nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: corset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English corset, from Old French corset. Equivalent to corse + -et. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː(ɹ).sɪt/ 1. To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset. Labels: transitive Example: Mabel dreaded the upcoming ball and the preliminary corseting it would entail. 2. To restrict or confine. Labels: figuratively Example: I will not remain corseted by your notions of what is and is not proper! Example: They were trying to free the lives of women of all sexualities and genders that were tightly corseted by lack of basic social and economic rights.
Word: oophagy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oo- + -phagy, originally after German Oophagie. Pronunciation: /əʊˈɒfədʒi/ 1. The eating of eggs; (now especially) the cannibalization of subordinate eggs within a homogeneous population or the uterus; particularly as it relates to certain insect and aquatic species. Labels: uncountable Example: A number of shark species go in for oophagy, or uterine cannibalism.
Word: depliage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French dépliage (“unfolding”). 1. A surrealist method in which one removes the staples from a staple-bound magazine, making into one "page" what had previously been more or less widely-separated pages; the resulting "page" can either be kept as is or used as the basis for a collage. Labels: uncountable
Word: cathexis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάθεξις (káthexis, “holding, retention”). The term entered the English language as a translation for the common everyday German word Besetzung, which in the context of psychoanalysis means "occupation" in the sense of a position or something being occupied or filled, and not a military occupation of a place or the filling of job positions (although it can also mean either of these in other contexts). (In English translations, a Greek word was used to be more scientific.) Pronunciation: /kəˈθɛk sɪs/ 1. The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: How contemporary artistic performances elicit cathexis on the part of the audience and promote unifying social rituals.
Word: libidinist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stem of Latin libidinor (“to indulge”) + -ist. 1. A lecher or oversexed person. Labels: rare Example: With one day flowing into another as the short, cold days seemed to hold Paddington Cove in the grip of yearning for spring, Old Maggie thought often of the village's libidinist. Jem's lewd ways had gone unchecked for so many years […]
Word: eateries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eaterie Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of eatery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oversexed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English sexed English oversexed From over- + sexed. 1. Having a greater than normal sexual appetite Example: Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).
Word: oversexedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English oversexed 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 oversexedness From oversexed + -ness. 1. The quality of being oversexed. Labels: uncountable
Word: grandnephew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grand- + nephew. 1. A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)
Word: nephew-in-law Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nephew + -in-law. 1. Someone's niece's husband 2. Someone's nephew's husband (where same-sex marriage is recognised) 3. Someone's nephew's husband (where same-sex marriage is recognised) 4. Someone's nephew's husband (where same-sex marriage is recognised) 5. Someone's nephew's husband (where same-sex marriage is recognised) 6. Someone's nephew's husband (where same-sex marriage is recognised) 7. Someone's nephew's husband (where same-sex marriage is recognised) 8. Someone's spouse's nephew. Labels: rare 9. Someone's spouse's nephew. Labels: rare
Word: stepnephew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Germanic *steupa- Proto-West Germanic *steupa- Old English stēop- Middle English step- English step- English nephew English stepnephew From step- + nephew. 1. The son of one's stepbrother or stepsister Labels: rare 2. The stepson of one's sibling Labels: rare
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -n, -en, past participle ending of strong verbs (compare Middle English take(n), took, taken (“take, took, taken”)), from Old English -en and Old Norse -inn, past participle ending of strong verbs (compare Old Norse taka, tók, tekinn (“take, took, taken”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *-inaz, a variant of *-anaz. In Middle English, the suffix was often weakened to -e or disappeared (compare Southern Middle English do(n), dud(e), ydo (“do, did, done”)), but not in others (compare cume(n), com, ycume (“come, came, come”)), from Proto-Germanic *-anaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós. Pronunciation: /ən/, [ən], [n̩] 1. Denotes the past participle form when attached to a verb. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: take + -en → taken Example: forgive + -en → forgiven 2. Denotes a quasi-past participle or participle-like adjective when attached to a noun or verb. Labels: archaic, morpheme Example: fork + -en → forken (“forked”) Example: pave + -en → paven (“paved”)
