nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sardonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French sardonique, from Latin sardonius, from Ancient Greek σαρδόνιος (sardónios), alternative form of σαρδάνιος (sardánios, “bitter or scornful laughter”), which is often cited as deriving from the Sardinian plant (Ranunculus sardous or possibly Oenanthe crocata), known as either σαρδάνη (sardánē) or σαρδόνιον (sardónion). When eaten, it would cause the eater's face to contort in a look resembling scorn (generally followed by death). It might also be related to σαίρω (saírō, “to grin”). The related term sardoin, as gentilic, is ultimately derived from σάρδιον (sárdion) from Σάρδεις (Sárdeis), referring to Sardis in Lydia or Sart in Manisa, Turkey; other sources reference Sardonian from Σαρδόνιος (Sardónios, “from Sardinia”). Pronunciation: /sɑːˈdɒnɪk/, /sɑɹˈdɑnɪk/, /sɐːˈdɔnɪk/ 1. Scornfully mocking or cynical. Example: He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter. Example: [Q]Uivering fears, Heart-tearing cares, / Anxious ſighs, Untimely tears, / Fly, fly to the Courts; / Fly to fond worldings ſports, / Where ſtrain’d Sardonick ſmiles are cloſing ſtill, / And grief is forc’d to laugh againſt her will; / Where mirth’s but mummery, / And ſorrows only real be. 2. Disdainfully or ironically humorous. Example: Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.
Word: pustule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pustule, from Old French pustule, from Latin pustula (“inflamed sore, blister”). Pronunciation: /ˈpʌstjuːl/, /ˈpʌst͡ʃuːl/, /ˈpʌst͡ʃəl/ 1. A small accumulation of pus in the epidermis or dermis. 2. A pimple filled with pus. Example: Pigmy pagodas sprouted like pustules. 3. Anything like a pustule, on plants or animals; a small blister.
Word: handbag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs. The verb is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag. Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌbæɡ/, /ˈhæm.bəɡ/ 1. A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece. Example: I put on my new suit and put my watch on and packed the other suit and the accessories and my razor and brushes in my hand bag […]. 2. A small bag used chiefly by women for carrying various small personal items, sometimes considered as a fashion accessory. Labels: Commonwealth, countable, uncountable Example: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her. Example: An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags. 3. Ellipsis of handbag house. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: handbag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hand + bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs. The verb is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag. Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌbæɡ/, /ˈhæm.bəɡ/ 1. To attack verbally or subject to criticism (typically used of a woman). Labels: UK, humorous, idiomatic, metonymically, transitive Example: ‘Apparently Birt happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time on Sunday afternoon. Virginia saw him and handbagged him. She really was very cross.’ Example: My favourite part of the whole day was being handbagged by a reader who was quivering with rage and said, ‘You've changed everything!’ and complained about everything, even how easy the crossword was, as Dower filmed every foam-flecked word.
Word: pus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense. Pronunciation: /pʌs/, /pʊs/ 1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Pus was seeping out of the wound.
Word: pus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense. Pronunciation: /pʌs/, /pʊs/ 1. To emit pus. Labels: rare Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.
Word: ideology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- + -logie (equivalent to English ideo- + -logy). Cognate with, but not derived from, idea. Coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/, /ˌɑj.dɪjˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪj/, /aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /ɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /ˌɑɪ.diːˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒiː/ 1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign. Example: This article examines how these three scholars use the term "Occitan" and ideologies of Occitanism to characterize southern France, and how such ideologies reflect the intellectual traditions in which they write. 2. The study of the origin and nature of ideas. Labels: uncountable
Word: microhabitat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English micro- Latin habitatbor. English habitat English microhabitat From micro- + habitat. 1. A specific habitat, typically extremely small, such as a cave corner or a cardboard box. Example: Near-synonyms: microsite (the location), microenvironment (the location or its milieu)
Word: tush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk. Pronunciation: /tʌʃ/, /tʊʃ/ 1. A tusk. Labels: dialectal Example: Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...]. Example: […] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut. 2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
Word: tush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”). Pronunciation: /tʊʃ/ 1. The buttocks. Labels: US, colloquial Example: Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.
