nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: appendicitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From appendic- + -itis. Pronunciation: /əˈpɛnd.ɪ.saɪt.əs/ 1. inflammation of the vermiform appendix Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was appendicitis of that insidious and misleading type to which children are particularly liable.
Word: intrepid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *trep- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin trepidus Latin intrepiduslbor. French intrépidebor. English intrepid From French intrépide, from Latin intrepidus, from in- (“not”) + trepidus (“anxious, nervous”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹɛpɪd/ 1. Fearless; bold; brave. Example: Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
Word: goldarn Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑlˌdɑɹn/, /ˈɡoʊlˌdɑɹn/ 1. goddamn Labels: US, euphemistic, not-comparable
Word: goldarn Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑlˌdɑɹn/, /ˈɡoʊlˌdɑɹn/ 1. goddamn Labels: US, euphemistic
Word: goldarnit Part of Speech: intj 1. euphemism for goddamnit. Labels: US
Word: goshdarn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gosh + darn. 1. goddamn Labels: US, euphemistic, not-comparable
Word: goshdarn Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From gosh + darn. 1. goddamn Labels: US, euphemistic
Word: goshdarnit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Univerbation of gosh + darn + it, euphemistic forms of God and damn. Compare goshdangit, goddammit. 1. goddammit. Labels: US, euphemistic
Word: goldurn Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒldɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. Goddamn. Labels: US, euphemistic, not-comparable
Word: goldurn Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒldɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. Goddamn. Labels: US, euphemistic, not-comparable
Word: goldurn Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒldɜː(ɹ)n/ 1. Goddamn. Labels: US, euphemistic
Word: goldurnit Part of Speech: intj 1. goddamnit Labels: US, euphemistic
Word: goshdurn Part of Speech: adj 1. goddamn Labels: US, euphemistic, not-comparable
Word: goshdurn Part of Speech: intj 1. goddamn Labels: US, euphemistic
Word: gosh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553). Pronunciation: /ɡɒʃ/, /ɡɑːʃ/ 1. A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. Labels: euphemistic Example: Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble! Example: Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!
Word: dammit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Univerbation of damn + it. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmɪt/, /ˈdæmət/ 1. Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: "No plot! Why, dammit girl, it's all plot, woven about that most fascinating of human problems, the Electra complex!" Example: Rahneesh: For the last time, my name isn’t Rahneesh! My parents named me Esther, dammit!
Word: dammit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Univerbation of damn + it. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmɪt/, /ˈdæmət/ 1. The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything. Example: ... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit. Example: ... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit. 2. A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback. Example: We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.
Word: damnit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Nonstandard contraction of damn + it Pronunciation: /dæmɪt/ 1. Synonym of dammit. Labels: Southern-US, especially
Word: absolue Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete typography of absolve. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ambodexter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ambidexter. Compare ambo-. 1. Obsolete spelling of ambidexter. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: men are evil, wicked, malicious, treacherous, and naught, not loving one another, or loving themselves, not hospitable, charitable, nor sociable as they ought to be, but counterfeit, dissemblers, ambodexters, all for their own ends, hard-hearted, merciless, pittiless ; and, to benefit themselves, they car? not what mischiefe they procure to others. Example: He is charged to have bene longe a most gredye & insatiable taker of excessive fees, and (which is moost odious) a notorious & common ambodexter, takinge fee on both sydes, to the great scandals of his place & profession.
Word: anxitie Part of Speech: noun 1. Care or sorrow. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: askey Part of Speech: adj 1. Looking aside.
Word: assoyle Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of assoil. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Whom Ceſar doth condemne, god ſumtime doeth aſſoyle: and whom the prince doth aſſoyle, he leaueth in the cumpany of mẽ [men], to make other like himſelf: […] Example: I ſaie, aſſoyleth this doubt and queſtion, by the only argument and aſſuraunce of the knovven Catholik church of Chriſt.
