nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ultralocality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ultra- + locality. 1. The state of being ultralocal Labels: uncountable
Word: unextendible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + extendible. 1. Not extendible
Word: windspeed Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of wind speed. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: wind speed Part of Speech: noun 1. The local speed of the wind. Example: Wind speed is measured by the conventional arrangement of three hemispherical cups, mounted at 120 deg. on a shaft which is geared to a cam. Example: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
Word: stomate Part of Speech: noun 1. stoma Labels: archaic
Word: bit player Part of Speech: noun 1. An actor who has a minor role in a production. 2. An insignificant or unimportant person (in a particular situation). Labels: figuratively
Word: maladif Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French maladif. Pronunciation: /ˌmæl.əˈdiːf/, /ˌmæl.əˈdif/ 1. Sickly. Labels: obsolete Example: Pray tell me if it is true that Prince George of P. is going to make a morganatic marriage. I should be sorry, because I thought he was too maladif to marry even. If he could do so, he might do for poor Mary C.
Word: maladive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French. 1. sick; ill Labels: rare
Word: no wonder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of small wonder. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: But from Northallerton No. 46143 reached 65½ m.p.h. by Otterington, 73 by Thirsk, 79½ by Pilmoor, and 82½ by Alne and was still accelerating when it was decided on the footplate that the train was getting too much ahead of time—and no wonder, with 40 min. allowed for the level 30.0 miles from Northallerton to York!—so that the engine was drastically eased.
Word: foolometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fool + -o- + -meter. 1. Something that measures the level of foolishness. Labels: humorous Example: Perhaps the nearest approach to a universal foolometer, is found in our daily and weekly press.
Word: blue chamber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the tale of Bluebeard. 1. A forbidden room. Labels: idiomatic Example: “[…] Matty would scarcely find fault with my visiting their blue chamber. […]” Example: On Sundays, Miss Pross dined at the Doctor’s table, but on other days persisted in taking her meals, at unknown periods, either in the lower regions, or in her own room on the second floor—a blue chamber, to which no one but her Ladybird ever gained admittance.
Word: morality play Part of Speech: noun 1. a type of allegorical drama towards the end of the Middle Ages that demonstrates a moral theme such as a character's inner struggle to attain moral enlightenment or salvation
Word: bunder boat Part of Speech: noun 1. A surf boat in use at Mumbai and along the Malabar coast. Example: H. P. Blavatsky, From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan To get rid of this Babel confusion of tongues as soon as possible, we took refuge in the first bunder boat and made for the shore.
Word: bunder Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of surf boat used in India.
Word: bunder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch bunder. 1. A unit of measurement for land area used in the Low Countries.
Word: surfboat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of surf boat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nebel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew נבל. Doublet of nabla. 1. A Hebrew stringed instrument, possibly the same as the nabla. Labels: obsolete Example: Two nebels were always to be played in the daily services of the Temple, and the number might not exceed six.
Word: isogeneic Part of Speech: adj 1. Having the same genetic makeup and origin. Labels: not-comparable
Word: regle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See reglement. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛɡəl/ 1. Alternative spelling of reigle (“to rule/govern”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: to regle their lives
Word: sammel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps ultimately from Old English *samǣlan (“to half-burn”), from sam- (“half-, partly”) + ǣlan (“to burn”). 1. Sandy gravel; loamy gravel used for puddling. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable 2. Gravelly yellow clay. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable 3. A brick in a kiln that is crumbly due to not being thoroughly burned, usually one that lies outermost. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: sammel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps ultimately from Old English *samǣlan (“to half-burn”), from sam- (“half-, partly”) + ǣlan (“to burn”). 1. Mixed with lime for mortar. Labels: dialectal 2. Imperfectly burnt; (by extension) soft and crumbling.
Word: sattle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sahtlen, which merged with set(t)len, as in the standard English form settle (which see). 1. Alternative form of settle, especially in the senses of "silence; become or make calm or orderly; adjust differences or accounts; settle down". Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal Example: He'll seun sattle obstropolous Billy — Nee mair he'll refuse for a way-leave to pay. Example: Ah can sattle a dog and cat wivoot thah help.
Word: echokinesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From echo- + -kinesis. 1. the compulsion or the act of imitating movements of others Labels: uncountable
Word: caps lock Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Caps Lock. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: scroll lock Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Scroll Lock. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unascertainable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + ascertainable. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnæsəˈteɪnəbl̩/, /ˌʌnæsɚˈteɪnəbl̩/ 1. That cannot be ascertained; uncertain, unable to be determined or discovered. Example: Everything one would wish to know of the relations of Aristotle and Alexander is unascertainable, the more so as legends were soon invented on the subject. Example: Reality is different from, and more than, the totality of facts and events, which, anyhow, is unascertainable.
Word: inexplicableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inexplicable + -ness. 1. The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable. Labels: uncountable
Word: inexplicability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inexplicable + -ity. 1. The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable. Labels: uncountable Example: [T]he inexplicability of the general’s conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. Example: The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. 2. Something that is inexplicable. Labels: countable Example: Both mother and daughter now fell into a train of painful perplexity and conjecture. Lady Delamore had long thought Mrs. Fermor’s carrying Mary off to town without permitting her to say adieu at Delamore Castle, detaining her so long there, and lady Frances Harcourt joining their mysterious party in town, very strange; while Mary’s short and formally restrained letters surprised and grieved her, now more inexplicabilities were added to the former, and what could all mean? Example: For upwards of four years, whilst the crowd was puzzled with ‘hired kings,’ and many other inexplicabilities, I can truly affirm, that, to me, ‘Wharton was as plain,’ as if I had surveyed the interior of Sir Francis Burdett’s mind, uneased by its tegument of flesh; […]
Word: phenomenologies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phenomenology Labels: form-of, plural
Word: voltinism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the combining form -voltine (as in bivoltine) + -ism. 1. The number of broods or generations of an organism in one year. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: voltinisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of voltinism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: software escrow Part of Speech: noun 1. The holding of software source code by a third party in order to protect customers against the future insolvency of the software supplier Labels: uncountable
Word: capsomers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of capsomer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: capsomer Part of Speech: noun 1. capsomere
Word: capsomere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capsid + -o- + -mere. 1. Any of the individual protein subunits of a viral capsid
Word: counterfactors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterfactor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homopolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From homo- (“same”) + polar (“having poles”), from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”) + polar. Pronunciation: /ˌhɒm.əˈpəʊ.lə(ɹ)/, /ˌhoʊ.moʊˈpoʊ.lɚ/ 1. Having symmetrically equal distribution of polarity; characterized by uniform electric or magnetic properties. Example: A homopolar bond involves equal sharing of electrons between atoms. Example: The homopolar generator produces direct current through electromagnetic induction. 2. Of or relating to a covalent bond in which electrons are shared equally between atoms. Example: The bond between two hydrogen atoms is homopolar.
Word: integrodifference Part of Speech: noun 1. describing a particular recurrence relation on a function space Labels: attributive, uncountable
Word: invasibility Part of Speech: noun 1. The condition of being invasible Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: invasible Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being invaded by invasive species
Word: kernelized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kernelize + -ed. 1. Having, based upon, or provided with a kernel.
Word: multimetric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + metric. 1. Based upon multiple metrics. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having more than one metre. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nanocomponents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nanocomponent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nanocomponent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + component. 1. A nanosized component
Word: polytime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + time. 1. polynomial time Labels: uncountable
Word: acausal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + causal. 1. Not causal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: presynthesized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + synthesized. 1. synthesized in advance Labels: not-comparable
Word: ruthenocuprates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ruthenocuprate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ruthenocuprate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rutheno- + cuprate. 1. Any of a class of cuprates of ruthenium, especially those that have superconducting or magnetoresistive properties
Word: starforming Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of star-forming. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: star-forming Part of Speech: adj 1. Describing a region of space in which new stars are being formed Labels: not-comparable
Word: subensemble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + ensemble. 1. A subset of an ensemble
Word: unmodulated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + modulated. 1. Not modulated Example: And the performances have a raw, unmodulated quality, as if everyone were simply pouring out their thoughts and feelings.
Word: untenability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + tenability. 1. The condition of being untenable. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: helicopt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from helicopter. 1. To helicopter. Labels: dated, nonstandard, rare
Word: give a rat's arse Part of Speech: verb 1. To care a minimum amount; to have or show minimal interest Labels: UK, idiomatic, vulgar Example: I just don't give a rat's arse! Example: She couldn't give a rat's arse whether he shows up or not.
Word: fucky-fucky Part of Speech: noun 1. Sexual intercourse. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Fifteen hundred pesos for a "fucky-fucky," two thousand for a chupuda^([sic – meaning chupada]). Example: “Nothing serious, just fucky-fucky.” “That's right, nothing serious, just fucky-fucky. I have enough to handle in my life without you becoming possessive.”
Word: object permanence Part of Speech: noun 1. The understanding (typically developed during early infancy) that an object still exists even when it disappears from sight, or other senses. Labels: uncountable
Word: unshoe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unshon, from Old English onscōgan (“to unshoe”), equivalent to un- + shoe. 1. to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from. Labels: transitive Example: With plants of the kind we may compare the wonder-working moonwort (Botrychium lunaria), which was said to open locks and to unshoe horses that trod on it, a notion which Du Bartas thus mentions in his "Divine Weekes" – "Horses that, feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their hollow heels, Though lately shod, at night go barefoot home, Their maister musing where their shoes become.
Word: unsailed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + sailed. 1. Not sailed; not visited or explored by boat or ship. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now when I look back / On manhood's and on childhood's far-stretched track, / I see but a little child / In a green sunny world-home; there enisled / By another, cloudy world / Of unsailed waters all around him curled, / And he at home content / With the small sky of wonders over him bent […] Example: Fourscore years since, and come but one month more / The count were perfect of his mortal score / Whose sail went seaward yesterday from shore / To cross the last of many an unsailed sea.
Word: unrig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + rig. 1. To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: No, I have brought nothing but Ballaſt back,—made a delicious Voyage, Setter; and might have rode at Anchor in the Port till this time, but the Enemy ſurpriz'd us.— I vvou'd unrig. Example: Some climbed the masts to unrig her, others rushed into the hold to get out the cargo, and numbers hurried to the cabin to carry off the lighter articles which it contained. 2. To disable. Labels: transitive 3. To undress (someone). Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: unrespected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + respected. 1. not respected
Word: unmarry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + marry. 1. To undo the action of marrying somebody. Labels: transitive Example: But there can be no doubt that John Scarborough and Ada Sneyd were married at Rummelsburg, and that it will be found to be impossible to unmarry them. Example: If you like to exercise your authority I'll run away and you can't unmarry me.
Word: unmarries Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unmarry Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unmarrying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unmarry Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unlove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- (“not; lack of”) + love (noun). 1. The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate. Labels: uncountable Example: Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove. Example: How do you experience this sense of unlove in your body? Notice the specific quality of the bodily […] Then see if you can let the feeling of unlove be there just as it is, without trying to fix it, change it, or judge it.
Word: unlove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) + love (verb). 1. To lose one's love (for someone or something). Labels: transitive Example: I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me--because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction--because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation. Example: And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.
Word: unarm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + arm. Pronunciation: /ʌˈnɑːm/, /ʌˈnɑɹm/ 1. To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. Labels: transitive Example: Thenne anone la beale Isoud sente in to the toune / and prayd syr Dynadan that he wold come in to the castel / & repose hym there with a lady / with a good wylle sayd sir Dynadan / & soo he mounted vpon his hors and rode in to the castel / & there he alyghte / and was vnarmed / & brought in to the castel 2. To remove one's armour. Labels: intransitive Example: Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again: Why should I war without the walls of Troy, That find such cruel battle here within?
Word: tythe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of tithe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: tythe Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of tithe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: tythes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tythe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: calendarizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of calendarize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: calendarizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of calendarize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: calendarized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of calendarize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scratch someone's back Part of Speech: verb 1. To do someone a favour. Labels: informal
Word: balconylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From balcony + -like. Pronunciation: /ˈbælkəniˌlaɪk/ 1. Resembling or characteristic of a balcony.
Word: website aggregators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of website aggregator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncinus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin uncīnus (“hook”). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsaɪ.nəs/ 1. A cloud species which consists of fine hair-like strands, with hooked terminations. Associated only with cirrus formations. 2. The curved tip of the hooks associated with belemnite tentacles.
Word: spissatus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin spissatus. 1. A cloud species which consists of dense, high level strands, which can haze, or block the sun. Associated only with cirrus formations.
Word: spissati Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spissatus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noier Part of Speech: noun 1. An annoyer. Labels: obsolete Example: The North is a noier, to grasse of al suites, The East a destroier, to hearbs and al fruits
Word: scolices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scolex Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proglottids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proglottid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proglottides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proglottis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unarms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unarm Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unarming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unarm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: castellanus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin castellānus, from Medieval Latin castellum (“castle, fortress”) + -ānus (“-an: forming adj.”), from castrum (“fort”) + -ellum (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of Castilian, castellano, castellan, and chatelain. Pronunciation: /ˌkæstəˈlɑːnəs/ 1. A cloud species which shows vertical formations giving a crenellated appearance, associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera. Example: Turbulent mixing, evidenced by alto-cumulus castellanus cloud over France, also took place en route and carried dust to high altitudes. Example: Over France the altocumuli castellani clouds at medium level indicate a very unstable air mass there, because these clouds often develop into thunderstorms. 2. Alternative form of castellan. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In addition to the rettori, there were castellani of the fort in the town of Chios and of fourteen other forts in the society's island. The castellanus of the urban fort was chosen by a complicated process of indirect election resembling that which determined the Podestà, and again like him was to be drawn from the popolari of Genoa. Example: Castle garrisons are castellani; WP does not use the term oppidani.
Word: wedel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of wedeln. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: wedel Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of wedeln. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: floccus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin floccus. 1. A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera. 2. A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs 3. The downy plumage of unfledged birds.
Word: flocci Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of floccus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aberrometer Part of Speech: noun 1. A device that measures refractive aberrations of the eye
Word: abience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abient + -ence. Pronunciation: /ˈæb.i.n̩ts/, /ˈæb.i.n̩s/ 1. Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus.
Word: abient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin abiens present participle of abeō (“to go away”), from ab (“from, away”) + eō (“to go”). Pronunciation: /ˈæb.i.n̩t/ 1. Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
Word: abjoint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ab- (“away”) + joint (“join”). Pronunciation: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒɔɪnt/, /æbˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/ 1. To form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell. Labels: transitive 2. To separate from the hypha of a fungus by the formation of a septum. Labels: intransitive
Word: abolitionistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From abolition + -istic. 1. abolitionist
Word: absorbifacient Part of Speech: adj 1. absorbent Labels: rare
Word: acaudal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- (“without”) + caudal (“tail”). Pronunciation: /eɪˈkɔd.l/, /eɪˈkɔd.əl/ 1. acaudate Labels: not-comparable
Word: Donald Ducks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Donald Duck Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aclinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + clinal. 1. Having no dip; horizontal
Word: husi Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of jusi. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: shoutier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of shouty: more shouty Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: shoutiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of shouty: most shouty Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: mermaiden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English meremaiden (“mermaid”), from mere (“mere, sea”) + maiden (“maiden”), equivalent to mer- + maiden. Compare Old English meremennen (“mermaid, siren”). More at mere, maiden. 1. A mermaid; a maiden of the sea; a siren. Example: The Neck here his harp in the glass-castle plays, And Mermaidens comb out their green hair always, And bleach here their shining white clothes.
Word: tramplest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: trample + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of trample Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: accidens Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin [Term?]. 1. Synonym of accident (“a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive”). Example: An Accidens (or accident) of an individual, genus, or species is any attribute which is possessed by it, and which does not follow from, or form a part of, its comprehension. […] If, on the other hand, an accidens is sometimes present and sometimes absent in an individual, […] Example: But, where there is no apparent reason why the attribute should always be found in the individuals of a class, it is called an Accidens.
Word: qafiz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz), from Aramaic קְפִיזָא and Classical Syriac ܩܦܝܙܐ (qəp̄īzā), of uncertain derivation from Egyptian, Akkadian, and similar units. Doublet of cahiz and cafiso. Cognate with Ancient Greek καπίθη (kapíthē). 1. A traditional Arab unit of volume, varying over time, place, and substance measured. Labels: historical 2. Any of various medieval units of dry or liquid measure derived from the qafiz. Labels: historical
Word: Casanova Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Venetian writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798). Pronunciation: /ˌkæsəˈnəʊvə/, /ˌkæzəˈnəʊvə/, /ˌkæsəˈnoʊvə/, /ˌkæzəˈnoʊvə/ 1. A man considered romantic and gallant, especially one who gives amorous attentions to women. 2. A promiscuous, philandering man.
Word: Casanova Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Romance Casanova (Spanish Casanova, Italian Casanova, Catalan Casanova). From casa (“house”) + nova (“new”). Literally, “new house”. 1. A surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Newhouse.
