nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Tonian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “stretch”). Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˈtoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. The Tonian period.
Word: boil down Part of Speech: verb Etymology: As an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off. 1. To reduce in volume by boiling. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak. 2. To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action). Labels: intransitive Example: So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks. Example: For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday. 3. To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action). Labels: transitive Example: My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
Word: Stennian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic period within the Mesoproterozoic era from about 1200 to 1000 million years ago. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Stennian Part of Speech: name 1. The Stennian period.
Word: Ectasian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Ectasian From Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”) + English -ian. 1. Of a geologic period within the Mesoproterozoic era from about 1400 to 1200 million years ago.
Word: Ectasian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Ectasian From Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”) + English -ian. 1. The Ectasian period.
Word: Calymmian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλυμμα (kálumma, “covering”). 1. Denoting a geologic period within the Mesoproterozoic era from about 1600 to 1400 million years ago. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Calymmian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλυμμα (kálumma, “covering”). 1. The Calymmian period.
Word: shilling sign Part of Speech: noun 1. The symbol '/' used in the United Kingdom before decimalisation to separate shillings from pence when writing out sums of money. (Examples: 7/6 = seven shillings and six pence; 7/- = seven shillings exactly.)
Word: Statherian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 1800 to 1600 million years ago. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Statherian Part of Speech: name 1. The Statherian period.
Word: Orosirian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 2050 to 1800 million years ago. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Orosirian Part of Speech: name 1. The Orosirian period.
Word: Rhyacian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 2300 to 2050 million years ago. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Rhyacian Part of Speech: name 1. The Rhyacian period.
Word: Siderian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Greek sideros. Pronunciation: /saɪˈdɪəri.ən, sɪ-/ 1. Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 2500 to 2300 million years ago.
Word: Siderian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Greek sideros. Pronunciation: /saɪˈdɪəri.ən, sɪ-/ 1. The Siderian period.
Word: involvement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English involve Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English involvement From involve + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɑlv.mənt/, /ɪnˈvɔlv.mənt/ 1. The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His colorful life span might be regarded as the story of an adventurer rather than that of an artist; despite his lengthy involvements in many of the arts--painting, fiction, theater, and film--one often feels from his autobiography that it was the adventures that counted most for him.
Word: old franc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Retronym for franc, to avoid confusion with the new franc. 1. One French franc before January 1960, when it was devalued to 1/100 of its original value and replaced by the new franc, worth 100 old francs. Labels: historical
Word: astounding Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈstaʊndɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of astound Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: astounding Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈstaʊndɪŋ/ 1. That astounds or astound. Example: astounding success an astounding spectacle Example: [Y]ou ſhall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine: / Threatning the world with high aſtounding tearms / And ſcourging kingdomes with his conquering ſword.
Word: lue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of dillue (“sift with a sieve”), from Cornish dyllo (“sift with a sieve”). Pronunciation: /ljuː/, /luː/ 1. To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver. Labels: dialectal, transitive Example: Cardiganshire... That which is thus Buddled they lue with a thick hair sieve close wrought in a tub of water. Example: Cornwall... The fine [sc. tin] is lewed in a fine sierce.
Word: mounting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mount + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/ 1. That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating. Labels: not-comparable Example: mounting debts Example: steadily mounting losses
Word: mounting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mount + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of mount Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mounting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mount + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/ 1. Something mounted to support something; an attachment. Example: The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell. Example: That particular plane must have hit an obstruction that ripped its undercarriage right off its mountings, to leave it suspended beneath. 2. The act of one who mounts. Example: The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
Word: Holocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French Holocène, based on holo- (“whole”) + Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “fresh, new”). Coined to replace the earlier (1833) label Recent, formally submitted in 1867 and officially endorsed in 1969. The concept is that this epoch is entirely (wholly) new. By surface analysis, holo- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒl.əˌsiːn/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about the year 10 000 BC to the present; the age of man. Labels: not-comparable Example: Meronym: Anthropocene
Word: Holocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Holocène, based on holo- (“whole”) + Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “fresh, new”). Coined to replace the earlier (1833) label Recent, formally submitted in 1867 and officially endorsed in 1969. The concept is that this epoch is entirely (wholly) new. By surface analysis, holo- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒl.əˌsiːn/ 1. The Holocene epoch.
