nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: weaving Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwiːvɪŋ/ 1. The process of making woven material on a loom. Labels: uncountable 2. A piece of such material. Labels: countable Example: In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends. 3. An unsteady back and forth motion. Labels: countable Example: Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal. 4. The uncontrolled crossing of multiple streams of traffic in the same general direction. Labels: uncountable
Word: weaving Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwiːvɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of weave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic
Word: webbed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbd/ 1. With the digits connected by a thin membrane. Labels: not-comparable 2. Resembling a web. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of a feather or part of a feather, having a vane. Labels: not-comparable Example: The two middle feathers of the tail are in the form of slender wires about five inches long, and which diverge in a beautiful double curve. About half an inch of the end of this wire is webbed on the outer side only, awe coloured of a fine metallic green, and being curled spirally inwards form a pair of elegant glittering buttons, hanging five inches below the body, and the same distance apart. 4. Connected to the World Wide Web. Labels: not-comparable
Word: webbed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbd/ 1. simple past and past participle of web Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hypernym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- (“over”) + -nym (“name”). From Ancient Greek roots; compare Latinate “superordinate term”. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪpənɪm/, /ˈhaɪpɚnɪm/ 1. A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term—as, for example, insect (being a hypernym) for ant. Example: “Musical instrument” is a hypernym of “guitar” because a guitar is a musical instrument: a guitar belongs to a class or type of musical instruments. Example: Hypernyms of “dog” and “cat” include “mammal”, “homeotherm”, “carnivore”, and “quadruped”.
Word: wedding dress Part of Speech: noun 1. The dress worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony, traditionally white with a long train in Western culture.
Word: wedding ring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wedding ring, wedding ryng, weddynge rynge, weddyng ryng. 1. Either of a pair or rings exchanged by spouses in a wedding ceremony, and afterwards worn by them, symbolizing continuous fidelity. Example: The surgeon leant over the body, and raised the left hand. "The old story," he said, shaking his head: "no wedding-ring, I see. Ah! good night!" Example: Goodbye, old sleepyhead / I'm packing you in like I said / Take care of everything / I'm leaving my wedding ring
Word: wedding vows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wedding vow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whimsy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from whims + -y. Related to whim-wham, whim. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪmzi/, /ˈʍɪmzi/ 1. A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] Take heed of filling their [i.e., children's] heads with VVhimzies, and unprofitable Notions; for this vvill ſooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than ſober and humble. Example: These days! where e'en th' extravagance of poetry, / Is at a loss for figures to express / Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy, / And by a faint description makes them less. 2. An impulsive, illogical or capricious character. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A whim (capstan or vertical drum). Labels: countable, usually 4. A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle. Labels: countable, usually Example: "Dori, you have to solve this puzzle!" / "Sure, right away doctor. Quality construction … clean edges. Oh, a whimsy!" 5. The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty. Labels: countable, usually
Word: whimsy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from whims + -y. Related to whim-wham, whim. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪmzi/, /ˈʍɪmzi/ 1. To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze. Labels: transitive Example: A wantonneſſe in wealth, methinks I agree not with, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jewells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains whimſied with his wealth: […]
Word: whimsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from whims + -y. Related to whim-wham, whim. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪmzi/, /ˈʍɪmzi/ 1. Synonym of whimsical. Example: Whimsiest of the fairy brood, I cannot scold you if I would Example: […] and if in a whimsy mood I choose to read the opening chapters last, and the closing chapters first, […]
Word: British East India Company Part of Speech: name 1. A seventeenth-century British joint-stock company founded to trade with India, and subsequently colonized a large part of the South Asia. Labels: historical
Word: life style Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lifestyle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sanctimonious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English sanctimony Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English sanctimonious From sanctimony + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˌsæŋk.tɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/, /ˌsæŋk.təˈməʊ.ni.əs/, /ˌsæŋk.tɪˈmoʊ.ni.əs/, /ˌsæŋk.təˈmoʊ.ni.əs/ 1. Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious. Example: Near-synonyms: smug, self-righteous; see also Thesaurus:arrogant Example: Thou conclud'st like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandements, but scrap'd one out of the table. 2. Holy, devout. Labels: archaic
Word: propitiate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”). Pronunciation: /ˌpɹəˈpɪʃieɪt/ 1. To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit. Labels: transitive Example: Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage. Example: But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess. 2. To make propitious or favourable. Labels: transitive Example: But what was that compared to the pleasure of gazing on him, and listening to his words of pity or of praise! to witnessing the sparkling of his eyes when he gazed on his boy, and sought, by every possible medium, to coax him to his arms, a task not to be achieved in a moment; or in listening to that praise of Lord Allerton, which was likely to propitiate Mary in his favour! 3. To make propitiation. Labels: intransitive
Word: torpid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin torpeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin torpidus English torpid From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”). 1. unmoving 2. dormant or hibernating 3. lazy, lethargic or apathetic
Word: torpid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin torpeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin torpidus English torpid From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”). 1. An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat. Labels: UK Example: In our first year I had seen him coming away from Blackwell's clutching a great textbook of chemistry with an air of anticipatory delight, and also on the river as cox of one of the Lincoln torpids.
