nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: has left the building Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Derived from Elvis has left the building. 1. Something is gone and never coming back. Labels: humorous, idiomatic Example: Organisational capital is typically described as dead. It is what has been left behind after human capital has left the building. Example: The quality-control department has left the building and anyone with a halfdecent memory of a half-remembered match is out there publishing his memoirs. The scraps, the scrapes, the sessions — oh, what fun we had. Except we didn't have much fun, did we? Most of them are poor.
Word: non-corridor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + corridor. 1. Not of or relating to a corridor. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a train or railway coach, not having a corridor running the length of the coach providing access to the passenger compartments; each compartment would have an outside door on each side. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: No non-corridor coaching stock remains in normal service. Example: Because of the transfer of some multiple-units to the Great Eastern line to make good the latter's deficiency in North-East London since the troubles with G.E.C. electrical equipment, a number of local services on the Manchester-Crewe line have lately been worked with locomotive-hauled non-corridor stock of G.E. Line origin.
Word: beponder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- (“over, about”) + ponder. Compare bewonder. 1. To ponder over or about. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive Example: Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau. Example: The court was still, the court was quiet, To let their king beponder: […]
Word: elastostatically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From elastostatic + -ally. 1. In terms of elastostatics. Labels: not-comparable Example: From this elastostatically computed energy, Griffith was able to derive conditions for the propagation of the crack.
Word: total ring of fractions Part of Speech: noun 1. A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the set of allowed denominators contains all of the non-zero divisors of the given ring.
Word: demonymics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From demonym + -ics. 1. The study of demonyms. Labels: uncountable
Word: wifebeating Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wife + beating. 1. The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually! Example: But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied "Me and Devil Blues" to Jackie Gleason's 1954 "One Of These Days — Pow!" to Dion's face-slapping 1962 "Little Diane" to Lou Reed exclaiming "you better hit her" in "There She Goes Again" to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit "Cowboys to Girls" to the "wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years" headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.
Word: wifebeating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wife + beating. 1. Alternative form of wife-beating. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: But the Clark-Darden experiment was better: mass-racist black-cheering of a wifebeating killer's release was an invaluable wakeup-shock to even the densest traditional civil-righteous Lib. Example: So I was in a world where all the men were wifebeating drunkards and I forgot.
Word: wifebeatings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wifebeating Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wife-beating Part of Speech: adj 1. Prone to physically assaulting one's wife. Example: The Mishnah's mention of injuries inflicted on a woman by a man can refer to an assailant outside the family and to inadvertent assault, but the phrase surely includes a wife-beating husband, too. Example: The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.
Word: wife-beating Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of wifebeating. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal. Example: As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.
Word: wife-beatings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wife-beating Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kinvig Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: earthful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earth + -ful. Pronunciation: /ɜːθfl̩/ 1. As much as the earth can or does hold or sustain. Example: Then, as we reach higher than the bird to the world of quadrupeds, think what an earthful of life and feeling, of exaltation, of joy, there is in every forest, in every stream, in every tree, over every plain and every land of the globe. Example: It's not just an earthful of people, it's going to be an earthful of dull people with dull vistas.
Word: earthful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earth + -ful. Pronunciation: /ɜːθfl̩/ 1. Pertaining to the earth, as opposed to heaven; earthly. Example: From His holy home on High, We to give them earthful teachings, They to lead us to the sky ! Example: Account that day a lost one in which you forget him ; let some part of your time be sacred to him ; retire from every earthful scene to lean upon his bosom, to pour your wishes into his ear, to admire, adore, and enjoy him — enjoy him! — yes, that is salvation, that is heaven.
Word: earthfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earthful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: planetful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From planet + -ful. 1. As many as a planet can or does hold. Example: Such people were never completely untraceable in two hundred planetfuls of nonentities. Example: You know that Twilight Zone episode, the one where the string-mop-head teenager lives as an outcast on a planetful of regular humans, and the regular human kid lives as an outcast on a planetful of string-mops?
