nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: carrier wave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carrier + wave. Sense 2 (“soliton”) was coined by the Scottish civil engineer, naval architect, and shipbuilder John Scott Russell (1808–1882): see the quotations. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.ɹɪ.ə weɪv/, /ˈkæ.ɹɪ.ɚ weɪv/, /ˈkɛ-/ 1. A wave that can be modulated, either in amplitude, frequency, or phase, to carry or transmit images, music, speech, or other signals. Example: This invention relates to carrier wave signaling systems and more particularly to systems of multiplex telephony employing carrier waves wherein such carrier waves of distinctive frequencies are normally impressed upon the transmission medium. Such medium may comprise any of the natural media employed in radio transmission or a conductive transmission line of any kind. Example: I have a waterproof basket arranged on my operating table, and when the static waves come over it, they fall in. There is no trouble in receiving music, however, for the audio frequency voice waves are superimposed on a carrier wave. This carrier wave carries the music over the basket, without falling, into the set. 2. Synonym of soliton (“a self-reinforcing pulse or travelling wave caused by any non-linear effect”). Labels: obsolete Example: The same propagation through the same ether brought the rays of the sun's light from the sun to the earth, and the same carrier wave brought from the other side of the globe, from the oceans there, which were disturbed by the attraction of the sun and moon, those waves all round the coasts which were called tides. All these phenomena, from the tides and the wind to the rays of light and to the sounds of the telephone, were the motion of one simple phenomenon, the carrier wave, the wave of translation. Example: Noise is caused by a shock or stroke or beat given to some mass of matter. The shock tells on the mass of air near the struck body. It sends this mass of air into a heap near the struck body. This heap forms an air wave. [...] This wave is the carrier of the shock through great distances in the air, it travels with great speed. This "carrier wave" takes the shock of the stroke from afar, to the ear of the listener.
Word: modulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”). Compare module, modulus. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd͡ʒɪleɪt/, /ˈmɒd͡ʒəˌleɪt/, /ˈmɑ.d͡ʒəˌleɪt/, /ˈmɑ.djuˌleɪt/, /ˈmɒd͡ʒɪˌleɪt/ 1. To regulate, adjust or adapt. Labels: transitive Example: "Can you tell?" she asked, in a trembling but well modulated and sensual voice. 2. To regulate, adjust or adapt. Labels: transitive 3. To regulate, adjust or adapt. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: transmontane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ultimately from Latin trānsmontānus, either directly to English from Latin or by way of a Romance cognate. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹænz.mɒnˈteɪn/, /ˌtɹɑːnz.mɒnˈteɪn/, /ˌtɹænz.mɑnˈteɪn/ 1. Of or relating to the other side of the mountains (usually with reference to the Alps). Labels: not-comparable
Word: transmutability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English transmute Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English transmutability From transmute + -ability. 1. The ability to be transmuted. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: transmutable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English transmute Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English transmutable From transmute + -able. 1. Able to be transmuted Labels: not-comparable Example: The other motives employed in these tunes are transmutable, or only of temporary value, in order to satisfy the taste of the age.
Word: transmutant Part of Speech: adj 1. of or relating to transmutation Labels: not-comparable 2. having been transmuted Labels: not-comparable
Word: transmutation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 14th century, from Old French transmutacion (“transformation, metamorphosis”), from Late Latin transmutationem, from Latin transmutare (“to change”). Pronunciation: /tɹanzmjuːˈteɪʃn̩/ 1. Change, alteration. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Up I rose and forth I fared: / Took my plunge within the bath-pool, pacified the watch-dog scared, / Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow, […] 3. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept. 4. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another. That nature accomplishes this before our very eyes, and that it is what creates the solar heat and light that supports all life, was suspected by no one. The revelation came as a complete surprise.
Word: nuclear reaction Part of Speech: noun 1. A process such as the fission of an atomic nucleus, or the fusion of one or more atomic nuclei and/or subatomic particles in which the number of protons and/or neutrons in a nucleus changes; the reaction products may contain a different element or a different isotope of the same element.
