nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rebate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/ 1. To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment Labels: transitive 2. To diminish or lessen something Labels: transitive 3. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. Example: But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. Example: Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart, With all his strength, the youth directs his dart: But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound, The point rebated, and repell’d the wound. 4. To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something Labels: transitive 5. To abate; to withdraw. Example: he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery 6. Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate². Labels: intransitive Example: The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]
Word: slot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it. Pronunciation: /slɒt/, /slɑt/ 1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it. Example: insert tab A into slot B 2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence. Example: I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot. Example: With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall. 3. Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, especially, in-plural, informal Example: I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots. 4. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor. Example: The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves Example: Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer Hath left his slot beside the way; The little Ermine now is seen White wanderer of the snow; […] And hark! the rosy-breasted bird, The Throstle of sweet song! 5. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse. Example: By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner. Example: Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove. 6. The vagina. Labels: slang 7. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway. 8. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored. Example: The game offers four save slots. 9. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen. 10. The barrel or tube of a wave. Labels: slang 11. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line. 12. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side. 13. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings. Example: She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did. Example: Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel. 14. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors. Example: The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater. 15. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
Word: slot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it. Pronunciation: /slɒt/, /slɑt/ 1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture). 2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence). 3. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining. 4. To put something where it belongs. Example: And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. 5. To kill. Labels: Rhodesia, UK, slang Example: One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us." Example: Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'. 6. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse. Example: The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out. Example: I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess. 7. To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this. Labels: informal
Word: slot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with Dutch slot, German Schloss (“door-bolt”). The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)). Pronunciation: /slɒt/, /slɑt/ 1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. 2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. 3. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 4. A fort or castle. Labels: obsolete Example: Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay.
Word: slot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with Dutch slot, German Schloss (“door-bolt”). The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)). Pronunciation: /slɒt/, /slɑt/ 1. To bar, bolt or lock a door or window. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete 2. To shut with violence; to slam. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive Example: to slot a door
Word: fizzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist. It could also come from old Norse: "fise" simply means "blow," like in "blow in the wind." A weather-exposed community in Rogaland, Norway, is called Fister. (In modern language, the verb "fisle" has the same 3 meanings as in English, see below.) Pronunciation: /ˈfɪzəl/ 1. To sputter or hiss. Example: The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured. Example: It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling. 2. To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: The entire project fizzled after the founder quit. Example: I had a suspicion that Stephanie's native ingenuity rather fizzled there. You know, Stephanie dear, there is a difference, it seems, between Bombay and Californian pearls. 3. To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing. Example: The shot fizzled, generating only 200 tons rather than the 30 kilotons they were aiming for.
Word: fizzle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist. It could also come from old Norse: "fise" simply means "blow," like in "blow in the wind." A weather-exposed community in Rogaland, Norway, is called Fister. (In modern language, the verb "fisle" has the same 3 meanings as in English, see below.) Pronunciation: /ˈfɪzəl/ 1. A spluttering or hissing sound. 2. Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing. 3. An abortive effort; a flop or dud. 4. A state of agitation or worry.
Word: boxing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English box English box Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English boxing From box (“to punch”) + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksɪŋ/, /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of box Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: boxing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English box English box Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English boxing From box (“to punch”) + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksɪŋ/, /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ 1. A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout. Labels: uncountable Example: So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12 rounds.
Word: boxing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From box + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksɪŋ/, /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ 1. Material used for making boxes or casing. 2. Casing. 3. Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
Word: boxing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From box + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksɪŋ/, /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of box Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Livonian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Finnic *liiva Estonian liivder. Latin Livoniabor. English Livonia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Livonian From Livonia + -an. Pronunciation: /lɪˈvəʊ.ni.ən/, /lɪˈvoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. A Finno-Ugric language spoken in Latvia.
Word: Livonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Finnic *liiva Estonian liivder. Latin Livoniabor. English Livonia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Livonian From Livonia + -an. Pronunciation: /lɪˈvəʊ.ni.ən/, /lɪˈvoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. A person from Livonia.
