nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: skillfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪlfəli/ 1. In a skillful manner; with skill. Example: On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.
Word: sermons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sermon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raining Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of rain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: raining Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/ 1. A fall of rain. Example: It was raining heavily. Example: This is a way of saying that the subatomic structure of the verb “to rain” explicitly marks rainings as a kind of change that places undergo.
Word: mended Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmɛndɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of mend Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hesitating Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhɛzɪteɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of hesitate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hesitating Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɛzɪteɪtɪŋ/ 1. hesitation Example: Miss Martin, after sundry hesitatings and coughings, with a preparatory choke or two, […] commenced a species of treble chirruping […]
Word: hesitating Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈhɛzɪteɪtɪŋ/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: goats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: goats Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of goat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: delivering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deliver Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: delivering Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of delivering. Example: The deliverings of our senses, while they seem to us to provide a transparent window on the world, are in fact conditioned through and through by the details of our organic and neural structure - developed over eons of evolutionary history.
Word: fugitives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fugitive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fugitives Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fugitive Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: casualties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of casualty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: newcomers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of newcomer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: depriving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deprive Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fights Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /faɪts/ 1. plural of fight Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fights Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /faɪts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fight Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: chooses Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃuːzɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of choose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: chooses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choose Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fainted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of faint Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: anticipating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of anticipate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: salted Part of Speech: adj 1. To which salt has been added. Labels: not-comparable Example: salted peanuts Example: Dave, if you are eating enough salted nuts for the salt in the nuts to make a difference in the compost pile, you would be better off worrying about what all those nuts are doing to *you* because that would be a *whole lotta nuts*! 2. Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease. Labels: South-Africa, archaic, not-comparable Example: It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease.
Word: salted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of salt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shutting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of shut Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shutting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌtɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is shut. Example: openings and shuttings of doors
Word: applauding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of applaud Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: applauding Part of Speech: noun 1. applause Labels: countable, uncountable Example: August 3, 1852, Rufus Choate, Address on Kossuth and Non-Intervention The tribute of tears and applaudings; the tribute of sympathy and of thoughts too deep for applaudings — too deep for tears, have attested his sway.
Word: confiscated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of confiscate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: praising Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of praise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: praising Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/ 1. An act of giving praise. Example: We ask people all the time, “How many of you are sick and tired of all the praisings you get at work or at home?” Everybody laughs, because most of us do not naturally think of cheering each other on.
Word: pooped Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pupt/ 1. Tired, exhausted. Labels: slang Example: Well, that was wonderful. A good time was had by all. I'm pooped. Example: Well, I've walked 35 miles since yesterday to get here, so I'm pooped
Word: pooped Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pupt/ 1. Fitted or furnished with a poop. 2. Having had a wave come over the stern from abaft. Example: Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale. We were pooped. The wave passed. It seemed to me that I was under water for minutes - really it was seconds.
Word: pooped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pupt/ 1. simple past and past participle of poop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: exerted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of exert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: temptations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of temptation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diaphone Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of organ pipe. 2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
Word: diaphone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone). 1. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
Word: scraggly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag). Equivalent to scrag + -le + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæɡ(ə)li/ 1. Rough, scruffy, or unkempt. Example: The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow. Example: Faintly from the street scraggly children's voices singing a yule song. Miss Tomson going to the window. "Hey come here Mr Smith look at this, isn't that sweet, group of urchins, they're singing." 2. Jagged or uneven; scraggy. Example: She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing. Example: "I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.
Word: enamorado Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish enamorado. 1. A lover; a person in love. Labels: dated Example: Two more things they are looking at out there are a sign on the rear bumper reading “Custer Died for Your Sins” and, at the wheel, Lois's enamorado Stewart Brand, a thin blond guy with a blazing disk on his forehead too, and a whole necktie made of Indian beads.
Word: saltire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sawtoure, from Old French sautoir (“stile, saltire”) (compare French sautoir (“saltire”)), from sauter (“to jump, to leap”) + -oir (subject forming nouns denoting physical objects from verbs), from Latin saltāre (“to dance, to jump”) + -orium, -oria. Pronunciation: /ˈsæl.taɪə/, /ˈsɔːl-/ 1. An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed. 2. The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland. Example: But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try. Example: It was early August. In the Borders, there were few signs yet of a campaign that could take Scotland out of the United Kingdom. A large Y-E-S hung in separate letters from a tree on the road from Coldstream to Kelso. There wasn't a N-O to match it, but Kelso town hall flew both the saltire and the union jack. 3. The Saint Patrick's Cross, the pre 1922 flag of Ireland.