Word: Pleistocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”) and καινός (kainós, “new”), meaning “newest”, coined by Charles Lyell in 1839. By surface analysis, containing the suffix -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn/, /-toʊ-/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago (earlier definition 1.7 million to 11,000 years ago); marked by the evolution of man, and the extinction of the large mammals. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Pleistocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”) and καινός (kainós, “new”), meaning “newest”, coined by Charles Lyell in 1839. By surface analysis, containing the suffix -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn/, /-toʊ-/ 1. The Pleistocene epoch. Example: A prehistoric site of late Pleistocene age, which was especially prepared for our visit, was seen at Ting-ts'un, above the Fen River (Shansi). Example: Throughout the Pleistocene, climatic changes exerted another type of selective pressure on human biological evolution, contributing to the rapid emergence of various Homo species over time.
Word: Pliocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, pleio- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈplaɪəsiːn/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 5.3 to 1.7 million years ago; marked by the appearance of humanity's first ancestors. Labels: not-comparable Example: [I]n a final sentence he expressed his conviction that his opponents "did not in truth represent the thought of the twentieth century, but might rather be regarded as mental fossils dug from some early Pliocene horizon ".
Word: Pliocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, pleio- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈplaɪəsiːn/ 1. The Pliocene epoch.
Word: Miocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, meio- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪəsiːn/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 23 to 5.3 million years ago; marked by the drift of continents to their present position. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Miocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, meio- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪəsiːn/ 1. The Miocene epoch.
Word: Oligocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German Oligozän (originally spelt Oligocän, coined in 1854). By surface analysis, oligo- + -cene. 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 34 to 23 million years ago; marked by the rapid evolution in a warm climate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Oligocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Oligozän (originally spelt Oligocän, coined in 1854). By surface analysis, oligo- + -cene. 1. The Oligocene epoch.
Word: Eocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + καινός (kainós, “new”) and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, eo- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈiːəsiːn/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 56 to 34 million years ago. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Eocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + καινός (kainós, “new”) and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, eo- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˈiːəsiːn/ 1. The Eocene epoch.
Word: Paleocene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French Paléocène. Coined by French botanist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874. By surface analysis, paleo- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˌpeɪ.liː.əʊˈsiːn/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Paleocene epoch. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Paleocene Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Paléocène. Coined by French botanist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874. By surface analysis, paleo- + -cene. Pronunciation: /ˌpeɪ.liː.əʊˈsiːn/ 1. A geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 65 to 56 million years ago; marked by the rise of the first large mammals in a tropical climate.
Word: Lopingian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Loping + -ian, from Leping, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China. 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Permian period from about 260 to 251 million years ago; marked by the formation of the Pangea supercontinent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Lopingian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Loping + -ian, from Leping, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China. 1. The Lopingian epoch.
Word: Guadalupian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Guadalupe + -ian, after the Guadalupe mountains in New Mexico. 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Permian period from about 270 to 260 million years ago, marked by the presence of gymnosperms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Guadalupian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Guadalupe + -ian, after the Guadalupe mountains in New Mexico. 1. The Guadalupian epoch.
Word: Cisuralian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Permian period from about 299 to 270 million years ago; marked by the appearance of beetles and flies.
Word: Cisuralian Part of Speech: name 1. the Cisuralian epoch
Word: Mississippian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Mississippi Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mississippian From Mississippi + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of, or pertaining to, Mississippi or its culture. Labels: not-comparable Example: She had come to Mississippi with her Mississippian husband, who turned out to be a clumsy pyramid-scheme con artist.
Word: Mississippian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Mississippi Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mississippian From Mississippi + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/ 1. The Mississippian epoch.
Word: Mississippian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Mississippi Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mississippian From Mississippi + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/ 1. A native or resident of the state of Mississippi in the United States of America.
Word: Pridoli Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 419 to 416 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the first vascular land plants.
Word: Pridoli Part of Speech: name 1. The Pridoli epoch.
Word: Ludlow Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Old English river name Hlūde, now the River Teme, + hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌd.ləʊ/, /ˈlʌd.loʊ/ 1. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 14. The Ludlow epoch. Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable
Word: Ludlow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Old English river name Hlūde, now the River Teme, + hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌd.ləʊ/, /ˈlʌd.loʊ/ 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 423 to 419 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the millipedes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Wenlock Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 428 to 423 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the first corals. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Wenlock Part of Speech: name 1. The Wenlock epoch.
Word: Llandovery Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh Llanymddyfri (literally “church near the waters”). 1. A market town and community with a town council in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN7634).
Word: Llandovery Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the rock formation named after the nearby town. 1. A geological epoch within the Silurian period from about 443 to 428 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the trilobites.
