nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: alabaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfumes or unguents”), from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase without handles for storing perfumes”). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus). Pronunciation: /ˈæl.əˌbɑːs.tə/, /ˈæl.əˌbæs.tə/, /ˈæl.əˌbæs.tɚ/ 1. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? Example: Nor was the flame dissevered from its ribbon But like a radiant fillet ran along So that fire seemed it behind alabaster. 2. A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually 3. A sculpture executed in alabaster. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Beautiful oviform vases and covers, jars and covers with flowers and foliage, Italian alabasters, copies of the antique, were ranged side by side with Chinese ginger jars and common preserve bottles of birds'eggs[…] Example: His alabasters are certainly very estimable; but those to whom we owe them were not skilled virtuosi, and if they acquitted themselves of their task honourably, they only produced ordinary work. 4. An off-white color, like that of alabaster. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: alabaster Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfumes or unguents”), from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase without handles for storing perfumes”). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus). Pronunciation: /ˈæl.əˌbɑːs.tə/, /ˈæl.əˌbæs.tə/, /ˈæl.əˌbæs.tɚ/ 1. Made of alabaster. Labels: not-comparable Example: The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock. Example: And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. 2. Resembling alabaster; white, pale, smooth, translucent. Labels: not-comparable Example: An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley. Example: With more than admiration he admir’d Her azure veins, her alabaster skin, Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.
Word: anesthesia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sense of “insensibility” attested since 1679, from New Latin anaesthēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (anaisthēsía, “without sensation”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”). By surface analysis, an- + -esthesia. Sense of “state induced by an agent” attested since 1846. Pronunciation: /ˌæn.əsˈθiːz.i.ə/, /ˌæn.əsˈθi.ʒə/, /ˌæn.əsˈti.ʒə/ 1. An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: In addition, 0.5 ml of 1% lidocaine HCl was injected subcutaneously in the postauricular area for local anesthesia. 2. The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia (in the above sense), or by a lesion in the nervous system, or by another physical abnormality. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: In some individuals optimism may become quasi-pathological. The capacity for even a transient sadness or a momentary humility seems cut off from them as by a kind of congenital anæsthesia. 3. A medication that provides the service of temporarily blocking sensation. Labels: broadly, countable, metonymically, often, proscribed, uncountable
Word: anaesthesia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der. English an- English -aesthesia English anaesthesia From an- + -aesthesia. 1. Alternative spelling of anesthesia. Labels: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: Denise Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Denise, from Latin Dionȳsia (feminine form of Dionȳsius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin meaning “follower of Dionysus”). Dionysus is the mythological Greek god of wine responsible for growth of the vines and the originator of winemaking. Doublet of Dionysia. Pronunciation: /dəˈniːz/, /dəˈniːs/ 1. A female given name from French, Latin, or Ancient Greek. Example: Springfield resident Denise Williams' phone began blowing up on Monday while she was spending time with her children and grandchildren, not long after Vance posted.
Word: gangsta Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ.stə/, [ˈɡæŋ.stə], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ.stə/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ.stə], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ.stə/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of gangster, representing African-American Vernacular English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: gangsta Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ.stə/, [ˈɡæŋ.stə], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ.stə/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ.stə], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ.stə/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of gangster, representing African-American Vernacular English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: unsightly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sightly English unsightly From un- + sightly. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsaɪtli/ 1. Displeasing to the eye. Example: For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive. Example: “She had grown used to the quick speech of these people, but she wished he would not lick his lips that way. It did not make him any harder to understand, but it was unsightly."
Word: prohibited Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪd/, /pɹəʊˈhɪbɪtɪd/, /pɹoʊˈhɪbɪtɪd/, [pɹoʊˈhɪbɪɾɪd], /pɹəˈhɪbətɪd/ 1. Forbidden; banned; unallowed. Example: Theater works and religious essays were the most prohibited literary genres
Word: prohibited Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪd/, /pɹəʊˈhɪbɪtɪd/, /pɹoʊˈhɪbɪtɪd/, [pɹoʊˈhɪbɪɾɪd], /pɹəˈhɪbətɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of prohibit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Snoopy Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈsnupi/ 1. Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz; often representing doggish soulfulness. Example: Some dogs will be back porch familiars — beagles with soulful, Snoopy eyes: Dalmatians with spots; bassets with mitten ears; Siberian huskies with wolfish voices; Collies that look just like Lassie. Example: My daughter calls these "Snoopy eyes" after the childlike presentation of the beagle in Schulz's cartoon Peanuts.