Word: ice-cold Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪskəʊld/ 1. Very cold. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold Example: I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again! 2. Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving. Labels: figuratively Example: I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point). Example: Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold Example: ice-cold beer here
Word: ice-cold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪskəʊld/ 1. A cold serving of beer. Labels: Australia, slang Example: […] to sink a few ice colds […]
Word: idyl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of idyll. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: straw polls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of straw poll Labels: form-of, plural
Word: topographical Part of Speech: adj 1. topographic Labels: not-comparable Example: Edward asked a few topographical questions, and set forth without the old man, who seemed infinitely to prefer finishing his attendance on his carnations. Example: Firstly, Japan is in such a topographical condition and technical restriction as to make it impossible to adopt the use of machinery upon such an extensive scale as is emphasized by Marxist agriculturism.
Word: drainage basin Part of Speech: noun 1. A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed. Example: The efficient evaluation of these plans, which may include the construction of dams, reservoirs, and settling basins, requires information on sediment transport in the Cache Creek drainage basin.
Word: catchment basin Part of Speech: noun 1. A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet.
Word: wedding party Part of Speech: noun 1. The bride and groom as well as the bridesmaids and groomsmen at a wedding.
Word: catchment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From catch + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˈkatʃmənt/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃmənt/ 1. Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water. Labels: attributive, often Example: Do you think that there ought to be some board or some authority for each catchment basin, which must be appointed with adequate powers to prevent the pollution of streams? Example: [paragraph 515] Now let us come to this point: you are quite clear that serious evil exists in this union of navigation and drainage? […] [paragraph 517] And you are also clear that one obstacle is the taxation of the catchment area, and that it needs some plan to be devised for meeting it, although this plan may have defects? 2. A catchment area, or the people it serves. Example: The Hospital Plan first set out the objective: a network of large district general hospitals, each providing specialised medical and surgical facilities for a catchment of 200,000 to 300,000 population[…]. Example: The publication of regular newsletters providing updates of floodplain management activities and distributed to individual residents in the catchment is an effective means of keeping the community informed.
Word: catchment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From catch + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˈkatʃmənt/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃmənt/ 1. To divide into catchment areas. Example: the catchmenting of mental health services
Word: ogler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ogle + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊɡələ(ɹ)/, /ˈɒɡələ(ɹ)/ 1. One who ogles.
Word: overgrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English grow English overgrow From over- + grow. 1. To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. Labels: intransitive 2. To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). Labels: transitive Example: The utmost they aimed at doing was thoroughly to clear the old Church of all the corruptions and superstitions which had disfigured it in the course of ages, and which, like the flaunting ivy overgrowing some ancient building, not only concealed the Church's fair proportions, but shut out the light of heaven from its windows, and more or less dislocated its structure. Example: One wall advertised a dense muddle of ivy overgrowing its prefab brick, while a miniature moat with a jerry-built bridge arcing over it snaked around one of the "halls" (as real universities dub their constituent structures).
Word: pluripotent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *pléh₁yōs Proto-Italic *plēōs Old Latin plousder. Latin plūs Latin plūris Latin pluri-bor. English pluri- English potent English pluripotent From pluri- + potent. Pronunciation: /plʊəˈɹɪpətənt/ 1. Having much or unlimited potential to develop in a certain way, especially in a desirable fashion. Labels: not-comparable 2. Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all. Labels: not-comparable Example: As the embryo grows, ‘pluripotent’ stem cells appear, which are limited in their potency. Example: After injecting the virus into the eye, the pluripotent genes were then switched on by feeding the mouse an antibiotic.
Word: bagpiper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bagpipe + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbæɡ.paɪ.pɚ/ 1. One who plays the bagpipes.
Word: billfold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bill + fold. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪlˌfoʊld/ 1. A small, folding sleeve or case designed to hold paper currency, as well as credit cards, pictures, etc. Labels: US Example: Lenny had so many pictures of his family stuffed into his billfold that it barely fit into his pocket.