Word: tush Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A natural utterance (OED). Pronunciation: /tʌʃ/ 1. An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. Labels: archaic Example: "Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […] Example: He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful?"
Word: tush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A natural utterance (OED). Pronunciation: /tʌʃ/ 1. Nonsense; tosh. Labels: UK, colloquial, uncountable
Word: tush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A natural utterance (OED). Pronunciation: /tʌʃ/ 1. To express contempt; rebuke. Labels: intransitive
Word: tush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /tʊʃ/, /tʌʃ/ 1. To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. Labels: transitive
Word: tush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From British slang tusheroon. Pronunciation: /tʌʃ/ 1. Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, obsolete, slang
Word: newt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English newte, newete, from rebracketing of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːt/, /ˈn(j)ut/, /ˈnjʉːt/ 1. A small lizard-like amphibian in the subfamily Pleurodelinae that lives in the water as an adult.
Word: newt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English newte, newete, from rebracketing of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːt/, /ˈn(j)ut/, /ˈnjʉːt/ 1. To turn (someone) into a newt, especially by magic. Labels: transitive Example: If you moved first and newted someone , you were a murderer. 2. To (usually temporarily) expel a user from a MUD or similar system Labels: broadly, informal, transitive Example: So instead Sredna [presumably an abbreviation of "Nosredna", one of the LambdaMOO wizards] newted Finn. She newted him, and though she did not specify the length of time for which he was to remain newted, it seemed clear enough that forever would be just fine with the wizards. Example: If, after a period of newting, the person still refuses to adhere to proper conduct and[…]
Word: cardboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From card + board. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdbɔːd/, /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/, /ˈkɑɹˌbɔɹd/ 1. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something flat or insubstantial. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: In my experience, one of the most vital times in the life of a piece of fiction is when a character begins to speak, timidly and softly, in one's head. Honest and true books get written when the author feels free to coax and invite that character in. If the author's response to that small voice is instead to submit it to a test: "Are you: black/white/gay/straight/male/female/Christian/Jewish/old/young/politically correct" the character will probably turn around and leave or else turn into cardboard. Example: According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army. 3. Synonym of African nutmeg (“Pycnanthus angolensis”). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cardboard Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From card + board. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːdbɔːd/, /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/, /ˈkɑɹˌbɔɹd/ 1. Made of or resembling cardboard. Example: The thing really looked quite cardboard. Example: MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it. 2. Flat or flavorless. Labels: figuratively Example: The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character. Example: […]a conventional historical drama -- one of those event-crammed sagas featuring a beautiful, plucky heroine, a mysterious, elusive lover and a cardboard supporting cast of thousands.
Word: cardamom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English, from Old French cardamome or Latin cardamōmum, from Ancient Greek καρδάμωμον (kardámōmon). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.də.məm/, /ˈkɑː.də.mən/, /ˈkɑɹ.də.məm/, /ˈkɑɹ.dəˌmɑm/ 1. An herb, native to India (Elettaria cardamomum). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Seed of Elettaria cardamomum, used as a medicine and spice, especially in curry powder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As I’ve gotten older, that vitriol slowly transformed into acceptance, then adoration. The more I cooked at home and explored South Asian cuisine, the more I realized how important cardamom is. 3. Synonym of grains of paradise, seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa. Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable
Word: natch Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Clipping of naturally, originally US. Pronunciation: /næt͡ʃ/ 1. Naturally; of course. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch. Example: [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference? [Dog:] Natch.
Word: natch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone. Pronunciation: /næt͡ʃ/ 1. The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.