Word: Casanovas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Casanova Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stoppest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: stop + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of stop Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: hocket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French hoquet (“hiccup”). 1. In medieval music, a rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings." 2. A narrow passageway or opening between buildings, typically designed to facilitate access or movement between separate architectural structures. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any small gap or opening; often used to describe a narrow space that allows for movement or connection between two areas. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: summe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of sum. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: summest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: sum + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of sum Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: summet Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative form of summat. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete Example: The langer they gaze, still the mair they may wonder, And aye, as they wonder, may fin summet new.
Word: summet Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of summat. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: loche Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of loach (“kind of fish”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: tippest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: tip + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of tip Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: quakest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: quake + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of quake Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: leprechology Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of leprechaunology. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare, uncountable
Word: actuarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From actuary + -ly. 1. In the manner of, or using the methods of an actuary Labels: not-comparable
Word: scelidate Part of Speech: adj 1. Having legs Labels: rare
Word: addictionologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From addictionology + -ist. 1. A physician whose speciality is addictionology.
Word: adeciduate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + deciduate. 1. Not deciduate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: adherend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereōder. Middle English *adheren English adhere Latin -endusbor. English -end English adherend From adhere + -end. 1. That which adheres to something else by adhesion. Example: The aerospace industry routinely uses the tendency of clean water to 'bead' or 'break' as an indication of the presence of hydrophobic contaminant on an adherend during surface preparation.
Word: fuzz out Part of Speech: verb 1. to censor (an image) by blurring. Labels: transitive
Word: dry heave Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of dry-heave. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dry heave Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dry-heave. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hypoosmolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hypo- + osmolar. 1. Of or pertaining to hypoosmolarity. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hypoosmolarity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + osmolarity. 1. An abnormally low osmolarity Labels: uncountable
Word: recalcitrancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In use since at least 1869 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985). 1. recalcitrance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: recalescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin recalescere (“to grow warm again”), from re- + calēscere (“to grow warm”), inchoative of calēre (“to be warm”). In use since at least 1873 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985). By surface analysis, re- + calescence, or, by surface analysis, recalesce + -ence. Pronunciation: /ˌriːkəˈlɛsəns/, /ˌrikəˈlɛsəns/ 1. An increase in temperature that occurs while cooling metal through a range of temperatures in which change in structure occurs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: recalescences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recalescence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leprechaunology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leprechaun + -ology. 1. The study of leprechauns. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: cross-correlation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross- + correlation. 1. A notion used across various fields of scientific study that shows the relation between members of two or more groups of data. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: do unto others Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the first part of do unto others as you would have them do unto you, a common formulation of the golden rule. 1. To obey the golden rule: to treat others as one would wish to be treated.
Word: feel oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To feel comfortable or normal; to be in one's usual mood or state of health; to feel like oneself. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: I hope you don't mind if I cancel our date this afternoon – I just don't feel myself today. Example: I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself / Man, I been on my own, Lord, I'ma need some help 2. To feel particularly good (especially about oneself) or particularly into oneself. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Madison called her when she returned from California, and Ashley was upbeat and really feeling herself. She was ready to get out and hang, and if Madison hadn't been in her present condition, she would've been ready to roll too. But, she needed her friend's unconditional support, and Ashley shocked her with[…] Example: She even began to share her selfies and videos of herself taken during the moments when she was really feeling herself. Sharing a collection of video selfies, she tweeted: “No mo digital hoardingggg taking up spaceee i luh yallll.” No longer lingering on her phone, we can see Solange's personality hang out in all its goofy, sultry, thirst-trap-ready form. 3. To touch oneself.
Word: poke box Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poke + box, since one must poke around to find what one is looking for. 1. A domestic container for miscellaneous items such as buttons, paper clips, and safety pins.
Word: good old Part of Speech: adj 1. Reliable; typical; consistently good. Labels: not-comparable Example: Good old Jenny – she typed out all the reports last night for us. Example: There's nothing like a good old American action film.
Word: human movement Part of Speech: noun 1. The academic study of how human beings move around, perform and exercise, especially in sport. Labels: uncountable
Word: Iau Part of Speech: name 1. A Lakes Plain language spoken by the Turu people.
Word: quaeritate Part of Speech: verb 1. To question Labels: obsolete
Word: sextos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sexto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oitava Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese oitava, from Old Galician-Portuguese oitavo, from Latin octāvus (“eighth”), q.v., in reference to it making up one-eighth of the alqueire (Portuguese bushel) or onça (Portuguese ounce). Doublet of octave, octavo, and ochava. 1. A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 1.6–2.4 liters in different 19th-century contexts. Labels: historical 2. A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 3.6 grams. Labels: historical 3. A traditional Brazilian unit of weight, equivalent to 17.44 carats, typically used for gold and precious stones. Labels: historical
Word: oitavas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oitava Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nono Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Potter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot Middle English Potter English Potter From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot. The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒtə/, /ˈpɑtɚ/ 1. A person from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK 2. someone connected with Stoke City Football Club (in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK), as a fan, player, coach etc.