Word: Furongian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a geologic epoch within the Cambrian period from about 501 to 488 million years ago; marked by an "explosion" of life. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Furongian Part of Speech: name 1. The Furongian epoch.
Word: systematic name Part of Speech: noun 1. A name that systematically designates a well-defined group of entities. 2. A name that systematically designates a well-defined group of entities.
Word: systematic element name Part of Speech: noun 1. A systematic name for an element, derived from the digits of its atomic number to which the suffix -ium is appended; normally only used for transuranic elements before or for a short period after they have been created, after which they are given a non-systematic name. Example: Before IUPAC named the element with atomic number 106 “seaborgium” in honour of Glenn Seaborg, it was called by the systematic element name unnilhexium.
Word: cat's cradle Part of Speech: noun 1. A children's game of forming string into various shapes around one's fingers. Labels: uncountable 2. Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose. Labels: countable, idiomatic Example: There was the a risk that my research might reveal the original, rightful owner of an instrument, which could open up a cat's cradle of restitution claims.
Word: rousing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/ 1. That rouses or excites. Example: rousing music Example: But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
Word: rousing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of rouse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rousing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/ 1. The act by which somebody or something is roused. Example: Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both. Disposables can save parents repeated nighttime rousings or frequent sheet changes.
Word: pop feminism Part of Speech: noun 1. A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases. Labels: derogatory, sometimes, uncountable Example: So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives. Example: Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.
Word: connections Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kəˈnɛkʃənz/ 1. plural of connection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: connections Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kəˈnɛkʃənz/ 1. The people financially involved with a racehorse or racing greyhound. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: badly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈbæd.li/ 1. In a bad manner. Example: Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule. Example: Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt. 2. Very much; to a great degree. Example: I want it so badly. Example: Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!
Word: badly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈbæd.li/ 1. Ill, unwell. Labels: Northern-England Example: He's never badly.
Word: gesso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gesso. Doublet of gypsum. Compare Portuguese gesso (“gypsum; plaster, cast”) and Spanish yeso (“gypsum; plaster, cast”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛsəʊ/ 1. A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 1994, Timothy Noad, Patricia Seligman, The Illuminated Alphabet, The Quarto Group (Chartwell Books), 2017, page 27, The combination of leaf gold and gesso is almost miraculous. No photographic reproduction can adequately show the brilliant effect of raised gesso. Example: To make the gesso, you need a chalk and a glue. During the Renaissance, gesso was made with gypsum, which is calcium sulphate. Terra Alba, available from art suppliers today, is a natural gypsum that makes a bright white gesso. 2. A work of art done in gesso. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: notation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin notātiō, equivalent to notate + -ion or note + -ation. Pronunciation: /noʊˈteɪʃən/ 1. The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters. Labels: uncountable 2. A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book. Example: The notations used in the two books differed. 3. A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation. Labels: countable Example: She made a notation in the margin of the book.
Word: unfortunate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fortunate, doublet of infortunate. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət/, /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt/, /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət/ 1. Not favored by fortune. Example: Thus ended the life of one of the most unfortunate of small railway concerns. 2. Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune. Example: But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…] 3. Regrettable or unsuitable.
Word: unfortunate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + fortunate, doublet of infortunate. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət/, /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt/, /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət/ 1. An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances. Example: Of those adults who used the trains every day, about half now travel daily by bus, [...] one unfortunate is reported to be walking to and from his employment. Example: Unlike the unfortunates aboard the Triumph, we viewers are in and out of the situation in under an hour and feel like we have had quite a lot of fun in the process. 2. A prostitute. Labels: archaic, euphemistic
Word: medicinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicine + -al. Pronunciation: /məˈdɪ.sɪ.nəl/, /-sə-/, /məˈdɪs.nəl/ 1. Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical. Labels: not-comparable 2. Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain. Labels: not-comparable Example: Though not poisonous, this mildly psychoactive mushroom has valuable medicinal properties. Extracted agents could be used to enhance medi-gels pain-reducing capabilities. Example: The town [Cheltenham] "is celebrated for its medicinal waters" and "has been for the last sixty years one of the most elegant and fashionable watering places in England". 3. Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificially sweet or bitter flavours. Labels: not-comparable
Word: medicinal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicine + -al. Pronunciation: /məˈdɪ.sɪ.nəl/, /-sə-/, /məˈdɪs.nəl/ 1. Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.