Word: natch Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /næt͡ʃ/ 1. A notch. Labels: dialectal
Word: deffo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From definitely or definite + -o (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛfəʊ/ 1. Definite. Labels: Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, colloquial, usually Example: I know for certain they′re not speaking to each other, that′s for deffo, not that I′ve even seen them in the same room over the last week to confirm their silence. Example: ‘An infection. Nothing serious. They′ll have some colour in them soon, for deffo.’
Word: deffo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From definitely or definite + -o (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛfəʊ/ 1. Definitely. Labels: Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: He told me that he's deffo going to be there tonight. Example: And I deffo don′t believe in me, cos I′m a proper knobhead, aren′t I, and always have been.
Word: ow Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˈaʊ/ 1. Synonym of ouch (“cry of pain”). 2. Used for emotional emphasis. Example: Now don't you wait or hesitate / Let's move before they raise the parking rate, ow! Example: Then you ran into the bedroom / You were struck down / It was your doom, Annie / Ow!
Word: ow Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈaʊ/ 1. An uttering of an 'ow'. Example: Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.
Word: youch Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /jaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. Synonym of ouch. Example: Youch! I stubbed my toe!
Word: yowch Part of Speech: intj 1. Synonym of ouch.
Word: fitte Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of fit (“section of a poem or ballad”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: fitte Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of fit. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: A hill most fitte for such a master, / A spotlesse mine of alablaster: […]
Word: pule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”). Pronunciation: /pjuːl/, /pjʉl/ 1. A plaintive melancholy whine.
Word: pule Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”). Pronunciation: /pjuːl/, /pjʉl/ 1. To whimper or whine. Labels: intransitive Example: Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled. Example: ... rain-drops over the puling baby she carried in her arms;[…] 2. To pipe or chirp. Labels: intransitive 3. To fall in a continuous, light dribble. Example: ... rain took even less time since fronts rolled through about every forty-eight hours. The first two opportunities he didn't even bother to check out since the low pressure systems had been puling little pissers[,] dropping spotty rainfall[,][…] Example: ... rain fell, not merely spilling from the clouds, but pitched down to beat the earth. Broad leaves of the multitude of banana trees thundered from the force. He almost longed for the puling rain of England instead of this assault[…]
Word: pule Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpuːleɪ/ 1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk. Labels: uncountable
Word: plow Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /plaʊ/ 1. Alternative spelling of plough. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: A plow, they say, to plow the snow. They cannot mean to plant it, no– Unless in bitterness to mock At having cultivated rock.
Word: plow Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /plaʊ/ 1. Alternative spelling of plough. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety. Example: It was the Viking habit. Even as a man plowed his field or chopped trees in the woods, his byrnie and his sword were always at hand.
Word: plough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow. Pronunciation: /plaʊ/ 1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. Example: Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake Example: The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture. 2. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily] 3. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. 4. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. 5. The use of a plough; tillage. Example: If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop. 6. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Rising in the north-east fairly high in the sky, Arcturus may be found by following round the curve of the plough. Example: To many generations of rice farmers in rural Java, Indonesia, it was not the stars of Ursa Major that formed the plough, but the stars of Orion. 7. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. 8. A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
Word: plough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow. Pronunciation: /plaʊ/ 1. To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting. Labels: transitive Example: I've still got to plough that field. Example: That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller. 2. To use a plough. Labels: intransitive Example: Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset. 3. To move with force. Example: Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety. Example: Wolves continued to plough forward as young Belgian midfielder Mujangi Bia and Ronald Zubar both hit shots wide from good positions. 4. To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: My brother ploughed me over. Example: Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck. 5. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in. Example: Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails. 6. To run through, as in sailing. Example: With speed we plough the watery way. 7. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough. 8. To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. 9. To fail (a student). Labels: UK, obsolete, transitive Example: The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed. Example: You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls. 10. To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner. Labels: transitive, vulgar Example: I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed. Example: If you don't use rubbers when you're plowing someone's throat, don't bother answering this ad.
