nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: relentlessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English relentless Middle English -ly English -ly English relentlessly From relentless + -ly (suffix forming abverbs from adjectives and nouns). Relentless is derived from relent (“(noun) act of relenting or giving way, yielding; (verb) to become less cruel or harsh; to become less intense”) + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’); and relent from Middle English relenten (“to melt; to soften; to dissolve in water; of weather: to be cool and moist”), from Anglo-Norman relenter, relentir (“to melt; to shrivel; to give up; to slacken”), and also influenced by Middle French ralenter, ralentir (“to abate; to slow down”) (modern French ralentir), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’ having intensifying effect) + alenter, alentir (“to slow down”) (from Old French alentir, from a- (prefix denoting entering a state or progressing towards a goal) + lent (“slow”) (from Latin lentus (“slow, sluggish”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lentos (“pliant; soft; smooth”)) + -ir (suffix forming infinitives of verbs)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlɛntləsli/, /ɹəˈlɛn(t)ləsli/, /ɹi-/, /ɹɪˈlentləsli/, /ɹəˈlentləsli/ 1. In a relentless manner. Example: Near-synonyms: harshly, pitilessly, ruthlessly Example: For sleep, he knew, kept most relentlessly / Its precious charge, and silent death exposed, / Faithless perhaps as sleep, a shadowy lure, / With doubtful smile mocking its own strange charms. 2. In a relentless manner. Example: My friend is one of thoſe people, vvho having formerly cut a very gay figure in the vvorld, is ſtill ambitious of ſpreading the May-bloom of tvventy-five upon the vvinter of threeſcore; and deſirous of diſplaying in the fulneſs of his ſpirits, that ſprightlineſs and vivacity vvhich time has relentleſsly taken from his perſon: […] Example: The vision must be shared. The leadership team must believe in it and pursue it relentlessly, along with the leader herself.
Word: Lazarus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar. Pronunciation: /ˈlæzəɹəs/ 1. Lazarus of Bethany, a man raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later Christianity revered as a saint. Example: I’ve always been moved by the story of Lazarus as it is recounted in the Gospel of John. The basic shape of the narrative is recognizable and relatable: Someone dies, and the heartbroken family pleads for their loss to be reversed. In the case of Lazarus, Christ is so moved by the family’s grief that he interferes with the natural order of things and grants an exception like no other: He brings the dead man back to life. This makes it an exemplar of a kind of cosmic partiality, what we would all hope for at our most wounded and vulnerable. Caravaggio pins the scene down to its material facts: the confused faces of the onlookers, the downcast faces of the sisters, the necrotic body of Lazarus, the supernatural authority of Christ. 2. A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) thought to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany. 3. A male given name from Hebrew. Labels: rare 4. A surname from Hebrew. Labels: rare Example: Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system.
Word: Lazarus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar. Pronunciation: /ˈlæzəɹəs/ 1. A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected. Labels: figuratively, usually Example: This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed. Example: 1870, Edmond de Pressensé, Annie Harwood Holmden (translator), The Early Years of the Christian Church, Book 3: First Century, page 462, Those who hear the voice of the Son of man and live, are so many Lazaruses called to the life divine. 2. A poor person, a beggar. Example: And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom? Example: These are the Lazaruses who lie prostrate at the gates of our cities and neighborhoods, and these are the needs that affluent Americans have conditioned themselves not to see because reaching out in any significant way would be far too costly.
Word: Lazarus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar. Pronunciation: /ˈlæzəɹəs/ 1. To rescue a dying person. 2. To raise from the dead.
Word: X-mas Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Xmas. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A stunning example of ‘a phenomenon being too large to be perceived’ impressed the author during a performance of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Ford Theater in 1983, in Washington, D.C. The phenomenon in question was the Ghost of X-masses to come who appeared on the dimly lit stage as a huge, shadowy figure, obviously on stilts, enveloped in a flowing, enormous black cape.
Word: eat out Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /it aʊt/ 1. To dine at a restaurant or such public place. Labels: intransitive Example: Jacky wanted Korean barbecue, but his mom didn't want to eat out. Example: (Sandra) I'm hungry, Dad. When will you finally make dinner? (Dad) Later. I have to finish this level first. (Sandra) Daddy! I'm hungry now! (Dad) Alright. here, Go eat out. 2. To erode or encroach upon by gradually consuming. Labels: transitive 3. To perform cunnilingus or anilingus. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar Example: The lesbian couple ate each other out. Example: I mean, is it as bad as eating her pussy out? No, but it's the same fuckin' ballpark. 4. To reprimand severely. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He will eat me out if he hears I ate his girlfriend out. 5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out.
Word: halter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter. Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔltɚ/, /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/ 1. A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them. 2. A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope. Example: And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter [translating hart]. Example: “[…]No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.[…].” 3. A halter top.
Word: halter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter. Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔltɚ/, /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/ 1. To place a halter on. Labels: transitive Example: What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night? Example: The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse' were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.
Word: halter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English halt Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English halter From halt + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhɔltɚ/, /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/ 1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.
Word: halter Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɔltɚ/, /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/ 1. Alternative form of haltere. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: harrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian. Pronunciation: /ˈhæɹəʊ/, /ˈhæɹoʊ/, /ˈhɛɹoʊ/, /ˈhaɾo/, /ˈhaɾou/ 1. A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow. Example: He sent for the carpenter, who was under contract to be with the threshing-machine, but it turned out that he was mending the harrows, which should have been mended the week before Lent. Example: “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.” 2. An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
Word: harrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian. Pronunciation: /ˈhæɹəʊ/, /ˈhæɹoʊ/, /ˈhɛɹoʊ/, /ˈhaɾo/, /ˈhaɾou/ 1. To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. Labels: transitive Example: Will he harrow the valleys after thee? Example: When the corn was sown, I had no harrow, but was forced to go over it myself, and drag a great heavy bough of a tree over it, to scratch it, as it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it. 2. To traumatize or disturb; to torment, distress or vex. Labels: transitive Example: It harrows me with fear and wonder. Example: I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […] 3. To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate. Labels: transitive Example: my aged muscles harrow'd up with whips
Word: harrow Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English harrow, harrowe, haro, from Old French haro, harou, harau, harol, from Frankish *harot, *hara (“here; hither”), from *hēr. Akin to Old Saxon herod, Old High German herot, Middle Dutch hare. Pronunciation: /ˈhæɹəʊ/, /ˈhæɹoʊ/, /ˈhɛɹoʊ/, /ˈhaɾo/, /ˈhaɾou/ 1. A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc. Labels: obsolete Example: Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.
Word: hatchling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/ 1. A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg. Example: The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds. Example: Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths. 2. A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.
Word: head linesman Part of Speech: noun 1. The chief, senior or most authoritative of a group of linesmen officiating at a match. Example: The head linesman overruled the decision of the linesman.
Word: officiating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of officiate. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intercostal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English costal English intercostal From inter- + costal. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.təˈkɒs.təl/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈkɔ.stəl/ 1. Between the ribs of an animal or person. Labels: not-comparable 2. Between the ribs of a boat. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intercostal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English costal English intercostal From inter- + costal. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.təˈkɒs.təl/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈkɔ.stəl/ 1. Any of the intercostal muscles. 2. Something that is between the ribs of an animal. 3. Hull reinforcing inserted between frames or bulkheads of a boat.
Word: MeV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of megaelectron volt, 10⁶ eV. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of million electron volts, 10⁶ eV. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: GeV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of giga-electron volt, 10⁹ eV. A unit used for measuring the energy of subatomic particles. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: KeV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of kiloelectronvolt. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TeV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of teraelectronvolt, 10¹² eV. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of trillion electronvolts, 10¹² eV. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Word: PeV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of peta-electron volt, 10¹⁵ eV. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: EeV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of exa-electron volt, 10¹⁸ eV. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: titrated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of titrate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rudiments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rudiment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mosquitoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mosquito. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mosquitos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mosquito Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mosquitos Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mosquito Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: in lieu Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Shortening of in lieu of (something). Pronunciation: /ɪn.l(j)uː/ 1. Instead; in place. Labels: not-comparable Example: time off in lieu (of overtime pay) Example: paid in lieu as liquidated damages
Word: Barclay Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Berkeley. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑː.kli/, /ˈbɑɹ.kli/, /ˈbɑɹ.kleɪ/ 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A placename from the surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename from the surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename from the surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename from the surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename from the surname: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hit and run Part of Speech: noun 1. The crime of causing a traffic collision, and leaving without acknowledging responsibility. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet / And just lay her out in the darkest street / And by morning, she's just another hit and run 2. A play where the baserunners leave their base before the batter hits the ball, assuming that the batter will in fact hit the ball and this will give them an advantage. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The tactic of attacking one place and then quickly moving to another before defenders can react. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It used it as a launching pad of its hit and run attacks against Yugoslavia with the full—though clandestine—support of the Bulgarian Ministry of War and Fascist Italy. Example: In the city centre far from the stadium, what the mayor, Femke Halsema, has described as violent “hit and run” attacks on Israeli supporters by groups of local people took place. 4. Sexual intercourse followed by a prompt departure; a one-night stand. Labels: countable, idiomatic, slang, uncountable
Word: hit and run Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit something or someone with a vehicle and leave the scene of the incident. Labels: informal 2. To engage in sexual intercourse followed by a prompt departure; to engage in a one-night stand. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, slang Example: You can't hit and run / I've got to be number one / Better make up your mind / 'Cause you'll never find a love so divine 3. To join a poker game, quickly win several hands, then leave. 4. Synonym of pick and pass. 5. To download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g., BitTorrent) without seeding. Labels: Internet, slang 6. To leave the base before the batter hits the ball. Example: This manager, in keeping with all other famous managers, believed that batting was the thing which won games. He developed a hard-hitting team. He kept everlastingly at them to hit and run, hit and run.
Word: Great White North Part of Speech: name 1. Canada Labels: Canada, informal Example: The rite of spring in eastern Canada has begun. Sweet and pure, maple syrup epitomizes the Great White North in all its unspoiled glory.
Word: inculpatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English inculpate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōriusder. Middle English -orie English -ory English inculpatory From inculpate + -ory. Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkʌl.pə.tɹi/, /ɪŋˈkʌl.pə.tə.ɹi/, /ɪŋˈkʌl.pəˌtɔ.ɹi/ 1. That causes someone to be blamed for something.
Word: main sequence Part of Speech: noun 1. A major grouping of stars represented on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram by a nearly uniform band of increasing luminosity with increasing surface temperature. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, sequence.
Word: greenstick fracture Part of Speech: noun 1. An incomplete fracture of a long bone in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent.
Word: portefeuille Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French porte Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom? Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰolh₁yom? Proto-Italic *foljom Classical Latin folium Late Latin folia Old French fueille Middle French feuille French feuille French portefeuillebor. English portefeuille Borrowed from French portefeuille. 1. An artist's portfolio. Labels: archaic
Word: blaccent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-der. Proto-Italic *kanō Latin canō Latin accinō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus ▲ Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)calq. Medieval Latin accentusbor. Middle French accentbor. Anglo-Norman accentbor. Middle English accent English accent blend English blaccent Blend of black + accent. Pronunciation: /ˈblak.sənt/, /-sɛnt/, /ˈblæk.sɛnt/ 1. An accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans). Labels: US Example: He's black, but doesn't have a trace of a blaccent. Example: Timberlake has long sought to overcome his whiteness to perfect a "blaccent", as the kids call it these days, and the McDonald's ad campaign explicitly relies on a hiphop idiom.
Word: anecdata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of anecdotal + data; also compare this to the plural of anecdote is not data, upon which this term likely plays. Equally, analysable as a blend of anecdote + data. Pronunciation: /ˈænɪkdeɪtə/, /ˈænikdætə/, /-ɾə/ 1. Anecdotal evidence. Labels: derogatory, humorous, plural, plural-normally, usually Example: A handful of stores, just one mall, not what you'd call a statistically significant sample. In fact, the most recent government report was that retail sales rose in January, which just goes to show why the journalist's approach to reality, what you might call "anecdata," may be the flimsiest form of forecasting. Example: Anecodotal evidence strongly suggests that this is just the high profile expression of a much larger problem of misogynistic violence. / Ah, yes. Anecdata. Fortunately, real honest studies which are peer-reviewed and critiqued suggest otherwise.
Word: quietude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French quiétude, from Late Latin quiētūdō, from Latin quiētus, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“rest”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪ.t(j)uːd/ 1. Synonym of quietness (“absence of sound”) Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You enter what they call the world’s quietest room, and it greets you, not with pleasantries but with the full force of silence, where silence itself becomes a palpable presence. There, in this engineered quietude, the dearth of sound grows profound, rendering the space uncannily alien. 2. tranquility Labels: uncountable, usually Example: But the castle was not destined to remain long in its present quietude. One morning Lord Avonleigh received a packet from London, whose contents filled him with joy... Example: Stopping steam services on the West Coast line from Brighton are confined to the Horsham push-pull trains, which diverge at Shoreham to seek the rural quietude of Bramber, Steyning, Henfield, and Partridge Green, with a run by the banks of the Adur as a pleasant prelude.
Word: sullen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English soleyn, from Anglo-Norman soleyn (“alone”), from Old French sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlən/ 1. Having a brooding ill temper; sulky. Example: Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, / For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale; / Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets, / ‘Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale; Example: And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Example: a sullen atmosphere Example: Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; 3. Sluggish; slow. Example: The larger [stream] was placid, and even sullen, in its course. Example: When ends life's transient dream, / when death’s cold, sullen stream / shall o'er me roll, 4. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Labels: obsolete Example: Such sullen planets at my birth did shine, / They threaten every Fortune mixt with mine. Example: she meets again / The savage murderer's sullen gaze, 5. Obstinate; intractable. Labels: obsolete Example: Things are as sullen as we are, and will be what they are whatever we think of them.
Word: sullen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English soleyn, from Anglo-Norman soleyn (“alone”), from Old French sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlən/ 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. Labels: archaic Example: He sit neither with seint Johan, / Symond ne Jude, / Ne with maydenes ne with martires, / Confessours ne wydewes; / But by hymself as a soleyn, / And served on erthe. 2. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness. Labels: in-plural Example: And let them die that age and sullens have; Example: If she be not sick of the sullens, I see not the least infirmity in her.
Word: sullen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English soleyn, from Anglo-Norman soleyn (“alone”), from Old French sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌlən/ 1. To make sullen. Labels: obsolete Example: The idle man is like the dumb jack in a virginal: while all the other dance out a winning music, this, like a member out of joint, sullens the whole body, with an ill disturbing laziness.
Word: derro Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dero (“homeless person; social derelict”). Labels: Australia, alt-of, alternative, slang Example: I sat in the derros′ park in Taylor Square. Knee-deep in drunks and drug addicts, it was called “Fantasy Island” by the cops. Example: He leaned back slightly, a small smile on his face. 'Who's gunna worry about an old derro found dead in the gutter, eh? Sure, someone will find out who you once were, that won't cut any ice neither, you're a nothing now, less than a nobody, a drunken derro, a homeless person.'
Word: margin call Part of Speech: noun 1. A request by a stockbroker or similar for a client to deposit more money in order to cover losses that have built up in open positions held on margin (rather than having been paid for in full). Example: In a liquidity crisis, as we have seen all too recently, a sudden tightening of credit sets off a vicious cycle of margin calls that lead to forced sales, which in turn cause asset prices to plunge, and so on.
Word: once in a blue moon Part of Speech: adv Etymology: See blue moon. First use appears c. 1833. See citation below. Pronunciation: /wʌns ɪn ə bluː muːn/ 1. Very rarely; very infrequently. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: We are no advocates for the eternal system of producing foreign operas to the exclusion of the works of English composers, but once in a blue moon such a thing may be allowed. Example: [T]ime expanded and space contracted, and the name Blue Moon took on a symbolic meaning, as if the future, so delicately plausible, were of a kind that might happen once in a blue moon only.
Word: Ionian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Ionia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -n English Ionian From Ionia + -n. Pronunciation: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/, /aɪˈoʊni.ən/ 1. Relating to the Hellenic people of that name. Labels: not-comparable 2. Synonym of Ionic. Labels: not-comparable 3. Synonym of Ionic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable 4. Designating the Ionian mode or scale; the name of the major key in modal theory. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ionian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Ionia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -n English Ionian From Ionia + -n. Pronunciation: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/, /aɪˈoʊni.ən/ 1. A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.
