nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: chronicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chronic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English chronicity From chronic + -ity. Pronunciation: /kɹɑˈnɪsɪti/, /kɹɒˈnɪsɪti/ 1. The condition of being chronic. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: high-class Part of Speech: adj 1. Upper-class. 2. Recognized for its quality. Example: We bought it at a high-class shop downtown, expensive but worth it. Example: She's nothing but a high-class prostitute, even if she is earning $2,000 a night.
Word: high-heeled Part of Speech: adj 1. Having tall heels. Labels: not-comparable Example: For instance, impressions in the earth, of a certain size, shape, and pattern, would normally be sufficient evidence for a confident belief that a woman had walked over the ground wearing high-heeled shoes. Example: I preferred to think about school and a government job and how I would one day put on high-heeled shoes and wear a long skirt like other girls. 2. Wearing high heels. Labels: not-comparable Example: Within moments the high-heeled workers of Data Air are ensconced in the air conditioned hum of their "open office." Example: By all logic, high-heeled women should not constitute a threat: but they do.
Word: high-heeled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of high-heel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Saline Part of Speech: name 1. A number of places in the United States: 2. A number of places in the United States: 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A village in the west of Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0292).
Word: high-pressure Part of Speech: adj 1. Operating at relatively high pressure, such as several times atmospheric pressure. 2. Tense; stressful. Labels: figuratively Example: High-pressure situations can lead to nervous breakdowns. 3. Involving much persuasion. Labels: figuratively Example: High-pressure salesmanship on the part of the Electro-Motive subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation, which has built by far the largest proportion of the American diesels to date, there certainly has been - to such an extent, indeed, as to compel the old-established builders of steam locomotives, such as Baldwins, the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Company, either to follow suit or go out of the locomotive building business altogether - [...].
Word: high-pressure Part of Speech: verb 1. To coerce someone to perform or carry out an action by applying a high degree of psychological pressure. Labels: idiomatic, informal, transitive
Word: high-priced Part of Speech: adj 1. expensive Example: The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.
Word: high-sounding Part of Speech: adj 1. Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous. Example: The glittering crowd, whose high-sounding names ever and anon reached her ear—the magnificent room—the splendour of the dresses—the diamonds shining amid the elaborately curled tresses she had been accustomed to see in their native darkness, their summer ornament the half-blown rose, and their winter-wreath the myrtle-branch—all oppressed her with the sense of change. Example: The fourth picture represents a trip over the New York, Ontario and Western Railway—one of the many relatively small independent lines which still operates in the United States, with a typically high-sounding title, for the system concerned, though it taps Lake Ontario, does not touch New York (though it lies partly in New York State), and is confined entirely to the Eastern States. 2. Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived.
Word: oratorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ōrātōrius + English -al. 1. oratorical. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: play up Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see play, up. Example: Our school team is playing up at the old recreation ground. 2. To misbehave. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: Children who do not receive enough attention may begin to play up. Example: The radar system is playing up again. 3. To make or attempt to make something appear more important, likely, or obvious; to showcase or highlight. Labels: transitive Example: For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach. 4. To play (e.g. sport or music) more vigorously. Labels: intransitive Example: I can't hear the ukuleles at the back. Play up please! Example: And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' 5. To be unfaithful to a lover; to cheat; used with on. Labels: slang, transitive Example: […] the young fulla Jack'd brought along looked like he might suit in an emergency, and what the fuck, Jack'd already said she weren't interested. Serve Rog right if she played up on him. Example: 'Would you ever play up on me given the chance?' asked Stacy. 'Never, why?' asked William. […] 'Oh! Just when I was younger, I had a few guys take me out and when I didn't put out in the first week, it was the last I would see of them,' explained Stacy.
Word: play hardball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the American sport of baseball; the hardball is the heavier and harder type of the two types of throwing ball used when playing that sport (i.e. softball). 1. To use every means possible to achieve a goal, especially in disregarding the harm caused. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: He was more than willing to extend the terms of the loan, but his boss decided to play hardball and demanded a balloon payment. 2. To act rough and ruthless, especially in business or politics. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: So you wanna play hardball? Example: But if ministers keep on playing hardball with TfL because of narrow party interests, London will lose out. Forcing a 4.8% rise on London fares will only encourage congestion at a time when the roads are already full and public transport is underused.
