nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: trifle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪfəl/ 1. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles. 2. Anything that is of little importance or worth. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ. Example: Olde Chaucer doth of Topas tell, / Mad Rablais of Pantagruell, / A latter third of Dowsabell, / With such poore trifles playing: 3. Anything that is of little importance or worth. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: A trifle, some eight-penny matter. Example: He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums […] 4. A very small amount (of something). Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-vvall, vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous. Example: There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy […] 5. A particular kind of pewter. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter. Labels: uncountable
Word: trifle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪfəl/ 1. To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth. Labels: intransitive Example: You must not trifle with her affections. Example: […] Do not believe / That, from the sense of all civility, / I thus would play and trifle with your reverence: 2. To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest. Labels: intransitive Example: […] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […] Example: But he was terribly roused too and bound to go on; he wasn’t just trifling but intended something. 3. To inconsequentially toy with something. Labels: intransitive Example: Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […] Example: She sat in a café, trifling with her coffee spoon. 4. To squander or waste. Labels: transitive Example: We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence. Example: For an honest and sober man will rather make that woman his wife, whom he seeth employed continually about her business, than one who makes it her business to trifle away her own and others time. 5. To make a trifle of, to make trivial. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowings.
Word: theoretically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English theoretical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English theoretically From theoretical + -ly. 1. in theory; on paper Labels: not-comparable Example: I haven't tested it, but theoretically it ought to fly. Example: Of course, it will never get -100 here like it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough. 2. in a theoretical manner Labels: not-comparable Example: I solved the problem theoretically rather than practically. 3. in theory though not necessarily in reality. Labels: not-comparable Example: Rumors of an indictment had spread through this heavily gay and lesbian community since shortly after the theoretically secret investigation began in 1984. Example: No, but insurance does cover it. Theoretically.
Word: theoretics Part of Speech: noun 1. The theoretical part of a science. Labels: uncountable
Word: mole cricket Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots. Example: Spain is full of mole-crickets, shrill little underground insects whose goggle eyes you may sometimes see peering sleeplessly out of their burrows, and whose buzz is so energetic that their whole bodies vibrate down there like the radiators of very old motor-cars.
Word: trifles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ̯fl̩z/ 1. plural of trifle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trifles Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ̯fl̩z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of trifle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: trifled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of trifle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: theorist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *tʰáwā Ancient Greek θέᾱ (théā) Proto-Indo-European *wer-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Ancient Greek ὁράω (horáō) Ancient Greek *θεᾱ-(ϝ)ορός, *θεη-(ϝ)ορός (*theā-(w)orós, *theē-(w)orós) Ancient Greek θεωρός (theōrós) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría)bor. Late Latin theōrialbor. Middle French théoriebor. English theory Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English theorist From theory + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈθɪəɹɪst/, /ˈθiːəɹəst/, /ˈθɪɹəst/, /ˈθɪəɹəst/ 1. Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences. Example: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.
Word: theoretician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From theoretic + -ician. Pronunciation: /ˌθɪə.rəˈtɪʃ.(ə)n/ 1. Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art. 2. A theorist. Example: “They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes.
Word: Heim Part of Speech: name Etymology: * As a south German surname, from the noun Heim (“home”). * As a Norwegian surname, from farmsteads named with, or directly from, the Old Norse noun heimr (“home”), related to the above. * As a Jewish surname, from the Yiddish name חיים (Khayem). Doublet of Chaim. 1. A surname from German.
Word: theorize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie. Pronunciation: /ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/, /ˈθiː.ə.ɹaɪz/, /ˈθɪɹ.aɪz/, /ˈθi.ə.ɹaɪz/, /ˈθɪə.ɹɑɪz/ 1. To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject. Labels: intransitive Example: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago. Example: There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such). 2. To speculate. Labels: intransitive
Word: theorization Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of theorisation. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: house cricket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of house + cricket. It is frequently found in houses, between the bricks of chimneys and fireplaces. 1. A cricket of the species Acheta domestica.