Word: bindery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bindaną Proto-West Germanic *bindan Old English bindan Middle English binden English bind Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English bindery From bind + -ery (“place of”). 1. A workshop or factory where books are bound. Example: Places of Employment: About 69,000 bookbinders and bindery workers were employed [in the United States] in 1978. Many worked in shops that specialize in bookbinding; others work in the bindery departments of book printing firms, commercial printing plants, and large libraries. Some bookbinders worked for the Federal Government. Although bookbinders work in all parts of the country, employment is concentrated in large printing centers such as New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. […] Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement: A 4- or 5-year apprenticeship, which includes on-the-job training as well as related classroom instruction, generally is required to qualify as a skilled bookbinder. Apprenticeship applicants usually must have a high school education, mechanical aptitude, and be at least 18 years of age. […] Employment Outlook: Employment of bookbinders and bindery workers is expected to increase more slowly than the average for all occupations through the 1980's. Nevertheless, some job openings will arise as experienced workers retire, die, or change occupations. Despite the anticipated increase in the amount of bound printed materials, employment growth will be limited by the increasing mechanization of bindery operations. Job opportunities are expected to be better for skilled bookbinders than for bindery workers since many tasks that bindery workers used [to] perform by hand will be done by machine. Example: The tours to the binderies and to the printers and publishers lasted on the average of 1.45 and 1.71 hours respectively.
Word: mass-produced Part of Speech: adj 1. Produced by mass production.
Word: mass-produced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mass-produce Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: silviculturist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.? Latin silvabor. English silva Latin -i-bor. English -i- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English silviculture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English silviculturist From silviculture + -ist. 1. someone who practices silviculture; a forester
Word: mass-produce Part of Speech: verb 1. To manufacture (something) on a large scale, especially by using assembly lines. Labels: transitive
Word: silviculture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.? Latin silvabor. English silva Latin -i-bor. English -i- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English silviculture From silva + -i- + culture. From Latin silva (“forest”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). 1. The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.
Word: cese Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of cease. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: dimissory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dimissorius. Compare dimit. 1. Granting permission to be ordained. Example: a bishop's dimissory letter 2. Granting permission to depart.
Word: boma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”). 1. An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders. Labels: Africa, East, countable, uncountable Example: It was after midnight when Tarzan, with his slow-moving caravan, approached the spot where the elephants lay. Long before they reached it they had been guided by the huge fire the natives had built in the center of a hastily improvised boma, partially for warmth and partially to keep off chance lions. Example: Orders had been given for the entrance to the boma to be blocked up, and accordingly we listened in the expectation of hearing the lion force his way through the bushes with his prey. As a matter of fact the doorway had not been closed and while we were wondering what the lion could be doing inside the boma for so long, he was outside reconnoitering our position. 2. A stockade made of bushes and thorns. Labels: Africa, East, countable, uncountable Example: the area has three main groups. The Wamasi and Waarushaare still settled on the boma system where the clan settle in one cluster called a boma comprised of several houses enclosed in a fence leaving the centre open for keeping livestock. 3. A hide. Labels: Africa, East, countable, uncountable Example: 1922, Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla trail, quoted in Mary Zeiss Strange (editor), Heart Shots: Women write about hunting, Stackpole Books, page 182, You try to arrange the scene so the moonlight will be on the bait with a clear background against which the lion will show up. You pile as much fresh brush as you can on your thicket or boma, as the hiding place is called, for the lion can see as well by day as by night. 4. A hut. Labels: Africa, East, countable, uncountable Example: The exotic beauty of our Masaailand is a marvel to our creator, she thought as she stepped back into her boma, a typical Masaai hut built with grass, dry sticks and twigs and covered with cow dung for insulation. 5. A military or police post or magistracy. Labels: Africa, East, countable, uncountable Example: GWEMBE district police officer-in-charge Adams Gondwe has appealed to Government to put up a police post in Muyumbwe boma to replace one that was washed away by floods last year. 6. A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung. Labels: Africa, East, countable, uncountable Example: The cattle are usually corralled overnight which enables farmers to collect farmyard or boma manure. 7. A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung. Labels: Africa, East, attributive, uncountable Example: The Boma method is used on farms where there are animals (cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens), which are kept in enclosures where droppings are concentrated.
Word: dimity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier dimite, from Middle English demit, demyt, from Medieval Latin dimitum, from Byzantine Greek δίμιτον (dímiton), from Ancient Greek δίμιτος (dímitos, “of double thread”). 1. A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Strain the ſoup through a piece of dimity into a clean ſaucepan, and let it ſtew till it is of the thickneſs of cream. Example: The first of these tweels, in respect to the number of leaves, is the dimity cord, which is merely the three leafed tweel turned, a plan of which is subjoined, both for cording and treading.
Word: dimity Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dimmity (“dusk, twilight”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The twilight fell mistily—it was the first of the autumn mists—and in the dimity the undispersed families of the tawny owl called to each other, the young with keewick and the old with the proper hooroo, hooroo.