Word: Potter Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot Middle English Potter English Potter From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot. The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒtə/, /ˈpɑtɚ/ 1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a potter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos. Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century. 2. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 9. Ellipsis of Harry Potter (“the Wizarding World”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: In the interest of full disclosure, let it be said: This reviewer is not a Potterphile, has never cracked a Potter book or darkened the door of a theater playing one of the Potter movies. Example: Despite the success of the novels, press about Harry Potter has not all been positive. Many people, especially some evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence.
Word: in someone's face Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Onto or into someone's face. Labels: literally Example: Who would want to sit next to Larry, the guy who's too dumb not to blow his cigar smoke in your face? Example: And why do you and all men regard or reward a loving thankful, obedient child, more than one that will scorn you and spit in your face? 2. In front of someone's face; before someone's eyes. Labels: idiomatic Example: The people on the beach blanket near ours were fine until they started changing into their swimsuits right in our faces. Example: This hypocrite will laugh in your face, and cut your throat...
Word: make a face Part of Speech: verb 1. To make a facial expression, often for humor, as a taunt, or to indicate distaste. Labels: colloquial Example: I looked at Tomkins to see whether, by chance, he had made a face at his lordship, ... Example: I was at Park Safari Africa in Canada on the Canadian border. This was years ago outside of Plattsburgh, New York. And I had a new car at the time, and I was driving through, going through the monkey area. And they said 'beware of the monkeys.' So about ten of them circled my car. And this one special one, like he was the leader of the pack, jumped up on the hood and came right up to the windshield and looked in. So I was like making faces at him. [garbled] 'don't do that!' And believe it or not, he made like a face back. He jumped off the car. He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off. Picked it up, jumped on the hood, dropped it and left- looked at me and left.
Word: replicability Part of Speech: noun 1. The ability or possibility of being replicated or reproduced (replicated). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: surface ship Part of Speech: noun 1. A military (naval) vessel designed for operation on the marine surface, as distinguished from a submarine or other types of vessels. Aircraft carriers are frequently excluded.
Word: noncryptographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + cryptographic. 1. Not cryptographic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: anticryptography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + cryptography. 1. The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: We are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography, the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it. Example: It is common in the art of anticryptography to include a cross-check device with the coded message so that the recipient may reassure himself that he has properly deciphered and understood the message.
Word: nonpretentious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + pretentious. 1. unpretentious Labels: not-comparable
Word: unpretentiously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unpretentious + -ly. 1. In a manner that is not pretentious; sincerely, without affectation.
Word: phaeomelanin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pheomelanin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: neuromelanin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + melanin. 1. A dark pigment present in parts of the brain Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: penpals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of penpal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tapespondent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of tape + correspondent. 1. A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post. Labels: dated Example: The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts. Example: So, while some tapespondents wrap their tapes in aluminum foil […]
Word: tapespondents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tapespondent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tapesponding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tapespondent + -ing, or (audio) tape + corresponding. 1. Friendly communication by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post, as engaged in by tapespondents. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: Friendly Folk Association, Torquay (est. 1943). Social introductions, Pen-friends, Book-lovers, Stamps, Photography, Tapesponding, etc., 100 countries.
Word: sabotiere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sorbetière. 1. The inner of two buckets used in the production of ice cream; the bucket which contained the ice cream and sat inside the larger bucket of ice which froze the ice cream. Labels: historical 2. A device for making ice cream (the entire device, including both buckets). Labels: historical
Word: blicket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Introduced by Nancy Soja in her 1987 dissertation "Ontological Constraints on 2-Year-Olds' Induction of Word Meanings" from MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The word was used after Soja by a variety of cognitive scientists, and has gained usage since 2000 in publications by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley. 1. A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music). Example: So if the child now represents these instances as being blickets, she represents them as being more similar to each other than they seemed previously. Example: Later they were presented with the picture of a blicket along with the real object it depicted and asked to indicate the blicket. Many of the 24-, 18-, and even 15-month-olds indicated the real object as an instance of a blicket […]
Word: dimmet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely related to dim + -et. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪmɪt/ 1. Twilight; dusk; crepusculum. Labels: UK, West-Country, countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: W.] How, huſſey! ya confounded traſh ! Diſt remember whan tha wenſt out in tha Vuzzey-Park, in the deſk o' tha yeaveling, jeſt in tha dimmet, wi' tha young Humphry Hoſegood,–and how ha mullad and ſoulad about tha? Ha bed tha zet down;—and tha zedſt tha wudſt net, nif ha ded net blow tha down. Zo ha blow'd, and down tha valſt. Who ſhud be hard by (vor 'twas in tha dimmet) but tha ſquare's bealy;—and vorewey ha cry'd out that oll windvalls belongad to's meaſter. Example: AQUILA. Dewy dimmet!* silent hour! Welcome to our cottage bow'r ! […] BOTH. Dusky dimmet! dewy hour! Welcome to our lonely bow'r!
Word: magnetoelasticity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From magneto- + elasticity. 1. The condition of being magnetoelastic. Labels: uncountable
Word: bicornes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bicorne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: K-rail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: This term is stipulated in a specification of the California Department of Transportation, who first started using concrete median barriers in the mid-1940s. The reason for the letter K is uncertain. 1. A concrete barrier used to separate lanes of traffic.
Word: backtesting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + testing. 1. The process of testing a strategy, model etc. using data from a previous time Labels: uncountable
Word: boxiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boxy + -ness. 1. The condition of being boxy Labels: uncountable Example: Instead of the widely sexual beings we have the potential to be, we've been put (and put ourselves) into increasingly shrinking sexual categories. We are brought up to be "homosexual" or "heterosexual." As homosexuals, many of us become "leather queens," "bottoms" or "tops," "chicken queens," "dinge queens," etc. This boxiness makes us more isolated, seemingly foreign, highly specialized and limited sexual beings.
Word: congruential Part of Speech: adj 1. That uses congruency (division by a modulus) Labels: not-comparable
Word: defiltration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + filtration. Pronunciation: /diːˌfɪɫˈtɹeɪʃən/ 1. The removal of material from the pores of a filter. Labels: uncountable
Word: nebulosus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nebulosus. 1. a cloud species which consists of a veil of cloud, showing no distinct details. Associated with cirrostratus, and stratus genera.
Word: focalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From focal + -ize. 1. To focus, or to adjust a focus. 2. To sharpen an image by focusing. 3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize. 4. To switch to a particular perspective (focalization). Example: The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.
Word: hierarchized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hierarchize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hierarchized Part of Speech: adj 1. arranged in a hierarchy
Word: focalizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of focalize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: focalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of focalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: focalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of focalize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: focalising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of focalise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: focalised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of focalise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: monoenergetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + energetic. 1. Describing radiation consisting of particles (or waves) having a narrow range of energies. Labels: not-comparable
Word: multiphonon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + phonon. 1. Concerning multiple phonons Labels: not-comparable
Word: nanocubes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nanocube Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lenticular clouds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lenticular cloud Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nanocube Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + cube. 1. A nanosized cube
Word: nanopyramid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + pyramid. 1. A nanosized pyramid
Word: overplotting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overplot Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overplotting Part of Speech: noun 1. The plotting of data on top of a previous plot Labels: uncountable
Word: photocarriers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photocarrier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lenticularis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin lenticulāris (“lentil-shaped”), from Latin lenticula, from lēns + -cula, ultimately from Latin lēns (“lentil”). 1. a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
Word: photocarrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + carrier. 1. A photoexcited electrical carrier in a semiconductor.
Word: irisation Part of Speech: noun 1. A colorful optical phenomenon seen in iridescent clouds and on the borders of lenticular clouds resembling those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: irisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of irisation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quasiferromagnet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quasi- + ferromagnet. 1. An analogue of a ferromagnet produced in a spintronic environment.
Word: nanopyramids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nanopyramid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doctorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From doctor + -ial. 1. doctoral Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: a doctorial candidate
Word: il. col. Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of illustrations in color. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: Sarn Part of Speech: name 1. A large village in St Bride's Minor community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9083). 2. A hamlet in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1179). 3. A small village in Kerry community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO2090). 4. A village in Grisons canton, Switzerland.
Word: relationalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From relational + -ism. 1. The idea that time and space are not real objects, but merely orderings of objects Labels: uncountable
Word: hyaluronidases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyaluronidase Labels: form-of, plural