Word: planetfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planetful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: planetsful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planetful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stadiumfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stadiumful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: meterfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meterful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arenafuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arenaful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: salonful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From salon + -ful. 1. Enough to fill a salon. Example: To her salonful of male intellectuals and artists, she used to say: "With the majority of women whom we see and receive, it is not possible to have a sensible discourse." Example: A whole salonful of artographers!
Word: salonfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of salonful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: artographer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Latin artemder. Old French artbor. Middle English art English art Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph blend English artographer Blend of art + photograph. 1. An artist who uses photography as the basis of his or her work. Example: This amateur artographer works like a pro. He owns a Pentax. Example: A whole salonful of artographers!
Word: artographers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of artographer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wexit Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of west + exit. Modeled on Brexit and Grexit. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛɡ.zɪt/, /ˈwɛk.sɪt/ 1. The secession of the Western Cape from South Africa. Labels: South-Africa Example: Steve Hofmeyr is full of praise for Brexit, and has suggested Capetonians vote for their own Wexit - the exit of the Western Cape from South Africa. 2. The secession of the provinces of Western Canada, particularly Alberta, from Canada (generally excludes British Columbia). Labels: Canada Example: It's impressive that Jay Hill, the former Reform and Tory MP and former cabinet member, was at this weekend's "Wexit" (Western exit) conference in Calgary. Example: The Alberta government has issued pointed criticism at a Toronto tech company that chose Halifax over Calgary over converns about provincial tax policy and Wexit. 3. Alternative form of Waxit (“Western Australia exit”). Labels: Australia, alt-of, alternative
Word: Quexit Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Quebec + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛɡ.zɪt/, /ˈkwɛk.sɪt/ 1. The secession of the province of Quebec from Canada. Labels: Canada Example: But a Quexit's threat to Canada would be existential, in itself. Example: Britain is living out the nightmare we Canadians dodged. We spent decades debating our country’s future, but somehow avoided Quexit.
Word: Quexit Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Queensland + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛɡ.zɪt/, /ˈkwɛk.sɪt/ 1. The secession or expulsion of the state of Queensland from Australia. Labels: Australia Example: Pauline Hanson's election to the senate in Queensland has prompted calls for a 'Quexit' by those unhappy with the result. Example: Move over Brexit, angry regional Queenslanders are talking 'Quexit' as they feel the state Labor government has taken too long to make a decision on the proposed Adani coal mine in the Galilee Basin.
Word: Anthesteria Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια (Anthestḗria). 1. a Dionysian flower festival in ancient Athens
Word: Canado-American Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Canado- + American. 1. Pertaining to the United States of America and Canada Labels: Canada, not-comparable Example: Canado-American central districts have, to a large extent, been built after the advent of motorized transportation. Example: Following an Canado-American agreement, the CFS Mont-Apica changed vocation in 1958 to join to the air defence of North America (N.O.R.A.D.).
Word: blow wide open Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: The figurativeness relies on a metaphor where things that were formerly concealed (hidden from view) are now being thoroughly exposed (brought out in the open), as if by an explosion (compare blow (something) up (vt) and blow (something) away). 1. To expose (problems, lies, or corruption). Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: couple three Part of Speech: det Etymology: couple + three 1. Two or three or a similarly small number of. Labels: US, colloquial Example: So he brought in a full quart of whiskey, poured part of it out, left a couple, three inches left in the bottle. Example: I figure we might make it to the bed--if you're set on being traditional--in a couple, three hours.
Word: couple-three Part of Speech: det 1. Alternative form of couple three. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Liouguei Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 六龜 (Liòuguei). 1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Example: Meinong's small bus station is in the centre of town at the junction of Jhongshan and Jhongjheng roads, with buses to Kaohsiung (daily 5.35am-8.45pm every 30min; NT$131) and seven daily services to Liouguei in the Maolin National Scenic Area. Example: The study area is mainly located in the Liouguei District and Taoyuan District in Kaohsiung City.
Word: Newton Heath Part of Speech: name 1. A suburb of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8700).