Word: cene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of control + gene. 1. A control gene.
Word: dimorphism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + -morphism. Pronunciation: /daɪˈmɔːfɪzəm/ 1. The occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The occurrence in an animal species of two distinct types of individual. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is also done for Dizygopleura landesi Roth and Eukloedenella pontotocensis Lundin, new species, which illustrate domiciliar (kloedenellid) dimorphism. 3. A property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin cestus. Pronunciation: /sɛst/ 1. Alternative form of cestus (“woman's girdle”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The cest of amplest power is given
Word: cele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of celebrity. 1. celebrity Labels: Myanmar
Word: English horn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French cor anglais. 1. A woodwind instrument similar to an oboe, but larger and pitched a fifth lower.
Word: fluorian Part of Speech: adj 1. containing fluorine Labels: not-comparable
Word: fluorinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English fluorine Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English fluorinate From fluorine + -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To introduce fluorine into a compound. Labels: transitive
Word: fluoridate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from fluoridation, equivalent to fluoride + -ate. 1. To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay. Labels: transitive Example: Out of the 484 Utah water systems that reported data in 2024, only 66 fluoridated their water, an Associated Press analysis showed. The largest was the state’s biggest city, Salt Lake City. Example: In England, about one in 10 people has fluoridated drinking water, though a programme has since been introduced to fluoridate water for 1.6 million people in north-east England.
Word: fluorine dating Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique used to date bones by measuring the amount of fluorine absorbed from the surrounding soil. Labels: uncountable
Word: fluorine absorption dating Part of Speech: noun 1. a technique used to date bones by measuring the amount of fluorine absorbed from the surrounding soil Labels: uncountable
Word: fluorine method Part of Speech: noun 1. fluorine dating
Word: fluorine oxide Part of Speech: noun 1. oxygen fluoride
Word: fluorine test Part of Speech: noun 1. fluorine dating
Word: uranium hexafluoride Part of Speech: noun 1. a binary compound of uranium and fluorine, UF₆; it is a grey solid, or heavy gas, and is used in the uranium enrichment process to produce fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons
Word: neons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neon (the fish, neon tetras) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neon sign Part of Speech: noun 1. An illuminated sign constructed from fluorescent lights in the form of bent glass tubes; the different colours being obtained by adding different noble gases to the neon. Example: Just listen to the music and the traffic of the city / Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty Example: I am born again / In a neon sign / Scrolling up and down
Word: utilitarianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English utilitarian 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 utilitarianism From utilitarian + -ism. 1. A system of ethics based on the premise that something's value may be measured by its usefulness. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The theory that action should be directed toward achieving the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" (hedonistic universalism), or one of various related theories. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Practicality, functionality, as opposed to e.g. aesthetics. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After a few more concerts, my uneasiness took form: the response seemed only to be to the Interpreter as Performer. The reviews praised her artistry. But I heard few women speak of her as a bridge in communication for deaf women, about her function, her "utilitarianism."
Word: strides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stride Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strides Part of Speech: noun 1. Trousers. Labels: Australia, UK, plural, plural-only, slang Example: 2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97, So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides. Example: He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
Word: strides Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stride Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: own goal Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈoʊn.ɡoʊl/ 1. A goal that results from a player putting the ball or puck into the goal of their own team; the resulting goal being scored for the opposition. Example: Madagascar's soccer authorities have banned Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne (SOE)'s coach and four of the team's players after they scored a world record 149 own goals in a match last month. Example: It is 20 years to the day since Escobar was shot dead after scoring the own goal that effectively sealed Colombia’s elimination from USA ’94. 2. A blunder that damages one’s own prospects. Labels: figuratively Example: In its penultimate year, for example, starting from when the Provos blew up Canary Wharf in February 1996, the IRA suffered its last 'own goal' when Wexford-born Ed O'Brien blew himself up on a London bus whilst transporting a bomb. Example: No doubt the buzz of army helicopters will sound again in the skies over Belfast tonight, as loyalists continue to score this series of bloody own goals.
Word: beholder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English behalder, be holdar, beholder, beholdere, biholdar, biholdere, byholdere; equivalent to behold + -er. Pronunciation: /bɪˈhəʊldə/, /bɪˈhoʊldɚ/ 1. Someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator. 2. A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.