Word: Livonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Finnic *liiva Estonian liivder. Latin Livoniabor. English Livonia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Livonian From Livonia + -an. Pronunciation: /lɪˈvəʊ.ni.ən/, /lɪˈvoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Pertaining to Livonia or Livonians. Labels: not-comparable
Word: boxer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From box + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksə/, /ˈbɑksɚ/ 1. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes. Example: You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose. Example: In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist. 2. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft. 3. The person running a game of two-up. 4. One who packs boxes. Example: They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […] 5. A letterboxer. 6. Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”). Labels: attributive, form-of Example: Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […] Example: My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.
Word: boxer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksə/, /ˈbɑksɚ/ 1. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
Word: lipstick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lip + stick. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpstɪk/, /ˈlɪpˌstɪk/ 1. Makeup for the lips. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Are you wearing any lipstick today? Example: In fact, I just saw the movie Shirley Valentine (for the umpteenth time!), and couldn't even look at the adult Marjorie Majors without seeing Patsy and her boofed up hair and red lipstick and long cigarette holder. 2. A stick of this makeup. Labels: countable, usually Example: I'd like three lipsticks in this shade. Example: She darkens up her eyebrows with it and then runs a tube of pink lipstick over her mouth. She immediately wipes it off with the palm of her hand. She should have black lipstick. A true ninja woman would wear black lipstick. 3. A dog's penis. Labels: countable, informal, usually Example: “So she storms off, yelling at me, ‘Tell your dog to put his lipstick back in its case!’ and that dog and I just stared after them. Both of us were totally smitten.” Example: I looked over at our new house-wolf, hoping for a connection, but it was too soon. I felt nothing but resentment. What I saw, however, was something I would have to look away from regularly. He had his lipstick out. 4. Ellipsis of lipstick lesbian. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, usually Example: Joya was what they called a Lipstick Lesbian. Without wandering too far through the minefield that gay culture can be for the moderately indoctrinated, let stand the observation that this thriving local fauna (The Lipsticks, that is) struck some observers as representing a step up (or forward) in the social evolution of female homosexuality.
Word: lipstick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lip + stick. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpstɪk/, /ˈlɪpˌstɪk/ 1. To apply lipstick to; to paint with lipstick. Labels: transitive Example: She had even white teeth and a mouth that needed no lipsticking.
Word: what about Part of Speech: adv 1. Used to make a suggestion. Labels: not-comparable Example: What about going to a restaurant tonight? 2. Used to ask someone to consider something or someone that they have apparently not considered. Labels: not-comparable Example: You're obviously having a good time, but what about me? Example: Move to another country? What about where we’re going to live? 3. Used to repeat a question but referring to a different subject or object. Labels: not-comparable Example: “Is John coming tomorrow?” “Yes.” “What about David?” Example: “Do you like football?” “No.” “What about basketball?” 4. Used to inquire about the purpose of someone introducing a subject to the speaker. Labels: not-comparable Example: “Do you remember John Smith from work?” “Yeah, what about him?” “Oh, nothing. I just ran into him today.” 5. Used to express approval of an occurrence or a result. Labels: not-comparable Example: What about the second goal!
Word: how about Part of Speech: adv 1. Synonym of what about. Labels: not-comparable
Word: kickboxing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu), from English kick + boxing. Possibly coined by Japanese businessman Osamu Noguchi in 1964. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪk.bɒk.sɪŋ/ 1. A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate, and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches. Labels: uncountable Example: Ex world’s champion [Georges] Carpentier was also expert at kick-boxing. Example: The Japanese kickboxing gym, recently opened in the Thai capital, had been a great success
Word: kickboxing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu), from English kick + boxing. Possibly coined by Japanese businessman Osamu Noguchi in 1964. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪk.bɒk.sɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of kickbox Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Muay Thai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Thai มวยไทย (muai-tai, “Thai boxing”). Pronunciation: /muːeɪ ˈtaɪ/, /mweɪ ˈtaɪ/, /moɪ ˈtaɪ/ 1. A sport practiced in Thailand which is similar to boxing but also allows strikes with the shins, feet, elbows, and knees. Labels: uncountable
Word: bay leaf Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ liːf/ 1. A herb derived from any of certain shrubs of the family Lauraceae and Myrtaceae, especially the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). Example: A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.