Word: demimonde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-monde (literally “half-world”), from demi (“half”) + monde (“world; people”); possibly coined by French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils as the title of a comedic play, Le Demi Monde (1855): see the quotation from 1864. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmiːmɒnd/, /ˈdɛmiˌmɑnd/ 1. A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group. Example: A most remarkable instance of this was afforded in the play of Camille by the performance of the supper-scene. The stage in this scene is supposed to represent a supper-room, enlivened by the presence of a party of young Parisians, more gay, indeed, than respectable, but still Parisians, and Parisians of the demimonde, which, of the two halves that go to make up the whole of the monde, preserves the hemisphere of manners while it throws away the hemisphere of decorum. Example: To give a good and solid education to the gentle sex would tend to double the army of progress, to draw closer the domestic relations, and to annihilate that extra-conjugal society (the demi[-]monde of [Alexandre] Dumas the younger) which is now so very prosperous. 2. A group having little respect or reputation. Labels: broadly Example: the literary demimonde Example: It's fascinating to hear, for example, how an addict and charming scoundrel named Herbert Huncke — the man who became a key emissary from the drug demimonde for Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac — had himself been drawn to heroin by tales of Shanghai opium dens, “posh layouts with cushions on the floor and naked or half-naked men and women laying about,” as he tells Torgoff. 3. A member of such a class or group of persons. Labels: broadly Example: Those who seek pleasure in a round of dances and fashionable frolic, where the german and the horse-race, the card-table and the drive, are the order of the day, will gather to the sea side and the spa; they will seek Newport, the maelstrom of money; or Long Branch with its broiling sun and its retinue of demimondes and stuck-up-ities; […] Example: I was called to see B. J., a demimonde and opium habitue, and found her suffering intensely with pain over the right upper chest, neck and arm, and numbness in the right little finger and one-half of the ring finger. […] Diagnosis—brachialgia following traumatism.
Word: jarhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jar + head, due to the regulation high and tight haircut of the Marines. 1. A US marine. Labels: slang
Word: devil dog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Teufelshund (“hound of Hell”, literally “Devil's hound”). 1. A US marine. Labels: slang
Word: sand nigger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sand + nigger, referring to the several deserts located in much of the region. 1. A person of Arab descent. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur 2. A Muslim. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slur Example: Lafferty would point to one cracked Islamic plate ( which was in a case in the dining room in Honolulu ) and say “ can you believe this piece of shit is worth millions of dollars ? ' Lafferty would say the Islamic art was made by ' sand niggers '. Example: […] which included a drive-by shooting at a mosque in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and verbal and physical assaults on Muslims who were called “sand niggers."
Word: dystocia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυστοκία (dustokía, “difficult childbirth”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”), from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtoʊʃə/, /dɪsˈtəʊʃə/ 1. A slow or difficult labour or delivery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In macaques, baboons and chimpanzees, dystocia because of breech birth is the commonest category of fetal death.[…]Breech dystocia is rarely a problem for mother or neonates in small, multitocus species like marmosets and tamarins. Example: Dystocia is defined as difficult delivery. Pelvic dystocia is due to aberrations of the pelvic architecture and its relationship to the presenting fetal part.[…]Fetal dystocia may be due to excessive fetal size from gestational diabetes or congenital anomalies.
