nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: blackboard bold Part of Speech: noun 1. A typeface used for representing bold characters, mainly used in mathematical texts, that allows these characters to be easily distinguished from non-bold characters when written by hand. Labels: uncountable
Word: disconcerted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtəd/ 1. past participle of disconcert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disconcerted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtəd/ 1. Ruffled; upset and embarrassed. 2. Self-consciously distressed. 3. Frustrated and disarranged.
Word: sarge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sergeant, q.v. In reference to PUA slang, coined by American writer and television personality Ross Jeffries after the behavior of his cat Sarge. Pronunciation: /sɑːd͡ʒ/, /sɑɹd͡ʒ/ 1. Clipping of sergeant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial 2. An instance of sarging. Example: I did not interpret this advice correctly at first and in the same sarge as the hand-slap Juggler observed that she was really into me and liking my game but a little annoyed that I kept encroaching on her by moving myself closer to her while keeping myself square. Example: I thought it would be funny and depressing to join them on what they call the "Saturday Sarge." A sarge is when a group of morons roam around looking for girls to annoy. Sounds gr8 right?
Word: sarge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sergeant, q.v. In reference to PUA slang, coined by American writer and television personality Ross Jeffries after the behavior of his cat Sarge. Pronunciation: /sɑːd͡ʒ/, /sɑɹd͡ʒ/ 1. To go out and engage women in order to pick them up. Labels: intransitive Example: Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).
Word: chow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/ 1. Food, especially snacks. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner. Example: Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show." 2. Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow. Labels: Trinidad-and-Tobago, uncountable, usually 3. A Chow Chow. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’ Example: While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him. 4. A Chinese person. Labels: Australia, archaic, slang, uncountable, usually Example: These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows. Example: ‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access, follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
Word: chow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/ 1. To eat. Labels: South-Africa, slang
Word: chow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 州 (zhōu). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/ 1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
Word: chow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/ 1. A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit. 2. A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
Word: chow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/ 1. To call a discarded tile to produce a chow. Example: […] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.
Word: forthcoming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“approaching (adjective)”); or from Middle English forth commyng, *forthcominge, present participle of forth-comen (“to come forth; to appear, issue”), from Old English forþcuman (“to come forth, come forward”) (present participle *forþcumende), from forþ- (“forth; forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + cuman (“to come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)). Compare Dutch voortkomend (“coming forth, originating from (verb)”), German fortkommend (“getting away; progressing (verb)”). The noun is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“arrival”). Pronunciation: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/, /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/ 1. Approaching or about to take place. Labels: not-comparable Example: I shall vote in the forthcoming election. Example: The visitors began to hold a much higher line, passing and moving with greater urgency, and their reward was forthcoming. 2. Available when needed; in place, ready. Example: The money was not forthcoming. Example: Unfortunately, sufficient public support has not been forthcoming, and the trains were withdrawn from September 15. 3. Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank, responsive. Example: Once I explained why I needed to know, she was really forthcoming. Example: So the lawyer talks to him, and tries to get the details of the case, but the guy's not really forthcoming, you know, he won't say exactly where he lives, won't give any names, and the lawyer is thinking something's funny, but still there's real panic [...]
Word: forthcoming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“approaching (adjective)”); or from Middle English forth commyng, *forthcominge, present participle of forth-comen (“to come forth; to appear, issue”), from Old English forþcuman (“to come forth, come forward”) (present participle *forþcumende), from forþ- (“forth; forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + cuman (“to come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)). Compare Dutch voortkomend (“coming forth, originating from (verb)”), German fortkommend (“getting away; progressing (verb)”). The noun is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“arrival”). Pronunciation: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/, /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/ 1. An act of coming forth. 2. Something that is yet to come. Example: The reader, has had presented to him things not belonging to time or mortality, but awful realities issuing out from eternity, the audible forthcomings of a present living God.
Word: forthcoming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From forthcome + -ing. Pronunciation: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/, /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of forthcome Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: memory chip Part of Speech: noun 1. A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.
Word: honyock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * Historically, honyock referred to immigrant homesteaders "stubbornly" farming "hardscrabble" or "hardpan" land considered better suited to livestock ranching. * The first recorded usage in print appeared before 1860. Usage of the word peaked around 1927, and subsequently fell into relative disuse by 1980. * Multiple possible origins of this word have been suggested: ** Portmanteau word from Hun/Hungarian and the ethnic slur Polack. ** Derivation of the German compound word "Honigjäger", meaning honey chaser; A reference to pursuing "sweet" opportunities and inevitably getting "stung" by unanticipated but predictable consequences. ** Derivation of the Hungarian adjective "hanyag", and its multiple definitions and negative connotations such as careless, sloppy, slothful and slow. Pronunciation: [ˈhɑnjɑk] 1. A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Central or Eastern European peasant extraction. Labels: US, slang Example: Today "honyock," or farming homesteader, and old-timer live peaceably side by side and each has learned much from the other. The old-timer taught his neighbor the art of stock raising on the range, and the honyock convinced the old-timer that some forage crops could be raised and that it was not good economics to ship out a carload of cows and at the same time ship in a carload of condensed milk. 2. A person who is foolish, stupid, oafish, wild, impetuous, or stubborn. Labels: US, derogatory, slang, sometimes Example: (Father) told me I was a honyock, kissed my mother(...), and gave me a Dutch rub. Example: "You city boys are so complicated." "Better to be complicated than simple." "Who're you calling simple?" "The same honyock who damn near got us killed driving here like he was doing the Indy 500 on a dirt road in the woods." "I'll have you know that was all skill."
Word: heteronomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hetero- + -nomy. 1. The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The state of being beholden to external influences. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The condition of being heteronomous. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: lively Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (“of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like”), Old High German līblīh (“living, animated”), German leiblich (“bodily, corporeal”). Doublet of lifely and lifelike. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪv.li/ 1. Full of life; energetic, vivacious. Example: But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haſt, / With youthful ſteps? much livelier then e're while / He ſeems. Example: [...] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of railway viaducts, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit. 2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous. Example: The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies. Example: His faith must be not only living, but lively too. 3. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Labels: archaic Example: c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves 4. Representing life; lifelike. Labels: archaic Example: I spied the lively picture of my father. 5. Airy; animated; spirited. Labels: archaic Example: From grave to gay, from lively to ſevere, [...] 6. Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
Word: lively Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (“of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like”), Old High German līblīh (“living, animated”), German leiblich (“bodily, corporeal”). Doublet of lifely and lifelike. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪv.li/ 1. Term of address. Labels: informal Example: Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.
Word: lively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪv.li/ 1. Vigorously. 2. Vibrantly, vividly. 3. In a lifelike manner. Labels: obsolete Example: Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew. Example: the Painter Protogenes […] having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog, […] but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture […].
Word: inner Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnə/, /ˈɪnɚ/, [ɪ̃ɾ̃ɚ], /ˈɪnnə(r)/ 1. Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something. Example: inner door; inner room; inner sanctum; inner surface Example: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. 2. Close to the centre, located near or closer to center. Example: the inner suburbs 3. Inside or closer to the inside of the body. Example: inner ear 4. Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup. Example: inner confidence; inner strength; inner life; inner child; inner artist; inner peace; inner light Example: I will try to express. My inner feeling and thankfulness. For showing me the meaning of success 5. Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood. Example: inner meaning; inner resources; inner logic 6. Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence. Example: inner circle; inner council Example: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
Word: inner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnə/, /ˈɪnɚ/, [ɪ̃ɾ̃ɚ], /ˈɪnnə(r)/ 1. An inner part. 2. A duvet, excluding the cover. Labels: South-Africa 3. A forward who plays in or near the center of the field. 4. A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves. 5. One who supports remaining in the European Union. Labels: UK 6. The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
Word: granulocytopenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English granulocyte Ancient Greek πενῐ́ᾱ (penĭ́ā)bor. English -penia English granulocytopenia From granulocyte + -penia. 1. An abnormally low concentration of granulocytes in the blood, which reduces the body's resistance to many infections. Labels: uncountable
Word: hophead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hop + -head. 1. A drug addict. Labels: US, slang Example: For the alcoholic there are numerous substitutes: a period of intense diversion and excitement, pressing need for rest, hypnotic sedatives, sleep. Not for the hophead. Sedatives don't touch it; he can't rest; he can't even sleep. Example: “Oed,” looking at her puzzled, “you don't get addicted. It's not like you're some hophead. You take it because it's good. […] 2. A beer enthusiast or homebrewer, with emphasis on hoppier types of beer (i.e. brewed with more hops, like IPAs). Labels: UK, slang
Word: MLM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of multi-level marketing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of multi-level model or multi-level modeling. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: MLM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of man who loves men. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: [In] the responses from participants above, it can be noted how these particular Christian MLM bring their daily experiences in their approach to the Bible. […], refusing to be addressed as men who have sex with other men (MSM) but opting to be known as men who love other men […] Second, Christian MLM also underline the need for the churches in Zambia to contextualize biblical texts […]
Word: MLM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Muslim Lives Matter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: homogenate Part of Speech: noun 1. Any material obtained by homogenization 2. The slurry of tissues and cells which results when cell structure has been mechanically disrupted.
Word: aviatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aviator + -trix. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.vi.eɪ.tɹɪks/ 1. A female aviator. Labels: dated Example: “... — Did you know that she was an aviatrix?” he interjected. Example: The Women Flyers: From Aviatrix to Astronaut
Word: jobby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of job + hobby. 1. A job that is also a hobby: a dream job or passion project; or, a side hustle. Labels: slang Example: Photography is my friend's jobby. 2. A hobby pursued with job-like earnestness and dedication. Labels: rare, slang Example: Baking takes up so much of her time, it's practically a jobby. 3. Alternative spelling of jobbie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: kamao Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian kāmaʻo. 1. An extinct bird of Hawaii, Myadestes myadestinus.
Word: multi-level marketing Part of Speech: noun 1. A sales system under which the salesperson receives a commission on his or her own sales and a smaller commission on the sales from each person he or she convinces to become a salesperson. Labels: uncountable
Word: stria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stria (“furrow”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪə/ 1. A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. 2. One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. 3. A stretch mark.
Word: striae Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪ.iː/, /ˈstɹaɪ.aɪ/ 1. plural of stria Labels: form-of, plural
Word: striation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English striate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English striation From striate + -ion. Pronunciation: [stɹaɪˈeɪ.ʃən] 1. One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals. Labels: countable 2. One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape. Labels: countable Example: The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls. 3. The action of marking with a stria. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The result of being marked with a stria. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: uguisubari Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鶯張り (uguisubari). 1. A wooden floor specifically designed to creak or "chirp" at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach.
Word: kamagraphy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French kamagraphie. Attested from 1967. 1. A process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process. Labels: uncountable Example: Kamagraphy, as the new technique is called, enables the printer to reproduce both the colour and the three-dimensional characteristics of the brush-stroke Example: Here is what we have learned about kamagraphy (the process is only valid for canvases about to be painted and not for the reproduction of those which already exist).
Word: collector's edition Part of Speech: noun 1. A release of a product containing additional features or items than the regular retail version.
Word: -ment Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment From Middle English -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum. 1. Attached to a verb to form a noun meaning the action denoted by the verb or its result. Labels: countable, morpheme, uncountable
Word: irrationalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English irrational 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 irrationalist From irrational + -ist. 1. One who is irrational in their beliefs or ideas. 2. A follower of irrationalism.
Word: disfigurement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English disfigure Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English disfigurement From disfigure + -ment. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈfɪɡ.jɚ.mənt/ 1. The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.
Word: law of diminishing marginal utility Part of Speech: noun 1. The theory that as the quantity of a good or service consumed increases, the additional satisfaction (marginal utility) gained from each additional unit decreases, reflecting a general decline in utility for each successive unit consumed.
Word: cross-reference Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross- + reference. 1. A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work. Example: Hobson-Jobson (1903) contains 2467 dictionary entries, of which 31 are merely cross-references to other entries.
Word: cross-reference Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cross- + reference. 1. To provide something with a cross-reference. Labels: transitive Example: This index, which is cross-referenced, will enable references on any subject to be found easily. 2. To compare two or more sources of information. Labels: transitive
Word: orthopnoea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ortho- + -pnoea, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόπνοια (orthópnoia, “breathing only in an upright posture”), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath”). Pronunciation: /ɔrˈθɒpniə/, /ɔrˈθɑpniə/, /ɔrθəpˈniːə/ 1. Shortness of breath when lying flat, causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: even money Part of Speech: noun 1. A bet which offers odds of 1 to 1. Labels: uncountable 2. By extension, an event that is somewhat likely to happen, but far from inevitable. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: It's even money that it will rain today.
Word: orthopraxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A modern, nineteenth century derivation mimicking that of Ancient Greek ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxía), using the stems of ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, deed; conduct, practice”), and the English suffix -y creating abstract nouns. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːθəˌpɹæksi/, /ˈoɹθəˌpɹæksi/ 1. Correctness of practice or action in regard to religion and especially religious ritual, particularly in juxtaposition to "correct doctrine", or "correct belief" (that is, "orthodoxy"). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At times, the powerful forces for change threaten traditional values, and religious communities may hold tightly to an orthopraxy in order to maintain traditional values. At other times, orthopraxy evolves along with community acceptance of new realities and values, as in the loosening of regulations on drinking and card playing among American Methodists in the mid-twentieth century or the changes in Catholicism following Vatican II. An earlier example of this is the acceptance of married clergy among Pure Land Buddhists in Japan[.] 2. Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis on the latter, often in Latin American liberation theology, contrasting with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: orthopsychiatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ortho- + psychiatry. 1. branch of psychiatry concerned with the prevention of mental illness, especially in the young Labels: uncountable
Word: orthopter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ortho- + -pter. 1. Any insect of the order Orthoptera 2. Synonym of ornithopter.
Word: lanista Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lanista. 1. The trainer or manager of a team of gladiators. Labels: historical
Word: Isaac Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Ysaac, from Latin Isaac, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs, he will laugh”). Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪzək/, /ˈaɪzæk/ 1. The son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob, from whom the Hebrew people trace their descent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And Abraham circumciſed his ſonne Iſaac, being eight dayes old, as God had commanded him. 2. A male given name from Hebrew. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A local government area in central Queensland, Australia, named after the Isaac River; in full, Isaac Region. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pestle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛsəl/ 1. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things. Example: She then sat down by the fire, and carefully separated the stone from the pulp, which she burnt; and her next task was to extract the kernel, which she did by means of a heavy pestle and the hearth. The kernels were next crushed together, and placed to simmer over the furnace. 2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. Labels: archaic Example: […]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons 3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig. Example: a pestle of pork
Word: pestle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛsəl/ 1. To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle. Labels: transitive Example: ‘Next time, boy, that you use that mortar for garlic, I will personally knock out your brain, place it in the said mortar, pestle it to a fine paste and give it to Dick Purser for feeding the dogs.’
Word: metallic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin metallicus, from metallum (“metal”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Equivalent to metal + -ic. Pronunciation: /mɪˈtæl.ɪk/, /məˈtæl.ɪk/, /me.ʈæ.lɪk/, [me̞ˈʈæ̞ː.lɪk] 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of metal. Example: The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper. 2. Made of or containing metal. Example: […] and, lo ! a palace towering ſeems, / With Parian pillars and metallic beams. Example: These chemical distinctions then, to which we have referred, are quite independent of physical condition. For instance, amongst the most metallic of the metals is a gas. 3. Harsh, as if coming from two metals striking one another. Example: No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation. 4. Having the appearance of being of polished metal.
Word: metallic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin metallicus, from metallum (“metal”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Equivalent to metal + -ic. Pronunciation: /mɪˈtæl.ɪk/, /məˈtæl.ɪk/, /me.ʈæ.lɪk/, [me̞ˈʈæ̞ː.lɪk] 1. A metallic color. Example: As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics, explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.”
Word: reconcile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- Proto-Italic *kalō Latin calō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin concilium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin conciliō Latin reconciliōbor. English reconcile Borrowed from Latin reconciliō. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/, /ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/, /ˈɹekənsɑel/, /ˈɹekənsaɪl/, [ˈɹekənsɑe̯l] 1. To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to reconcile people who have quarrelled Example: to wait until others have reconciled 2. To make things compatible or consistent. Labels: transitive Example: to reconcile differences Example: Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace 3. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance. Labels: transitive
Word: recreate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/ 1. To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven. Labels: transitive Example: Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any. Example: These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent. 2. To enjoy or entertain oneself. Labels: reflexive Example: In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves. Example: St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge 3. To take recreation. Labels: intransitive Example: Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.
Word: recreate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English create English recreate From re- + create. Pronunciation: /ɹiː.kɹiˈeɪt/ 1. Alternative form of re-create. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
Word: slobber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”). Pronunciation: /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/ 1. Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was dried slobber on his coat lapel. 2. A dribbly shower (of rain). Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable Example: I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows. Example: "Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely." 3. Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber. 4. A jellyfish. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 5. Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers. Labels: attributive, countable, form-of, uncountable Example: slobber grass, slobber hay
Word: slobber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”). Pronunciation: /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/ 1. To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth. Example: All babies slobber. 2. To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva. Example: […] rain slobbered over New York. Fifty-eighth Street's construction debris ran in murky rivulets. Martin, Bagel and I walked single file on wood planks through Avon's rough board tunnel. Example: […] rain slobbered over the window sills in rivers, the cloudburst making Jordan's departure impossible. 3. To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid. Labels: uncommon Example: […] slobbering her neck with kisses while his hands were busy undressing her. Example: […] slobbering her own kisses on his neck. 4. To kiss. Labels: colloquial Example: Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us. 5. To fellate. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: gallows Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams. Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi. For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæləʊz/, /ˈɡæloʊz/, /ˈɡæləs/ 1. A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. Example: Near-synonym: gibbet Example: No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows? 2. A wretch who deserves to be hanged. Labels: colloquial, obsolete Example: Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. / You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister. 3. The rest for the tympan when raised. Labels: obsolete 4. Suspenders; braces. Labels: colloquial, obsolete Example: The last pair of "gallowses" made by Mr. Gratacap was an order from Mr. Brokaw, the clothier. 5. Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects. Example: Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. […] Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth. 6. The main frame of a beam engine. 7. plural of gallow glyph; a specialized, ornate character that appears frequently in the Voynich Manuscript. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gallows Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams. Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi. For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæləʊz/, /ˈɡæloʊz/, /ˈɡæləs/ 1. Utterly; very. Labels: archaic, colloquial, not-comparable Example: They've got a gallows bad reputation, but you know what a place the beach is for talking.
Word: gallows Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡæləʊz/, /ˈɡæloʊz/, /ˈɡæləs/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gallow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: litigate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1606; borrowed from Latin lītigātus, perfect passive participle of lītigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līs (“a lawsuit”, oblique stem in līt-) + -igō (denominative verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtɪɡeɪt/ 1. To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit. Labels: intransitive Example: Ain't got no place to lay your head / Somebody came and took your bed / Don't worry, be happy / The landlord say your rent is late / He may have to litigate 2. To contest in law. Labels: transitive 3. To dispute; to fight over. Labels: transitive Example: you can't keep litigating this same point!
Word: defame Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfeɪm/ 1. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. Example: My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. 2. To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. Labels: historical Example: Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight. 3. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. Example: to defame somebody
Word: defame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfeɪm/ 1. Disgrace, dishonour. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame. 2. Defamation; slander, libel. Labels: archaic, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
Word: defame Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈfeɪm/ 1. Synonym of defamed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: annunciate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From annunciātus, Medieval Latin alternative spelling of annuntiātus, past participle of Latin annūntiāre. Doublet of announce. Pronunciation: /əˈnʌnsɪeɪt/ 1. To announce. Labels: formal, transitive
Word: annunciation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English annunciacion, annunciation, from Latin annuntiātiō and Old French anonciacion. 1. The act of annunciating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Not in the least; I saw it was an abbreviation from the first annunciation of the marriage, as communicated by the earl of Rotheles; here it is."
Word: defiant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French défiant, from the verb défier. Doublet of diffident. By surface analysis, def(i) + -ant. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/, /dɪˈfaɪənt/ 1. Defying. Example: She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough![…]What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’ 2. Boldly resisting opposition. Example: But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics. Example: Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.
Word: defiant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French défiant, from the verb défier. Doublet of diffident. By surface analysis, def(i) + -ant. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/, /dɪˈfaɪənt/ 1. One who defies opposition. Example: Countries condemning South Africa, Portugal and Rhodesia still find it necessary to trade with these defiants against so-called world opinion. Example: Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.
Word: deficiency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/ 1. Inadequacy or incompleteness. Labels: uncountable Example: The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls. 2. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health. Labels: countable Example: One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too. 3. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deficient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɪʃənt/ 1. Lacking something essential; often construed with in. Example: They were deficient in social skills. 2. Insufficient or inadequate in amount. Example: Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient. 3. Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.
Word: deficient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɪʃənt/ 1. A person who is deficient. Example: This was justified by the rationale that mental deficients, by definition, are not able to succeed in society.
Word: saunter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology unclear. Attested in the sense “to stroll” from the 1660s; noun sense “a stroll” attested 1828. Likely from earlier term meaning “to muse”, late 15th century, from late Middle English santren, of unknown origin. Competing theories exist: * From Anglo-Norman sauntrer (mid 14th century), from Middle French s'aventurer (“to take risks”); however, this is considered unlikely by the OED. Compare Middle English aunter (“adventure”). * Of Germanic origin, with proposed cognates including German schlendern, Dutch slenteren, Danish slentre, Swedish släntra, and Icelandic slentur, all meaning “to stroll”. * From Old French sentier (“path”). In this case, santren would reflect earlier *sa(u)nteren, *senteren /sa(u̯)nˈteːrən/, /sɛnˈteːrən/, with Late Middle English stress shift and concomitant vowel reduction. Various fanciful folk etymologies have also been given. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔntɚ/, /ˈsɔːntə/, /ˈsɑntɚ/ 1. To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace. Labels: intransitive Example: One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream. Example: Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley.
Word: saunter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology unclear. Attested in the sense “to stroll” from the 1660s; noun sense “a stroll” attested 1828. Likely from earlier term meaning “to muse”, late 15th century, from late Middle English santren, of unknown origin. Competing theories exist: * From Anglo-Norman sauntrer (mid 14th century), from Middle French s'aventurer (“to take risks”); however, this is considered unlikely by the OED. Compare Middle English aunter (“adventure”). * Of Germanic origin, with proposed cognates including German schlendern, Dutch slenteren, Danish slentre, Swedish släntra, and Icelandic slentur, all meaning “to stroll”. * From Old French sentier (“path”). In this case, santren would reflect earlier *sa(u)nteren, *senteren /sa(u̯)nˈteːrən/, /sɛnˈteːrən/, with Late Middle English stress shift and concomitant vowel reduction. Various fanciful folk etymologies have also been given. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔntɚ/, /ˈsɔːntə/, /ˈsɑntɚ/ 1. A leisurely walk or stroll. Example: Caroline […] begged that the drive might be given up for a saunter about the gardens[…] 2. A leisurely, easy pace. Example: walking at a saunter 3. A place for sauntering or strolling. Labels: obsolete Example: That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.
Word: relentless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English relent Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English relentless From relent + -less. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlɛntləs/ 1. Unrelenting or unyielding in severity. Example: She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye. 2. Steady and persistent; unremitting. Example: In Clintonworld, the reaction to Grassley’s relentless assault on Huma is one of resignation.
Word: bastardized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bastardize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bastardize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English bastard Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English bastardize From bastard + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈbæstɚdaɪz/ 1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US Example: Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Example: The case of a king who falsely charges his wife with adultery, seeks to execute her, and bastardizes his daughter resonates strongly with the plot of The Winter's Tale, and in fact suggests a reading of the play as an allegory of Anne's downfall and Elizabeth's bastardization, seventy-five years after the fact. 2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US Example: The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program. Example: 2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 5, The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit. 3. To beget out of wedlock. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US Example: I should / have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the / firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.