nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: undeserving Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + deserving. Pronunciation: /ˌʌndɪˈzɝvɪŋ/ 1. Considered unworthy of reward. Example: the undeserving poor Example: I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. […] If theres anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you cant have it." But my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I dont need less than a deserving man: I need more.
Word: etext Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of e-text. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: EDTA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of ethylenediaminetetracetic acid or ethylenediaminetetraacetate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: ethylenediaminetetracetic acid Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɛ.θɪ.liːnˈdaɪ.ə.miːn.tɛ.trəˌsiː.tɪk ˈæ.sɪd/ 1. A white crystalline acid, C₂H₄(N(CH₂COOH)₂)₂, (and its sodium salt), a strong chelating agent with many industrial and analytical uses. Labels: uncountable
Word: fleeceable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fleece Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fleeceable From fleece + -able. 1. able to be fleeced; naive and gullible
Word: stronger Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English strongere, strengere (“stronger”), from Old English strongra, strengra (“stronger”), from Proto-Germanic *strangizô (“*stronger”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“strong”), equivalent to strong + -er. More at strong. Pronunciation: /stɹɒŋɡə/, /stɹɔŋɡɚ/, /ˈstɹɑŋɡɚ/ 1. comparative form of strong: more strong Labels: comparative, form-of Example: As a result, New Zealand locomotive design is a curious blend of English and American practice; certainly the American influence has always been much stronger than in Australia. 2. Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the former entails the latter, but the latter does not entail the former. 3. Better. Example: Compared to the previous semester, my grades now are a lot stronger.
Word: rings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪŋz/ 1. plural of ring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹɪŋz/ 1. A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended from a bar. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended from a bar. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, plural, plural-only 3. A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: rings Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪŋz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ring Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bits Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɪts/ 1. plural of bit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bits Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɪts/ 1. Genitals. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang Example: It seemed less awkward then stripping her the right way, as he didn't care to see her bits, and though he couldn't help but see a few things while slipping her into a long shirt, he felt like he did rather well considering[…] Example: Orange Dog The orange dog licks your face Showing that she loves you Right after she licked her bits Giving them a good clean But her wagging tail and smile Are enuff[…] 2. Neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, plural, plural-only Example: You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple sticks? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit. Example: I told the youts in my bits. Don’t ever lose if I win.
Word: daughters Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːtəz/, /ˈdɔ.tɚz/, /ˈdɑ.tɚz/ 1. plural of daughter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bridges Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪz/ 1. plural of bridge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bridges Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bridge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: entendre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Extracted from double entendre, corresponding to French entendre (“to understand, to mean”); doublet of intend. 1. A meaning, especially one that is implied rather than explicitly stated. Example: Like Lon Chaney, this mind’s mummy lives—but beneath how many wrappings of multiple entendres? Example: “Come on baby let’s ride / slide on into your four-wheel-drive and ride,” the singer urges, conveying more entendres than two.
Word: tantric sex Part of Speech: noun 1. A slow, sustained form of sexual intercourse founded on Indian mysticism. Labels: uncountable
Word: stillborn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From English still + born. First attested in 1597. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪlbɔː(ɹ)n/ 1. Dead at birth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son. Example: 1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16, Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day? 2. Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive. Labels: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable Example: This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market. Example: His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.
Word: stillborn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From English still + born. First attested in 1597. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪlbɔː(ɹ)n/ 1. A baby that is born dead. Example: About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.
Word: infantry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally "a youth", either way from Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfəntɹi/, /ˈɪnfənt͡ʃɹi/ 1. Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops. Labels: uncountable 3. A regiment of infantry. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Infants; children. Labels: colloquial, countable, humorous, uncountable Example: The next summer there was a crop of blackberries in the woods. I took wife and babies, supplied with lunch and horse feed; […] Wife took command of the infantry and I of the transportation. We were both soon calling loudly for assistance.
Word: heath Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”). Pronunciation: /hiːθ/ 1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth Example: These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath. 2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front. 3. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Any butterfly or moth of species: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Any butterfly or moth of species: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Any butterfly or moth of species: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Any butterfly or moth of species: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. Any butterfly or moth of species: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: downtown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From down + town. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/, [ˈdaʊ̯nˌtʰaʊ̯n], /ˈdæʊ̯nˌtæʊ̯n/, [ˈdæʊ̯nˌtʰæʊ̯n], /ˈdaːnˌtaːn/ 1. Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: John walked every day to his downtown job. Example: “Human flesh got stuck to me,” he recalls now, as we sit in the ambulance control centre in downtown Karachi.