Word: designate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēsignātus, perfect passive participle of designō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of design. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛz.ɪɡ.nət/, /ˈdɛz.ɪɡ.neɪt/, /ˈdez.ɪɡ.nət/, /ˈdez.ɪɡ.næɪt/ 1. Designated; appointed; chosen. Labels: not-comparable 2. Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role. Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: King designate
Word: designate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēsignātus, perfect passive participle of designō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of design. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛz.ɪɡ.neɪt/, /ˈdez.ɪɡ.næɪt/ 1. To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description Example: to designate the boundaries of a country Example: to designate the rioters who are to be arrested 2. To call by a distinctive title; to name. Example: "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel. 3. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Word: totally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English total Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English totally From total + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.tə.li/, /ˈtoʊ.tə.li/, [ˈtoʊ.ɾə.li] 1. To the fullest extent or degree. Labels: not-comparable Example: They've totally demolished the bank on Main Street. Example: Antonio. He misses not much. Sebastian. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. 2. Very; extremely. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: That was totally wicked! 3. Definitely; for sure. Labels: colloquial, modal, not-comparable Example: That was totally not what happened. Example: Well, we’ve spoken to a lawyer, and the answer, it turns out, is, ‘Yes. That would totally be assault.’ So we’ll say that I didn’t do it.
Word: historically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From historical + -ly or historic + -ally. Pronunciation: /hɪˈstɒɹɪkli/, /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/ 1. In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record. Example: Historically speaking, this company has always collected payment before starting work. Example: Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. 2. According to history: formerly, in the past, traditionally. Example: Historically, this company collected payment before starting work. Example: Holden Matthews, 21, has been charged in connection with fires at three historically black churches in Louisiana. 3. To an unprecedented or extremely rare degree. Example: In January, the anti-corruption organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, released a detailed report on the historically unethical presidency of Donald Trump.
Word: newly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe (“newly”), equivalent to new + -ly. Compare Dutch nieuwelijks, German neulich, Danish nylig, Icelandic nýlega. More at new, -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːli/, /ˈnjʉwlɪj/, /ˈnuli/, /ˈnjʉːli/, /ˈnjʉle/ 1. Very recently/lately; in the immediate past. Example: She smelled the newly budding flowers. Example: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
Word: willow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪl.əʊ/, /ˈwɪloʊ/ 1. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows. Example: And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky. 2. The wood of these trees. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A cricket bat. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable 4. The baseball bat. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 5. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: willow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪl.əʊ/, /ˈwɪloʊ/ 1. To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow. Labels: transitive 2. To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow. Labels: intransitive Example: Willowing over the rough cobbles of the little pier stepped a thin, bent figure, adorned with a silver nanny-goat's beard and bobbling eyes interrupted by the rim of a pair of pince-nez. Example: Joe’s impulse was to sketch her, with her shadow willowing beyond her on the mouse-gray paving-stone; but his left fist, obeying instinct, remained clenched behind his back […]
Word: allocated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tɪd/, [ˈæl.ə.keɪ.ɾɪd], /ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.tɪd/, [ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.ɾɪd] 1. Having been granted an allocation; having received (something) as part of a plan or scheduled disbursement; having been assigned (something) that was set aside for a particular purpose. Labels: not-comparable
Word: allocated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tɪd/, [ˈæl.ə.keɪ.ɾɪd], /ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.tɪd/, [ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.ɾɪd] 1. simple past and past participle of allocate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vulgarism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vulgar Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English vulgarism From vulgar + -ism. 1. Vulgarity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Amidst his manuscript notes for Democratic Vistas he [Walt Whitman] wrote himself a reminder to "offset the statement of depravity [and] vulgarism ... of the masses by a full acknowledgment of the latent heroism." 2. A word or term that is considered offensive or vulgar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Shit" is a vulgarism. 3. A spelling, word, or phrase used in common speech that is considered improper or incorrect for formal communication. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We never descended to the vulgarism of a quarrel. People said that neither of us had a heart, but it appears to me that politeness is an excellent substitute. Example: Editors of newspapers allow more vulgarisms to go to print today than they used to.
