nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: protologisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of protologism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dominion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dominion, from Middle French dominion, from Latin dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), from dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”). See demain, demesne, domain, dominium. Pronunciation: /dəˈmɪnjən/, /doʊˈmɪnjən/ 1. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And at the end of the dayes, I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderſtanding returned vnto me, and I bleſſed the moſt high, and I praiſed, and honoured him that liueth for euer, whoſe dominion is an euerlaſting dominion, and his kingdome is from generation to generation. Example: To choose between dominion or slavery. 2. Predominance; ascendancy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Objects placed foremost ought […] have dominion over things which are confus'd and transient. 3. A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory. Labels: countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable Example: the dominions of a king the dominion of the passions Example: Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! 4. kingdom Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For by him were all things created[…], whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.
Word: innards Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of inwards. 1. plural of innard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: innards Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of inwards. 1. The internal organs of a human or animal; especially viscera, intestines. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: It's the place for all black sinners. / Watch them eating dead rat's innards. 2. The inner workings of something; the insides or guts. Labels: figuratively, plural, plural-only Example: He took the cover off his computer and looked at the innards.
Word: dominions Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dəˈmɪnjənz/ 1. plural of dominion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spittle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of dialectal spattle (by association with spit (noun)), from Old English spātl, which is related to spǣtan (whence spit (verb)). Pronunciation: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/ 1. Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Who are you?!" he blurted into the woman's palm, and she shook it off in obvious disgust, wiping spittle onto his D-class uniform. 2. Something frothy and white that resembles spit. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Spit-up or drool of an infant. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spittle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/ 1. Alternative form of spital. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I'll build a spittle, or mend common ways […]
Word: spittle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Representing a frequentative form of spit (“a spade's depth”), equivalent to spit + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/ 1. A small sort of spade. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spittle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Representing a frequentative form of spit (“a spade's depth”), equivalent to spit + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/ 1. To dig or stir with a small spade.
Word: frothy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English froth Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English frothy From froth + -y. 1. Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles. Example: I like my milkshakes frothy, not flat like this! Example: When this brown head was obtained the juice was drawn off into barrels, the lees were left in the keeve, and new juice was pumped upon these lees, this, however, produced a white frothy head, similar to that in the remaining keeves. 2. Lightweight; lacking depth or substance. Labels: figuratively Example: songs with frothy lyrics Example: a frothy argument 3. Highly speculative; having high risk and high return. Example: But we have found it profitable to engage in some trading on our own account, generally in the rather frothy areas. Example: First, many of the welfare gains of the previous two decades or more turned out to have been illusory, as house and share prices tumbled, jobs disappeared and frothy investment opportunities collapsed.
Word: frothy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English froth Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English frothy From froth + -y. 1. A serving of beer. Labels: Australia, in-plural, slang
Word: milky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mylky, melky, equivalent to milk + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian moalkig (“milky”), West Frisian molkich (“milky”), Dutch melkig (“milky”), German Low German melkig (“milky”), German milchig (“milky”), Danish mælkig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”), Icelandic mjólkugur (“milky”). Doublet of milchig. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlki/ 1. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk. Example: his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: Example: The Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood, 2. Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black. Labels: informal 3. Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. Example: milky tea; milky cocoa Example: Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table. 4. Containing a whitish liquid, juicy. Example: 1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30, Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown; Example: […] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains. 5. Cowardly. Labels: colloquial Example: Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? Example: ‘Who said there was going to be any killing?’ The lightning flared up and showed his tight shabby jacket, the bunch of soft hair at the nape. ‘I’ve got a date, that’s all. You be careful what you say, Spicer. You aren’t milky, are you?’ ‘I’m not milky. You got me wrong, Pinkie. I just don’t want another killing […]’ 6. Immature, childish. Labels: colloquial Example: Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud! Example: There were the everlasting hills around, even as they had grown for countless ages, beneath the still depths of the primeval chalk ocean, in the milky youth of this great English land. 7. Producing milk, lactating. Labels: obsolete Example: As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing, Example: […] ye heare the Lamb by many a bleat Woo’d to come suck the milkie Teat:
Word: bubbles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bubble Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bubbles Part of Speech: noun 1. Sparkling wine; champagne. Labels: slang Example: I used to let myself down by being "like a man" and taking an interest in current affairs and complex wotnot, but now, like all these ladies, my grandest ambition is "pamper time" with "a glass of bubbles" and "some nibbles".
Word: bubbles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bubble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: infuse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfjuz/ 1. To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. Labels: transitive Example: Like every day this hellish summer, someone will come to infuse me with four hours with amphotericin, a weed-killer somewhat effective against cryptococcal meningitis. 2. To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). Labels: transitive Example: 1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. 3. To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with). Labels: transitive Example: Infuse his breast with magnanimity. Example: infusing him with self and vain conceit 4. To instill as a quality. Labels: transitive Example: That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. Example: Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth? 5. To undergo infusion. Labels: intransitive Example: Let it infuse for five minutes. 6. To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate. Labels: transitive Example: if you infuse Rubarb for an hour ; and crush it well, it will purge better, and bind the Body less after the purġing, than if it stood Twenty four hours 7. To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.
Word: prudence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prudence (“discretion; foresight; knowledge; intelligence, wisdom; act of good judgment; wisdom to see what is virtuous”), from Anglo-Norman prudence, Middle French prudence, and Old French prudence (“common sense; wisdom”) (modern French prudence), and from their etymon Latin prūdentia (“common sense; discretion, prudence; foresight; knowledge; providence; skilfulness; wisdom”), from prūdent- (the stem of prūdēns (“knowledgeable, skilful; wise, prudent”)) + -ia (suffix forming first-declension feminine abstract nouns). Prūdēns is a contraction of prōvidēns (“caring for; foreseeing; providing”) (whence prōvidentia (“foreknowledge, foresight; forethought, precaution, providence”)), the present active participle of prōvideō (“to care for, look after; to foresee; to provide, see to”), from prō- (prefix meaning ‘forward; prior’) + videō (“to perceive, see; to comprehend, understand; to look out for, care for”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see; to know”)). Doublet of provide and purvey. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹuːd(ə)n(t)s/, /ˈpɹud(ə)n(t)s/ 1. The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this. Labels: uncountable Example: [T]here are ſo many concurrencies vvhich have their attending cheques; vvhich poſſible are to be, but actually, vvere not improved in remedy that the prevalence of the Fire againſt, and in deſpight of thoſe vvonted prudences, and uſual reſiſtances, and the Latitude of effects, ſeconding ſuch a neglect of impending means, vvhere ſo vvell underſtood, and ſo dextrouſly at other times practiſed; […] Example: Concerning intellectual Habits or the genuine effects of theſe acts in the underſtanding Faculty, and they are divers and diverſly expreſſed by thoſe that have treated thereof. […] Prudence, vvhich is principally in reference to actions to be done, the due means, order, ſeaſon, method of doing or not doing. 2. Synonym of frugality (“the quality of avoiding unnecessary expenditure; economy, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness”). Labels: specifically, uncountable 3. Synonym of providence (“preparation for the future; foresight”). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: For 'tis my ſetled Opinion, that Divine Prudence is often, at leaſt, converſant in a peculiar manner about the Actions of Men, and the things that happen to Them, or have a neceſſary Connexion vvith the One, or the Other, or Both. 4. Synonym of wisdom (“an element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise; wise advice”). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Children here ye the fathers diſcipline, and attend that you may knovve prudence. Example: [H]e [Pythagoras] vvent from Ægypt to the Perſians, (not to Perſia, as ſome conceive) and reſigned himſelf to the moſt exact prudence of the Magi, to be formed.
Word: organizational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From organization + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənɪˈzeɪʃənəl/, /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənaɪˈzeɪʃənəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or produced by an organization. Labels: not-comparable Example: They changed the company's organizational structure. 2. Relating to the action of organizing something. Labels: not-comparable Example: She lacks organizational skills.
Word: directional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From direction + -al. Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/, /daɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/ 1. Indicating direction. 2. Of or relating to guidance or help.
Word: directional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From direction + -al. Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/, /daɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/ 1. Something that indicates direction, such as a vehicle's turn signal.
Word: splosh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh. Pronunciation: /splɑʃ/, /splɒʃ/ 1. To splash with a heavy splashing sound. Example: splosh into the sea Example: Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in. 2. To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands. 3. To spill or spill over.
Word: splosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh. Pronunciation: /splɑʃ/, /splɒʃ/ 1. A heavy splashing sound. Labels: countable 2. A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A medium-sized paper filled with sensible articles to the point, is better than one full of splosh. Example: […] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions 3. Tea (the drink). Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: Give us a cup of splosh, love.
Word: spill over Part of Speech: verb 1. to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow 2. (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans Labels: intransitive 3. (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax Labels: intransitive Example: undercurrents of popular discontent spilled over into outright revolt Example: That's the warning from RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, who has predicted that industrial action could soon spill over into other sectors of the economy, following the failure of last-ditch talks to avert the largest rail strike since 1989.
Word: overcrowd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English crowd English overcrowd From over- + crowd. 1. To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information. Example: The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.
Word: overflow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/, /ˈoʊvɚˌfloʊ/ 1. The spillage resultant from overflowing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […] 2. An outlet for escape of excess material. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Excess, superabundance Labels: countable, uncountable Example: GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts? JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality. 4. The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: overflow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/, /ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊ/ 1. To flow over the brim of (a container). Labels: transitive Example: The river overflowed the levee into the road. Example: Theſe are they that went ouer Ioꝛden in the firſt moneth, when it had ouerflowen all his* bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis, both toward the Eaſt, and toward the Weſt. 2. To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively. Labels: transitive Example: The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes. Example: So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […] 3. To cause an overflow. Labels: transitive 4. To flow over the brim of a container. Labels: intransitive Example: The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward. 5. To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. Labels: intransitive Example: The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases. 6. To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I see and feel that I want the first requisite — a heart overflowing with Divine love towards sinners 7. To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte. Example: Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.
Word: spillage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English spill Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English spillage From spill + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈspɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈspɪl.əd͡ʒ/ 1. The process or action of spilling. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. That which has been spilled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The breeze slams the balcony door, and in fear Sixsmith spills half his vermouth. No, you old fool, it wasn’t a gunshot. He mops up the spillage with a kitchen towel, turns on the TV with the sound down low, and trawls the channels for M*A*S*H.
Word: face-plant Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of faceplant. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: face-plant Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of faceplant. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He stumbles on the steps and falls, clumsily enough to face-plant on a riser.
Word: plowing Part of Speech: verb 1. Riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular. 2. Ploughing.
Word: plowing Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ploughing. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shot glass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shot + glass, in use since at least the 1940s. 1. A small glass used to hold or measure a small quantity of liquor. Example: He tilted the bottle of J&B and filled their shot glasses.
Word: fall line Part of Speech: noun 1. A geomorphologic unconformity marking a boundary between an upland region and a plane; sometimes marked by a series of waterfalls on rivers that cross it. 2. The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow.
Word: gulp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”). Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp. Pronunciation: /ɡʌlp/ 1. The usual amount swallowed. Example: What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat. 2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. Example: Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp. Example: Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp factor" […], there should be an almost audible "gulp". 3. An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. Labels: rare
Word: gulp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”). Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp. Pronunciation: /ɡʌlp/ 1. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. Example: He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. 2. To react nervously by swallowing. Example: The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]" Example: I'd always been nervous-excited; this was nervous-terrified. When I finished puking, I sat down gulping air for a while, trying to pull myself together.
