nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: semiliquid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō Latin liqueō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin liquidusbor. Old French liquidebor. Middle English liquide English liquid English semiliquid From semi- + liquid. 1. Any substance with properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid.
Word: sidero- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin sīdus, sideris, ("constellation"). 1. Related to stars or constellations, as sidereal relationships. Labels: morpheme
Word: sidero- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek σίδηρος (sídēros, “iron”). 1. Related to iron or steel, as in siderosis (fibrosis caused by iron deposits) Labels: morpheme
Word: ker- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Now stands in for a thud. Originally Scots, possibly continuing Scottish Gaelic car (“somewhat”), cognate with Irish cor. Early uses were often collocated with went. 1. Used to form various onomatopoeias imitating the effect or sound of a heavy object falling. Labels: humorous, morpheme, often Example: [The book] has suspense, pathos, bravery, and the bad guys get it in the end with a big KERWHAM! http://www.amazon.com/review/R3TF8Z741367CL
Word: viatical Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to a journey; viatic. 2. Of or pertaining to a life insurance policy held by someone who is dying, or to the sale of such a policy. Example: For example, it recommended allowing a controversial viatical insurance industry in the province. Viatical insurance involves the discounted sale of […] Example: Under §101(g) (2), the payment by a viatical insurance provider in exchange for the sale or assignment of a portion of the policy's death benefit is ... 3. Growing by the roadside.
Word: coto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish coto (“half-span, quarter-cubit”), supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), from Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers. 1. A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 10.4 cm. Labels: historical
Word: viatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin viaticus (“relating to a journey”), from via (“road”). 1. Of or pertaining to traveling or a journey.
Word: fourhorn sculpin Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of fish of the Cottidae family, Myoxocephalus quadricornis, found in Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.
Word: limitative Part of Speech: adj 1. Restrictive, limited. Example: There is a general mood of expectation, these days, of "limitative" results—but back in 1931, this came as a bolt from the blue. 2. Being or relating to a grammatical case that specifies a deadline, a time by which something must take place.
Word: honeymoon period Part of Speech: noun 1. A relatively brief period when a new leader is given greater leeway with respect to changes they wish to make. Example: U.S. Presidents usually get a lot done at the very beginning of their terms, when they have a honeymoon period with Congress. 2. A relatively brief period when a new loan has a low introductory interest rate that features prominently in advertising. 3. The length of time at the start of something new, particularly a new job, in which mistakes may be overlooked. Example: He said that, had it not still been my honeymoon period, I would have been fired. 4. The early part of an intimate relationship, during which the couple are infatuated with each other.
Word: hyperalertness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hyperalert Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English hyperalertness From hyperalert + -ness. 1. The condition of being hyperalert Labels: uncountable
Word: knowledgeableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English knowledgeable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English knowledgeableness From knowledgeable + -ness. 1. Synonym of knowledgeability. Labels: uncommon, uncountable
Word: myel- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”). 1. Alternative form of myelo-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: myelo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪəloʊ-/ 1. Bone marrow. Labels: morpheme Example: myelosuppression; myelodysplasia 2. Spinal cord. Labels: morpheme Example: myelomeningocele; myelomeningitis
Word: paronomasiac Part of Speech: noun 1. One addicted to wordplay or puns. Example: Punning, and competition therein, was encouraged—nay, actively abetted—by Callahan, himself a hopeless and utterly shameless paronomasiac.
Word: distributive number Part of Speech: noun 1. A numeral that expresses the amount or quantity of something as it pertains to each member of a set, such as the number of times something happens at once, or the number of members affected each time. Example: "Singly" is a distributive number, while "single" is a multiplier.
Word: wirelesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wireless Labels: UK, dated, form-of, plural
Word: wirelesses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wireless Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lulz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of lol using the suffix -z, a deliberately nonstandard variant of the plural marker -s. Pronunciation: /lʌlz/, /lʊlz/ 1. Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: Anonymous gets big lulz from pulling random pranks. Example: the antics of the Goons and /b/tards might actually sharpen our ability to make that distinction. To those who think the griefers' handiwork is simply inexcusable: Well, being inexcusable is, after all, the griefers' job. Ours is to figure out that caring too much only gives them more of the one thing they crave: the lulz.
