nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: danceable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor. Middle English dauncen English dance Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English danceable From dance + -able. 1. A social event with dancing; a ball. Example: During the months that followed the bazaar, Rhett called whenever he was in town, taking Scarlett riding in his carriage, escorting her to danceables and bazaars and waiting outside the hospital to drive her home. Example: The Netherwood was billed as "a city hotel in the country." For two decades after its 1878 opening, people arrived from New York by parlor car to spend their vacation on the Netherwood Heights. Croquet, danceables, masquerades, tennis, bowling, midnight suppers, and fancy dress balls were the order of the day for the vacationer. 2. A song suitable for dancing to. Labels: informal Example: The Dynatones' approach is a three-way mix: familiar danceables from the likes of Junior Walker, Sam & Dave and the Rascals; scrupulously selected obscurities from such artists as Z.Z. Hill and Rodger Collins, which underscore the depth of their commitment to the genre; and smart, well crafted originals written by vocalist Chip "C.C" Miller and guitarist Larry Dunn. Example: A five-piece band playing modern Top 40 danceables, Hot Pursuit is after Tucsonans not content with toe tapping.
Word: dubonnet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French dubonnet. 1. The reddish purple colour of the apéritif Dubonnet. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] greens, and blues through deep-toned dubonnets, grays, and greens.
Word: OOPS Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of object-oriented programming system. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: rushed behind Part of Speech: noun 1. A behind (one-point score) made when the ball passes through the goal posts or behind posts not from the foot of the attacking team, i.e. either spilled off hands or deliberately carried through by the defenders. Example: In another Friday-night match, in Round 15, the Western Bulldogs crushed us by sixty-four points; we managed just two rushed behinds in the last half-hour, while the Dogs piled on six goals. Example: Every one of those rushed behinds was either kicked, handballed, walked through or deliberately pushed across the line by a Hawthorn player.
Word: dasheen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a language of the West Indies. Probably from Antillean Creole dachine or another French creole, from French (chou) de Chine (literally “(cabbage) of China”), as the species originated in China. Pronunciation: /dæˈʃiːn/ 1. Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant. Example: He say tell your people [...] to boil more banana, and roast more yam, fry more potato and dig up more dasheen.
Word: dot-commer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dot-com Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dot-commer From dot-com + -er. Pronunciation: /dɒtˈkɒmə/ 1. Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company. Example: Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]
Word: dooky Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dookie. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, slang, uncountable
Word: beaner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans", since beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine, and eaten in Boston as Boston baked beans. Pronunciation: /ˈbinɚ/ 1. A Mexican. Labels: US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner. Example: Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV? 2. Any Hispanic or Latino person. Labels: US, broadly, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur 3. A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans. Labels: offensive, slang, sometimes 4. A Bostonian; a person from Boston, Massachusetts. Labels: US, slang Example: In Boston the beaners found out what a good show we had when we jumped to Albany. But all the while the Boston press praised and they heeded not until it was too late and then they added their regrets to ours.
Word: beaner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bean + -er; see bean (“(slang) head”). Pronunciation: /ˈbinɚ/ 1. A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter. 2. Head. Labels: broadly, informal Example: Any ideas on how I could solve this problem? This seems to be beyond what my beaner can solve right now....I hope all this work wasn't for nothing! Example: I know what picture yer referring to, but I didn't have a problem with that because the fundamentals of reactance have been in my beaner since I was a teen. 3. A superior or admirable person; something excellent. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: Gee, that would be a beaner of a sign for education Example: Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart
Word: cozzer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of copper + rozzer, both slang for British police. 1. A policeman, especially a detective; a rozzer. Labels: UK, dated, slang
Word: femocrat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ Proto-Italic *θēmanā Proto-Italic *fēmanā Latin fēmina Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin fēmella Old French femelebor. Middle English femele Middle English female English female 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 ▲ 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 bureaucratebor. English bureaucrat blend English femocrat Blend of female + bureaucrat. 1. A female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues. Labels: Australia Example: Despite working in a difficult environment, femocrats have made an important contribution to Australian politics over the past two decades. Example: 2000, Jan Jindy Pettman, “Femocrats,” entry in Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender (editors) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 847, Femocrats also carry the burden of representation, if they are expected to speak for all women; or, alternatively, they are dismissed as “unrepresentative” of ordinary women and so not entitled to speak for them.