Word: I like pie Part of Speech: phrase 1. You are stupid; said as if lowering oneself to an equally moronic state of mind. Labels: Internet, derogatory, obsolete Example: Can somebody tell me what my IP address is? I'm new to the Internet. I like pie. Example: [replying to: Listen up, fuck for brains !!! Don't make off topic posts to MFW. You stupid cock sucking fool !!! My fist meets your face if you do it again. Got it BOY !!"] I like pie.
Word: Swabia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Suābia, earlier Suēbia, from the Suēbī, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz. Pronunciation: /ˈsweɪ̯.bi.ə/ 1. A historic region of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, Germany. 2. An administrative region of Bavaria, Germany. Seat: Augsburg.
Word: hoer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hoe Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English hoer From hoe + -er. 1. One who hoes.
Word: horn-rimmed Part of Speech: adj 1. Of eyeglasses, having the frames made from horn or tortoiseshell or a material that resembles it, and characterized by their bold appearance on the wearer's face, in contrast to metal frames, which appear less pronounced. Labels: not-comparable Example: A little bald-headed man with huge horn-rimmed spectacles, and a very handsome and athletic youth in a blue lounge-suit completed the group.
Word: rimmed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Old English rima Middle English rim English rim English -ed English rimmed From rim + -ed. 1. Having a rim. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable, often Example: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) brimmed, lipped, ledged
Word: rimmed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Old English rima Middle English rim English rim English -ed English rimmed From rim + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of rim Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tortoise shell Part of Speech: noun 1. The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material. 2. Alternative form of tortoiseshell. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hopefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder. Old English tōhopa Old English hopa Middle English hope English hope Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful English hopeful Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English hopefulness From hopeful + -ness. 1. The property of being hopeful. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: "In the Memory of the Forest" is remarkable for the acuity of its moral vision and the vivacity of its language; what makes it extraordinary is its persuasive hopefulness.
Word: hobbler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old English also hobeler, Old French hobelier, Medieval Latin hobellarius (“light horseman”). See hobby (“a horse”). 1. One who by tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light-horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Labels: historical Example: 1954, James Francis Lydon, The hobelar: An Irish contribution to medieval warfare, Irish Sword, II, v, pp. 12–16. However superior the Norman knight might be upon the field of battle, the bogs and woods of Ireland gave little opportunity for the mail-clad charge. Thus there evolved in Ireland, as a habitual part of every Anglo-Norman force, a type of light horseman, which came to be known as the hobelar. Example: no man shall be constrained to find men at arms, hobblers, nor archers, other than those who hold by such service 2. A small horse. Example: The horse was one of the finest I had seen, not a hobbler. This was a far more delicate creature. 3. An unlicensed pilot, casual dock labourer, etc. 4. A man who tows a canal boat with a rope.
Word: hobbler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hobble + -er. 1. One who hobbles.
Word: orthodromical Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of orthodromic. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: prodromal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English prodrome Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English prodromal From prodrome + -al. Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈdɹəʊməl/ 1. Relating to prodrome; indicating an early stage of a disease. Labels: not-comparable Example: On the basis of a predisposed constitution, there was a prolonged prodromal stage during which the patient was seemingly depressed and hypochondriacal. Example: Dr. Melanie met with Annabelle and delivered her diagnosis: Benny was in the prodromal phase of schizoaffective disorder, and she was recommending that they stop the Ritalin and start him on an antidepressant for the mood disorder and an antipsychotic to treat the auditory hallucinations.
Word: hotblooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hot + blooded. 1. spirited, rash, reckless 2. easily angered
Word: irable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English ire Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English irable From ire + -able. 1. Capable of being ired.
Word: humeri Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːməɹaɪ/ 1. plural of humerus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hibernator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hibernate + -or. 1. Something that hibernates.