Word: downtown Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From down + town. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/, [ˈdaʊ̯nˌtʰaʊ̯n], /ˈdæʊ̯nˌtæʊ̯n/, [ˈdæʊ̯nˌtʰæʊ̯n], /ˈdaːnˌtaːn/ 1. In or towards the central business district. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: You need to go downtown four blocks. Example: A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening. 2. Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: That shot came from way downtown!
Word: downtown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From down + town. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/, [ˈdaʊ̯nˌtʰaʊ̯n], /ˈdæʊ̯nˌtæʊ̯n/, [ˈdæʊ̯nˌtʰæʊ̯n], /ˈdaːnˌtaːn/ 1. The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center. Labels: Canada, US 2. The human genitalia. Labels: US, slang 3. Heroin. Labels: slang
Word: microscope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin mīcroscopiumlbor. Italian microscopiobor. English microscope From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”), equivalent to micro- + -scope. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/, /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/ 1. An optical instrument used for observing small objects. Example: That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable. Example: Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects. 2. Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
Word: microscope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin mīcroscopiumlbor. Italian microscopiobor. English microscope From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”), equivalent to micro- + -scope. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskəʊp/, /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/ 1. To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively). Example: It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use. Example: Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).
Word: Rebecca Part of Speech: name Etymology: The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbɛkə/ 1. A female given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew], in regular use since the Reformation. Example: And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Example: They would say, if 'twas Rebecca, That she is a little Quaker.
Word: Rebecca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbɛkə/ 1. One who protested in the Rebecca Riots; a Rebeccaite. Labels: historical Example: Colonel George Rice Trevor testified that the Rebeccas attacked poor-houses as well as tollgates.
Word: parachute flare Part of Speech: noun 1. A flare that deploys a small parachute to slow down its descent.
Word: depredation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛpɹəˈdeɪʃən/ 1. An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An animal that produces only two to four young per year cannot suffer vast depredations on the adult population without drastic effects. Example: Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia. 2. A raid or predatory attack. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids. (Battle of Brice's Crossroads) Example: Despite losing its overall roof to the depredations of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, the main building survives in all its Gothic glory.
Word: furphy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Furphy (a surname), from the firm of J[ohn] Furphy and Sons. An often-repeated etymology is that during World War I (1914–1918), Australian soldiers in Europe and the Middle East often stood around water carts manufactured by the firm and emblazoned with its name to talk and exchange news and rumours. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the word derives from news and rumours spread by soldiers operating Furphy carts collecting garbage and human waste in the Broadmeadows Camp in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1914, or shared between soldiers visiting latrines where such Furphy carts would often be seen. Pronunciation: /ˈfɜːfi/, /ˈfɜɹfi/ 1. An erroneous or improbable story; also, a rumour. Labels: Australia, slang Example: I know wot I wus born fer now, an' soljerin's me game, / That's no furphy; but I never guessed it once; […] Example: ‘Well, old boy, some other Top Persons have high-stepping wives who go to Nefertiti, and the furphy round the House is that they believe in the thing so solidly that they’ve convinced their husbands, and that’s what’s really at the back of it.’ / 'Now look, you two, sober up a minute. This is serious. I think Bill’s furphy’s right.[…]’
Word: Andromeda Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Andromeda, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda), Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē). Pronunciation: /ænˈdɹɒmɪdə/, /ænˈdɹɑmɪdə/ 1. The daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of Eritrea, rescued from her sacrifice to the sea monster Cetus by Perseus, who married her; mother of Perses, ancient king of Persia. Labels: Greek 2. A constellation of the northern sky representing the "chained woman" Andromeda in Greek mythology, which is surrounded by the constellations of Cassiopeia, Perseus, and Pegasus, among others. 3. The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, located within the Andromeda constellation (see Andromeda Galaxy); M31. Example: The Milky Way once had a massive galactic sibling that was shredded and consumed by our closest neighbour, Andromeda, scientists have discovered. Example: Andromeda is a large, spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. It's between two and three million light years away. On a clear night in a dark place, you can see Andromeda with the naked eye.