Word: hip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium. Pronunciation: /hɪp/ 1. The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. 2. The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes. 3. In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Example: in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals 4. A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin. Labels: dated, possibly, slang Example: Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.
Word: hip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium. Pronunciation: /hɪp/ 1. To use one's hips to bump into someone. 2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock"). 3. To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side. 4. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Word: hip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, Faroese hjúpa), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“briar, thorn”) (compare Old Prussian kaāubri (“thorn”), Lithuanian kaubrė̃ (“heap”)). Pronunciation: /hɪp/ 1. The fruit of a rose. Example: 1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there? OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne. Example: The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips; The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you.
Word: hip Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century. Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”). Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip. Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however. Pronunciation: /hɪp/ 1. Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. Labels: dated, slang Example: I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars. Example: Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though
Word: hip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep; both forms are attested from the first decade of the 20th century. Some sources suggest derivation from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”). Others suggest connection to the noun, as opium smokers were said to lie on a hip. Neither of these suggestions is widely accepted, however. Pronunciation: /hɪp/ 1. To inform, to make knowledgeable. Labels: slang, transitive Example: No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover Example: She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay
Word: hip Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /hɪp/ 1. An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
Word: inhale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin inhalare (“to breathe on (breathe in)”), from in (“in, into, on”) + halare (“to breathe”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈheɪl/ 1. To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. Labels: intransitive Example: “Please. I’m starved.” Her gaze followed the man with the meatpies while she inhaled deeply, trying to hold onto the heavenly scent. […] “I find myself ravenous for meatpie.” 2. To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in the form of aerosols/smoke, sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. Labels: transitive Example: […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated. Example: And he led the way from the station, stopping once to gloat over the sunset across Trafalgar Square, and again to inhale the tarry scent of the warm wood-paving, which was perfume to his nostrils as the din of its traffic was music to his ears, before we came to one of those political palaces which permit themselves to be included in the list of ordinary clubs. 3. To eat very quickly. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: She had also forgotten both diet and protocol as she joined Sven in guzzling large cokes, practically inhaling fries and gravy, and rounding off the meal with double malts.
Word: inhale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin inhalare (“to breathe on (breathe in)”), from in (“in, into, on”) + halare (“to breathe”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈheɪl/ 1. An inhalation. Example: Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.
Word: breathe in Part of Speech: verb 1. To inhale. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: thigh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thigh, thegh, thiȝ, theȝhe, þigh, þyȝh, from Old English þēoh, þīoh, from Proto-West Germanic *þeuh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. See also West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó; also Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”). Pronunciation: /θaɪ/ 1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. Example: I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, By her High forehead, and her Scarlet lip, By her Fine foote, Straight leg, and Quiuering thigh, And the Demeanes, that there Adiacent lie, That in thy likenesse thou appeare to vs. Example: About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard-room at Marcau, he accidentally shot himself through the Thigh. 2. That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. Example: Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken. Example: The newly discovered dinosaur Brontomerus mcintoshi may have used its huge muscular thighs to kick predators and rivals.
Word: loin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English loyne, from Old French loigne, from Vulgar Latin *lumbea, from Latin lumbus, of uncertain origin, possibly from Oscan-Umbrian *londwo- or Proto-Germanic *lundwuz, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“kidney, waist”). Cognate with Modern English lend (“loin”), Dutch lende, German Lende, Swedish länd (“haunch, loin”), Danish lænd, Proto-Slavic *lędvьje (Russian ля́двея (ljádveja)). Doublet of lend. Pronunciation: /ˈloɪn/ ~ /ˈlɔɪn/, /ˈlɑɪn/ ~ /ˈlɒɪn/ 1. The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips. Example: Holonym: side 2. Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal. Example: beef loin; goat loin; lamb loin; pork loin; also chicken loin and turkey loin (but these are almost always referred to as tenderloins) Example: I cooked a loin for dinner tonight.