Word: leisure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English leyser, from Anglo-Norman leisir, variant of Old French loisir (“to enjoy oneself”) (Modern French loisir survives as a noun), substantive use of a verb, from Latin licēre (“be permitted”). Displaced native Old English ǣmetta. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈliːʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈliʒɚ/, /ˈlɛʒɚ/ 1. Freedom provided by the cessation of activities. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Free time, time free from work or duties. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Example: Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment. 3. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say.
Word: leister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster. Pronunciation: /ˈliːstə/, /ˈlistɚ/ 1. A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon. Example: The methods of catching the ſalmon in this pariſh are ſimilar to thoſe deſcribed in the ſtatiſtical account of Dornock, p. 15. excepting that there is no raiſe-net fiſhing, and that the leiſter is only about 10 or 12 feet long, conſequently better calculated for throwing to any diſtance. Example: Rob Runchy, as a forlorn hope, once threw his clodding leister at a drowning man floating down the Yarrow in a high flood, and hauled him out with the lyams unharmed.
Word: leister Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster. Pronunciation: /ˈliːstə/, /ˈlistɚ/ 1. To catch or spear (fish) with a leister. Labels: transitive Example: We once knew a notorious salmon poacher, who, on one of his excursions, saw a pair of salmon spawning in a stream. He leistered the male from the side of the female, and as soon as she missed her partner, she retired from the spawning-bed into the pool below the ford, and very soon returned with another male, which the poacher also leistered. Example: You are quite correct, sir, […] in what you say about the quantity of oil in the heads of these fish [gurnets or gurnards]. […] [T]he heads [of the fish are] placed with their mouths upward, and a small quantity of tow placed in each mouth. When they [the poachers] reach the stream where they are to leister the salmon, the tow is lighted, the fire immediately communicates with the lips of the fish, and a beautiful clear light is emitted, which continues to burn for a considerable time. Sometimes also a single head, thus prepared and dried, is fixed at the end of a stick, and is used as a torch, when a poacher goes leistering single-handed.
Word: bis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /baɪz/ 1. plural of bi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bis Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”). Pronunciation: /bɪs/ 1. Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts. Labels: not-comparable Example: Article 15 bis of the Rome Statute ("Exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (State referral, proprio motu)") lays down, in ten paragraphs, special procedural rules for the initiation of an individual prosecution on charges under Article 8 bis of the Statute (for a comprehensive examination of that article's material provisions, see supra 5.1) on the basis of a State referral or proprio motu by the Prosecutor. An analysis of specific provisions of Article 15 bis is offered below.
Word: pent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pen + -t. Pronunciation: /pɛnt/ 1. Confinement; concealment. Example: There was a catch in my voice, thick as it was with the pent of unshed tears; had I let them flow they would have come out forty per cent proof.
Word: pent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pen + -t. Pronunciation: /pɛnt/ 1. Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned. Example: As the old woman, with a gigantic and distorted image of herself thrown half upon the wall behind her, half upon the roof above, sat bending over the few loose bricks within which it was pent, on the damp hearth of the chimney—for there was no stove—she looked as if she were watching at some witch’s altar for a favourable token; […] Example: Wherever Miss Clavering went, this infatuated young fellow continued to follow her; and being aware that his engagement to his cousin was known in the world, he was forced to make a mystery of his passion, and confine it to his own breast, so that it was so pent in there and pressed down, that it is a wonder he did not explode some day with the stormy secret, and perish collapsed after the outburst.
Word: pent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pen + -t. Pronunciation: /pɛnt/ 1. simple past and past participle of pen; alternative form of penned. Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past
Word: pent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of pentatonic. Pronunciation: /pɛnt/ 1. A pentatonic scale. Labels: informal Example: The major pent is the same minor pent pattern only shifted down 3 frets toward the nut. Like John B told me for Sunshine of your love. Play Bm and then Dm pent and it will sound good. He also pointed out that Bm pent includes the same exact notes as DM pent. So the idea is if the song is in D, try both minor and major pents and see how it works.
Word: pent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of pentacle or pentagram. Pronunciation: /pɛnt/ 1. A pentacle or pentagram. Labels: informal Example: [> What symbols mean the most to you? For instance, what do you wear around your neck and why?] Usually, a triquetra, although I have ankhs, pents and a spell-bottle on amber beads which I wear if I find it necessary to be *really* annoying :)
Word: come down to Part of Speech: verb 1. To reach by moving down or reducing. Example: Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid. Example: Come down to my place someday and have lunch. 2. To entirely depend upon a single factor; basically, ultimately or in essence. Labels: idiomatic Example: The decision comes down to whether you really want to pay that much for a little extra convenience. Example: The game is going to come down to the last five seconds.
