nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sexual harassment Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌsɛkʃuəl ˈhæɹəsmənt/, /ˌsɛkʃuəl həˈɹæsmənt/ 1. Harassment in the form of unwelcome sexual advances or remarks. Labels: uncountable Example: All new hires at this job are trained on how to prevent and how to respond to sexual harassment. Example: “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
Word: catamount Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of catamountain (“leopard, panther; ocelot; man living in the mountains”), from Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English catte of the mountayne, cate of þe mounttaynne (“leopard, panther”). Pronunciation: /ˈkætəmaʊnt/, /ˈkætəˌmaʊnt/, [-ɾə-] 1. A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially the cougar, mountain lion or puma (Puma concolor). Labels: US Example: Uncle Charley's voice was very soft and there was a weary note in it. "Great snarlin' catamounts, but I'm tired." Example: 'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me.' 2. Synonym of catamountain (“a leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus)”). Labels: obsolete
Word: polyrhythm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)bor. Latin rhythmusder. English rhythm English polyrhythm From poly- + rhythm. 1. Music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously. Labels: uncountable 2. A rhythm or set of rhythms performed as part of a piece of music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously, typically equally spaced in time and coprime. Labels: countable 3. Music containing such a rhythm. Labels: countable
Word: whack off Part of Speech: verb 1. To masturbate. Labels: ambitransitive, slang, vulgar Example: Did I mention that when I was fifteen I took it out of my pants and whacked off on the 107 bus from New York? Example: […] why is it that I am discomfited by the bizarre fact that the one thing she will do, though in a pleasureless and rather perfunctory way, is to whack me off hour after hour until I am a lifeless and juiceless stalk, exhausted and even humiliated by this dumb pursuit?
Word: enjoys Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪz/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪz/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪz/, /enˈd͡ʒoɪz/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒoɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enjoy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: as soon as Part of Speech: conj 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon. Example: I came as soon as I could. 2. At the moment when; immediately (after); instantly; directly. Example: As soon as he arrived, everyone gasped. Example: […] that eye which watches guilt ⁠And goodness, and hath power to see ⁠Within the green the moulder’d tree, And towers fall’n as soon as built— […] 3. Used to indicate that the first action mentioned is as likely as, or is preferred to, the second action mentioned. Labels: idiomatic Example: I'd jump out the window as soon as not. Example: He was a bad guy. He would hit you with a chunk of pipe as soon as look at you.
Word: as soon as Part of Speech: prep 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon. Example: He might arrive as soon as three o'clock.
Word: chinky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chink (“crack”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋki/ 1. Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings. Example: […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies. Example: The door was knockerless and chinky, and creaked dismally as I inserted the key. 2. Resembling a chink sound. Example: The money made a chinky sound as I shook the purse.
Word: chinky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chink (“Chinese person”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋki/ 1. Possessing attributes of, or similar to, a Chinese person or Chinese style or culture. Labels: derogatory, offensive 2. Possessing attributes of, or similar to, an East Asian person or an East Asian style or culture. Labels: derogatory, offensive
Word: chinky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chink (“Chinese person”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋki/ 1. A Chinese takeaway restaurant. Labels: UK, offensive, slang Example: What this means for young Chinese people growing up and serving behind the counter is captured in Pui Fan Lee’s autobiographical play Short, Fat, Ugly and Chinese, broadcast on Radio 5 in 1992. She remembers her childhood: ‘But most of all I hated the shop. The takeaway. Or, as the locals called it, “The Chinky”[…] 2. A meal of Chinese food. Labels: UK, offensive, slang Example: I've had a Chinky, a Chic Murray and, afore ye came tae collect me, I had some fuckin' fancy Italian pasta dish. It was pure dead brilliant, by the way! 3. A Chinese person. Labels: offensive, slang 4. An East Asian person. Labels: offensive, slang Example: Oh my chinky she's so kinky got me hot like Nagasaki 5. A person from Northeast India. Labels: India, offensive, slang Example: Since I come from the North-eastern part of India myself and belong to a minority race, I too have suffered from racism, at least in its milder forms. I’ve been called "chinky", "momo", "chowmein", and more. Example: However, what matters to them is the intention of such a question, especially when they are invectively referred to as chinky and other remarks that are considered to be derogatory
Word: chocolatier Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɔk.lɪt.i.ɚ/, /-lət-/, /ˈt͡ʃɑk.lɪt.i.ɚ/ 1. comparative form of chocolaty: more chocolaty Labels: comparative, form-of 2. comparative form of chocolatey: more chocolatey Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: chocolatier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French chocolat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Middle French -er French -ier French chocolatierbor. English chocolatier Borrowed from French chocolatier. Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɔk(ə)ləˈtɪɹ/, /ˌt͡ʃɑk(ə)ləˈtɪɹ/ 1. A producer of chocolate. Example: The chocolatier's gorgeous creations wooed the surrounding neighbourhood.