Word: peeps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /piːps/ 1. plural of peep Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peeps Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /piːps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of peep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: peeps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of people with simplified spelling + -s to emphasize the plurality of the word. Pronunciation: /piːps/ 1. Alternative form of people; often especially (with personal pronoun) one's friends or associates. Labels: alt-of, alternative, person, plural, plural-normally, singular, slang Example: Not many peeps here tonight, innit? Example: Hey my peeps, how are you doing?
Word: plurality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plural + -ity, from Middle English pluralite, from Old French pluralité (“multitude, state of being plural”), from Latin plūrālitās. Pronunciation: /plʊˈɹæləti/, /plʊˈɹælɪti/ 1. The state of being plural. Labels: uncountable Example: Nominal plurality in Basque is originally exclusively marked on definite determiners and not on nouns. 2. The holding of multiple benefices. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was the complaint and lamentation of Prelats, upon every least breath of a motion to remove pluralities, and distribute more equally Church revennu's, that then all learning would be for ever dasht and discourag'd. 3. A state of being numerous. Labels: countable 4. A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority. Labels: countable Example: “America will soon belong to the men and women … who can comfortably walk into a room and accept with real comfort the sensation that … there are no real majorities, only pluralities and coalitions. Example: A plurality of respondents said Republicans were more to blame than Clinton in every single poll. Between 43% and 51% blamed Republicans and between 25% and 34% blamed Clinton, depending on the poll. 5. A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast. Labels: countable Example: To repeal the tax (Question I), a 50 per cent majority vote is required. To keep the tax in its 1976 form (Question III), only a plurality of votes is required. Example: It could also radicalize American politics and lead to presidents who are elected with very small pluralities, or who failed to qualify for the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.” 6. A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes. Labels: countable Example: Truman's total vote was 24,104,836. Dewey received 21,969,500;[…]. Truman won by a plurality of 2,135,336, but it was the first time since 1916 that a winner has failed to capture a majority of all votes cast. 7. A group of many entities: a large number. Labels: countable Example: A plurality of ideas were put forth at the meeting, most of which were rejected out of hand. 8. A group composed of more than one entity. Labels: countable Example: The array is organized into a plurality of vertical (column) blocks. 9. Polygamy. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Synonym of multiplicity (“the condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body”). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In this paper I argue that hearing voices experiences and plurality are part of a broad, rich, and complex spectrum of human experience, […] Example: Clinical psychology tends to lean towards early childhood trauma as an explanation for the development of plurality, but many members of the plurality community report experiencing a multiplicity of selves before, or even completely in the absence of, trauma.
Word: locative case Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌlɒk.ə.tɪv ˈkeɪ̯s/, /ˌlɔk.ə.tɪv ˈkeɪ̯s/, /ˌlɑk.ə.tɪv ˈkeɪ̯s/, /ˌlɔk.ə.tɪv ˈkæɪ̯s/, /ˌlɒk.ə.təv ˈkæɪ̯s/ 1. A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein; corresponding roughly to English at /by /in /on (preposition).
Word: sheik Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik. Pronunciation: /ʃeɪk/, /ʃik/ 1. The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe. Example: Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard. 2. An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order. Example: He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge. 3. An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families. 4. A romantic lover. Labels: archaic, slang Example: When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end. 5. An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing. Labels: slang 6. An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.
Word: tash Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tass (“Oriental silk fabric”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tash Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tache (“mustache”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Gable wore his tash like it had been designed for him and the ladies loved it.
Word: 'tache Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tache. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He stood there filling the pavement. Bald head, walrus 'tache.
Word: 'taches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of 'tache Labels: form-of, plural
Word: illative case Part of Speech: noun 1. A case used to indicate movement into something; for example, into the house. Example: Languages that make use of the illative case include Finnish, Hungarian, and Quechua.
Word: congruent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/, /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/, /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/, /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/, /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/ 1. Corresponding in character; congruous. Example: In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it. 2. Harmonious. 3. Having a difference divisible by a modulus. 4. Coinciding exactly when superimposed. 5. Satisfying a congruence relation.