Word: balase Part of Speech: noun 1. ballast Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: barreter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently a variant of barretter (“ballast resistor”), which in turn may be from Old French barateor (“barrator”). 1. A variable resistor made up of a short length of very fine wire (usually platinum) having a positive temperature coefficient. Example: Fessenden determined that a current-operated detector would offer advantages over those operated by voltage and based these deductions on his hot-wire barreter.
Word: barreter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of barrator. 1. A contentious person, quarreler, or fighter.
Word: fan base Part of Speech: noun 1. The fans of a thing or person taken as a group. Example: Building a fan base is crucial to career development of a pop musician.
Word: garbanzo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish. Pronunciation: /ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/ 1. An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas. Example: America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free[…] 2. A seed of this plant; the chickpea.
Word: bah Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Early 19th century, probably borrowed from French bah. Pronunciation: /bæ/, /bɑː/ 1. Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper. Labels: humorous, sometimes Example: "To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor. Example: This process being entirely inadequate to express the nature of his emotions he ejaculated "Bah!" and so gave Cripps to understand that he was now removed from consideration as a human being.
Word: bah Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɑː/ 1. Alternative spelling of baa. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: `There, cut his throat quick. Where is the saucer?' `The Goat! the Goat! the Goat! Give me the blood of my black goat! I must have it, don't you see I must have it? Oh! oh! oh! give me the blood of the goat.' At this moment a terrified bah! announced that the poor goat had been sacrificed, and the next minute a woman ran up with a saucer full of blood.
Word: bah Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /bɑː/ 1. Alternative spelling of baa. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bah Part of Speech: particle 1. Alternative spelling of ba. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Word: brandophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English brand Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Latin -philalbor. English -phile English brandophile From brand + -o- + -phile. 1. A person who is fond of a commercial brand or brands. Example: From glasses gassing with Belgian Grimbergen and French Kronenbourg to bottles brimming with Sagres in Lisbon, Newcastle Brown Ale in New York and Baltika in Belarus, not to mention a warehouse full of Fosters, to which S&N bought full European rights last week, the video party swung on to a final "cheers" from a bar full of youthful brandophiles. Example: I cannot help but feel that these are for brandophiles who know and love Monitor Audio's huge repertoire, especially its top stuff.
Word: cheiloproclitic Part of Speech: adj 1. having an erotic attraction to a person's lips Labels: rare
Word: ambiversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ambi (“both ways”) + -version (“turning”) (ultimately from Latin vertō (“to turn; to turn around”)), modelled after extroversion and introversion. Pronunciation: /æmbɪˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/, /-ʒ(ə)n/, /ˌæmbəˈvɚʃən/, /-ʒən/ 1. A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion. Labels: uncountable Example: The definition of ambiversion grows then directly out of the two preceding [extroversion and introversion] and is to be stated as a condition of development in which attention is controlled by either objective or subjective conditions of attention and in which the content of the subjective conditions is so varied as to make possible more or less prolonged periods of either extroversion or introversion.
Word: mortal coil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alluding to Hamlet. The two senses result from two interpretations of the word coil, one taking it to mean “tumult, confusion, fuss”, the other “case, wrapping”. In either case, the phrase “shuffle off this mortal coil” must mean “die”. Since "shuffle off" is generally taken to mean "get rid of" or "evade" it is likely that in the sense that Shakespeare used it, it was specifically referring to the act of suicide. 1. The chaos and confusion of life. 2. The physical body of a man (containing the spirit inside). Example: […] [A black swallowtail] does not—as a true insect does—change from worm to grub, and from grub to his mature form, but simply “shuffles off his mortal coil,”—skin, hairs, and leggings all complete, now and then, […] . He then leaves his shuffled-off “mortal coil” hanging upon a fragment of dirty cobweb, as before described. Example: Shakespeare represents the human body under various figures: a coil: a case: a frame: a machine: a vesture: a heft: a motion or puppet: &c. It has been contended that in Hamlet’s speech, the ‘mortal coil’ is the coil, i.e. trouble of turmoil, incident to man’s mortal state: but the analogies are too strong in favor of the ‘mortal coil’ being what Fletcher calls the ‘case of flesh’ (Bonduca, iv. 1).