Word: water-cooler Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of water cooler. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Manufacturers of Fire and Thief Proof Chests, Refrigerators, Water-coolers, Filters, &c. Evans & Watson, […] Example: He has also in store Cortlan & Sons’ Improved Water-cooler, or Non-conductor of Heat. This is altogether the most convenient and economical water jar in use, and ought to be found in every counting-house and private family in the city.
Word: water-cooler Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of water cooler. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: For amusing one-liners, news, and water-cooler chatter about Palin from the Twitterati, please keep checking in on our "McCain VP Watch" Twitter widget on our blog to the right. Example: Discussion of a new bridge has been a staple of water-cooler gossip for decades.
Word: ROTFLMAO Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Contraction of ROTFL + LMAO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass/Arse Off. 1. Used to express great amusement. Labels: Internet, mildly, vulgar
Word: asp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare Middle English aspide. Pronunciation: /ɑːsp/, /æsp/ 1. A water snake. Labels: archaic 2. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis). 3. The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje). 4. An evil person; a snake. Labels: figuratively Example: 'Two thousand years ago did thou and I and that Egyptian asp rest therein, but since then have I not set foot here, nor any man, and perchance it has fallen,' and, followed by the rest of us, she passed up a vast flight of broken and ruined steps into the outer court, and looked round into the gloom. 5. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius). 6. The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched. Labels: Southern-US 7. The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched. Labels: Southern-US, broadly
Word: asp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-West Germanic *aspu, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp-. See also Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp; also Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs (“fir”), Latvian apse, Polish osa, Old Armenian ոփի (opʻi, “poplar”). Pronunciation: /ɑːsp/, /æsp/ 1. An aspen tree.
Word: asp Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɑːsp/, /æsp/ 1. Initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (2009 asp 9)
Word: CAP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of conservation action plan. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of catabolite activator protein. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of combat air patrol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of change acceleration process. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of cold atmospheric plasma. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of colors and placements. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: CAP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy. Labels: European-Union, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The fact remains that if Ukraine joins, the CAP budget will either have to be increased dramatically or will evaporate, given the sheer area of agricultural land in Ukraine (it’s bigger than the whole of Italy), with the average farm taking up about 1,000 hectares compared to 16 hectares in the rest of the EU. 2. Initialism of Civil Air Patrol. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CND Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: C.N.D. supporters Their ban the bomb badges beginning to rust Have scrawled 'I told you so' in the dust
Word: sopranist Part of Speech: noun 1. a male soprano singer
Word: cross the floor Part of Speech: verb 1. To vote against one’s own political party in parliament. Labels: UK 2. To resign from one’s political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one’s currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one’s new party. Labels: UK, informal Example: Two weeks ago, Mr Davies intimated to Mr Brown that he was ready to cross the floor.
Word: prewar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English war English prewar From pre- + war. Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈwɔː/, /pɹiˈwɔɹ/ 1. Alternative form of pre-war. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments.
Word: snigger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: British variant pronunciation and spelling of snicker. Pronunciation: /ˈsnɪɡɚ/, /ˈsnɪɡə(ɹ)/ 1. A partly suppressed or broken laugh. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn. 2. A sly or snide laugh. Labels: Ireland, UK
Word: snigger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: British variant pronunciation and spelling of snicker. Pronunciation: /ˈsnɪɡɚ/, /ˈsnɪɡə(ɹ)/ 1. To emit a snigger. Labels: Ireland, UK, intransitive Example: […]presently the Mole's spirits revived again, and he was even able to give some straight back-talk to a couple of moorhens who were sniggering to each other about his bedraggled appearance. Example: Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
Word: cupidity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cupidité, from Latin cupiditās (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid. Pronunciation: /kjuːˈpɪdəti/ 1. Extreme greed, especially for wealth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A bargain is a social evil; one man's loss, tempting another man's cupidity. Example: Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
Word: go in the out door Part of Speech: verb 1. To engage in anal sex. Labels: idiomatic, slang
Word: culvert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested: * a dialectal word, * a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor, * a derivation from French couvert (“covered”), although couvert is not used in this sense and the French translation of culvert is ponceau or buse de drainage, * a derivation from an unrecorded Dutch word, possibly *coul-vaart, a combination of Dutch coul-, from French couler (“to flow”), and Dutch vaart (“a trip by boat, a canal”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)t/ 1. A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water. Example: A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert. Example: After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.
Word: culvert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested: * a dialectal word, * a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor, * a derivation from French couvert (“covered”), although couvert is not used in this sense and the French translation of culvert is ponceau or buse de drainage, * a derivation from an unrecorded Dutch word, possibly *coul-vaart, a combination of Dutch coul-, from French couler (“to flow”), and Dutch vaart (“a trip by boat, a canal”). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)t/ 1. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: This led to a great deal of straightening and culverting, which in turn led to a massive loss of biodiversity.
Word: clasp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Noun dated ca. 1300 and verb dated ca. 1400; from Middle English claspe (“metal catch or hook used to hold things together”), possible metathesis of clapse, which comes from or related to Old English clyppan (“clasp”) (also see clip (verb)). Related to English enclasp (“embrace, hold tightly in one's arms”). Compare hasp, of very similar meaning but older known provenance. Pronunciation: /klɑːsp/, /klæsp/, /klasp/ 1. A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder. Labels: countable Example: I always have a hard time working the clasp on this necklace! 2. A bar or insignia on a medal ribbon, to either indicate an additional award of the medal, or the action or service for which it was awarded. Labels: countable 3. An embrace, a grasp, or handshake. Labels: uncountable Example: He took her hand in a firm clasp. Example: How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?
Word: clasp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Noun dated ca. 1300 and verb dated ca. 1400; from Middle English claspe (“metal catch or hook used to hold things together”), possible metathesis of clapse, which comes from or related to Old English clyppan (“clasp”) (also see clip (verb)). Related to English enclasp (“embrace, hold tightly in one's arms”). Compare hasp, of very similar meaning but older known provenance. Pronunciation: /klɑːsp/, /klæsp/, /klasp/ 1. To take hold of; to grasp. Labels: transitive Example: They clasped hands and parted as friends. Example: And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long. 2. To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp. Labels: transitive 3. To cling. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare
Word: premonitory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin praemoni(tus) Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōrius Latin praemonitōriusbor. English premonitory Borrowed from Latin praemonitōrius. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈmɑnɪˌtɔɹi/, /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtəɹi/, /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtɹi/ 1. Serving as a warning or premonition. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] the captain was plainly too much for the branch, which was drooping toward the water, and emitting sounds premonitory of a smash. Example: Many conditions formerly thought to be purely functional are now known as premonitory evidences of organic disease, and the prognosis must be guarded accordingly.
Word: premunition Part of Speech: noun 1. Immunization due to having had the disease before. Labels: uncountable Example: premunition to chickenpox
Word: tasteful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From taste + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪstfəl/ 1. Having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate. Example: Her home was decorated with tasteful, classical furnishings. 2. Having a high relish; savoury. Example: Not the fair fruit that on you branches glows / With that ripe red th' autumnal sun bestows; / Nor tasteful herbs that in these gardens rise, / Which the kind soil with milky sap supplies; 3. Gay; fashionable. Labels: colloquial
Word: preprandial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English prandial English preprandial From pre- + prandial. Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈpɹæn.dɪ.əl/, /ˌpɹiˈpɹæn.di.əl/ 1. Occurring before a meal, especially dinner. Example: Whilst meditating on the beauty and design as shown in the ant-eater, whose præprandial movements I was intently watching, a young gentleman (not a naturalist) asked me, sotto voce, "what is that contrivance?" "It is a contrivance," said I, "for catching ants, and that is why he is called the ant-eater," I continued to a young lady, who wanted to know the meaning of his name. Example: Gauss laid aside his pipe, pulled his velvet cap over the back of his head, returned the Russian dictionary and the little volume of Pushkin to the shelf, and prepared to go for his preprandial walk.
Word: preprandial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English prandial English preprandial From pre- + prandial. Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈpɹæn.dɪ.əl/, /ˌpɹiˈpɹæn.di.əl/ 1. A predinner drink; an apéritif. Example: They drink, for one thing, sweet ports as preprandials, anathema to most English, who consider them digestifs, or after-dinner company. Example: Why have people forsaken martinis, Manhattans, old fashioneds, and other preprandials of long-standing popularity?
Word: contaminant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French contaminant, present participle of contaminer (“to contaminate”), from Latin contāmināre. By surface analysis, contaminate + -ant. Pronunciation: /kənˈtamɪnənt/ 1. That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter. Example: Put the lid on the jar to keep contaminants out.
Word: contaminate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English contaminaten (“to defile; to infect with desease”), from contaminat(e) (“sullied, defiled; infected with desease”, also used as the past participle of contaminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin contāminātus, the perfect passive participle of contāminō (“to touch together, blend, mingle, corrupt, defile”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), which see for further informations. More at taste, tax, and taxi. Pronunciation: /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/, [kənˈtɛəm.ɪ.neɪt], /kənˈtæmɪnæɪt/, /kənˈtɛmənæɪt/ 1. To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter. Labels: transitive Example: This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink. Example: Bombs and munitions meanwhile contain toxic substances that contaminate soil, water, and vegetation. 2. To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association. Labels: transitive Example: Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes? Example: I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. 3. To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements. Labels: transitive Example: Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly. 4. To infect, usually of a deadly virus. Labels: transitive
Word: contaminate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English contaminat(e) (“sullied, defiled; infected with desease”, also used as the past participle of contaminaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Participial usage up until Early Modern English. 1. Contaminated. Labels: obsolete Example: And that this body conſecrate to thee, By Ruffian Luſt ſhould be contaminate! 2. Dirty, sinful, wicked, gross, etc. Labels: figuratively, obsolete
Word: in the black Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From the standard accounting practice of using black ink, as opposed to red ink, to denote positive values, especially a net income. 1. Having positive net income; having greater income than expenses; making a profit. Labels: idiomatic 2. Having positive net worth. Labels: idiomatic
Word: wash-leather Part of Speech: noun 1. Leather that has been treated so as to be very absorbent. Usually made of sheepskin treated with oil, and used for dusting or as an absorbent lining in pockets, gloves, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This combination shirt, of which the seat was made of wash-leather, protected the whole body down to the knees... Example: One of his waistcoat pockets was lined with wash-leather for the reception of his gold watch. 2. Buff leather for regimental belts. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: funky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree French funquerder. English funk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English funky From funk + -y. Pronunciation: /fʌŋki/ 1. Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. Labels: US, slang 2. Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context. Labels: US, slang Example: By the tone of her voice I could tell she had a funky attitude, but I kept my head under the covers and didn't say shit. 3. Cool; great; excellent. Labels: UK, US, slang Example: Eight-bit Arkanoid is a funky game — not as sexy as its 16-bit sister, but fun to spend time with. I'm hooked. Example: I love high heels, and these were totally funky! The coolest part: They actually let me take 'em home! 4. Having a foul or unpleasant smell. Example: They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak. Example: JAMES CARTER: You smell a little funky; I think you stepped in some rat shit. 5. Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk. 6. Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking. Labels: UK, dated, slang
Word: decadent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French décadent, a back-formation from décadence (see -ent), from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, from Late Latin dēcadēns, present participle of dēcadō, dēcidō (“sink, fall; perish”), from Latin dē- + cadō (“fall”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkədənt/ 1. Characterized by moral or cultural decline. Example: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. 2. Luxuriously self-indulgent. Example: 2003, Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
Word: decadent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French décadent, a back-formation from décadence (see -ent), from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, from Late Latin dēcadēns, present participle of dēcadō, dēcidō (“sink, fall; perish”), from Latin dē- + cadō (“fall”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkədənt/ 1. A person affected by moral decay. Example: L. Douglas He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
Word: truancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From truant + -cy. 1. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: shirk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First use appears c. 1633, in the publications of Shackerley Marmion, apparently from association with shark (verb), or otherwise directly from German Schurke (“rogue, knave”). Pronunciation: /ʃɜːk/, /ʃɝk/ 1. To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. Labels: transitive Example: the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties Example: Back in school, you ever get busted for trynna walk and have some administrator tell you / "Son, you can shirk your obligations, / and try to be different from your peers, / but responsibility, your future / is gonna find you!" 2. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. Labels: intransitive Example: If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work. Example: September 7, 1830, Lord Byron, letter to Mr. Murray One of the cities shirked from the league. 3. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. Labels: transitive Example: You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.