Word: confuzzled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of confused + puzzled. The earliest recorded usage is dated 1994, but the term was popularized in the early-to-mid-2000s. 1. Confused or puzzled. Labels: childish
Word: confuzzled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of confused + puzzled. The earliest recorded usage is dated 1994, but the term was popularized in the early-to-mid-2000s. 1. simple past and past participle of confuzzle. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woot Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of w00t. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: snirt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain. Either from Middle English snurten (“to sneer; snort, snore”), a variation of snorten (“to snort”); or from Middle English *snyrten, an alteration of fnyrten, fnerten, from Old English fnǣrettan. Compare also Norwegian snurt (“vexed, peevish”), Middle English snirt (“stern, gloomy”). Pronunciation: /snɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. To give a suppressed laugh or sharp intake of breath. Labels: Scotland Example: "He grins, and snirts, and thraws ye ken — Example: "But ye see there was a great deal of blushing and snirting, and bits of made coughs, as if to keep down a thorough guffau."
Word: snirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain. Either from Middle English snurten (“to sneer; snort, snore”), a variation of snorten (“to snort”); or from Middle English *snyrten, an alteration of fnyrten, fnerten, from Old English fnǣrettan. Compare also Norwegian snurt (“vexed, peevish”), Middle English snirt (“stern, gloomy”). Pronunciation: /snɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. A suppressed laugh; a sharp intake of breath. Labels: Scotland
Word: snirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of snow + dirt. Pronunciation: /snɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. Snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed. Labels: Canada, US, uncountable Example: We then have what we call ‘snirt’ storms. Example: Snirt or a mixture of snow and dirt is the term popularly applied to the windrows of dirt along the roads during a Minnesota winter.
Word: pronounceable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English pronounce Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pronounceable From pronounce + -able. 1. Capable of being distinctly pronounced in speech; enunciable. Example: And it's more pronounceable than a traditional keysmash—“as;ldfkjls”—so it can be said out loud. 2. Capable of being expressed; sayable.
Word: quean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Doublet of gyne and queen. Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kone (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō, “woman”), 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”). Pronunciation: /kwiːn/ 1. A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. Labels: archaic Example: Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […] Example: However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.’s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say ‘coming home to-night, dearie’ and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman. 2. A young woman, a girl; a daughter. Labels: Scotland Example: Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you’d meet, he’d already had two–three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.
Word: syllabary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/, /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/ 1. A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables. 2. A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable. Example: It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants. Example: Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.
Word: DUI Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌdiː.juːˈaɪ/ 1. Initialism of driving under the influence [of alcohol or other drugs]: the act of doing so; a charge or conviction for that act. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: DUI is punishable by jail time and by fines. Example: They hit him with DUI and gross negligence.
Word: starred Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. simple past and past participle of star Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: starred Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sterred, equivalent to star (noun) + -ed. 1. Having a star or stars. Labels: not-comparable Example: a Michelin-starred restaurant Example: She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.
Word: ECDL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of European Computer Driving Licence. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ICDL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of International Computer Driving Licence. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: proscenium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskḗnion), from πρό (pró, “before”) + σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene building”). Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈsiː.ni.əm/, /pɹoʊˈsiː.ni.əm/ 1. The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra. Example: It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience. 2. The stage area immediately in front of the scene building. 3. The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage. Example: The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή). 4. A proscenium arch. Example: Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.
Word: proscenium arch Part of Speech: noun 1. The arch that frames a theater stage, and separates it from the auditorium. Example: The arts have traditionally employed devices that seem designed to assist the spectator in lifting the occasion out of any practical context and placing it in a special, autonomous space of its own. The pedestal and the stage raise sculpture and theatre above the plane of ordinary life, the frame and the proscenium arch separate art and performances from their surroundings, special halls for the visual arts and for music provide what the cathedral does for religious worship, a sanctified space removed from the concerns of daily life. Example: I started using filmic grammar, rather than traditional proscenium arch grammar, because I worked in the round primarily.
Word: auditorium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory + -ium. Pronunciation: /ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/, /ˌɔ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm/, /ˈɑ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm/ 1. A large room for public meetings or performances. 2. The space where the audience is located in a theater, etc. Example: The Academy of Music is 204 feet in length and 114 feet in width at the auditorium part, and and ^([sic]) 121 feet at the stage; hence covering an area of 24,020 square feet, of which 9,760 square feet are the area of the stage and its dependencies, and 14,260 square feet are appropriated to the auditorium, saloons, lobbies and so forth.