Word: loin Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈloɪn/ ~ /ˈlɔɪn/, /ˈlɑɪn/ ~ /ˈlɒɪn/ 1. Misspelling of lion. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: crack baby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crack (“cocaine”) + baby. 1. A child born to a mother who used cocaine during pregnancy, especially crack cocaine, or any child with substance abuse related birth defects. Labels: derogatory Example: Developmental psychologist Claire Coles, who is also a clinician, has seen "crack babies" who were in fact colicky babies.
Word: lipstick lesbian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lipstick + lesbian (noun). Pronunciation: /ˌlɪp.stɪk ˈlɛz.bi.ən/, /ˌlɪpˌstɪk ˈlɛz.bi.ən/ 1. A lesbian who has glamorously feminine characteristics; specifically, one attracted to other such lesbians. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: Coordinate term: chapstick lesbian Example: [T]he National Inquirer^([sic – meaning National Enquirer]) headlined their expose "Barbie Doll – the Dyke." Women's Wear Daily did a breathless story declaring that this was the trend of the decade, the biggest thing since Bette Midler opened the Continental Baths. If you wanted to be with it, you simply had to be a Lipstick Lesbian who advocated Gay Rights.
Word: exhale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/, [ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l], /ɪɡˈzeɪ̯l/, [ɪɡˈzeɪ̯l] 1. To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. Labels: intransitive 2. To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. Labels: transitive 3. To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge. Labels: intransitive Example: Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence. Example: Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive. 4. To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Example: Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or Spices breathing in Arabian Gales. 5. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour. Labels: transitive Example: The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
Word: exhale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/, [ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l], /ɪɡˈzeɪ̯l/, [ɪɡˈzeɪ̯l] 1. An exhalation. Example: Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.
Word: diaphragm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English diafragma, Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition”), from διά (diá, “across”) and φράγμα (phrágma, “barrier”), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō). First attested in the late 14th century. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/ 1. In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs. Example: thoracic diaphragm Example: pulmonary diaphragm 2. Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another. 3. A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse. Example: cervical diaphragm Example: contraceptive diaphragm 4. A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies. Example: This is effected by a novel and ingenious application of two flexible diaphragms—the upper of which, being acted upon by the lower, is pulled down on its seat, and forms a perfectly leakless joint. Example: There also were five broken panes of glass on the two huge, rubberlike diaphragms that equalize air pressure within the dome as the artificial atmosphere expands and contracts with temperature variations, he said. 5. In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound. Example: acoustic diaphragm 6. A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device. 7. A permeable or semipermeable membrane. Example: The mass of liquid transported through a porous diaphragm in a given time is directly proportional to the current. 8. A floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, having a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems.
Word: diaphragm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English diafragma, Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition”), from διά (diá, “across”) and φράγμα (phrágma, “barrier”), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō). First attested in the late 14th century. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/ 1. To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm. Example: He employs an equatorial with an object-glass having a focal length of five metres, and which was diaphragmed down to eight centimetres. 2. To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating. Example: The holes and burning are caused by the part diaphragming at 20000-40000 cycles/second.
Word: cephalopod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French céphalopode, from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + ποδός (podós), genitive singular of πούς (poús, “foot, leg”). By surface analysis, cephalo- + -pod. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛfələpɑd/, /ˈsɛfələpɒd/ 1. Any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc. Example: In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] Generally, cephalopod ink includes melanin, enzymes related to melanin production, catecholamines, peptidoglycans, free amino acids and metals (Derby 2014) .
Word: dozen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”). Pronunciation: /ˈdʌzən/, /ˈdɐzən/ 1. A set of twelve. Example: Can I have a dozen eggs, please? Example: I ordered two dozen doughnuts. 2. A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many. Example: There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page. Example: There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted. 3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. Example: The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 4. The number twelve.