Word: hornlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From horn + -like. Piecewise doublet of cornlike. 1. Projecting like a horn. 2. Of a hard substance, similar to horn.
Word: hookup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A deverbal from hook up. Pronunciation: /ˈhʊkʌp/ 1. A connection. Labels: attributive, sometimes Example: The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup. Example: I need to buy some hookup wire. 2. A brief sexual relationship or encounter. Labels: slang Example: He met his two most recent partners at bars, and expressed strong ambivalence and dislike of meeting partners online, but reported half a dozen additional hookups with partners met online. Example: It is easy to write off Grindr — a location-based dating application for gay men — as a hookup application because, well, that is what it is. […] Grindr’s main purpose is to facilitate hookups that are “spontaneous and intimate,” he said. 3. A sexual partner. Labels: slang Example: The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online. Example: It could simply be that “gay men are early adopters,” he said. “I joke that the wheel was invented by a gay man so he could get to his hookup faster.”
Word: debarred Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of debar Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: raved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: signalled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of signal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ennobled Part of Speech: adj 1. Having been made more noble; improved. Example: There are families of nations more readily susceptible of culture, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others, but not in themselves more noble. Example: Also, the poetic art can be applied very usefully because the human being can also be very ennobled through fair prejudices.
Word: ennobled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ennoble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Roman Catholicism Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Roman Catholic + -ism. 1. The beliefs or religion of Roman Catholics and their Roman Catholic Church.
Word: anacoluthic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English anacoluthon Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English anacoluthic From anacoluthon + -ic. 1. Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon. Labels: not-comparable
Word: couching Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English couchynge; equivalent to couch + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of couch. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: couching Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English couchynge; equivalent to couch + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. The act of one who couches. Example: Couching involves transferring the sheet of paper from the mould to the felt. 2. The act of one who couches. Example: [C]ataract surgery has been employed for more than 20 centuries. The primary surgical technique for the large majority of this time was a procedure called couching. The first written description of couching is from an Indian surgeon, Susruta, circa 600 BC, involving the insertion of a needle into the eye and displacement of the lens out of the visual axis through either inferior or superior dislocation. 3. The act of one who couches.
Word: fundraise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fund + raise, probably a back-formation from fundraising. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌndˌɹeɪz/ 1. To raise funds (for a specified cause or purpose). Labels: intransitive Example: Daniel's uncle volunteered to help fundraise for his nephew's class trip to Chile
Word: play along Part of Speech: verb 1. To take part in a charade, deception, or practical joke. Labels: idiomatic Example: James thought it was cruel for the fraternity members to make the pledge think his father had died suddenly and refused to play along. Example: James played along with their cruel trick. 2. To participate in a joke or trick while hiding one's knowledge of its true nature. Labels: idiomatic Example: I knew that my blind date was an April Fools trick, but I played along anyway. 3. To play a musical instrument in synchrony with a playback of a recording. Labels: idiomatic Example: I like to practise guitar by playing along with records. 4. To cooperate or go along with a plan. Labels: US, idiomatic Example: I have doubts about your plan, but I'll play along for now. 5. To pretend to cooperate or go along with a plan. Labels: US, idiomatic Example: I haven't told him yet, I'm still playing along with his scheme. 6. To manipulate (someone). Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: The con man plays his victims along until he senses the moment to ask for money. 7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see play, along. Example: The children spent the day playing along the river.
Word: in the short run Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Lasting only a short time, shortsightedly. Labels: idiomatic Example: In the short run yo-yo dieting will work, but eventually it makes it nearly impossible to lose weight.
Word: out of the running Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. No longer in a competition; eliminated from consideration. Labels: idiomatic Example: When it was revealed he had shielded a friend from prosecution when he was the district attorney, he was out of the running for a judicial appointment. Example: 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe What that flour is hardly seems to matter too much, either – indeed, one of the finest examples I’ve ever eaten was shared, rather grudgingly, it must be admitted, with a coeliac friend. But, with my usual plain white out of the running here, what’s the best substitute for a deliciously squidgy, delightfully rich result?