Word: Reilly Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Irish Ó Raghallaigh, a surname meaning "descendants of Raghallach". Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪli/ 1. A surname from Irish. 2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Word: O'Reilly Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪli/, /oʊˈɹaɪli/ 1. A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] from Reilly.
Word: mawkish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mawk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English mawkish From mawk + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/, /ˈmɑːkɪʃ/ 1. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment. Example: Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android. Example: I found [Christoph] Buchel’s appropriation of the boat in which so many migrants lost their lives a vile and mawkish spectacle in the context of the biennale. 2. Feeling sick, queasy. Labels: archaic, dialectal 3. Sickening or insipid in taste or smell. Labels: archaic
Word: mountebank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/ 1. One who sells dubious medicines. Example: She is abus'd, ſtolne from me, and corrupted / By Spels, and Medicines, bought of Mountebanks Example: There is nothing ſo impoſſible in Nature, but Mountebanks vvill undertake; nothing ſo incredible but they vvill affirm: Mrs. Bull’s Condition vvas look’d upon as deſperate by all the Men of Art; then Signior Cavallo judged it vvas high time for him to interpoſe, he bragg’d that he had an infallible Ointment and Plaiſter, vvhich being applied to the Sore vvould Cure it in a fevv Days; […] 2. One who sells by deception; a con artist. Example: Donne was a mountebank who wrapped up his lack of meaning in hard words. Example: Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to—— 3. Any boastful, false pretender. Example: They ſay this towne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke working Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing Witches that deforme the bodie: / Diſguiſed Cheaters, prating Mountebankes, / And manie ſuch like liberties of ſinne: Example: As if Divinity had catch'd / The Itch, of purpose to be scratch'd; / Or, like a Mountebank, did wound / And stab her self with doubts profound, / Only to shew with how small pain / The sores of faith are cur'd again […] 4. An acrobat. Labels: obsolete
Word: mountebank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/ 1. To act as a mountebank. Labels: intransitive 2. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses. Labels: transitive Example: Ile Mountebanke their Loues, / Cogge their Hearts from them,
Word: portend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin portendere (“to foretell”), from por- (“forward”) + tendere (“to stretch”). Pronunciation: /pɔːˈtɛnd/, /pɔɹˈtɛnd/ 1. To serve as a warning or omen of. Labels: transitive Example: A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end, 2. To signify; to denote. Labels: transitive Example: Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days. Example: How alive these poems are with the visual specifics of what he so closely observes, how full of elegance, terror and hope. They portend a poet of major craft, of deep feeling, and of fine intelligence.
Word: delve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ- (“to dig”). Cognate with West Frisian dolle (“to dig, delve”), Dutch delven (“to dig, delve”), Low German dölven (“to dig, delve”), dialectal German delben, telben (“to dig, delve”). Pronunciation: /dɛlv/ 1. To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel. Labels: intransitive, literary Example: Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor. Example: I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might—it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down. 2. To dig; to excavate. Labels: ambitransitive, literary Example: And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory […] Example: They dolve a grave beneath the arrow / And covered it with brere. 3. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out Labels: ambitransitive, figuratively, literary Example: I cannot delve him to the root. Example: She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.
Word: delve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English delve, delf, dælf, from Old English delf, ġedelf (“digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug out, delf, ditch”). More at delf. Pronunciation: /dɛlv/ 1. A pit or den. Labels: archaic, literary Example: the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...]. Example: I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.
Word: modicum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English modicum, from Latin modicum (“a little, a small amount”), a noun use of the neuter form of modicus (“moderate; restrained, temperate; reasonable”) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns). Modicus is derived from modus (“a measure; a bound, limit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The plural form modica is derived from Latin modica. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒdɪkəm/, /ˈmɑdɪkəm/, /-də-/ 1. A modest, small, or trifling amount. Example: Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan, he conceded to follow the others. Example: Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he vtters, his euaſions haue ears thus long. I haue bobed his braine more then he has beate my bones.
Word: ring tone Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ringtone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ringtone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ring + tone. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋˌtəʊn/, [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰəʊ̯n], /ˈɹɪŋˌtoʊn/, [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰoʊ̯n] ~ [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰəʊ̯n], [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰoːn] 1. The sound made by a telephone when ringing. Example: voltage generator ringtone for installation in terminal stations of telephone communication systems for carrier wave Example: The transducers used to measure cavity dynamic pressure and reed dynamic displacement are calibrated before each test, the ringtone oscillator assembly produces a sinusoidal driving pressure, with at most, a few small harmonics. 2. A customizable tone used to indicate an incoming call on a telephone, especially a mobile phone. Example: I set my favorite song as my ringtone. Example: So even if the primary purpose of a ringtone is to notify the user of an incoming call, the effect of a ringtone played in public cannot be ignored if the reason users choose ringtones is, in part, in order to impress others .
Word: ringtone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ring + tone. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋˌtəʊn/, [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰəʊ̯n], /ˈɹɪŋˌtoʊn/, [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰoʊ̯n] ~ [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰəʊ̯n], [ˈɹɪŋˌtʰoːn] 1. Of a telephone: to play a ringtone. Labels: ambitransitive Example: My handheld ringtoned “Happy Days are Here Again.” I withdrew into a quieter corner of Mahogany Bar and stuck a finger in my other ear. Example: The cell reception is less than zero here, but my phone was ringtoning away. I did not like the sound of that.
Word: transnational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English national English transnational From trans- + national. 1. Between or beyond national boundaries. 2. Involving several nations or nationalities. Example: And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics. Example: While MS-13 is not the only transnational gang this administration will target, we believe the following background information attributed as “information provided by the Justice Department” will be helpful: […]
Word: transnational Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English national English transnational From trans- + national. 1. Someone operating in several countries.
Word: transoceanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trans- + oceanic. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹæn.zəʊ.ʃiˈæn.ɪk/ 1. beyond or on the other side of an ocean Example: Guam is a transoceanic territory of the United States. 2. crossing an ocean Example: We took a transoceanic flight.
Word: monomania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either: * Formed in English as mono- + mania; * From the French monomanie; or, * From the Modern Latin monomania. Pronunciation: /ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪə/, /ˌmɑnoʊˈmeɪni.ə/ 1. Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject. Example: It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania. 2. A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea. Labels: dated Example: “There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania,” I answered. “There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an ‘idée fixe’ and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.”
Word: transom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English traunsom; probably an alteration of Latin trānstrum (“crossbeam”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæn.səm/ 1. A crosspiece over a door; a lintel. 2. A horizontal glazing bar in a window. 3. A transom window. 4. Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart. 5. The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship. 6. The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows. 7. Items that have arrived over the transom. Labels: attributive, figuratively, usually Example: We are overwhelmed with transom resumes. Example: They only met the deadline by working most of the night and making a transom filing.
Word: Ness Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after the River Ness, of Proto-Brythonic/Pictish origin, from a Proto-Celtic word *Nesta describing great currents, according to MacBain, from the same Proto-Indo-European root that gave the river Νέστος (Néstos), possibly *ned- (“water”) (cf. German nass (“wet”)). Pronunciation: /nɛs/ 1. An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa. Labels: Irish, countable, uncountable 2. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 6. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 7. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: one-way ticket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From one-way + ticket. 1. A ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not return. 2. A course of action from which there is no return. Labels: figuratively Example: Voting Labour is a one way ticket to higher fuel prices.
Word: one-way mirror Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From one-way + mirror. 1. A mirror reflecting images on one side and transparent on the other, often used by the police during interrogations. Example: "The trainee interviews a client in a one-way mirror room or in front of a video camera while being observed by the supervisor, who guides the therapy by telephoning suggestions or bringing the trainee out for discussion." — Learning and Teaching Therapy by Jay Haley
Word: Eochaid Sálbuide Part of Speech: name 1. The king of Ulster prior to the events of the Ulster Cycle in Irish mythology. Father of Ness. He was deposed as High King by Eochaid Feidlech. Labels: Irish
Word: Dian Cecht Part of Speech: name 1. A god of healing. The healer for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the father of Cian. Labels: Irish
Word: Tuatha Dé Danann Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish Tuatha Dé Danann (literally “peoples of the goddess Danu”). Pronunciation: /ˈtu.əhə deɪ ˈdɑːnən/ 1. The fifth group of inhabitants of Ireland according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn tradition, thought to represent the gods of the Goidelic Irish. Their Christian redactors have reduced them to historical kings and heroes. Labels: Irish, plural, plural-only
Word: Deirdre Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Irish Deirdre, from Old Irish Derdriu. Pronunciation: /ˈdeːɹdɹə/, /ˈdɪədɹi/, /ˈdɪədɹə/, /ˈdɪɹdɹə/, /ˈdɪɹdɹi/ 1. The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Labels: Irish 2. A female given name from Irish. Example: Deirdre, it seemed to him, was the most beautiful name in the world. But Mrs. Stanley had different views on nomenclature. She had never, she declared, heard so utterly preposterous a name. […]"Theatre and saltpetre are both spelt that way, Arthur; depend upon it, it is Deirder - a sort of peasant name like Darby and Biddy, a corruption of something else." Example: His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
Word: keep up with the Joneses Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Various theories; see Wikipedia article. 1. To act or make purchases for status or image rather than out of need, especially for the purpose of competing with friends, neighbors, or society. Labels: idiomatic Example: Do you really need a fancy new car or are you just trying to keep up with the Joneses? Example: One of the greatest pitfalls in the path of any young couple is the feeling that they must "keep up with the Joneses." We all think of ourselves as belonging to a certain social group—whether we express it in snobbish terms or not.
Word: dormice Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dormouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: WHO Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈdʌbəljuː ˈeɪt͡ʃ ˈəʊ/ 1. Initialism of World Health Organization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Trump initiated the year-long withdrawal process from the WHO in 2020 but six months later his successor, President Joe Biden, reversed the decision.
Word: hoping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”). Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/, /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of hope Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow. Example: These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
Word: hoping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”). Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/, /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/ 1. Filled with or inspiring hope. Labels: rare Example: A hoping situation is not yet desolate.
Word: hoping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”). Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/, /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: airbag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + bag. 1. A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury. Example: In a fast German car / I'm amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life Example: However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with. 2. A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, or for lifting objects in firefighting, etc. Example: As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3. 3. A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip. Labels: slang
Word: whomsoever Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English whom so evere, whom soever, whom-so-ever, whom-so-evere, whomsoever, whom-so-evyr. By surface analysis, whom + so + ever. Pronunciation: /ˌhumsoʊˈɛvəɹ/ 1. Whatever person or persons (as object of a verb or preposition): emphasised or elaborated form of whomever. Labels: formal Example: We shall tell the good news to whomsoever we meet. Example: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
Word: installed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈstɔːld/ 1. simple past and past participle of install Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. readied for use Labels: literally Example: They installed the alarm. 3. readied for use Example: The system came with a word processor installed. 4. put into position Example: A new chancellor was installed. 5. placed Example: He was installed at the watch tower.
Word: Nemean Lion Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌnimi.ən ˈlai.ən/ 1. A mythical lion of ancient Nemea that was invulnerable to attack by weapons and was slain by Hercules as one of his labours. Labels: Greek
Word: Cheyenne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”). Pronunciation: /ʃaɪˈæn/, /ʃaɪˈeə̯n/, /ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/, /ʃaɪˈɛn/, /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/ 1. A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America. Example: You will want to tell him that you are Cheyenne, that that is where you are from, that Cheyennes once, up near the Great Lakes, were agricultural people, and then followed the buffalo before running for their lives like the buffalo, and that your people, they were Cheyenne wherever they went, but instead you just say the word Cheyenne, with your hand over your heart, to which he will say the word Lakota with his hand over his heart.
Word: Cheyenne Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”). Pronunciation: /ʃaɪˈæn/, /ʃaɪˈeə̯n/, /ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/, /ʃaɪˈɛn/, /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/ 1. An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people. 2. The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people. 3. A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota. 4. A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States. 5. A female or male given name of modern American usage.
Word: VD Part of Speech: noun 1. The design diving speed of an aircraft; the highest speed which the aircraft is planned to reach during flight testing. Always higher than VNE (the speed that must not be exceeded in service). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Initialism of venereal disease. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, dated, initialism, uncountable Example: One of the things I've learned traveling around America is how many people have relied on the Joy of Gay Sex as their primary source of information, about not only sexual positions and activities, but about things like V.D., sexual dysfunction, coming out with the family, and dealing with feelings of guilt related to religion. Example: I should download her audio on MP3 / And show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD
Word: soever Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From so + ever. Pronunciation: /səʊˈɛvə/, /soʊˈɛvɚ/ 1. In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. Example: For, by the fundamental Laws of the Realm, it is Capital in any Perſon, of what Quality ſoever, to make water within the Precincts of the Palace.
Word: persiflage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French persiflage, from persifler (“to quiz, tease, mock”), from per- + siffler (“to whistle”), from Latin sībilō (“whistle”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.flɑːʒ/, /ˈpɝː.sɪ.flɑːʒ/ 1. Good-natured banter; raillery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After the third strike he returned to the bench to face the inevitable persiflage from his teammates. Example: No one can deny Lady Charlotte Bury's assertion, that no well-regulated young female will ever indulge in a species of amusement so improper as flirtation; but it must be admitted, that having a pleasant partner is preferable to not dancing, and that a little persiflage, a little raillery, a little flattery, go far to make a partner pleasant. 2. Frivolous, lighthearted discussion of a topic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Polite dinner calls for persiflage rather than in-depth possibly offensive discussion.
Word: readied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ready Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: She readied the engine.
Word: readied Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: pertinacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pertinace + -ious, from Old French pertinace, from Latin pertinax, from per- (“very”) + tenax (“tenacious”). Pronunciation: /ˌpɜːtɪˈneɪʃəs/, /pɝtn̩ˈeɪʃəs/ 1. Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose. Example: When that divine took his leave, not a little discomfited and amazed at the pertinacious obstinacy of the women, Laura repeated her embraces and arguments with tenfold fervour to Helen, who felt that there was a great deal of cogency in most of the latter. Example: He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son. 2. Stubbornly resolute or tenacious. Example: [O]ne of the Dissenters, which I could, but forbear, to name appeared to Dr. Sanderson to be so bold, so troublesome, and so illogical in the dispute, as forced patient Dr. Sanderson, who was then Bishop of Lincoln, and a moderator with other Bishops, to say, with an unusual earnestness, "That he had never met with a man of more pertinacious confidence, and less abilities, in all his conversation."
Word: plangent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”). Pronunciation: /ˈplænd͡ʒənt/ 1. Having a loud, mournful sound. Example: [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened. Example: Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach. 2. Beating, dashing, as waves. Labels: rare Example: What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
Word: platitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French platitude, from plat (“flat”). Pronunciation: /ˈplatɪˌtjuːd/, /ˈplatɪˌtʃuːd/, /ˈplætɪˌt(j)ud/, /ˈplatɪˌtjʉd/, /ˈplatɪˌtʃʉd/ 1. An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse. Labels: countable Example: Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course. Example: Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men. And Ivor, suddenly cheered by laughing at his absurd platitudes, and finding himself by the door, was going from the room. 2. A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting. Labels: countable Example: The synthesis which he helped to effect was so successful that this aspect of his work escaped notice in the last century: all that Britomart stands for was platitude to our fathers. It is platitude no longer. Example: After explaining myself sufficiently, I now offer my own platitude: I believe that the institution of the cabaret has the right to exist only so long as it bears the character of dilettantism and improvisation. 3. Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation. Labels: uncountable Example: The former figures the typical prairie landscape-poet who stops at the correction line (which itself literally denies the platitude of flatness) to notice the ever-present wind. Example: With the photograph, we enter into flat death. One day, leaving one of my classes, someone said to me with disdain, "You talk about death very flatly." — As if the horror of Death were not precisely its platitude! 4. Unoriginality; triteness. Labels: uncountable Example: seemly platitude, flat-footed ordinariness, and well-enacted upper working class respectability cancel out any turpitude, exhilarating tension or satanic glamour a casino might be expected to have. Example: After a passage of what we feel to be true poetry, there follows, inevitably, a passage of platitude which no critical pre-judgment can force us to admire;
Word: set up Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ 1. In a position to function; ready. Example: Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!
Word: setup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from set up. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtʌp/, [ˈsɛɾʌp], /ˈsetɐp/ 1. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. Example: The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy. 2. The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. Example: The classroom setup was simple and efficient. Example: Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup. 3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. Example: Trust me, that was a setup! 4. An installer. Example: You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […] 5. The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product. Example: A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run. 6. The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore. Example: There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales. 7. A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense. Example: The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.