Word: dozen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a deliberate misspelling of doesn't, originally referring to someone who "dozen sing, dozen rap, dozen do anything." Pronunciation: /ˈdʌzən/, /ˈdɐzən/ 1. A member of a K-pop group who has no talent. Labels: derogatory
Word: autonomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.? Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón)? Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-) Proto-Indo-European *nem-der. Proto-Indo-European *németi Proto-Hellenic *némō Ancient Greek νέμω (némō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos) ▲ Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā)bor. English autonomy Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā, “freedom to use its own laws, independence”), from αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “living under one's own laws, independent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix). By surface analysis, auto- (“self”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”). Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒn.ə.mi/, /ɔˈtɑ.nə.mi/, /ɑˈtɑ.nə.mi/, /oːˈtɔn.ə.mi/, [oːˈtɔ̟n.ə.mi] 1. The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently. Labels: uncountable Example: But while assiduously dismissing any though of its own autonomy and proclaiming its victims its judges, it outdoes, in its veiled autocracy, all the excesses of autonomous art. Example: Financial independence and micro retirement have come to represent the autonomy I've created for myself, which is a powerful feeling. 2. A self-governing country or region. Labels: countable 3. The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Labels: uncountable 4. The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator. Labels: uncountable Example: ...[T]he fact that a scientific theory finds applications to a wide variety of different phenomena does not imply anything about the autonomy of this theory from deeper physical laws. 5. The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly. Labels: uncountable
Word: flapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: possible etymologies Possibly from Victorian sporting slang, meaning young wildfowl in August which are full-sized, tender and worthwhile quarry, but are naive and unable to fly properly due to the late development of flight feathers in ducks and geese. Alternative derivations are also suggested. The word "flap" was slang in the 17th century for a prostitute: by the late 19th century in England "flapper" could mean either a very young prostitute: or a teenage girl too old to be a child and too young to be considered 'out' in society: "A 'flapper', we may explain, is a young lady who has not yet been promoted to long frocks and the wearing of her hair 'up'". The earliest documented use in the sense of "attractive young girl" is in the 1903 novel Sandford of Merton by Desmond Coke: "There's a stunning flapper.". The word also suggested a spirited girl of unconventional or mischievous disposition. An advertisement in The Times reads: "The father of a young lady, aged 15 – a typical “FLAPPER” – with all the self assurance of a woman of 30 would be grateful for the recommendation of a seminary (not a convent) where she might be placed for a year or two with the object of taming her." By 1912 the word had apparently both crossed the Atlantic and evolved to mean a slightly older girl: British stage impresario John Tiller defined it for readers of The New York Times as meaning "a girl who has just "come out". She is at an awkward age, neither a child nor a woman...". The word had clearly caught on, as a Mme. Nordica is quoted using it in The New York Times of January 1, 1913: "...a thin little flapper of a girl donning a skirt in which she can hardly take a step, extinguishing all but her little white teeth with a dumpy bucket of a hat..." By 1920 in England it clearly meant any young woman of a pleasure-seeking disposition: a Dr R. Murray-Leslie criticized "the social butterfly type...the frivolous, scantily-clad, jazzing flapper, irresponsible and undisciplined, to whom a dance, a new hat, or a man with a car, were of more importance than the fate of nations." Pronunciation: /ˈflæpɚ/ 1. A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially. Labels: colloquial, historical Example: Stud's eyes roved. Plenty of girls, most of them young flappers, Loretta's age. Only a couple of years ago they were kids. 2. A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s. Labels: colloquial, historical Example: I paid violent and unusual attention to a flapper all through the meal in order to make you jealous. She's probably in her cabin writing reams about me to a fellow-flapper at this very moment. Example: "Now," said the young man cheerfully to Ardita, who had witnessed this last scene in withering silence, "if you will swear on your honor as a flapper—which probably isn't worth much—that you'll keep that spoiled little mouth of yours tight shut for forty-eight hours, you can row yourself ashore in our rowboat."