Word: Tokio Part of Speech: name 1. Archaic spelling of Tokyo. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: I also thank Mr. Charles Lanman, Secretary of the Legation of Japan in Washington, for four ferrotypes taken in Seoul in 1878 by members of the Japanese embassy ; Mr. D. R. Clark, of the United States Transit of Venus Survey, for four photographs of the Corean villages in Russian Manchuria ; Mr. R. Idéura, of Tōkiō, for a set of photographs of Kang-wa and vicinity, taken in 1876, and Mr. Ozawa Nankoku, for sketches of Corean articles in Japanese museums. Example: […] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion.
Word: prepubescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English pubescent English prepubescent From pre- + pubescent. 1. Before the age at which a person begins puberty.
Word: prepubescent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English pubescent English prepubescent From pre- + pubescent. 1. A person who has not begun puberty.
Word: castratism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English castrate Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English castratism From castrate + -ism. 1. Prepubescent castration. Labels: uncountable 2. Prepubescent castration. Labels: uncountable
Word: prepubescently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English prepubescent Middle English -ly English -ly English prepubescently From prepubescent + -ly. 1. During the period of life before the age a person is first capable of sexual reproduction; before puberty.
Word: son-in-law egg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Thai ไข่ลูกเขย (khai luuk kheeuy), from ไข่ (khai, “egg”) + ลูกเขย (luuk kheeuy, “son-in-law”). 1. A boiled egg that has been shelled and then deep-fried.
Word: manoeuvring Part of Speech: noun 1. A manoeuvre. Example: The immediate consequence of the high-wire political manoeuvrings of the past two weeks is that today MPs are returning to a destabilized Parliament.
Word: manoeuvring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of manoeuvre Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outgeneral Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- Anglo-Norman generalbor. Middle French generalbor. Latin generālisder. Middle English general English general English outgeneral From out- + general. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈdʒɛnɹəl/ 1. To outdo or surpass (someone) in military skill or leadership. Labels: transitive Example: In general, our Generals were out generalled on Long Island, and Sullivan and Stirling with 1000 Men were made Prisoners, in Consequence of which, and several other unfortunate Circumstances, a Council of War thought it prudent to retreat from that Island, and Governors Island and then from New York. Example: The door closed after him, and his nephew felt that he had been completely outgeneraled. He now saw, what he had only suspected before, that his uncle wished him to marry Constance.
Word: midge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mydge, migge, from Old English mygg, myċġ (“midge, gnat”), from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-. The dialectal sense of "short person" was originally figurative, and gave rise to midget (“short person”) via the diminutive suffix -et, which has since become part of standard English with that meaning; this has caused midge to undergo rebracketing as a clipping of midget. Cognates * Scots mige (“midge”) * Saterland Frisian Määge (“gnat, mosquito”) * West Frisian mich (“fly, mosquito”) * West Flemish meezje (“midge, mosquito”) * Dutch mug (“midge, gnat, mosquito”) * German Low German Mügge (“midge, gnat, mosquito”) * German Mücke (“midge, gnat, mosquito”) * Swedish mygg, mygga (“midge, gnat, mosquito”) * Icelandic mý (“midge, gnat, fly”) The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of * Latin musca * Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa) * Russian му́ха (múxa) * Latvian muša * Czech muchnička * Albanian mizë * Armenian մուն (mun) Pronunciation: /mɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera. Example: "I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!" Example: Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota. 2. A small, short or insignificant person. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 3. Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge.
Word: salpingitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From salping- + -itis. 1. Inflammation of one or both fallopian tubes, usually caused by a bacterial infection that spreads from the lower reproductive tract. It is a type of pelvic inflammatory disease and can lead to complications such as infertility or ectopic pregnancy if not treated promptly. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: core temperature Part of Speech: noun 1. The operating temperature of an organism, specifically in deep structures of the body such as the liver, in comparison to temperatures of peripheral tissues.
Word: corrugated iron Part of Speech: noun 1. An iron sheet building material, usually galvanised, which has been pressed into corrugations. Labels: uncountable Example: A special reserved enclosure with sandbags and a corrugated iron roof was set aside for three members of the Royal Family. Example: On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.
Word: halo-halo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tagalog halo-halo, a reduplication of halo (“mix”). Pronunciation: /ˌhɑloʊˈhɑloʊ/ 1. A Philippine dessert consisting of a mixture of shaved ice and milk with various boiled sweet beans and fruits, served cold in a tall glass or bowl. Labels: uncountable
Word: gangsta rap Part of Speech: noun 1. A subgenre of hip-hop music associated with urban street gangs and characterized by a focus on lyrics about crime, urban life, and materialistic excess. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An individual track performed in this style. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: misogynistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English misogynist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English misogynistic From misogynist + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.ɒdʒ.ən.ɪst.ɪk/ 1. Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny. Example: This is arguably linked to two things: declining tolerance for straight men’s behavior may have, on the one hand, caused this; the effect is misogynistic backlash in the form of rising incelhood. Example: Those who believe in the blackpill tend to adopt violently misogynistic beliefs about the nature of women, particularly with regard to their sexual behaviour.
Word: misogynous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισογύνης (misogúnēs) + -ous. Pronunciation: /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/ 1. Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.
Word: vulnific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vulnus (“wound”) + facere (“to make”). 1. Causing wounds.
Word: Isabella Part of Speech: name Etymology: Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816. Pronunciation: /ɪzəˈbɛlə/ 1. A female given name from Hebrew. Example: [C]an you ſo ſteed me, / As bring me to the ſight of Iſabella, / A Nouice of this place, and the faire Siſter / To her vnhappie brother Claudio? Example: A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth. 2. A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Word: Isabella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816. Pronunciation: /ɪzəˈbɛlə/ 1. A grape cultivar popular in the former USSR derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca. Labels: countable 2. Obsolete form of isabella. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…] Example: The late Queen Victoria drove behind horses of a peculiar shade which nothing but Isabella color would describe. Now it is to appear in furs for the élite.
Word: Isabelle Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Isabelle. 1. A female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth. Example: Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France won the ice dance title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden, and the Americans Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto went home without a medal for the first time since 2004.
Word: pluggable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *plugjaz Old Dutch *pluggi Middle Dutch *plugge Dutch plugge Dutch plugbor. English plug Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pluggable From plug + -able. 1. Capable of being plugged, or plugged in, especially in reference to optional components of software. Labels: not-comparable Example: The system features a pluggable authentication module.
Word: Ysabel Part of Speech: name Etymology: See Isabel. 1. Alternative form of Isabel: a female given name. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions. B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G. R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir. B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W? R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.
Word: latinate Part of Speech: adj 1. Nonstandard spelling of Latinate. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard
Word: Romance language Part of Speech: noun 1. Any language descended from Latin.
Word: Isabel Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”). Doublet of Elizabeth. Pronunciation: /ˈɪzəbɛl/ 1. A female given name from Hebrew. Example: Mariana. O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part: Lend me your knees, and all my life to come, I'll lend you all my life to do you service. Example: There is a silvery bell-like music in the name, which is exceedingly attractive, and which has made it a favorite with the poets. - - - Mary Howitt, in her Flower comparisons, has the following melodious lines: Now for mad-cap Isabel: / What shall suit her, pr'y thee tell? / Isabel is brown and wild; /Will be evermore a child; 2. A surname originating as a matronymic. Labels: rare 3. A place name: 4. A place name: 5. A place name: 6. A place name: 7. A place name: 8. A place name:
Word: himbo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪmbəʊ/, /ˈhɪmboʊ/ 1. A physically attractive man who lacks intelligence; the male equivalent of a bimbo. Labels: derogatory, slang, sometimes Example: ‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title] Example: […] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.
Word: cinematic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cinema + -tic. Compare French cinématique. Pronunciation: /sɪnəˈmætɪk/ 1. Of or relating to the cinema. 2. Resembling a professional motion picture. Example: Despite being shot on tiny budget, the student film looked incredibly cinematic.
Word: cinematic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cinema + -tic. Compare French cinématique. Pronunciation: /sɪnəˈmætɪk/ 1. A cut scene. Example: Is there a way to skip this long cinematic? Example: When you talk about writing in games, some designers think you're speaking only about cinematics. Of all the ways to evoke emotion, however, cinematics are the least game-like portion of any game. 2. A short film promoting a video game or such type of franchise, often featuring its characters or universe
Word: cinematic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of kinematic. Pronunciation: /sɪnəˈmætɪk/ 1. Dated form of kinematic. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: kitschy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kitsch + -y. Compare German kitschig (“kitschy”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪt͡ʃi/ 1. Having the nature of kitsch: excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar. Example: This is what his admirers go for: the gravelly grain of his film stock, the crowded monochrome of his compositions (the new film is mostly in black-and-white, with kitschy spasms of color), and the way in which light bounces and breathes from the faces of his players. Example: Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.
Word: fair dinkum Part of Speech: adj Etymology: see dinkum. Pronunciation: [ˌfeː ˈdɪŋ.kəm] 1. Genuine, honest, fair and square. Labels: Australia, not-comparable, slang Example: Are you fair dinkum? Example: I mean, if they were out at a concert or something, or if they were involved in some other out-of-school social activity and some fair dinkum Aussie bloke, with a fair dinkum Aussie accent, and a fair dinkum Aussie hat, preferably chewing on a fair dinkum gum leaf, and holding a koala bear in one hand and a kangaroo in the other stood up and delivered those Lawson poems in full bore Strine, the girls would probably have loved him.
Word: fair dinkum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: see dinkum. Pronunciation: [ˌfeː ˈdɪŋ.kəm] 1. Truly, honestly. Labels: Australia, not-comparable, slang Example: She checked what he had produced against the diagram in her book, smiled and said, “Fair dinkum, you really do teach maths,” which took Daniel a little by surprise as he wasn’t sure what “fair dinkum” meant, but as it was accompanied by a smile he assumed it was some form of approval. Example: Fair dinkum, I'm being straight up with you now, I could have hit him.
Word: silkworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English silkwirm, from Old English seolcwyrm (“silkworm”), equivalent to silk + worm. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlkwɜːm/ 1. Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk. Example: Each of the two breeding periods, one in spring and one in summer, requires 2 to 3 tons of fresh leaves to feed 80,000 silkworms that will produce, on average, 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of silk fiber.
Word: bluebottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blewbothel, from blew (“blue”) + bothel (“flower in the Asteraceae family”). In sense 2, a shortening of bluebottle fly. The fly was so named because it resembles the bluebottle flower in colour. The other transferred senses likewise have reference to the colour of the respective referents. 1. A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus. 2. Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying. Example: The flies that troubled me most were a large kind of blue-bottle or blow-fly. These settled in swarms on my bird skins when first put out to dry, filling their plumage with masses of eggs, which, if neglected, the next day produced maggots. Example: The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle". 3. A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia. 4. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc. 5. A police officer. Labels: Australia, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang Example: I will have you as soundly swing’d for this, you bluebottle rogue! Example: […] comic writers […] have never failed to make capital out of the New Police, Peel's Raw-Lobsters, Peelers, Blue Bottles, &c., &c. 6. A bluestocking. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um! — I don’t much affect your blue-bottles ; — but one ought to be civil. Example: There appears to be a growing disposition on the part of the literary and dramatic blue-bottles of this city to get up a national drama and to manufacture a new race of actors.
Word: bluebottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blue + bottle, in reference to the creature's bottle-like bladder. 1. A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.
Word: access time Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1948. Pronunciation: /ˈaksɛsˌtʌɪm/ 1. The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists. 2. An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]
Word: rococo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French rococo. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈkəʊkəʊ/ 1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation. Labels: uncountable Example: They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today. 2. A piece of ornamentation in this style. Labels: countable Example: Above the two chief figures are rococos on either side of the clock face. These, like all the other work, are in bold relief and wrought with great delicacy and grace. On the top of the clock is a realistic scene from nature. Example: The marzipan and that kind of malleable ceramic, the rococo decorations, the flowers made of hard sugar, the frosted blue surfaces, kind of gray, the pearls, the legal coloring... all of it supposedly suitable for human consumption.
Word: rococo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French rococo. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈkəʊkəʊ/ 1. Of or relating to the rococo style. 2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent. 3. Old-fashioned.
Word: germline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From germ + line. 1. Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes. Example: Germline gene therapy is a controversial, complex topic; only through many open discussions of this topic by a broad spectrum of our society will we gain the wisdom needed for proper evaluation of the factors that must be considered before we complete initiation of these protocols.
Word: accessorial service Part of Speech: noun 1. A service, in addition to transportation, rendered by carriers and others.
Word: Germanisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German + -isation. 1. Alternative form of Germanization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: accessory equipment Part of Speech: noun 1. Any nonexpendable equipment that has been fixed in place or attached to a craft, vehicle or other equipment, but which may be detached without impairing the item removed or affecting the basic function of the object to which it is fastened. Labels: uncountable
Word: humanzee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of human + chimpanzee. 1. A hypothetical hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee. Example: The archetypal hybrid is the humanzee, as it has appeared in popular culture and in policy discussions. The being would be a humanzee (if the father is human) or chimphuman (if the mother is human).
Word: chuman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of chimpanzee or chimp + human. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃuː.mən/ 1. A hypothetical hybrid of a male chimpanzee and a female human. Example: The chuman had been sheer fantasy. Oliver was an unusual chimp, yet a chimp just the same. But what really stands in the way of a chuman? Did chumans ever exist?
Word: TEH Part of Speech: name 1. Trans Europe Halles, a European cultural organization of venues that house the arts.
Word: air traffic controller Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who operates an air traffic control system, to expedite the safe flow of aircraft.
Word: air-to-surface Part of Speech: adj 1. fired from an aircraft at a target on land or water Labels: not-comparable
Word: air-to-air Part of Speech: adj 1. With the participants being two or more aircraft in flight. Labels: not-comparable Example: The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea. 2. Fired from an aircraft in flight at another one. Labels: not-comparable
Word: air-to-ground Part of Speech: adj 1. fired from an aircraft at a target on the ground Labels: not-comparable
Word: ground-to-air Part of Speech: adj 1. fired from the ground at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile Labels: not-comparable
Word: surface-to-air Part of Speech: adj 1. fired from the ground, or from a ship, at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile Labels: not-comparable
Word: air terminal Part of Speech: noun 1. the facility on an airfield or airport where aircraft are loaded and unloaded of passengers or freight
Word: air taxi Part of Speech: noun 1. A small aircraft that makes short passenger flights, especially to destinations not serviced by airlines.
Word: air shed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + watershed. 1. A region's air supply. 2. The region supplied by a source of air.
Word: airshed Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of air shed. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: air shaft Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of airshaft. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A doctor testified to the effect that the atmosphere on the Metropolitan was 'concentrated fog'. [...] Further air shafts were installed, but 'electrivisation' was coming, and everyone knew it.
Word: passers-by Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of passer-by Labels: form-of, plural
Word: passersby Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of passerby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slave trade Part of Speech: noun 1. Traffic in slaves. Example: There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.
Word: orthopaedics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of orthopedics. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: nucleobase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *knuks Latin nux Latin nucleuslbor. English nucleus English nucleo- English base English nucleobase From nucleo- + base. 1. The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
Word: Moctezuma's revenge Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Montezuma's revenge. Labels: alt-of, alternative, humorous, uncountable Example: We warily sipped the lemonade, knowingly flirting with the tourist stomach disorder known here as Moctezuma's revenge. Example: When we were together in Mexico in the early seventies, she came down with a bad case of Moctezuma's revenge, complaining that she'd never been sick to her stomach before.
Word: great-aunt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From great- + aunt. 1. An aunt of one's parent (i.e. a sister or sister-in-law of one's grandparent).
Word: journalistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From journal + -istic (“adjective”). Also parsed directly as journalist + -ic (“adjective”), also used in sense of related journalism (having to do with journalism). Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)nəˈlɪstɪk/ 1. Related to journalism or journalists. Example: Substituting "[expletive]" for swear words in an article's text is a journalistic practice of sensibility. Example: This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
Word: short-cut Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of shortcut. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: short-cut Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of shortcut. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Boats, too, could be dragged overland, short-cutting the voyage from the Clyde to the Western Isles.