Word: -gramme Part of Speech: suffix 1. Alternative spelling of -gram. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: hierarchical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hierarchy + -ical; compare French hiérarchique. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈɹɑːkɪkəl/, /ˌhaɪˈɹɑɹkɪkəl/, /ˌhɑɪˈɹɐːkɪkəl/, /ˌhɑɪˈɹaːkɪkəl/ 1. Pertaining to a hierarchy (a ranking). Labels: not-comparable 2. Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades. Labels: not-comparable Example: She claimed that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of 'true' art. 3. Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hierarchical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hierarch + -ical. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈɹɑːkɪkəl/, /ˌhaɪˈɹɑɹkɪkəl/, /ˌhɑɪˈɹɐːkɪkəl/, /ˌhɑɪˈɹaːkɪkəl/ 1. Pertaining to a hierarch (a high-ranking priest or bishop). Labels: not-comparable
Word: moval Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from removal. 1. Removal (the transfer of one's home or business)
Word: arrhythmia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin arrhythmia, from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía), equivalent to a- + rhythm + -ia. Pronunciation: /eɪˈɹɪð.mɪ.ə/, /əˈɹɪð.mi.ə/ 1. An irregular heartbeat; a lack of a regular pulse. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A disease entity involving such beats, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia, or others. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: look-down/shoot-down Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of look-down, shoot-down. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: look-down shoot-down Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of look-down, shoot-down. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: raw material Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɹɔː.məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/ 1. A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals. Example: The three main firms […] are increasing their output capacity and it is estimated that by 1964-5 railborne traffic will be about a third greater than the 1960 figure, reaching a total of something like 13½ million tons per annum, of which some 70 per cent will be inwards raw materials for these firms. 2. Any physical product serving as input to a factory or other installation which processes it. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers. Example: Teams will place all their unassembled raw materials and tools in the competition area along with two provided 5-gallon buckets of contaminated water and two provided stirring sticks.
Word: phat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The term derives from African American Vernacular English as a deliberate misspelling of the word fat. Pronunciation: /fæt/ 1. Excellent; cool; very good. Labels: slang Example: Aiyyo, Nas? Fuck that, man, that shit was phat / But kick that for them gangstas, man, fuck all that! Example: We saw the kind of life bailers and hustlers were living. The women, the flamboyant cars, the phat mansions, the mad platinum jewelry. 2. Voluptuous Labels: slang 3. Rich in texture; prominent. Labels: slang Example: The song has a phat bass line.
Word: phat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fæt/ 1. An English trick-taking partnership card game descended from the game of all fours. Labels: uncountable
Word: f-word Part of Speech: noun 1. The word fuck (or inflected forms like fucking) or fucker. Labels: euphemistic Example: Oh, f-word, I've lost the keys. Example: The dialogue was littered with f-words. 2. The word fag or faggot. Labels: euphemistic Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:f-word. 3. The word friends (as opposed to lovers, where a romantic relationship is sought but refused). Example: "Oh God." Dave sighed. "The 'F' word is low. Low down." "Yep," I said. "Friends. He said, 'We're just Friends.'" Example: Zack wouldn't say the F word. Not... forever. It was too soon to say that. He may be open to a serious relationship again, but he still needed to protect his heart in other ways. 4. Any word beginning with f that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context. Example: She has no luck with diets. Don't mention the f-word (by which I mean "fat"). Example: If the incident in question causes you continued distress and negatively impacts your life, that’s where the f-word — forgiveness — may have a role to play, said psychologist Robert Enright, a pioneer in the field of forgiveness science and professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Word: f-word Part of Speech: verb 1. To use vulgarities, especially the word fuck. Labels: euphemistic Example: Her plain-Jane appearance lulled the Secret Service representatives for a while but it wasn't long before she out f-worded them and became the assertive one in this space chase, […]