Word: congruous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Latin congruus, from congruō (“to coincide with; to agree”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹuː.əs/, /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əs/ 1. Corresponding in character. 2. Harmonious.
Word: congruency Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ən.si/, /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ən.si/, /kənˈɡɹu.ən.si/, /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ən.si/, /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʉ.ən.si/ 1. The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being congruent Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: congruity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French congruité. 1. The quality of agreeing; the quality of being suitable and appropriate. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An instance or point of agreement or correspondence; a resemblance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ablative case Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈbleɪ.tɪv keɪs/, /ˈæ.blə.tɪv -/ 1. A noun case used in some languages to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation. In English grammar, it corresponds roughly to the use in English of prepositions "of", "from", "away from", and "concerning". In Latin grammar, the ablative case (cāsus ablātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European ablative, instrumental, comitative, associative and locative cases; these cases express concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "of"/"from", "by", "with", "to"/"with", and "at"/"in", respectively. Here/hence/hither, there/thence/thither, and where/whence/whither are the only English words with separate forms for the ablative (motion away from) and lative (motion towards) cases.
Word: bollock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒ.lək/ 1. A testicle. Labels: Ireland, UK, in-plural, vulgar Example: You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.
Word: bollock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒ.lək/ 1. To reprimand severely and grossly. Labels: Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar Example: The boss bollocked me for coming in late. Example: The goalkeeper gave his defenders a bollocking when they made a mistake.
Word: nad Part of Speech: noun 1. noun animate dependent
Word: nad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of gonad. 1. singular of nads Labels: form-of, singular Example: I look down and the little one has already cut right through my ball sac and is in the process of slicing my left nad free.
Word: nads Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of gonads. 1. The testicles. Labels: plural, plural-normally, slang 2. Courage; strength of will. Labels: plural, plural-normally, slang Example: Do you really have the ’nads to go through with this?
Word: blue-green alga Part of Speech: noun 1. Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. Example: Blue-green algae cells lack nuclei, and pigment is scattered. Example: Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, has been hit by recorded levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae that regional agencies say have not been seen since the 1970s.
Word: blue-green algae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue-green alga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ruud Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Ruud. Pronunciation: /ɹʌd/ 1. A male given name from Dutch
Word: hitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike. Pronunciation: /hɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A sudden pull. 2. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope. 3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. Example: His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat. 4. A problem, delay or source of difficulty. Labels: informal Example: The banquet went off without a hitch Example: The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches. 5. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element. Example: The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch? 6. A period of time spent in the military. Labels: slang Example: She served two hitches in Vietnam. Example: U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED 7. A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda. 8. A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested. Example: An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch. Example: A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face, and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point.
Word: hitch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike. Pronunciation: /hɪt͡ʃ/ 1. To pull with a jerk. Labels: transitive Example: She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt. 2. To attach, tie or fasten. Labels: transitive Example: He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping. Example: Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack. 3. To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. Labels: informal 4. Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, transitive Example: to hitch a ride 5. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Labels: intransitive Example: atoms[…]which at length hitched together 6. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded. Labels: intransitive Example: Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him. 7. To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. Labels: UK, intransitive Example: Stolen[…]A brown Gelding[…]all his paces, and hitches a little in his pace.
Word: tuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch. Pronunciation: /tʌk/, /tʊk/ 1. To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). Labels: transitive 2. To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden. Labels: transitive Example: Tuck in your shirt. I tucked in the sheet. He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket. Example: She tucked her hair behind her ear. 3. To eat; to consume. Labels: intransitive, often 4. To fit neatly. Labels: ergative Example: The sofa tucks nicely into that corner. Example: Kenwood House is tucked into a corner of Hampstead Heath. 5. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs. Example: The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment. 6. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in. Example: to tuck a dress 7. To full, as cloth. 8. Of a drag queen, trans woman, etc., to conceal one's penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Honey, have you tucked today? We don't wanna see anything nasty down there. 9. To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing piano keys that are outside the thumb (when playing scales). 10. Ellipsis of Mach tuck. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Never take a first-generation Learjet past Mach 0.82; it'll tuck hard nose-down and you won't be able to pull out from the dive.