Word: come hell or high water Part of Speech: adv Etymology: In reference to the dangers of hell and stormy seas or floods. 1. Regardless of the hardships; no matter what difficulties may arise. Labels: idiomatic, slang, vulgar Example: The pioneers were determined to build a community in the wilderness come hell or high water. Example: Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
Word: k-line Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for kill line, and refers to the line in an IRC daemon's configuration file, prefixed with a k, that records a user's hostname to prevent further access to the server Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪˌlaɪn/ 1. The line in an IRCd configuration file that records the hostname of a banned user Labels: Internet 2. A style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency
Word: k-line Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Short for kill line, and refers to the line in an IRC daemon's configuration file, prefixed with a k, that records a user's hostname to prevent further access to the server Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪˌlaɪn/ 1. To ban a user from a server Labels: Internet, transitive
Word: one hundred percent Part of Speech: adj 1. Complete, entire, whole, perfect. Labels: not-comparable Example: We are willing to provide one hundred percent mortgages. Example: He has a one hundred percent record of success. 2. Completely sure. Labels: not-comparable Example: And did Nixon ever cover up a tattoo of the name of a second ex-husband with what has been described as "a fiery phoenix" to represent why one should never be tattooed with the name of one's spouse, particularly if he was a former drug dealer – oh, no, I mean, "to represent rising from the ashes and starting a new beginning", as Katona has explained? Again, one cannot be 100% on this, but it does seem unlikely. 3. Well, good, okay. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'm not feeling one hundred percent today. 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one hundred, percent. Labels: not-comparable Example: Our new recruits represent a one hundred percent increase in membership.
Word: one hundred percent Part of Speech: adv 1. Totally, completely. Labels: not-comparable Example: This drink is one hundred percent organic. Example: “NO!” shouted Auntie Flip. “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Absolutely one hundred per cent no.”
Word: thirsty work Part of Speech: noun 1. Physical labor of a type that causes the laborer to sweat and become thirsty. Labels: uncountable Example: 'Tis thirsty work, this marching, fighting, ay.
Word: leem Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of leam. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “YOW SAYD YOWR TYME BE 1985 ME THOUGHT YOW WERE ALS FROM 2109 LIKE YOWR FREEND WHOM DIDST BRING LEEMS BOYSTE PREY” “Lukas seemed to not only be speaking to Ken, but also to someone from the year 2109, who he claimed had appeared and brought the "Leems Boyste" or "Box of lights" to his time in the first place. This is his term for his version of the BBC Micro.”
Word: short exact sequence Part of Speech: noun 1. An exact sequence of the form 0→A→B→C→0.
Word: exact sequence Part of Speech: noun 1. A sequence of modules (or groups, vector spaces, etc.; most generally, objects of an abelian category) with adjacent objects connected by homomorphisms (generally, morphisms) such that the image of one homomorphism is the kernel of the next.
Word: bilinguis Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin bilinguis (“double-tongued”). 1. Double-tongued, deceiving. Labels: not-comparable 2. A jury made up partly of natives and partly of foreigners. Labels: historical, not-comparable
Word: boyau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French boyau. Doublet of bowel. Pronunciation: /ˈbwɑːjəʊ/, /ˈbɔɪəʊ/ 1. A small trench or ditch, typically built in a zigzag pattern, serving to connect or provide communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines. 2. A line, drawn winding about, in order to enclose several tracts of land, or to attack some works.
Word: step function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function from the real line to a finite subset of the real line.
Word: real line Part of Speech: noun 1. The real number system, viewed as a line.
Word: parablepsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”). 1. A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So too parablepses due to homoioteleuton in the Greek text are irrelevant for the Hebrew text. Example: Vertical parablebsis does not fit either, since it should be in the range of several lines (two or three lines).
Word: preditor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcōder. Middle English produce English produce Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English producer Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor blend English preditor Blend of producer + editor. 1. In the entertainment industry, a person fulfilling the duties of both producer and editor (and sometimes also writer).
