nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: areawide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From area + -wide. 1. Extending over the entire area Labels: not-comparable Example: It seemed the problem I was experiencing was areawide, and Ameritech was working to correct it.
Word: archconservatism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arch- + conservatism. 1. Hard-line conservatism Labels: uncountable Example: And since Brenton seems to want these characters to reflect life under Margaret Thatcher's archconservatism, his political analysis ends up as broad and oversimplified as the emotional palette he uses.
Word: antirape Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + rape. 1. Opposed to rape Labels: not-comparable Example: But as it is, Koch wants this antirape comedy to be trendy, tough, and hilarious too, and considering the material, that not only won't wash, it's just a tad obscene.
Word: affrontery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From affront + -ery. 1. Obsolete spelling of effrontery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: With an affrontery that did not falter, and knew not how to blush, he detailed his own participation in the acts for which he was prosecuting me as a participator. Example: This Englishman should neither out-do him in generosity nor affrontery. 2. An affront Labels: uncountable Example: Skyboxes are a grotesque affrontery to authentic fandom[…].
Word: amala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba àmàlà. 1. A thick paste made from yam or cassava flour, eaten chiefly in Yoruba cuisine. Labels: uncountable Example: The amala, or fermented yam, is an acquired taste, arriving in a grayish steamed mound, wrapped in plastic; it's neither sweet nor sour.
Word: cunctative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cunctari (“to delay”), + -ive. 1. Inclined to delay Labels: rare Example: He knows that when properly developed his country will be one of the richest in the world, yet even when he is filled with such ideas he is just as cunctative as he has ever been.
Word: 8514/A Part of Speech: noun 1. 8514/Adapter, a video interface card and 4:3 display standard for computers, made obsolete in 1990 by the XGA video standard. Labels: uncountable
Word: 8514/Adapter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of 8514/A. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: alternarock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of alternative + rock. Pronunciation: /ɒlˈtɜː(ɹ).nəˌɹɒk/, /ɔːlˈtɜː(ɹ).nəˌɹɒk/, /ɔlˈtɝ.nəˌɹɑk/, /ɑlˈtɝ.nəˌɹɑk/ 1. Alternative rock music. Labels: uncountable Example: While the album admirably breaks the downward stylistic spiral that marked the latter band's career, it's so crammed with alternarock stars it sounds more like a tribute to Watt than a solo debut.
Word: approacher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From approach + -er. 1. Someone or something that approaches. Example: The monkeys’ calls warn other animals of approachers. Example: 1589, Paul Ive (translator), Instructions for the Warres by Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux, London: Thomas Man and Toby Cooke, Chapter 5, p. 38, […] houses or other thing standing néere vnto a towne, or fort, are meanes to surprise and approach vnto it, and the approacher not be discouered, or impeached by the defenders. 2. An asteroid on a near-Earth trajectory. Example: Extensive upgrades to the Arecibo antenna will be completed this spring, providing dozens of Toutatis-quality detections per year, spacecraft-quality images of the closest approachers, and hundred-pixel images of dozens of main-belt asteroids ( 9 ). Example: We have some close approachers," he says, "but not one that would have an impact trajectory."
Word: approachers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of approacher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amphibrachic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin amphibrachicus. By surface analysis, amphibrach + -ic. 1. Consisting of amphibrachs, metrical feet consisting of either a long syllable between two that are short, or an accented syllable between two that are not accented. Labels: not-comparable Example: Father Humphrey says, "Anapaestic and amphibrachic verse, being similar in measure and movement, are pleasing to the ear, and well adapted to cheerful and humourous^([sic]) compositions; and sometimes to elegiac compositions, and subjects important and solemn." Example: […]she will grow up to have long hair, a knack for the violin, an anonymous male admirer who writes her love poetry in amphibrachic tetrameter, and a son who dies in battle[…].
Word: dammas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of damma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antiglobalism Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + globalism. 1. Opposed to globalization and cosmopolitanism. Labels: not-comparable Example: They make a subset of an expanding global D.I.Y. movement, itself a huge tent of philosophies and manifestoes including but not confined to anticonsumerism, antiglobalism, environmentalism and all-purpose iconoclasm.