Word: clamdiggers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clam + diggers. 1. Waders; rubber pants (including oversized boots) worn when wading in shallow water, especially when digging for clams with a clam rake. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. A kind of short trousers for women, usually ending at midcalf. Labels: plural, plural-only 3. A non-auger posthole digger of a hand tool type with hinged operation. Labels: plural, plural-only, usually
Word: clamdiggers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of clamdigger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cleeve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish cliabh (“basket”). 1. A large wickerwork basket for carrying produce or turf.
Word: cleverness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English clever Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English cleverness From clever + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈklɛvɚnəs/, /ˈklɛvənəs/ 1. The property of being clever. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1. Stuckism is the quest for authenticity. By removing the mask of cleverness and admitting where we are, the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression. 2. Something clever, or done cleverly. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: closed-minded Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of close-minded. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cloud on title Part of Speech: noun 1. An encumbrance or claim on a title (ownership) to real property sufficient to interfere with title transfer until the problem has been resolved. Example: "Although the laws of a State cannot affect the equity jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts, when the former afford rules as to what shall be deemed clouds on title, the Circuit Courts of equity, in the exercise of an ancient chancery jurisdiction, may remove such clouds." Example: "A cloud on title is an instrument which may be used vexatiously or injuriously against the owner of land, or which may cast suspicion on the validity of his title so as to render his land unsaleable at its full value."
Word: coffin nail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to the deadly health effects of smoking. 1. A cigarette. Labels: slang
Word: colporteur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French colporteur, from comporteur by influence of col (“neck”) (re-analyzed as col + porteur (“porter”)), from verb comporter, from Latin comportō (English comport). Pronunciation: /kɒlpɔː(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)/ 1. A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
Word: conduit bender Part of Speech: noun 1. A tool used in conjunction with a very long lever to bend angles in a conduit that electric wires are placed into.
Word: incunabulum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin incūnābulum (“cradle, origin”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.kjʊˈnæb.jʊ.ləm/ 1. A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe. Example: Sebastian, a profound student of such lore, had long believed that the book was a mere medieval legend; and he had been startled as well as gratified when he found this copy on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula. Example: Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an incunabulum: his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best. 2. The cradle, birthplace, or origin of something. Labels: in-plural
Word: constant speed drive Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that aims at ensuring that the electric generator produces a constant frequency.
Word: construction paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Thick colored paper that can be cut to make designs, models, etc. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Sam ran over to his little desk in the corner and started to trace his hand onto a sheet of yellow construction paper.
Word: contact inhibition Part of Speech: noun 1. Inhibition of cell division in normal (noncancerous) cells when they contact a neighboring cell. Labels: uncountable
Word: contestant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French contestant, present participle of contester. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛstənt/, [kənˈtʰɛstənt], /kənˈtɛst(ə)nt/ 1. A participant in a contest; specifically, a person who plays a game, as on a TV game show. 2. One who brings a legal challenge (such as a will, verdict, or decision).
Word: controlling image Part of Speech: noun 1. An image or metaphor that runs throughout and determines the form or nature of a literary work.
Word: corral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹæl/, /kəˈɹɑːl/ 1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one. Example: We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama. 2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group. Example: Please return the shopping carts to the corral. 3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense. Example: The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
Word: corral Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹæl/, /kəˈɹɑːl/ 1. To capture or round up. Example: Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen. Example: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. 2. To place inside of a corral. Example: After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner. 3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral. Example: The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
Word: counteroffensive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- English offensive English counteroffensive From counter- + offensive. 1. US spelling of counter-offensive. Labels: US, alt-of Example: As the war slogs on, a growing flow of Western weapons over the summer is now playing a key role in the counteroffensive, helping Ukraine significantly boost its precision strike capability. Since the counteroffensive began, Ukraine said, its forces have reclaimed more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region.
Word: counteroffensive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- English offensive English counteroffensive From counter- + offensive. 1. US spelling of counter-offensive. Labels: US, alt-of
Word: counterword Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- English word English counterword From counter- + word. 1. A word (for example so) that is frequently used in a reflex-like manner in an answer and that has thereby quickly taken on a new, much less specific or much looser meaning or is even almost meaningless and performs a completely new function. 2. Such a word (or a word that has gone through a similar change) when not used as a reflex-like answer.
Word: daytime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From day + time. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtaɪm/ 1. The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.
Word: daytime Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From day + time. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtaɪm/ 1. Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day. Labels: not-comparable 2. Happening during the day. Labels: not-comparable Example: daytime television
Word: country bumpkin Part of Speech: noun 1. An unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country. Labels: colloquial
Word: clinging Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/ 1. Clingy. Example: Yes, very clinging; my cousin has a delightful figure, and can stand it. Example: He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.
Word: clinging Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who clings. Example: The mind […] ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings, and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.
Word: clinging Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cling Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coy dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of coydog. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coy, dog.
Word: creamery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French crémerie, reformed as cream + -ery. 1. A place where dairy products are prepared or sold. 2. An ice cream parlor.
Word: crouton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French croûton. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹuːtɒn/, /ˈkɹutɑn/, /kɹuˈtɑn/, /ˈkɹutɒn/, /ˈkɹʉːtɔn/ 1. A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread. 2. A Glock switch. Labels: slang
Word: crufty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cruft + -y. Arose after 1959, presumably mid-1960s. Perhaps influenced by cruddy, crusty. 1. Relating to or containing cruft. Labels: informal 2. Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant. Labels: informal 3. Unrefined, dirty or worn. Example: All these years I been living with you we en't go nowhere. You want a beast of burden, not a woman. Because you is a big, crufty, niggerman with the strength of an ox and a mind big and empty like midday sky you think me is the same. Example: I thought I caught him sneering at Kevin and me, in our crufty pants and shoes, but I couldn't be sure.
Word: crux simplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin; specifically, Medieval Latin, as this collocation to name the pole used by the ancient Romans comes from Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) rather than from their own use of Latin (Classical Latin). 1. A single beam or pole without a cross bar for executions. 2. The simple pole or stake with which in the Roman Empire common criminals were executed either by being impaled with it or being attached to it, typically with the feet resting on a block to avoid a rapid death by asphyxia and using, for economy, only one nail through the hands (below the palm). Labels: historical
Word: ctenoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cteno- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.nɔɪd/ 1. Having a toothed margin, usually fish scales 2. Comb-like in shape.
Word: ctenoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cteno- + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.nɔɪd/ 1. A ctenoidean.
Word: confront Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”). Pronunciation: /kənˈfɹʌnt/, /kənˈfɹɐnt/, /kənˈfɹʊnt/, /kɒnˈfɹɒnt/ 1. To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with. Labels: transitive Example: It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively. 2. To deal with. Labels: transitive Example: confront a problem 3. To bring someone face to face with something. Labels: transitive Example: We should confront him about the missing money. 4. To come up against; to encounter. Labels: transitive Example: Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final. 5. To engage in confrontation. Labels: intransitive 6. To set a thing side by side with; to compare. Labels: transitive 7. To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to. Labels: transitive
Word: confronter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From confront + -er. 1. Someone who or something which confronts.
Word: confrontational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From confrontation + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃənˈəl/ 1. Pertaining to a confrontation; characterized by, or given to initiating hostile encounter; in-your-face. Example: It was Liverpool who once again carried the momentum after the break and the recalled Rio Ferdinand was booked for a foul on Suarez, whose confrontational approach and brilliant natural ability was proving hard to handle.
Word: confrontment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English confront Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English confrontment From confront + -ment. 1. Confrontation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cosmetology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cosmétologie. By surface analysis, cosmetics + -ology. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒz.məˈtɒləd͡ʒi/, /ˌkɑz.məˈtɑləd͡ʒi/ 1. The science of cosmetics. Labels: uncountable 2. The profession of a cosmetologist or beautician. Labels: uncountable Example: While still in high school, Mr. Niami took night classes to get his cosmetology license, then learned how to do special-effects prosthetics for horror films.
Word: cosmetologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cosmetology 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 cosmetologist From cosmetology + -ist. 1. A person who advises people (normally women) on cosmetics and other beauty treatments; a beautician. Example: I think cosmetologist is pushing it. Even esthetician has its drawback - sounds too much like "Esteelauder." Example: The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
Word: EMT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of emergency medical technician. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous) Example: “I am an E.M.T., and I have a tourniquet!” she shouted as she neared the crowd. “Get back!” 2. Initialism of epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of electrical metal tubing (“a type of conduit for electrical wiring; zinc-plated steel tubing”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: indexes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɛksɪz/ 1. plural of index Labels: form-of, plural Example: A tensor has then the property that when it is summed over one index (with a vector), it gives a new vector; and when it is summed over both indexes (with two vectors), it gives a scalar.
Word: indexes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɛksɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of index Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: phrasal verb Part of Speech: noun 1. A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts. Example: In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb. Example: In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on. 2. A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning. Example: Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing it as a Phrasal Verb). Thus, facts about GAPPING lend yet further support to analysis (125).
Word: spunky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English spunk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English spunky From spunk + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈspʌŋki/ 1. Spirited or plucky. Labels: US 2. Pertaining to or like spunk (semen). Labels: UK, slang Example: I'm not the kind of girl you want to come across / Yo, it's Josh T with his spunky sauce 3. Stained with semen. Labels: UK, slang 4. Of a person, stunningly beautiful; good-looking. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: spunky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English spunk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English spunky From spunk + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈspʌŋki/ 1. A good-looking person. Labels: Australia, dated, slang Example: But every Friday night up at the Harbord Diggers disco he'd be holding court, three or four spunkys hanging off each arm[.]
Word: plucky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English pluck Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English plucky From pluck (“nerve, persistence”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈplʌki/ 1. Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances. Labels: informal Example: For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, / Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century Example: "Dam' plucky of you, fixing it up like that. I kept that copper talking...give you a chance. By George, you did it perfectly."
Word: holotype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From holo- + -type. 1. The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference. Example: The holotype of this species is subglobular in shape and ammoniticonic in its mode of growth. Example: The surface of the holotype bears seven rounded annulations which slope very slightly orad from the venter.
Word: interconversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English conversion English interconversion From inter- + conversion. 1. Reciprocal or mutual conversion. Example: Tautomerism is chemical isomerism characterized by relatively easy interconversion of isomeric forms in equilibrium.
Word: agriglyph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin agerder. English agri- English glyph English agriglyph From agri- + glyph. 1. A crop circle.
Word: motivate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Anglo-Norman motifder. Middle French motifder. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin mōtīvumder. Middle English motif English motive Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English motivate From motive + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French motiver. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, [ˈmoʊ.ɾɪ.veɪt], /ˈmoʊ.təˌveɪt/, [ˈmoʊ.ɾəˌveɪt] 1. To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate. Labels: transitive Example: The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees. Example: Armor-piercing shells were heading up the shell hoists, but this procedure took a few minutes, allowing the battered American flagship to reply in kind, the gunners somewhat motivated to set new records for the rate of fire as the cruiser raked the larger ship from stem to stern in response. 2. To animate; to propel; to cause to take action. Labels: transitive Example: He was motivated purely by self-interest. Example: Steam-motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
Word: hypochondria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin hypochondria (the morbid condition so called, supposed to have its seat in the upper part of the abdomen), from hypochondrium (see English hypochondrium for more). Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒndriə/, /ˌhaɪpoʊˈkɑndriə/, /ˌhaɪpəˈ-/ 1. A formerly defined psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. No longer a current medical diagnosis; see hypochondriasis for more. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonym: hypochondriasis 2. Melancholy; depression. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Such labours as these, if they do not shorten life, are calculated to make it wretched, for hypochondria invariably follows close upon them. Example: His own temperament appears to have been neither purely sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, nor melancholic [...] not melancholy, since he is entirely free from hypochondria, thinks rapidly, and has an active will.
Word: hypochondria Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒndriə/, /ˌhaɪpoʊˈkɑndriə/, /ˌhaɪpəˈ-/ 1. plural of hypochondrium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: soo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sow. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal
Word: soo Part of Speech: adv 1. Elongated form of so. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tactful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tact + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈtæktfəl/ 1. Possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner. Example: His exhortations to his assistants to waste no time in getting on with the job, and to be tactful and courteous with those outside the railway service with whom they had to deal, are as apposite today as they were a century ago. Example: I once found myself listening to a gay man who was saying wistfully, "I wish there was someplace you could go, maybe a club, where only masculine men would be allowed in." […] Ever tactful, I did not point out to him that if such a place existed, he probably would not be allowed into it.
Word: whiskbroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whisk + broom. 1. A small hand broom, with a short handle, for brushing clothes.
Word: commiserated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of commiserate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Prevost reaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the chemist C. Prevost. 1. The trans oxidation of an alkene, to form a dihydric alcohol, catalyzed by iodine and silver benzoate.
Word: Alison Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Old French Alisonder. Middle English Alisoun English Alison From Middle English Alisoun, from Old French Alison, brought to England by the Normans (from Anglo-Norman Alison, from Norman Alison), diminutive of Aliz, equivalent to English Alice, from Old High German Adalhaid (“of noble kind”). Pronunciation: /ˈælɪsən/ 1. A female given name from the Germanic languages. Labels: countable Example: He came up close and kneeling gently down He said, "My love, my dearest Alison, So help me God, I never again will hit You, love; and if I did, you asked for it. Example: “Fun Home” may have won several awards for author Alison Bechdel, but some Duke University freshmen were not impressed. 2. A surname. Labels: countable 3. A locality in the Central Coast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cimmerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Cimmerian. Pronunciation: /sɪˈmɪə.ɹi.ən/, /sɪˈmɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/ 1. Perpetually dark or gloomy. Labels: formal, literally, literary, poetic Example: There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. Example: As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. 2. Mentally dark; ignorant; benighted. Labels: figuratively, formal Example: The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.
Word: policy mix Part of Speech: noun 1. the combination of fiscal and monetary policies, especially their perceived relative importance
Word: hypochondrium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin hypochondrium, from Ancient Greek ὑποχόνδριον (hupokhóndrion, “the soft part of the body below the cartilage and above the navel”), from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + χόνδρος (khóndros, “cartilage”). See also hypochondria, hypochondriac, and Wikipedia at hypochondriasis § Etymology. 1. The upper region of the abdomen, covering the upperribs, at each side of the epigastrium.
Word: catastasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “settling, appointment”). Pronunciation: /kəˈtæstəsɪs/ 1. In classical drama, the second and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. Example: The object of the meta-theatre is precisely that – to allow the participants to see through their first roles in it. But that is only the catastasis. 2. The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: Cimmerian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an. Pronunciation: /sɪˈmɪə.ɹi.ən/, /sɪˈmɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/ 1. Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness. Labels: Greek Example: The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye, Example: On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of men," and the Cimmerians, "covered with darkness and cloud," where "baleful night is spread over timid mortals." 2. One of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin. Example: Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian Doth make your honour of his body's hue, Spotted, detested, and abominable. Example: The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century B.C. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia 3. The prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy. Labels: historical Example: 1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 C.E.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, translated by William Fletcher Varro relates that there were ten Sibyls,—the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian...
Word: Cimmerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an. Pronunciation: /sɪˈmɪə.ɹi.ən/, /sɪˈmɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/ 1. Pertaining to the ancient Cimmerians. 2. Characteristic of Cimmeria, especially in having particularly dense darkness etc. Example: there it sleepeth, here it slumbreth: more or lesse they are ever darknesses, yea Cimmerian darknesses. Example: Tarzan slept until midnight, then he arose and crept into the Cimmerian blackness of the forest.
Word: Cimmerian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an. Pronunciation: /sɪˈmɪə.ɹi.ən/, /sɪˈmɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/ 1. The language of the Cimmerians, possibly belonging to the Iranian branch.
Word: Cimmerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Cimmeria Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Cimmerian From Cimmeria + -an. 1. Related to the prehistoric continent of Cimmeria. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”). Pronunciation: /keɪt/ 1. A delicacy or item of food. Labels: in-plural Example: Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […] Example: Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
Word: catechumen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cathecumynys pl, from Middle French cathecumin (modern French catéchumène) or Ecclesiastical Latin catēchūmenus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κατηχούμενος (katēkhoúmenos, “being instructed”), present participle passive of κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Pronunciation: /ˌkæt.ɪˈkjuː.mɛn/, /ˌkæt.əˈkju.mən/ 1. A student of Christian doctrine who studies it for the purpose of adopting it: either a convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism or a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation. Example: Here in this room an old man had killed and boiled a catechumen, had committed sodomy with a rat, had discussed a rodent nunhood with V., a future saint – depending which story you listened to.
Word: cessile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cess-, past participle stem of cedere (“cede”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛsʌɪl/ 1. Of the air, yielding. Labels: poetic Example: Sa silent is the cessile air. Example: God’s air, the Allfather’s air, scintillant circumambient cessile air. Breathe it deep into thee.
Word: chaffer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chaffare (“a bargain, a trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæfə/, /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/ 1. To haggle or barter. Labels: intransitive Example: To chaffer for preferment with his gold. Example: Walter declined the invitation, precisely because he wanted a dinner. He was, also, conscious that he had made a very bad bargain; but how could he chaffer and dispute about things so precious as the contents of those pages which were the very outpourings of his heart? 2. To buy. Labels: transitive 3. To talk much and idly; to chatter. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.
Word: chaffer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chaffare (“a bargain, a trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæfə/, /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/ 1. Bargaining; merchandise. Labels: uncountable Example: vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings 2. A person's mouth. Labels: countable, obsolete, slang Example: Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
Word: chaffer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chaff Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chaffer From chaff + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæfə/, /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/ 1. The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed. Example: A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff. 2. A person who or thing that chaffs.
Word: benzoate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic لُبَان (lubān) Proto-Indo-European *yew- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *yéwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.? Proto-Austronesian *zawa Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.? Old Javanese jawa Old Javanese -i Old Javanese Jawi Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der. Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy) Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor. Catalan benjuíder. Middle French benjoinder. English benzoin Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English benzoic English -ate English benzoate From benzoic + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛn.zəʊ.eɪt/, /ˈbɛn.zoʊˌeɪt/ 1. Any salt or ester of benzoic acid.
Word: hottie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hot + -ie. Sense “stolen vehicle” perhaps from hot-wired. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒti/, /ˈhɔtɪj/, /ˈhɔti/, [ˈhɔɾi], /ˈhɑti/ 1. Synonym of hotshot. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, archaic, slang 2. A physically or sexually attractive person. Labels: slang Example: You guys are pathetic. I'm gonna find myself a little hottie. Example: Junior public servants in the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s graduate program allegedly compiled a “hotties list” which rated female colleagues’ attractiveness. 3. A hot water bottle. Labels: New-Zealand, informal
Word: speciality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From special + -ity, from Middle French spécialité, from Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas. Pronunciation: /ˌspɛʃiˈælɪti/, /spɛˈʃæl(ɪ)ʈi/, /ˈspɛʃəl(ɪ)ʈi/ 1. UK standard form of specialty. Labels: UK, alt-of, standard Example: They cook well overall, but their true speciality is pasta.