Word: hot boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hot box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: velocipedestrienne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of velocipede + pedestrienne. 1. A female velocipedestrian. Labels: archaic Example: What is wanted in this respect is a dress that shall be suitable for either riding or walking. This, we think, has also been achieved, and that by a lady. Let us try to describe the dress for a velocipedestrienne. Example: Ladies, in riding the bicycle, commonly use the modest and appropriate costume worn by them in calisthenic exercises and in the gymnasium. Another very suitable dress for the velocipedestrienne has been thus described[…]
Word: velocipedestriennes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of velocipedestrienne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: estimatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From estimate + -able. 1. Able to be estimated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: estimatability Part of Speech: noun 1. Capability of being estimated. Labels: uncountable
Word: tachysterols Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tachysterol Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kenners Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Kenner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cut-and-cover Part of Speech: adj 1. A method of building tunnels just below the surface by excavating a large trench, constructing the tunnel and then covering it with soil. Labels: not-comparable Example: The greater part of the railway was built on the cut-and-cover principle, but some sections were tunnelled with a head shield. Example: On London Underground, there are the cut-and-cover lines running just below the surface, and the Tubes properly so-called, which are on average about 40 feet down.
Word: smoking carriage Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of smoking car. Labels: UK Example: The trains then still had smoking carriages, and I would sit in these because their passengers seemed the friendliest - and I would smoke in the smoking carriage, because it seemed the done thing.
Word: smoking carriages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smoking carriage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: think the sun shines out of someone's arse Part of Speech: verb 1. To think so well of someone that one cannot imagine anything wrong with them. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, figuratively, vulgar
Word: think the sun shines out of someone's ass Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of think the sun shines out of someone's arse. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: bakeryful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bakery + -ful. 1. A quantity that would be supplied by a bakery. Example: As executive officer of MIT (also his alma mater), Stratton has a finger in a whole bakeryful of pies. Example: Inside the dark house, Billy bee-lined for the kitchen, where his grandmother would be putting the final touches on desk-size trays of lasagne, two-inch-thick pizza, veal parmagiana, and a bakeryful of pastries.
Word: bakeryfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bakeryful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jiasian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 甲仙 (Jiǎsian). 1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Example: Take Expressway 84 from Tainan to Yujing; get on Provincial Hwy. 20 and continue to the Southern Cross-Island Highway after passing Jiasian. Example: Paulon Bridge, acrossing Chishan River, is located in southwest side of Jiasian district, Kaohsiung city, south Taiwan.
Word: cracks up Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of crack up Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cracking up Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of crack up Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prime ministry Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of prime ministership.
Word: neti neti Part of Speech: phrase 1. In Vedic and subsequent Hindu philosophy, the doctrine of "not this, not that", which holds that Brahman (the Supreme Being, God) has absolutely no specific characteristics and cannot be described in positive terms. Labels: Hinduism Example: And so: The indication of Brahman is Neti, Neti — Not this, Not this, for beyond saying Neti, Neti, there is nothing else possible — for It is Truth beyond Truth Example: The multiethnic crowd wore gym clothes, traditional Indian garb and a few political T-shirts. […] [M]ost said they were drawn by the mix of yoga and politics — and a chance to say neti-neti to President Bush.
Word: neti-neti Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of neti neti. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chalance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from nonchalance 1. An attitude of seriousness and earnestness. Labels: uncountable Example: But their nonchalance is too earnest: the effect is chalance. Example: The example I began with involved important news, and so some sense of shock, but chalance is more usually felt at unchanging matters of importance to us, not reserved for changes in the landscape of the important.
Word: keep a dog and bark oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: At Potsdam, Attlee was not at all bothered that trade-union leader Ernest Bevin, his new foreign minister, seemed to do all the talking while Attlee sat silent, wreathed in pipe smoke, nodding his head. “You don't keep a dog and bark yourself,” he explained, “and Ernie was a very good dog.” Example: Men, on the other hand, knowing their privileges safe in well-trained hands, can afford a tolerant attitude. Of what use to keep a dog and bark oneself? But let the dog show the faintest signs of negligence; let his “yap yap” become ever so little fainter, and instantly his alarmed master grasps the whip and prepares for fierce defence of his rights and property.