Word: flapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English flap 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 flapper From flap (verb) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈflæpɚ/ 1. One who or that which flaps. Example: It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him. And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel. 2. A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck. Example: Small fish, and frog and fish spawn are also eaten, and the ducklings feed upon many species of animalculæ, flies, pollywogs and worms, etc., disturbed by heavy rains which wash the banks, while the young ducks are passing to the "flapper" stage. 3. A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming. Example: the flapper of a porpoise Example: It was still too shallow for the turtle to swim, but it used its four flappers with so much effect against its two assailants, as to give them a thorough shower-bath. 4. A flapper valve. Example: In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve. 5. The hand. Labels: slang
Word: flapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English flap 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 flapper From flap (noun) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈflæpɚ/ 1. Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
Word: bakery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”). Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/, /ˈbeɪk.ɹi/ 1. A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold. Labels: countable 2. The trade of a baker. Labels: uncountable 3. Baked goods. Labels: US, uncountable Example: Fresh bakery! Example: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee. 4. A large pair of buttocks. Labels: countable, humorous, slang, uncountable Example: He's got a whole damn bakery back there!
Word: deprecate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēprecātus, perfect active participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) + precor (“to pray”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/, /ˈdɛpɹəkeɪt/, /ˈdɛp.rɪˌkeɪt/ 1. To express disapproval of, protest or plead against. Labels: transitive Example: They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people. Example: She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace. 2. To belittle, depreciate. Labels: transitive Example: He deprecates any praise of his own merits. Example: Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe". 3. To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced. Labels: transitive Example: The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag. Example: It is still supported but strongly deprecated. 4. To pray against. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty. Example: […], though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d. 5. To regret deeply. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: embryo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/, /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/ 1. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus. Example: SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos. Example: In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away. 2. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis. 3. In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body. 4. In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy. 5. A rudimentary plant contained in the seed. 6. The beginning; the first stage of anything. Labels: figuratively Example: […]while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […] Example: it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]
Word: birthmark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From birth + mark. Displaced earlier terms longing mark and mother's mark. Pronunciation: /ˈbɝθˌmɑɹk/ 1. A mark on the skin formed before birth. Example: facial birthmark Example: large birthmark
Word: flout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten. Pronunciation: /flaʊt/, /flʌʊt/ 1. To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. Labels: transitive Example: The manoeuvres of Microsoft and HP appear to comply with the letter of the regulations, even if they flout their spirit. Example: Of necessity[…] the duty to comply with the rules designed to spare civilians as much as possible the hazards of war is absolute, not contingent on the behavior of opponents. The Israeli government already seems to be flouting those rules. 2. To scorn. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Yet all ' s not worth a pin, But could not get her; Phillida flouts me. Dick had her to the Vine Example: Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.
Word: flout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten. Pronunciation: /flaʊt/, /flʌʊt/ 1. The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law. Example: A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim. 2. A mockery or insult.
Word: baker's dozen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from the former practice of bakers adding a thirteenth loaf of bread to a batch of twelve loaves in order to avoid punishment for accidentally selling underweight bread. Pronunciation: /ˌbeɪkəz ˈdʌzən/, [- ˈdʌzn̩], /ˌbeɪkəɹz ˈdʌzən/, [ˌbeɪkɚz ˈdʌzn̩] 1. Thirteen; a group of thirteen. Labels: idiomatic Example: [L]et him caſt his Eye upon the laſt Page of that Book, where Mr. Blount has tranſlated a Quotation out of Scaliger de Emend. brought by the Author of the Præadamitæ; now he tranſlates Octingenties octagies, not eight hundred and eighty, but eight hundred and eightſcore; as if the Romans had uſed to reckon by ſcores. He might altogether as well, have made them number by Bakers-Dozens. Example: A Baker's Dozen, Treize dans la Douzaine. 2. A cousin. Labels: Cockney, slang Example: "Before I agree to help you and your baker's dozen over there …" Rose nodded at Larry. / "It means cousin," Larry said. / "Before I say yes to helping, I would like a low-risk, up-front agreement."