Word: chasuble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chesible, from Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæzjʊbəl/, /ˈt͡ʃæzəbəl/, /ˈt͡ʃæsəbəl/ 1. The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass, equivalent to the phelonion of the Eastern tradition. Example: Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville. Example: He has magenta eyes, like old-fashioned vest buttons; he’s mowsy and glaubrous, brown like arnica and then green as the Nile; he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly.
Word: killer poke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: killer + poke (“the storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a computer program”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪlə(ɹ)pəʊk/, /ˈkɪlɚ poʊk/ 1. Any method of inducing physical harm to a computer or peripheral by software means, especially by inserting invalid values into a control register or by building up harmonic oscillations in a hard disk, etc. Example: killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and crash analog electronics in the monitor. Example: [F]rom what I recall the "killer poke" was POKE 59458,62 […] [W]hat it did was change an I/O line from input to output. The line connected to a signal related to vertical sync. The ROM routines that wrote to the display would wait until it was in vertical blank to avoid the "video snow" that otherwise resulted. The killer POKE would fool it into seeing the display always in vertical blank so it would write whenever. […] That this stressed the electronics was clear from the fact that the brief stint in the "killer" mode (a fraction of a second) often produced a bright flash followed by a dimmed and shrunk video display that would re-expand to its former self over the course of two seconds or so. Of course the later hardware also had the video snow thing fixed and the ROM no longer checked for vertical retrace, so the killer POKE disappeared.
Word: casement Part of Speech: noun 1. A window sash that is hinged on the side. Example: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. 2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ Example: Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood. Example: Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath. 3. A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.
Word: good form Part of Speech: noun 1. Behavior that is both morally and socially correct; proper manner, decorum or etiquette. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: The Queen is a model of good form. Example: When any of his descendants chose to take him to task for the crudeness of his manners he was accustomed to look them coldly over and retort that things had come to a pretty pass when comparatively new people ventured to instruct the oldest of the old settlers as to what was or was not good form.
Word: casement window Part of Speech: noun 1. A window that has frames hinged on the side and that opens outward or inward.
Word: electrostatic discharge Part of Speech: noun 1. An electric current, such as a spark, that is triggered when the potential difference exceeds a threshold value. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: flair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin flāgrō, dissimilated variation of frāgrō (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant. Pronunciation: /flɛə/, /flɛː/, /flɛɚ̯/, /fleː/, /fleə/ 1. A natural or innate talent or aptitude. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to have a flair for art Example: Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. [...] The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling cases of the day. 2. Distinctive style or elegance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to dress with flair Example: Each writer offers a unique flair to readers. 3. Smell; odor. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. Olfaction; sense of smell. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: flair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin flāgrō, dissimilated variation of frāgrō (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant. Pronunciation: /flɛə/, /flɛː/, /flɛɚ̯/, /fleː/, /fleə/ 1. To add flair. Labels: transitive Example: Place your thumb on top of the shank and your bent index finger under the hair and pull the tying thread tight to flair it.
Word: dialogic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαλογικός (dialogikós, “related to a dialogue”), from διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse, dialogue”), equivalent to dialog + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪ.əˈlɒd͡ʒɪk/, /ˌdaɪ.əˈlɑd͡ʒɪk/ 1. Of or relating to dialogue. Example: Even though some students did not actively participate in the dialogic feedback, they were still able to benefit from reading and following the learning dialogue both in class and afterwards. 2. written in dialogue. 3. Of or relating to dialogism. Example: Intertextuality is concerned with dialogic literature.
Word: multinucleation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English nucleation English multinucleation From multi- + nucleation. 1. The state of being multinucleate. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: multinucleate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English nucleate English multinucleate From multi- + nucleate. 1. having more than one nucleus; multinuclear Labels: not-comparable
Word: multinucleate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English nucleate English multinucleate From multi- + nucleate. 1. A multinucleated cell
Word: xem Part of Speech: pron Pronunciation: /zɛm/, /hɛm/, /ksɛm/ 1. Object-case of xe. Labels: nonstandard