nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: allheal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From all + heal. Compare Latin panax and panacea. 1. Any of several several plants supposed to have broad healing powers. 2. Any of several several plants supposed to have broad healing powers. 3. Any of several several plants supposed to have broad healing powers. Example: Along the river Neb, at Ballig, the common valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is blooming thickly; tall, slender, pale pink, beautifully scented, moving in the wind. Also called ‘all-heal’, ‘cut-finger’ and ‘cat's love’.
Word: all for Part of Speech: prep 1. Completely in favour of. Example: I'm all for people being able to speak their minds. 2. Merely for the sake of. Example: Esau sold Jacob his birthright all for a bowl of lentil stew.
Word: all-embracing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From all + embracing. 1. Having a broad scope; of universal application. Labels: not-comparable Example: The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usual all-embracing excuse. Example: Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.
Word: astochastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English stochastic English astochastic From a- + stochastic. 1. Non-random.
Word: DOL Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Department of Labor. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DOL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of days of life. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of deprivation of liberty. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: EBSA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Employee Benefits Security Administration (a division of the Department of Labor). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PBGC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: OCAW Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: EAP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Employee Assistance Program. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of Extensible Authentication Protocol. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of Electronic Account Payment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of English for Academic Purposes. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context
Word: Oriole Part of Speech: noun 1. A player on the team Baltimore Orioles. Example: He became an Oriole as the result of a pre-season trade.
Word: custodia Part of Speech: noun 1. pyx (container for the host) Labels: rare
Word: Cardinals Part of Speech: name 1. The team St. Louis Cardinals. 2. The team Arizona Cardinals. 3. A sports team at the University of Louisville. Example: The Cardinals take the field.
Word: Cardinals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Cardinal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sox Part of Speech: name 1. The Boston Red Sox. Labels: US, plural, plural-only 2. The Chicago White Sox. Labels: US, plural, plural-only
Word: Sox Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Socks. 1. A surname.
Word: Bums Part of Speech: name 1. Nickname of the Brooklyn Dodgers, later the Los Angeles Dodgers. Example: The folks were quite happy about Sunday's thrilling reprieve in Philadelphia and happily confident that "d' Bums'll moider dem Jints" Example: To his credit, Allen could not imagine the Jints or Bums unabiding on New York's behalf. "New York is fully capable of supporting three clubs."
Word: Gigantes Part of Speech: noun 1. A race of giants, known for the gigantomachy. Labels: Greek, Roman, plural, plural-only
Word: X-Phile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Punningly from X-Files and -phile. 1. A fan of the television series The X-Files. Labels: slang Example: 1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227, And that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile.
Word: CATO Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of Cadet Administrative and Training Order. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of 2. Acronym of catapult assisted takeoff. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of 3. Acronym of catastrophe at takeoff. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: jockstrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of (dated slang) jock (“penis”) + strap; from the earlier forms bike jockey strap and jockey strap. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑkstɹæp/, /ˈd͡ʒɒkstɹæp/ 1. An athletic supporter worn by men and boys to support the genitals during strenuous exercise. Example: With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen. Example: There are many accounts of men, back in the 1970s, work out in nothing but a jockstrap.
Word: Jints Part of Speech: name Etymology: Eye dialect for popular New York City pronunciation of giants 1. Nickname for the New York Giants, subsequently the San Francisco Giants. Labels: informal Example: The folks were quite happy about Sunday's thrilling reprieve in Philadelphia and happily confident that "d' Bums'll moider dem Jints" 2. The New York Giants. Labels: informal Example: On Sunday it would be even more drinking, plus the Times, and the pitiful "Jints" on TV. 3. Nickname for many teams with name including Giants. Labels: US
Word: apotropaism Part of Speech: noun 1. The use of ritual or other magical means (including charms and/or incantations) to avert evil or bad luck. Labels: uncountable
Word: backbiting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite + -ing. 1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]ending his epistle by saying, "that his uncle having doubtless lent his ear to some old woman's tales and backbiting, he did not choose to place his property in the hands of a spendthrift,[…] Example: She was not given to backbiting—though, when stirred by any motive near to her own belongings, she would say an illnatured word or two.
Word: backbiting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite + -ing. 1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge. Example: Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge. Example: Am I to have a backbiting wife?
Word: backbiting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of backbite Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fuze Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fjuːz/ 1. Synonym of detonator, an auxiliary device used to ignite an explosive substance or device. 2. Archaic spelling of fuse, in its various other senses. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: fuze Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fjuːz/ 1. To equip with a detonator. Labels: transitive 2. Archaic spelling of fuse, in its various other senses. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: dives Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪvz/ 1. plural of dive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dives Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪvz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dive Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: conflate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /kənˈfleɪt/, /kɒnˈfleɪt/ 1. To combine or mix together. 2. To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent. Labels: broadly Example: Near-synonym: confuse Example: “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.” 3. To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter. Labels: broadly Example: But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones. Example: But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.
Word: conflate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /kənˈfleɪt/, /kɒnˈfleɪt/ 1. Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text. Labels: not-comparable Example: Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.
Word: conflate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /kənˈfleɪt/, /kɒnˈfleɪt/ 1. A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
Word: tigerish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *tigrish, *tygrisch, from Old English tigrisċ (“of a tiger; tigerish”), equivalent to tiger + -ish. 1. Having the characteristics of a tiger. Example: Thomas P. Puccio, a tigerish New York lawyer who won fame prosecuting congressmen in the 1980s Abscam scandals, then switched sides and defended Claus von Bülow, corrupt politicians, an accused rapist who ran off to the ski slopes of Europe and other notorious clients, died on Monday in New Haven.
Word: Goldendoodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Golden Retriever + poodle. 1. A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Golden Retriever and the poodle. Example: Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle. Example: Pretty soon, with poodles as the go-to sire dog, there were goldendoodles, cockapoos, Airedoodles, bich-poos, bassetoodles, shih-poos.
Word: embouchure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French embouchure, from emboucher (“to put in one’s mouth”), from en- (“in”) + bouche (“mouth”), from Latin bucca (“cheek”). Pronunciation: /ˌɒm.bʊˈʃʊə/, /ˈɑm.bə.ʃɚ/, /ˌɑm.bəˈʃʊɹ/ 1. The use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth when playing a wind instrument. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: you could see the twin lines running down from either side of his lower lip, etched in by the force of his embouchure, looking like extensions of his mustache. 2. The mouth of a river or valley. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: We approached Piteå at sunset. The view over the broad embouchure of the river, studded with islands, was quite picturesque, and the town itself, scattered along the shore and over the slopes of hills made a fair appearance. Example: Passing by Conical Rock, an isolated peak which forms a conspicuous landmark, the coast trends to the northward to Cape Dudley Digges and on to Cape Athol. Beyond Cape Athol lies Saunders Island, at the entrance to Wolstenholme Sound, which like most of these inlets, forms the embouchure of a glacier-river.
Word: motherhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English moderhode, moderhede, equivalent to mother + -hood. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌðəhʊd/, /ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/, /ˈmə-/, /ˈmʊðəˌhʊd/, /ˈmʌðəɹˌhʉd/ 1. The state of being a mother. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Mothers, considered as a group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the nation's motherhood
Word: motherhood statement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from the fact that virtually everyone would say that motherhood is a positive thing. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌðəhʊd ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/, /ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd ˈsteɪtmənt/, /ˈmə-/ 1. A vague, feel-good platitude, especially one made by a politician, that most people would agree with. Labels: Canada, US Example: [A]n objective needs to be followed up by some specific form of measurement or it is meaningless – It is a motherhood statement. Example: Technology transfer and the principle of making useful research and development information available to all public sectors is now being endorsed by everybody. I really don't know anybody who objects. As a matter of fact, by now it has become a motherhood statement. The question is, how do we achieve the blessed state of motherhood?
Word: motivating Part of Speech: adj 1. Effectively providing an incentive.
Word: motivating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of motivate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mouthpiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mouth + piece. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/ 1. A part of any device that functions in or near the mouth, especially: Example: "It's 'Soapy,' talking from somewhere down there," rapped out Nickle, covering the mouthpiece as he spoke back into the room. "Get Joolby if you can, one of you." 2. A part of any device that functions in or near the mouth, especially: 3. A mouthguard. 4. A spokesman; one who speaks on behalf of someone else. Labels: broadly Example: The novel's protagonist serves as a mouthpiece for the author's political views. Example: Seeming “real” has been the aim since the earliest police procedurals, which began a long tradition of Hollywood productions acting as a mouthpiece for police departments. 5. A lawyer for the defense. Labels: slang Example: The Robber had angrily demanded his mouthpiece and when the lawyer had finally been allowed to get to them they had been automatically sprung.
Word: mugwump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Massachusett mugquomp, mummugquomp (“war leader”). Folk etymology reinterpreted it as referring to a person who sat on the fence with their mug (“face”) on one side and wump (“rump”) on the other, which influenced political cartoons during the 1884 United States presidential election. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌɡwʌmp/, /ˈmʌɡˌwʌmp/, [ˈməɡˌwəmp] 1. A (male) leader; an important (male) person. Labels: humorous 2. A member of the Republican Party who declined to support the party's nominee James G. Blaine (1830–1893) during the 1884 United States presidential election, believing him to be corrupt, and instead supported the Democratic Party's candidate Grover Cleveland (1837–1908). Labels: US, historical 3. A person who purports to stay aloof from party politics. Labels: broadly Example: The story of the capture of Vicksburg is the old, old story of failure turned into success, by which man is made immortal. It involves the history of a general who never retraced his steps, who cared neither for mugwump murmurs nor political cabals, who took both blame and praise with equanimity. Example: After them came the politician, who said there was only one purpose in Nature, and that was to get him into parliament. I told him I did not care whether he got into parliament or not; so he called me Mugwump and went his way. 4. One who switches from supporting one political party to another, especially for personal benefit. Labels: Australia, US, broadly 5. A person who stays neutral or non-committal; a fence sitter; also, a person who maintains an aloof and often self-important demeanour. Labels: Australia, US, broadly, colloquial, derogatory Example: Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke [...] whom the papers are making such a fuss about. 6. A foolish person. Labels: Australia
Word: mugwump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Massachusett mugquomp, mummugquomp (“war leader”). Folk etymology reinterpreted it as referring to a person who sat on the fence with their mug (“face”) on one side and wump (“rump”) on the other, which influenced political cartoons during the 1884 United States presidential election. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌɡwʌmp/, /ˈmʌɡˌwʌmp/, [ˈməɡˌwəmp] 1. To behave like a mugwump. Labels: US, intransitive 2. To purport to stay aloof and independent, especially from party politics. Labels: US, intransitive
Word: oystercatcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oyster + catcher. Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪstəˌkæt͡ʃə/ 1. Any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish. Example: [T]he sea-swallows uttered their ringing "Tree, tree," and the oyster-catchers their mocking "Click, click!" which has caused so many an unsuccessful sportsman to smile.
Word: dark chocolate Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌdɑɹk ˈtʃɑk.lɪt/, /ˌdɑːk ˈtʃɒk.lət/ 1. Chocolate that has not had milk products added to lighten and sweeten it. Labels: uncountable 2. A serving or a variety of this chocolate. Labels: countable
Word: daresay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dare say: dare (“to have enough courage (to do something)”) + say. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛəˈseɪ/, /ˈdɛəseɪ/, /ˌdɛəɹˈseɪ/, /ˈdɛəɹˌseɪ/ 1. Chiefly in the form I daresay: to say something boldly; to affirm or assert. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: [H]e daresays he has had conversations with Goodfellow after the sale of the property, and Goodfellow seemed satisfied that the declarant was to get payment of his money. 2. Chiefly in the form I daresay: to venture to say (as the speaker believes something is likely to be the case); to think something probable; to presume. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: Are you going to stay up all night? I daresay that I am. Example: You daresay, Blanche. Ay, that is always the way; everybody daresay. Mrs. Grainger and John daresaid I should not miss Thomas, who is gone home for a week to get strong again after the ague, but I shall. Then they daresaid I should like his cousin Richard, who takes his place, just as well; but I shall not.
Word: damped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of damp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: damped Part of Speech: adj 1. stopped from smouldering and reigniting by the application of water 2. Possessing a nonzero damping ratio.
Word: datcha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dacha. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: romanisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Romanisation: non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Romanization. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: romanise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of romanize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: undamped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + damped. 1. Not having been damped. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] unwelcome smoke drifting from an undamped fire. 2. Possessing a damping ratio of exactly zero. Labels: not-comparable
Word: manpanzee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of man + chimpanzee. 1. Synonym of humanzee.
Word: Tamil Tigers Part of Speech: name 1. A former guerrilla and conventional militant organization that sought the establishment of an independent homeland (ஈழம் (īḻam, “Eelam”)) in the northeast of Sri Lanka for the minority Tamil community.
Word: dimensional analysis Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of the dimensions of physical quantities; used to obtain information about large complex systems, and as a means of checking mathematical and physics equations. Labels: uncountable Example: 2000, Stuart Churchill, 2.3: Similitude: Data Analysis and Data Correlation, Frank Kreith, CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering, CRC Press, page 2-28, The full power and utility of dimensional analysis is often underestimated and underutilized by engineers. Example: 2008, Andrew Clennel Palmer, Dimensional Analysis and Intelligent Experimentation, World Scientific, page 1, Dimensional analysis is a technique that can be used to clarify and explain relationships between physical quantities.
Word: DMSO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of dimethyl sulfoxide. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: pochard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently originally from poach (“to poke”) + -ard. Compare poker. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊtʃəd/, /ˈpɒtʃəd/ 1. Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae (genera Aythya and Netta), especially the common pochard, Aythya ferina.
Word: dimethyl sulfoxide Part of Speech: noun 1. An organic compound, (CH₃)₂SO, obtained as a byproduct from wood pulp, and is used as a solvent for carrying out chemical reactions and for administering drugs through the skin; also used as a reagent; its polar structure is a resonance hybrid. Labels: uncountable
Word: diving duck Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the ducks that feed mainly by diving such as pochards and scaups, of species in tribe Aythyini. Example: Coordinate term: dabbling duck
Word: dabbling duck Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the ducks of species in subfamily Anatinae, that feed by dabbling in shallow water, including mallards and teals.
Word: resonance hybrid Part of Speech: noun 1. A compound for which no simple structure can be written, but which actually has a structure midway between two simple ones - normally one polar and one nonpolar.
Word: dimethyl sulphoxide Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfoxide. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: nonpolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English non- Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der. Proto-Indo-European *kʷól-os Proto-Hellenic *pólos Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)der. Latin polus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Late Latin polārislbor. English polar English nonpolar From non- + polar. 1. Not containing a dipole. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not ionic; not dissociating into ions when dissolved in water etc. Labels: not-comparable 3. Not relating to the polar regions. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stirrup bone Part of Speech: noun 1. the smallest bone in the human body; it is situated in the ear and passes vibrations from the anvil to cochlea
Word: antiquary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin antīquārius (“pertaining to antiquity, one fond of or employed in antiquities”), from antīquus (“ancient”) + -ārius; equivalent to antique + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈæntɪkw(ə)ɹi/, /ˈæntɪˌkwɛɹi/ 1. A person who is knowledgeable of, or who collects antiques (especially one holding an official position); an antiquarian. 2. An aficionado or student of antiquities, ancient artifacts, historic sites, ancient writings, or relics of the past. Example: The sound of the bubbling water grew more distinct, as the ear became accustomed to its music: it reminded him of one very like it in Etheringhame Park. Both might have made the delight of either antiquary or poet.
Word: antiquary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin antīquārius (“pertaining to antiquity, one fond of or employed in antiquities”), from antīquus (“ancient”) + -ārius; equivalent to antique + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈæntɪkw(ə)ɹi/, /ˈæntɪˌkwɛɹi/ 1. Relating to antiquity. Labels: not-comparable Example: Instructed by the antiquary times.
Word: gapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæpə(ɹ)/ 1. A ball hit through the regions between the outfielders. Example: Bob's gapper cleared the bags. 2. Someone who is on or has done a gap year, or a break from study.
Word: charismatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek χάρισμα (khárisma, “grace, favour, gift”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌkæɹɪzˈmætɪk/, /ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/ 1. Of, related to, or having charisma: having a form of compelling charm which inspires devotion in others due to their strength of character and being full of personality; charming, fascinating, magnetic. 2. Of, related to, or being a member of a form of Christianity that emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit.
Word: charismatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek χάρισμα (khárisma, “grace, favour, gift”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌkæɹɪzˈmætɪk/, /ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/ 1. A member of the Charismatic Movement. Example: At a time when mainline denominations are engaged in massive closures of small rural churches, independent charismatics are strategically helping to rechurch rural Canada.
Word: cosmography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοσμογρᾰφία (kosmogrăphía, “description of the world”). By surface analysis, cosmo- + -graphy. Pronunciation: /kʰɑzˈmɑɡɹəfi/ 1. The creation of maps of the universe. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: subtitled Part of Speech: adj 1. in which the dialogue is translated into another language, and displayed, in text, at the bottom of the screen. Labels: not-comparable
Word: subtitled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subtitle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: breastwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From breast + work. 1. A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet. Example: Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire. Example: A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks. 2. A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. Example: The Independencia is a two-turreted, breastwork ship of 9,000 tons displacement. […] The central breastwork is 130 feet in length at the top of the belt, and extends to the upper deck, 11 feet above the water-line. This breastwork incloses the boiler and engine hatches, the scuttles to magazines and shell-rooms, the principal openings for ventilation, and the two turrets. 3. A parapet. Example: A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text: […] 4. Breast augmentation. Labels: slang
Word: amapakati Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Xhosa ama- (plural noun class marker) + -phakathi (“council”); compare pagati. Attested in English from the 19th century. 1. The council or inner circle of advisers of a chief in a Nguni society. Example: Then our people lived peacefully, under the democratic rule of their kings and their amapakati, and moved freely and confidently up and down the country without let or hindrance. 2. A member of a council; a trusted adviser. Example: The shrewdness of the Amapakati, or Kaffir advocate.
Word: pagati Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Xhosa -phakathi (“council”) or iliphakathi (“chief's councilor”). Compare amapakati. Attested in English from the 19th century. 1. An adviser to a tribal chief and/or a member of a tribal council in a traditional Nguni society.
Word: reoffender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reoffend + -er. Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːəˈfɛndə(ɹ)/ 1. A repeat offender; someone who reoffends, who commits a crime on more than one occasion.
Word: parishioner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English parisshoner, from earlier parisshen (c. 1200), from Old French paroissien, parochien, from paroisse (English parish). Equivalent to parish + -ian + -er. Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɪʃənə(ɹ)/, /pəˈɹɪʃnə(ɹ)/ 1. A member of a parish. Example: “Reverend Judith!” he announced cheerfully. “What a lovely surprise. How super to see you! What are you standing at the door for? Come in! Come in!” “Thank you, thank you. I do like to pop around and see as many of my parishioners as possible,” said Reverend Judith as she followed the pair into the kitchen.
Word: faille Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French. 1. A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: house-warming Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of housewarming. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: competency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin competentia. Doublet of competence. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pə.tən.si/, /ˈkɑm.pə.tən.si/ 1. The ability to perform some task; competence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Example: What professional competencies do science teachers need? 2. An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights and obligations. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A sufficient supply of something. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could […] Example: […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold […] 5. A sustainable income. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Example: And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]
Word: dysmenorrhea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dys- + meno- + -rrhea = dys- + menorrhœa. Pronunciation: /dɪs.mɛ.nəˈɹi.ə/ 1. Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a symptom in any of various disorders. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a disorder in its own right (and thus a diagnosis). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: abigeus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abigeus. Pronunciation: /əˈbɪdʒiːəs/, /əˈbɪɡiːəs/ 1. A thief who steals livestock in large quantities. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: In the Civil Law, he was accounted an Abigeus who carried off one Horse or one Ox, or four Swine or ten Sheep; if he took a smaller Number of Swine or Sheep, he was reckoned a Fur rather than an Abigeus. Example: The stealing of a single horse or ox might make a man an abigeus, but it seems that the crime could not be committed on less than four pigs or ten sheep.
Word: network topology Part of Speech: noun 1. The physical arrangement of a network; the way in which cables are arranged in order to connect computers in a network.
Word: amenorrhea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + meno- + -rrhea. Pronunciation: /eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiə/ 1. Alternative spelling of amenorrhoea. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: pillage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“to remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈpɪl.əd͡ʒ/ 1. To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war. Labels: ambitransitive Example: 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued, Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county. Example: So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.
Word: pillage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“to remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈpɪl.əd͡ʒ/ 1. The spoils of war. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Which pillage they with merry march bring home. 2. The act of pillaging. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
Word: swim the Thames Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of London’s river Thames for Rome’s river Tiber. 1. To convert to Anglicanism. Labels: intransitive Example: […] Philip Jenkins, himself an ex-Catholic who swam the Thames, speculates that the rates of decline in his adopted Church are so steep that the last American Episcopalian may have been born. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swim, the, Thames.
Word: electric dipole Part of Speech: noun 1. two electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign separated by a short distance
Word: molecular dipole Part of Speech: noun 1. a polar molecule; either permanent (in the absence of an applied field) or induced (produced by an applied field)
Word: rock lobster Part of Speech: noun 1. A crustacean of the family Palinuridae. Example: It wasn’t a rock, it was a rock lobster
Word: doll up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From doll (noun). 1. To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display) Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive Example: She's all dolled up with nowhere to go. Example: Jem looked at her clothes. "You wouldn’t get far dolled up like that."
Word: recrimination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French récrimination. Pronunciation: /ɹiˌkɹɪməˈneɪʃən/ 1. The act of recriminating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A counter or mutual accusation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Will's figures, if correct, serve to underscore the extent of apolitical and anti-political sentiment in our community. Rather than indulge in recriminations over who "lost" the gay vote, it might be better to ask how we can redouble our efforts or re-direct our efforts to get gays and lesbians not only registered but voting as well.
Word: inarticulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin inarticulatus and from in- + articulate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ɪn.ɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/, /ɪn.ɑːˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/ 1. Not articulated in normal words. Example: Major Johnstone strove to speak, but the words died in an inarticulate gurgle low in his throat; and Evelyn had only time to start from his knee, and save the dying man from falling to the earth. Example: Pensak made an inarticulate shout of surprise, and O stepped away from the sudden precipice so hard that she collided with the back of the elevator, and yelped. 2. Speechless. 3. Unable to speak with any clarity. 4. Not having joints or other articulations.
Word: inarticulate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Inarticulata). Used by contrast with Articulata. 1. An animal belonging to the subphylum Inarticulata. Labels: obsolete
Word: Russies Part of Speech: noun 1. Russians Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only Example: Wilde Irish are as ciul [civil] as the Russies in theyr kinde, Hard choice which is the best of both, ech bloudy, rude and blinde.
Word: sniveling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of snivel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sniveling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of snivelling. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: talisman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French talisman, partly from Arabic طِلَّسْم (ṭillasm, “payment”), from Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “payment”); and partly directly from Byzantine Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “talisman, religious rite, completion”), from τελέω (teléō, “to perform religious rites, to complete”), from τέλος (télos, “end, fulfillment, accomplishment, consummation, completion”). Doublet of telesm. Pronunciation: /ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/, /ˈtæl.ɪz.mən/ 1. A magical object providing protection against ill will, or the supernatural, or conferring the wearer with a boon such as good luck, good health, or certain powers. Example: That woman’s love is a talisman by which he holds and hopes to get his safety. Example: I have in my possession three Magic Talismans, which I have ever guarded with utmost care, keeping the knowledge of their existence from anyone else.
Word: talisman Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French talisman, partly from Arabic طِلَّسْم (ṭillasm, “payment”), from Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “payment”); and partly directly from Byzantine Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “talisman, religious rite, completion”), from τελέω (teléō, “to perform religious rites, to complete”), from τέλος (télos, “end, fulfillment, accomplishment, consummation, completion”). Doublet of telesm. Pronunciation: /ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/, /ˈtæl.ɪz.mən/ 1. To adorn with a talisman. Labels: transitive Example: The second in his saddle reeled, / Down thundered man and horse;— / Oft I essayed with blow and thrust, / As oft a foeman rolled in dust; / But, ah, what could a single arm, / Though talismaned by beauty’s charm, / Against a host?—for love—for life— / I waged awhile the desperate strife; / ’T was vain—I fell—was left for dead— / And rescued was th’ unwilling maid! Example: Lo, under their coats, amulets of idols! Possibly such charms talismaned every breast in his army.
Word: talisman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a corruption of some Arabic word. Pronunciation: /ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/, /ˈtæl.ɪz.mən/ 1. A mullah (Islamic religious scholar). Labels: India, obsolete
Word: babysit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from babysitter. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ 1. To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money. Labels: ambitransitive Example: My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night. Example: We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater. 2. To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen. Labels: informal, transitive Example: The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it. 3. To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done. Example: It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]
Word: EIA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Electronic Industries Alliance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Energy Information Administration, a division of the Department of Energy. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: EIA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of enzymoimmunoassay. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of Environmental Impact Assessment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: baby-sit Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of babysit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: infernal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)nəl/, /ɪnˈfɝnəl/ 1. Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish. Example: He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond. 2. Of or relating to a fire or inferno. Labels: broadly 3. Stygian, gloomy. 4. Diabolical or fiendish. Example: Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankind Example: the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings 5. Very annoying; damned. Example: As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman, […] Example: When are you ever going to learn to mind your own infernal business?
Word: infernal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)nəl/, /ɪnˈfɝnəl/ 1. An inhabitant of the infernal regions, a demon.
Word: mhm Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Nasalized form of uh-huh, a form imitative of non-verbal sounds. Pronunciation: /m̩ˈhm̩/, [m̩ˈm̥m̩˥] 1. Expressing agreement or affirmation.
Word: pardon my French Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the use of French to mean “vulgar language”, ostensibly because the words used are not in English. Pronunciation: /ˌpɑːdn̩ maɪ ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃ/, /ˌpɑɹd(ə)n maɪ ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃ/ 1. To excuse the speaker's frankness of expression or profanity. Labels: humorous, idiomatic, intransitive, often Example: That computer is a worthless piece of shit, if you’ll pardon my French. Example: 'Have you been in England long?' / 'A damned sight too long—if you'll pardon my French,' she answered.
Word: lows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of low Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of low Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: seethe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English sethen, seeth (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”) [and other forms], from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuþan, from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to boil, seethe”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sewt-, *h₂sew-, *h₂sut- (“to move about, roil, seethe”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * Danish syde (“to seethe, boil”) * Dutch zieden (“to boil, seethe”) * German sieden (“to boil, seethe”) * Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (sauþs, “burnt offering, sacrifice”) * Icelandic sjóða (“to boil, seethe”) * Low German seden (“to seethe”) * Norwegian Bokmål syde (“to boil, seethe”) * Norwegian Nynorsk sjoda, syda (“to boil, seethe”) * Scots seth, seith (“to seethe”) * Swedish sjuda (“to boil, seethe”) * West Frisian siede (“to boil”) Pronunciation: /siːð/, /sið/ 1. A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: analogues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of analogue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forensical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin forēnsis + -ical. 1. forensic Labels: rare Example: THe Art of Navigation (by which Iſlands eſpecially are enriched, and preſerved in ſafety from Forenſical Invaſions, and the wonderful works of God in the great Deep, and Foreign Nations are moſt delightfully and fully beheld, &c.) is an Art of exquiſite excellency, ingenuity, rarity, and mirability: […]
Word: 3GPP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Third Generation Partnership Project. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ARF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of acute renal failure. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of analog radio frequency. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ARF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ARF Part of Speech: phrase 1. "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Word: AAL2 Part of Speech: name 1. Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Type 2, ATM Adaption Layer Type 2.
Word: AAL5 Part of Speech: name 1. Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Type 5, ATM Adaption Layer Type 5.
Word: LO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of local oscillator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Abbreviation of low (“low gear or low range”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Initialism of loved one. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Looking for health insurance for my LO. Too young for Medicare, not Medicaid qualified. With a pre-existing condition of dementia I've only been able to find one policy (Blue Cross) at about $1000/month (their one high-risk policy). Example: When an elderly LO has deteriorated in his health to the point that he must move in with one of his adult children, many lives are changed forever. 4. Initialism of little one (“one's child”). Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: LO Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of London Overground. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DLL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Data Link Layer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of doubly-linked list. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of dynamic-link library. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of delay-locked loop. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PFD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of phase-frequency detector. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of personal flotation device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Return your PFD to a hanger on the PFD storage rack. Example: Above 32 degrees latitude in the Atlantic Ocean, commercial fishing vessels must carry immersion suits. Below that latitude, they must carry lifejackets, also known as personal flotation devices (PFDs). In other waters, the dividing line is 35 degrees. The PFDs have to be on the boat. Fishers do not have to wear them. 3. Initialism of primary flight display. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of process flow diagram. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of photon flux density. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: PFD Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of prepared for dyeing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: white clover Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of clover, Trifolium repens, native to much of Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia and introduced elsewhere as a pasture crop.
Word: CMFB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of common mode feedback. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: CMFB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics. Labels: European-Union, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: exogenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exo- + -genous. Pronunciation: /ɛkˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/, /ɛkˈsɑ.d͡ʒə.nəs/, /ekˈsɔd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/, [ekˈsɔ̟d͡ʒ.ə.nəs] 1. Having an external cause. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having an external cause. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having an external cause. Labels: not-comparable 4. Having an external cause. Labels: not-comparable 5. Having an external cause. Labels: not-comparable 6. Related to the exogen growth phase. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon
Word: exocentricity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English exocentric Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English exocentricity From exocentric + -ity. 1. The quality of being exocentric. Labels: uncountable
Word: exocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exo- + -centric. 1. Focused or centered on something outside of itself. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words. Labels: not-comparable 3. Not having the same semantic referent as the semantic referent of any of its constituent parts. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exocentric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + -centric. 1. An exocentric compound.
Word: exo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō)der. English exo- From Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer; external”). Pronunciation: /ɛksoʊ-/, /ɛksəʊ-/ 1. outside; external Labels: morpheme 2. outside; external Labels: morpheme Example: exo- + planet → exoplanet Example: exo- + biology → exobiology
Word: but hey Part of Speech: intj 1. Used to show that the thing just referred to is not ideal or does not support the argument, but that the situation cannot be improved upon, or the speaker is unwilling to try. Example: Streaming a movie prevents any but the most dedicated and well-equipped hacker from making a digital copy (pointing a camera at the screen still works, but hey). Example: I am pretty sure it's another computer glitch, but hey, it's not my fault and it's perfectly legal.