Word: kira Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha དཀྱི་ར (dkyi ra). 1. An ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.
Word: wait tables Part of Speech: verb 1. To wait as a server in a restaurant or other dine-in eatery. Labels: stative Example: At 21, I moved to New York City to pursue acting. I waited tables, auditioned, pieced together a life out of odd jobs and ambition.
Word: mealie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans mielie, from obsolete Dutch milie (“millet, maize”), from Old French mil (“millet”). Pronunciation: /ˈmiːli/ 1. An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn. Labels: South-Africa Example: The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth. Example: At the other end of the veranda, on two deck-chairs planted side by side and looking away over the bush and the mealie fields, were Mr. Quest and Mr. Van Rensberg […]
Word: shorthorn sculpin Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of fish in the Cottidae family: Myoxocephalus scorpius.
Word: hyperalert Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English alert English hyperalert From hyper- + alert. 1. Excessively alert, especially as a result of traumatic stress.
Word: cheese puff Part of Speech: noun 1. A puffed corn snack, coated with cheese-flavored powder.
Word: father lasher Part of Speech: noun 1. A shorthorn sculpin.
Word: control panels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of control panel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: longue-vue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French longue-vue; Literally, “long view”. From longue (“long”) + vue (“view”). 1. A ship's navigational monocular spyglass telescope
Word: ramier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French ramier. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːmɪeɪ/, /ˈɹæmɪeɪ/ 1. Any of several Caribbean pigeons, but especially Columba squamosa
Word: ramidus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin ramidus, from Afar ramid (“root”). 1. Ellipsis of Ardipithecus ramidus (an early hominid from the Pliocene). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal Example: The first ramidus fossil found was an upper molar tooth, unearthed in 1992. Example: Ramidi were in many ways a mix of humans and chimps. Their smallish brains were barely larger than those of a modern chimp. But they held their heads on the top of the vertebral column instead of in front of it; ie, they walked upright. It is likely that ramidus was the ancestor of all subsequent hominid species, including our own.
Word: ramp-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from ramp up. 1. A sudden increase; a boost.
Word: Ramsar Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Persian رامسر (râmsar). 1. A coastal city in Mazanderan, Iran.
Word: Ramsar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Persian رامسر (râmsar). 1. Describing any conservation site protected under the Ramsar Convention Labels: not-comparable
Word: unguis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”). Doublet of onyx. Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋ.ɡwɪs/ 1. The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage. 2. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. 3. The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula. 4. An old measure equal to the length of the nail of the little finger. Labels: historical
Word: quivertip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quiver + tip. 1. A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait
Word: collum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin collum (“the neck”). Doublet of col. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒl.əm/, /ˈkɑl.əm/ 1. A neck, cervix, or neckline part or process. Example: No sooner does a little particle of food touch the edge of the delicate collar which surrounds the collum, than it adheres to it and is carried down by currents, that circulate up one side of the collar and down the other, to the end of the collum, in which, along with an accompanying drop of water, it becomes at once engulped^([sic]). 2. A collar
Word: braken Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bracken. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: wear on one's sleeve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: This phrase may derive from a mediaeval custom at jousting matches. Knights are said to have worn the colours of the lady they were supporting, in cloths or ribbons tied to their arms. The term does not date from that period though, and is first recorded in Shakespeare's Othello, 1604, in which the treacherous Iago's plan was to feign openness and vulnerability in order to appear faithful. 1. To express (an emotion, belief, or stance) overtly and make it an important part of one's public life. Labels: transitive Example: But religion is the one thing they encourage you to wear on your sleeve. Example: While he may wear his idealism and good-heartedness on his shirt sleeve, his passion is exuded more as an intellectualized than as a deeply felt quality. In modulating his voice, that is, Canin has chosen a character whose temperance might be admirable among the living but is less engaging when encountered in literature.
Word: chop logic Part of Speech: adj 1. Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned. Labels: not-comparable Example: Many of the jokes are far past saving and a good bit of the chop logic word play is tedious word work.