Word: sticky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stick + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪki/ 1. Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance. Example: Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface? Example: Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits. 2. Difficult, awkward. Example: This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful. Example: GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives. 3. Of a death: unpleasant, grisly. Example: Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull. 4. Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating. Example: The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable. 5. Mawkish, sentimental. Example: Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves. 6. Tending to stay the same; resistant to change. Example: a sticky price; sticky wages 7. Persistent. Labels: informal Example: We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it. 8. Appearing on all virtual desktops. 9. Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. Labels: Internet 10. Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving. Labels: Internet Example: A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less. 11. Resembling or characteristic of a stick. Labels: informal Example: What's something that is brown and sticky? A stick
Word: sticky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stick + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪki/ 1. A sticky note, such as a post-it note. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her desk is covered with yellow stickies. 2. A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable 3. A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A sweet dessert wine. Labels: Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable 5. Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up. Example: Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping 6. Wax. Labels: obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: sticky Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From stick + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪki/ 1. to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. Labels: Internet, transitive
Word: meteor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”). The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtɪ.ə/, /ˈmiːtɪɔː/, /ˈmiːtiɚ/, [ˈmiːɾiɚ], /ˈmiːtioɹ/ 1. An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars). Example: Europe, where the Sun dares ſcarce appeare, For freezing Meteors and congealed cold: […] Example: The twilight, the meteors call'd fire-balls, or flying dragons, and the northern lights, inhabit the higher regions of the atmosphere. 2. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star. 3. A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable. 4. A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain. 5. Any short-lived source of wonderment. Labels: figuratively
Word: meteor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”). The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtɪ.ə/, /ˈmiːtɪɔː/, /ˈmiːtiɚ/, [ˈmiːɾiɚ], /ˈmiːtioɹ/ 1. To move at great speed. Labels: intransitive
Word: eternity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes. Pronunciation: /ɪˈtɜːnɪti/, /əˈtɜɹnəti/, /ɪ-/, [-ɾi] 1. Existence without end, infinite time. Labels: uncountable Example: Eternity has generally been considered as divisible into two parts; which have been termed, eternity a parte ante, and eternity a parte post: that is, in plain English, that eternity which is past, and that eternity which is to come. Example: This theory regards creation as an act of God in eternity past. 2. Existence outside of time. Labels: uncountable Example: We sometimes speak of eternity in contradistinction to time; and often say, "through time and into eternity;" and again "from eternity to eternity," which is simply another form of expressing the same idea, and "pass through time into eternity." in other words, time is a short period allotted to man in his probationary state—and we use the word time in contradistinction to the word eternity, merely for the accommodation of man in his finite sphere, that we may comprehend and learn to measure periods. 3. A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future. Labels: countable Example: Every niche was filled by a funeral urn, and by marble shapes that bent down in a pale eternity of sorrow. Example: No limit / Not none that I can see / No limit / Not one, not one / Not one for you or me / No limit / Well, it can go until eternity, yeah / No limits to our love, girl 4. The remainder of time that elapses after death. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When the wind blows not, where, then, is the wind? / Or when thou art not living, where art thou? / What should the wind care for the hours of calm or thou for death? / Thy life is long, Eternity is short. / So short that, shouldst thou die and Eternity should pass, and after the passing of Eternity thou shouldst live again, thou wouldst say: ‘I closed mine eyes but for an instant.’ 5. A comparatively long time. Labels: countable, excessive, informal, uncountable Example: It's been an eternity since we last saw each other. Example: I had to wait in the station for ten days - an eternity.
Word: stickshift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stick + shift. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪkˌʃɪft/ 1. A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever. Labels: US Example: In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift. 2. A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever. Labels: US Example: My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic. 3. Cars, collectively, with such a transmission. Labels: US, informal, uncountable Example: Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick] 4. A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor. Labels: US Example: It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.
