nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Greenwich Time Signal Part of Speech: noun 1. A time signal transmitted on radio by the BBC every hour and consisting of five short beeps followed by a longer one, with the longer one coinciding with the start of the hour. Labels: UK
Word: polacca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian polacca. 1. Alternative form of polacre. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. polonaise (dance or music)
Word: blacken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black + -en (verbal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈblækən/ 1. To cause to be or become black. Labels: causative, transitive Example: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. 2. To become black. Labels: ergative, intransitive Example: The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in. 3. To make dirty. Labels: causative, transitive 4. To defame or sully. 5. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan. Labels: transitive
Word: normally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor. Etruscanbor.? Latin norma Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nōrmālisder. English normal 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 normally From normal + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.mə.li/, /ˈnɔɹ.mə.li/, /ˈnɔ.mə.li/, /ˈnoː.mə.li/ 1. Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time Example: Normally, I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9. Example: It comes from the Latin insurgo, meaning “to rise up within”: so insurrectionists are, etymologically, the same as “insurgents”, even if that is normally a word for those who do not meekly accept western military rule. 2. In the expected or customary manner. Example: Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up. 3. To a usual or customary extent or degree. Example: He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so. Example: An even more important reason is that our generation is not only normally ignorant but abnormally so. That is, we not only have scholars who do not know the history of the church's testimony, but we have those who tell it like it was not. 4. In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.
Word: storage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store English store Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English storage From store + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈstɔɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈstoː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The act of storing goods; the state of being stored. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There's a lot of storage in the loft. 2. An object or place in which something is stored. Labels: countable, usually Example: Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record. Example: 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115, Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas storages, salt-cave gas storages and aquifer storages. 3. Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system. Example: Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on. 4. The price charged for storing goods. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: storage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store English store Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English storage From store + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈstɔɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈstoː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To put into storage; to store. Labels: transitive
Word: gran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of granny. Pronunciation: /ɡɹæn/, /ɡɹan/, /ɡɾan/, /ɡɹæːn/, /ɡɹɛn/ 1. A grandmother. Labels: endearing, informal, usually
Word: gran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of grandfather or grandpa. Pronunciation: /ɡɹæn/, /ɡɹan/, /ɡɾan/, /ɡɹæːn/, /ɡɹɛn/ 1. A grandfather. Labels: endearing, informal, rare, usually
Word: sizing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪzɪŋ/ 1. A gelatinous glue for glazing or sizing canvas, paper, plaster or wood; often made from animal skins. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Paste. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A weak glue used in various trades; size. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student. Labels: UK, countable, dated, uncountable
Word: sizing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of size Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bricklayer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brekelayeer, brekelayer, equivalent to brick + layer. 1. A craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks. Example: What’s interesting, when you look past all the hysterical bullshit about brown people and trans kids and the imaginary woke mind virus, is that Hanson’s new converts in Farrer and South Australia are angry about the same shit as everyone else, whether that’s a Lebanese-Australian bricklayer in Claymore, an Indian dental nurse in Ipswich, or some lentil-muffin-eating, lumpy-jumper-wearing goat yoga enthusiast in Teal Town.
Word: hod carrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of hod + carrier. 1. A bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod. Example: I shall have my eye punched out by a total abstinence fist, or my nose broken by Sobriety's flagstaff, or my skull fractured by a temperate shillelagh! Yes; I shall be brained by yonder red-headed hod-carrier, with the muddy knees,—who, for all his uproarious support of the element, would as soon be choked as drink Boyne Water!
Word: voter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vote + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈvəʊtə(ɹ)/, /ˈvoʊtɚ/ 1. Someone who votes. Example: The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped. Example: "Until relatively recently, there was a Midwestern rural white voter who was distinct from a southern rural white voter," Mr. Rosenfeld said. "There was a real progressive tradition in the Midwest uncoopted by Jim Crow and racial issues."