Word: chop logic Part of Speech: noun 1. Chopped logic: reasoning which is improper; sophistry. Labels: uncountable Example: Mere chop-logic!—you have nothing to say. Example: "Up in his ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, chop logic, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable men." 2. A logic chopper: one who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this? 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;' And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next.
Word: chop logic Part of Speech: verb 1. To talk back, bandy words; to argue generally. Labels: obsolete Example: Vngracious childe I warrant him, harke how hee chops logicke with his mother 2. To argue skillfully, using complex logic or clever reasoning. Example: When the tables are drawn, you shall hold a disputation with him. It will be sport to hear how you chop logic at your Universities yonder. Example: King James delighted to chop logic and theology with the doctors of the university. 3. To make an argument which is illogical, especially one which is overly complex or which improperly uses fine or clever distinctions; to equivocate. Example: If you are going to chop logic and use Latin words, I think it is time for us to leave the room. Example: Varro, as Kent remarks (p. 418, n.f), is by no means logical in every detail; he merely chops logic when he declares that curro lacks the perfect participle.
Word: choplogic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chop + logic. 1. Alternative spelling of chop logic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: choplogic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chop + logic. 1. Alternative spelling of chop logic. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The breezy humour and slapdash boisterousness of their platform rhetoric appeal to King Demos, who is apt to weary of the wearisome dialectics of the choplogics of Westminster.
Word: chop-logic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of chop logic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: chop-logic Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chop logic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: logic chopper Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation. Example: The picture we get of a pragmatic gradualist rather than a fierce logic chopper makes him a more human and understandable character.
Word: logic-chopper Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of logic chopper. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chopped logic Part of Speech: noun 1. Reasoning which is improper; sophistry. Labels: uncountable Example: It takes a peculiar kind of chopped logic to see Mao Zedong, almost an archetypal chili pepper-loving Hunanese, as a northerner.
Word: chopped logic Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of chop logic Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: choplogical Part of Speech: adj 1. Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: How! you choplogical rascal, peasants! Example: This is not Roos's usual style, but surely a skit of Maud's manner of choplogical circular argumentation, which irresistibly recalls the verses read as 'evidence' before the King of Hearts.
Word: brast Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of burst Labels: archaic, form-of, past
Word: brast Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of burst. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: gled Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of glede. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon. Example: In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world.
Word: glei Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gley. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: glei Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of gley. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: These depend in a large measure on the movement of the moisture which brings about the gleiing effects, i.e., the rapidity with which the solution introduces changes in the soil.
Word: Leonora Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Italian short form of Eleonora, cognate to Eleanor. Pronunciation: /ˌliː.əˈnɔːɹə/, /ˌli.əˈnɔɹə/ 1. A female given name from Italian. 2. A village in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region, Guyana. 3. A town in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia. 4. A local government area in Western Australia, which includes the town; in full, the Shire of Leonora.
Word: Gregorio Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gregorio. Doublet of Gregory. 1. A surname from Italian.
Word: keepy uppy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of keepie-uppie. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Lora Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura. 2. A village and river in Lesja municipality, Innlandet county, Norway. 3. A surname. Example: “People have sort of conditioned themselves to want a completely seamless and frictionless experience in their everyday lives 100% of the time,” says Josh Lora, a writer and sociologist who has written about AI and loneliness. “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.” […] “So much of our experience as people is rendered in the struggle to make meaning, to self actualize, to explain yourself to another person,” Lora says.
Word: Roseanne Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Rose + Anne. 1. A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosanne.
Word: Isiah Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah.
Word: Marcellus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel. 1. A male given name from Latin. 2. A village in Michigan. 3. A town and village in New York.
Word: Marcelo Part of Speech: name 1. A barangay of Calatrava, Negros Occidental, Philippines. 2. Former name of Bagong Silang: a barangay of Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, Philippines. 3. A barangay of Mabini, Bohol, Philippines. 4. A barangay of Bato, Leyte, Philippines. 5. A barangay of Kalawit, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. 6. Ellipsis of Marcelo Green Village: a barangay of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: Marcelina Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name, variant of Marceline. Example: Christopher and Kirstin Johnson, Eau Claire, daughter, Lily Marcelina, March 26. Example: Those reading about the post and sharing Kambanis's disgust included Marcelina Watkinson, who wrote: 'What a gorgeous boy you have, I'm so sad to hear your story and commend your courage to fight for his basic human rights.' 2. A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines.