Word: preditor Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of predator. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: cohomology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English homology English cohomology From co- + homology. 1. A method of contravariantly associating a family of invariant quotient groups to each algebraic or geometric object of a category, including categories of geometric and algebraic objects. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In section 1 we start off by recalling some fundamental results in cohomology of groups, in particular the Evens–Venkov result on finite generation of the cohomology ring (Theorem 2) and Quillen's landmark result which describes H*BG up to F-isomorphism (Theorem 5). 2. A system of quotient groups associated to a topological space. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dysfunctionality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dysfunctional Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English dysfunctionality From dysfunctional + -ity. 1. The condition of being dysfunctional. Labels: uncountable 2. A dysfunction. Labels: countable Example: What is worse is how the custom-designed treatment programs for our community that are springing up make no provision for those of us doubly, triply or even quadruply oppressed […] This neglect is a symptom of the dysfunctionality afflicting our community: the degree to which we've permitted too many assimilationists to define the standards of identity for us all.
Word: hield Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English heelden, helden, from Old English hieldan, heldan (“to lean, incline, slope, force downwards, bow or bend down”), from Proto-West Germanic *halþijan, from Proto-Germanic *halþijaną (“to bend, incline, pour, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tilt, tip, incline”). Cognate with Dutch hellen (“to incline”), Low German hellen (“to incline”), Middle High German helden (“to incline”), Danish hælde (“to tilt, lean, slant, slope”), Swedish hälla (“to tilt, pour”), Icelandic halla (“incline, lean sideways, heel over”), Icelandic hella (“to pur”). See also heel. 1. To bend; incline; tilt (as a water-vessel or ship); heel. Labels: transitive 2. To pour out; pour. Labels: transitive 3. To throw; cast; put. Labels: transitive 4. To bow; bend; incline; tilt or cant over. Labels: intransitive 5. To decline; sink; go down. Labels: intransitive 6. To yield; give way; surrender. Labels: intransitive
Word: hield Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English held, from Old English hielde (“slope, declivity”), from Proto-Germanic *halþijōn, *halþijō (“inclination, slope”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tilt, tip, incline”). Cognate with German Halde (“slope”), Danish hæld (“an incline, slope”). 1. An inclination; a cant. 2. An incline; slope. Labels: UK, dialectal 3. A decline; decrease; wane.
Word: dysfunctionalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dysfunctionality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cirrous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cirr- Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English cirrous From cirr- + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹəs/ 1. Pertaining to cirri; having filaments, fibrous. Example: And Ivy divided from the root, we have observed to live some years, by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as tentacles and holdfasts unto it. 2. Pertaining to cirrus clouds.
Word: unreactive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English un- English react Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English reactive English unreactive From un- + reactive. 1. Not reactive; relatively inert. 2. That does not respond to a stimulation.
Word: unreactivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English reactivity English unreactivity From un- + reactivity. 1. The condition of being unreactive; inertness Labels: uncountable
Word: allostery Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being allosteric. Labels: uncountable
Word: allosteric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From allo- (“other”) + -steric. 1. That binds a compound on an inactive site and thus changes macromolecular conformation or dynamics in order to become either active or inactive Labels: not-comparable
Word: allosteric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From allo- (“other”) + -steric. 1. An allosteric modulator
Word: golden oriole Part of Speech: noun 1. A Eurasian golden oriole, a bright yellow and black passerine songbird, of species Oriolus oriolus. 2. Any of several species of genus Oriolus of similar coloring.
Word: tenacle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tenaculum, from tenere (“to hold”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnəkəl/ 1. A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces. Labels: rare Example: And Ivy divided from the root, we have observed to live some years, by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it.
Word: solisequious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sol (“sun”) + sequor (“to follow”) + -ous. 1. Following the sun. Labels: obsolete Example: […] the greatest number are not content without the actual rayes of the Sunne, but bend, incline, and follow them; As large lists of solisequious and Sun-following plants.