Word: Grecophone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Greco- + -phone. 1. A speaker of the Greek language.
Word: Grecophone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Greco- + -phone. 1. Greek-speaking. Labels: not-comparable
Word: flatting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *flataz Old Norse flatrbor. Middle English flat English flat English -ing English flatting From flat + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈflætɪŋ/ 1. The practice of living, with others, in a flat. Labels: New-Zealand, uncountable, usually 2. A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint. Labels: countable, usually Example: Bankart is of opinion that “an important point as regards painters on board ship is to recognize the fact that there is danger of poisoning, whenever quick-drying paints and flattings are being used in inclosed spaces,[…].” 3. The process of applying a coating of flatting paint. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. A flat part of something, a flattening. Labels: countable, usually Example: I have been informed, that there are some tribes in whom the posterior part of the head is flattened instead of the front part, and that these depressions and flattings of the head are produced by such artificial pressure. 5. The process of becoming flat. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: flatting-mill Example: Flatting agents reduces gloss by scattering reflected light. The more flatting agent added, the duller the appearance and the greater the loss of film clarity. 7. An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended. Labels: countable, usually Example: The bell ropes hang from the outside of the tower, the resultant friction of the ropes over the brick sides producing irresolute sharpings or flattings of the notes. Example: Leland Smith goes so far as to say, “in tonal music the minor mode has no separate existence, but represents merely a fairly consistently applied group of alterations — flattings — of certain parts of the major mode.” 8. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The Nottingham white-lead is the most esteemed for what is called flatting, or dead white. 9. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: flatting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *flataz Old Norse flatrbor. Middle English flat English flat English -ing English flatting From flat + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈflætɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: crowd catch Part of Speech: noun 1. A catch of a ball which was played into the ground near the batsman and bounced up to a fielder. Spectators who could not see from a distance that it was played into the ground may incorrectly think that the batsman is out.
Word: Moreton Bay bug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia (by way of distinguishing it from the distantly-related Balmain bug (Ibacus peronii), but also found in many parts of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. 1. The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family; a common seafood item. Labels: Australia Example: We settled on cumin-spiced lamb buns, Moreton Bay bug crystal dumplings and the char siu Ōra King salmon fillet.
Word: have truck with Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From truck (“dealings”). 1. To have dealings with; to truck with. Labels: idiomatic Example: You shouldn't have any truck with them. They cheat. Example: I've had no truck with them for some time.
Word: stum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum. Pronunciation: /stʌm/ 1. Unfermented grape juice; must. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: 1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. Example: And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause. 2. Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum, And make it brisk champaign become. Example: To each hogshead of genuine Bordeaux wine, there are four gallons of Benicarlo, half a gallon of stum wine, and a small quantity of Hermitage added, which mixture undergoes a slight fermentation, and is then exported under the name of claret.
Word: stum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum. Pronunciation: /stʌm/ 1. To ferment. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: We stum our crude wines […]to renew their spirits. 3. To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Since I have taken this method with cyder, it has proved more like wine than common drink, but then I racked it off a second and a third time, as soon as it appeared fine, and then stummed the cask that received it the lasttime […]
Word: death mask Part of Speech: noun 1. A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death. Example: The cave, abandoned long ago by shepherds, is draped with weird symbols, death masks, amulets and gargoyles.
Word: blackfella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black English fella English blackfella From black + fella. 1. Alternative form of blackfellow. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When it came to blackfellas the [Aborigines Protection] Board had the final say. It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit. Example: A blackfella and a whitefella are sitting at the bar. The whitefella says to the blackfella eh boss, whadya reckon? The blackfella says since you ask, I consider it a metaphor of the historic case of the Coorong massacre of 1840.
Word: wearied Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɪɹid/, /ˈwɪəɹid/ 1. simple past and past participle of weary Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Wearied from the night of struggle and wreck, all hands were yet asleep, I thought.
