nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: wicket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old East Old Norse víkjask (“to move oneself, move around”), reflexive of víkja, víkva, ýkva (“to yield, turn, move, go”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, bend, turn”). Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪkɪt/, [ˈwɪkɪt], /ˈwɪkət/, [ˈwɪkət] 1. A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one. Example: ...and one, a cool, bold fellow, whom I know well, will unlock the town gate, and—for he has various talents—hopes, through his influence with a pretty daughter of one of the wardens, to leave unbarred a certain wicket in the postern on the seaward side. Example: He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him. 2. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. Example: As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket. 3. A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller Labels: Canada, UK Example: Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars. He admired the permanent way, stretching away on either hand, in the moonlight, and the starlight, as far as the eye could reach, as far as Watt's eye could have reached, if it had been inside the station. 4. a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc. 5. One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman. Example: The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started. 6. A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out. Example: He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84. 7. The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling. Example: He kept the wicket. 8. The period during which two batsmen bat together. 9. The pitch. 10. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand. Example: The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket. 11. Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven. 12. A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to. 13. A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen. Labels: US, dialectal Example: make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit 14. The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working. 15. An angle bracket when used in HTML. Labels: Internet, informal 16. A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
Word: poetaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet + -aster. Pronunciation: /pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)/ 1. An unskilled poet. Example: Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright. Example: Innumerable poetasters of the early eighteenth century enjoyed fame in their day and some possessed talent; but the obscure and trivial style of the age from which they could not free themselves deprived them of any chance of enduring fame.
Word: not in Kansas anymore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the film The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which Dorothy states, “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.” 1. No longer in quiet and comfortable surroundings. Labels: US, colloquial, idiomatic Example: As soon as I walked into that party I thought, "I'm not in Kansas anymore." Example: John Crosbie? A Tory government? You could be forgiven if your first reaction was the feeling that you weren't in Kansas anymore.
Word: 'n' Part of Speech: conj Pronunciation: /ən/, [ən], [n̩] 1. Contraction of and, used mainly in a few set phrases such as rock 'n' roll. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction
Word: notice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin nōtitia. Doublet of notitia. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.tɪs/, /ˈnoʊ.tɪs/, [ˈnoʊ.ɾɪs], /ˈnəʉ.tɪs/, [ˈnəʉ.ɾɪs] 1. The act of observing; perception. Labels: uncountable Example: He took no notice of the changes, and went on as though nothing had happened. Example: Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them. 2. A written or printed announcement. Labels: countable Example: A series of notices signpost patients to the X-ray department. Example: A notice was attached to the building reminding the residents about the five hour water shortage that was happening today. 3. A formal notification or warning. Labels: countable Example: The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice. 4. Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa. Labels: uncountable Example: I gave her her mandatory two weeks' notice and sacked her. Example: I can't work here any longer. I'm giving notice. 5. A published critical review of a play or the like. Labels: countable Example: The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave. 6. Prior notification. Labels: uncountable Example: I don't mind if you want to change the venue; just give me some notice first, OK? Example: I have been with your father and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here with him this night. 7. Attention; respectful treatment; civility. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: notice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin nōtitia. Doublet of notitia. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.tɪs/, /ˈnoʊ.tɪs/, [ˈnoʊ.ɾɪs], /ˈnəʉ.tɪs/, [ˈnəʉ.ɾɪs] 1. To remark upon; to mention. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few. 2. To become aware of; to observe. Labels: transitive Example: Did you notice the flowers in her yard? Example: So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? 3. To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners. 4. To be noticeable; to show. Labels: intransitive Example: The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now. 5. To perceive Jewish influence or responsibility. Labels: Internet, intransitive, slur Example: Coordinate term: pattern noticer Example: Noticing is antiseptic.
Word: fault Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false. Pronunciation: /fɔːlt/, /fɒlt/, /fɔlt/, /fɑlt/, [fɒːlt] 1. Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event. Example: No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game. Example: I told them the pie was still too hot. If they burn their tongues, that's their fault. 2. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw. Example: Despite all her faults, she’s a good person at heart. 3. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw. Example: You're still young, that's your fault. 4. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw. Example: Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults. Example: The time of greatest prevalence of this microörganism, August and September, agreed in general with the occurrence of this cheese fault. Not a single Cheddar cheese was found which turned blue, and as the iron content of Cheddar cheese was low the author regards this as supporting his conclusion that iron is the cause of the fault. 5. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw. Labels: obsolete Example: As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault. 6. A mistake or error. 7. A mistake or error. Example: It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server shall serve again from the same Court from which he served that fault. 8. A mistake or error. Example: If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults. 9. A mistake or error. 10. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected. Example: That might explain why the last three major earthquakes occurred not at San Andreas faults, where it would seem natural to expect them, but in both adjacent fault groups. 11. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected. 12. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected. Example: Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out. 13. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected. 14. want; lack; absence Labels: obsolete Example: one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
Word: fault Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false. Pronunciation: /fɔːlt/, /fɒlt/, /fɔlt/, /fɑlt/, [fɒːlt] 1. To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. Labels: transitive Example: For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee. Example: "There will a team over there [he waves towards York's Rail Operating Centre] like flight engineers, maintaining it and faulting it from a ROC rather than a van by the side of the track." 2. To fracture. Labels: intransitive 3. To commit a mistake or error. Labels: intransitive 4. To undergo a page fault. Labels: intransitive
Word: gentle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“[Roman] clan”). Doublet of gentile, genteel, and jaunty. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛntl̩/, /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/, [ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ɾ̃l̩] 1. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition. Example: Stuart is a gentle man; he would never hurt you. Example: A good heart, these days, is hard to find / So please be gentle with this heart of mine 2. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe. Example: I felt something touch my shoulder; it was gentle and a little slimy. Example: Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light. 3. Docile and easily managed. Example: We had a gentle swim in the lake. Example: a gentle horse 4. Gradual rather than steep or sudden. Example: The walks in this area have a gentle incline. 5. Polite and respectful rather than rude. Example: He gave me a gentle reminder that we had to hurry up. 6. Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble. Labels: archaic Example: "You are of gentle blood," she said […] Example: 1893-1897, Charles Kendall Adams (editor), Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple.
Word: gentle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“[Roman] clan”). Doublet of gentile, genteel, and jaunty. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛntl̩/, /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/, [ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ɾ̃l̩] 1. To become gentle. Labels: intransitive Example: “She's experienced a horrific and nasty scare and is in a state of shock, but otherwise she's relatively okay.” Conrad replied, his tone at first grim (as he recalled what he'd seen in the family room) and then it gentled to a more doctorial tone as he directed his next comments to his patient. 2. To ennoble. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition […] 3. To break; to tame; to domesticate. Labels: transitive Example: Yakima could have tried to catch him, gentle him as Wolf had been gentled, but having two stallions in his cavvy would lead to a different kind of trouble. 4. To soothe; to calm; to make gentle. Labels: transitive Example: A hornist, his playing gentled by perspective, is out of sight within the woods, but his notes are heard through or over the murmuring mix of bird song and breeze in leaves.
Word: gentle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“[Roman] clan”). Doublet of gentile, genteel, and jaunty. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛntl̩/, /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/, [ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ɾ̃l̩] 1. A person of high birth. Labels: archaic Example: Gentles, methinks you frown. Example: While actual medieval societies were full of lots of peasants and a few rich and noble gentles, SCA personas tend to be nobles rather than commoners. 2. A maggot used as bait by anglers. Example: Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles Example: Years ago, on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, the recognised bait for garfish were `gentles', a genteel word for maggots, which were especially grown for gar fishermen. 3. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.
Word: hoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth. Pronunciation: /huːn/, /hun/ 1. A worthless person; a hooligan or lout. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang Example: 'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].' 2. A pimp. Labels: Australia, dated, slang Example: When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street. 3. A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006. Hoon related offences include burnouts, doughnuts, drag racing, repeated driving while disqualified and high-level speeding. Offences are detailed in section 84C of the Road Safety Act 1986. Example: The hoons piled out of the wreck brimming with righteous road rage, and were settling to the task of beating the shit out of Wozza, Mutton and the hapless wheelman when they discovered the plastic bag. 4. An attempt or go at something. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: The stars of Happytime Murders give Kiwi slang a hoon Example: Havin' a hoon on TVNZ's new OnDemand platform
Word: hoon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth. Pronunciation: /huːn/, /hun/ 1. To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, especially Example: […] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed. Example: Cruising, hooning and street machining all involve the social use of public space where young people can exert agency by independently engaging with their surroundings. Young people use public space to meet their needs, and not always in the way a specific space was designed for. One example is that an industrial area may be used as a prime site for hooning and street racers to congregate because it is less frequently under the gaze of authorities.
Word: hoon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown; perhaps imitative. Pronunciation: /huːn/, /hun/ 1. To make a hooting or howling sound. Example: All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt. Example: Black flashing storms, the lowings and bellowings of the old sanded forest, the whistling and hooning of nameless birds, the lonesome moons, the weird fifteen-foot stone dwellers of the Old Priory, soft grassy slopes on which lovers lay, […]
Word: hoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 分 (hun). Doublet of fen and fan. Pronunciation: /huːn/, /hun/ 1. A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen. Labels: historical Example: This abovementioned Chandoo or prepared opium for smoking is retailed by them [the East India Company] at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, […] Example: Visited in company with the agent of the Opium farmer 4 Opium shops, found them filled with Chinese except one which had in addition 7 Malays and natives of India. Amongst these were 3 tailors; one woman 30 years old, was there smoking her pipe,—she had been in the habit of doing so for 3 years at the rate of 3 hoons daily,—before she commenced the habit of smoking had children but none since,—thinks that it is owing to the bad habit,—would like much to give up but is frightened.
Word: hoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हून (hūn, “pagoda, a gold coin of Southern India”), from Sanskrit हून (hūna, “a kind of gold coin from a particular kingdom”). Pronunciation: /huːn/, /hun/ 1. A pagoda, a type of gold coin. Labels: India, historical Example: The plaintiff in his plaint states, that the first and second defendants' elder brother, Soobbiya Shetty, on the 8th Ashweeja Bahoola of the year Veya, mortgaged to him, for 2½ hoons, his two slaves, viz. a female Dher, named Honnoo, and a male Pardeshey, together with their offspring, and made them over to him; that while they were in his possession, Soobba Shetty died, and the first and the second defendants succeeding to his (Soobba Shetty's) property, they further executed a document to him for hoons 4-8-12, on account of a balance against themselves of rice, &c., making a total mortgage on the slaves of hoons 7-3-12.
Word: hyper- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over, above”) (English over), from *upo (“under, below”) (whence English up). Doublet of over-, super-, sur-, and uber-. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪpə/, /ˈhaɪpəɹ/, [ˈhʌɪpɚ], /ˈhɑɪpə/ 1. Forms augmentative forms of the root word. Labels: morpheme 2. Forms augmentative forms of the root word. Labels: morpheme 3. Forms augmentative forms of the root word. Labels: morpheme Example: hyper- → hyperactive 4. Forms augmentative forms of the root word. Labels: morpheme 5. Forms augmentative forms of the root word. Labels: morpheme 6. Used to create forms that are found beyond the root. Labels: morpheme Example: hyper- → hypersonic 7. Used to create forms that are found beyond the root. Labels: morpheme Example: hyper- → hyperspace 8. Used to create forms that are found beyond the root. Labels: morpheme Example: hyper- → hypertext
Word: Katyusha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Катю́ша (Katjúša) diminutive of Ка́тя (Kátja, “Katya”), in turn diminutive of Екатери́на (Jekaterína, “Katherine”), named after a popular wartime song. Pronunciation: /kəˈt(j)uːʃə/ 1. A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Катюша (Katjuša) 2. A type of artillery rocket launcher consisting of an array of rockets mounted on a truck, originated in the Soviet Union. Example: The Russian Katyusha is a multiple rocket thrower of which nothing is known except what can be seen on released photographs. 3. A type of rocket which can be launched from a Katyusha. Example: The development of these projectors was spurred During World War II, the Soviet Union fired Katyusha rockets from the ground or truck mounted racks. The standard Katyushas were 6 feet long, weighed 92.5 pounds, and had a range of 3 miles. Example: A curfew was clamped down on December 21 upon the Arab village of Battir, south of Jerusalem, near where security forces on December 20 found the rocket launchers from which two Katyushas were earlier fired into a Jerusalem residential area.
Word: Panzer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of panzer. Labels: alt-of
Word: girt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”). Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. Example: There are various ways of tying rafters to sidewalls, and the choices may vary depending on roof pitch. One of the most common is the use of “birdsmouths” cut into the rafter. A notch is cut into the rafter so that the rafter bears down flat upon the doubled top plate of stick framing, or upon the girt in heavy timber framing.
Word: girt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”). Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. To gird. 2. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. 3. To measure the girth of.
Word: girt Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. simple past and past participle of gird Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoſe, and very ſtrong Cords of the bigneſs of Packthread were faſtned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs.
Word: girt Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide. Labels: not-comparable
Word: girt Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.
Word: girt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great. Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: girt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ellipsis of girt by sea, from the Australian National Anthem Pronunciation: /ɡɜːt/, /ɡɝt/ 1. (Of a country) To by surrounded by sea. Labels: Australia Example: Americans being so mad about Australia being better in the olympic swimming is soooooo good like you guys aren't even girt how can you think for a second you make for good competition?
Word: Panzerfaust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree German Panzer German Faust German Panzerfaustbor. English Panzerfaust Borrowed from German Panzerfaust. 1. A light, single-shot anti-tank grenade launcher developed in Germany in the latter stages of the Second World War. Example: Apparently the air raid had caught the Volkssturm soldier in the village as he was transporting a supply of six panzerfausts in a handcart to another unit. Klemment wished he would hand over the panzerfausts to them, because he knew the Americans had tanks, and Klemment's unit had nothing in their arsenal to stop the metal monsters.
Word: purlin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Information on the etymology is scant at best. According to Websters it comes from 15th-century English. According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary, it is "Middle English, perhaps of French origin". Other sources reference Middle English or 15th-century English. Pronunciation: [ˈpɜːɹlɪn] 1. A longitudinal structural member bridging two or more rafters of a roof. Example: The loft was broad and high, with splendid rough-cut oak purlins and three large Veluxes.
Word: Kessel Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. Labels: countable 2. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: SMERSH Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Russian СМЕРШ (SMJeRŠ), an acronym of «Смерть шпионам!» («Smertʹ špionam!», “Death to spies!”). 1. Counter-intelligence organisation attached to Russian army units during World War II. Labels: historical
Word: freezer burn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The term first appears c. 1929 in the scientific journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 1. A condition that occurs when frozen food has been damaged by dehydration and oxidation due to air reaching the food. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: butter up Part of Speech: verb 1. To flatter, especially with the intent of personal gain. Labels: figuratively, informal, transitive Example: He takes every opportunity to butter up the boss. Example: I'm not a cobb of corn, so you can stop butterin' me up. I don't need you to tell me how good my coffee is.
Word: Stavka Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian ставка (stavka). 1. Soviet armed forces headquarters during World War 2, directly under the control of Stalin.
Word: exemplify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English exemplifien, from Middle French exemplifier and its etymon Medieval Latin exemplificō, from Latin exemplum (“example”). Pronunciation: /ɛɡˈzɛmplɪfaɪ/, /ɪɡˈzɛmplɪfaɪ/ 1. To show or illustrate by example. Labels: ambitransitive Example: This slowness is very detrimental to its adoption: I will exemplify—I had cured a lady of a tiny tumour m her nose; she was pleased and grateful, and subsequently brought to me her niece, on whom the doctors were about to operate for a small ovarian tumour; I cured this tumour also, but it occupied two years or thereabouts, and then aunt and niece both persuaded a friend, a lady residing at Shepherd’s Bush, to come to me. How long did I think it would take to cure her ovarian tumour? At least two years. I prefer the operation said she, that will only take six weeks. But it took less—she died under or shortly after the operation. 2. To be an instance of or serve as an example. Labels: transitive Example: [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD. Example: Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats. 3. To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal. Labels: transitive 4. To prove by such an attested copy or transcript. Labels: transitive
Word: iconstasis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of iconostasis. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: parallelogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin parallelogrammum, from Ancient Greek παράλληλος (parállēlos, “parallel”) + γραμμή (grammḗ, “line”). Pronunciation: /ˌpæ.ɹəˈlɛl.əˌɡɹæm/ 1. A convex quadrilateral in which each pair of opposite edges are parallel and of equal length. 2. either of two rectangular areas (respectively the large parallelogram and the small parallelogram) abutting the goal line in front of the goal. (Since 1986 officially named the large rectangle and small rectangle, though the older names are still occasionally used.) Labels: dated Example: 2 Marking of ground — … A five yard square shall be marked in front of each goal, having the goal posts at adjacent angles. A five yards square shall be marked out in front of each point space, having a goal post and a point post at adjacent angles. There will be thus formed in front of scoring area a parallelogram fifteen yards by five yards. Example: Two parallelograms of the dimensions set out hereunder shall be formed in front of each scoring space. One parallelogram, 14 mts. by 4.5 mts. shall be formed by two lines 4.5 mts. long and at right angles to the end-line, being marked 3.80 mts. from each goal-post, and the ends of these lines being joined. A larger parallelogram 19 mts. by 13 mts. shall be formed by two lines 13 mts. long and at right angles to the end-line, being marked 6.4 mts. from each goal-post, and the ends of these lines being joined.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of chock. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters. Example: Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied. 2. Food. Labels: US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable Example: “Hambone, how's for chuck?” Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.” 3. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88, I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required. Example: Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of chock. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning. 2. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chuk, of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of a hen's cluck. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. A chicken, a hen. Labels: dialectal, obsolete 2. A clucking sound. Example: The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain chucks in preference to calls that contain no chucks. 3. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. Labels: slang Example: Are you all right, chuck? Example: Pray, chuck, come hither.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chukken, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. To make a clucking sound. 2. To call, as a hen her chickens. Example: Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call To chuck his wives together in the hall. 3. To chuckle; to laugh. Labels: obsolete Example: Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. A gentle touch or tap. Example: She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin. 2. A casual throw. Labels: informal 3. A throw, an incorrect bowling action. Labels: informal 4. An act or instance of vomiting. Labels: slang 5. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. To touch or tap gently. Example: [Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you? 2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Chuck that magazine to me, would you? 3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action. Labels: intransitive 4. To discard, to throw away. Labels: informal, transitive Example: This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it. Example: When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […] 5. To jilt; to dump. Labels: informal, transitive Example: She's chucked me for another man! 6. To give up; to stop doing; to quit. Labels: dated, informal, transitive Example: "When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not." 7. To vomit. Labels: intransitive, slang 8. To leave; to depart; to bounce. Labels: South-Africa, intransitive, slang Example: Let's chuck. 9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From woodchuck. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. Abbreviation of woodchuck. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, page 50, Chucks are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did.
Word: chuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chuck (“to toss”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. A small pebble. Labels: Scotland 2. Money. Labels: Scotland, in-plural, obsolete, slang
Word: chuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of nunchuck, variant of nunchaku. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/ 1. A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Walloon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”). Cognate to English Welsh/Wales, the second part of Cornwall, and first part of walnut, as well as Gaul and Wallachia. Pronunciation: /wəˈluːn/ 1. A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet). Example: By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.
Word: Walloon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”). Cognate to English Welsh/Wales, the second part of Cornwall, and first part of walnut, as well as Gaul and Wallachia. Pronunciation: /wəˈluːn/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Wallonia. Example: when I was young I did seeke to serue, both in England, Fraunce, and Scotland, to that end I might the better doo my Prince and Countrye seruice, and also to sustaine myselfe, who otherwaies was not able to liue as I did desire to doo: wheras I learned to know the vse of most weapons of warre both for Horsemen and footmen, that are or haue beene vsed in this age, with as good Schoolemaisters as any Italian, Spaniard or Wallon whatsoeuer, hath been or now is. 2. A speaker of Walloon (as above).
Word: Walloon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”). Cognate to English Welsh/Wales, the second part of Cornwall, and first part of walnut, as well as Gaul and Wallachia. Pronunciation: /wəˈluːn/ 1. Of, from or relating to Wallonia. Labels: not-comparable Example: The valerouse, and prudent Earle of Isimburque uppon the firste aduice of Captaine Barri, touching the quantitie and presumtion of the enemy, drew on vnto the field, and with great expedition brauelie ordered, and deuided his almain, and vallon Infanterie, into two squadrons, in forme of broad front with amostualerous determintion to incounter and giue battel to the enemy if need did require. 2. Of or relating to the Walloon language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: kissaten Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶店(きっさてん) (kissaten, literally “tea-drinking shop”). 1. A type of Japanese coffee shop. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: We went Christmas shopping around the eki, saw all the Christmas decorations, and had great desert [sic] in a kissaten. Everything was beautiful. Example: In Japan, my sister, mother and I would snap awake at an impolite time and ease our way downstairs into the damp morning air. Nagoya, my hometown, has a rich and extensive culture of kissatens, or coffeehouses, some of which would open as early as 7 a.m.
Word: Nebuchadnezzar Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏneʾṣṣár), a corruption of earlier נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏreʾṣṣár), from Akkadian 𒀭𒀝𒃻𒁺𒋀 (Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, “Nabu protect my heir”). Pronunciation: /ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzə/, /ˌnɛbəkədˈnɛzɚ/, /ˌnɛbəkəˈnɛzɚ/ 1. A ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty who reigned c. 605 B.C.E. – 562 B.C.E. According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Israelites into exile.
Word: Nebuchadnezzar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏneʾṣṣár), a corruption of earlier נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏreʾṣṣár), from Akkadian 𒀭𒀝𒃻𒁺𒋀 (Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, “Nabu protect my heir”). Pronunciation: /ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzə/, /ˌnɛbəkədˈnɛzɚ/, /ˌnɛbəkəˈnɛzɚ/ 1. A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 15 liters, equivalent to 20 standard bottles.
Word: ocha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese お茶 (ocha), from 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”), from Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae), whence English cha. 1. Japanese tea, usually green tea. Labels: uncountable Example: Right now I am drinking ocha and listening to the rain whipping across the windowpanes. Example: In the winters, they would sit together in the tiny attic space that the old man had been occupying in the house for the past 25 years and drink hot ocha as Rakesh-7 wove together seemingly simple threads into complex and detailed narrations […]
Word: CCG Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of collectible card game. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of customizable card game. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: But playtesting had been the first game’s secret weapon, a lesson (like many of the testers themselves) taken from Giovannetti’s background playing CCGs, in particular the much-missed Android: Netrunner. 3. Initialism of clinical commissioning group. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CCG Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Canadian Coast Guard. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: viviparous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vīviparus, from vīvus (“alive, life, living”) + pariō (“give birth, produce, bring forth”). Pronunciation: /vɪˈvɪpəɹəs/ 1. Being born alive, as are most mammals, some reptiles, and a few fish (as opposed to being laid as an egg and subsequently hatching, as do most birds and many other species). Labels: not-comparable 2. Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates). Labels: not-comparable
Word: tango Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/, [ˈtʰæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯], /ˈtæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯/, [ˈtʰæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯], /ˈtæ̝ŋɡɔʊ̯/ 1. A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. 2. A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine. 3. A piece of music suited to such a dance. 4. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
Word: tango Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/, [ˈtʰæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯], /ˈtæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯/, [ˈtʰæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯], /ˈtæ̝ŋɡɔʊ̯/ 1. To dance the tango. 2. To mingle or interact (with each other). Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.
Word: tango Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above). 1. Alternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet. Labels: alt-of 2. A target; an enemy. Labels: US, slang Example: Tango down! Example: The two tangoes running toward the carnage at the prison door dropped simultaneously, dead in their tracks.
Word: syringe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French syringe (“syringe”), from Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx (“reed, panpipe”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Doublet of syrinx. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane. Example: In Kelly’s case, once the baby was admitted to the hospital, she began to use formula, fed through a syringe—she was told to avoid bottles because the baby would reject the breast. 2. A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe. Example: an ear syringe
Word: syringe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French syringe (“syringe”), from Latin sȳringem, accusative of sȳrinx (“reed, panpipe”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Doublet of syrinx. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒ/, /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To clean or rinse by means of a syringe. Labels: transitive Example: Have your ears syringed! They're so dirty! 2. To inject by means of a syringe. Labels: transitive
Word: habena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *haβēō Latin habeō Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -na Latin habenabor. English habena Borrowed from Latin habena. 1. A restricting bandage or frenum
Word: masculism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mascul(ine) + -ism, as opposed to feminism. Doublet of machismo. Pronunciation: /ˈmæskjəlɪzm/ 1. Advocacy of men's rights. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] proposing the development of a counter corrective movement to be called "Masculism" — lady, I thank thee for that word! — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men. […] In his plea for masculism John Macy defies the champions of present-day feminism. Example: Unfortunately, masculism also has a tendency to adopt the less constructive traits and tactics of modern feminism, including polarizing rhetoric, exaggerated claims of victimization as the basis of political demands, and the tailoring of facts to fit ideology. 2. Support for patriarchy / male domination of women; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The ages of masculism are now drawing to a close. Their dying days are lit up by a final flare of universal violence and despair such as the world has seldom before seen. Example: Fascism, fully revealed, is the extreme, exquisite expression of masculism, of patriarchy, and thus the natural enemy of feminism, its quintessential opposite. 3. Sexism in favor of men. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Masculism, the form of sexism practiced in our culture, has many facets, and we shall explore them in Chapter 2. Here we need only say that masculism is in part the mistaking of male perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, standards, values, and perceptions for all human perceptions. Example: It often takes a crisis of some sort to initiate the difficult but empowering feminist process of renegotiating the masculisms that dominate the discourses of origin, authenticity and belonging in a way that transforms margins into frontiers, lack into (ad)vantage.
Word: sphygmomanometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sphygmo- (“pulse”) + manometer. Pronunciation: /ˌsfɪɡməʊməˈnɒmɪtə/, /ˌsfɪɡmoʊməˈnɑmɪtɚ/ 1. A device used to measure blood pressure. Example: Sphygmomanometer. — Very recently, Professor S. von Basch has introduced* an instrument, to which he gives the above name, for the purpose of estimating the blood-pressure in the human subject, and which has undoubtedly considerable clinical value. Example: Diagnostic monitoring of the pulse became linked to study of blood pressure, for which the sphygmomanometer was devised.
Word: prego Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of preggo. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Just a note (so that I can say something...) I've never had good luck with A.I. I tried to get my Tarentaise heifer (cow) A.I.ed with this fantastic bull's semen...did all my research, spent months putting this thing together. We A.I.ed her....preg tested later and she was prego.
Word: dietary fibre Part of Speech: noun 1. Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract. Labels: uncountable
Word: mostly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *maiz Proto-Germanic *maistaz Proto-Germanic *maist Proto-West Germanic *maist Old English mǣst Middle English English most Middle English -ly English -ly English mostly From most + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊstli/, /ˈmoʊstli/, /ˈmoʊsli/ 1. Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole. Labels: not-comparable Example: They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes. Example: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. 2. To the greatest extent; most. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!