Word: keeps a dog and barks oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of keep a dog and bark oneself Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: keeping a dog and barking oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of keep a dog and bark oneself Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: kept a dog and barked oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of keep a dog and bark oneself Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: have a dog and bark oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: You either have a dog or you don't have a dog, but you don't have a dog and bark yourself! Example: "So when I go to speak to her, I take it you will be joining me," Jack said. "No, because I have a million and one bloody actions to supervise, plus the press to suck up to." He grinned. “Besides, why would I have a dog and bark myself ?”
Word: has a dog and barks oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of have a dog and bark oneself Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: having a dog and barking oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of have a dog and bark oneself Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: had a dog and barked oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of have a dog and bark oneself Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fall-guy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fall guy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Here, then, feminisation is an effect of both the sexual glamourisation the fall-guy undergoes and his systematic disempowerment. Example: 'He takes risks, especially when the potential fall-guy is someone else.
Word: fall-guys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fall-guy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fallguy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fall guy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Maybe somebody was looking for a fallguy. Figured they found themselves one in me. Example: Cleopatra became Octavian's fallguy, as she has in part remained throughout history.
Word: fallguys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fallguy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: green carder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From green card + -er. 1. A Mexican citizen who has a green card to work in the United States, especially one who lives in Mexico and commutes across the border. Labels: US Example: The problem of the green carder is not confined to the border area, or to the green-card commuter. Example: Rather, it is the green carder who actually lives in Mexico but who commutes on a daily or seasonal basis to the United States who causes inequities to exist. 2. A United States citizen of Mexican descent who lives in Mexico and commutes across the border. Labels: US, broadly
Word: green carders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of green carder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: green-carder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of green carder. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The man with the fighting cock on his shirt was a Union green-carder who did not wish to cross the picket lines. Example: In theory, the green-carder is identical to any other resident immigrant; in fact, this is not the case.
Word: green-carders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of green-carder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: greencarder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of green carder. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: greencarders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of greencarder Labels: form-of, plural Example: Of major importance in evaluating the impact of the greencarder is that apart from the loss of jobs to resident workers and the suppression of wages, the situation forces upwards of 75 percent of the Mexican American population out of the area to find work. Example: The growers of California and the Southwest say they need the greencarder to do the stoopwork, but they refuse to pay the wages and grant the conditions which would allow us to work in dignity.
Word: Trumpeldor Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew טרוּמְפֶּלְדּוֹר. 1. A surname.
Word: stoopwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stoop + -work. 1. Unskilled agricultural labor that involves stooping to reach low-growing plants. Labels: uncountable Example: For some work such as grape picking, beet thinning, and the raising of vegetables and berries, the Japanese have been regarded as physically well adapted to the "stoopwork," as they are short of stature and endure the extreme heat found in a few localities better than most other races. Example: The growers of California and the Southwest say they need the greencarder to do the stoopwork, but they refuse to pay the wages and grant the conditions which would allow us to work in dignity.
Word: stoop work Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stoopwork. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Although Allos/Carlos has suffered with back-breaking pain and itch from field work, mass media and farm employers have spread the ideologies that Filipinos are “ideal for stoop work.” Example: After Cobb had consulted with the experts at Texas Tech in Lubbock to learn which strains of cotton were appropriate for his new land, and when his first fields were planted by tractor, broad and open and requiring no stoop work by imported Mexicans, he heard from the college expert the bests news of all: "This year Lubbock cotton is bringing in top dollar."
Word: get off at Redfern Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of get off at Haymarket. Labels: Australia, euphemistic, informal Example: When we asked if girls got pregnant, he said that occasionally that happened. How did most couples avoid it? He replied: The bloke would have to get off at Redfern instead of going on to Central.
Word: Dunmow Part of Speech: noun 1. Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married. Labels: uncountable Example: The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, / That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe. Example: Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.
Word: Dunmow Part of Speech: name 1. Both Great Dunmow and Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow.