Word: uncivilised Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of uncivilized. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: uncivilised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of uncivilise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: a'right Part of Speech: intj 1. Contraction of all right. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: neon fish Part of Speech: noun 1. neon tetra
Word: neon light Part of Speech: noun 1. A neon lamp. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The light from such a lamp. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: neon lighting Part of Speech: noun 1. lighting by neon lamps Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: disodium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Hellenic *dwi- Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor. Latin di-bor. English di- English sodium English disodium From di- + sodium. 1. two atoms of sodium in a compound Labels: in-compounds, uncountable
Word: monosodium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- English sodium English monosodium From mono- + sodium. 1. one atom of sodium in a compound Labels: in-compounds, uncountable
Word: trisodium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + sodium. 1. Three atoms of sodium in a compound. Labels: in-compounds, uncountable
Word: traffic signal Part of Speech: noun 1. A traffic light.
Word: sodio- Part of Speech: prefix 1. compound of sodium Labels: compound-of, morpheme, obsolete
Word: sodium-cooled Part of Speech: adj 1. that uses liquid sodium as a coolant Labels: not-comparable
Word: sodium lamp Part of Speech: noun 1. A sodium vapor lamp.
Word: sodium vapor lamp Part of Speech: noun 1. A street lamp in which electricity is passed through sodium vapour to emit a yellow light.
Word: sodium vapour lamp Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sodium vapor lamp. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: autogynephilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.? Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón)? Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor. English auto- English gynephilia English autogynephilia From auto- + gynephilia. Pronunciation: /ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/, /ˌɔ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/, /ˌɑ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/ 1. In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a male person to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism. Labels: uncountable Example: Charles Moser (2010), “Blanchard’s Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 57, number 6, →DOI, pages 790–809: “If autogynephilia were a paraphilia, we would expect that MTFs would want estrogens to feminize themselves, but decline anti-androgens or report that they disliked the effect. This is contrary to the observation that MTFs request and like the effects of anti-androgens.”
Word: bedworthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English -worthy English bedworthy From bed + -worthy. 1. Sexually attractive. Labels: slang Example: Vandeuvres was undressing her with his eyes. 'Yes, she's bedworthy all right', he said, 'but I'm a bit suspicious of her thighs. Will you take a bet, she's got lousy thighs?' Example: I had fleetingly noticed, had not perhaps noticed enough, how attractive, bedworthy, she looked with her fair hair down around her shoulders.
Word: on the hoof Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: The literal sense concerning livestock has no more to it as a sum of parts than the corresponding sense of on foot does. A reference to humans being on the hoof occurs in a text from England in 1691. 1. Of livestock, not yet butchered. Example: […]he is hereby directed to purchase, and have in Readiness by the First Day of July next, Two Hundred good draught Horses, Thirty Hogsheads of Rum, Ninety Thousand Weight of Beef on the Hoof, Hides included,[…] Example: A 150-pound whitetail on the hoof can be reduced to 100 pounds of pure meat. 2. Alive; embodied in a living animal (including a human); in working order. Labels: idiomatic Example: Barely 10% of the country's corn crop ever goes into commercial channels to become breakfast cereal, corn starch or oil. Less than 25% ever leaves the farm where it was grown - until it leaves on the hoof. Example: In 1920, votes at the Republican National Convention were selling at $2,500 on the hoof. 3. Of a human activity, while standing, walking, or running; on foot. Labels: idiomatic Example: Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in that Country in 1641, the Mother fled with our Author and another Child towards England, and landing at Leverpoole in Lancashire, they all beated it on the hoof thence to London,[…] Example: Look at this crowd! Bound to be a lot of pussy on the hoof in a crowd like this. 4. Without proper thought or preparation; done as one goes. Labels: UK, idiomatic, informal Example: Near-synonym: extempore Example: But billets need not be a great issue, and it is possible that, apart from the first and last nights, choice can be made 'on the hoof'. When on the road, consultation with the map and the clock will indicate when to start looking.
Word: brucine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French, from the taxonomic name Brucea + -ine, thus indirectly named after Scottish explorer James Bruce. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːsiːn/ 1. An alkaloid related to strychnine, found in several plant species, notably Strychnos nux-vomica (nux vomica). Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: cannabinoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis)bor. Latin cannabislbor. English cannab(is) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English cannabinoid From cannab(is) + -in + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈkænəbəˌnɔɪd/ 1. Substance that is structurally related to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive compound present in cannabis, or that bind to cannabinoid receptors. Example: White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2. Example: Similar in chemical structure to cannabis, the cannabinoids made by our bodies surge in number during pleasant activities, such as orgasms, and also when we run, studies show.