Word: teachable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English techeable, techeabyll, techeabylle, equivalent to teach + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃəbəl/, [ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃəbəl] ~ [ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃəbl̩] 1. Capable of being taught; apt to learn. 2. Willing to receive instruction or to learn; docile. 3. That can be taught. Example: Common sense is not a teachable subject. 4. Facilitating teaching; instructive. Example: Such natural opportunities for social learning become teachable moments, in which children are motivated to learn new strategies.
Word: teachable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English techeable, techeabyll, techeabylle, equivalent to teach + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃəbəl/, [ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃəbəl] ~ [ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃəbl̩] 1. A major or minor academic concentration that is an acceptable prerequisite for certain teaching certifications or teacher education programs. Labels: informal
Word: docility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French docilité, from Latin docilitas. 1. The quality of being docile. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?
Word: parish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/, /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/, /ˈpaɾɪʃ/ 1. An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. Example: With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Example: Near-synonym: vicarate 2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish. 3. An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live. Labels: US 4. In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county. Example: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers. 5. In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
Word: parish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/, /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/, /ˈpaɾɪʃ/ 1. To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes. Labels: transitive Example: […] [m]akes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance […] Example: Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup. 2. To visit residents of a parish. Labels: intransitive Example: […] a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual." Example: "You will take pleasure in parishing. Mother used to parish." "How do you know I like parishing?" "Your uncle said so." "Oh! did he?" "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."
Word: parish Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/, /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/, /ˈpaɾɪʃ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary–marry–merry merger English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: parish church Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parische chirche; equivalent to parish + church. 1. A church that serves as the religious centre of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.
Word: parish register Part of Speech: noun 1. A book, held in a parish church, in which baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded.
Word: burial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English biriel, a backformation from biriels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from from Old English byrġels, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi.əl/, /ˈbɝi.əl/ 1. The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His whole family was present at his burial. Example: The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.
Word: protirement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of pro- + retirement; coined by Arthur Godfrey, according to the article Let's Protire, The American Mercury, January 1961. 1. Early retirement from professional work with the positive idea of pursuing something more fulfilling. Labels: uncountable Example: 1961. George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken The American Mercury, p. 92, In other words, retirement connotes regression, whereas protirement would mean progression. ... Arthur Godfrey was right! "Retirement" is a dirty word. Example: 1998, John S. Murphy, Frederic M. Hudson The Joy of Old, Geode Press, 1998, (Amazon.Com book review), Retire? Thats something you do to a wheel. The authors suggest Protirement instead
Word: clandestine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin clandestīnus (“secret, concealed”); compare French clandestin. Pronunciation: /klænˈdɛst(a)ɪn/, /klænˈdɛs.tən/, /ˈklændɪst(a)ɪn/, /ˈklændəst(a)ɪn/ 1. Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose. Example: clandestine military operations Example: Monimia, who while she yielded to his earnest entreaties had always felt, from the natural rectitude of her understanding, the impropriety of their clandestine correspondence, would, he feared, be more than ever sensible of her indiscretion, when she found that a servant was entrusted with it... 2. Not recognized as a regular member.
Word: secretive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English secretife, equivalent to secret + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkɹɪtɪv/, /ˈsiːkɹətɪv/ 1. Having an inclination to secrecy. Example: She's a secretive girl, not giving away much about her life. Example: Why are you acting all secretive? What are you hiding?
Word: secretive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English secrete Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English secretive From secrete + -ive. Pronunciation: /səˈkɹiːtɪv/ 1. Relating to secretion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: undercover Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under + cover. Pronunciation: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/ 1. Performed or happening in secret. 2. Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
Word: undercover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under + cover. Pronunciation: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who works undercover. Example: Then there's the heterosexual, open-mined ^([sic]) entourage who loves us dearly and are our best friends. They laugh at our humor and understand our sorrow. For they are rare and unique in prison. But the vipers always ruin things. They refer to our straight friends as "Closet-Cases," "Undercovers," and "Flip-Floppers."