Word: risoluto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian risoluto. 1. (To be played) boldly, resolutely Labels: not-comparable
Word: weight-lift Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of weightlift. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: philosophy of science Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including such questions as what distinguishes science from non-science, what are the aims of science, or what is a successful scientific explanation of a phenomenon. Labels: uncountable 2. A particular theory within the former. Labels: countable
Word: scientific modeling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of generating abstract, conceptual, graphical and or mathematical models. Labels: uncountable
Word: weightings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weighting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wheatfield Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wheat + field. 1. A field of wheat; a plot of land planted with a crop of wheat. Example: The kneeling acolyte chimed a sacring-bell, and the congregation bent and swayed like a wheat-field swept scross by sudden wind.
Word: wheatfields Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wheatfield Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bloom's syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First described by New York dermatologist Dr. David Bloom in 1954. 1. A rare genetic disease characterized by stunted growth, predisposition to the development of cancer, and genomic instability. Labels: uncountable
Word: Bloom syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Bloom's syndrome. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: vital statistic Part of Speech: noun 1. A single important number derived from public health data or personal measurements. Example: Except for the fact that the "matter" of which he was now a vital statistic was simply unbearable to him. His death would come as a shock to him […]
Word: boredly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English bored Middle English -ly English -ly English boredly From bored + -ly. 1. In a bored manner. Example: Amy stared boredly out of the window, waiting for the rain to stop.
Word: inflare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English flare English inflare From in- + flare. 1. To flare inward. Labels: intransitive Example: One hundred and seventy tracings of the feet of Oriental adults from China and India, many of whom have never worn shoes, showed the three types of straight, outflared and inflared feet as in shoe-wearing Americans, though the percentages of the three classes are different. Example: While the femoral head flexes and aducts and internally rotates, the opposite ilial surface will have the following accessory movements: superior glide with inflare and internal rotation.
Word: chrysalises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chrysalis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chrysalises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chrysalis Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: caligo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cālīgō (“darkness”). Doublet of garua. 1. dimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. A butterfly of the genus Caligo. Labels: uncountable
Word: clitorises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clitoris Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colossuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colossus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coloniser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From colonise + -er. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard Example: Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.
Word: colonisers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coloniser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circularise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From circular + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of circularize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard Example: Proposing passengers were circularised with details of the excursion; [...].
Word: circularises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of circularise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: circularising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of circularise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: circularised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of circularise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cantos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: catechisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catechism Labels: form-of, plural Example: "Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy; "the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring."
Word: catechise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of catechize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: catechises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of catechise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: catechising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of catechise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: catechising Part of Speech: noun 1. catechism Example: During the three years I remained here, a place was assigned me in the town-music and solo-singing. I heard several good preachers, and many good catechisings.
Word: catechised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of catechise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: catechizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of catechize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: catechizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of catechize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: catechizing Part of Speech: noun 1. catechism Example: […] wholly untrained and untaught as they are in Biblical argument, nothing else could happen, in many instances, but the sudden annihilation of a faith which had come to them only from early maternal catechizings.
Word: catechized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of catechize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: circlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: creels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of creel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: citrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of citron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: citruses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of citrus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clarets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of claret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clarets Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of claret Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vowelless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English vowel Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English vowelless From vowel + -less. 1. Lacking vowels. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chinked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of chink Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crystallise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From crystal + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of crystallize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard Example: formed from durene and durylic acid by prolonged boiling with dilute nitric acid, crystallises in long transparent prisms, and sublimes at a high temperature. Example: As the time for the excursion drew near, details crystallised.
Word: crystallises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of crystallise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: crystallising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of crystallise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: crystallised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of crystallise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vowellessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vowelless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English vowellessness From vowelless + -ness. 1. The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless. Labels: uncountable Example: ...the devanagari is an alphabet, with the peculiarity that it omits writing one of the vowels, the commonest one, and has a symbol for vowellessness... Example: The other vowels are shown by appendages to the letters, and vowellessness is indicated by ligatures of the consonants involved in the cluster...