Word: define Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfaɪn/ 1. To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. Example: the defining power of an optical instrument Example: Rings[…]very distinct and well defined. 2. To settle, decide (an argument etc.). Labels: obsolete Example: These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define. 3. To express the essential nature of something. Example: I define myself as a techno-anarchist. Example: Your past mistakes do not define who you are. 4. To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol. Example: The textbook defined speed as velocity divided by time. 5. To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression. Example: Person 1: Is she good at math? Person 2: Define "good." If you mean if she is faster than the average middle schooler at multiplication, then yes. If you mean if she is able to do multivariable calculus, then no. 6. To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept. Example: to define the legal boundaries of a property Example: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept? 7. To establish the referent of a term or notation.
Word: define Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfaɪn/ 1. A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs. Example: From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance. Example: Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.
Word: coulee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French coulée (“flow”), from couler (“to flow”). Pronunciation: /ˈkuːli/, /ˈkuli/, /ˈkʉːli/ 1. A stream, especially one in the western US or Canada, generally smaller than a bayou; it may (or may not) run dry in summer, may be sluggish, shallow, and wide (forming in effect a pond or slough), or may have formerly cut a deep gulch or ravine, but at present run dry. Example: […] Mauvaise Coulee enters Devils Lake from the north, but it cannot be said to drain the lakes with which it is connected. It is itself a long-drawn-out slough or pool which is broader at those places where it spreads out into lakes. […] the head streams or coulees of the Park, the Forest and the Turtle, have all cut deep channels down through the drift into the underlying shales. This is because of the fall from the top of the high plateau down to the low prairie. […] all the larger lakes upon this plateau have already been tapped by the head coulees of the streams named. Example: The small streams and coulees which flow into the Mississippi River in the area are firmly entrenched by the natural topography, and little lateral migration is possible. 2. A reach of water in a bayou that is like a slough but deeper. Example: We were in a coulee, which is like a slough but deeper and with slushier muds at the bottom. 3. A lava flow (whether molten or solidified). Example: The edge of a coulee, or stream of solidified lava, though ordinarily a very low escarpment, is exceptionally of such size as to deserve attention in the present connection.
Word: autor Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of author. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Iohan Baptiſt than ſheweth a reaſon, why he ſaide, that the lord Ieſus was before him, bicauſe, ſaieth he, he was my firſt, that is to ſaye, my prince, my head, my autor, my maker. Example: VVhereby first, note with me, the goodnes of our God toward vs, who ſeeing that we wil not shun plaies for anie dehortations of his godlie Preachers, who daie by daie in al places of greatest reſort denounce the vengeance of GOD to them, be they hie or lowe, that fauor plaies, Theaters, or plaiers, ſtirreth vp the verie Autors themſelues to inueigh against them, that we maie be ashamed any waie to allowe that, which the verie Autors do vtterlie condemne.
Word: Dagon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דגון. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.ɡɒn/ 1. The main god of the Phoenicians. Although at one time believed to be represented as half man and half fish, modern scholarship recognizes that the latter was the apkallu, while Dagan/Dagon was a grain god. Example: When the Philistines tooke the Arke of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. Example: This day a ſolemn Feaſt the people hold / To Dagon thir Sea-Idol,
Word: Dagon Part of Speech: name 1. Former name of Yangon.
Word: narrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In English (recorded only since 1656, but until the 19th century stigmatized as 'Scottish') apparently from narration. Pronunciation: /nəˈɹeɪt/, /ˈnæɹeɪt/, /ˈnɛɹ.eɪt/, /nəˈɹæɪt/ 1. To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. Labels: transitive Example: narrate a story Example: narrate a tale 2. To give an account. Example: narrate the meeting
Word: patrilineal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From patri- + lineal. Coined by British government anthropologist Northcote Whitridge Thomas in 1904 along with matrilineal. Pronunciation: /patɹɪˈlɪnɪəl/ 1. Pertaining to descent through male lines. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Xhosa are a proud and patrilineal people with an expressive and euphonious language and an abiding belief in the importance of laws, education and courtesy.