Word: Coney Island whitefish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called as originally commonly found on Coney Island beach. 1. A used condom. Labels: US, slang
Word: curate's egg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a cartoon by the Franco-British cartoonist and author George Du Maurier (1834–1896) captioned “True Humility” in the 9 November 1895 issue of Punch magazine, in which a bishop says to his mealtime guest, a curate, “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr. Jones!” The timid curate replies, “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!”. Pronunciation: /ˈkjʊəɹətz ˌɛɡ/, /-ɹɪtz/, /ˈkjʊɹɪtz ˌɛɡ/ 1. A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoiled by the bad. Labels: idiomatic Example: We cannot say we are uniformly favourably impressed with such portions of the work as we have read. The work strikes us as being rather unequal. Like the curate's egg, parts of it are excellent, but parts provide bad material for assimilation. Example: But what does he give us? A mess of pottage—or a curate's egg, if you prefer that—where fine, descriptive passages in good English, and showing a sensitive nature that appreciates beauty, go cheek by jowl with bad grammar, and casual intimacies such as one would look for in the personal story of a Simplicissimus.
Word: ascent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent. Pronunciation: /əˈsɛnt/, /əˈsent/ 1. The act of ascending; a motion upwards. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux. 3. An eminence, hill, or high place. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The road has an ascent of 5 degrees. 5. The ascender height in a typeface. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
Word: reffo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From refugee + -o (“diminutive suffix”). 1. A refugee who has settled in Australia. Labels: Australia, derogatory, ethnic, slur Example: ‘It may be like this,’ he said ‘Australians are too bloody scared to be frankly unpleasant: Most of them hate the guts of reffos and other alien intruders, especially Jews and Dagos. But they like being liked and cannot resist giving help if it is needed, except, of course, if it′s the boss who needs it.[…]’ Example: On the top floor behind the gabled windows, it was rumored, the reffo family slept. Mishka did not know, until he began attending the regional school in Mossman at the age of six, that he was a reffo. He was born in the Daintree. His mother before him was born in Daintree. But his grandparents had arrived as refugees from a concentration camp in 1946 and the Bartoks were still a reffo family.
Word: couth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English couth (“familiar, known; evident, true; famous, respected, well-known; genteel, having good manners”), from Old English cūþ (“familiar, intimate, known, usual; certain, plain, manifest; famous, noted, well-known; excellent; friendly; related”), past participle of cunnan (“to be familiar with, know; can, to be able, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to be familiar with, know, recognize; to be able, know how”) (compare *kunþaz (“known”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). The word is cognate with Dutch kond (“known”), Saterland Frisian cut (“known”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (kunþs, “known”), Icelandic kuður, kunnur (“known”), Latin gnosco (“to know”), Old High German kund, chund, chunt, Middle High German kunt (modern German kund (“known”)), Old Saxon kūth, cûth, cuð (“known; famous, renowned”), Scots couth (“familiar, known”); and is a doublet of could. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːθ/, [ˈkʰʊu̯θ] 1. Familiar, known; well-known, renowned. Labels: obsolete 2. Variant of couthie. Labels: Scotland 3. Variant of couthie. Labels: Scotland Example: Squad leaders were responsible for doing periodic checks to make sure soldiers were living a couth lifestyle, as Joes would compete regularly to see whose room was nicer.
Word: couth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from uncouth. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːθ/, [ˈkʰʊu̯θ] 1. Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined. Example: So Dennis May thrilled me in a recent issue when he described Raymond Mays' 1939 E.R.A. racer as a "couth" little Merc-like model. Example: Yet the dancers are beautiful, their cool movement has a couth simplicity, and there are moments when a gesture of almost absolute beauty stands transfixed in some transom of sublime comprehension.
Word: couth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from uncouth. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːθ/, [ˈkʰʊu̯θ] 1. Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: That man has no couth. Example: There is an aspect of the cultural conservative argument that sometimes drifts dangerously close to tha view, elitist to the core, as elitist as the New Class, as elitist as limousine liberalism: The public ain't got no couth. You can hear those old-fashioned elitist wheels spinning: Maybe we need a few government regulations to deal with the couth shortage. 2. A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person. Labels: rare, uncountable, usually Example: We transformed the uncouths into couths, the unkempts into kempts, the inerts into erts! We did it all by speaking to teen-agers on their own terms and in their own language. Example: I'm going to hit that "Gulf of Texas" beach with a bundle of couths and suaves because those Texas gals that hang around the big shrimp boats are used to good living.
Word: solicitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English solicitude, from Old French sollicitude, from Latin sollicitūdō (“anxiety”), from sollicitus, solicitus (“anxious, solicitous”). See solicitous. Pronunciation: /səˈlɪsɪˌt(j)uːd/ 1. The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The familiarity of Sydney Smith’s manner does not consist merely in his style ; indeed, the terseness and brilliancy of his diction, though not at all artificial in appearance, could not have been attained without labor and solicitude ;—but it is the result of the blunt, fearless, severe, yet good-humored, nature of the man. 2. Special or pronounced concern or attention. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Also the triuialle of the vertues theologicalle and quadriuialle of the cardinalle vertues, to comprehende the knowlege of whom oure insufficience sufficethe not, withowte the sollicitude of writers scholde transfude to vs the memory of thynges of antiquite. Example: Will any fair man say that I do not in this paragraph inculcate the duty of love and reverence for his Majesty, by stating, not merely my own ideas of his royal virtues, of his wisdom, and paternal solicitude for the happiness of his people, but the opinion and feeling of the illustrious personage, the highest subject in his empire -- the most interested next to himself in its welfare -- and whose example of reverence and devotion was so well calculated to inspire confidence and attachment in every class of the community? 3. A cause of anxiety or concern. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: M. Todgers looked a little worn by cares of gravy and other such solicitudes arising out of her establishment, but displayed her usual earnestness and warmth of manner.
Word: nyctophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nycto- Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der. English -philia English nyctophilia From nycto- (“night”) + -philia. 1. Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness. Labels: uncountable Example: which disdains psychological analysis—"the obscurities that one encounters in Herman Melville or in Franz Kafka are not due to lack of resources for illumination, to artifices, or even to nyctophilia; they derive from the ultimate mystery of existence"; […] Example: Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions.
Word: interloping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Noun form of the word interloper (see that etymology for more), + -ing. 1. An act of intrusion or encroachment. Example: There was an interloping on my property. 2. Illegal Indian trade within the area over which the Hudson's Bay Company held a trade monopoly. Labels: historical
Word: interloping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Noun form of the word interloper (see that etymology for more), + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of interlope Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: give and take Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1769. See cite below. 1. A process of compromise or accommodation. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: accommodation, compromise, concession, flexibility Example: They hoped for an amicable solution, but both knew it would require some give and take.
Word: Brahma Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मा (brahmā), masculine nominative singular of ब्रह्मन् (brahman). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑːmə/ 1. Hindu god (deva) of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. Labels: Hinduism
Word: Brahma Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्म (brahma), neuter nominative singular of ब्रह्मन् (brahman). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑːmə/ 1. Alternative form of Brahman. Labels: Hinduism, alt-of, alternative
Word: Brahma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Brahmaputra fowl. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑːmə/ 1. A large domestic fowl from the Brahmaputra region of India.
Word: barbed wire Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɑɹbd waɪəɹ/, [ˈbɑɹbd ˈwa.jɚ] 1. Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: TESL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of teaching English as a second language (a method or program for teaching English to students whose first language is not English and who live in a region where English is the dominant language and natural English language immersion situations are apt to be plentiful). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: starkly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English starkli, starcliche, sterkliche, stercliche, from Old English stearclīċe (“strongly; stoutly; vigorously; vehemently; fiercely; strictly”), from Proto-Germanic *starkulīka (“strongly; stiffly”), from *starkulīkaz (“strong; rigid”), from *starkuz (“strong; stiff; stark”), equivalent to stark + -ly. 1. In a stark manner; with great contrast. Example: The dark mountains stood out starkly against the pale sky. Example: We initially came to this data collection technique through research conducted into the linguistic landscape at NIE which yielded an overwhelmingly English-biased signage which was starkly at odds with our own day-to-day experience at the institute.
Word: granivorous Part of Speech: adj 1. That eats seeds Labels: not-comparable
Word: melton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Melton Mowbray, where this material was made. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛlt(ə)n/ 1. A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ‘Two of the boys are wearing your Melton overcoat; I hope you don't mind.’ Example: Skiwear has moved swiftly away from wool — and cotton — into a brave new world of chemistry. […] Wool pants or knickers, usually of melton — a thick, tightly woven, smooth fabric — were good for shedding snow.
Word: yearlong Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-der.? Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥der. Proto-Germanic *jērą Proto-West Germanic *jār Old English ġēar Middle English yeer English year English -long English yearlong From year + -long. 1. Lasting one year; of a timespan of one year. Labels: not-comparable Example: Both are congruent with a yearlong periodicity, which is apparently neutralized in the main settlement. Example: By saving your entire file of daily and weekly lists, you will create your yearlong list. 2. Which lasts throughout every year; which is not seasonal Labels: not-comparable Example: Yearlong manning is needed, although at a somewhat reduced level from the peak periods in the fall. Example: During interviews, teachers and/or principals in three of the four most effective schools cited a yearlong staff development effort.
Word: yearlong Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-der.? Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥der. Proto-Germanic *jērą Proto-West Germanic *jār Old English ġēar Middle English yeer English year English -long English yearlong From year + -long. 1. Per year. Labels: not-comparable Example: The estimate of the number of sheep and cattle now using this range is equivalent to 250000 cattle units yearlong Example: The carrying capacity of this area is 46 cattle yearlong. 2. Throughout every year; not seasonally Labels: not-comparable Example: Over much of the Great Plains, water was not available yearlong for units of land as small as the customary ownership units Example: Black bear and mountain goats occur in the area yearlong.
Word: grieves Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːvz/ 1. plural of grief Labels: form-of, plural Example: The time now being come about for payment of the third tribute, when they came to compel the fathers which had children not yet married, to give them to be put forth to take their chance and lot: the citizens of Athens began to murmur against Ægeus, alleging for their grieves⁶, that he, who only was the cause of all this evil, was only alone exempted from this grief.[…] / ⁶ griefs. Example: I am aware that what I am asking of you will mean I will be despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and the people will hide as it were their faces from me. I will be despised, and will be esteemed not. But, let me bear their grieves and carry their sorrows even though they will esteem me stricken, smitten of you and afflicted.[…](Based on Isaiah 53:1–5). 2. plural of grieve Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grieves Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːvz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of grieve Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: grieving Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ/ 1. Feeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.
Word: grieving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ/ 1. An act or instance of feeling or expressing grief.
Word: grieving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of grieve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jointed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From joint (“noun”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪd/ 1. Having joints. Example: Jointed track will be replaced, with standard ballast instead of shingle beneath, to stabilise the rails and improve the notoriously dreadful ride quality. 2. Extremely full of people, packed, chockablock. Labels: Ireland, slang Example: Needless to mention that Christmas, Easter and the Coolmore Golf Classic see the place jointed, but last weekend saw a huge Irish crowd celebrate the launch of Quintessentially, the world's leading private members' club and concierge service. Example: When I opened the door the place was jointed, packed with English players.
Word: jointed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See joint (verb) Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of joint Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: involving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɒlvɪŋ/, /ɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of involve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inspiring Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪnˈspaɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈspaɪɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating.
Word: inspiring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈspaɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈspaɪɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of inspire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inspiring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪnˈspaɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈspaɪɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. inspiration Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From the severity of his father to the sweet intellectual inspirings of his wife a sadness seems ever to dwell upon his career. It was not that he was unfortunate. Few men have achieved greater success in life than John Stuart Mill.
Word: initiative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French initiative, from Medieval Latin *initiativus (“serving to initiate”), from Late Latin initiare (“to begin, to initiate”), from Latin initium (“beginning”), from ineo (“enter, begin”). By surface analysis, initiate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/ 1. Serving to initiate. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: As for Apollos he was skillfull in the Scriptures, and mightily confuted the Iewes by them, he had more then this initiative wisedome, and knew better the difference betweene the baptisme of Christ, and of Iohn, then it seemeth this Iesuite doth. Example: suspected! that indefinite word, which was tortured into every meaning of injustice and oppression, and became what the French call the mot de ralliement, the initiative term of captivity and death 2. In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.
Word: initiative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French initiative, from Medieval Latin *initiativus (“serving to initiate”), from Late Latin initiare (“to begin, to initiate”), from Latin initium (“beginning”), from ineo (“enter, begin”). By surface analysis, initiate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/ 1. A beginning; a first move. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pastor Moses says the initiative was born of pragmatism, compassion toward all Sri Lankans, and a desire to model the same generosity he experienced as a young person. […] Not only are all religions welcome at the Voice Community Kitchen, but experts also say such initiatives could be key to improving ethnoreligious engagement and lead to better conflict mediation in the future. 2. A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The ability to act first or on one's own. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inflicted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈflɪktɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of inflict Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inflamed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfleɪmd/ 1. Resulting from or affected by inflammation. 2. Appearing to be in flames; as if made of fire. 3. Aroused in temper, liable to violence
Word: inflamed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfleɪmd/ 1. simple past and past participle of inflame Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: infantile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Mid-15th century, "pertaining to infants," from Latin infantilis (“pertaining to an infant”), equivalent to infant + -ile, from īnfāns. Sense of "infant-like" is from 1772. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfəntaɪl/ 1. Pertaining to infants. Example: infantile paralysis Example: They and the old North London tanks at Richmond long ago were the first engines on which my infantile eyes rested, be it said with an admiration that the years have never dimmed. 2. Childish; immature.
Word: dealings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdiːlɪŋ(ɡ)z/ 1. Relations with others. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: I've had dealings with Jo in the past, and found her very stubborn. 2. Business transactions. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: implies Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplaɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of imply Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: immunity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English immunite, from Old French immunité, from Latin immūnitās, in the legal sense; for the medical use see immunization. Equivalent to immune + -ity. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjuːnəti/ 1. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some people have better immunity to diseases than others. 2. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities. 3. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron. 4. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nevertheless, his reason rebelled, and his sense of religion by no means allowed the justice of refusing the amiable, handsome, and wealthy Englishman, whom his sweet child preferred, and who was perfectly willing that the signora should enjoy all the liberty required by her conscience and her church, together with such sums as should, from time to time, purchase the prayers of the faithful, and all other immunities, so far as his fortune furnished the means. 5. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After winning the last round the player was granted immunity which allowed him to stay in the game even after receiving the fewest points. 6. A resistance to a specific thing. Labels: countable Example: Superbugs are bacteria that develop an immunity to antibiotics.
Word: incompatible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French incompatible. Pronunciation: /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/, /ˌɪnkəmˈpætɪbəl/ 1. Of two or more things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; unable to function together due to dissimilarities. Example: My phone is incompatible with the latest version of this app. Example: Courts of equity are in many instances so nice and intricate, that they are incompatible with the genius of trials by jury. 2. Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
Word: incompatible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French incompatible. Pronunciation: /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/, /ˌɪnkəmˈpætɪbəl/ 1. An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities. Labels: in-plural Example: the incompatibles of iron 2. A consequent of a contrary. Example: Incompatibles are consequents of contraries. For example, sleeping and waking are contraries, and snoring is associated with sleepers. So snoring and waking are incompatibles.
Word: shtum Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *stummaz Proto-West Germanic *stumm Old High German stum Middle High German stum Yiddish שטום (shtum)bor. English shtum Borrowed from Yiddish שטום (shtum, “mute, dumb, voiceless”), from Middle High German stum, from Old High German stum, from Proto-West Germanic *stumm. Cognate with German stumm, Dutch stom, Swedish stum. Doublet of stum. Pronunciation: /ʃtʊm/ 1. Silent; speechless; dumb. Labels: not-comparable
Word: shtoom Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of shtum. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: ‘Shhh,’ said Millat irritably. ‘Not everyone can know. If you want to get near the centre, you’ve got to keep shtoom.’
Word: irreconcilable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French irréconciliable, from Late Latin irreconciliābilis, from in- (“not”) + reconciliō (“to reconcile”) + -ābilis (“-able”). By surface analysis, ir- + reconcilable. 1. Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising. Example: [T]he fact that the peccant doctor [Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet] continued in the Queen's service made the Hastings family irreconcilable and produced an unpleasant impression of unrepentant error upon the public mind. 2. Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory. Example: I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.
Word: irreconcilable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French irréconciliable, from Late Latin irreconciliābilis, from in- (“not”) + reconciliō (“to reconcile”) + -ābilis (“-able”). By surface analysis, ir- + reconcilable. 1. Something that cannot be reconciled.
Word: horseman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English horsman, equivalent to horse + man. Pronunciation: /ˈhɔɹsmən/, /ˈhɔːsmən/ 1. A man who rides a horse. 2. A soldier on horseback, especially a cavalryman. Example: A thouſand Perſean horſemen are at hand, Sent from the King to ouercome vs all. Example: A royal grave (dated seventh century B.C.) still shows vital details of the conditions of warrior horsemen in their formative phase. This is the grave at Arzan in Tuwa, opened under the guidance of the Nestor of Siberian archeology, M. P. Grjaznov. 3. A man skilled in horsemanship, especially an equestrian. 4. A man in charge of work horses; a teamster. Labels: UK, archaic, especially 5. A man in charge of transport horses; a hostler (ostler). Labels: UK, archaic, especially 6. Any of the swift-running land crabs of the genus Ocypode. Labels: archaic 7. Any fish of the genus Equetus. Labels: archaic 8. A fictional beast that is part horse and part man.
Word: boisterous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English boistres, an alteration of Middle English boistous (“crude, unrefined”), of uncertain origin. Likely from Anglo-Norman boystous, bustous (“rough, in a crude state, disabled, paralysed, unable to walk, lame”), Old French boitous (“limping; having a rough, uneven surface”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪstəɹəs/, /ˈbɔɪstɹəs/ 1. Full of energy; exuberant; noisy. Example: Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out. 2. Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy. Example: ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe, Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts. Example: A new and elegant dress had been provided by Lady Anne for the second day, but it was of less costly material, and, by the same rule, considerably slighter; so that Fanchette suggested the idea of substituting a slip to make it equally warm, as the weather had set in cold and boisterous. 3. Having or resembling animal exuberance.
Word: 3DML Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of 3D Markup Language: a file format used to develop three-dimensional multimedia representations of documents to be presented on the World Wide Web. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: exuberance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia (“superabundance”), from exuberare (“to grow thickly, to abound”); from ex- (“out”) + uber (“udder”), which would have originally referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder. Pronunciation: /ɛksˈjuː.bɜːɹ.əns/, /ˈɛɡ.ʒuː.bɜːɹ.əns/, /ɪɡˈzub(ə)rən(t)s/, /ɛɡˈzub(ə)rən(t)s/ 1. The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness. Labels: uncountable Example: Tottenham's desire for a win against a Norwich side playing with energy and exuberance made for an enthralling, end-to-end game. Example: The stock market found itself at a similar moment 29 years ago, when Alan Greenspan famously warned of “irrational exuberance” fueling a bubble in internet stocks. The S&P 500 had risen more than 60 percent in the two years before Mr. Greenspan’s speech. 2. An instance of exuberant behaviour. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An overflowing quantity; superfluousness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: an exuberance of branches in a plant 4. An abundance of wealth. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: liveliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lively 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 liveliness From lively + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪvlinəs/ 1. The quality of being lively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.
Word: database administrator Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who is responsible for the logical and physical design of databases, and normally for all aspects of their recoverability, integrity, security, availability and performance.
Word: harmonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic. Doublet of armónico. Pronunciation: /hɑːˈmɒnɪk/, /hɑɹˈmɑnɪk/ 1. Pertaining to harmony. 2. Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious. Example: harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass. 3. Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance. Example: The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line. 4. Recurring periodically. 5. Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word. 6. Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person. Example: A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).
Word: harmonic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic. Doublet of armónico. Pronunciation: /hɑːˈmɒnɪk/, /hɑɹˈmɑnɪk/ 1. A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. 2. The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present. 3. One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction. 4. One's child. Example: Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all. Example: The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]
Word: gratify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French gratifier, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡrætɪfaɪ/ 1. To please. Labels: transitive 2. To make content; to satisfy. Labels: transitive Example: gratify the critics Example: gratify the voters
Word: gratifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gratify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gratifying Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡrætɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of gratify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gratifying Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡrætɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/ 1. Pleasing, satisfying. Example: This gratifying state of affairs has been brought about by an enthusiastic approach to the resuscitation of traffic with "Mystery Trains", [...].
Word: gripping Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/ 1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting Example: a gripping action film
Word: gripping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of grip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gripping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/ 1. The act of forming a grip. Example: His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand. 2. Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]
Word: appropriately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English appropriate Middle English -ly English -ly English appropriately From appropriate + -ly. 1. In an appropriate manner; properly; suitably. Example: He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.
Word: pleasingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English plesingliche; equivalent to pleasing + -ly. 1. In a pleasing manner; agreeably; favourably. Example: I not only then tighten'd the pleasure-girth round my restless inmate by a secret spring of friction and compres- sion that obeys the will in those parts, but stole my hand softly to that store bag of nature's prime sweets, which is so pleasingly attach'd to its conduit pipe, from which we receive them;
Word: swimming trunks Part of Speech: noun 1. A pair of specifically designed shorts worn by men and boys for swimming or bathing. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: After class, Nick changed into his swimming trunks and dived into the pool.