Word: short-cuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of short-cut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: short-cuts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of short-cut Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: coon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of raccoon. Pronunciation: /kun/, /kuːn/ 1. A black person. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff-raff into the room? 2. A raccoon. Labels: Southern-US, informal Example: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187. He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels. Example: How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon? 3. A black race traitor. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur 4. A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations. Labels: South-Africa, informal 5. A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps. Labels: Southern-US, ethnic, slur 6. A sly fellow. Labels: US, dated 7. A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians. Example: This is especially true when your audience has such high expectations of your playing the coon, and thus providing symbolic assurance that a darker people are contained in their assigned social "place" as "subpersons."
Word: coon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of raccoon. Pronunciation: /kun/, /kuːn/ 1. To hunt raccoons. Labels: Southern-US, colloquial 2. To traverse by crawling, as a ledge. 3. To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek. Labels: Southern-US, colloquial Example: There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “cooning” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair. Example: 2 o'clock we float up to Duvall's landing—high bluff, store house, and a few dwelling houses. Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie. 4. To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes. Labels: Georgia, colloquial 5. To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians. Example: Rather than cooning or tomming it up to please whites...the black comic characters joked or laughed or acted the fool with one another. Or sometimes they used humor combatively to outwit the white characters. Example: If any other forties figure paralleled this humorous, graceful man in appeal it was the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who, like the Trotter, funneled his extraordinary physical gifts into mass entertainment for whites yet remarkably, considering the time, avoided cooning. 6. To steal. Labels: Southern-US, colloquial, dated Example: Cooning water-melons [sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster. Example: He kept on buying and selling horses, he said, sometimes paying for them in bogus, and sometimes cooning them. It was true he helped Malcolm Burnham break into Fred Able’s store
Word: revolutionize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From revolution + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnaɪz/, /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/, /ˌɹev.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnɑɪz/ 1. To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution. Labels: transitive Example: Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them. Example: For Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born economist whose writings have acquired a special relevance in the past year or two, this most modern of economic systems “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
Word: push-button Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌbʌtn̩/ 1. Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button. Labels: not-comparable Example: push-button warfare Example: a push-button automatic [transmission]
Word: push-button Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃˌbʌtn̩/ 1. An electrical switch activated by pressing a button. Example: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically. Example: The cab equipment of the automatic control system is illustrated. It consists of a rotary switch graduated from 0 to 120 km.p.h. at 5 km.p.h. intervals, and four push-buttons.
Word: taikonaut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 太空 (tàikōng, “space”) + -naut, modelled after astronaut, cosmonaut, spationaut, etc. The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih (趙里昱 (Zhào Lǐyù)) from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪkəˌnɔːt/ 1. A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese astronaut. Example: The past decade has seen remarkable events and changes: […] The Columbia disaster and a Chinese taikonaut in orbit
Word: gauzy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English gauze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gauzy From gauze + -y. 1. Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent. Example: But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life. Example: The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. 2. light; giving the effect of haze Labels: figuratively 3. vague or elusive Labels: figuratively Example: Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service? 4. tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic Labels: figuratively Example: 2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003
Word: short-term Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From short + term. 1. Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future. Example: This short-term plan deals with the next few days. Example: short-term economic gain in the garb of science 2. Of or pertaining to a short duration of time. Example: short-term exposure
Word: short-term Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From short + term. 1. Over a relatively short period of time.
Word: dollop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒləp/, /ˈdɑləp/ 1. A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food. Example: Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup. Example: Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap,[…]
Word: dollop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒləp/, /ˈdɑləp/ 1. To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. Labels: transitive Example: She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog. Example: They cobbler the plums they put up back in summer, / They bake a wild turkey and roast backstrap deer, / They dollop the sourdough for rising and baking, / And pass each to each now the brown jug of cheer. 2. To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form. Labels: ambitransitive Example: [P]eas are, when in season, the article most frequently "dolloped," especially since such large quantities have been sent to market, from distant places, by the railways, as they heat very much, and the shell decomposing, becomes a bad colour, and unfits the article for the regular market in a very short space of time. They are now "shot" into a cart, and a sack or two of green ones purchased to spread over the top of them, for the purpose of deceiving "green ones" of another description. Example: The guard bounced his cock up, and the cock-snot dolloped onto the floor. Without instruction, Mark lowered his head beneath the towering statue and licked the creamy blob of lubrication up.
Word: bedevil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der. Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō) Ancient Greek διαβάλλω (diabállō) Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)bor. Latin diabolusbor. Proto-West Germanic *diubul Old English dēofol Middle English devel English devil English bedevil From be- + devil. Pronunciation: [bɪˈdɛvəɫ], /bɪˈdɛvəl/, /biˈdɛvəl/ 1. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague. Example: Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes. Example: Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz. 2. To perplex or bewilder. 3. To possess (someone's mind).
Word: chancellorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chancellor Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English chancellorship From chancellor + -ship. 1. The status of being a chancellor.
Word: detainee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From detain + -ee. Pronunciation: /ˌdɪteɪˈniː/ 1. Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement. Example: In his statement, Miliband said the two flights had refuelled at Diego Garcia. Each one had a single detainee on board who did not leave the aircraft. Example: Louis Louaillier, a U.S. citizen, journalist, and assemblymember, wrote in his local newspaper, The Louisiana Courier, that detainees should go to a civil judge...
Word: carioca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old Tupi kariîó Proto-Tupian *ekʷ Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ok Old Tupi oka Old Tupi Kariîookabor. Portuguese cariocabor. English carioca Borrowed from Portuguese carioca. 1. A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other. Example: In the final phase, the athlete works in non-cleated shoes on starts, stops, jumps, rounded side-step cuts, and crossover cuts, advancing to hard 90° cuts, and running tighter and tighter figures-of-eight. Defensive backs run sideways and backward and perform carioca (crossover) steps. Example: These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test). 2. Alternative form of Carioca. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: But, for someone looking at it objectively, the relationship is a deceptive one – because at the same time as cariocas can't be seen working (shut up as they are in offices, government institutions and commercial establishments), everyone can see cariocas not working. Example: Or he might go to Rio. Rio with its white sand. He knew a rhyme about Rio, its thieving cariocas who wore sparkling wedding dresses.
Word: stop codon Part of Speech: noun 1. a sequence of three RNA nucleotides (A, C, G or U) that instruct the synthesis, or translation, of a protein to stop. The three-letter stop codon sequences have been given names: "UAG" is amber, "UGA" is opal, and "UAA" is ochre.
Word: cantata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian cantata. Doublet of chanty. Pronunciation: /kənˈtɑːtə/ 1. A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.
Word: account code Part of Speech: noun 1. An account designator, especially one that is not purely numeric.
Word: disposal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French disposerbor. English dispose English -al English disposal From dispose + -al. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpəʊ.zəl/, /dɪsˈpoʊ.zəl/, /dɪsˈpəʉ.zəl/ 1. A disposition; an arrangement, categorization, or classification of things. Labels: countable Example: at your disposal 2. The act or an instance of disposing of or getting rid of something. Labels: countable Example: Lewy Taylor was quiet against the Swans with just seven disposals but hit the mark with a couple of kicks inside 50 during the crucial last quarter. 3. The act or an instance of disposing of or getting rid of something. Labels: Internet, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Aaa I see! I'm the same tbh. Diaper disposal and also TF is like a major thing for me! Although of course like most people it's only a fantasy 😂 I'm not psycho enough to want to do it irl but so many people have misconceptions. Example: Diaper disposal, also known as the vore'd and blort 4. The power to use something or someone. Labels: uncountable 5. A garbage disposal Labels: countable Example: 2 bedroom apt nicely done. Dishwasher, disposal and many closets. Heat incl $290 mo + security.
Word: venerealee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From venereal + -ee. Pronunciation: /vəˈnɪə.ɹɪ.əl.iː/, /vɪ-/, /vəˈnɪ.ɹi.əl.i/ 1. One who has a venereal disease. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he heavy-lipp'd slave is invited … the venerealee is invited, / There shall be no difference between them and the rest.