Word: gulp Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”). Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp. Pronunciation: /ɡʌlp/ 1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion. Example: "Honey, I know you want to go to their home next week, but there's one thing that keeps happening when we're together that really drives me away from social gatherings in general. (Oh, what is it … gulp.) Well, I'm not sure I can really explain it without offending you. (Gulp, gulp.) Do you really want to talk about it? (Yes.) […]" Example: I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability.
Word: potent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English potent, borrowed from Latin potens, potentis (“powerful, strong, potent”), present participle of posse (“to be able”), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master”). Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊt(ə)nt/, /ˈpoʊt(ə)nt/, [ˈpʰoʊ̯ʔn̩t], [-n̩ʔ], /ˈpəʉt(ə)nt/ 1. Powerful; possessing power; effective. Example: harsh and potent injuries Example: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. 2. Powerful; possessing power; effective. Example: a potent argument Example: Moses once more his potent rod extends. 3. Powerful; possessing power; effective. Example: a potent drink; a potent solvent; a potent medicine Example: Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state. 4. Able to procreate. 5. Able to differentiate.
Word: potent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English potent, borrowed from Latin potens, potentis (“powerful, strong, potent”), present participle of posse (“to be able”), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master”). Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊt(ə)nt/, /ˈpoʊt(ə)nt/, [ˈpʰoʊ̯ʔn̩t], [-n̩ʔ], /ˈpəʉt(ə)nt/ 1. A prince; a potentate. Labels: obsolete Example: Cry, havock , kings! back to the stained field, You equal potents 2. A staff or crutch. Labels: obsolete 3. A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
Word: ollie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname. Pronunciation: /ˈɒli/ 1. An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air. Example: In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
Word: ollie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname. Pronunciation: /ˈɒli/ 1. To perform an ollie. Labels: intransitive Example: He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.
Word: toe edge Part of Speech: noun 1. The sharp edge on the long side of a snowboard closest to one's toes, regardless of which way one if facing (up-mountain or down-mountain) or riding (goofy or regular).
Word: half-pipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From half- + pipe. 1. A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down. Labels: usually Example: But the kid who washed windows for $2 an hour when he was 8 so he could buy his first snowboard served notice he could be a contender at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a silver medal yesterday in men's halfpipe.
Word: carving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/, /ˈkɑːvɪŋ/ 1. A carved object. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The carvings on the oak panels were ancient. 2. The act or craft of producing a carved object. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He took up carving after his retirement. Example: My father is an expert in carving, so we let him handle Christmas dinner.
Word: carving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/, /ˈkɑːvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of carve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. Executing turns without pivoting.
Word: go platinum Part of Speech: verb 1. (of an LP or CD) To sell some specified number of copies (currently 1 million in the US) and be awarded a platinum record. Labels: intransitive
Word: Dominion Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /doʊˈmɪnjən/ 1. Any of the self-governing nations of the British Commonwealth until 1949. Labels: historical
Word: salad days Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra around 1607, see quotations. 1. A period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism. Labels: idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: Cleo. Did I Charmian, euer loue Caeſar ſo? […] Char. By your moſt gracious pardon, I ſing but after you. Cleo. My Sallad dayes, When I was greene in iudgment, cold in blood[…] Example: The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?
Word: union suit Part of Speech: noun 1. one-piece underwear, usually long, combining drawers and long-sleeved, button-front undershirt in a single garment, with a flap in the seat that can be opened for defecation.
Word: genuflection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin genuflexio, though with standardized spelling. By surface analysis, genuflect (“to bend the knee”) + -ion (Latinate abstract-noun suffix). 1. The act of genuflecting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Those impious Pigs, Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn The settled Swellfoot system, or to make Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt Into a loyal and an orthodox whine. Example: Certain business titans have made Mar-A-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.