Word: angell Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of angel. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Yea, suppoise he did all the werkis of man and angell. Example: At the hearing of this voice, the horsse whereon Dunstane rode fell downe and died, being not able to abide the presence of the angell that thus spake to Dunstane.
Word: antiart Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + art. 1. Opposed to art, or to the concept of fine art Example: Some saw them, and other Rauschenberg works, as neo-Dada, antiart gestures, for example.
Word: antiart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + art. 1. Art created in opposition to the concept of art Labels: uncountable Example: The weakness exists within culture itself, in the form of certain desires, dreams, and deliriums called up by "entertainment," mass culture, by certain types of antiart.
Word: antiauthoritarianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From antiauthoritarian + -ism. 1. Opposition to authority; the quality of being antiauthoritarian Labels: uncountable Example: Celebrating the ordinary, he shows a healthy antiauthoritarianism.
Word: antibureaucratic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucrate Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique ▲ French bureaucratie ▲ French -ique French bureaucratiquebor. English bureaucratic English antibureaucratic From anti- + bureaucratic. 1. Opposed to bureaucracy Example: I am a seriously antibureaucratic person.
Word: anticasino Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + casino. 1. Opposed to casinos, or to the siting or licensing of a particular casino. Labels: not-comparable Example: "This is a street fight," he proclaimed to an anticasino group near Baltimore as he distributed "casiNO" buttons."
Word: apotemnophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in a paper in 1977 by J. Money et al. in the Journal of Sex Research,http://www.jstor.org/pss/3811894, from Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τέμνω (témnō, “cut”) + -philia. 1. A psychological disorder characterized by the intense and long-standing desire for amputation of a specific limb. Labels: uncountable 2. A compulsion to become, or appear to be, an amputee. Labels: uncountable Example: This paper seeks to present information on apotemnophilia. It points out the need of a man to have a healthy leg amputated, despite the fact that he cannot find a surgeon who will do so. Example: In most cases of apotemnophilia the desire to be an amputee is linked to a form of sexual arousal, but Mr Smith said there was no suggestion that any of his patients were motivated by sexual urges.
Word: antitranssexual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + transsexual. 1. Prejudiced against transsexual people. Example: "The idea that I am part of an antigay, antitranssexual conservative conspiracy is laughable," says Bailey. "
Word: antiwomen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + women. 1. Prejudiced against women; misogynistic. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Val Glaser, the board member behind the 10-3 vote (with three abstentions) to quash the poster, told Windy City Times: "Playboy is antiwomen and thus antilesbian. Example: 13 years have passed from when we first started this labeling exercise and clearly, by anybody's definition, the music today is more violent, more hateful, more antiwomen than before — and these are top Billboard chart records.
Word: antiyuppie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + yuppie. 1. Opposed to yuppies or yuppie culture Labels: not-comparable Example: This is the world--the only world, alas--in which Carpenter's antiyuppie and anti-Reagan satire has meaning. Example: Few people can blend comedy with drama as artfully as American playwright Richard Greenberg, who's best known for his 80s antiyuppie hit Eastern Standard.
Word: anybodies Part of Speech: pron 1. plural of anybody Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural Example: […] she pleased me with her account of you whom she had lately seen--dwelling upon your retrograde passage into youth, and the delight you were taking in the presence and society of some still more youthful, fair, and gay monstrum amandum, some prodigy of intellectual accomplishment, some little Circe who never turned anybodies into pigs. Example: And it's only fathers who love anybodies; Nurse told me they always did. 2. possessive form of anybody Labels: form-of, nonstandard, possessive Example: When a man was as clever as John, he was anybodies equal--one saw that every day. Example: Well, Mable, Id have bet anybodies money before I went out that none of those shots had lit more than ten feet away.
Word: antilynching Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + lynching. 1. Opposed to the practice of lynching Labels: not-comparable Example: Writing from London, to the Chicago Inter Ocean, Nov. 25, 1894, the distinguished compiler of our last census, Hon. Robert P. Porter, gives the American people a most interesting review of the antilynching crusade in England, submitting editorial opinions from all sections of England and Scotland, showing the consensus of British opinion on this subject. 2. Prohibiting the practice of lynching Labels: not-comparable Example: The year before, he donated his earnings from his performance in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, and in 1945 he worked to get Harry Truman to support an antilynching law.
Word: antimachine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + machine. 1. Opposing the political machine of a region Labels: not-comparable Example: His antimachine politicking helped get him fired from the Chicago Defender, a frequent supporter of organization candidates. Example: He recalls when Harold Washington, who ran for mayor on an antimachine, antipatronage platform, was a stalwart member of the regular organization. "
Word: antiintellectualism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From antiintellectual + -ism, or anti- + intellectualism. 1. Alternative form of anti-intellectualism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Chicago's campuses tend to evolve into enclaves anyway, as their inhabitants turn inward in a protective reaction against Chicago's pride in its buffoonery and its elevation of antiintellectualism to a cultural style.
Word: antinudity Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + nudity. 1. Prohibiting or restricting public nudity Labels: not-comparable Example: In a 3-to-2 vote, town officials in Brattleboro passed an emergency antinudity ordinance for main roads and near schools and places of worship.
Word: antienvironmental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + environmental. 1. Opposed to or contrary to the positions of environmentalism Example: When Walter Dudycz casts antienvironmental votes, when he votes against gun control--which I think is essential in this country--when he represents the interests of big financial institutions, I don't see that as in our interests. Example: Grassroots environmental activism still flourishes here, as does grassroots antienvironmental activism.
Word: antiformalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + formalism. 1. Opposition to formalism Example: What I liked was the modesty that underlies Jacobson's antiformalism.
Word: antipeddling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + peddling. 1. Prohibiting or restricting peddling Labels: not-comparable Example: Alderman Richard Mell then pushed through antipeddling ordinances in the 33rd and 47th wards.
Word: antipolice Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + police. 1. Opposed to or prejudiced against the police. Example: It is increasingly apparent that the editors of your publications have an antipolice agenda.
Word: antipolitician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + politician. 1. Someone who is the opposite of a typical politician Example: With little political experience, Hofeld is portraying himself as an outsider, an antipolitician. Example: In many ways, he could be the model of the antipolitician: he does not like coalition-building, negotiating or even socializing.
Word: antiprostitution Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + prostitution. 1. Acting against or prohibiting prostitution Labels: not-comparable Example: The HIV/AIDS problem came late to China because of its limited contacts with other countries, the government's strict enforcement of antidrug and antiprostitution laws, and culturally conservative attitudes about sex in general. Example: The police, conducting what they said was an antiprostitution raid, reported finding him in bed with a stripper.
Word: antipsychological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + psychological. 1. Contrary to human psychology Example: The psychology of the influence of external forms on the conscious reactions of the masses is so far usually considered only when, as often happens, the most fundamental demands are violated; for instance, when objects which are to give the impression of ease are painted in colors which give a heavy, clumsy appearance, or vice versa, when book-bindings are lettered in archaic type which makes the reading of the title impossible for a passer-by, and in many similar antipsychological absurdities which any stroll through the streets of a modern city forces on us. 2. Opposed to psychological approaches Example: Though it was enthusiastically reviewed by the Reader and WBEZ, Montgomery felt that only some of his cast understood his minimalist, antipsychological method.
Word: antiformalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + formalist. 1. Opposed to formalism Example: Such references suggest an antiformalist position.
Word: antiformalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + formalist. 1. One who opposes formalism.
Word: antihandgun Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + handgun. 1. Prohibiting or restricting the possession of handguns Labels: not-comparable Example: […] thanks to an almost entirely unpublicized component of Oak Park's antihandgun ordinance, anyone willing to sign up with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as a collector and plunk down $30 for a Federal Firearms Owner's License can legally collect and hold virtually any kind of weapon she or he pleases for the next three years.
Word: antihumanistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + humanistic. 1. Opposed to humanism Labels: not-comparable Example: Here is a philosophy which obviously may be both as antihumanistic and as irreligious as any which could well be conceived. Example: Robert Zemeckis, a director previously known more for brittle, antihumanistic comedy (Used Cars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her) than heartwarming sentiment, moves into Oscar territory with an accomplished tearjerking comedy (1994) about a slow-witted southerner (Tom Hanks in the title role) living through an alternately auspicious and absurdist half-century of American history.
Word: first cousins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of first cousin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antirock Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + rock. 1. Opposed to rock music Labels: not-comparable Example: In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958.
Word: antirock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + rock. 1. Rock music that deliberately goes against the usual conventions of the genre Labels: uncountable Example: Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.
Word: antioccupation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + occupation. 1. Opposed to a particular military occupation Labels: not-comparable Example: NIMNers have participated in post-September 11 peace rallies in Chicago and New York and maintain a weekly antioccupation vigil at noon Fridays outside the Tribune Tower. Example: In the incendiary speech delivered by his clerics on Friday, Mr. Sadr called for a peaceful antioccupation mass protest on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to American forces.
Word: antirealistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English realist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English realistic English antirealistic From anti- + realistic. 1. Opposed to realism Labels: not-comparable Example: The antirealistic stance of the School of the Art Institute continued to influence him. "
Word: antisex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + sex. 1. Opposed to sexual activity Labels: not-comparable Example: It is critical to understand that these pictures are not an antisex statement. Example: And don't comfort yourself with the notion that these are just some antisex religious wackos[…]
Word: antitheater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + theater. 1. Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions Labels: uncountable Example: A.R.T. is a theater group, or rather an antitheater group.
Word: anticharm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + charm. 1. The opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood. Labels: uncountable Example: And yet, just as it made FunHouse look daring, that peculiar Bogosian anticharm managed to turn Talk Radio into an intriguingly nasty, itchy piece of work.
Word: anticharm Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + charm. 1. Of or pertaining to an anti-charm quark. Example: Similarly, any charm quarks produced in the collision have many more partners to choose from; they don't have to run away with an anticharm partner, which causes the number of J/psi mesons to drop. "
Word: sex positions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sex position Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epigraphical Part of Speech: adj 1. epigraphic Labels: not-comparable
Word: creepy-crawlies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of creepy-crawly Labels: form-of, plural 2. A creeping sensation; formication. Labels: archaic, colloquial
Word: -phil Part of Speech: suffix Pronunciation: /-fɪl/ 1. Alternative spelling of -phile. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: ailourophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ailouro- + -phile. 1. Alternative spelling of ailurophile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ailourophiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ailourophile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ailurophil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ailuro- + -phil. Pronunciation: /aɪˈljʊəɹəfɪl/ 1. Alternative form of ailurophile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ailourophil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ailouro- + -phil. 1. Alternative spelling of ailurophile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ailurophils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ailurophil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ailourophils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ailourophil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aelurophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aeluro- + -phile. Pronunciation: /iːˈljʊəɹəˌfaɪl/ 1. Alternative spelling of ailurophile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aelurophil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aeluro- + -phil. Pronunciation: /iːˈljʊəɹəfɪl/ 1. Alternative form of ailurophile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aelurophiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aelurophile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aelurophils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aelurophil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: AFAIAC Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of as far as I am concerned. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: arthritically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From arthritic + -ally. 1. In an arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person with arthritis Example: As Lehman, Breuler is sluggish, coarse, and lumpy, huffing and puffing his way arthritically about the stage like some 1930s crime-movie heavy. Example: But as time went by the inert human creature became so wholly opprobrious to the gecko, who valued a good hunt, that at last, as the small ceiling fan continued to turn arthritically, churning an unnoticeable, fetid draft of warm air in the direction of the man and the beast […].
Word: artillerist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From artillery + -ist. 1. A person who operates artillery. Example: Near-synonyms: artilleryman, artillerywoman, gunner, bombardier Example: Pelham was, in spite of his youth, an artillerist of the first order of excellence, and his loss was a serious one, in spite of his inferior rank.
Word: artmaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From art + making. 1. The production of art. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Art we do not need; artmaking should be made so difficult an occupation that only the most dedicated practitioners would persist. Example: THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results.
Word: worst comes to worst Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Originally in the form "if the worst come to the worst" with the subjunctive "if it come to" in the sense of "if the worst possible outcome should become the worst possible reality". Often used even today with the same two definite articles, and this is the only form recorded for British English in some dictionaries. 1. If a possible worst-case scenario actually occurs. Labels: idiomatic Example: “Worst comes to worst, we'll make it to Cleveland and we can set down there and wait things out.” Gordon Rand nearly sneered, “Worst comes to worst? We'll crash and die, isn't that closer to the worst end of the possibility spectrum? Example: You aren't doing anything anyway. Worst comes to worst you can give her some money and send her on her way.
Word: worse comes to worse Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of worst comes to worst. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: assimilations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assimilation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aroid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics. Labels: informal Example: They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. Example: Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world.
Word: aroids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aroid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asthmalike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From asthma + -like. 1. Resembling asthma Example: A team led by Carol Ober[…] has linked asthma or asthmalike conditions to specific regions on chromosomes 2, 13, and 21. Example: And in July, a bronchoscopy revealed that the asthmalike condition of Mike Russell, 60, of Bath, England, was caused by his four-tooth dental plate, which was lodged just above his right lung.
Word: artillerists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of artillerist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autocritique Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + critique. 1. A self-criticism. Example: There's still plenty of narcissism involved in this autocritique.
Word: autocritique Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From auto- + critique. 1. To criticize one's own ideas.
Word: awakeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From awake + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being awake Labels: uncountable Example: "I sat up in bed with that feeling of broad awakeness and alertness which comes to us sometimes, and caught my breath as I listened, for through the stillness of the night came the unmistakable sound of a gentle tapping from behind the paneling of the wall. Example: The kind of awakeness that allows you to be appropriate to whatever moment you're in.
Word: blind alleys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blind alley Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autocritiques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autocritique Labels: form-of, plural
Word: atonalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From atonal + -ism. 1. The school of atonal musical composition Labels: uncountable, usually Example: No matter how melodramatic the story behind the music might be, most audiences won't buy atonalism; Arnold Schoenberg could have been devoured by escaped circus tigers while he was finishing the Variations for Orchestra and it would still get booed off the stage. Example: As a young composer, he wandered for years in the desert of atonalism and then, following the example of John Cage, he detoured through the wilderness of music based on an aesthetic of randomness and anarchy.
Word: epigraphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin epigraphicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπῐγρᾰφῐκός (epĭgrăphĭkós). By surface analysis, epigraph + -ic. Pronunciation: /ɛpɪɡˈɹafɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy. Example: How well does it work? The team behind Aeneas asked 23 people with epigraphic expertise, ranging from masters students to professors, to try the system out.
Word: bleep censors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bleep censor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: athenaeum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Athenaeum, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓θήναιον (Ăthḗnaion), from Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athene”). Pronunciation: /aθɪˈniːəm/ 1. Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. An association or institution for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature. Example: A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names. 3. The reading room or library of such an association; (by extension) any reading room or library. Example: And this, too, may have been not unconnected with the gracious influence of the other sex as exhibited in a neighbouring athenaeum; and was accompanied by a gruesome spate of florid lyrics: some (happily) secret, and some exposed with needless hardihood in a college magazine. 4. A literary or scientific periodical, especially one similar to the London Athenaeum.
Word: B-drinker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From B-drink + -er. 1. Someone who drinks a B-drink; a young woman hired to sit at a bar and induce the customers to buy her drinks, or spend money at the bar; a B-girl. Labels: US, slang Example: "That po gal." Jones explored a booth with the broom. "Hustlin water, runnin erran. Whoa!" "Ring up the precinct about her. She's a B-drinker."
Word: give-away shops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of give-away shop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: numerical noun Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of noun in Scottish Gaelic used as a numeral, only applied to persons. They exist for the numbers 1-10 only.
Word: moving the yardsticks Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of move the yardsticks Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: moves the yardsticks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of move the yardsticks Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: moved the yardsticks Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of move the yardsticks Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ailurophiliac Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ailuro- (“cat”, from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros)) + -philiac. Pronunciation: /ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfɪlɪ.æk/, /aɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪliæk/ 1. Appropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles. Labels: not-comparable Example: The year 1927 also produced a splendidly ailurophiliac Black Cat, with woodcuts by Gyula Zilzer, in Middle European style. Example: She dies, he dies. They become transfigured in some sort of ailurophiliac heaven and live happily ever after.
Word: chresmologues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chresmologue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carpometacarpal Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to carpometacarpus, fusion of digits. Labels: not-comparable
Word: copypasta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of copy-paste + pasta. Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste ▲ Late Latin pasta Italian pastabor. English pasta blend English copypasta Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpiˌpæstə/, /ˈkɑpiˌpɑstə/, /ˈkɒpiˌpeɪstə/ 1. A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable Example: Gikope is a really useful program for keeping up with AA and copypasta. I've rapidshared my own achieve, which includes 1000s of AAs and a large collection of copypasta. Example: Our Father, who art in 4chan, Anonymous be thy name. Thy sage come, thy will be done on Gaia as it is in 4chan. Give us this day our copypasta, And forgive us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive those who COMBO BREAK against us And lead us not into CP, but deliver us from Piro. For thine is the sandwich, and the win, and the awesome forever and ever. I guarantee it. 2. Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Fix copypasta error in previous patch. Example: There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.
Word: copypasta Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of copy-paste + pasta. Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste ▲ Late Latin pasta Italian pastabor. English pasta blend English copypasta Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpiˌpæstə/, /ˈkɑpiˌpɑstə/, /ˈkɒpiˌpeɪstə/ 1. To copy and paste data from one website to another, usually text. Labels: Internet, uncommon Example: You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper. Example: Copypasta-ing from my last New Years Challenge, because I'm not feeling creative enough to come up with new teams (and really, I don't think I can top myself with the ones I did get together).
Word: carpometacarpi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carpometacarpus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disavails Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disavail Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disavailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disavail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disavailed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disavail Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pogo sticks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pogo stick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bego Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English begon, from Old English begān (“to go over, traverse, get to, come by, fall into, go to, visit, care for, cultivate, inhabit, occupy, surround, beset, overrun, practice, do, engage in, perform, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess”), from Proto-Germanic *bi + *gāną, corresponding to be- + go. Cognate with Dutch begaan, German begehen, Danish begå. 1. To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun. Labels: archaic Example: Thy prysemen ar sore begone and put undir, for they ar oversette with Sarazens mo than fyve hondred. Example: False love, I bego, I bego. Ere something still worse come down. 2. To clothe, dress. Labels: obsolete 3. To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance. Example: He was woe begone.
Word: bego Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English begon, from Old English begān (“to go over, traverse, get to, come by, fall into, go to, visit, care for, cultivate, inhabit, occupy, surround, beset, overrun, practice, do, engage in, perform, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess”), from Proto-Germanic *bi + *gāną, corresponding to be- + go. Cognate with Dutch begaan, German begehen, Danish begå. 1. That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance. Example: “As I was passing by a vineyard on the Earth where some of mankind were taking their lunch, I heard them complaining and grumbling about these things they called 'ants'. Oh the woes and begoes of mankind,” smiled the good lord.
Word: bego Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from begone, originally an imperative but now an interjection, construed as a past participle. 1. To go away, to disappear. Labels: rare Example: He bewent speedily, and as he vanished I heard him again calling, " Not she, not she ! Ha, ha ! " Example: “Begone!” I shouted. They bewent, asmirking, And I, awakening, fell straight aworking.
Word: slade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-West Germanic *slad, from Proto-Germanic *sladą (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladaną (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”). Pronunciation: /sleɪd/ 1. A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys. Example: The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades, And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke. 2. A hillside. Labels: dialectal
Word: slade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /sleɪd/ 1. A spade for digging peat. 2. The sole of a plough. Labels: obsolete Example: The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters[…]in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough."
Word: if it ain't broke, don't fix it Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: Attested since c. 1962, originally Southern United States English; popularized by T. Bert Lance in May 1977. 1. It is wise to leave something alone and to avoid attempting to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient (often with an implication that is the attempted improvement is risky and might backfire). Example: I know it’s an ugly-looking antenna, but it gets the job done, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Word: lie by Part of Speech: verb 1. To have sex with. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Than he lete make a cry thorow all the oste that uppon layne of lyff and lymme […] that no lyege man that longyth to his oste sholde lye be no maydens ne ladyes nother no burgessis wyff that to the cité longis. 2. To rest from labour; to take a break. Labels: dated, intransitive
Word: Qomolangma Feng Part of Speech: name Etymology: Partial calque from Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪峰／珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng); created by combining Qomolangma (“Tibetan Pinyin spelling of Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma)”) and Mandarin 峰 (Fēng, “mountain, summit”). 1. Mount Qomolangma; Mount Everest Labels: China Example: A series of four pictures showing Chinese male and female climbers scaling the Qomolangma Feng--the highest peak in the world--is featured in the PEOPLE'S DAILY and all other Peking papers today. Example: Not only is Qomolangma Feng towering and grand, but very powerful.
Word: ylem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Resuscitation of Middle English ylem, from Medieval Latin hȳlem, accusative of hȳlē (“matter, the fundamental matter of all things; the matter of the body”) (whence English hyle), a transliteration of Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood; material, substance; matter”). The concept of “fundamental matter” – Ancient Greek πρώτη ὕλη (prṓtē húlē) – was propounded by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.). The term ylem was first used in modern English in the paper “The Origin of Chemical Elements”, coauthored by Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist George Gamow (1904–1968), American cosmologist Ralph Asher Alpher (1921–2007) and German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe (1906–2005), published 1 April 1948 in Physical Review. Alpher claimed to have found the word “in a large dictionary”, perhaps Webster’s New International Dictionary (2nd ed., 1934), which he referred to in a second 1948 paper (cited below). In a 1968 interview, Gamow also associated ylem with a Hebrew word he did not name; it remains unclear which word he was referring to. The word ylem reappeared in popular books on science following the discovery in 1964–1965 of the cosmic microwave background, which had been predicted in 1948 by Alpher and Robert Herman (1914–1997), and again after the publication of images of the radiation composed from measurements by two satellites, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) in 1992 and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in 2003. Pronunciation: /ˈiːlɛm/ 1. In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma that made up the matter in the cosmos following the initial baryogenesis at an early stage of its expansion and cooling, from which the first atoms formed and photons decoupled. The emission of photons in this phase is regarded as the source of the cosmic microwave background. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: Very shortly after the beginning of the universal expansion, the ylem was a gas of neutrons only. [Footnote: According to Webster's New International Dictionary, 2nd Ed., the word ‘ylem’ is an obsolete noun meaning ‘The primordial substance from which the elements were formed.’ It seems highly desirable that a word of so appropriate a meaning be resurrected.] Example: Let us now consider the state of matter during the first minutes of the expansion process, when the temperature of the universe was many billions of degrees high. […] [T]he state of matter must be visualized as a hot gas formed entirely by nuclear particles; that is, protons, neutrons, and electrons. […] We will call this primordial mixture of nuclear particles "Ylem," [footnote: Pronounced: ī′lěm] reviving an obsolete noun which, according to Webster's Dictionary, means "the first substance from which the elements were supposed to be formed." Next we can ask what happened to the Ylem when its density and temperature began to drop as the result of the rapid expansion taking place in the young universe.
Word: soil pollution Part of Speech: noun 1. The pollution of soil, for example by sewage or toxic chemicals. Labels: uncountable Example: Hookworm disease is closely associated with the soil. It may fairly be considered an infection the result of soil pollution. Example: The major kinds of soil pollution are: Acidification, Salinisation and sodification, Agrochemical pollution Contamination by metalliferous water
Word: resting-places Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of resting-place Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From America, perhaps modelled on euro; coined by Canadian politician Herb Grubel in 1999. 1. A proposed unified currency of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Example: The amero notes and coins will have in common abstract designs on one side. Notes and coins will be produced in each of the three countries […] Example: From the US point of view, the key benefit of the amero model - reduced transactions costs - would be fully duplicated by the dollarization alternative.
Word: Pottermania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Potter + -mania. 1. Enthusiasm for the Harry Potter franchise. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: The stage and state of Pottermania, though, vary greatly by country. Example: God's last book warns, "by sorcery all the nations were deceived" (Revelation 18:23). Will Pottermania contribute to the fulfillment of this prediction?
Word: tin-plates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tin-plate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tin-plated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tin-plate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: choux pastries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choux pastry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: athletic protector Part of Speech: noun 1. A jockstrap (or similar)
Word: bathing box Part of Speech: noun 1. A beach hut. Labels: Australia, UK Example: Boatsheds and bathing boxes were strung along the beaches of Port Phillip Bay for the shelter of boats as well as the bodies of the affluent. Example: She watched until her father reached the wreck, waiting until he turned and began the return swim, then she started up the beach toward the tea-trees and the line of gaily painted bathing boxes.
Word: beach hut Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage. Labels: Australia, UK Example: 2000, Michael Dregni, 101 Uses for an Old Farm Tractor, Voyageur Press, British Columbia, page 29, Kenneth Anderson's 1940s John Deere Model H could also double as a beach hut or lifeguard stand. Example: Beach huts, owned or leased, are not habitable but can be used as a shelter and changing room on the beach.
Word: athletic protectors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of athletic protector Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bathing boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bathing box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beach huts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beach hut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bladder campion Part of Speech: noun 1. A perennial European herb, Silene vulgaris, having an inflated calyx Example: Every season brought fresh discoveries: in July, when they came out of school, the children would collect bladder campion[.]
Word: earth pillar Part of Speech: noun 1. A conical column of soil formed by erosion of the surrounding material
Word: free hand Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of free rein. Labels: idiomatic Example: "Since I've been here, I've been given a fairly free hand by the GCR board to get on with things, properly understand the organisation from a different perspective, and develop a new business plan for the future," he tells RAIL. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, hand. Example: Wreck divers as well as night divers and cave divers have found that having a light or lights mounted on their head allows the divers to have free hands while being able to see.
Word: grounded theory Part of Speech: noun 1. Any theory that is based on observation of social phenomena
Word: hedge garlic Part of Speech: noun 1. The plant garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) Labels: uncountable
Word: garlic mustard Part of Speech: noun 1. A woodland herb (Alliaria petiolata) that has a garlic-like aroma, considered highly invasive in New World. Labels: uncountable
Word: CFU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of colony-forming unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The three water samples for total coliform bacteria were 57,000 CFUs, 43,000 CFUs and 45,000 CFUs. (Colony-forming units, or CFUs, estimate the number of bacteria or fungal cells that have the ability to multiply in a sample.)
Word: social media Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌsowʃal ˈmid͡ʒa/ 1. Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet. Labels: plural, singular, uncountable Example: The early 21st century saw a huge increase in social media thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet. Example: "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it." 2. A particular social media site or account. Labels: countable, informal, plural, singular Example: I decided to delete all my social medias that I rarely use. Example: As you will most definitely know, it's been absolutely all hands on deck since the cast of Love Island 2021 was announced yesterday. Between stalking their social medias and over-analysing their bios, we, the fans, have barely come up for air.
Word: social media Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌsowʃal ˈmid͡ʒa/ 1. plural of social medium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: solo album Part of Speech: noun 1. A music album headlined by one person who has previously produced music as part of a group or band. Example: Technically, however, it wasn't a solo album because all four Beatles appeared on it". Example: The new Gilmour-led Floyd sounds infinitely more 'Floydian' than Roger Waters' dirge-like solo albums.
Word: solo albums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solo album Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fanny about Part of Speech: verb 1. To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang Example: Then he dithered and fannied about. Example: Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and forth, poured luminous liquids into glasses from great heights, and fannied about with fruit and frivolities. 2. To wander about or prowl around. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang, transitive Example: ... the mechanic who tidied up after the Krays, took care of business while the Twins were fannying around the clubland circuit. Example: Out of all the random cities one gets to fanny about in Europe, all my flings are descending onto Luxembourg like a plague of horny man-teens.
Word: fanny around Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of fanny about. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: petro-dictators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of petro-dictator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: make a spectacle of oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To conspicuously embarrass oneself or others in public. Labels: idiomatic Example: She had far too much to drink and made a spectacle of herself by flirting with everyone.