Word: n-word Part of Speech: noun 1. The word nigger or nigga or nigra. Labels: euphemistic Example: The prosecutor, his voice trembling, added that the "N-word" was so vile that he would not utter it. Example: Jackson's character plays an illegal arms dealer and uses the "n-word" throughout the film, which also stars Pam Grier. 2. Any word, regardless of its starting letter, that is used oppressively, marginalizes or oppresses a group of people. Labels: euphemistic Example: [It] has become ... an equivalent of the n''' word for Maori[s]. Example: "It's important to understand that for Indigenous people, this word is our N-word," said Douglas Stewart, an Indigenous teacher at Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton. 3. The word Nazi. Labels: euphemistic Example: After that episode aired a new rule was posted: "Do not mention the N Word (Nazi)!" Example: The preceding poem inspired the “Not Say Nazi” movement to stamp out widespread ignorance and to abolish the N-word and the F-word. 4. The word nuclear. Example: Parkinson has to live with the dreaded “N” word. So feared is the word “nuclear” that there are those who balk at using such harmless phrases as “nuclear family”. Example: —and there is a large tendency, I think, to think of our sites totally in terms of the “n” word, the nuclear radioactive word, but 80 percent of the waste that we have on these sites is chemical hazardous waste , which makes us no different in that respect from all of the major industrial companies in the United States who have to deal with this problem. 5. A negation word, such as not, nobody, or nothing. Example: Hence, the reasoning applied to (15) above extends to (20), leading us to conclude that the n-word rien, 6. A Danish/Swedish/Norwegian noun of the common gender (their indefinite article being en), as opposed to t-words, nouns of the neuter gender (their indefinite article being et).
Word: donut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of doughnut, from dough + nut. Attested 1900. Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊnʌt/, /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ 1. Alternative spelling of doughnut. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, alt-of, alternative Example: […]Pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut. Example: The Long Lances, however, were thick in the water, and soon Portland was hit in the stern, sending her turning donuts across the ocean trying to work out which way to point her guns, popping off occasional shots at Hiei, which, by now, was heavily ablaze and a very obvious target in the night.
Word: Völkerwanderung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Völkerwanderung. 1. Migration Period Example: Viewed from the cliff top of ‘today’, the cliff foot becomes ‘yesterday’, the advancing lines of sea horses the centuries of history, and the far shore, barely visible, the Age of the Völkerwanderung.
Word: Bajan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A clipping of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/ 1. A Barbadian. Labels: demonym
Word: Bajan Part of Speech: name Etymology: A clipping of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/ 1. A Creole language spoken on the island of Barbados. 2. A surname.
Word: Bajan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A clipping of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/ 1. Barbadian. Example: A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.
Word: palaeo- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative spelling of paleo-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: in Dutch Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In trouble or in disfavor. Labels: Canada, US, dated, idiomatic Example: Thirteen youthful nurses at the Worcester City Hospital enriched a local barber to the extent of $13 a few days ago when they had their hair bobbed and now the entire 13 are very much in dutch with the authorities at the hospital. Example: “And for that amount of money you're willing to get yourself in Dutch with half the law enforcement of this county?” 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, Dutch.
Word: tip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppijǭ (“tip”), a diminutive of *tuppaz. Related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa (“tap, spigot”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”). Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. Example: the tip of one's nose Example: When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail. 2. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. Example: a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc. 3. The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held. 4. A small piece of meat. Labels: in-plural Example: chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips Example: He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto. 5. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown. 6. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf. 7. Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”). 8. The glans penis. Labels: slang Example: my tip sticky rn Example: What's your tip color?
Word: tip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppijǭ (“tip”), a diminutive of *tuppaz. Related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa (“tap, spigot”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”). Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. Labels: transitive Example: I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...]. Example: truncheon tipped with iron head
Word: tip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English tippen, possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)), or a special use of Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. Labels: ergative 2. (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. Labels: ergative Example: the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […] Example: There is little chance that the EU’s watchdogs have, until now, simply missed the evidence of a deeper malaise. The red flags signalling a democratic deficit have always been prominent: from the long-standing harassment, detention, and assassination of peaceful human rights defenders like Chea Vichea, Chut Wutty, and Tep Vanny, to ratcheting up efforts to deter civil society organisation through dubious, hostile legislation. More likely, the trade-offs between popular power and stability have been weighed by the EU and accepted, where these have tipped in its favour—in this case, shoring up a regional ally and trading partner, as well as delivering rapid rates of economic growth that have won Cambodia middle-income status, thus serving up a ready exemplar of neoliberal development logic. 3. To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it. Example: The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R. 4. To drink. Labels: dated, slang, transitive 5. To dump (refuse). Labels: transitive 6. To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. Labels: US, transitive Example: I tip my 40 to your memory. 7. To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips. Labels: transitive Example: Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.
Word: tip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English tippen, possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)), or a special use of Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. The knocking over of a skittle. Labels: obsolete 2. An act of tipping up or tilting. 3. An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly. Example: 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389, As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane. 4. Rubbish thrown from a quarry. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK 5. A recycling centre. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, broadly 6. A very untidy place. Labels: colloquial 7. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips Example: As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top. 8. A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
Word: tip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 1 and cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. To hit quickly and lightly; to tap. Labels: archaic Example: A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
Word: tip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 1 and cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. A light blow or tap. Labels: archaic
Word: tip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin; according to the OED, probably related to sense 1. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. Example: You should always tip your waiter in the United States and most third world countries. Example: Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do. 2. To give, pass. Example: "Done say I to that, Reuben, tip me your fin, my spark, and it shall be a bet."
Word: tip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin; according to the OED, probably related to sense 1. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. A small monetary gift. Example: Workers in the American service industry usually depend on tips to even make minimum wage. Example: “Did you tip him enough to do any good? They only work for tips.” “I didn’t know that,” I said. “I thought the hotel paid them something on the side.” “I mean they will only do something for you for a substantial tip. Most of them are rotten clean through.” 2. A small monetary gift. Labels: dated Example: A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning. Example: So Lord Tottenham said, "Well, I'm much obliged any way. And now I come to look at you—of course, you're not young ruffians, but gentlemen's sons, eh? Still, you won't be above taking a tip from an old boy—I wasn't when I was your age," and he pulled out half a sovereign. 3. A small monetary gift. Labels: dated Example: “I hope,” said Uncle Andrew presently in a very high and mighty voice, just as if he were a perfect Uncle who had just given one a handsome tip and some good advice
Word: tip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from tip (“to give, pass”) or tip (“to tap”), or a combination of the two. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. Example: hot stock tips 2. A piece of advice. Example: tips and tricks 3. A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition. Labels: Australia Example: Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way. Example: Another bye round, another dose of Thursday night footy and that means you have to get your tips in early. 4. A prediction about the outcome of something. Labels: Australia Example: My guess, Senator Bernardi, is that Mr Rudd will take over. He will immediately say: 'I made a mistake on the carbon tax. We're not going to introduce it and we will go to an election.' There is my tip. Example: My tip is he can be top 50 after the Australian summer of tennis.
Word: tip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from tip (“to give, pass”) or tip (“to tap”), or a combination of the two. Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. Example: Dirks was an investment analyst who learned from a former employee of Equity Funding that the company had been fraudulently manufacturing insurance policies. Dirks tipped several institutions which then liquidated $16 million in Equity Funding stock before the fraud was exposed and the bottom fell out of the market. According to the Court, Dirks was a hero for (eventually) exposing the fraud. The SEC's censure of Dirks for tipping inside information was reversed because, the Supreme Court held, the liability of a tippee derives from that of the tipper. If the tipper is without sin, so is the tippee. Here, the employee's purpose in informing Dirks was to expose the fraud, so the tipper breached no duty. Moreover, according to the Court, for there to be a breach of duty, there must be personal benefit (in the form of pecuniary gain or reputational benefit that will translate into future earnings) arising to the tipper from the disclosure. Example: In rare instances, the provision logically could apply to the private right of action given to contemporaneous traders to recover for insider trading (e.g., a case where an insider tipped an associate about some forthcoming corporate event, and the tippee was found liable based on recklessness). 2. To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition. Labels: Australia Example: The rest of Saturday’s games have tantalising opportunities for upsets – but I’m going to tip conservatively. Example: I tipped all the home teams except for the Sharks and Storm. 3. To predict something having a particular outcome. Labels: Australia Example: I'm tipping that, although complex accounting treatments tend to separate capital items and recurrent programs and impede overall visibility, there are significant overspends across the infrastructure portfolio. Example: Liz Truss is widely tipped to defeat rival Rishi Sunak to become the new British prime minister.
Word: tip Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɪp/ 1. A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour. 2. A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
Word: ironmonger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English iremonger; equivalent to iron + monger. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪə(ɹ)nˌmʌŋɡə(ɹ)/ 1. A retailer of hardware, tools, and household goods. Labels: Ireland, UK 2. A retailer of hardware, tools, and household goods. Labels: Ireland, UK
Word: battleship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From battle + ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794. Pronunciation: /ˈbætəlˌʃɪp/ 1. A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. 2. A starship of comparable role. Labels: broadly 3. A ship of the line. Labels: archaic 4. A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests. 5. A guessing game played on grid paper or a gameboard inspired by it.
Word: booze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse. Pronunciation: /buːz/, /bʉwz/, /buz/, /bʉːz/, /bʉz/ 1. Any alcoholic beverage. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden. Example: 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars She got caught between the shadows and the booze And she surely did know how to have the blues 2. Any alcoholic beverage. Labels: colloquial, sometimes, specifically, uncountable 3. A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party. Labels: archaic, colloquial, countable
Word: booze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse. Pronunciation: /buːz/, /bʉwz/, /buz/, /bʉːz/, /bʉz/ 1. To drink alcohol. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over. Example: This is better than boozing in public houses. 2. To drink (an alcoholic beverage). Labels: slang, transitive Example: It's worse than kerosene to boose.
Word: nova Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Feminine nominative singular of Latin novus (“new”). The feminine is used since stella (“star”) is feminine; thus nova is a shortening of nova stella (“new star”), first used in this sense in 1573 by Tycho Brahe. Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.və/, /ˈnoʊ.və/ 1. Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. Example: In these stellar pairings, if the two stars are close together, the white dwarf will siphon mass away from its companion and have an outburst called a nova. And when the white dwarf accumulates too much mass, it will collapse and explode in a supernova. 2. Ellipsis of classical nova Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: nova Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of novum + Latin -a. From the Latin -a suffix used as the plural suffix form for singular words ending with -um (an inflection of -us). Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.və/, /ˈnoʊ.və/ 1. plural of novum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: freestanding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From free + standing. 1. Standing or set apart. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: isolated, insulated, detached, individuated, separated Example: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a freestanding bell tower. 2. Not attached to anything. Labels: not-comparable 3. Not supported by or on anything; independent. Labels: not-comparable Example: a freestanding hospital not associated with any university medical school 4. Of a computer program: that runs directly on a computer's hardware, without being managed by an operating system. Labels: not-comparable Example: Freestanding C programs do not need to have a main function.
Word: supernova Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English nova English supernova From super- + nova. Pronunciation: /ˌsuː.pə(ɹ)ˈnəʊ.və/ 1. A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed. Example: In these stellar pairings, if the two stars are close together, the white dwarf will siphon mass away from its companion and have an outburst called a nova. And when the white dwarf accumulates too much mass, it will collapse and explode in a supernova. […] “In this kind of supernova, the white dwarf is completely destroyed, so its companion is released and flies off at whatever orbital speed it was originally moving, plus a little bit of a kick from the supernova explosion as well,” Burgasser said. 2. Something brilliant. Labels: figuratively Example: Cornelius was the only one dressed in muscle but collectively they were a bully supernova.
Word: larder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.də/, /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/ 1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored. Example: He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed. 2. A food supply. Example: Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.
Word: estivate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/ 1. To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months. Labels: intransitive Example: Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
Word: thaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English thawen, thowen (“to melt (ice, snow, etc.), thaw”), from Old English þāwian, *þāwan (“to thaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan (“to melt, thaw; to digest; to dissolve”), from Proto-Germanic *þawjaną (“to thaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt; to flow, stream”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English thawe, thowe (“melting of ice, snow, etc., thawing”), from thawen, thowen (verb) (see above). cognates * Dutch dooien (“to thaw”) * German tauen (“to thaw”) * German Low German deien (“to thaw”) * Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”) * Saterland Frisian daie, dauje (“to thaw”) * Swedish töa (“to thaw”) * West Frisian teie (“to thaw”) Pronunciation: /θɔː/, /θoː/, /θɔ/, /θɑ/, /θɒ/ 1. A gradual melting or softening of something frozen (such as earth, ice, or snow) when the temperature rises; the transformation of something frozen into a fluid or semifluid. Labels: also, attributive 2. A gradual warming up of someone or something that is very cold. Labels: also, attributive Example: raging floods pursue their hasty thaw; / Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away 3. Of something inactive: an act of becoming active; also, of something unfeeling: an act of developing feelings. Labels: also, attributive, figuratively 4. Of a person who is reserved or unfriendly: an act of becoming friendly or gentle. Labels: also, attributive, figuratively 5. A period of relaxation of restrictions in a country or state; also, a period of increased friendliness or understanding, or of reduced hostility or tension in relations, between states. Labels: also, attributive, figuratively 6. A period of weather warm enough to melt ice, snow, etc. Labels: also, attributive
Word: temps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of temp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: temps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of temp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: collaborate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from collaborator, from French collaborateur, or else modeled on French collaborer or directly from Late Latin collabōrātus, past participle of collabōrāre. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan. Pronunciation: /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, /kəˈlæb.ɹeɪt/ 1. To work together with others to achieve a common goal. Example: Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster. Example: Wikipedia is a website where anyone can collaborate. 2. To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country. Example: If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.
Word: macabre Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French macabre, whose etymology is uncertain. Possibly from the term danse macabre, most commonly believed to be from corruption of the biblical name Maccabees; compare Latin Chorea Machabaeorum. Another theory derives the French term (through Spanish macabro) from Arabic مَقَابِر (maqābir, “cemeteries”), plural of مَقْبَرَة (maqbara) or مَقْبُرَة (maqbura). Pronunciation: /ˌməˈkɑː.bɹə/, /ˌməˈkɑː.bə/, /məˈkɑb/, /ˌməˈkɑ.bɹə/, /ˌməˈkɑ.bəɹ/ 1. Representing or personifying death. Example: There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world[…] In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science. 2. Obsessed with death or the gruesome. Example: Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds. 3. Ghastly, shocking, terrifying. Example: The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.
Word: heartless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hertles, herteles, from Old English heortlēas (“without courage; listless”), equivalent to heart + -less. Cognate with German herzlos. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːt.lɪs/, /ˈhɑɹt.lɪs/ 1. Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel. Example: His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone. Example: The world is a dangerous, violent place […] and the only true refuge from this heartless world is the family. 2. Without a physical heart. 3. Listless, unenthusiastic. Labels: archaic Example: Near-synonyms: spiritless, unhearty 4. Without courage; fearful, cowardly. Labels: obsolete Example: Cecilia then, though almost heartless, resolved upon talking with Mr. Harrel himself […].
Word: neoclassicism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin classicuslbor. French classiquebor. English classic 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 neoclassicism From neo- + classic + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˌni.oʊˈklæ.sɪˌsɪ.zm̩/ 1. Any of several movements in the arts, architecture, literature and music that revived forms from earlier centuries, especially those of the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: remis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French remis. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈmiː/ 1. A draw. Labels: archaic
Word: seeing-eye dog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A genericization of a trademark. From the name of the charity The Seeing Eye, which trains guide dogs. 1. A guide dog for people who suffer from impaired vision. Labels: US, informal
Word: scimitar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1548. From Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, possibly from an unknown Ottoman Turkish word, ultimately from Classical Persian شمشیر (šamšēr, “sword”). Doublet of shamshir. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmɪtə/, /ˈsɪmɪtɑː/, /ˈsɪmɪtəɹ/, /ˈsɪmɪˌtɑɹ/ 1. A sword of Persian origin that features a curved blade. Example: The Prince of Morocco: […]By this Symitare, That ſlew the Sophie, and a Perſian Prince That won three fields of Sultan Solyman, I would ore-ſtare the ſterneſt eies that looke, Out-braue the heart moſt daring on the earth: Plucke the yong ſucking Cubs from the ſhe Beare, Yea, mocke the Lion when he rors for pray To win the Ladie. […] Example: Next door is a room devoted to Albanian history (“what a lovely scimitar,” I find myself exclaiming, my reserves of small talk inadequate at the sight of the family’s sword collection),[…] 2. A long-handled billhook.
Word: scimitar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1548. From Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, possibly from an unknown Ottoman Turkish word, ultimately from Classical Persian شمشیر (šamšēr, “sword”). Doublet of shamshir. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmɪtə/, /ˈsɪmɪtɑː/, /ˈsɪmɪtəɹ/, /ˈsɪmɪˌtɑɹ/ 1. To strike or slice with, or as if with, a scimitar. Labels: transitive
Word: temp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of temperature. Pronunciation: /tɛmp/ 1. Clipping of temperature. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: “All brake temps except the one are in the yellow and climbing. You'll get the warning light soon,” was the flight engineer's response. The one brake temp that was okay was the brake on the blown tire.
Word: temp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of temperature. Pronunciation: /tɛmp/ 1. To measure or check the temperature of something, especially food or equipment in a commercial kitchen. Example: The produce walk in is temping at between 42-46° and I let management know but nobody seemed too pressed about it. Days later it’s still the same problem Example: Our dairy section coolers have been temping at 50 degrees for two hours and the product is temping at 45.
Word: temp Part of Speech: adv Etymology: See temp. Pronunciation: /tɛmp/ 1. Alternative form of temp. (“in the time of”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: temp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of temporary. Pronunciation: /tɛmp/ 1. Abbreviation of temporary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.
Word: temp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of temporary. Pronunciation: /tɛmp/ 1. Synonym of temporary (“short-term employee”). Labels: informal 2. Synonym of temporary (“short-term variable”). Labels: informal Example: That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […]
Word: temp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of temporary. Pronunciation: /tɛmp/ 1. To work as a temporary employee. Labels: informal, transitive Example: --I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.
Word: watchdog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From watch + dog. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/, /ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/ 1. A guard dog. 2. An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically. Labels: figuratively Example: Governments must "outline how they will reassure passengers that it will be as safe as possible to travel by public transport", according to industry watchdogs Transport Focus and London TravelWatch. Example: The UK’s data watchdog is seeking clarification from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta about parental controls on its popular virtual reality headset, as campaigners warned that it could breach an online children’s safety code. 3. Ellipsis of watchdog timer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: watchdog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From watch + dog. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/, /ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/ 1. To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn. 2. To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
Word: bulimia nervosa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin būlīmia, from Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā, “ravenous hunger”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + λῑμός (līmós, “hunger, famine”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “-ia”), and Latin nervōsa (“nervous”). Pronunciation: /bʊˈliː.mi.ə nɜː(ɹ)ˌvəʊ̯.sə/, /-ˈlɪm.i.ə-/, /b(j)uː-/ 1. An eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting. Labels: uncountable