Word: haddock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”). The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock). Pronunciation: /ˈhædək/ 1. A saltwater fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
Word: zander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Zander, from a Slavic language, perhaps via Middle Low German sandāt. Pfeifer states that the first German attestation is East Central German czandas (in the Marienburger Treßlerbuch) circa 1400, which he derives from Pomeranian *sądač (compare Slovincian sãdzoc), from Proto-Slavic *sǫdakъ. Low Prussian forms include Zand, and other Slavic languages (e.g. Kashubian) have been considered as possible sources. Doublet of sandre. Pronunciation: /ˈzæn.də(ɹ)/ 1. A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca. 2. Any fish of the genus Sander that live in freshwater.
Word: turbot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English turbot, turbut, from Anglo-Norman turbut, Old French turbot, torbot, from Old Swedish tornbut, from törn (“thorn”) + but (“butt, flatfish”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːbət/, /ˈtɝbət/ 1. Any of species Scophthalmus maximus (syn. Psetta maxima) of flatfish native to Europe. Example: “With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then ... roast beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.” 2. Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters. Example: Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner. 3. A triggerfish (Canthidermis sufflamen).
Word: barracuda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the 1670s, from Latin American Spanish barracuda, perhaps from a Cariban word. Pronunciation: /ˌbæɹəˈkuːdə/ 1. Any large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators. 2. One who uses harsh or predatory means to compete. Labels: figuratively
Word: Buggins's turn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Earliest recorded use is by Admiral Fisher, later First Sea Lord, in a 1901 letter. 'Buggins' is a humorous invented surname, suggestive of a man of mediocre ability. 1. A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person by rotation or promotion, on the basis of length of service (it being that person's "turn") rather than merit or level of qualification. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: He will be appointed on the principle of Buggins's turn. Example: 1919, Memories, John Fisher (reprinting a 1917 letter to him from an unnamed Privy Councillor) http://www.archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/38/mode/2up I remembered your old saying "Some day the Empire will go down because it is Buggins's turn."'
Word: likelihood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English liklihode, equivalent to likely + -hood. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪklihʊd/ 1. The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled. Example: The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise. 2. The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Likeness, resemblance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […]or between righteousness and reprobation. 4. Appearance, show, sign, expression. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: flames Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fleɪmz/ 1. plural of flame Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flames Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fleɪmz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of flame Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sailors Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlɚz/, /ˈseɪləz/ 1. plural of sailor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thanked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /θæŋkt/, /ðæŋkt/, [θeɪŋkt], [ðeɪŋkt] 1. simple past and past participle of thank Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: garments Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑɹ.mənts/, /ˈɡɑː.mənts/ 1. plural of garment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: questioned Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃənd/ 1. simple past and past participle of question Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fragments Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæɡmənts/ 1. plural of fragment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fragments Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɹæɡˈmɛnts/, /ˈfɹæɡmɛnts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fragment Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: guessed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡɛst/ 1. simple past and past participle of guess Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: A cup Part of Speech: noun 1. A standard, relatively small, bra cup size, consisting of a measurement around the bust that is one inch longer than a measurement around the band, plus five inches. Example: The smallest cup size is AAA. The largest is a DD/E. An A cup is fairly small, just a little swell of breast tissue. 2. A woman with small breasts (of this cup size). Example: "Gabrielle had always been an A cup, but her pregnancy had left her breasts flat as pancakes, and she wanted to go to a C cup and eliminate some of the sag." Example: Directly after Julia is Patricia, who, oddly enough, is another young blond mother from the suburbs. She, too, is an A cup wanting breast implants.
Word: right back Part of Speech: noun 1. A defender who normally plays on the right side of the field.
Word: right back Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Clipping of right back at you. 1. Synonym of back at you. Labels: slang Example: Thank you, all! I love you right back.
Word: right back Part of Speech: adv 1. In an immediate or quick return to an original position. Labels: not-comparable Example: You come right back here this instant! Example: We're right back where we started from. 2. In direct reciprocation or repayment of an action or gesture; in kind. Labels: not-comparable Example: And just to test them out, when those boys asked her again if she'd take them in her shed she teased them right back, “Sure, if you guys want to clean up my stable it's okay by me! I'll come and inspect!” Example: As much as Kyle pretended to ignore her, she pretended to ignore him right back.