Word: brown oriole Part of Speech: noun 1. A passerine songbird, Oriolus szalayi, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Word: circination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin circinationem, from circinare, from circinus. Pronunciation: /sɜːsɪˈneɪʃən/ 1. A circling motion; a rotation. Labels: obsolete 2. A circular growth or foliation. Example: The same is also observable underground in the circinations and sphærical rounds of Onyons, wherein the circles of the Orbes are ofttimes larger, and the meridionall lines stand wider upon one side than the other.
Word: onyon Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of onion. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Take one Onyon, cut out the core, and fill that place with the pouder of Cummin, and the juyce of Rue, set on the top again, and roast the Onyon in embers, then put away the out-side, and put in a cloth, wring out the Juyce […]
Word: olive-backed oriole Part of Speech: noun 1. An olive and black passerine songbird, Oriolus sagittatus, of northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea.
Word: yellow oriole Part of Speech: noun 1. A yellow or green passerine songbird 2. A yellow or green passerine songbird
Word: arsesmart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arse + smart, because the plant stings when it touches bare skin, and was often laid in beds to kill fleas. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːsmɑːt/ 1. A water pepper plant, of species Persicaria hydropiper (formerly Polygonum hydropiper). Labels: uncountable
Word: arsmart Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of arsesmart. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Why [do] Fenny waters afford the hottest and sweetest plants, as Calamus, Cyperus, and Crowfoot, and mudd cast out of ditches most naturally produceth Arsmart?
Word: hominization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin homo (“human being”) + -ization. 1. The process of becoming like a human. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The professional way to begin a study of the origins of human culture is to begin at the beginning with a discussion of hominization. 2. The beginning of human life, or of a deity's life in human form. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: anthropization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anthrop- + -ization. 1. The transformation or adaptation of the environment to meet the needs of humans, or by human activity. Labels: uncountable
Word: anthropisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anthrop- + -isation. 1. Alternative spelling of anthropization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: haal Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hal (“Sufi state of consciousness”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: uliginous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ūlīginōsus (“swampy”). Pronunciation: /juːˈlɪd͡ʒɪnəs/ 1. Slimy. Example: [In] water ſtrongly boiled […] the Seeds are extinguiſhed by fire and decoction, and therefore laſt long and pure without ſuch alteration, affording neither uliginous coats, gnatworms, Acari, hair-worms, like crude and common water; […] 2. Marshy, swampy, waterlogged. 3. Growing in muddy places. Example: The uliginous lacteous Matter, taken notice of by that diligent and ingenious Botaniſt, P[aolo] Boccone, in the Coral Fiſhings upon the Coaſt of Italy, was only a Collection of the Corallin Particles thus ſuſtained in the Sea Water, hovering about and applying it ſelf to the Corallin Shrubs and Pori, for their Growth and Enlargement. Example: Ranunculus Lapponicus, L. Uliginous or subaquatic, fibrous-rooted, with entire or merely denticulate or crenulated and petiolate leaves.
Word: consumer price index Part of Speech: noun 1. A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households. Example: The latest consumer price index (CPI) figures—which measure a broad range of goods and services—showed prices rising by a monthly rate of 0.3% in April, down from 1.2% in March, the first fall since August 2021.
Word: promote to Glory Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause to die Example: On the night when she was 'Promoted to Glory' by the metal chariot of a teenage drunkard, she was yet full of love for the Salvation Army, for God and for mankind.
Word: anthropize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From anthrop- + -ize. 1. To transform or adapt the environment either to meet the needs of humans, or by human activity. Labels: transitive 2. To imbue with anthropic qualities; to make human; to anthropomorphize. Labels: transitive Example: In his speculations about the phylogenies of the apes, Reynolds rests his conclusions upon standard but insecure evidence and premature interpretations, and he occasionally anthropizes living apes; for example (p. 126) "maniacal calls of groups of chimpanzees ..." Example: This dream of mechanizing people by way of anthropizing machines seems to have originated in the early nineteenth century
Word: gerbe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 16th century, borrowed from French gerbe (“sheaf”). Doublet of garb. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɜː(ɹ)b/ 1. A (wheat) sheaf. Labels: obsolete 2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance. 3. An abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf. 4. A kind of ornamental firework. Example: on the top of the post fix a gerbe; then clothe all the cases with leaders , so that both they and the gerbe may take fire at the same time
Word: death by cop Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of suicide by cop. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see death, by, cop.