Word: poroelastography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poro- + elastography. 1. The graphical representation of poroelastic properties Labels: uncountable
Word: postcryopreserved Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + cryopreserved. 1. Following cryopreservation Labels: not-comparable
Word: postfledging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + fledging. 1. Following fledging Labels: not-comparable
Word: postrehabilitation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + rehabilitation. 1. Following rehabilitation Labels: not-comparable
Word: postvitrification Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + vitrification. 1. Following vitrification Labels: not-comparable
Word: bye-lane Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bylane. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: multiplicative subset Part of Speech: noun 1. A subset of a ring which contains the ring’s unity and which is multiplicatively closed, i.e., it is closed with respect to the ring’s multiplicative operation. Example: If P is a proper prime ideal of a ring and M is the set complement, w.r.t. the ring, of P, then M is a multiplicative subset.
Word: predegradation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + degradation. 1. prior degradation Labels: uncountable
Word: prefracture Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + fracture. 1. Prior to (sustaining a) fracture Labels: not-comparable
Word: aitch-bones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aitch-bone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preinoculum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + inoculum. 1. Material added before an inoculum Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: offers one can't refuse Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of offer one can't refuse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preinocula Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preinoculum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preneural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + neural. 1. anterior to a neural plate Labels: not-comparable
Word: preplasmablast Part of Speech: noun 1. A cell that will differentiate into a plasma cell
Word: preplasmablasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preplasmablast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prepleural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + pleural. 1. Anterior to the pleura Labels: not-comparable
Word: preprimed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + primed. 1. primed in advance Labels: not-comparable
Word: prerehabilitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + rehabilitation. 1. Prior rehabilitation Labels: uncountable
Word: prespliceosomal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + spliceosomal. 1. Relating to prespliceosomes Labels: not-comparable
Word: red kuri squash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese くり (kuri, “Japanese chestnut”). 1. A thin skinned orange colored winter squash, cultivar of species Cucurbita maxima. Example: Red kuri squash can be baked, steamed, or simmered. Its peak season is from late summer through midwinter. Choose squash that are heavy for their size; avoid those with soft spots.
Word: strap-hanging Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train. Labels: not-comparable Example: The definitive London commute is from west London to the City in the east, and in his novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) George Orwell invoked 'the strap-hanging army that swings eastward in the morning, westward at night, in the carriages of the Underground'.
Word: strap-hanging Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of hanging on to a strap or rail on public transport. Labels: uncountable Example: An important sporting event or historical pageant taxes London's Underground railways to the utmost limit, and strap-hanging is and always will be an everyday occurrence.
Word: strap-hanging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of strap-hang Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: saussurea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Saussurea, itself from French Saussure (surname), after Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure. 1. Any thistle of the genus Saussurea.
Word: by-pass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From by- + pass. 1. Alternative form of bypass. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: the Colnbrook By-Pass on the A4 Example: The railway was in fact shifted in 1937 a little to the west, over a distance of a quarter-mile, to make room for the by-pass at this point, but complete abandonment was firmly vetoed because of the proved strategic value of the line.
Word: meningo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: meninges + -o- 1. Forms medical terms relating to the meninges. Labels: morpheme
Word: by-passes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of by-pass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ghose Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Ghosh: a surname from Bengali. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: burn daylight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally a reference to burning candles during the day. 1. To use artificial light during the daytime when one could simply use the sunlight. Example: O, Madam, no candles yet, I beseech you ; don't let us burn daylight. Example: It beginning to grow a little duskish, Candlemas lustily bawled out for lights, which was opposed by all the Days, who protested against burning daylight. 2. To waste time. Labels: idiomatic Example: Mercutio. Come, we burn daylight, ho! Romeo. Nay, that's not so. Mercutio. I mean, sir, in delay. We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. Example: Brad calls out, “Let's not burn daylight when there's work to be done!”
Word: burns daylight Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of burn daylight Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: burning daylight Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of burn daylight Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: burned daylight Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of burn daylight Labels: form-of, past
Word: burnt daylight Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of burn daylight Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: slum-ridden Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slum + -ridden. 1. Full of slums. Example: Pearson's first idea, set out in 1839, was for a railway in a wide, covered-over cutting. It would connect a giant half-underground station at Farringdon with stations all over England. [...] The appeal of Farringdon was that this slum-ridden area was being redeveloped by Pearson's new employers, the Corporation of London.
Word: harebrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hare + brain. 1. A person who lacks good sense; one who is foolish and reckless. Example: ...rash harebrain treating matters that require age and gravity; Example: At the moment she was watching something behind my back, undoubtedly that harebrain who was hanging over the street.
Word: harebrain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hare + brain. 1. Alternative form of harebrained. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I mean it (saith the king) by that same harebrain, wild-fellow, my subject, the Earl of Suffolk, who is protected in your country, and begins to play the fool, when all others are weary of it." Example: " They commonly call the most harebrain blood-suckers, strongest thieves, the most desperate villains, treacherous rogues, inhuman murderers, rash, cruel and dissolute caitiffs, courageous and generous spirits, heroical and worthy captains, brave men at arms, valiant and renowned soldiers, possessed with a brute persuasion of false honour," as Pontus Huter in his Burgundian history complains.
Word: harebrains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harebrain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mirena Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Mirena. Labels: alt-of
Word: burnination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From burninate + -ion. 1. An instance of intense burning; conflagration. Labels: humorous, informal, uncountable Example: And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination. Example: Check out what happened to this metal framed laser cutter when it was left unattended by maker Joe Schlessinger. Serious burnination.
Word: burnination Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From burninate + -ion. 1. A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. Example: Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.
Word: Kelenföld Part of Speech: name 1. A neighbourhood of Budapest, Hungary, located in southern Buda, district XI (Újbuda).
Word: Namasia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 那瑪夏 (Nàmǎsià). 1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Example: Bunun Ear-shooting Festival (late April or early May) This is one of Taiwan's most popular aboriginal festivals. The precise date varies from year to year and events are held in a number of locations including Lidao and Namasia. Example: The most catastrophic damage occurred in Siaolin, Chiahsien township and Nansalu village, Namasia township.
Word: squadcar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of squad car. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: probabilistics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From probable + -ist + -ics. Also by surface analysis, probabilist + -ics. 1. A branch of statistics that deals with probabilities Labels: uncountable
Word: processiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From processive + -ness. 1. Synonym of processivity. Labels: uncountable
Word: prodepressant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + depressant. 1. That provokes depression Labels: not-comparable
Word: prorecovery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + recovery. 1. That promotes recovery Labels: not-comparable
Word: protocerebron Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of protocerebrum. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: mistressly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mistress + -ly. 1. Pertaining to the mistress of a home or household. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily discharged? 2. Characteristic of a woman who is very proficient in some skill or activity; masterful. Labels: archaic
Word: tight-head Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tighthead. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It took until the final quarter to establish clear forward-control but a rampaging 46th-minute score by tight-head Kyle Sinckler had already pushed Australia towards their earliest World Cup exit for a dozen years.
Word: broken field Part of Speech: noun 1. A field in which there are defensive players from the other team between the player who has the ball and the goal. Example: Quarter-backs this year who have gained considerable notice are Fallis of Haskell Indians and Pooler of Kansas University, they both being very good in a broken field. Example: The forward passer receives the ball, runs a yard or two as a feint, and then, with scarcely a look over the broken field, selects a person and a place and throws the ball. 2. A field that has been plowed. Example: The birds are gregarious even during the nesting season, and in spring and summer seem to be equally busy “ ploughing up ” the earth in the already broken field with their long, crowlike bills; naturally such action creates trouble with the farmer, but on the whole, an examination of the constituents of the bird's diet, shows that he is a greater insect destroyer than a crop destroyer. Example: My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain
Word: crosses the aisle Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cross the aisle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: front-rower Part of Speech: noun 1. A player in the front row Example: The Wallaby defence was too easily spilt by Farrell’s snappy midfield miss-pass, allowing a beaming Sinckler to storm untouched through the unguarded heart of the defence. The Harlequins front-rower used to be a fly-half in his youth but this was the stuff of any prop forward’s dreams.
Word: crossed the aisle Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cross the aisle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: prop forward Part of Speech: noun 1. A forward who acts as a prop in a scrum. Example: The Wallaby defence was too easily spilt by Farrell’s snappy midfield miss-pass, allowing a beaming Sinckler to storm untouched through the unguarded heart of the defence. The Harlequins front-rower used to be a fly-half in his youth but this was the stuff of any prop forward’s dreams.
Word: Farringdon Part of Speech: name 1. A district of the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3181). Farringdon station is just to the north in the borough of Islington. 2. A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0191). 3. A civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, including the villages of Lower Farringdon and Upper Farringdon (OS grid ref SU7035). 4. A suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3653). 5. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Word: Subei Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅北 /肃北 (Sùběi). 1. A Mongol autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China. Example: In western Gansu, including Subei and Minle Counties, the lower part of the Xiaoshihugou Formation contains purple-red, thick- to thin-bedded, fine-grained sandstone. Example: CHINA Some of China's main nuclear facilities: Subei: Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex, including plutonium production and weapons assembly.
Word: gunful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gun + -ful. 1. as much as a gun can hold. Example: It is better to use only one-half gunful at a time, and give it little jabs ever so often, than to use a whole gunful at a time.” Example: Pump one gunful of oil into the upper pressure fitting of the seal.
Word: adakites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adakite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: adakite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Adak Island in Alaska, from "adaq" in Aleut language, meaning "father". 1. A kind of volcanic rock, of intermediate to felsic composition, with high strontium to yttrium ratio, and enriched in light rare earth elements compared with the heavy rare earths
Word: well-thriven Part of Speech: adj 1. That has developed well; flourishing, thriving, healthy. Labels: England, Scotland, regional Example: Then I have a sort of quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a well-thriven man, tolerably genteel.
Word: oh girl Part of Speech: intj 1. An expression of delight and joy, or, sarcastically, dismay, resignation, frustration, or annoyance. Example: Oh, girl! I can't wait to tell my friends about this! Example: Oh, girl. This is going to be a lot of work.
Word: blinks of an eye Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blink of an eye Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Metropolitan Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom. Labels: England, dated, not-comparable
Word: Metropolitan Part of Speech: name 1. The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.
Word: take the chair Part of Speech: verb 1. To chair; to preside over as chairperson. Labels: figuratively Example: I took the chair at the meeting.
Word: sheep in wolf's clothing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Humorous alteration of wolf in sheep's clothing. 1. Someone or something that appears fierce or threatening but is actually harmless or means no harm. Example: The hunter-insects, as we have seen, disguise themselves so as to get near their victims unawares, and the hunted disguise themselves very often in the same way so as to avoid being seen, but sometimes in such a way that if they are seen they may appear to be much more terrible creatures than they really are. And so we have the sheep in wolves’ clothing.
Word: Ackroyd Part of Speech: name Etymology: Topographic surname, from Middle English ake (“oak”) + royd (“clearing”). 1. A surname from Middle English. Example: Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of The Hurt Locker.
Word: pseudobacteremia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + bacteremia. 1. The presence of pseudobacteria in the blood Labels: uncountable
Word: pseudolexical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + lexical. 1. Describing terms (such as prefixes or suffixes) that cannot stand alone as words. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudomicellar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + micellar. 1. Relating to pseudomicelles Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudomicelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + micelle. 1. A particle that has the outward appearance of a micelle
Word: pseudomicelles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudomicelle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pseudomyxoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + myxoma. 1. A cancer that has some characteristics of a myxoma
Word: there's none so blind as those who will not see Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of there are none so blind as those who will not see. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pseudonymisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pseudonymization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: purination Part of Speech: noun 1. Reaction with, or conversion to a purine Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: quimioluminiscence Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of chemioluminescence. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Westbourne Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English west + burna (“bourne”). Pronunciation: /ˈwestbɔːn/, /ˈwestbən/, /ˈwestbɔːɹn/, /ˈwestboʊɹn/ 1. A river, the River Westbourne in London, England, which is now placed underground. Example: The river carried in the pipe at Sloane Square is the Westbourne, and the pipe is said to shake in a rainstorm. Behind one of the innocent-looking doors on the platform at Sloane Square is a horizontal metal grille, beneath which is a pump, working away in the seething tributaries of the Westbourne. 2. An area of the borough of the City of Westminster, Greater London near Bayswater and Paddington (OS grid ref TQ2581). Another name used here is Westbourne Park. 3. A suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0791). 4. A suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1445). 5. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7507). 6. A community in the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada. 7. An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.