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -en, -n, the plural suffix of weak nouns (n-stems), from Old English -an, from Proto-West Germanic *-an m, *-ōn f or n, from Proto-Germanic *-an- m, *-ōn- f or n, from Proto-Indo-European *-on-, o-grade form of the n-stem suffix. Reinforced by the early Middle English dative plural ending -en, from late Old English -an, weakened form of earlier -um. 1. Used to denote the plural form of a small number of English nouns, the majority of whose etymologies go back to the n-stem (i.e. weak noun) declension of Germanic languages. Labels: morpheme Example: aurochs + -en → aurochsen brother + -en → brethren (religious sense) child + -en → children (cf. childer) ox + -en → oxen Example: bee + -en → been cheese + -en → cheesen ky (“cows”) + -en → kine knee + -en → kneen eyre (“eggs”) + -en → eyren eye + -en → eyen feather + -en → feathern fox + -en → foxen horse + -en → horsen hose + -en → hosen house + -en → housen pease + -en → peasen shoe + -en → shoon sister + -en → sistren tree + -en → treen 2. Used to form the plural of nouns. Labels: dialectal, humorous, morpheme, nonstandard, often, rare Example: box + -en → boxen Example: VAX + -en → VAXen
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -(e)nen, -(e)nien, from Old English -nian, from Proto-West Germanic *-inōn, from Proto-Germanic *-inōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian -enje, West Frisian -enje, Danish -ne, Swedish -na, Icelandic -na. 1. When attached to certain adjectives, it forms a transitive verb whose meaning is, to make (adjective). Usually, the verb is ergative, sometimes not. The same construction could also be done to certain (fewer) nouns, as, strengthen, in which case the verb means roughly, "to give (noun) to", or "to become like (noun)". Labels: morpheme Example: white (adjective) + -en → whiten Example: quick + -en → quicken
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -en, from Old English -en, from Proto-West Germanic *-īn, from Proto-Germanic *-īnaz; suffix meaning "made of, consisting of, having the qualities of" applied to nouns to form adjectives. Akin to Dutch -en, German -en, Icelandic -inn, Latin -īnus. See -ine. 1. Pertaining to, having the qualities of, resembling, or like. Labels: morpheme Example: wolf + -en → wolven Example: peach + -en → peachen 2. When attached to certain nouns that are the names of a material, it forms an adjective whose meaning is, made of (noun). Labels: morpheme Example: wood + -en → wooden gold + -en → golden wheat + -en → wheaten oat + -en → oaten silk + -en → silken earth + -en → earthen flax + -en → flaxen lead + -en → leaden wool + -en → woollen oak + -en → oaken Example: Examples where a metaphorical sense is common but the literal sense is rare or archaic: brass + -en → brazen ("shameless")
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -en, from Old English -en, from the neuter form of -en (“pertaining to”, adjective-forming suffix). 1. Used to form the diminutives of certain nouns. Labels: morpheme Example: chick + -en → chicken Example: maid + -en → maiden
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -en, from Old English -en, from Proto-West Germanic *-ini. 1. Denotes a female form of a few nouns. Labels: morpheme Example: fox + -en → vixen (“female fox”) Example: monk + -en → minchen (“nun”) (obsolete)
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -en, from Old English -an, from Proto-West Germanic *-an, from Proto-Germanic *-aną. Compare -y (intransitive infinitive ending). 1. Used to form the infinitive of verbs. Labels: morpheme, obsolete Example: The Sonne compell’d, beene Butcher to the Sire; Example: As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weſt, / High on an hill, his flocke to vewen wide
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Middle English -en, from Old English -on and -en, the indicative and subjunctive past tense plural endings of verbs. 1. Used to form the plural present tense of verbs. Labels: morpheme, obsolete Example: All things perish, whether man or pelf, / Should not escape but from itself; Example: Hoo'll never do no good at the music, they tellen her up at the school, wi'out hoo practises reg'lar, an' it's unpossible for her to do that wi'out we has a pianney i' the 'ouse. 2. Used to form the plural past tense of verbs. Labels: morpheme, obsolete Example: Her name was Agape whoſe children werne / All three as one, the firſt hight Priamond, / The ſecond Dyamond, the youngeſt Triamond. Example: Nau, if ony chap ax you wheere yone getten these, yo mun say, yo hadden um fro' t' boggart o' Deerpley Fell. Good-bye, meaustur; and nau, lads, let's to our wark.
Word: -en Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From French -ène. 1. Indicates the presence of a carbon-carbon double bond. Labels: morpheme
Word: -on Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Hellenic *éimi Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der. English ion English electronbf. Ancient Greek -ον (-on)influ. English -on Back-formation from electron, influenced by Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Pronunciation: /-ɒn/ 1. Forming nouns denoting subatomic particles and quanta. Labels: morpheme Example: photon, proton
Word: -on Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Back-formation from carbon, first applied to boron and then to silicon. Pronunciation: /-ɒn/, /-ən/ 1. Forming names of noble gases and certain nonmetal elements. Labels: morpheme Example: boron, silicon
Word: -on Part of Speech: suffix 1. Forming names of things considered as basic or fundamental units. Labels: morpheme Example: codon, recon
Word: -on Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From the combining form of -one, as in sulfon-ic. Compare also -thion. 1. Forms names for chemical compounds, often proprietary. Labels: morpheme
Word: mantra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to mind. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.tɹə/, /ˈmʌn.tɹə/, /ˈmɑn.tɹə/ 1. The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer. Labels: Hinduism Example: This mantra is also known as Guru Mantra or Savitri Mantra. The mention of Gayatri Mantra is found in all the four Vedas where its essence has been explained repeatedly. The Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedic scriptures, has mentioned about […] 2. A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation. Example: However, the five-syllable mantra is unique, for according to Kukai, it unleashes the power of emptiness already impregnated in each letter as a primeval episode of the Dharmakaya's cosmic meditation in which he created all sorts of mantras […] 3. A slogan or phrase often repeated. Labels: broadly Example: The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.
Word: blackout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from black out. Pronunciation: /ˈblæk.aʊt/, /ˈblæk.ʌʊt/ 1. A temporary loss of consciousness. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A temporary loss of memory. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “I mean, what is she even talking about? Got her pregnant at the Halloween party? What does that mean? I don't even remember that party. I was wasted.” “Yeah, me too. I browned out that evening.” “"browned out"? What's "browned out"?” “Oh, it's when you drink so much that everything goes brown. It's not as severe as a blackout, 'cause I remember bits and pieces. I like to call it "browning out."” 3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The repairs at the Koeberg Power Station in the Western Cape were on schedule for completion in the third week of May. This follows huge blackouts related to the problems at the power supplier since November. Example: There have been several examples of space weather affecting power grids in the last few decades, notably blackouts caused by GICs [geomagnetically induced currents] in Canada in 1989 and Sweden in 2003. 4. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: media blackout Example: According to a press release issued by the clinic staff, a blackout by the local press had kept the public uninformed about the clinic's harassment. 5. An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable Example: the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout Example: A group of Redditors, many of whom are moderators, organized a temporary boycott, with participating subreddits going private or restricted for 48 hours starting on Monday. A Twitch stream tracking the blackout claimed that nearly 8,500 subreddits, some with tens of millions of subscribers, had gone dark by Tuesday afternoon. 6. The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: In co-operation with the Government departments, the British railway companies prepared their stations, offices, docks, hotels, trains, and other premises for the necessary blackout of lighting that it was realised would be required in a state of emergency, and in the case of the experimental voluntary blackouts which took place in July and August the railway companies concerned co-operated in every way possible. Example: During the "blackout", many real cars and lorries had their front wings painted white, in order to avoid accidents. 7. The blocking out of as much light as possible. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: blackout blinds; blackout curtains 8. A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime. Labels: countable, rare, slang, uncountable
Word: blackout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Deverbal from black out. Pronunciation: /ˈblæk.aʊt/, /ˈblæk.ʌʊt/ 1. Alternative form of black out. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard Example: Scouts assisted Mabel Smythe Building officials in blackouting windows. Example: As blades in night's chest buried, Voraciously my eyes strike, the silent Warsaw evening, my city blackouted throughout...
Word: flounce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce. Pronunciation: /flaʊns/ 1. To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner. Example: There was a continual coming and going of flouncing, pig-tailed forms, until the table was closely covered with dishes, scarlet curries with surface currents of ochreous oil, three varieties of what looked like seaweed (inevitably recommended as abundant in vitamins), a paste made of ground beans and chillis... 2. To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself. Example: After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically. Example: A-flutter with excitement, she turned the handle. In a moment she flounced back, red with shame and anger—flounced forth from the fairest, whitest, dapperest dairy, wherein was all of the best that the keenest dairy-maid might need. 3. To flounder; to make spastic motions. Labels: archaic Example: To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Example: With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves. 4. To decorate with a flounce.
Word: flounce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce. Pronunciation: /flaʊns/ 1. A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle. Example: Then he looked from her to some gayer figures moving along the road with flutters of bright streamers and flounces Example: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. 2. The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure. Example: Emma Watson’s approach is in stark contrast to that of Daniel Day-Lewis; a man who, despite being the greatest actor on earth, is somewhat prone to a flounce. […] Day-Lewis announced that he had retired from acting, putting out a statement that read: “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor.” 3. A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.
Word: hebetude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin hebetūdō. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛb.ə.tjuːd/, /ˈhɛb.ə.tuːd/ 1. Mental lethargy or dullness. Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: 1600, translation attributed to Thomas Nashe, The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by Tomaso Garzoni, London: Edward Blount, Discourse 6, pp. 32-33, The intemperature of the braine is the cause of al this (as phisitions affirme) which maketh all the officiall, and functiue parts full of heauines and indisposition, and so through this hebetude (to vse their terme) vnapt to keepe in minde any thing. Example: [T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]
Word: hemp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hanapiz Proto-West Germanic *hanapi Old English henep Middle English hemp English hemp Inherited from Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas. Pronunciation: /hɛmp/ 1. A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac. 2. Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The gallows. Labels: countable, historical, slang, uncountable Example: A hundred and fifty years ago, Cotton Mather bewails the carnal attractions of the tavern and the training field, and tells of an old Indian, who imperfectly understood the English tongue but desperately mastered enough of it to express a desire for instant hemp rather than listen to any more ghostly consolations.
Word: pygmy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a legendary race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”). In Ancient Greek, first mentioned by Homer; only applied to actual human races in the 19th century. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡmi/ 1. A member of various legendary races of dwarfs, or supernatural peoples of diminutive stature. Example: Here are little Apes, much reſembling men in their countenance, which they vſed to preſerue with certaine Spices, hauing flayed off their skinnes, and left the haire growing in thoſe parts, where Nature cauſeth men to bee hairie, and ſell them to Merchants, to be carried ouer the World as the bodies of little men; happily the only true Pygmies the World yeeldeth. Example: Being desired by her to bring a present of gold, with which that region abounded, he stole, while at play with the king's son, the golden ball with which he used to divert himself, and brought it to his mother in great haste; and when he reached the door of his father's house, but not unpursued, and was entering it in a great hurry, his foot stumbled on the threshold, and, falling down into the room where his mother was sitting, the two Pygmies seized the ball, which had dropped from his hand, and departed, spitting at and deriding the boy. 2. A member of one of various tribal peoples of the Congo Basin in equatorial Africa, notable for their very short stature. Labels: capitalized, dated, often, proscribed Example: The dark negroid Pygmies (Negrittos) are found in the Belgian Congo and in the equatorial area. Example: Although Pygmies are relatively protected against gene flow from other populations, many Pygmy tribes show extensive gene replacement and few have remained relatively unaltered. 3. Also applied to various other peoples of short stature. Labels: capitalized, dated, often, proscribed Example: As the Bushman folk are of low stature - the men from four feet six inches to four feet ten inches - they are classed as "Pygmies". Example: In Laos, half a world away, at the bottom of the heap are the Kha, a loose local term for a number of tribes of Indonesian stock who were the early inhabitants of the region, perhaps preceded by Astraloids, Melanesoids, and the Asian Pygmies called Negrites. 4. Any dwarfish person or thing; a disparaging term for a small person. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, offensive Example: “Look, you little pygmy, I’m going to shove this dagger right through your chicken neck if you don’t tell us!” Example: It was so high up that the people walking about in the street below looked like pygmies. 5. An insignificant person, at least in some respect. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, offensive Example: On the world stage Germany is an economic giant but a political pygmy, Britain in comparison a political giant but an economic pygmy.
Word: pygmy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a legendary race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”). In Ancient Greek, first mentioned by Homer; only applied to actual human races in the 19th century. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡmi/ 1. Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people. 2. Unusually short or small for its kind, especially in the names of animals and plants. Example: Amongst foodgrains, as we travelled from the green South and East towards the dry North and West, the pygmy crop of rice gave way to the tall bajra and jowar.
Word: inductive reasoning Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of making inferences based upon observed patterns, or simple repetition. Often used in reference to predictions about what will happen or does happen, based upon what has happened.
Word: recalcitrant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French récalcitrant, in derived from Latin recalcitrāns, recalcitrantis, present participle of recalcitrō, recalcitrāre (“be disobedient, kick back [as a horse]”), from calx (“heel”), 1820s. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkæl.sɪ.tɹənt/ 1. Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority. Example: His nimble fancy was recalcitrant to mental discipline. Example: There was something in her manner so reminiscent of the school teacher reprimanding a recalcitrant pupil that Mr. Snyder's sense of humor came to his rescue. 2. Unwilling to cooperate socially. 3. Difficult to deal with or to operate. Example: The more labile organic constituents of complex dissolved and particulate organic matter are commonly hydrolyzed and metabolized more rapidly than more recalcitrant organic compounds that are less accessible enzymatically. Example: The Hansa had no legal status, independent finances or a common institutional framework, while the major weapon against recalcitrant members (or opponents) was the threat of embargo. 4. Not viable for an extended period; damaged by drying or freezing.
Word: recalcitrant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French récalcitrant, in derived from Latin recalcitrāns, recalcitrantis, present participle of recalcitrō, recalcitrāre (“be disobedient, kick back [as a horse]”), from calx (“heel”), 1820s. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkæl.sɪ.tɹənt/ 1. A person who is recalcitrant.
Word: DIY Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of do it yourself. Pronunciation: /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/ 1. Initialism of do it yourself. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually Example: According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.
Word: DIY Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Initialism of do it yourself. Pronunciation: /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/ 1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert. Example: 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108, Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you? Example: Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.
Word: DIY Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Initialism of do it yourself. Pronunciation: /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/ 1. Do-it-yourself. Example: Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit? Example: The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.
Word: cooperation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1620–1630. Borrowed from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō. By surface analysis, co- + operation or cooperate + -ion. Pronunciation: /kəʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /kəˌwɔpəˈɹɛjʃ(ə)n/, /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /koʊˌɑ.pɚˈeɪ.ʃən/, /koʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of cooperating. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Active help from a person, organization, etc., such as an orderly sharing of space or resources. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: South Korea is seeking cooperation from China to produce artificial rain to help fight increasing pollution. 3. Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: great-nephew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From great- + nephew. 1. Synonym of grandnephew.
Word: mimophant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of mimosa + elephant, coined by Arthur Koestler in 1972. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪməfənt/ 1. A person with extreme social self-centered double standards, especially about personal feelings. Labels: uncommon Example: Sunday, 16th June [1985]...Nico has invented a portmanteau word which applies to people like Garrett and Derek Hill, who are keenly sensitive about their own feelings while treading on the toes of others. It is ‘mimophant’. The mimosa is reputed to curl up when touched; the elephant - well! Example: In Rejkjavik to cover the match, the novelist Arthur Koestler famously coined the neologism "mimophant" to describe Fischer. "A mimophant is a hybrid species: a cross between a mimosa and an elephant. A member of this species is sensitive like a mimosa where his own feelings are concerned and thick-skinned like an elephant trampling over the feelings of others."
Word: contort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Equivalent to con- + -tort; from Middle English, borrowed from Latin contortus, past participle of contorqueō, from com- + torqueō (“twist, turn”). Pronunciation: /kənˈtɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. To twist in a violent manner. Labels: transitive Example: features contorted with fury 2. To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression. Labels: intransitive
Word: phlegmon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin phlegmōn, phlegmonē (“inflammation beneath the skin”), from Ancient Greek φλεγμονή (phlegmonḗ, “inflammation, fiery heat”), from φλέγω (phlégō, “burn”). 1. A solid mass formed by inflamed connective tissue, such as forms around an appendix in appendicitis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: client Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”). Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪ.ənt/ 1. A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services. 2. The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server. 3. A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant. Example: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton. 4. A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney. 5. In ancient Rome, retainers and followers associated with a gens. Labels: historical Example: The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included). 6. Ellipsis of client state. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers. Example: Russia’s leader is a conservative, old-school thug. He thinks Russia is still a superpower, not what he’s made it: a despised rogue state and Chinese client.
Word: octave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktɪv/, /ˈɒkteɪv/, /ˈɑktɪv/, /ˈɑkteɪv/ 1. An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency. Example: The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave. Example: The singer was known for astounding clarity over her entire five-octave range. 2. The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch. Example: The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave. 3. A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave) 4. A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet. Example: With mournful melody it continued this octave. 5. The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level. Example: If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening. 6. The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church. Example: […] the Chamberlains' records of the companies' visits to their towns are, for the most part, not precisely dates, but merely group them together […] within their annual accounting period which normally […] ran from Michaelmas (29 September) to Michaelmas, or its octave (6 October). Example: It was extended to the entire Church by 1814, and then in 1913 the feast was transferred to September 15, the octave day of the Birth of Mary and the day after the Exaltation of the Cross. 7. An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church. Example: 1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days. 8. A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe. 9. An octonion. Labels: obsolete 10. Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise. 11. The subjective vibration of a planet. Example: Mercury then joins its higher octave and generous counterpart Jupiter early next week, and it opens gates of opportunity.
Word: octave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktɪv/, /ˈɒkteɪv/, /ˈɑktɪv/, /ˈɑkteɪv/ 1. Alternative form of octavate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: octave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava. Pronunciation: /ˈɒktɪv/, /ˈɒkteɪv/, /ˈɑktɪv/, /ˈɑkteɪv/ 1. Consisting of eight; eight in number. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Boccace[…] is said to have invented the octave rhye
Word: peasant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano. Via Latin pāgus cognate with pagan (compare typologically, see there for more). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛzənt/ 1. A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture. Example: The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know any better'. Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside. 2. A country person. 3. An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. Labels: derogatory 4. A worker unit.
Word: peasant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano. Via Latin pāgus cognate with pagan (compare typologically, see there for more). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛzənt/ 1. Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated. Labels: attributive, not-comparable Example: peasant class Example: 2007, Brad Bird, Ratatouille, spoken by Colette Ratatouille? It's a peasant dish. Are you sure you want to serve this to Ego? 2. Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest. Labels: derogatory, not-comparable, obsolete Example: Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?
Word: anyroad Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈɛ.nɪ.ɹəʊd/, /ˈɛ.ni.ɹoʊd/ 1. Synonym of anyway. Labels: Northern-England, dialectal, not-comparable Example: 'The people in there were really cool — it was bostin'! They gave us some food, then we had a few drinks and a bit of a party. I think we fell asleep ... and then it was morning! Anyroad, here we are! You two been OK?'