Word: setup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Deverbal from set up. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtʌp/, [ˈsɛɾʌp], /ˈsetɐp/ 1. Misspelling of set up. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: -free Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijwaz Proto-West Germanic *friu Old English frēo Middle English -fre English -free From Middle English -fre, -freo (as in scotfre, gauelfre, gafolfreo, etc.), from Old English -frēo ("free; free from"; as in scotfrēo, gafolfrēo), from Proto-West Germanic *-frī (“-free”). Compare Dutch -vrij (“-free”), German -frei (“-free”), Danish -fri (“-free”), Swedish -fri (“-free”), Norwegian -fri (“-free”). More at free. Pronunciation: /fɹiː/ 1. Free from; devoid of; without. Labels: morpheme, not-comparable Example: Sweetgreen told CNN the company was “proud to share that we are currently in the process of rolling out new PFAS-free focaccia bags that will be available in all Sweetgreen locations by the end of Q2.”
Word: smoke-free Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English smoke Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijwaz Proto-West Germanic *friu Old English frēo Middle English -fre English -free English smoke-free From smoke + -free. 1. In which smoking is not allowed. Labels: not-comparable Example: This entire restaurant is smoke-free.
Word: trouble-free Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English trouble Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijwaz Proto-West Germanic *friu Old English frēo Middle English -fre English -free English trouble-free From trouble + -free. 1. Without trouble. Labels: not-comparable Example: The construction of the bridge was trouble-free. Example: Since then we have had the unfortunate failure of a lubricating oil-pump on the diesel hauling the down "Fenman" on the Great Eastern Line, the subject of vast newspaper publicity because the Queen, who was on the train, was delayed an hour on her journey - and this, ironically, with a diesel of a type which has been as trouble-free as any other in the country.
Word: Nguyen Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Nguyễn. Pronunciation: /wɪn/, /nwɪn/, /nuˈjɛn/, /ˈnuːjən/, /ˈnjʉːən/ 1. A Vietnamese surname.
Word: split infinitive Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /splɪt ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv/, /-nə-/ 1. An infinitive with one or more modifiers inserted between the to and the verb. Example: Yeah, Ronnie! (or, the Split Infinitive of the Year, possibly the Century) – on being asked if the New York Times report was true that the 1983 deficit will be $124 billion, rather than the $91.5 billion in the Reagan budget … A: 'I couldn't answer until we have to, by law, shortly, in a couple of weeks, present an updated project.' Example: The split infinitive was regrettable, but the writers of Star Trek came up with the phrase to capture the essential idea brought to mind at the mention of the words "frontier" and "pioneer": "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
Word: eugenicist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English eugenic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English eugenicist From eugenic + -ist. Pronunciation: /juːˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪst/ 1. A believer in, advocate of, or specialist regarding the principles of eugenics. Example: I like Scandinavians, skiing, swimming and socialists who realize it is our business to promote social progress by peaceful methods. I dislike football, economists, eugenicists, Fascists, Stalinists, and Scottish conservatives. Example: “What makes a eugenicist is this overwhelming faith that everything in human nature is determined by your genes,” he says.
Word: fancy-pants Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fancy pants. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It was in the bellows of a subterranean bar in Toronto known as And/Or, renowned, in no particular order, for its steep drinks, fancy-pants, and proprietor with well-attended-to torso. 2. Someone fancy, silly or attractive. Example: That fancy-pants came around for you. Example: You still with those fancy-pants from downtown.
Word: fancy-pants Part of Speech: adj 1. overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated Example: What are you planning to do with that fancy-pants machine? Example: Fortified by years of greasy spoon eating, he's since borrowed nicer clothes to sneak into the more fancy-pants places.
Word: accentuating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accentuate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lie down Part of Speech: verb 1. To assume a horizontal position. Labels: intransitive Example: Lie down on the bed until you feel better. 2. To assume a horizontal position. Labels: imperative, intransitive 3. To be lazy or remiss. Labels: intransitive Example: He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job. Example: They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.” 4. To submit passively. Labels: intransitive Example: I'm not going to lie down and take this! 5. To have sexual intercourse (with). Labels: euphemistic
Word: fancy pants Part of Speech: noun 1. A person wearing fancy clothing; a member of a social elite. Labels: US Example: From what I hear fancy pants is dancing real good with that fat pig. 2. A person very concerned with their appearance. Example: This fancy pants is tryin' to steal my gal away from me!