Word: cutesier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of cutesy: more cutesy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: cutesiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of cutesy: most cutesy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: conveyers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conveyer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: concavities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of concavity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crumbier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of crumby: more crumby Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: crumbiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of crumby: most crumby Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: Capitoline Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Capitolīnus (adj. & n.), from Capitolium (“Capitoline Hill”) + -inus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”). 1. Synonym of Capitoline Hill, the highest of the seven hills of Rome. Example: He said to meet him on the Capitoline.
Word: Capitoline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Capitolīnus (adj. & n.), from Capitolium (“Capitoline Hill”) + -inus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”). 1. Of or relating to Capitoline Hill in Rome or (historical) the various temples there in antiquity. Labels: not-comparable
Word: brutalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brutality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bents Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɛnts/ 1. plural of bent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bigotries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bigotry Labels: form-of, plural Example: The benefit has not, as yet, been equal to the evil; we have not yet succeeded to our hope—liberty is still insecure, and England is still rent by small factions, distracted by foolish bigotries, and now at the will of one man; yet the good seed has been sown.
Word: doppelgängers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doppelgänger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pungle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish póngale. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌŋ.ɡəl/ 1. To pay or hand over; to shell out Labels: Southwestern, US, regional Example: I want my dues and must have them — wont be put off any longer — so "pungle down," and oblige Example: They have kicked the bully Miner ; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can't make him pungle.
Word: Burgundian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”). Pronunciation: /bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/, /bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Burgundy, or a person descended from natives of Burgundy. 2. A member or descendant of the Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe.
Word: Burgundian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”). Pronunciation: /bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/, /bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/ 1. The extinct East Germanic language of the Burgundians. 2. The Burgundian Oïl language, Bourguignon-Morvandiau.
Word: Burgundian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”). Pronunciation: /bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/, /bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/ 1. Pertaining to Burgundy, its people, or its language. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: bourguignon, bourguignonne Example: bright Burgundian vineyards
Word: bleaker Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of bleak: more bleak Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: bicepses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biceps Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: breakpoints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breakpoint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breadfruits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breadfruit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioseston Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English seston English bioseston From bio- + seston. 1. The living particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas.
Word: tripton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τριπτός (triptós, “rubbed off matter”) + -on. 1. The inorganic particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas.
Word: alpine bullhead Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of fish in the Cottidae family, Cottus poecilopus.
Word: alpine bullheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alpine bullhead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fourhorn sculpins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fourhorn sculpin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: European bullhead Part of Speech: noun 1. A European species in the Cottidae family, Cottus gobio.
Word: hurt someone's feelings Part of Speech: verb 1. To offend or emotionally hurt someone. Labels: idiomatic
Word: long-spined bullhead Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of the Cottidae family, Taurulus bubalis.
Word: div. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of division. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of divorced. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of dividend. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: right to life Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, life. 2. The right of a human being to the continuation of his or her life. 3. The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not have its birth prevented through an abortion or other medical procedure. Labels: US Example: Texas Right to Life, a statewide, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia organization, was organized last summer. Right to Life groups in Dallas and Houston have been active for some time. Example: That means women should have the right to be free about their own bodies. I believe a woman has a right to life. The opposition is an anti-freedom group, rather than, as they have very effectively called themselves, a right-to-life group.
Word: whole hog Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See go the whole hog. 1. Total; entire; without restraint. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable
Word: whole hog Part of Speech: adv Etymology: See go the whole hog. 1. Totally; entirely. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable
Word: whole hog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See go the whole hog. 1. The entire amount; the full extent. Labels: colloquial
Word: flat-earther Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English flat-earth Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English flat-earther From flat-earth + -er. 1. A person who believes or advocates the claim that the planet Earth is flat. Example: His commitment to remaining a flat-earther seems to be strengthened by counterarguments rather than weakened by them. 2. A person who believes or advocates an outlandish, discredited theory; a person who refuses to acknowledge the truth despite overwhelming evidence. Labels: broadly, derogatory, figuratively Example: 2008, Bob Sweere, "Voice of the Day: Global warming? Yes," News-Leader.com (Missouri), 16 Jun. (retrieved 1 July 2008), Global warming is settled, unless you are a flat earther or an energy company apologist. Example: When it comes to vaccine safety, they are diehard flat-earthers: the microchips and mercury are articles of faith.