Word: WONF Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of with other natural flavors, on food packaging. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: underground Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds. Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊnd/, /ˌʊn.dɐˈɡɹʊnd/, /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ 1. Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth. Labels: not-comparable Example: There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river. Example: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2. Hidden, furtive, secretive. Labels: figuratively Example: These criminals operate through an underground network. 3. Of or relating to an art forms (such as music) or subculture that is outside the mainstream, especially one that is unofficial and hidden from the authorities. Labels: figuratively Example: underground music Example: ‘[…]he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?’ ‘Why not what?’ said Tom. ‘Why not do the same thing here?’ ‘You mean an underground magazine?’ ‘Yup.’
Word: underground Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds. Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊnd/, /ˌʊn.dɐˈɡɹʊnd/, /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ 1. Below the ground. Example: The tunnel goes underground at this point. 2. Secretly.
Word: underground Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds. Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊnd/, /ˈʌn.də.ɡɹaʊnd/, /ˌʊn.dɐˈɡɹʊnd/, /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/, /ˈʌn.dəɹ.ɡɹaʊnd/ 1. The regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines). 2. Synonym of subway: a railway that is under the ground. Labels: UK Example: London Underground 3. A movement or organization of people who resist political convention. Labels: with-definite-article Example: the French underground during World War II Example: Victor, please, don't go to the underground meeting tonight. 4. A movement or organization of people who resist artistic convention. Labels: with-definite-article
Word: underground Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds. Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊnd/, /ˌʊn.dɐˈɡɹʊnd/, /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ 1. To route electricity distribution cables underground. Example: One is to underground where no other alternative will work, and this method should be used universally in urban regions as it now is in “downtown” sections. Example: Also, undergrounding may not eliminate the potential for crashes with other roadside objects, such as trees, walls, buildings, and so forth. [...] When looking at the fesibility of undergrounding utilities, the complete roadside area and nearby adjacent properties should be evaluated for potential roadside obstructions or hazards.
Word: underground Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊnd/, /ˌʊn.dɐˈɡɹʊnd/, /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of undergrind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hoary marmot Part of Speech: noun 1. A rodent of the species Marmota caligata.
Word: et seq. Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Borrowing of Latin et seq., an abbreviation variously of et (“and”) sequens (“the following item”), sequente (“in what follows”), sequentes and sequentia (“the following items”), or sequentibus (“in the following items”). 1. And what follows, and following, and in the following [pages, sections, &c.]. Example: See p. 87 et seq. Example: Covered in Code Section 123 et seq.
Word: N.B. Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative letter-case form of n.b.. Labels: alt-of
Word: N.B. Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of New Brunswick: a province of Canada. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Abbreviation of North Britain. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: op. Part of Speech: noun 1. Opus. Labels: abbreviation 2. Operation. Labels: abbreviation 3. Operator. Labels: abbreviation 4. Operative. Labels: abbreviation 5. A detective. Labels: abbreviation 6. An operator's license, usually ops 7. Opportunity. Labels: abbreviation, informal Example: photo op.
Word: v. Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Abbreviation of very. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: I know I'm probably just repeating popular hype, but I'm v. fond of Tolkien's Quenya.
Word: v. Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Abbreviation of version. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of verb. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of verst. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Example: Three stages beyond Irkutsk is Listvenitchnaya, the place of embarkation for the lake of Baikal (112 v. wide and 1800 v. long), which is crossed in a steamer, and from which passengers are landed in small boats. Fare, 8 rs. In winter the lake is crossed over the ice. 4. Abbreviation of victim. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: v. Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Abbreviation of versus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Brown v. Board of Education Example: Two questions are at issue in the case, NRC v. Texas.
Word: v. Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. See. vide(te) Labels: imperative, uncommon
Word: v. Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin versus (“verse”). 1. verse
Word: vs. Part of Speech: prep 1. Abbreviation of versus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: The dream mix of classic characters is at the very core of what makes this series great. Mario vs. Link! Donkey Kong vs. Bowser! Fox vs. Samus! Smash Bros. gives fans the kind of matchups that they can normally only dream about.