Word: earthed Part of Speech: adj 1. Grounded, connected electrically to the ground. Labels: Ireland, UK, not-comparable
Word: earthed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of earth Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Neave Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two main origins: * A variant of the English surname Neve. * Variant of Nevay, a Scottish habitational surname. Pronunciation: /niːv/ 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A male or female given name. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Neave was born in Utica, New York, into a wealthy Anglo-American family. Example: Since this photo was taken, my daughter Neave has grown up. 3. An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: TINC Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of There Is No Cabal. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: baby-sitter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of babysitter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: babysitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baby + sitter. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtə/, [ˈbe̞ɪ̯bɪi̯ˌsɪtʰə], /ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtɚ/, [ˈbeɪ̯bɪi̯ˌsɪɾɚ], /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯biˌsɪtɚ/ 1. A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians. Example: My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children. 2. A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder. Labels: derogatory Example: He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.
Word: wordforms Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɝdfɔɹmz/, /ˈwɜːdfɔːmz/ 1. plural of wordform Labels: form-of, plural
Word: longed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlɔŋd/, /ˈlɒŋd/, /ˈlɑŋd/ 1. simple past and past participle of long Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crushed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɹʌʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of crush Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crushed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /kɹʌʃt/ 1. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments. 2. Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated. Example: We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident. Example: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit. 3. Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her top was of black crushed velvet.
Word: greeted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of greet Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
Word: tempted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmptɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of tempt Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: I am tempted to go.
Word: spared Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspɛɹd/, /ˈspɛəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of spare Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: conveyed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kənˈveɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of convey Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: breathed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English breethder. Middle English brethen English breathe English -ed English breathed From breathe + -ed. Pronunciation: /bɹiːðd/ 1. simple past and past participle of breathe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: breathed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From breath + -ed. Pronunciation: /bɹɛθt/ 1. Having a specified kind of breath. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: A less matter would hold a well-breathed minstrel in subject for recitation for a calendar month, Sundays and holydays included. Example: She was so mad you'd have thought she'd been propositioned by a bad-breathed lobbyist in a broken-elevator encounter at City Hall. 2. voiceless, contrasting with voiced Labels: not-comparable
Word: endeavoured Part of Speech: verb 1. UK standard spelling of endeavored.
Word: doubted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtɪd/ 1. Considered doubtful; not trusted; uncertain. Example: And now for the Statue or Image of Christ, if it be worshipped towards with such a religious look and devout cast of the eyes as before, significative of the highest veneration that is due to God, or can by us be given to him, it is apparent that this exteriour ritual worship is done to this Image also; nor can be any more doubted, than if kissing of this Image were the Ritual performance and it were kissed , that this Image was the Object of the kissing with all the exteriour devotionalness used therein: and that therefore this Image thus adopted, though but relatively, partakes of divine worship. Example: But I have heard sundry men say That he was the most doubted man, That in Carrick was living than.
Word: doubted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of doubt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: halted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːltɪd/, /ˈhɑltɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of halt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: clothed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From clothe + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊðd/, /ˈkloʊðd/, /ˈkloðd/, /ˈkloːðd/ 1. simple past and past participle of clothe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: clothed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clothe + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊðd/, /ˈkloʊðd/, /ˈkloðd/, /ˈkloːðd/ 1. Wearing clothes or clothing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: clothed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cloth + -ed. Pronunciation: /klɔθt/, /klɑθt/, /klɒθt/ 1. Covered with a cloth. Labels: not-comparable Example: a white-clothed table
Word: assisted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈsɪstɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of assist Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dismissed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmɪst/ 1. Not having been considered; treated as unimportant; rejected. Example: Eve and the "concrete woman" are no more dismissed than Adam and the "concrete man" but are represented as capable of being converted and saved. Example: I was tearing up, feeling completely out of control, very dismissed. 2. Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated. Example: Since this time BPG factory management have reneged on this agreement and stated they will only reemploy the dismissed workers at a separate facility — an hour away from the current one, an offer rejected by the workers, who have the right to return to the same factory and to their previous positions. Example: Future studies can examine its other antecedents and its consequences to both the firm and to the dismissed CEO.