Word: cannabinoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis)bor. Latin cannabislbor. English cannab(is) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English cannabinoid From cannab(is) + -in + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈkænəbəˌnɔɪd/ 1. Structurally related to tetrahydrocannabinol Labels: not-comparable
Word: caprolactam Part of Speech: noun 1. A lactam (cyclic amide) manufactured from cyclohexanone and used in the manufacture of nylon.
Word: accommodatingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English accommodating Middle English -ly English -ly English accommodatingly From accommodating + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɪŋ.li/ 1. In an accommodating manner.
Word: acerbically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Italic *akris Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁-os Proto-Italic *-iðos Proto-Italic *akriðos Latin acerbusder. English acerbic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English acerbically From acerbic + -ally. 1. sourly; bitterly 2. In a sarcastic or cynical manner.
Word: sourly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English sour Middle English -ly English -ly English sourly From sour + -ly. 1. In a sour manner.
Word: ded Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of dead. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, especially, humorous, nonstandard
Word: ded Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian military slang дед (ded, “soldiers after their third or fourth half-year of compulsory military service”, literally “grandfather”). 1. A person who inflicts dedovshchina (a kind of hazing ritual). Labels: slang
Word: acridly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English acrid Middle English -ly English -ly English acridly From acrid + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɘkˈɹ̠ɪdli/, /ˈæk.ɹɪdli/ 1. In a harsh or corrosive manner. Example: "I presume you are a stranger in this neighborhood," she said in an acridly condoning tone of voice. Example: There were no dreams, No phantoms in her future any more: One clinching revelation of what was One by-flash of irrevocable chance, Had acridly but honestly foretold The mystical fulfilment of a life That might have once … But that was all gone by
Word: actualize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English actual 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 actualize From actual + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈæktju.əlaɪz/, /ˈæktʃu.əlaɪz/, /ˈæktʃəlaɪz/ 1. To make real; to realize. Labels: transitive 2. To become actual or real. Labels: intransitive 3. To realize one's full potential. Labels: reflexive Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:actualize.
Word: adenoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adenoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English op English deop From de- + op. 1. To demote (an IRC operator) from operator status. Labels: Internet, transitive Example: True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.
Word: activator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English activate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English activator From activate + -or. 1. One who, or that which, activates. 2. Something that activates a catalyst Labels: physical 3. Any chemical or agent which regulates one or more genes by increasing the rate of transcription. 4. A type of effector that increases the rate of enzyme-mediated reactions. 5. A type of dopant used in phosphors and scintillators. 6. An agent that enables the flotation of a mineral or minerals. 7. A hand-held device that delivers a controlled fast thrust to a joint, muscle, etc., to help stimulate nervous system activity.
Word: wawa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to wavey (“snow goose”)? 1. A snow goose. Example: The last of the morning flight of noisy wawas going fieldwards were streaming from the water when I pushed out in the canoe […]
Word: wawa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened and simplified form of water. Pronunciation: /ˈwaˌwa/ 1. Water. Labels: childish, colloquial, uncountable
Word: across-the-board Part of Speech: adj 1. wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability. Example: They recently made across-the-board changes to the benefits package. Example: Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more. 2. Aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays). Example: ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
Word: spagyric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”). Pronunciation: /spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/ 1. Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine. Labels: not-comparable Example: As such compromises and syntheses suggest, it was not only hardline Paracelsans who embraced spagyric remedies. Example: The necessary spagyric substances having been obtained, they were shut up in a glass phial and left to incubate in horse dung for forty days.
Word: spagyric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”). Pronunciation: /spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/ 1. A spagyrist. Labels: obsolete
Word: applicability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From applicable + -ity. 1. The degree to which a thing is applicable. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: relevancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From relevant + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛlɪvənsi/ 1. Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable 2. The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability. Labels: uncountable Example: It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy. 3. A relevant thing. Labels: countable Example: To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.
Word: spagyrist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From modern Latin spagirista, from spagiricus (“alchemy”) (probably invented by Paracelsus). 1. An alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases. Example: It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists. Example: The Carmelite enjoyed the general amazement, and he told father and son how the secret of this substance had been revealed to him by an Arab; it was medicine far more powerful than the one Christian spagyrists called unguentum armarium.
Word: spagyrists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spagyrist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iatrochemist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from iatrochemistry. 1. Someone who practices iatrochemistry. Example: Around 1604, Ribit and Mayerne helped a fellow Huguenot and iatrochemist named Jean Béguin establish a pharmaceutical laboratory in Paris, where he offered public lectures on chemical medicine.