Word: tuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch. Pronunciation: /tʌk/, /tʊk/ 1. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A curled position. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: tummy tuck 5. The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A curled position, with the shins held towards the body. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Food, especially snack food. Labels: India, UK, dated, uncountable Example: 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
Word: tuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French estoc (“rapier”), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword”). Doublet of estoc. Pronunciation: /tʌk/, /tʊk/ 1. A rapier, a sword. Labels: archaic Example: […] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck […] Example: [...] dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. [...]
Word: tuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare tocsin. Pronunciation: /tʌk/, /tʊk/ 1. The beat of a drum.
Word: jizz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The earliest known appearance in print dates from 1922, in Thomas Coward's "Country Diary" column for the Manchester Guardian of 6 December 1921; the piece was subsequently included in his 1922 book Bird Haunts and Nature Memories. He attributed it to "a west-coast Irishman", and explained: :if we are walking on the road and see, far ahead, someone whom we recognise although we can neither distinguish features nor particular clothes, we may be certain that we are not mistaken; there is something in the carriage, the walk, the general appearance which is familiar; it is, in fact, the individual's jizz. There are several theories as to the etymology of “jizz”: * From the military term GIS (“general impression and shape”). * Possible contraction of just is (in the sense that a particular bird species “just is” that species). An essay by Greenwood and Greenwood in 2018 debunks these theories. Other suggestions include variants of guise, gist and gestalt (mispronounced). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪz/ 1. The physical and behavioural characteristics of a bird that enable it to be immediately recognised by an experienced birder as a certain type of bird, especially to family or genus level. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: A West Coast Irishman was familiar with the wild creatures which dwelt on or visited his rocks and shores; at a glance he could name them, usually correctly, but if asked how he knew them would reply ‘By their "jizz".’ Example: Ennion's work is instantly recognisable. It is not detailed, it is often ‘impressionistic’ and it sometimes almost borders on caricature, yet few bird artists can capture the jizz, movement and atmosphere of birds the way he did.
Word: jizz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variation or shortening of jism. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪz/ 1. Male ejaculate; sperm, semen. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar
Word: jizz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variation or shortening of jism. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪz/ 1. To ejaculate; to eject semen. Labels: intransitive, slang 2. To ejaculate on, over, or into; to cover in semen. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: spunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”). Pronunciation: /spʌŋk/ 1. To catch fire; flame up. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 2. To ejaculate. Labels: intransitive, slang, vulgar Example: He spunked into the condom. 3. To waste (money etc.). Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar
Word: mettle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From figurative use of metal (since 16th century). The two spellings were originally interchangeable variants, but came to be distinguished by sense in the 18th century. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtəl/ 1. A quality of courage and endurance. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's mettell enough in his belly. Example: Please read on and discover the issues in education that test the mettle of those who experience this world every day. 2. Good temperament and character. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Your Maſter quits you: and for your ſeruice done him, / So much againſt the mettle of your ſex Example: The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the court, still makes good for the Sol, and keeps the court upon its mettle. 3. Obsolete spelling of metal (“metallic substance”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: They have neither gold nor silver of their owne, wine nor oyle, or scarce any corne growing in those united Provinces, little or no Wood, Tinne, Lead, Iron, Silke, Wooll, any stuffe almost, or Mettle; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that bragge of their mines, fertile England cannot compare with them.
Word: mettle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From figurative use of metal (since 16th century). The two spellings were originally interchangeable variants, but came to be distinguished by sense in the 18th century. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtəl/ 1. Spirited, vigorous, stout-hearted. Labels: Scotland Example: And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.
Word: Dustin Part of Speech: name Etymology: Probably from Old Norse Þorsteinn (“Thor's stone”). Pronunciation: /ˈdʌstɪn/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages (very rarely also given to women).