Word: undercover Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under + cover. Pronunciation: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/ 1. To provide too little coverage. Example: The estimates of bias reported here depend on the assumption that 6- to 14-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as children 0 to 14 years old and that 16- to 17-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as 16- to 19-year-olds. Example: To oversimplify, if black males age 20 to 29 are undercovered by 50 percent, then the first stage sampling weights for black males age 20 to 29 are doubled to properly sum to known population totals.
Word: cloak-and-dagger Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Calque of French de cape et d'épée (“of the cloak and the sword”); first attested 1840. The French term referred to a genre of drama in which the main characters wore cloaks and had swords. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the “cloak and sword” term in 1840, whereas Charles Dickens preferred “cloak and dagger” a year later. 1. Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved. Example: Israel wages cloak-and-dagger war on Iran [headline] Example: Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses.
Word: secrecy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration (on model of primacy, etc) of Late Middle English secretee, from Old French secré. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkɹəsi/ 1. Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I was sworn to secrecy. Example: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. 2. The habit of keeping secrets. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: concealment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). By surface analysis, conceal + -ment. Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːlmənt/ 1. The practice of keeping secrets. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: weapons concealment Example: act of concealment 2. The condition of being hidden or concealed. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. protection from observation or surveillance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: surveillance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigilāre (“to be watchful”). More at vigilant. Pronunciation: /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/, /səˈveɪ.ləns/, /səɾˈveː.ləns/ 1. Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The surveillance program includes at least 480 LPRs that scan and record about 16.2 million vehicles per week and stores that data for two years, he wrote in the court filing. 2. Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Lady Anne appeared in a week or two to have greatly recovered her appetite, and she talked much of the benefit derived from her native air, in order to gain which, she constantly drove out in Lord Rotheles's carriages, and appeared to derive comfort from her admiration of his beautiful bays; beyond this Helen could not perceive that her airings were useful, as her cough increased exceedingly, and all the visitants at the castle expressed surprise "that she did not place herself under the surveillance of one or other of the great physicians of the metropolis." 3. Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty. Example: Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry’s collection and sale of user data. “This is surveillance,” he continued. 4. In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: suspicion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion. Pronunciation: /səˈspɪʃ.ən/ 1. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment. Example: His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him. 2. The condition of being suspected. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Uncertainty, doubt. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion. 4. A trace, or slight indication. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a suspicion of a smile Example: The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion[…]of saturnine or sarcastic humor. 5. The imagining of something without evidence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: suspicion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion. Pronunciation: /səˈspɪʃ.ən/ 1. To suspect; to have suspicions. Labels: dialectal Example: “Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody would suspicion us that saw us.” Example: Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]
Word: suspect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”). Pronunciation: /səˈspɛkt/, /səˈspekt/ 1. To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof. Labels: transitive Example: to suspect the presence of disease Example: From her hand I could suspect no ill. 2. To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone). Labels: transitive Example: to suspect the truth of a story Example: An inhabitant of Gubio, in the duchy of Urbino, in Italy, suspecting the fidelity of his wife, he, in a fit of jealousy, in order to find out whether his suspicion was true, did what the ecclesiastick history informs us Origen did from devotion. 3. To believe (someone) to be guilty. Labels: transitive Example: I suspect him of being the thief. 4. To have suspicion. Labels: intransitive 5. To look up to; to respect. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: suspect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌspɛkt/, /ˈsɐspekt/, /ˈsʊspɛkt/ 1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime. Example: 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch Round up the usual suspects.
Word: suspect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌspɛkt/, /ˈsɐspekt/, /ˈsʊspɛkt/ 1. Viewed with suspicion; suspected. Example: What I can do or offer is suspect. Example: In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans. 2. Viewing with suspicion; suspecting. Labels: nonstandard Example: Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.
Word: imagine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/, /əˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/, /ɘˈmɛd͡ʒ.ɘn/ 1. To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind. Labels: transitive Example: Try to imagine a pink elephant. Example: Imagine yourself in a packed airport lounge. 2. To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false. Labels: transitive Example: She imagined that the man wanted to kill her. Example: There's nothing there; you're just imagining things. 3. To assume; to suppose. Labels: transitive Example: I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight. 4. To conjecture; to guess. Labels: transitive Example: I cannot even imagine what you are up to! Example: The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25% 5. To use one's imagination. Labels: intransitive Example: Imagine that we were siblings. 6. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: How long wil ye imagine miſchiefe againſt a man? 7. Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through. Labels: Internet, sarcastic, transitive Example: Imagine thinking that would work.
Word: imagine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/, /əˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/, /ɘˈmɛd͡ʒ.ɘn/ 1. A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity. Labels: slang Example: Some imagines are more sexual and creepy than others: "Imagine Stiles walking in on you giving Scott a blowjob." Example: i personally like imagines and fanfics so i found a good amount of kylo ren x reader fics and started going through them.
Word: bizarre Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French). Pronunciation: /bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/, /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/, /bɪˈzɑɹ/, /bəˈzɑɹ/ 1. Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way. Example: That was a bizarre adventure! Example: […]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”
Word: bizarre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French). Pronunciation: /bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/, /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/, /bɪˈzɑɹ/, /bəˈzɑɹ/ 1. Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. 2. Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. Example: Another singular feature in the tulip is, that after it breaks, it ever remains the same, and never returns to its self-color again. The show or fancy tulips are divided into three classes:— 1. Bybloemen, or violets, such as have a white ground, variegated with purple or violet, the edges well feathered, the leaflets erect, and the whole forming a perfect cup. 2. Bizarres, having a yellow ground, variegated with rose, scarlet, purple, or violet. 3. Roses, with white ground color, variegated with rosy-red, pink, or soft rose.
Word: unconventional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English convention English -al English conventional English unconventional From un- + conventional. 1. Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards. 2. Out of the ordinary. 3. Atypical. Example: The other two banned titles are The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption, which features a lesbian couple, and Who’s In My Family: All About Our Families, which describes unconventional parental set-ups.
Word: unconventional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English convention English -al English conventional English unconventional From un- + conventional. 1. Something or someone that is unconventional.
Word: atypical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English typical English atypical From a- + typical. Pronunciation: /eɪˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/ 1. Not conforming to the normal type. Example: The condition also has an associated atypical development of the retina and optic nerve misrouting, resulting in significant vision issues. 2. Unusual or irregular.
Word: atypical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English typical English atypical From a- + typical. Pronunciation: /eɪˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/ 1. An atypical antipsychotic.
Word: mutate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult. Pronunciation: /mjuːˈteɪt/, /ˈmju.teɪt/ 1. To undergo mutation. Labels: intransitive Example: The virus has mutated into a more resilient version. 2. To cause mutation. Labels: transitive
Word: mutatis mutandis Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin mūtātīs mūtandīs (“with [the things] to be changed having been changed”). Pronunciation: /m(j)uːˌtɑːtɪs muːˈtandɪs/, /m(j)uˌtɑtəs m(j)uˈtɑndəs/, /mjuˌteɪtəs mjuˈtændəs/ 1. With the necessary changes being made; with the necessary modifications; with such changes as are necessary to ensure congruence. Labels: especially, not-comparable Example: And like billes, mutatis mutandis, were put In ayenst Gloucestre & Worcestre Example: 26 May 1564. M. to Mr. Tipton, and another (mutatis mutandis) to Mr. Cuerton. Pp. 3.
Word: beautification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1600, from beautify (“to make beautiful”) + -ication. Pronunciation: /bjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: prettification Example: Thanks to the beautification efforts, the appearance of the highway has vastly improved.
Word: macrophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From macro- + -philia. 1. A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to giants. Labels: uncountable Example: "This guy's into microphilia — or is it macrophilia? He gets off on being made to feel that he's really small." "You're joking," I replied. "No, I'm not." "And I thought my fantasies about gladiators were kinky." Example: The giantess fetish, whether it's macrophilia or microphilia, is a pretty unique one. What y'all want is to be made to feel tiny by a bigger, stronger, superior woman.
Word: maverick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick. The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”. Pronunciation: /ˈmævəɹɪk/ 1. Unbranded. Example: Occasionally some young men who have no cattle of their own will take part in these expeditions, or they will give their services by the year to receive a pro rata of all the maverick cattle that may be found. [Quoted from The Texas New Yorker, pages 110–111.] Example: But I would rather have maverick cattle, they are more accustomed to range conditions. My cattle from the registered herd have not done too well. 2. Showing independence in thoughts or actions. Example: He made a maverick decision. She is such a maverick person. Example: A maverick person tends to be wild, unsettled, and irresponsible, often an outlaw not bound by the rules and mores of society.
Word: maverick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick. The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”. Pronunciation: /ˈmævəɹɪk/ 1. An unbranded range animal. Example: In this distribution, care is taken to leave not only those which bear the owner's mark and brand, but his due proportion of the mavericks* that have been found upon the expedition. [footnote: *The term "maverick" is applied in this country to all animals that have neither mark nor brand upon them, and originated in this way:[…]] Example: Under this law 2,035 mavericks (orphan calves) were discovered and disposed of by the round-up foremen. Formerly the custom was to brand mavericks with the brand of the owner of that portion of the range where they were found. Under the new law, all mavericks are branded with the association brand, and sold at auction. 2. Anything dishonestly obtained. Labels: broadly 3. One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. Labels: broadly Example: Among historians he was a maverick because of his belief that history is meaningless. Example: As a voter, I’m a maverick, don’t belong to any party. I believe that John Doe is the best available man for county commissioner, Richard Roe for sheriff, Joe Hicks for governor—but John is a Democrat, Dick is a Republican, and Joe is—well, something else. 4. One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices. Labels: broadly Example: We then drift back into our old habits, glorify efficiency, and smile knowingly at the mavericks within the faculty who want the administration to take democracy seriously. Example: Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills. 5. A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person. Example: They had been working for and with each other for a very long period and their tolerance for “mavericks” was very high, especially if these mavericks continued to get promoted. 6. A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em. Labels: slang
Word: maverick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick. The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”. Pronunciation: /ˈmævəɹɪk/ 1. To take an unbranded range animal. Labels: US Example: The court permitted the State to prove, over defendant's objections, that Thedford met Noon Tucker and Calvery driving the yearling over to Bachelor's for delivery. Thedford inquired of Noon “if that [meaning the yearling] was one he had mavericked?” Example: For the capricious and uncertain favor of this the only marriageable young lady in the district, all the susceptible and unattached cowboys (of which class the population almost wholly consisted) strove together eagerly and without ceasing, mavericking right and left everything they could lay their hands on, with a running brand L I L, until, when the tenderfoot she had all along been engaged to came out and married her, she brought him great herds of L I L cattle, with which they gayly set up a ranch beneath the noses of the forlorn celibate community. 2. To seize without a legal claim. Labels: broadly
Word: tautomerism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tautomer Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English tautomerism From tautomer + -ism. 1. A form of isomerism in which a dynamic equilibrium between multiple isomers exists, such as that between an enol and a ketone. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mass number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of atomic mass number. 1. The total number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. Symbol: A Labels: physical
Word: equilibrium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aequilībrium, from equal + lībra (“balance”). Pronunciation: /ɛkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/, /iːkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/ 1. The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change. Example: To Hydroſtaticks belong whatever relates to the Gravities and Equilibria of Liquors; with the Art of weighing Bodies in Water, in order to eſtimate the ſpecifick Gravities. Example: 1999, The Matrix, Agent Smith speech Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. 2. Mental balance. Example: Tiffany Pollard: What just happened?! Eric Andre: That coffee mug is broken. Tiffany Pollard: I can't take this. This is gonna mess up my equilibrium. 3. The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same. 4. The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero. Example: It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.
Word: poise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English poys, poyse, from Anglo-Norman pois, Middle French pois (“weight”) and Anglo-Norman poise, Middle French poise (“measure of weight”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh, ponder, think”). Doublet of peise. Pronunciation: /pɔɪz/ 1. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise 2. Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A condition of hovering, or being suspended. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […] 6. Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […] 7. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. That which causes a balance; a counterweight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As for Hyperboles, I will neither quote Lucan, nor Statius, Men of an unbounded imagination, but who often wanted the Poyze of Judgement.
Word: poise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English poys, poyse, from Anglo-Norman pois, Middle French pois (“weight”) and Anglo-Norman poise, Middle French poise (“measure of weight”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh, ponder, think”). Doublet of peise. Pronunciation: /pɔɪz/ 1. To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. Labels: obsolete Example: The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in the air. 2. To counterpoise; to counterbalance. Labels: obsolete Example: one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality Example: 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit 3. To be of a given weight; to weigh. Labels: obsolete 4. To add weight to, to weigh down. Labels: obsolete Example: Every man poiseth [translating poise] upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne. 5. To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose. Labels: archaic Example: you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye. 6. To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used. Example: I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited. Example: to poise the scales of a balance 7. To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced. Example: The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff. 8. To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh. Example: He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.
Word: poise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French physicist and physiologist Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille. Pronunciation: /pɔɪz/ 1. Unit of viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS).
Word: take in Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /teɪk‿ˈɪn/, /tæɪk‿ˈɪn/, /tæɪk‿ˈən/ 1. To receive. Labels: transitive Example: The company took in more than forty million euros last year. 2. To receive and properly absorb or comprehend. Labels: transitive Example: The news is a lot to take in right now. Example: I was so sleepy that I hardly took in any of the lecture. 3. To enjoy or appreciate. Labels: transitive Example: I'm just going to sit on a bench and take in the scenery. Example: Just relax and take in the fresh ocean air. 4. To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home. Labels: transitive Example: take in a stray cat 5. To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee. Labels: transitive Example: In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs. 6. To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller. Labels: transitive Example: Try taking the skirt in a little around the waist. 7. To attend a showing of. Labels: transitive Example: take in a show Example: take in a movie 8. To deceive; to hoodwink. Labels: transitive Example: Their grandma lost thousands of dollars because she was taken in by scammers. Example: She liked and trusted everybody, which was the reason why she was so popular, and so often taken in. 9. To tighten (a belaying rope). Labels: transitive 10. To subscribe to home delivery of. Labels: obsolete Example: [James Whiteside:] May I ask what newspaper you take in? [John Jolly:] I take in no newspaper. [James Whiteside:] Well, then, what newspapers do you read? [John Jolly:] I am glad to see any of them. 11. To reef. Example: The second mate holds on to the main top-gallant sail until a heavy sea is shipped, and washes over the forecastle as though the whole ocean had come aboard; when a noise further aft shows that that sail, too, is taking in. 12. To arrest (a person). Labels: transitive Example: The police took in the suspect. Example: They didn't take me in but they let it sink in that I was headed for a fall.
Word: reit Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹiːt/ 1. sedge; seaweed Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: The Squillae[…]live in marine[…]places: their meat is oisters, and reites.
Word: countermand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“to order; to command”). Pronunciation: /ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/, /ˈkaʊntɚˌmænd/, /ˌkaʊntɚˈmænd/ 1. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonym: counteract Example: to countermand an order for goods 2. To recall a person or unit with such an order. Labels: transitive 3. To cancel an order for (some specified goods). Labels: transitive Example: Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying. 4. To counteract, to act against, to frustrate. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.” 5. To prohibit (a course of action or behavior). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles. 6. To oppose or revoke the command of (someone). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him. 7. To maintain control of, to keep under command. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe, That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land. And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.
Word: countermand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“to order; to command”). Pronunciation: /ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/, /ˈkaʊntɚˌmænd/, /ˌkaʊntɚˈmænd/ 1. An order to the contrary of a previous one. Labels: transitive