Word: obfuscation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English obfuscacioun, from Latin obfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) + fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”). Pronunciation: /ˌɒb.fəˈskeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɑb.fəˈskeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɔb.fəˈskæɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɒb.fəˈskæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌɔ̟b.fəˈskæɪ.ʃən] 1. The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. Labels: formal, uncountable Example: Until the 1920s, American newspapers heavily relied upon their London correspondents, the British Press and Reuters (which had a mutually beneficial, monopoly agreement with the Government of India for preferential access) for news about India. The news was hence generally from the British perspective and news obfuscation attempts on events that cast the Raj in a poor light, like details of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, usually succeeded. 2. The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. Labels: formal, uncountable Example: You need to turn on obfuscation for these classes. 3. Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information. Labels: formal, uncountable 4. A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp. Labels: countable, formal Example: During the debate, the candidate sighed at his opponent's obfuscations.
Word: budda Part of Speech: noun 1. Eremophila mitchellii, a sandalwood-like plant native to Australia. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Aramaic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/ 1. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 2. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 3. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 4. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 5. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 6. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 7. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: 8. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
Word: Aramaic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/ 1. Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Aramaic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/, /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/ 1. An Aramean.
Word: bouquet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *buskaz Frankish *buskbor. Early Medieval Latin boscus Old French boisder. Old French bochet French bouquetubor. English bouquet Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket. Pronunciation: /buːˈkeɪ/, /boʊˈkeɪ/ 1. A bunch of cut flowers. Example: For my birthday I received two bouquets. 2. A decoratively arranged bunch of something. Example: Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons. Example: Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table. 3. The scent of a particular wine. Example: This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet. 4. The middle note of a perfume. Example: The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell. 5. A compliment or expression of praise. Example: Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag. 6. A bouquet of circles. 7. The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations. 8. The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
Word: glabrous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin glaber (“smooth; bald, hairless”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives, denoting possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance). Glaber is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth; bright, shining”), possibly from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡleɪbɹəs/, /ˈɡlæ-/ 1. Bald, hairless; smooth. Example: [T]he Vernacula or French Elm, whoſe leaves are thicker, and more florid, glabrous and ſmooth, delighting in the lower and moiſter grounds, where they will ſometimes riſe to above an hundred foot in height; […] Example: [Crotalaria obtecta] Stems tall, erect, branched: stipules not decurrent: leaves simple, usually glabrous on the upper side: […] legumes oblong, many-seeded, glabrous or softly pubescent.
Word: salient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “projecting outward” are borrowed from Latin salientem, the accusative form of saliēns (“springing, leaping”) (whence -ent), present participle of saliō (“leap, spring”, verb). The senses “prominent” and “pertinent” are relatively recent, and derive from the phrase salient point, which is a calque of the Latin punctum saliēns, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare also the German calque der springende Punkt. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.li.ənt/, /ˈseɪ.ljənt/, /ˈsæɪ.li.ənt/, /ˈsæɪ.ljənt/ 1. Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant. Example: The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well. Example: With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy." 2. Prominent; conspicuous. Example: Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features. Example: He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. 3. Depicted in a leaping posture. Labels: usually Example: a lion salient 4. Projecting outwards, pointing outwards. Labels: often Example: a salient angle 5. Moving by leaps or springs; jumping. Labels: obsolete Example: frogs and salient animals 6. Shooting or springing out; projecting. Labels: obsolete Example: He had in himſelf a ſalient, living ſpring of generous and manly action. 7. Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
Word: salient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “projecting outward” are borrowed from Latin salientem, the accusative form of saliēns (“springing, leaping”) (whence -ent), present participle of saliō (“leap, spring”, verb). The senses “prominent” and “pertinent” are relatively recent, and derive from the phrase salient point, which is a calque of the Latin punctum saliēns, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare also the German calque der springende Punkt. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.li.ənt/, /ˈseɪ.ljənt/, /ˈsæɪ.li.ənt/, /ˈsæɪ.ljənt/ 1. An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense. Example: On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront. Example: The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep. 2. A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level. 3. An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface. Example: Orogenic arcs are made up by more advanced segments (salients) separated by less advanced zones (recesses) (Miser, 1932). Within salients, the critical taper is lower, the distance among thrust ramps is larger, and there may be more ramps departing from the basal décollement layer with respect to the recess areas.
Word: oligarchies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oligarchy Labels: form-of, plural