Word: at a loss Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Below the cost or price of purchase. Example: We sold those old computers at a loss. 2. Not sure; uncertain; lacking further ideas, direction, or ability. Labels: idiomatic Example: I have fixed the parts I understand, and the rest leaves me at a loss. Example: His policies may be ineffective, but he is never at a loss for words.
Word: blockbuster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From block + buster, referring originally to aerial bombs capable of destroying a whole block of buildings. Pronunciation: /ˈblɒkˌbʌs.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈblɑkˌbʌs.tɚ/ 1. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block. 2. Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb. Labels: informal Example: He was watching the blockbuster film series Harry Potter. 3. Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale Labels: informal Example: "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" is lusty, a blockbuster conception. Example: The report noted that 'an increasing public appetite for large "blockbuster" musicals is a firmly established feature of London’s West End theatre scene'. 4. Anything very large or powerful; a whopper. Labels: slang Example: “How nice," she responded to his invitation, “but I've got a blockbuster of a headache. I'm paying for last night. Call me tomorrow, will you?" Example: Many—such as plants' relationships with mycorrhizal fungi—have been blockbuster moments in the history of life, with world-changing consequences. 5. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80. 6. One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property). Labels: US Example: Whereas White residents fell prey to blockbusters who stoked fears of invading Negroes and plummeting housing values during the 1950s, African Americans confronted more-than-imagined difficulties in neighborhoods after the 1968 riots.
Word: convalescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French convalescent, from Latin convalēscēn(t-)s, present participle of convalēscere (“to become strong or well”); see convalesce. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnvəˈlɛsənt/ 1. recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness; on the mend. Labels: not-comparable Example: So soon as Lady Anne was pronounced convalescent by the medical men, she insisted on discharging "that odious woman," the nurse,... Example: "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!" 2. of convalescence or convalescents Labels: not-comparable Example: She stayed in a convalescent hospital for two weeks before returning home.
Word: convalescent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French convalescent, from Latin convalēscēn(t-)s, present participle of convalēscere (“to become strong or well”); see convalesce. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnvəˈlɛsənt/ 1. A person recovering from illness. Example: I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent.
Word: decree nisi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See decree + Latin nisi (“unless”). 1. a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; it becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not.
Word: decree absolute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Latin dēcrētum absolūtum. 1. the official decree marking the legal end of a marriage, allowing the two people to remarry. 2. An absolute unconditional accruement of a claim's validity and legitimacy.
Word: remarry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English marry English remarry From re- + marry. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈmæɹi/ 1. To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage. Example: After his wife's death, he never remarried. Example: To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.
Word: nisi Part of Speech: noun 1. decree nisi Labels: attributive, uncountable Example: The law in Massachusetts mandates a nisi period before divorce by decree nisi.
Word: tris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane. Pronunciation: /tɹɪs/ 1. A flammable compound which forms a corrosive solution in water and is used as a buffer and emulsifying agent. Labels: uncountable
Word: tris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate. Pronunciation: /tɹɪs/ 1. A phosphoric acid ester C₉H₁₅Br₆O₄P formerly used to flameproof clothes and especially children's nightclothes until it was found to cause cancer in animals. Labels: uncountable
Word: tris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪz/ 1. plural of tri Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ballot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (suffix forming diminutive nouns); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *ballu (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz (“ball”). Pronunciation: /ˈbælət/ 1. A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote. Example: Imagine if the outcome in Michigan is close, and 75% of Biden supporters vote absentee, yet 10% or more of those ballots are rejected. Example: In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms. 2. The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting. Example: July 1836, A. B. (initials of author), London and Westminster Review Article XI, Bribery and Intimidation at Elections the insufficiency of the ballot Example: In the TSSA ballot, 80% of management grade and 60% of general grade members voted to accept, on an overall turnout of 57%. 3. The total of all the votes cast in an election. 4. A list of candidates running for office; a ticket. Labels: US
Word: ballot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (suffix forming diminutive nouns); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *ballu (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz (“ball”). Pronunciation: /ˈbælət/ 1. To vote or decide by ballot. Labels: intransitive Example: to ballot for a candidate 2. To draw lots. Labels: intransitive 3. To invite to vote on a proposal. Labels: transitive Example: The trade union balloted its members for strike action.
