nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: spouting Part of Speech: noun 1. The process or result of something being spouted; that which is spouted. Example: Spoutings of lava shot from the crest of the volcano. Example: The spoutings of a large whale can be seen from a great distance. 2. A gutter under the eaves of a building; guttering. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: The spouting was filled with leaves and needed cleaning. Example: These items will include: galvanised-steel spoutings and downpipes — if used[…].
Word: veggie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛd͡ʒi/ 1. A vegetable. Labels: informal Example: There was lots of rice, at least 20 different "veggies" and all kinds of soups. Example: and eight small dishes of 'veggies,' as we have taught our children lovingly to term that important item of food known as vegetables. 2. A vegetarian. Labels: informal Example: Vegetarian/vegan meals at most colleges are only pretty average. They have a long way to go to provide nutritionally adequate and tasty food for veggies.
Word: veggie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛd͡ʒi/ 1. Vegetarian; not eating meat; suitable for vegetarians; without meat. Labels: informal Example: One place was too crowded last time, another too expensive, a third she liked but he thought too "veggie." Example: Diet for a Small Planet was also popular at the time, but it was a little too 'veggie,' a little too new for some people. 2. Vegetable-like, vegetal. Example: So we actually proved that the old folklore about a dense canopy leading to very veggie wines was true, Noble said. Example: They're neither too sweet nor too veggie, but like the other bars, have more calories than a bucket of broccoli.
Word: sesh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of session. Pronunciation: /sɛʃ/ 1. A session. Labels: colloquial Example: 'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week. Example: "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo." 2. A session. Labels: colloquial Example: Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down. Example: Halo sesh 3. A session. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, informal Example: Empty lager bottles […] signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh. Example: Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox[…] 4. A session. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, colloquial, informal
Word: sesh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of session. Pronunciation: /sɛʃ/ 1. To take part in a period of sustained cannabis smoking. Labels: colloquial, intransitive
Word: bowling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊlɪŋ/, [ˈbɒʊɫɪŋ], /ˈboʊlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bowl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bowling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊlɪŋ/, [ˈbɒʊɫɪŋ], /ˈboʊlɪŋ/ 1. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling Labels: uncountable 2. Candlepin bowling. Labels: New-England, uncountable 3. Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors. Labels: uncountable 4. The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman. Labels: uncountable 5. A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture. Labels: slang, uncountable 6. The action of the verb bowl. Labels: gerund, uncountable 7. Road bowling. Labels: Ireland, uncountable
Word: Parsons Part of Speech: name Etymology: An occupational surname for a child or a servant of a parson. * In the United States adopted by bearers of one or more similar sounding Jewish surnames, and of the Swedish surnames Pärsson and Persson. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑɹsənz/ 1. A surname originating as an occupation. 2. A number of places in the United States: 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: incoherent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēnsder. Middle French coherentder. English coherent English incoherent From in- + coherent. 1. Not coherent. Example: When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation. Example: After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent. 2. Not coherent. Labels: obsolete Example: […] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement, where an Attendence on my Health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it. Example: That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted. 3. Not coherent. Example: At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition. Example: […] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.
Word: parson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). Doublet of person and persona. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːs(ə)n/, /ˈpɑɹsən/ 1. An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law. 2. A Protestant minister. 3. A Roman Catholic priest of an independent parish church. Labels: historical Example: a lewde curate, A parson benyfyced But nothynge well advysed.
Word: intelligible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French intelligible, from Old French, from Latin intelligibilis. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛləd͡ʒəbəl/ 1. Capable of being understood; clear to the mind. Example: Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages. Example: That comment seemed to anger Ingraham, who called James’ view a “barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical take on President Trump.”
Word: Blue Ensign Part of Speech: name 1. Originally, the flag of the rear admiral's squadron in the English fleet. 2. The flag flown by a British naval auxiliary vessel. Members of certain British yacht clubs may also fly a blue ensign if it has been defaced by the inclusion of an insignia in the fly.
Word: unintelligible 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 intelligible English unintelligible From un- + intelligible. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/ 1. Not intelligible; unable to be understood. Example: And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them. Example: They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
Word: trainee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From train + -ee. Pronunciation: /tɹeɪˈni/, [tʃɹeɪˈni] 1. Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace. 2. A juvenile inmate being trained and (re)educated in a reformatory school.
Word: sociolect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From socio- + -lect, by analogy with dialect, idiolect, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊ.ʃɪ.ə(ʊ).lɛkt/, /-sɪ-/, /ˈsəʊ.ʃə(ʊ).lɛkt/, /ˈsoʊ.ʃi.əˌlɛkt/, /-si-/ 1. The variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc. Example: The French literary critic Roland Barthes has paid special attention to the relationship between the individual language ("idiolect") and the language of a collective of speech ("sociolect"). Public life is characterized by "social multilingualism." There are a number of languages, such as the language of the church, the language of the prison, the language of the children, the language of the ruling elite, and other "social languages." Example: […] I believe that it is mistaken to maintain that the language of ideology is a discrete ‘sociolect’, a sort of meta-language which draws upon but remains distinct from the language of everyday life.
Word: idiolect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From idio- + -lect. Pronunciation: /ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/, /ˈɘ.di.ɐʉ.lekt/ 1. The language variant used by a specific individual. Example: She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.
Word: malevolent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *malevolent (suggested by Middle English malevolence), from Old French malivolent and Latin malevolentem, from male (“badly, wrongly”) + volens (“willing, wishing”), from velle (“to wish”). Pronunciation: /məˈlɛvələnt/ 1. Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others. Example: In Iraq the bullying continued. After she witnessed the death of a colleague, Manning felt how “with enough grief, adrenaline and fear”, war can turn anyone “amoral, even malevolent”. 2. Having an evil or harmful influence. Example: Vela, Javier Hernández and Lozano switched positions with a thrillingly malevolent sense of purpose.
Word: repaper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English paper English repaper From re- + paper. 1. To apply new wallpaper to, either by first stripping the old wallpaper off, or by papering over the top. Labels: transitive Example: "And you bought the house?" "Well, it was re-papered and painted and fumigated, and done up outside."
Word: photocopier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English copy English photocopy Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English photocopier From photocopy + -er. 1. A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates. Example: Near-synonyms: (all broadly synonymous) xerox machine, xerographer, xerox, photostat, laser copier Example: Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.
Word: ingredient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“to go or enter into or onto”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, /ɪŋˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, /ɪnˈɡɹiːd͡ʒənt/ 1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. Example: Holonyms: mixture; whole Example: Near-synonyms: constituent, component 2. A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component. Labels: figuratively Example: Holonym: end result Example: Innovation is just one ingredient for continued growth.
Word: future proof Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of future-proof. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: future proof Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of future-proof. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dependant Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɛndənt/ 1. Obsolete spelling of dependent. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Mrs. Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependant cousin, by sending me on business to London. 2. Misspelling of dependent. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
Word: dependant Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɛndənt/ 1. UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of dependent.
Word: phenomena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The plural form of phenomenon, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern. Pronunciation: /fɪˈnɒm.ɪ.nə/, /fɪˈnɑm.ɪ.nə/ 1. plural of phenomenon Labels: form-of, plural Example: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
Word: phenomena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The plural form of phenomenon, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern. Pronunciation: /fɪˈnɒm.ɪ.nə/, /fɪˈnɑm.ɪ.nə/ 1. A phenomenon. Labels: nonstandard Example: And that this doctrine is true, the accidents or Phenomenas evidently declare unto us; […] Example: Senſe is Deceitful, and may feign, / As well in counterfeiting Pain / As other groſs Phænomena'''’s, / In which it oft miſtakes the Caſe.
Word: nicher Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of nicker (“to neigh”). Labels: Scotland, alt-of, alternative Example: "Aha-ha-ha! Hee-hee-hee!" nichered McMurdie, misconstruing the Laird's meaning.
Word: nicher Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of niche: more niche Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: disgruntle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English gruntle English disgruntle From dis- (intensifier) + gruntle (“grumble, grunt”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡɹʌnt(ə)l/ 1. To make discontent or cross; to put in a bad temper. Labels: transitive Example: A pregnant woman who ordered pizza in Florida was stabbed 14 times by a delivery driver who police say was disgruntled over her $2 tip.
Word: blue peter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The flag, serving as a signal of recall for departure, was used by the British Navy from 1777, and the name “blue peter” had become common by the end of the 18th century. An all-blue flag had earlier seen use for the same purpose by the Dutch East India Company. While “blue” obviously refers to the dominant colour of the flag, the origin of the second part of the term, “peter”, is unknown. Often said to be a corruption of “blue repeater”, there is actually no signal flag that goes by that designation. The use of the flag to spell the letter “P” dates from 1857 and so cannot have played a role in the origin of the term. The whist play, introduced by Lord Henry Bentinck, was named by him after the flag. 1. A blue signal flag with a white rectangle in the centre, signifying "P". When flown alone, indicates that a ship is ready to sail, requiring all crew members and passengers to return on board. Example: We lay out in the stream for another whole day, with the Blue Peter flying, to show that we were ready for sea, and to summon any passengers who might yet remain on shore. Example: If we clung as devotedly as some philosophers pretend we do to the abstract idea of life, or were half as frightened as they make out we are, for the subversive accident that ends it all, the trumpets might sound by the hour and no one would follow them into battle - the blue-peter might fly at the truck, but who would climb into a sea-going ship? 2. In whist, a play that calls for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a lower one. Labels: intransitive
Word: blue peter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The flag, serving as a signal of recall for departure, was used by the British Navy from 1777, and the name “blue peter” had become common by the end of the 18th century. An all-blue flag had earlier seen use for the same purpose by the Dutch East India Company. While “blue” obviously refers to the dominant colour of the flag, the origin of the second part of the term, “peter”, is unknown. Often said to be a corruption of “blue repeater”, there is actually no signal flag that goes by that designation. The use of the flag to spell the letter “P” dates from 1857 and so cannot have played a role in the origin of the term. The whist play, introduced by Lord Henry Bentinck, was named by him after the flag. 1. In whist, to play a blue peter. Labels: intransitive
Word: Blue Riband Part of Speech: name 1. A trophy for the fastest sea crossing of the Atlantic by a liner. Example: The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm left New York on May 3 [1904], at 3.10 p.m. and reached Plymouth Sound on May 9 at 8 a.m. This was then a very fast crossing of the Atlantic, but it was not the record. The same ship had held the "Blue Riband" in 1902, but had been slightly bested by the Kaiser Wilhelm II, a larger vessel of the same line, in 1903, and that stood as the record until the Cunard Line secured the honours in 1909 with the Mauretania and held them for an unbroken period of 20 years. 2. An award from the British Motorcycling Federation for advanced riding. 3. The most prestigious event, award etc. of its type or class. Labels: attributive, often Example: The men's downhill race is considered by many to be the blue riband event of the Winter Olympics.
Word: bluejacket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blue + jacket. 1. A seaman of a British warship Example: It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter. Example: ‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’ 2. An enlisted man in the US Navy. Example: […] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy. 3. A uniformed policeman. Example: He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now. 4. An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).
Word: bench-warmer Part of Speech: noun 1. A player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute. Labels: colloquial
Word: warmer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔɹmɚ/, /ˈwɔːmə/ 1. comparative form of warm: more warm Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: warmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *warmaz Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *warmijaną Proto-West Germanic *warmijan Old English wierman Proto-West Germanic *warmōn Old English wearmian Middle English warmen English warm Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English warmer From warm + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔɹmɚ/, /ˈwɔːmə/ 1. Something that warms (something else) by providing some small amount of heat, such as a hot water bottle or a soup. Example: […] tortillas are kept warm and moist in an electric warmer […] 2. A piece of clothing for warmth via insulation of body heat. 3. An introductory activity, for example in a lesson, to stimulate interest in a topic.
Word: disconsolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/, /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/ 1. Cheerless, dreary. Example: I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day. Example: a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death. 2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable. Example: For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate. Example: overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow
Word: disconsolate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/, /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/ 1. Disconsolateness. Labels: obsolete
Word: nuncupative will Part of Speech: noun 1. A will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof.
Word: trudge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”). Pronunciation: /tɹʌd͡ʒ/ 1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. Example: The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.
Word: trudge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”). Pronunciation: /tɹʌd͡ʒ/ 1. To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. Labels: intransitive Example: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall. 2. To trudge along or over a route etc. Labels: transitive
Word: sale-proof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sale + -proof. 1. Nearly impossible to sell to others. Labels: colloquial Example: That used car has one thing going for it: it is sale-proof.
Word: napalm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed from na(phthenic) palm(itic) acid, the two original components of the substance. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪ.pɑːm/, /ˈneɪ.pɑlm/ 1. A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: A trio of needle-nosed silver Phantom jets descended from the clouds and dropped a colossal load of napalm on the jungle. Flames turned the screen red and orange. Silence followed. “You smell that?” Kilgore said, almost to himself. Then, louder, “You smell that?” Lance, the champion surfer, asked “What?” Kilgore, lit by the glow of burning trees, retorted, “Napalm, son—nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours, and when it was all over I walked up; we didn’t find one of ’em … not one stinking dink body. But the smell—you know, that gasoline smell—the whole hill—it smelled like … victory.” 2. Anything very incendiary; dynamite. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: When leaked, the controversial documents proved to be political napalm. Example: sexual napalm
Word: napalm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Formed from na(phthenic) palm(itic) acid, the two original components of the substance. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪ.pɑːm/, /ˈneɪ.pɑlm/ 1. To spray or attack with napalm. Labels: transitive
Word: latent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.tənt/ 1. Existing or present but concealed or inactive. Labels: not-comparable Example: There is known latent demand for rail freight and the rail freight industry is working with Scottish businesses to develop new rail freight services, as environmental concerns are beginning to change the logistics choices of Scottish producers. 2. Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant. Labels: not-comparable Example: 2008 July 2, Joe Palca, “Scientists Make Herpes Breakthrough”, abstract, All Things Considered, National Public Radio Those infected with a herpes virus are infected for life. That’s because the virus goes "latent." Sometimes, it awakes from its slumber, producing painful illnesses. 3. Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: latent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”). Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.tənt/ 1. The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint. Example: Once the latent prints have been visualized by the superglue and powder dusting techniques, they should be photographed again. Then the developed latents need to be lifted and placed on backing cards. The latent cards are documented by putting the case number, date and time of lifting, initials of person processing the evidence, and a sketch indicating the location of the lifted latent print on the back of the lift card, as shown in Photo 6.6. Example: Paralegal workers do not argue cases in court, and these crimescene fingerprint gatherers do not compare crime-scene latents to known prints of suspects and present their findings in court. 2. An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor. Example: These kinds of latents define the invariant dispositional properties enabling prediction and control of the external environment. Finally, there are the latents that underlie manifestation as relationships of power, as cause to effect, condition to occurrence, or dependent variable to independent variable. Example: That is, the observed covariance between indicator y₁ and y₃ would mirror the understandable causal behavior of the corresponding underlying latents. 3. Anything that is latent. Example: Even if latents may not be actually detectable in any given situation, they may nevertheless be present in it. Latents may become actual if proper triggering conditions are in place, or they may be lost in the process. Example: After we discovered Leah and I realized what she was, the flood gates opened. More and more latents have been discovered, as well as cubs.
Word: unconscious 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 conscious English unconscious From un- + conscious. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/, /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/ 1. Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury). Example: After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious. Example: The firefighters put on breathing apparatus and managed to find the injured. In one case, they were almost too late - one of the bystanders who had helped with the initial rescue attempts had been reported missing. They were later found unconscious, having been overcome by the fumes. 2. Without directed thought or awareness. Example: My sudden fright was an unconscious response. Example: It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence. 3. engaged in skilled performance without conscious control. Example: Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often. Example: "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
Word: unconscious 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 conscious English unconscious From un- + conscious. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/, /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/ 1. That part of mind that is not consciously perceived. Example: Because the unconscious is outside time, it can perceive transformations beyond the limits of the ego.
Word: cell phone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipped compound of cellular phone. 1. A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection. Labels: Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US
Word: cell phone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipped compound of cellular phone. 1. Alternative form of cellphone. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Republican insurgent cell phoned them hourly between stops from his recreational vehicle as he terrified Dole forces with a vociferously charged challenge. Example: On a road trip, Getzlaf was sitting in the back of the bus and didn't like the movie, so he cell phoned up to the front to get the-then Calgary general manager Kelly Kisio to pop in another video.
Word: latrine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna. Pronunciation: /ləˈtɹiːn/ 1. An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation. 2. Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse. Labels: India 3. A chamber pot. Labels: obsolete
Word: cardinal symptom Part of Speech: noun 1. The primary or major symptom by which a diagnosis is made 2. The particular symptom which is regarded most important for choosing the curing substance
Word: facility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty. Pronunciation: /fəˈsɪlɪti/ 1. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour. Example: A wide range of facilities is available at the sports center, including a weight room and saunas. 2. A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries? Example: Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph. 4. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled. 5. Clipping of credit facility. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable 6. A toilet. Labels: Canada, US, countable, in-plural, uncountable 7. A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Affability. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: chaptzem Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Yiddish כאַפּטסעם (khaptsem), from כאַפּן (khapn, “to catch, get”) and אים (im, “him”). 1. Help! Catch him/her/them!
Word: egestion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French egestion, from Latin ēgestiōnem, accusative of ēgestiō (“emptying, voiding”), action noun from the perfect passive participle of ēgerō (“to carry out”), from ex- + gerō. Pronunciation: /iːˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/ 1. The act or result of egesting Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rasp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb /*(s)krebʰ- Proto-Germanic *hrepsaną /*hrepspaną Proto-Germanic *hrespaną Proto-Germanic *hraspōną Frankish *hraspōnbor. Vulgar Latin *raspāre Old French rasperbor. Middle English raspen English rasp Inherited from Middle English raspen (“to scratch, scrape”), borrowed from Old French rasper (“to grate, scratch”), from Vulgar Latin *raspāre (“to scrape; to scratch”), borrowed from Frankish *hraspōn (“to rasp or grate”), from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną (same meaning, plus “to steal”), from *hrespaną (“to tear, rip; to plunder”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to plunder”). The noun is from Middle French raspe (whence Modern French râpe), deverbal of rasper, from Old French rasper (see above). Pronunciation: /ɹɑːsp/, /ɹæsp/ 1. A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file. 2. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound. Example: the rasp of her perpetual cough
Word: rasp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb /*(s)krebʰ- Proto-Germanic *hrepsaną /*hrepspaną Proto-Germanic *hrespaną Proto-Germanic *hraspōną Frankish *hraspōnbor. Vulgar Latin *raspāre Old French rasperbor. Middle English raspen English rasp Inherited from Middle English raspen (“to scratch, scrape”), borrowed from Old French rasper (“to grate, scratch”), from Vulgar Latin *raspāre (“to scrape; to scratch”), borrowed from Frankish *hraspōn (“to rasp or grate”), from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną (same meaning, plus “to steal”), from *hrespaną (“to tear, rip; to plunder”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to plunder”). The noun is from Middle French raspe (whence Modern French râpe), deverbal of rasper, from Old French rasper (see above). Pronunciation: /ɹɑːsp/, /ɹæsp/ 1. To use a rasp. Labels: intransitive 2. To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps. Labels: intransitive 3. To say in a raspy voice. Example: “No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron. 4. To work something with a rasp. Labels: transitive Example: to rasp wood to make it smooth Example: to rasp bones to powder 5. To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language. Labels: ambitransitive, figuratively Example: Some sounds rasp the ear. Example: His insults rasped my temper.
Word: rasp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from earlier raspis (“raspberry”), mistaken as a plural. Further origin unknown. Pronunciation: /ɹɑːsp/, /ɹæsp/ 1. The raspberry. Labels: archaic Example: Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.
Word: breeches Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- Proto-Germanic *brōks Proto-West Germanic *brōk Old English brōc Old English brēċ Middle English brek Middle English breches English breeches From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English brēċ (“underpants”), the plural of brōc (“legging, buttocks”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“crotch, legging, trousers”). Akin to West Frisian broek (“leggings, over-trousers”), Dutch broek (“pair of trousers, underpants, long-johns”), obsolete German Bruch (“pair of hose, leggings, pants trousers”), Old Norse brók (“breeches”) (whence Danish brog); compare Latin brācae ( > French braies, Spanish bragas) which is immediately of Celtic origin, yet ultimately borrowed from the same Proto-Germanic source above. Compare brail. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/, /ˈbɹɪ.t͡ʃɪz/ 1. plural of breech Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breeches Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- Proto-Germanic *brōks Proto-West Germanic *brōk Old English brōc Old English brēċ Middle English brek Middle English breches English breeches From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English brēċ (“underpants”), the plural of brōc (“legging, buttocks”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“crotch, legging, trousers”). Akin to West Frisian broek (“leggings, over-trousers”), Dutch broek (“pair of trousers, underpants, long-johns”), obsolete German Bruch (“pair of hose, leggings, pants trousers”), Old Norse brók (“breeches”) (whence Danish brog); compare Latin brācae ( > French braies, Spanish bragas) which is immediately of Celtic origin, yet ultimately borrowed from the same Proto-Germanic source above. Compare brail. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/, /ˈbɹɪ.t͡ʃɪz/ 1. A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only Example: And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best: / His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, / And there was a hole where the tail came through. Example: "In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden. 2. Trousers; pantaloons. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only Example: But now there's only old Manning, and young William, and a new-fashioned woman gardener in breeches and such-like.
Word: disfranchise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English franchise English disfranchise From dis- + franchise. 1. To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise. Labels: transitive Example: Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority.
Word: fud Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fuddy-duddy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: The other poets were either hornrimmed intellectual hepcats with wild black hair like Alvah Goldbook, or delicate pale handsome poets like Ike O'Shay (in a suit), or out-of-this-world genteel-looking Renaissance Italians like Francis DaPavia (who looks like a young priest), or bow-tied wild-haired old anarchist fuds like Rheinhold Cacoethes, or big fat bespectacled quiet booboos like Warren Coughlin. Example: The builders of steam engines and other machines also wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build structures, then you could not be an engineer. 2. Alternative letter-case form of FUD. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: dwelling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell. Pronunciation: /ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/ 1. A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. Example: The old house served as a dwelling for Albert. Example: For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, / The latest house to landward; but behind, / With one small gate that open'd on the waste, / Flourish'd a little garden square and wall'd; [...]
Word: dwelling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of dwell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: French door Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of French window. Labels: US
Word: amenity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /əˈmiːnəti/, /əˈmɛnəti/ 1. Pleasantness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday. Example: The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast and discovering places, which were so full of amenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of Calvin planted themselves on the banks of the river May. 2. A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant; a public facility. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable. Example: The complex includes the usual (public) utilities (such as gas and electricity) and amenities like wifi and a gym (its toilets with toiletries included too). 3. Convenience. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.
Word: gas jar Part of Speech: noun 1. A cylindrical lidded glass vessel for collecting and storing gases from experiments etc.
Word: grammage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English gram 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 grammage From gram + -age. 1. The mass per area of paper measured in grams per square meter (g/m²). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Grammage of paper is very important because all physical properties and many optical and electrical properties are affected by the change in grammage. Paper is sold by weight; therefore, the lowest grammage paper that will do the job is usually selected by the customer. 2. The integral of matter density along the path (of a cosmic ray). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: grammage of cosmic rays around galactic supernova remnants
Word: IC50 Part of Speech: noun 1. The concentration of an inhibitor that is required for 50-percent inhibition of an enzyme in vitro.
Word: intergenic region Part of Speech: noun 1. DNA sequences located between genes that make up a large percentage of the human genome with no known function.
Word: Japscat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jap + scat. 1. Coprophilia, originating in Japanese pornography. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: gourmand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gourmaunt, gormond, gromonde, from Old French gormant (“a glutton”, noun), from gormant (“gluttonous”, adjective), of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊə.mənd/, /ˈɡʊʁmɑ̃/, /ɡɔɹˈmɑnd/, /ˈɡʊɹ.mɑnd/ 1. A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater. Example: I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs; Example: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone. 2. A person who appreciates good food. Example: The third key was the number of demands from different patrons or groups for their own specialized cuisines. Such patrons included the court, rich households, and scholar-gourmands. Buddhists and Muslims also elaborated their own cuisines (sucai 素菜 and qingzhen 清真).
Word: suicide king Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because the king of hearts appears to be stabbing himself in the head with his sword in English pattern playing cards. 1. A king of hearts in a deck of playing cards. Labels: slang Example: When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication. Example: Bayr laid the card down on top of the cowboy's. “Suicide king,” he said softly, touching the king of hearts' sword with his forefinger.
Word: house of cards Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/, [ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkʰɑɹdz] 1. A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion. 2. Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers. Labels: attributive, broadly, often Example: The essentials of megalithic construction are either the single large slab or the large slab as walling stone with another large slab resting on two or more large walling stones as a capstone—a sort of house of cards architecture. Example: Dolmens impress only by their massiveness: their house-of-cards construction is the simplest possible […] 3. A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation. Labels: figuratively, idiomatic
Word: stychomythia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of stichomythia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: impost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impost, itself borrowed or adapted from Latin impōsitus, past participle of impōnō (“to impose”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpəʊst/, /ˈɪmpoʊst/ 1. A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise. Labels: historical Example: ’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay. Example: 1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120, […] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue. 2. The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race; the handicap. Labels: slang
Word: impost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian imposta, from Latin imposta. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpəʊst/, /ˈɪmpoʊst/ 1. The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch. Example: The outer circle [of Stonehenge] has been formed by a combination of two uprights and an impost; yet each combination of these three stones is detached, and without any connection with the rest, except that of coinciding in the form of a circle.
Word: student ghetto Part of Speech: noun 1. A residential area, for instance in a college town, that predominantly consists of rental housing for postsecondary students. Labels: slang
Word: pressurize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English pressure Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English pressurize From pressure + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/ 1. To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure. 2. To coerce, put under duress; to pressure. Labels: rare Example: These men were indignant concerning the press coverage of the case and were careful to point out that Osborne did not pressurize them into sex or invade their privacy in any way.
Word: sponge bath Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of bathing, usually conducted in hospitals, which involves washing someone with a sponge. Usually the person being washed is bed-ridden.