Word: flat earther Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of flat-earther. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Pillen Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. Example: Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican, issued a statement in support of the raids and signed a proclamation Friday to activate the National Guard as a precautionary measure “in anticipation of anti-ICE protests” this weekend.
Word: stirps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”). 1. A branch of a family. 2. A progenitor of a branch of a family. 3. A superfamily of animals or plants.
Word: stirps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stirp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stirp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from stirps. 1. A line descended from a single ancestor. 2. A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.
Word: troweling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trowel Labels: US, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: twinned Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /twɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of twin Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: twinned Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /twɪnd/ 1. Produced at, or as if at, a single birth Labels: not-comparable Example: Twinn'd brothers of one womb 2. united. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pairings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pairing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: milia Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɪl.iː.ə/, /ˈmɪl.i.ə/, /ˈmɪl.i.ʌ/, /ˈməl.iː.ə/, /ˈmɪl.iː.a/ 1. plural of milium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: variolation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English variola Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English variolation From variola + -ation. 1. The inoculation of a person with smallpox with the intention of inducing a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to the disease. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Variolation is no longer used today. It was replaced by smallpox vaccination, a safer alternative, which in turn led to the development of vaccines against many other diseases. Example: To accomplish this, variolation—the use of the smallpox virus—was introduced into military conscription. The practice of variolation that was later routinized in the Qing dynasty was basically a form of vaccination against smallpox.
Word: unspecialized 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 specialized English unspecialized From un- + specialized. 1. Having no speciality, or particular purpose. 2. Having no speciality, or particular purpose.
Word: unspecialized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unspecialize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cinnamon sugar Part of Speech: noun 1. A mixture of ground cinnamon and granulated sugar, with much more sugar than cinnamon. Labels: uncountable
Word: and finally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a newsreader's standard introduction to such pieces, which typically come at the end of a news bulletin. 1. A light news story reserved for the end of a bulletin when there is a lack of more important items; typically involving animals or other features supposed to be amusing. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: All this was broadcast on the evening of 23 February 1956, and it's the earliest surviving example of an Independent Television News bulletin. Even then, there was an ‘And finally...’ item, but on this occasion it was merely the good news that a thaw was on the way. Example: The best ‘and finallies’ of 2005.
Word: kys Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative letter-case form of KYS. Labels: Internet, alt-of, offensive Example: Person 1: apple juice is gross Person 2: apple juice is so good kys hater
Word: house keeper Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of housekeeper. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tega Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Galician tega, variant of earlier talega, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, “hanging thing”). 1. Synonym of ferrado, a traditional Galician unit of dry measure, mass, and land area Labels: historical
Word: categorical variable Part of Speech: noun 1. A nominal variable.
Word: cardinal variables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cardinal variable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: discrete variable Part of Speech: noun 1. A variable that takes values from a finite or countable set, such as the number of legs of an animal.
Word: continuous variable Part of Speech: noun 1. A variable that has a continuous distribution function, such as temperature.
Word: compensative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin compēnsātīvus. 1. that compensates for something; compensatory
Word: compensative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin compēnsātīvus. 1. compensation Labels: obsolete
Word: gular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gula (“upper throat”) + -ar (suffix forming adjectives). Gula is derived from Latin gula (“gullet, throat; palate”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːlə/, /ˈɡ(j)ulɚ/ 1. Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula (“the upper front of the neck next to the chin”) or the throat. Labels: not-comparable Example: Iguanæ. [...] Inhabits America, on the gular pouch of the Iguana. Example: The back of the guana is very strongly serrated; and this, together with the gular pouch, which it has the power of extending or inflating occasionally to a great degree, gives a formidable appearance to an animal otherwise harmless.