Word: polling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of poll Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: polling Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of taking a poll. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. the process of voting in an election. Labels: uncountable
Word: flick off Part of Speech: verb 1. To insult (someone) by showing them the back of one's fist with the middle finger extended. Labels: slang 2. To masturbate by flicking the clitoris with one's finger or fingers. Labels: ambitransitive, slang, vulgar
Word: bifocals Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles. 1. Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.
Word: gynogenetically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English gynogenetic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English gynogenetically From gynogenetic + -ally. 1. By means of gynogenesis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: globalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English globe English -al English global Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English globalize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English globalization From globalize + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɡloʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɡloʊ.bləˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɡləʉ.bə.lɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/ 1. American and Oxford British English standard spelling of globalisation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.
Word: gynogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gyno- + -genesis. 1. Female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus. Labels: uncountable
Word: Grignard reaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After François Auguste Victor Grignard, a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. 1. The reaction of a Grignard reagent (an organo-magnesium halide) with aldehydes or ketones to form secondary or tertiary alcohols
Word: Grignard reagent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for François Auguste Victor Grignard, a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. 1. An alkyl or aryl magnesium halide, used in the Grignard reaction to form substituted alcohols; they are formed from alkyl or aryl halides and metallic magnesium
Word: Grignard Part of Speech: name 1. A French surname.
Word: Nobel laureate Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who has been awarded a Nobel Prize.
Word: croquette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke. Pronunciation: /kɹoʊˈkɛt/, /kɹɔˈkɛt/ 1. A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Example: chicken croquettes Example: crab croquettes
Word: landau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer. Pronunciation: /ˈlæn.dɔː/, /ˈlæn.daʊ/ 1. A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other. Example: Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell. Example: On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex. 2. A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages. Labels: broadly
Word: leatherette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leather + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning an imitation or substitute of something); originally a trademark that has since been genericized. Pronunciation: /ˌlɛðəˈɹɛt/ 1. A type of fabric, often plastic, made to imitate the appearance of leather. Labels: also, attributive, countable, uncountable Example: Many attempts have been made to supply a material to take the place of leather on cheap books, but hitherto nothing has been quite successful. [...] Such a material has apparently appeared in the form of "Leatherette," which is a kind of felted paper, very tough, the same colour throughout, and which may be grained to imitate leather; indeed, the imitation is so close, both in appearance and in feel, that only a practised eye can perceive that it is not leather. Example: Material.—A rather stiff quality of jute board or tar board, similar to that used by bookbinders. Straw board is not serviceable, being too brittle. Also leatherette for covering and some figured paper for lining. Also some muslin or sateen for hinges. This should match the leatherette as nearly as possible in color. (Leatherette is an imitation leather, very durable, obtained at a paper house.)
Word: leatherette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leather + -ette (suffix forming nouns denoting (female) people). Pronunciation: /ˌlɛðəˈɹɛt/ 1. A person, especially a woman, who dresses in leather or imitation leather. Labels: slang Example: The NYU [New York University] tarts and the club slime, the art holes and the once-a-week bridge-and-tunnel leatherettes, the spikes and the usual dregs and walking garbage, Eel was giving them all the hiss. Example: Since I seemed to know some of the leatherettes, I was a magnet for fellow Jews wanting to know what was going on.
Word: Terrence Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Latin, variant of Terence.
Word: poignant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English poynaunt, poynant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman puignant, poynaunt etc., present participle of poindre (“to prick”), from Latin pungō (“prick”). Doublet of pungent. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɪ.njənt/, [ˈpɔɪɲ.ənt], /ˈpɔɪ.nənt/, /ˈpɔɪ.ɡnənt/, /ˈpoɪ.njənt/ 1. Sharp-pointed; keen. Labels: obsolete, usually Example: His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...]. 2. Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant. Example: A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke. 3. Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving. Example: Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear. Example: The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them. 4. Piquant, pungent. Labels: figuratively 5. Incisive; penetrating; piercing. Labels: figuratively Example: His comments were poignant and witty. 6. Inducing sharp physical pain. Labels: UK, dated
Word: invited Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of invite Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: invited Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/ 1. Having been asked to attend. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having an invitation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: invited Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/ 1. One who was given an invitation. Labels: rare Example: In the future, if you know that you're going to be mixing inviteds and uninviteds while out, call them all ahead of time to caution the inviteds against talking about the wedding and to tell the uninviteds about your guest list so they know you didn't forget about them […]
Word: cockmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cock (“rooster”) + master. 1. One who breeds gamecocks.
Word: cockmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cock (“penis”) + master. 1. Term of abuse. Labels: humorous, slang, vulgar