Word: inconsequentially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inconsequential Middle English -ly English -ly English inconsequentially From inconsequential + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪnˌkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəli/ 1. In an inconsequential manner. Example: Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequentially and tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion. Example: He constantly (and inconsequentially) reports online abuse too, like the person who said he should be “put in a full nelson and thrown in a river” for his mythical sewage vote
Word: fly ball Part of Speech: noun 1. A batted ball that has been hit into the air above the outfield; a fly. 2. A geek; beatnik. Labels: slang
Word: theosophy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin theosophia, from Ancient Greek θεοσοφῐ́ᾱ (theosophĭ́ā, “knowledge of things divine”, from θεός (theós, “god”) + σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophĭ́ā, “wisdom”)); By surface analysis, theo- + -sophy. Pronunciation: /θɪˈɒsəfɪ/, [θiˈɑs.ə.fi] 1. Any doctrine of religious philosophy and mysticism claiming that knowledge of God can be attained through mystical insight and spiritual ecstasy, and that direct communication with the transcendent world is possible. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: They have their own traditions of art and science. They do not […] discuss God or metaphysics or men. […] All their wisdom and theosophy, and all their grasp of beauty, truth or love, is in the singing. […] They look unloving enough, and so they are. Pitiless fallen angels. 2. Any system which claims to attain communication with God and superior spirits by physical processes. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In Paracelsian theosophy, empathetic imagination was […] a powerful astral force which provided the basis for theurgy and prognostication, as well as for prophecy and mystical inspiration. Example: […] was founded by the theosophist and kabbalist Martines de Pasqually […] included a peculiar form of theurgy mixed with the philosophy and theosophy of its founder. 3. The system of beliefs and doctrines of the Theosophical Society. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: theosophic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English theosophy Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English theosophic From theosophy + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌθiː.əˈsɒf.ɪk/, /ˌθi.əˈsɑ.fɪk/ 1. Of, or relating to theosophy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thus, while the mystic of the theopathetic species is content to contemplate, to feel, or to act, suffering under Deity in his sublime passivity, the mysticism I term theosophic aspires to know and believes itself in possession of a certain supernatural divine faculty for that purpose.
Word: pop-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from pop up. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpʌp/ 1. Coming into view suddenly from a concealed position. Labels: not-comparable Example: I packed a pop-up hamper in my suitcase. 2. Opening out to form a three-dimensional structure when the page of a book is opened. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] I had a pop-up book of sexual organs by the time I was four –[…] 3. Operating or existing for a brief period only; temporary. Labels: not-comparable Example: But then this is essentially a pop-up team, glued into place brilliantly, with certain parts already chafing and smoking. Chelsea’s two top goalscorers could be off in a month, Diego Costa to cause an international incident in China, [Eden] Hazard to the usual summer suspects. 4. Employing the cold launch technique. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pop-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from pop up. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpʌp/ 1. A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page. Labels: Internet 2. A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly. 3. A folded paper element which pops up from a book, greeting card, etc. 4. A business that opens for a brief temporary period only, such as a temporary restaurant. Example: Pop-ups often charge restaurant prices, but without advance menus, quality control, health-inspected facilities or professional service. Bring cash and arrive early: most pop-ups don't accept credit cards, and popular dishes run out fast. Example: Ms. Setti recently had to close her bar after a change of management at the food hall that housed it. But she plans to launch several pop-ups and hopes to find a new permanent space by the middle of the year, she said.
Word: ground ball Part of Speech: noun 1. A batted ball that bounces one or more times on the infield; a grounder. 2. A loose ball that is on the ground during play.
Word: theosophist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English theosophy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English theosophist From theosophy + -ist. Pronunciation: /θiˈɑs əf ɪst/ 1. An advocate of, or believer in theosophy. Example: What can it be but the heaving of the Hypochondria that lifts up the Mind to such high comparisons from a supposition so false and foolish? But I have observed generally of Chymists^([sic]) and Theosophists, as of feveral other men more palpably mad, that their thoughts are carried much to Astrology, it being a fancifull study built upon very slight grounds, and indeed I do not queftion, but a relique of the ancient superstition and Idolatry amongst the rude Heathens, which either their own Melancholy, or something worse, instructed them in.
Word: grounder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grounder, grownder, equivalent to ground + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaʊndə(ɹ)/ 1. A ground ball. 2. A fruit that has fallen to the ground rather than being picked; a windfall. 3. One of the large stones forming the base of a Cornish hedge.
Word: Thíra Part of Speech: name 1. Rare spelling of Thira. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: therapeutics Part of Speech: noun 1. The treatment of disease; the science of healing; any therapeutic material or treatment
Word: inconsequentiality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English inconsequential Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English inconsequentiality From inconsequential + -ity. 1. the property of being inconsequential Labels: uncountable 2. anything that is inconsequential Labels: countable
Word: therapeutist Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who studies, works with, or uses therapeutics; a therapist. Example: Gavaret mathematically demonstrated in 1839 the increase of body-heat when the febricant shivers with cold, and its precedence of some hours before the chill, by which signs the therapeutist is warned in time to administer the antidote.
Word: inconsequentialness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English inconsequential Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English inconsequentialness From inconsequential + -ness. 1. the quality or state of being inconsequential Labels: uncountable
Word: thereabout Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English ther-aboute, ther-abouten (“of a place or an object: around there, in its vicinity; surrounding it; nearby, neighbouring; here and there, throughout that place; of an action, matter, etc.: about, concerning; of an amount or distance: approximately, more or less; of time: about then, around that time”) [and other forms], from Old English þǣrābūtan, þǣronbūtan, from þǣr (“there”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this; that”) + *-r) + abūtan, onbūtan (“about; round about; on; on the outside”) (from on- (prefix meaning ‘on; upon; there; thither; to’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on; onto”)) + būtan (“just, merely, only”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- + *úd (“away; out; outwards; upwards”))). The English word is analysable as there + about. The word is attested earlier than thereabouts. Pronunciation: /ðɛəɹəˈbaʊt/, /ˈðɛəɹəbaʊt/, /ˈðɛɹəˌbaʊt/, /ˌðɛɹəˈbaʊt/ 1. About or near that place. Labels: not-comparable 2. About or around that date or time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dinner will be ready at six-thirty or thereabout. 3. About or near to that condition or quality. Labels: not-comparable 4. Approximately that number or quantity. Labels: not-comparable Example: The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, right? Yes, thereabout. 5. About that or those: concerning it or them. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: And they entred in, and found not the body of the Lord Jeſus. And it came to paſſe, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men ſtood by them in ſhining garments. Example: It cannot be denied that the devolutions of the title to the house in issue have been unusual, and are not free from challenge. In a contest betwixt legal titles, instruments of writing thereabout must often be strictly construed, and that which may be called the real intent of the makers is sometimes defeated. But this [case] does not demand a technical application of the rules of law governing the devolution of land titles. Only a contract is in issue here. 6. Near to that activity or situation. Labels: dated, figuratively, not-comparable Example: HANCOCK, THOMAS (d. 1706?). Said to have been a tanner. Held the sequestered vicarage of St. Winnow, Corn.; ejected, 1660. Continued preaching thereabout. Signed the thanks of Cornish Ministers. Licensed, 10 or 20 June 1672, as Presbyterian, to teach in his house, parish of Morval, Corn.; the house was licensed, 22 July. From 1687 he maintained a congregation at East Looe, parish of St. Martin, two miles from Morval, and received annual grants (£10, reduced 1695 to £6) from 1690 to end of 1705.
Word: thereabouts Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adverb is derived from Middle English there-aboutes, þare aboutes (“of a place or an object: around there, in its vicinity; of time: about then, around that time”) [and other forms], from ther (“in that place, in those places, there; on that; thither, to that place; from there, thence; at that time; thereupon; in that situation, under those circumstances; in that case, with regard to that”) (from Old English þǣr (“there”)) + aboutes (“in all directions, around”, adverb), aboutes (“in all directions from, on all sides of; near; concerned with”, preposition) (from aboute, abouten (“so as to surround; so as to cover; on the border or edge; as measured around the outside; to as to travel around something; so as to revolve about an axis or centre; aside; in all directions; in the vicinity; in connection with something; in several places; everywhere, throughout; to all or everyone; almost, approximately; concerning; in succession; so as to be or happen”, adverb), aboute, abouten (“surrounding; covering; over; upon; on the border of; in all directions; in the vicinity of, near to; in several places; everywhere, throughout; almost, approximately; concerning; engaged in; on behalf of”, preposition) (from Old English abūtan, onbūtan (“about; round about; on; on the outside”)) + -s (suffix forming adverbs)); see further at thereabout. The English word is analysable as thereabout + -s (suffix forming adverbs). The noun may result from a confusion of thereabouts with whereabouts. The word is attested later than thereabout. Pronunciation: /ˈðɛəɹəbaʊts/, /ˈðɛɹəˌbaʊts/ 1. Location; whereabouts. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: True, he had stopped at Langston Bucket by chance, and there was no reason why Mr. Boke should theorise as to his thereabouts. Example: My companions are not far off, and are aware of my thereabouts.
Word: infield hit Part of Speech: noun 1. When a batter reaches base with a ground ball that does not leave the infield or shallow outfield. Example: Jones got an infield hit when the ball tipped off of the outstretched glove of the diving shortstop.
Word: shortstop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From short + stop. Pronunciation: /ʃɔɹt.stap/, [ʃɔɹˀstap̥] 1. The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman. Example: The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop. Example: “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams. 2. A nimble defender. Labels: figuratively Example: I'll play shortstop when we make our proposal. 3. A player who is short of money. Example: The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
Word: shortstop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From short + stop. Pronunciation: /ʃɔɹt.stap/, [ʃɔɹˀstap̥] 1. Alternative form of short-stop (to play shortstop). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He captained the Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, (International Association) in 1878; shortstopped for Cincinnati in 1879; stayed out of baseball in 1880; and finished as shortstop for Boston (NL) in 1881. Example: Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers). 2. Alternative form of short-stop (to cause to stop short). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: They will be shortstopped in the port for lease by the government, then continue their journey by military train. Example: In the polymerization of BD by Ti-, Co- and Ni-based catalyst systems the polymerization has to be shortstopped at a specific monomer conversion in order to avoid the formation of gel.
Word: consequential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From consequent + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˌkɑnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl/, /ˌkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl/ 1. Following as a result. 2. Having significant consequences; of importance. Example: The more profound and consequential the issue, the more stubborn our denial. 3. Important or significant. 4. Self-important. Example: He was a very short, fat little man, with immensely long grey side-whiskers, and a most consequential manner.
Word: cry over spilt milk Part of Speech: verb 1. To worry about unfortunate events which have already happened and which cannot be changed. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: 'Tis a Folly to cry for spilt Milk. Example: The Willington Mare, when she started so fast, Ah! we little thought then that the race was her last: Accurst be the stake that was stained with her blood! But, why cry for spilt milk?—May the next be as good.
Word: consequentiality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English consequential Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English consequentiality From consequential + -ity. 1. The property of being consequential. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: consequentialness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English consequential Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English consequentialness From consequential + -ness. 1. the quality or state of being consequential Labels: uncountable
Word: first baseman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From first base + -man. 1. The infield defensive player that stands near first base. Example: First basemen are usually left-handed.
Word: consequentially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English consequential Middle English -ly English -ly English consequentially From consequential + -ly. 1. In a consequential manner; with consequence or significance.
Word: second baseman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From second base + -man. 1. The infield defensive player that stands between the first baseman and the shortstop, normally on the right field side of second base. Example: The second baseman started the 4-6-3 double play.
Word: third baseman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From third base + -man. 1. The infield defensive player that stands near third base. Example: The third baseman charged in to field the bunt.
Word: at-bat Part of Speech: noun 1. An opportunity to hit. Example: This is his third at-bat of the night. 2. Official at-bats; batting opportunities minus walks, hit by pitches, and sacrifices. Example: He only had 220 at-bats this season because of injury.
Word: allegoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English allegory Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English allegoric From allegory + -ic. 1. of, or relating to allegory
Word: allegorically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English allegorical Middle English -ly English -ly English allegorically From allegorical + -ly. Pronunciation: /æl.əˈɡɒɹ.ɪk.(ə.)li/ 1. In an allegorical manner.
Word: burns Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɜːnz/, /bɝnz/, /bɔːnz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of burn Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: burns Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɜːnz/, /bɝnz/, /bɔːnz/ 1. plural of burn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Caracalla Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin; Caracalla's agnomen was named after a Gaulish cloak he favored. Pronunciation: /ˌkærəˈkælə/ 1. A Roman emperor who ruled from 211 to 217 C.E.
Word: shinny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shin (noun) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪni/ 1. To climb in an awkward manner. Labels: intransitive
Word: shinny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variation of shinty. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪni/ 1. An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball. Labels: Canada, uncountable Example: In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains. Example: Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded. 2. Street hockey. Labels: Canada, uncountable 3. Hockey. Labels: Canada, informal, uncountable 4. A hockey-like game played by American Indians. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: shinny Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪni/ 1. Moonshine. (illegal alcohol) Labels: uncountable Example: Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;.... Example: He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.
Word: chemicals Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɛm.ɪ.kəlz/ 1. plural of chemical Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chemicals Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɛm.ɪ.kəlz/ 1. The chemical industry.
Word: automatism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From automat(on) + -ism. Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒmətɪzəm/ 1. Automatic or involuntary action. Labels: uncountable Example: The automatism of the primary constitution is such that previous experience and conscious effort are not needed; nor will any experience or any effort alter the mode of reaction. If a strong light falls on the eye, the iris contracts; if the eyeball is dry, the eyelid drops; if the soundwaves beat upon the tympanum, the stapedius muscle contracts; if the lining of the throat be tickled, the muscles involved in coughing or in vomiting contract. No experience is necessary for these actions[…] 2. The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus. Labels: uncountable 3. The doctrine that all living beings are entirely controlled by physical or physiological causes, where consciousness is a noncontrolling accessory. Labels: uncountable Example: Whatever is done from Blind Impulse is Automatism rather than Action. Whatever is done from motives of Happiness,—whether it be Indolentia, Pleasure, or Interest,—can be calculated with Mathematical precision. Example: Mr. Lewes thinks that Automatism vanishes if it can be shewn that Man's feelings exercise causal power over his actions; but this alone is far from satisfying Dr. Carpenter. He would still continue to regard Man as an Automaton, unless there is ground for the assurance that Free-will is no illusion. 4. A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it. Labels: uncountable Example: Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression. 5. An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness. Labels: countable Example: [G]eneralising this phenomenon, Mr. Myers has given the name of automatism, sensory or motor, emotional or intellectual, to this whole sphere of effects, due to 'uprushes' into the ordinary consciousness of energies originating in the subliminal parts of the mind. The simplest instance of an automatism is the phenomenon of post-hypnotic suggestion, so-called.
Word: molecular genetics Part of Speech: noun 1. A field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. Labels: uncountable
Word: arty-farty Part of Speech: adj 1. Pretentiously artistic; self-important or self-indulgent, especially when describing an artistic project. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: I've had enough of this arty-farty modern sculpture! Example: The rather disappointing—although unsurprising—message of the Economist article was that tattoos are no longer the edgy insignia of the free spirited but the arty-farty must-have accessory of the middle classes.
Word: arty-farty Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who is arty-farty. Example: The Mersey Sound, an anthology featuring the works of poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, became a best-seller in 1967 and encouraged thousands of working-class teenagers to read poetry; prior to its publication they probably thought poems were for middle-class arty-farties. Example: Gave parties for all the campus arty-farties to come and drink up my booze and patronize me. . . . I could have had you that first night I brought you here.
Word: butterfly fish Part of Speech: noun 1. Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae. 2. Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums. 3. The butterfly cod (Pterois volitans). 4. The ocellated blenny (Opisthocentrus ocellatus). 5. The flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis). 6. Exocoetus volitans, a flying fish of the Atlantic. 7. A chiton, a mollusc of the class Polyplacophora. 8. Any of several brightly colored fishes.
Word: Aegean Sea Part of Speech: name Etymology: Partial calque of Latin Aegaeum mare, itself a partial calque of Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος (Aigaîon pélagos). Pronunciation: /əˈdʒi.ən ˈsi/ 1. A sea in the northeastern part of the Mediterranean. Example: Its old town rises out of the Aegean Sea towards a clifftop Venetian castle in a jumble of white-washed narrow streets, flat rooftops and balconies that provide a perfect, obstacle-filled arena for parkour.
Word: catsup Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkætsəp/ 1. Alternative form of ketchup. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: She ate Roger's French fries, drenched in catsup.
Word: prosecute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōsecūtus, perfect participle of prōsequor. Doublet of pursue, from Old French. Compare also persecute. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒsɪkjuːt/ 1. To start criminal proceedings against. Labels: transitive Example: to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot Example: To acquit themſelves and proſecute their foes 2. To charge, try. Labels: transitive Example: The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts […] 3. To seek to obtain by legal process. Example: to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law 4. To pursue something to the end. Labels: transitive Example: to prosecute a scheme, hope, or an investigation Example: I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?
Word: winsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”). By surface analysis, winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪn.səm/ 1. Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner. Example: […] lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it. Example: Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me? / My ain true luve will ye be? / Then meet me at the trysting tree, / Winsome Annie Ramsay.
Word: flava Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derhotacization of flavor. Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪvə/ 1. flavor Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: nigra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪɡɹə/ 1. A black person. Labels: ethnic, offensive, slur Example: She used the term nigger and its close South Carolina cognate nigra only when quoting others with disapproval.
Word: daybreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From day + break. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪbɹeɪk/ 1. The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.
Word: carob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French carobe, from Arabic خَرُّوب (ḵarrūb), from Classical Syriac ܚܪܘܒܐ (ḥarrūḇā). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəb/ 1. An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fruit of this tree. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A sweet chocolatelike confection made with the pulp of the fruit of this tree. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: magnetic resonance imaging Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique that uses nuclear magnetic resonance to form cross sectional images of the human body for diagnostic purposes. Labels: uncountable 2. An instance of this technique being used; an image made using this technique. Labels: countable Example: Confirmation of the condition is made through radiographs, bone scans, or magnetic resonance imagings (MRI’s). Example: I had blood tests for HIV, hepatitis and scores of other illnesses, and two MRIs (magnetic resonance imagings, which show internal organs) to rule out cancer.
Word: cd Part of Speech: verb 1. Abbreviation of could. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: chocoholic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Nahuatl chocolātlbor. Spanish chocolatebor. English chocolate Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English alcoholic English -holic English chocoholic From choco(late) + -holic. 1. Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it. Labels: informal Example: Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.
Word: chocoholic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Classical Nahuatl chocolātlbor. Spanish chocolatebor. English chocolate Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English alcoholic English -holic English chocoholic From choco(late) + -holic. 1. Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic. Example: At tonight’s table, there are two couples, both here because the man had bought the session for his chocoholic partner as a present […] Example: 2014, Suzanne Loudermilk Haughey, “What’s In a Name?” baltimoremagazine.net, 5 June, 2014, A wedge of chocolate-ganache cake with Kahlua and whipped cream will satisfy any chocoholic cravings.
Word: chocolate chip Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, usually near-conical piece of chocolate. Example: I poured a bag of chocolate chips into the cookie dough mixture. Example: chocolate chip cookies
Word: puta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin putus Latin *putader.? Vulgar Latin *pūtta Old Spanish puta Spanish putabor. English puta Borrowed from Spanish puta. 1. A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc. Labels: uncountable, vulgar Example: Mastrosimone's (antiheroine?) Marjorie lets in a man who quickly drops the small talk, slams her to the floor, and almost smothers her with a pillow as he commands her to say "thank you," "I love you," and "I am your puta." Example: And we told you, man, we have not seen your puta sister.
Word: puta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha པུ་ཏ (pu ta). 1. A Bhutanese noodle dish. Labels: uncountable Example: At high altitudes wheat and buckwheat are the staples. In Bumthang, khule (buckwheat pancakes) and puta (buckwheat noodles) replace rice as the foundation of many meals. Dessert is most often a modest presentation of fruit -apple, banana, pineapple or orange, depending on the season.
Word: access code Part of Speech: noun 1. A typically alphanumeric sequence that permits access to a secure service or network.
Word: house mouse Part of Speech: noun 1. The universally common mouse of the species Mus musculus.
Word: nose flute Part of Speech: noun 1. A flute playing by blowing through one's nose.
Word: musculus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin mūsculus (“a little mouse; a muscle”), diminutive of mūs (“a mouse”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌ.skjʊl.əs/, /ˈmʌ.skjəl.əs/ 1. A muscle.
Word: chiromancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ciromancie, from Middle French chiromantie, chiromancie, from Latin chīromantīa, from Ancient Greek χειρομαντεία (kheiromanteía), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination, fortune-telling”). Equivalent to chiro- + -mancy. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪ.ɹə(ʊ).mæn.si/, /ˈkaɪ.ɹoʊ.mæn.si/ 1. Synonym of palmistry: fortune-telling performed by reading another's hand. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: If they fore-tell things that shall happen by signes that they see in lines of a mans hand; then it is called Chyromancie... Example: Modern palmistry differs from the ancient methods in concentrating on what is called chirognomy at the expense of chiromancy.
Word: sang-froid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sangfroid. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: For all this sang-froid, Professor Frankfurt was heartfelt in his philosophical pursuits.
Word: Ava Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈeɪvə/ 1. A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva. Example: Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory. Example: My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye. 2. A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife. 3. A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning. 4. A locale in the United States. 5. A locale in the United States. 6. A locale in the United States. 7. A locale in the United States. 8. A locale in the United States.
Word: Ava Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Portuguese, from the Upper Burmese pronunciation of အင်းဝ (ang:wa. /⁠ăwá⁠/). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːvə/ 1. An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country. Labels: historical 2. A town in New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.
Word: WLAN Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdʌbəlju.læn/ 1. Initialism of wireless local area network. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: rule nisi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹuːl ˈnaɪsaɪ/ 1. A decree issued by the court that becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not.
Word: ab initio Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Latin ab (“from”) + initiō, ablative singular of initium (“beginning”). Pronunciation: /ˌæb ɪˈnɪʃ.i.oʊ/, /ˌæb əˈnɪt.i.oʊ/, /ˌɑb əˈnɪt.i.oʊ/ 1. From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force. Example: As the Act was passed without the required quorum, the constitutional court struck down the Act and declared it to be void ab initio Example: Any child marriage solemnised in contravention of an injunction order issued under section 13, whether interim or final, shall be void ab initio. 2. Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions. Example: […] this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia. 3. Taken with no prior qualifications.
Word: amicus curiae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin, amīcus (“friend”) + cūriae (“of the court”), genitive singular of cūria (“court”). Pronunciation: /ˈæm.ɪ.kəs ˈkjʊɹ(.i)ˌaɪ/, /əˈmi.kəs-/, /-ˈkjʊɹ(.i)ˌeɪ/ 1. A person or entity who has been allowed by the court to plead or make submissions but who is not directly involved in the action. Labels: US Example: BANNATYNE v BANNATYNE (COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY, AS AMICUS CURIAE) 2003 (2) SA 363 (CC) "The Court admitted as amicus curiae the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) which lodged empirical data on the state of the maintenance system in South Africa and its effect on the rights of women and children in seeking effective relief pursuant to the Maintenance Act (the Act)." Example: MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS v FOURIE (DOCTORS FOR LIFE INTERNATIONAL AND OTHERS, AMICI CURIAE)LESBIAN AND GAY EQUALITY PROJECT AND OTHERS v MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS 2006 (1) SA 524 (CC): "Prior to the hearing, applications were made by Doctors For Life International and its legal representative Mr John Smyth, to be admitted as amici curiae. 2. An independent lawyer, not retained by any party, whom the court has ordered to provide legal submissions regarding the matter in dispute; for example, to provide submissions regarding the situation of an unrepresented litigant or accused person. Labels: Canada
Word: estoppel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *estoppel (found only as stoppel, stoppell, stopple, etc.), probably from Old French estoupail, estopail, estopaille, a bung made of oakum (étoupe), from Latin stuppa ("flax, tow"), from Ancient Greek στύππη (stuppē). 1. A legal principle in the law of equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because of conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, making it unjust for those rights to be asserted. Labels: common, countable, uncountable
Word: grantee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grauntees pl, from Old French granté, participle of granter, equivalent to grant + -ee. 1. The person to whom something is granted. Example: HHS regulations stipulate that there are only limited circumstances in which a grant can be canceled: for cause, such as when the grant fails to comply with the terms and conditions of the award, or with the consent of the grantee. Example: The cancellations, which claimed that the more than 350 already-distributed grants “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities,” sent shockwaves through grantee organizations. […] When news of the cuts first surfaced Tuesday, dozens of grantees gathered on a videoconference to discuss their options, including whether to take legal action.
Word: grantor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman grantour. 1. A person who grants something.
Word: tortfeasor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, tort-faiseur, torfesor, torzfesor (“wrongdoer”), from tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesor, faiseur (“doer”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːtˌfiːzə/, /ˈtɔɹtˌfiːzɚ/ 1. A person who commits a tort. Example: […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”. Example: Damages paid by the settling tortfeasor which are greater than the pro rata amount can easily be attributed to his desire to avoid legal fees and bad press, or misspeculation about the merits and likely outcome of the case.
Word: housewarming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + warming. 1. A party to celebrate moving into a new home. Labels: idiomatic Example: In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. 2. The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home. Example: a housewarming gift Example: They had their first argument on the evening Gadney moved in, their housewarming spat, he later called it.
Word: APY Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of annual percentage yield. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: APY Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara; A local government area of Far North, South Australia, Australia; an Aboriginal Australian governing area. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of