Word: shirk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1633, in the publications of Shackerley Marmion, apparently from association with shark (verb), or otherwise directly from German Schurke (“rogue, knave”). Pronunciation: /ʃɜːk/, /ʃɝk/ 1. One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility. Example: I may add here that, coming as the soldiers did from all avocations and stations in life, these details for fatigue often brought together men few of whom had any practical knowledge of the work in hand; so that aside from the shirks, who could work but would not, there were other who would but could not, at least intelligently.
Word: shirk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شِرْك (širk). Pronunciation: /ʃɜːk/, /ʃɝk/ 1. The unforgivable sin of association (claiming something or someone can share in the oneness of God). Labels: uncountable Example: A person can have committed shirk in their lifetime and still find forgiveness (especially by saying the Shahada and becoming a Muslim). The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness.
Word: interference Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymath Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfɪəɹəns/, /ˌɪntəɹˈfɪɹɪns/ 1. The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Somewhat impeded by constant political interference of one sort or another, British Railways are nevertheless pressing ahead with a mammoth modernisation programme; [...] Example: "With magic in limited use and hidden, it was possible to enhance the various magic resistances of humans, and to keep certain forms of magic from being possible. If magic enters common usage, this interference becomes infeasible." 2. The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference. 3. An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen. 5. In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 6. The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A negative or inappropriate language transfer. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interference Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymath Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfɪəɹəns/, /ˌɪntəɹˈfɪɹɪns/ 1. To interfere. Labels: nonstandard Example: In economic terms, the two production processes can be simultaneously implemented without interferencing between themselves.
Word: deduction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French déduction, from Latin deductio. Equivalent to deduct + -ion or deduce + -tion. Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʌkʃən/, /dɪˈdʊkʃən/, /diˈdʌkʃən/ 1. That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: extract, reduction; see also Thesaurus:decrement 2. That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: standard deduction Example: You might want to donate the old junk and just take the deduction. 3. That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it. Example: An unkinder deduction, considering only the Select Committee's report and discounting rumours of wayward conclusions by the Stedeford Group, would be that if one inquisition doesn't produce the desired answers, the Minister's policy is "try, try again"—or should one say "fight, fight, fight again". 5. A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Through his powers of deduction, he realized that the plan would never work.
Word: subtract Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“to draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“to draw, pull, drag”). Pronunciation: /səbˈtɹækt/ 1. To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number. Labels: transitive Example: If you subtract the $100 for gas from the total cost, it was a fairly inexpensive trip. Example: I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations. […] The axioms of arithmetic imply that when you expand (a + b)², for example, you get a² + 2ab + b² in the following way: (a + b)² is equal to (a + b)(a + b). Each term in one parentheses multiplies the terms in the other: a × a = a² ; a × b = ab; b × a = ab; b × b = b². Combining the terms, a² + ab + ab + b² = a² + 2ab + b². In a similar way, a² – b², a squared number subtracted from another squared number, called a difference of squares, becomes (a – b)(a + b), which becomes a² + ab – ab – b², which is a² – b².
Word: leaded type Part of Speech: noun 1. Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually Example: A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste. 2. Printed type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually Example: There, in leaded type, was the article before him. It seemed, somehow, much more important on the printed page than it had looked in the proof.
Word: dejected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From deject + -ed. Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʒɛktəd/ 1. Sad and dispirited. Example: He looked dejected after hearing the bad news. Example: The team sat dejected in the locker room after their loss.
Word: dejected Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From deject + -ed. Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʒɛktəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of deject Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deject Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʒɛkt/ 1. Make sad or dispirited. Labels: transitive Example: […] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears. Example: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure. 2. To cast downward. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Example: Princely wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful eye; and from the hand Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, and hush'd the clamour of the busy world. 3. To debase or humble. Example: ... as also we might have more feeling and sense of our sweet Saviour Jesus Christ, by the humbling and dejecting of us, thereby to make us, as more desirous of him, so him more sweet and pleasant unto us: the which thing the good Spirit of God work sensibly in all our hearts, for God's holy name's sake. Example: I adore thee, O divine and amiable hand! that comfortest me by chastising me, that strengthenest me by afflicting me, that elevatest me by dejecting me, and that givest me life by mortifying me.