Word: suicide by cop Part of Speech: noun 1. A suicide in which a person points a firearm at an armed police officer to provoke them to shoot. Labels: informal Example: Mr. Taylor called the police, at which point Alexander grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen, saying he would commit “suicide by cop.” […] When the police arrived, Alexander Taylor charged at them holding the knife. He was shot and killed.
Word: dynamicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English dynamicity From dynamic + -ity. 1. The condition of being dynamic Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The dynamicity of the dataset makes it difficult to keep accurate.
Word: scurvy grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.) Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: 360-degree Part of Speech: adj 1. Covering all 360 degrees of a circle. Labels: not-comparable 2. Comprehensive; incorporating all points of view. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: In the public sector, we have not really created 360-degree accountability. It is more like 360-degree harassment. Example: Implement a 360-degree system regularly. 3. Able to turn freely about an axis. Labels: not-comparable Example: The dressing room had a 360-degree mirror. Example: Thanks to vans with 360-degree cameras that have taken photos every five metres in cities...
Word: terraforming Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəfɔːmɪŋ/ 1. The hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, etc. to make it similar to those of Earth and thus suitable for human life. Labels: uncountable Example: Almarcrux's abundant water and relatively mild temperature and gravity have placed it on the short list of terraforming candidate worlds. However, there is significant opposition from eco-ethics groups, who assert that Almarcrux's primitive methanotrophic bacteria may be a precursor to a full-fledged native ecology.
Word: terraforming Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəfɔːmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of terraform Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: alary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin alarius, from ala (“wing”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lə.ɹi/ 1. Pertaining to wings. Example: 1658: the Butterfly bloomes of leguminous plants, the lower leaf closely involving the rudimental Cod, and the alary or wingy divisions embracing or hanging over it. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 205)
Word: Chechnya Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian Чечня́ (Čečnjá, “[place] of the Chechens”), derived from East Circassian. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛtʃ.ni.ə/, [ˈt͡ʃɛtʃ.ɲi.ə] 1. A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.
Word: un-reactive Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of unreactive. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: microsites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microsite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: veneficial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From venefice. 1. Poisonous or poisoning; pertaining to poison; malignant, sorcerous. Labels: archaic, dated Example: Why the Goddesses sit commonly crosse-legged in ancient draughts, Since Juno is described in the same as a veneficial posture to hinder the birth of Hercules? Example: […] 3. The chanting, canting, or calculating witch, who works by signs and numbers. 4. The veneficial or poisoning witch. 5. The exorcist or conjuring witch.
Word: pipe up Part of Speech: verb 1. To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly. Labels: intransitive Example: "You seem to have a lot to say," remarked Silver, spitting far into the air. "Pipe up and let me hear it, or lay to." Example: Once I asked a seventeen-year-old singer something that wasn't on the list, which caused her manager to pipe up: "That wasn't what we agreed on. She doesn't have to answer that." 2. To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument. Labels: intransitive Example: [T]he frogs in a neighboring marsh began to pipe up for the evening concert. Example: But presently the gray dawn stole over the world, the birds piped up, then the sun rose and poured light and comfort all around. 3. To begin to blow more vigorously. Labels: intransitive, usually Example: Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up. 4. To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Yet beyond turning my blood cold for a moment, it gave me little trouble, for evil tales have hung about the church; and though I did not set much store by the old yarns of Blackbeard piping up his crew, yet I thought strange things might well go on among the graves at night. And so I never budged, nor stirred hand or foot to save a fellow-creature in his agony.
Word: storebought Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From store + bought. 1. Purchased from a store, rather than cooked or prepared manually. Labels: not-comparable Example: He served a box of storebought cookies for dessert.
