surgical operation involving cutting into a lobe of a body organ, specifically (neurosurgery), a procedure, now largely disused, involving severing connections between the prefrontal cortex and the thalamic region of the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental illnesses. Labels: historical 3. An act of removing or separating, and often disregarding or forgetting, something. Labels: figuratively Example: As [Anthony] Magistrale has noted, evil in the fiction of Stephen King "can establish dominion only at the expense of the individual's moral conscience". Yet this conscience is a deep part of the soul; to silence it, characters must perform a kind of moral lobotomy, excising the best parts of themselves, until what is left becomes less than human. Example: Organisations which set out to treat all individuals as the same, or are 'colour-blind' in their philosophy, could be said to impose a form of cultural lobotomy on their clients, in denying the additional skills, knowledge and experience that they have as members of a minority culture.
Word: rifles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪfl̩z/ 1. plural of rifle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rifles Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪfl̩z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rifle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: perfect pitch Part of Speech: noun 1. The ability to identify a note by name on hearing it, or to re-create a specified note from memory, without the benefit of an externally provided reference pitch. Labels: uncountable 2. By extension, a reliable innate sense of exactly what is true, appropriate, or needed in a given particular situation. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: Bujalski has perfect pitch: an instinct for how language meanders, and the lacunae it circles around. 3. The exact pitch of a note, described by its frequency in vibrations per second. Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable
Word: hiki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 疋 (hiki). 1. A copper coin used in Japan in the Sengoku period, equal to 10 mon. Labels: historical Example: After enough money was at last found, the imperial family was so happy that in appreciation the shogunal official responsible for the release of the burial money—one thousand hiki (about $5,000)—was granted the coveted right to personally display the imperial crest of chrysanthemum and paulownia. Example: Sogi once donated one thousand hiki in cash (based on rice prices in 1984, some five thousand dollars) to the court for repairs to the Library of Official Documents (Kammu Bunko).
Word: hiki Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of hikikomori (“reclusive person”) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: germane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A variant form of german (“having the same parents; related”), adapted in this sense in allusions to its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet (see quotations at germaine). Pronunciation: /dʒɜː(ɹ)ˈmeɪn/, /d͡ʒɝˈmeɪn/ 1. Related to a topic of discussion or consideration. Example: 1924, W. D. Ross., translator, Aristotle, Metaphysics. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, Book 1, Part 5. Yet this much is germane to the present inquiry: Example: Connors was addicted to this racquet and kept using it even after Wilson stopped making it, forfeiting millions in potential endorsement money by doing so. Connors was eccentric (and kind of repulsive) in lots of other ways, too, none of which are germane to this article.
Word: germane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From germ(anium) + -ane. 1. germanium tetrahydride, GeH₄ Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any organic derivative of this compound. Labels: countable, especially, in-compounds, uncountable
Word: sangen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 三弦 (sangen). 1. Synonym of shamisen.
Word: vai Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: vai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali ভাই (bhai). Doublet of bhai; see there for more doublets. 1. Alternative spelling of bhai. Labels: Bangladesh, Benglish, West-Bengal, alt-of, alternative
Word: hot off the presses Part of Speech: adj 1. Freshly printed, minted, written, or created. Labels: idiomatic
Word: fight fires Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fight, fire. 2. To deal with urgent matters and minor emergencies rather than longer-term work. Labels: idiomatic Example: I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project.
Word: contraindicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- English indicate English contraindicate From contra- + indicate. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒntɹəˈɪndɪkeɪt/ 1. To make inadvisable; to warn against a specific medicine or treatment.
Word: reverse-engineer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from reverse engineering. 1. To derive or duplicate the design, technical specifications, manufacturing methods, or functionality of an object by studying an existing product, prototype, etc. Example: 1997, Roy A. Sorensen, "The Metaphysics of Precision and Scientific Language," Noûs, vol. 31, Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives, 11, p. 363, Each creature was viewed as the artifact of a divine blueprint. The role of the biologist was to reverse engineer God's handiwork. Example: In theory, there should be no need to reverse-engineer a patented invention to get information about how to make it because the patent specification should inform the relevant technical community of how to make the invention. 2. To create or modify an implementation to better conform to a desired goal. Example: Typically, you complete some design, some implementation, some testing, come up with some good ideas which you implement, and then reverse-engineer your implementation into an improved design. Example: As a matter of preference, always prefer to reverse engineer a roof plan, even when one already exists, but both methods will be discussed here along with their benefits and drawbacks.
Word: reverse-engineer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from reverse engineering. 1. A person who reverse-engineers products. Example: A reverse-engineer can in theory do a variety of things with the information she obtains.
Word: bottles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɑtl̩z/, /ˈbɒtl̩z/ 1. plural of bottle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bottles Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɑtl̩z/, /ˈbɒtl̩z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bottle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dispense Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɛns/, /dɪˈspens/ 1. To issue, distribute, or give out. Example: He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Example: The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly. 2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct. Example: to dispense justice Example: While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. 3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription. Example: The pharmacist dispensed my tablets. Example: An optician can dispense spectacles. 4. To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse. Example: After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…]. Example: Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures. 5. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence Example: His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed
Word: dispense Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɛns/, /dɪˈspens/ 1. Cost, expenditure. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. The act of dispensing, dispensation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence […]
Word: heartburn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hertbryne, herte-bren (“lust", also "heartburn”, literally “heart burn”), equivalent to heart + burn. Compare also Middle English herte-brennyng (“anger, bitterness, heartburn”, literally “burning of/in the heart, heart-burning”). Compare also Ancient Greek καρδιαλγία (kardialgía), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). From being a burning sensation near the location of the heart in the chest. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːtˌbɜːn/, /ˈhɑɹtˌbɝn/ 1. A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Coordinate term: cardiodynia 2. annoyance, heartache, or similar feelings. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: ”There’s some heartburn about the fact the message is getting stepped on,” said Mark McKinnon, Bush’s campaign media strategist. Example: America’s policy of containing both the Soviet Union and its Chinese ally did cause some heartburn in Tokyo.
Word: cold abscess Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /koʊld ˈæbˌsɛs/, /koʊld ˈæbˌsɪs/ 1. A chronic abscess that forms slowly, without pain, heat or inflammation.
Word: lungfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lung + fish. 1. An air-breathing fish, of the class Dipnoi, that have four limblike appendages instead of fins
Word: SCDMA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: amphibia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin amphibia. 1. The amphibians. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: On good days the rise was a sunny thicket of alders sheltering deer and foxes, surrounded by marshland which clicked and clooped with waders and amphibia, where pelicans sailed in to land like full-rigged galleons.
Word: purely imaginary number Part of Speech: noun 1. An imaginary number.
Word: purely imaginary Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a number, having real part equal to zero. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Chagas' disease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑɡəs/, /ˈtʃɑɡ-/, /-ɑs/ 1. A form of trypanosomiasis prevalent in South America, caused by the parasitic trypanosome T. cruzi. It is transmitted to many mammals such as humans through insect bites, mainly by kissing bugs. Symptoms include fever, oedema, cardiomyopathy, and enlargement of the spleen and lymph nodes. It can be fatal. Labels: uncountable
Word: devastating Part of Speech: adj 1. Causing devastation. Example: Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation. Example: “The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make no mistake: conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating.”
Word: devastating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of devastate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Teheran Part of Speech: name 1. Dated spelling of Tehran. Example: This one stark fact stands out: Every agreement the Soviets entered into at Teheran in 1943 and Yalta in 1945, was ruthlessly broken, save for those palpably to their advantage. The same holds true for the Potsdam Conference of 1945. Example: No tears need be shed for next year’s games at Teheran. Even if we should remain in the AGF, the Iranians would find ways to keep us out of competition, just as the Indonesians did at Jakarta in 1962.
Word: oblation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English oblacioun, from Old French oblacion, from Latin oblātiō (“offering”), from offerō (“to offer, present”). By surface analysis, oblate + -ion. Pronunciation: /əʊˈbleɪʃən/, /ɒˈbleɪʃən/, /oʊˈbleɪʃən/, /ɑːˈbleɪʃən/ 1. The offering of worship, thanks etc. to a deity. Example: And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle. Example: whatever she judged proper for the oblation of the approaching night. 2. A deed or gift offered charitably. Labels: broadly
Word: cannonade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade. Pronunciation: /ˌkænəˈneɪd/, /ˈkænəˌneɪd/ 1. The firing of artillery for a length of time. Example: A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town. 2. A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Labels: figuratively Example: Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]
Word: cannonade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade. Pronunciation: /ˌkænəˈneɪd/, /ˈkænəˌneɪd/ 1. To discharge artillery fire upon.
Word: hagiolatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hagio- + -latry. Pronunciation: /haɡiˈɒlətɹi/ 1. The worship of saints. Labels: uncountable Example: Individual churches had their own patron saints, and strong territorial associations could give hagiolatry an almost totemic character […].
Word: carbuncle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.bʌŋ.kl̩/, /ˈkɑɹˌbʌŋ.kl̩/ 1. A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon. Labels: archaic Example: With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […] Example: And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 2. A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle. 3. An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection. 4. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.
Word: testudo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”). 1. A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical 2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc. 3. The fornix. 4. A chelys (kind of lyre) 5. An encysted tumour.
Word: pterosaur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ptero- + -saur, literally “wing lizard”, from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”) and σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəˌsɔɹ/ 1. Any flying reptile, of the extinct order †Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls. Example: Batsquatch, pterosaurs and the River Man. She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends. There was nothing ordinary about her job as the biologist on the television show Cryptid or Hoax?
Word: bushwhacked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bushwhack Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: toe ring Part of Speech: noun 1. A round piece of metal worn around the toe.