Word: Ionian Part of Speech: name Etymology: The origin of the sea’s name is uncertain. The Ionian Sea was believed in the Greek tradition to have been named after Io, who was said to have swum in it. The geological period was named after the Ionian Coast in Italy. Pronunciation: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/, /aɪˈoʊni.ən/ 1. Ellipsis of Ionian Sea: A sea in the central and east central part of the Mediterranean. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. A subdivision of the Pleistocene epoch.
Word: Ionian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The origin of the sea’s name is uncertain. The Ionian Sea was believed in the Greek tradition to have been named after Io, who was said to have swum in it. The geological period was named after the Ionian Coast in Italy. Pronunciation: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/, /aɪˈoʊni.ən/ 1. Only used in Ionian Islands. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ionian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Io English -n- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Ionian From Io (“moon of Jupiter”) + -n- + -ian. Pronunciation: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/, /aɪˈoʊni.ən/ 1. Relating to Io, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter. Labels: not-comparable Example: Bagenal, Dowling & McKinnon (2007), Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press, p. 313. Despite the variations in Ionian vulcanism ... 2. Relating to the asteroid (52) Io. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ionian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Io English -n- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Ionian From Io (“moon of Jupiter”) + -n- + -ian. Pronunciation: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/, /aɪˈoʊni.ən/ 1. An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter.
Word: ring system Part of Speech: noun 1. The combined system or structure formed by all of the rings orbiting a planet
Word: sonic branding Part of Speech: noun 1. The design consideration of the sound aspect of a brand's identity. Labels: uncountable Example: The podcast's intro and outro music, jingles, and sound effects are all part of its sonic branding.
Word: flyboarding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps modeled on fly-tipping. See board. 1. Publicizing a real estate agent by putting up fake “sold” or “for sale” signs. Labels: uncountable
Word: fly-posting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of posting posters in prohibited or illegal areas, especially for advertisement purposes Labels: uncountable
Word: fly-posting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fly-post Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pulsar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of pulsating + (radio) star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph. By surface analysis, pulse + -ar 1. A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically. Example: Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses. But a pulsar called PSR J1023+0038, located about 4,500 light-years away from Earth in the Sextans constellation, is even more unusual in that some of the pulses are brighter than others, almost like it’s switching between different modes.
Word: fly-pitching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fly-pitch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: magnetar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of magnet + pulsar. By surface analysis, magnet + -ar. 1. A neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes occur, thought to be the source of some gamma-ray bursts. Example: This signal could be detected with Advanced LIGO-class detectors up to the distance of the Virgo cluster, where ≥ 1 yr⁻¹ magnetars are expected to form. Example: 2008, W. Becker, F, Haberl, J Trümper, 14: Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193, The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).
Word: fly-poster Part of Speech: noun 1. A poster, especially for advertisement purposes, put up illegally 2. One who posts such posters
Word: starquake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of star + earthquake. 1. A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star. Example: Astronomers call the sudden changes in the neutron star starquakes. The energy released in a starquake is enormous and flows out from the star into the space surrounding it. After the 1969 starquake on the Crab pulsar, a wave of energy was seen to flow outwards, rippling through the centre of the Crab Nebula. Example: 2000, Richard I. Epstein, Bennett Link, Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars, Kwong-Sang Cheng H, F, Chau, K. L. Chan, K. C. Leung (editors), Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference, page 96, Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive matter toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape, and excite precession.
Word: pole star Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pole (“either of the two points on the Earth’s surface around which it rotates; similar points on any other rotating object”) + star, possibly a calque of Latin stēllam polārem (“the Pole Star”). Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊl stɑː/, /ˈpoʊl ˌstɑɹ/ 1. The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet. Example: Polaris is currently the pole star of planet Earth. Example: Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years? 2. A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre of attention. Labels: figuratively Example: But it [our hotel] has one great advantage for a stranger, by being in the market place, and the next neighbour of the huge church of St. Nicholas: […] A better pole-star could scarcely be desired. Example: Love was her pole-star. What was Jason's? Only the blankness of despair.
Word: Damocloid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the asteroid 5335 Damocles + -oid. 1. An asteroid (such as 5335 Damocles) that exhibits long-period, highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets without showing a coma.
Word: Damocloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the asteroid 5335 Damocles + -oid. 1. Of or relating to a Damocloid asteroid. Labels: not-comparable, usually
Word: long-period Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of non-periodic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: somber Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈsɑmbɚ/, /ˈsɒmbə/ 1. US standard spelling of sombre. Labels: US, alt-of, standard Example: In your eyes the somber blues / Reflect a place from deep inside of knowing not what to do / I'll be your rock, when you're 'bout to fall / Together, we'll move on ahead and walk right through it all Example: My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.
Word: somber Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsɑmbɚ/, /ˈsɒmbə/ 1. US standard spelling of sombre. Labels: US, alt-of, standard
Word: vulcanoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Vulcan + -oid, from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury. 1. A member of the hypothetical population of small asteroids orbiting in the dynamically stable zone between 0.08 and 0.21 AU from the Sun 2. An asteroid whose orbit is wholly within the orbit of Mercury. Labels: broadly, informal
Word: vulcanoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Vulcan + -oid, from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury. 1. Of or pertaining to a vulcanoid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: short-period Part of Speech: adj 1. Having an orbital period of less than 200 years, especially said of comets Labels: not-comparable
Word: clayey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cleyy, cleyye (“clayish; messy; unclean”) [and other forms], either: * from Middle English clei, cley (“clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives); clei, cley is derived from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to smear; to stick; glue; putty”); or * from Old English clǣig (“clayey”), from clǣġ (“clay”) (see above) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is equivalent to clay + -ey (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), with the -e- included to avoid the occurrence of -yy. Sense 4 (“of the human body, as contrasted with the soul”) may allude to the biblical account of God creating man from earth; see Genesis 2:7 (King James Version; spelling modernized): “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” Pronunciation: /ˈkleɪ(j)i/, /ˈkleɪi/ 1. Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish. Example: The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea; thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar[-]canes. Example: I was myself very successful in one beautiful group of insects, the tiger-beetles, which seem more abundant and varied here than anywhere else in the Archipelago. I first met with them on a cutting in the road, where a hard clayey bank was partially overgrown with mosses and small ferns. 2. Covered or dirtied with clay. Example: Wheat-fields, one would think, cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless machinery will do it? 3. Resembling clay; claylike, clayish. Example: Death, grim Death, will fold / Me, in his leaden Arms, and preſs me cloſe / To his cold clayie Breaſt: […] 4. Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal. Labels: figuratively Example: This purifing of wit, this enritching of memory, enabling of iudgment, and enlarging of conceyt, which commonly we call learning, […] the final end is, to lead and draw vs to as high a perfection, as our degenerate ſoules made worſe by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of. Example: [A]mid these tombs, / Cold as their clayey tenants, know, my heart / Must never grow to stone!
Word: jelly bean Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors. Example: Ronalda had gotten these jelly beans special, from Lenox Square. They were all colors, pink with brown flecks, purple, orange. The flavors had exotic names like Piña Colada and Fig Leaf.
Word: Proverbs Part of Speech: name 1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims. Labels: plural-normally Example: The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study. If you study Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples. Example: Erman’s remark (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.
Word: diacritical mark Part of Speech: noun 1. A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning. Example: California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
Word: Sisyphus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪsɪfəs/ 1. Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades. Labels: Greek Example: Indeed, I have looked upon the fable of Sisyphus as an allegory, and that his wife was the stone which so perpetually rolled back upon his hands, effectually retarding his weary progress up-hill.
Word: Elizabethian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Elizabeth + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’ forming adjectives), referring to Elizabeth I (1533–1603). 1. Synonym of Elizabethan (“pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603”). Example: Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: […] Example: This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind!
Word: rock hard Part of Speech: adj 1. As tough, hard, or inflexible as a piece of rock. Labels: not-comparable Example: One of humankind's oldest maladies, kidney stones are rock-hard Example: You are not using the frosting as a glue, as in making a gingerbread house, so it is not necessary that it dry rock hard. 2. With muscles developed and toned to a high degree, especially the muscles of the abdomen. Labels: not-comparable Example: He was pale but rock-hard from exercise, and still had a grunt's haircut. Example: Workout complete – Miles body was rock hard. 3. Having a very fully erect and stiff penis Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: Tommy Lee first shivered when he felt the tongue in his ear, but his whole body shuddered when he felt the deputy's rock hard cock press along the length of his ass crack. Example: He is rock hard as he mounts her. 4. With strongly held beliefs and opinions, deep conviction. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: Mark does not seem to be suffering from any inner conflict, in that he is rock hard and will not budge from this position.
Word: pack on Part of Speech: verb 1. To add (fat, muscle, etc.) so as to increase mass or bulk. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Most strength coaches agree that to gain an inch on your arms, you have to pack on at least 10 pounds of body mass. Example: The nine males packed on so much fat their weight increased to more than 700 grams.
Word: carshare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From car + share. 1. To participate in a system of car sharing. Labels: intransitive
Word: eight pack Part of Speech: noun 1. An exceptionally well-developed set of abdominal muscles in which eight distinct portions of muscle are visible. Example: You could be one of those genetically gifted individuals who has the potential to show off an eight-pack instead of a six.
Word: six pack Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of six-pack. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: azotise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ) French azotebor. English azote English -ise English azotise From azote + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of azotize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: dystrophy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dys- + -trophy, literally “bad growth”, as in the opposite of growth. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstɹəfi/ 1. A wasting of body tissues, of either genetic origin or due to inadequate or defective nutrition. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gym rat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: US origin, late 1970s. 1. A person who spends an unusually large amount of time at a gym. Labels: colloquial Example: Three decades ago, the trappings of sports equipment in those rooms took a magnetic hold on "gym rat" McGuire. Example: I was a real "gym rat." I'd go home and eat, then come back to the gym and play some more. I mean, I practically lived in that gym.
Word: muscular dystrophy Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of genetic diseases which cause progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: guns Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡʌnz/ 1. plural of gun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: guns Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡʌnz/ 1. Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and triceps. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang Example: And there's still no better way to throw down the fitness gauntlet than to roll up your sleeves and unveil some powerful guns. Example: I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day! Obviously that sounds awesome, because my guns are only 15 inches.
Word: guns Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡʌnz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gun Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pythons Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inflection of python. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.θənz/, /ˈpaɪ.θɑnz/ 1. plural of python Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pythons Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently originating from an analogy between the distention of the arm muscles and the distended belly of a python that has swallowed a large animal. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.θənz/, /ˈpaɪ.θɑnz/ 1. Large and well-developed muscles in the upper arm. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang Example: I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day! Obviously that sounds awesome, because my guns are only 15 inches. I figure I could do this workout every couple months and within a year, I will have the big 20-inch pythons!
Word: cardiac muscle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌkɑːr.di.æk ˈmʌs.əl/ 1. The striated and involuntary muscle of the vertebrate heart. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: proverbs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proverb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proverbs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of proverb Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: skeletal muscle Part of Speech: noun 1. The voluntary muscle of vertebrates, which is striated and anchored by tendons to bone and is used to effect skeletal movement such as locomotion. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: smooth muscle Part of Speech: noun 1. Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: discontinuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English continuous English discontinuous From dis- + continuous. 1. having breaks or interruptions; intermittent Labels: not-comparable Example: The high capital costs of electrification are cited, with a suggestion that in challenging locations discontinuous electrification could be considered. 2. having at least one discontinuity Labels: not-comparable
Word: voluntary muscle Part of Speech: noun 1. Muscle that is normally controlled by individual volition; skeletal muscle.
Word: involuntary muscle Part of Speech: noun 1. A muscle that is not controlled by individual volition, e.g., cardiac muscle and smooth muscle. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: muscle dysmorphia Part of Speech: noun 1. A disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with the idea that they are not muscular enough. Labels: uncountable
Word: discontinuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin discontinuitās, from discontinuus, equivalent to dis- + continuity. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪs.kɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/, /ˌdɪs.kɑn.tɪˈnu.ɪ.ti/, [ˌdɪs.kɑn.tɪˈnu.ɪ.ɾi], /ˌdɪs.kɒn.tɪˈnu.ɪ.ti/, /ˌdɪs.kɔn.tɪˈnjʉː.ɪ.ti/ 1. A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap. Example: structural discontinuity Example: sharp discontinuity 2. A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous. 3. a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change
Word: backwards Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From backward + -s. See also -s (“used in the formation of certain adverbs: backwards, downwards, inwards, etc.”). Pronunciation: /ˈbækwɜːdz/, /ˈbækwɜɹdz/ 1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there. Example: As I stand to address them they take a fearful step backwards with their hands outstretched in placating gestures.