Word: amphidromical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Amphidromia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English amphidromical From Amphidromia + -ical. 1. Pertaining to the Amphidromia. Example: 1658: If any shall doubt why at the Amphidromicall Feasts, on the fifth day after the Childe was born presents were sent from friends, of Polipusses, and Cuttle-fishes? — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 213)
Word: cuirassier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cuirassier, see below. Pronunciation: /kwɪrəˈsɪər/, /kjʊərəˈsɪər/ 1. A cavalry soldier equipped with a cuirass (armor). Labels: historical Example: His vision was secular: the high priests 'will wear impressive robes'; the Herzl army would boast cuirassiers with silver breastplates;
Word: evolutionarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English evolution Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English evolutionary Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English evolutionarily From evolutionary + -ly. 1. In a manner relating to evolution or slow development. 2. From the perspective of evolution. Example: The basic tool for work in evolutionary game theory is the notion of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). Example: It is a commonplace in psychology that higher animals are evolutionarily equipped to recognize various facial expressions, postures, gestures, and voice tones as indicative of future behavior.
Word: a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: From the Sherman Brothers' 1964 song "A Spoonful of Sugar". Pronunciation: /ə ˈspuːnfəl əv ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)ˌhɛlps ðə ˈmɛdɪsɪn ɡoʊ ˌdaʊn/ 1. An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced. Example: One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow." Example: It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?
Word: trinomial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- English -nomial English trinomial From tri- + -nomial. 1. Consisting of three names or parts or terms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trinomial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- English -nomial English trinomial From tri- + -nomial. 1. An expression consisting of three terms.
Word: conundra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conundrum Labels: form-of, plural Example: 1992, Steve Chan and Cal Clark, Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11, We present below the major policy paradoxes or conundra indicated by such research and theorizing. Example: A woman at U. Cal–Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate about what was unentertaining in Himself's work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, […]
Word: conundrums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conundrum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: passager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from passage + -er. 1. A bird in its first year. Example: He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable. Cully was a passager. But if the poor Wart could only mark him to roost, and if Hob would only arrive then with a dark lantern, they might still take him that night by climbing the tree, while he was sleepy and muddled with the light.
Word: passagers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of passager Labels: form-of, plural
Word: egg wash Part of Speech: noun 1. Egg (yolk and/or white) mixed with a little milk; brushed on pastry before baking to give a glazed appearance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: albumens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of albumen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tote bag Part of Speech: noun 1. A large handbag or holdall.
Word: made hand Part of Speech: noun 1. A poker hand which is already a strong hand regardless of which cards come in later rounds. Example: John already had two pair, aces and threes; he had a made hand.
Word: made hands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of made hand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drawing hand Part of Speech: noun 1. A poker hand which requires some specific cards on later rounds in order to become a strong hand. Example: John only had four cards of the same suit; he had a drawing hand.
Word: drawing hands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drawing hand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: albumina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin albūmina. Pronunciation: /ælˈbjuːmɪnə/, /ælˈbjumənə/ 1. plural of albumen. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: G-note Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From G (a grand, one thousand dollars) 1. A one-thousand dollar banknote. Labels: US, informal Example: It seems that the President [...] hit the till for a few G-notes for the love of a blue-eyed brunette with a record of seven convictions as a prostitute. Example: Satch took receipt of his two G-notes at a propitious moment.
Word: ghost island Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ghost + island. 1. An area of road surface marked with cross hatching as a means of separating traffic or reducing speed, or to provide a safe area to turn right across approaching traffic. Labels: UK
Word: neverland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Never + land. The term was most famously used in J.M. Barrie's Book, Peter Pan, as the name of the fictional island that the Darling children visit with the title character. Compare utopia, which is semantically Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”), suggesting a nonexistent place. 1. An ideal, fantastical, imaginary, or dreamlike place. Example: Near-synonyms: La-La Land, fantasy land, dreamland, dreamworld
Word: carcinomatosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carcinomato- + -osis. By surface analysis, carcin- + -omatosis. 1. The widespread presence of carcinomas that have metastasized throughout the body.