Word: rastereography Part of Speech: noun 1. raster photogrammetry Labels: uncountable
Word: rastereographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to rastereography Labels: not-comparable
Word: reproliferation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + proliferation. 1. A second or subsequent proliferation
Word: retinosome Part of Speech: noun 1. A lipid organelle present in retinal epithelium
Word: retinosomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retinosome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retrotranslocates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retrotranslocate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: periodontitides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of periodontitis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epochful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epoch + -ful. 1. important, momentous. Labels: not-comparable Example: First, an habitually good child sometimes has a saturnalia of defiance and disobedience; a series of insubordinate acts are suddenly committed which really mark the first sudden epochful and belated birth of the instinct of independence and self-regulation, on which his future manliness will depend. Example: This makes the end of the century epochful and momentous.
Word: drain-like Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drain + -like. 1. Alternative form of drainlike. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It is possible that the Waterloo & City line is nicknamed 'The Drain' because of the water pumped away, but there are other theories, the line being drain-like in so many ways.
Word: dysarteriotony Part of Speech: noun 1. Abnormal blood pressure. Labels: especially, uncountable Example: Occurring always together in apparently similar manner, the symptom triad of dyshydrocephalotony, dysarteriotony, and toxemia constitutes a physical syndrome connected with constitutional psychopathic personality. Example: The results of a study of manipulative treatment of dysarteriotony associated with cervical spondylosis are reported in the paper.
Word: millennial pink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials. 1. A light rosy pink colour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Millennial pink is a streetwear staple. Example: […] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.
Word: millennial pink Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials. 1. Of a light rosy pink colour. Labels: not-comparable Example: But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]
Word: woodship Part of Speech: noun 1. A wooden ship. Example: Apparently Marconi could not give his ideas on the subject a practical shape himself but Taylor and Young of the Naval Research Laboratory (U.S. A.) seemed to have made use of his ideas when late in 1922, they used a 5m wavelength CW transmitter to detect a woodship. Example: Also, another woodship from America with my cousin who is like a brother to me will come to these islands. 2. Control over and responsibility for a wooded area. Labels: obsolete Example: His successors, Earls of Glocester, held the manor of the Abps. of Canterbury, on condition that they should be stewards at the Abps. installments, and grant them the woodship of their children; but this tenure, after long dispute, was compounded. Example: There were two other parties of messieurs going into the woods at the same time, and they were having contraverbial discussions by the bushel over every sort of thing, you know, in association with woodship.
Word: start a hare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the once common practice of hunting rabbits for sport. 1. To introduce a conversational topic. Labels: UK, dated
Word: start a hare running Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of start a hare. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: natural protection Part of Speech: noun 1. Trees, rocks and other natural features which are used to anchor safety equipment. Labels: uncountable
Word: green-shave Part of Speech: verb 1. To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide. Labels: transitive Example: There are diverse opinions as to the relative value of liming or sweating, pin-wheeling, milling, green-shaving or “ fleshing,” and whether “sewed” or “open-tanned” goat-skins are preferable. Example: In a machine for unhairing or green-shaving hides or skins, the combination of the following instrumentalities, to wit : a rotary table, means for securing a hide or skin to said table, a journalled roll provided peripherally with scrapers or cutters, means for causing said scrapers or cutters, means for causing scrapers or cutters to press against the hide or skin and operative mechanism for the table and roll, substatially as set forth.
Word: green-shaves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of green-shave Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: green-shaving Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of scraping the flesh side of an untanned hide. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: green-shaving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of green-shave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: green-shaved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of green-shave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: green shave Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of green-shave. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Machines for unhairing and green shaving hides and skins. Example: In September of that year William Coupe came from Pawtucket to do what is called "green shaving" for Mr. Knowles.
Word: green shaves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of green shave Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person