Word: gular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gula (“upper throat”) + -ar (suffix forming adjectives). Gula is derived from Latin gula (“gullet, throat; palate”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːlə/, /ˈɡ(j)ulɚ/ 1. A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake). Example: Cnemidophorus maximus [...] Plates of the collar graduating in the posterior gular, the marginal largest, the series concave anteriorly in the middle. Anterior gulars abruptly larger, their median largest. Example: A small tortoise, females larger than males, with a maximum carapace length of 110 mm and mass of 150 g. [...] The plastron is composed of paired gulars, which together are more than twice as wide than long; [...]
Word: gular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गूलर (gūlar). Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːlɑː/, /ˈɡulɑɹ/ 1. Synonym of cluster fig (“Ficus racemosa, a species of plant in the family Moraceae; the edible fruit of this plant”). Labels: India Example: Goolar, or Doomur. Ficus glomerata. Example: These [black-eared flying foxes (Pteropus melanotus, formerly edulis)] I have now in captivity (five in number) are fed on goolars, (Ficus glomerata), which they chew in the manner above mentioned, until they have extracted all the juice, when the remaining pulp is ejected out of the mouth.
Word: Scanlon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Scannláin (“descendant of Scannlán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of Scannal. Compare Scannell. Pronunciation: /ˈskænlən/ 1. A surname from Irish. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: viviparous eelpout Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish in the family Zoarcidae (Zoarces viviparus). Labels: US
Word: semantic analysis Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible. 2. The phase in which a compiler adds semantic information to the parse tree and builds the symbol table.
Word: viviparous blenny Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish in the family Zoarcidae, Zoarces viviparus. Labels: UK
Word: semantic analyses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semantic analysis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cusk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Early 17th century; of unknown origin. Probably an alteration of torsk or tusk, a codlike fish, from Norwegian tosk, torsk; Old Norse thorskr, codfish. Pronunciation: /kʌsk/, /kʊsk/ 1. A codlike saltwater fish in the family Lotidae, Brosme brosme. Example: He suggested cusk, because he knew they would have it. She had never heard of cusk. “Doesn't it sound exotic!” she said. “Exotic indeed!” he laughed, and almost told her what a humdrum fish it really was, but stopped himself.
Word: mathematical semantics Part of Speech: noun 1. A study of formal semantics of computer languages, such as denotational semantics. Labels: uncountable
Word: eurypterid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Eurypterida. By surface analysis, eury- + -pter + -id. Pronunciation: /jʊəˈɹɪp.tə.ɹɪd/ 1. A large, prehistoric, carnivorous arthropod, of the class †Eurypterida, thought to be one of the first animals to venture onto land.
Word: alligatorid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any reptile of the family Alligatoridae; a caiman or alligator. Example: This species is large compared with known Eocene alligatorids, although its character states present a mosaic of resemblances to earlier and later alligatorids. Example: Although most alligatorids have ventral osteoderms, the American alligator usually has only poorly developed single osteoderms in the pectoral and midventral regions, if at all (Fig. 6C and D).
Word: glyptodont Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós) + -odont. 1. Any edentate of an extinct clade of South American armadillos which is identified either as family †Glyptodontidae or as subfamily †Glyptodontinae of family Chlamyphoridae.
Word: edentate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin edentatus. 1. Lacking teeth. Labels: not-comparable Example: an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf 2. Belonging to the Edentata. Labels: not-comparable
Word: edentate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin edentatus. 1. Any mammal that has few or no teeth, but especially the anteaters, armadillos, and sloths of the former order Edentata.
Word: hoorah Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˈhu.ɹɑː/, /həˈɹɑː/ 1. Alternative form of hurrah. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative form of oorah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hoorah Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhu.ɹɑː/, /həˈɹɑː/ 1. Alternative form of hurrah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hoorah Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhu.ɹɑː/, /həˈɹɑː/ 1. Alternative form of hurrah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: northern pike Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːðən paɪk/, /ˈnɔɹðɚn paɪk/ 1. A species of pike, Esox lucius.
Word: gyroelongated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gyro- + elongated. 1. Of a polyhedron, having been elongated by placing an antiprism in the middle of the polyhedron. Labels: not-comparable
Word: xerophilous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From xero- + -philous. 1. Able to thrive in dry weather. Example: The cactus is very xerophilous.