Word: viz. Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Medieval Latin viꝫ, from Latin vidēlicet (“that is to say, namely”), short for vidēre licet (“it is permitted to see”, literally “to-look (it) allows”). The ‘z’ comes from the similarity between ꝫ (‘et’) and the cursive form of the letter z, with the former having originated as a common abbreviation (specifically, a Tironian note), used by Latin scribes in the Middle Ages, for the suffix -et (among others). Compare ⁊ (‘et’), the Tironian symbol for the Latin word et (“and”) and for its equivalents in other European languages (including Old English and) in medieval times. Pronunciation: /vɪz/ 1. Videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration. Labels: not-comparable Example: I am at this period, viz. in 1812, living in a cottage; […] Example: The fact is, when Captain Dobbin blushed so, and looked so, it was necessary to inform the young ladies, viz., that he had been calling at Mr. Sedley's house already, […]
Word: chas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cha Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contradiction in terms Part of Speech: noun 1. A phrase or expression in which the component words contradict one another, often unintentionally, or are claimed to do so when seen from a particular point of view. Example: "A miniature giant" is a contradiction in terms.
Word: contradiction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English contradiccioun, contradiction, from Old French contradiction, from Latin contrādictiō, from contrādīcō (“speak against”). Pronunciation: /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/ 1. The act of contradicting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting. 2. A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms. Labels: countable Example: There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right. Example: There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single. 3. A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions. Labels: countable Example: Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism. 4. A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms. Labels: countable
Word: fiend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz. Cognates Cognate with Scots fient (“fiend”), Saterland Frisian Fäind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Cimbrian faint (“enemy, fiend”), Dutch vijand (“enemy”), German Feind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Vilamovian faeind, fajnd (“enemy”), Yiddish פֿײַנד (faynd), פֿײַנט (faynt, “enemy”), Danish fjende (“adversary, enemy, foe”), Icelandic fjandi (“enemy; fiend, demon, devil”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish fiende (“enemy”), Old Norse fjándi (“enemy; devil”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fiands), 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fijands, “enemy, foe”). The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit पीयति (pī́yati, “(he) reviles”)). Pronunciation: /ˈfiːnd/, [ˈfɪi̯nd], /fɛnd/ 1. A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit. Example: what God or Feend, or ſpirit of the earth, Or Monſter turned to a manly ſhape, Or of what mould or mettel he be made, […] Example: Many hold too that he was acquainted with forbidden arts, and used to carry on an intercourse with the fiends and old women that raised storms, and such like. 2. A very evil person. 3. An enemy; a foe. Labels: obsolete Example: We waited for our fiend to arrive. 4. The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan. Labels: archaic, capitalized, sometimes Example: He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond. Example: At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […]. This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […] 5. An addict or fanatic. Labels: informal Example: dope fiend Example: He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.
Word: fiend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz. Cognates Cognate with Scots fient (“fiend”), Saterland Frisian Fäind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Cimbrian faint (“enemy, fiend”), Dutch vijand (“enemy”), German Feind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Vilamovian faeind, fajnd (“enemy”), Yiddish פֿײַנד (faynd), פֿײַנט (faynt, “enemy”), Danish fjende (“adversary, enemy, foe”), Icelandic fjandi (“enemy; fiend, demon, devil”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish fiende (“enemy”), Old Norse fjándi (“enemy; devil”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fiands), 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fijands, “enemy, foe”). The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit पीयति (pī́yati, “(he) reviles”)). Pronunciation: /ˈfiːnd/, [ˈfɪi̯nd], /fɛnd/ 1. To yearn; to be desperate. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you / And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm fiendin' Example: I am back in San Francisco at the Clift Hotel, fiending for my fix.