Word: dismissed Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmɪst/ 1. Used to indicate that an interaction is at an end and that the listener should leave.
Word: dismissed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmɪst/ 1. simple past and past participle of dismiss Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: endeavored Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛvɚd/, /ɪnˈdɛvəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of endeavor Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: taxes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See tax. Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɪz/ 1. plural of tax Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taxes Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See tax. Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tax Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: taxes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See taxis. Pronunciation: /ˈtæksiːz/ 1. plural of taxis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: expressions Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɹɛʃ.ənz/ 1. plural of expression Labels: form-of, plural
Word: faults Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɔːlts/, /fɒlts/, /fɔlts/, /fɑlts/ 1. plural of fault Labels: form-of, plural
Word: faults Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔːlts/, /fɒlts/, /fɔlts/, /fɑlts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fault Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: secrets Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.kɹɪts/ 1. plural of secret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secrets Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.kɹɪts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of secret Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: After examining it, he touches and stops the pendulum, takes away its key, poles the stick into the box and secrets it away as if it were a prize. Example: But instead of surrendering the weapon to the needy Partisans as he originally promised, Pin secrets it away in a magical place in the forest …
Word: comrades Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɹeɪdz/, /ˈkɑmɹædz/ 1. plural of comrade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: comrades Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɹeɪdz/, /ˈkɑmɹædz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of comrade Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bushes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃɪz/ 1. plural of bush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Panglossian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Pangloss (a character in Voltaire's Candide) + -ian Pronunciation: /pænˈɡlɒsɪən/, /pænˈɡlɑsi.ən/, /pænˈɡlɔsi.ən/ 1. Naively or unreasonably optimistic. Labels: derogatory Example: Though he took a Panglossian view of the world in his youth, he became jaded as he grew older. Example: Nadelmann assumes that the number of potential addicts wouldn’t soar under considerably more liberal drug laws. I can’t muster such Panglossian optimism. 2. Of or relating to the view that this is the best of all possible worlds. Labels: derogatory
Word: witnesses Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt.nə.sɪz/, /ˈwɪt.nɪ.sɪz/ 1. plural of witness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: witnesses Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt.nə.sɪz/, /ˈwɪt.nɪ.sɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of witness Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: jewels Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /d͡ʒulz/, /ˈd͡ʒu.əlz/, /ˈd͡ʒuːəlz/, /ˈd͡ʒʊəlz/ 1. plural of jewel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jewels Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /d͡ʒulz/, /ˈd͡ʒu.əlz/, /ˈd͡ʒuːəlz/, /ˈd͡ʒʊəlz/ 1. Family jewels; testicles. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang Example: Murray, if I wasn't so crazy about you I'd give you a kick right in the jewels. Example: You just don't steal a man's gun and not expect a swift kick in the jewels in return.
Word: jewels Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /d͡ʒulz/, /ˈd͡ʒu.əlz/, /ˈd͡ʒuːəlz/, /ˈd͡ʒʊəlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jewel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: particulars Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɚˈtɪkjəlɚz/, /pəˈtɪkjələz/, /pəˈtɪkjəlɚz/ 1. plural of particular Labels: form-of, plural
Word: particulars Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɚˈtɪkjəlɚz/, /pəˈtɪkjələz/, /pəˈtɪkjəlɚz/ 1. The details or specifics of something. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The overall plan is well understood, but we still have to work out the particulars.
Word: temples Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmpl̩z/ 1. plural of temple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: temples Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmpl̩z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of temple Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person