Word: indignant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indignāns, present participle of indignor (“to consider as unworthy, be angry or displeased at”), from in- (“privative”) + dignor (“to deem worthy”), from dignus (“worthy”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nənt/ 1. Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong. Example: indignant dissent Example: indignant look
Word: immunization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French immunisation. Coined by Albert Calmette. Equivalent to immunize + -ation or immune + -ization. 1. The process by which a person is safely exposed in a controlled manner to a material that is designed to prime their immune system against that material. Labels: US, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: vaccination (broadly synonymous) Example: Immunization against influenza is important for all child-care workers. 2. One such exposure. Labels: US, countable Example: The first immunization a baby gets is against HBV. Example: Our results are consistent with those obtained by other groups screening camelid-derived libraries, where an impressive diversity in the Nb nucleotide sequence, specificity and neutralizing capacity was found, especially after successive immunizations to promote the development of superimmunity. 3. The process by which any organism's body develops immunity against a pathogen. Labels: US, uncountable Example: Immunization via previous infection is not unusual among infectious diseases, but the degree and duration of such immunization varies by disease and depends on other factors as well (such as immunocapability and dietary sufficiency).
Word: intuition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”). Equivalent to intuit + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, /-t͡ʃuː-/, /ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/, /ˌɪn.tjuˈɪʃ.ən/ 1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure. The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become standardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...] 2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bilge pump Part of Speech: noun 1. A small pump fitted in ships and boats to pump the bilges clear of water.
Word: bill of health Part of Speech: noun 1. A certificate stating whether or not there is infectious disease aboard a ship or in a port of departure, given to the ship's master to present at the next port of arrival
Word: clean bill of health Part of Speech: noun 1. A bill of health that states that there is no infectious disease present in a ship, or its port of departure. 2. A statement that indicates that there are no obvious problems. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Now that we have changed the brake pads, the oil and the spark plugs, we can give this car a clean bill of health.
Word: foul bill of health Part of Speech: noun 1. A bill of health that states that there is infectious disease present in either a ship, or its port of departure. Labels: archaic
Word: scrum-half Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scrum + half, in reference to position on the field of play; compare half-back and full-back. Pronunciation: /ˈskrʌmhɑːf/, /ˈskrʌmhæf/ 1. A player who introduces the ball into a scrum.
Word: bill of lading Part of Speech: noun 1. A document issued by a carrier (e.g. master of a ship or the ship owner's agent) to a shipper listing a ship's cargo, acknowledging receipt of said cargo, and specifying terms for its delivery. Example: Near-synonyms: manifest, bill of goods Example: But all the while Captain Amos Brown was telling whackers that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen, he was really thinking of how he was to save those whose passage to a port not named in any bills of lading looked almost certain.
Word: birra Part of Speech: contraction 1. Contraction of bit + of. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, dialectal, informal Example: All the screaming in the night that gets in your head and it's not like you're getting your end away no more neither cause she's too shagged for fancy knickers and a birra cut and thrust, now that you've got the kid.
Word: binnacle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corruption of earlier bittacle, from French habitacle. Or from obsolete Spanish or Portuguese bitácula, both from Late Latin habitāculum (“little dwelling place”). Compare modern Spanish bitácora. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪnəkəl/ 1. The wooden housing for a ship's compass, with its corrector magnets and illuminating arrangements. Example: The lamp, or candle, which lights the binnacle, is placed in the cabin, of course the expence of one light is saved, and all the inconveniences of blowing out in a squally night, and likewise the trouble of trimming the lamp, are avoided. 2. The instrument cluster on a car or motorcycle.
Word: bireme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi- Latin rēmus Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.? Proto-Italic *-is Latin -is Latin birēmislbor. English bireme Learned borrowing from Latin birēmis. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪˌriːm/ 1. An ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other. Labels: historical
Word: good lick Part of Speech: noun 1. Something useful; a good deed. Labels: colloquial Example: If you could carry that bucket of water over here, that'd be a good lick. 2. A rapid pace. Labels: colloquial Example: The children came running down the road at a good lick.
Word: iodoform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iodo- + -form. 1. A halogenated hydrocarbon, CHI₃; a yellow crystalline compound, formerly used as a mild antiseptic. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: susurrus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Pronunciation: /ˈsuː.sə.ɹəs/, /ˈsu.sə.ɹəs/, /səˈsəɹ.əs/ 1. A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur. Labels: literary Example: [Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was] pelted with buckets of water by firemen, and, finally, currycombed and rubbed down by two grooms, keeping a sharp susurrus between them, so as to soothe his wounded feelings; […] Example: The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches.