nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: underinflates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of underinflate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: underinflating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of underinflate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: underinflated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəɹɪnˈfleɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of underinflate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uninflated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + inflated. 1. Not inflated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: undermaintain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + maintain. 1. To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair. Labels: transitive Example: For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great. Example: The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.
Word: undermaintains Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of undermaintain Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: undermaintaining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of undermaintain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: undermaintained Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of undermaintain Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: undoglike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + doglike. 1. Not doglike. Example: This overemphasis on the looks of a dog — whether it's up to the breed standard, whether it's adorable or whether it's "in" — is so undoglike.
Word: unstrange Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unstraunge, equivalent to un- + strange. 1. Not strange. Example: What’s more, “it did so in a notably unstrange manner.”
Word: unstrange Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + strange. 1. To remove the strangeness from; to make less strange; make familiar. Labels: rare, transitive Example: When I was with you, I forgot about Mum and it made me less strange. It unstranged me. Example: Most specifically, to make visible is to unstrange what was once unknown into a series of knowable components, which the viewer's eye can then use to identify parts as one builds the whole.
Word: untedious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tedious. 1. Not tedious; interesting. Labels: rare Example: Even his dreams, of which he recounts a good half dozen (one involving Alan Bennett, another involving Roger Moore), are surprisingly untedious.
Word: Sahiwal Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu ساہِیوَال (sāhīvāl). Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːhiːvɔːl/ 1. A town in western Pakistan.
Word: Sahiwal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu ساہِیوَال (sāhīvāl). Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːhiːvɔːl/ 1. Any of a breed of short-horned dairy cattle originating from the Sahiwal district.
Word: Sahiwals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sahiwal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sahlinite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Carl Sahlin, Swedish scientist + -ite. 1. A mineral composed of an arsenide, oxide and chloride of lead.
Word: sahlinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sahlinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: precontest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + contest. 1. Of or pertaining to the phase of preparation in the weeks prior to a competition. Labels: not-comparable Example: Alternating off-season and precontest cycles in bodybuilding over a period of years will result in the relatively quick development of a championship physique.
Word: Saho Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of a Hamitic people of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Word: Saho Part of Speech: name 1. The Cushitic language spoken by this people.
Word: Sahos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Saho Labels: form-of, plural
Word: benchpress Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bench press. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sahuaro Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of saguaro. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sahuaros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sahuaro Labels: form-of, plural
Word: get up someone's nose Part of Speech: verb 1. To annoy someone; to get on someone's nerves. Labels: slang
Word: uncastable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + castable. 1. That cannot be cast (filled with, or allocated, a theatrical role). Example: Colleen Dewhurst, though in many ways wrong for the virtually uncastable Josie, is as lucid and luminous […] Example: […] that he would, like many actors, become so stereotyped in the public mind as to be uncastable in other roles […] 2. That cannot be cast (converted to other data types). Example: They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […] 3. That cannot be set in a cast. Example: ...internal fixation in children with open, unstable, or otherwise uncastable forearm fractures […] 4. That cannot be used for, or produced through, casting (manufacturing with a mould). Example: Casting must be done within a day or two of moulding or the moulds will begin to wind-dry and become uncastable […] Example: This allows the casting of otherwise uncastable materials, with acceptable rejection rates, and can increase ductility by as much as a factor of six.
Word: illecebrous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin and Latin illecebrōsus (“attractive, enticing”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, commonly in abundance). Illecebrōsus is derived from illecebra (“enticement, lure”) + -ōsus (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘full of’); illecebra from illiciō (“to entice, seduce”) (from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, within’) + laciō (“to ensnare, entice”)) + -bra (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument). Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛsɪbɹəs/ 1. Tending to attract; enticing. Labels: formal, obsolete Example: [The Firste Boke, Chapter VII (In What Wise Musike may be to a Noble Man Nessarie: And what Modestie ought to be therin), page 26] And therfore the great kynge Alexander, whan he had vainquisshed Ilion, where some tyme was set the moste noble citie of Troy, beinge demaunded of one if he wold se the harpe of Paris Alexander, who rauisshed Helene, he therat gentilly smilyng, answered that it was nat the thyng that he moche desired, but that he had rather se the harpe of Achilles, wherto he sange, nat the illecebrous dilectations of Venus, but the valiaunt actes and noble affaires of excellent princis. [The Seconde Boke, Chapter XI (The True Discription of Amitie or Frendship), page 164] Where the studie is elegant and the mater illecebrous, that is to say, swete to the redar, the course wherof is rather gentill persuasion and quicke reasoninges than ouer subtill argumentes or litigous controuersies, there also it hapneth that the studentes do delite one in a nother and without enuie or malicious contention. Example: † Illecebrous, (lat[in]) alluring, charming, or inticing.
Word: Pécs Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Pécs. Pronunciation: /peɪtʃ/ 1. A city in Hungary.
Word: Xiao'erjing Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 小兒經 /小儿经 (Xiǎo'érjīng). 1. A variant of the Arabic alphabet used for Chinese languages, especially Mandarin and Dungan, by Chinese Muslims also known as Hui Chinese. 2. The use of this script to write Sinitic languages.
Word: deictically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From deictic + -ally. 1. In a deictic way. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonfunctionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From nonfunctional + -ly. 1. In a nonfunctional way. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unfunctionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unfunctional + -ly. 1. In an unfunctional way. Labels: not-comparable
Word: -liest Part of Speech: suffix 1. superlative form of -ly: most -ly Labels: form-of, morpheme, superlative
Word: bureau-ocracy Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bureaucracy. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: fender skirt Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tires of an automobile. Labels: US
Word: web television Part of Speech: noun 1. Television programming produced for original distribution through the internet. Labels: uncountable
Word: codeina Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of codeine. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: The possibility that 15 grains of codeina daily should be taken […] is sufficient to cause alarm.
Word: constellate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin constēllātus (“starred”), past participle of constēllō. Equivalent to Latin constēllō + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑn.stɛll.e͜ɪt/ 1. To combine as a cluster. Labels: transitive Example: […] he who is solicitous for his own improvement, must not suffer his endeavours to be limited by local reputation, but select from every tribe of mortals their characteristical virtues, and constellate in himself the scattered graces which shine single in other men. 2. To fit, adorn (as if) with constellations. Labels: transitive Example: What Artist now dares boast that he can bring Heaven hither, or constellate any thing, So as the influence of those starres may bee Imprisond in an Herbe, or Charme, or Tree, And doe by touch, all which those starres could do? Example: The abbot was not merely accused of rape and murder; the crime of sorcery was laid to his charge, as well as to Matilda’s. […] To criminate the monk, the constellated mirror was produced, which Matilda had accidentally left in his chamber. 3. To (form a) cluster. Labels: intransitive Example: It’s no surprise that so much fiction constellates around the subject of Henry and his wives. 4. To shine with united radiance, or one general light. Labels: intransitive Example: […] the several things which are wont most to Engage and Heighten our affections, do, in a peculiar and transcendent manner, Shine forth and Constellate in God.
Word: stellify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stellifien (“to make into a star; glorify, deify”), from Middle French stellifier, from Medieval Latin stellificāre, itself from Latin stella (“star”) + faciō (“make, do”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɛl.ɪ.faɪ/ 1. To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such Labels: transitive Example: In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal. Example: By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified. But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth. 2. To turn into a star. Labels: transitive Example: An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core.
Word: opposite side Part of Speech: noun 1. A side, party (e.g. a team or armed force) seen as adversary, enemy etc. opposite one (or more) other(s), as in a battle or team sports competition. Example: My brother fought on the opposite side. 2. The side (or more specifically, leg) of a right triangle that is opposite (or not adjacent to) a given angle.
Word: catatonies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catatony Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fomes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊmiːz/, /ˈfoʊ.miːz/ 1. Morbid matter created by a disease. Labels: obsolete Example: If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed. 2. Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people. Labels: archaic Example: Toys are common fomites. Example: I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites. 3. Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious. Labels: archaic, figuratively Example: Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne.
Word: tropo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tropospheric. 1. Tropospheric propagation. Labels: uncountable
Word: visco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Brand name, from polyviscose. 1. A kind of fuse used for consumer fireworks and to create delays between firings in firework displays.
Word: turning points Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turning point Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dapatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dapaticus, from daps (“feast, banquet”). 1. Sumptuous in cheer. Labels: obsolete Example: [M]en / and women who enjoy the cloop of corks, appreciate / dapatical fare, yet can see in swallowing / a sign act of reverence, / in speech a work of re-presenting / the true olamic silence.
Word: figulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin figulātus, perfect passive participle of figulō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Made of potter's clay. Labels: not-comparable
Word: double-quick Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌdʌb.əlˈkwɪk/ 1. The double time, a marching cadence (pace) approaching running speed.
Word: double-quick Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌdʌb.əlˈkwɪk/ 1. To double-time, march (or rather run) at the above speedy pace. Labels: intransitive
Word: double-quick Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˌdʌb.əlˈkwɪk/ 1. Very quickly; at once; on the double. Labels: not-comparable
Word: double-quick Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌdʌb.əlˈkwɪk/ 1. Very quick; often used in the phrase in double-quick time. Labels: not-comparable Example: And you have to be careful. If you don't book your parking in double-quick time, you risk a fine, so always double-check that your payment has gone through. Some operators don't even send you an email or text to say you've paid.
Word: meteorograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meteoro- + -graph. 1. A device used to measure various meteorological conditions, usually the temperature and humidity.
Word: meteorographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meteorograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acromia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acromion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: methodologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From method + -ologist or methodology + -ist. 1. A person who studies methodology, or applies its principles. Example: Reliability, as a main index of measurement quality, has attracted an enormous amount of interest among methodologists and substantive researchers over the past century (e.g., McDonald, 1999).
Word: methodologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of methodologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PNV Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of present, not voting: of a vote that may be cast in some legislatures to indicate abstention. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: hebra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of horse + zebra. 1. The offspring of a cross between a horse sire and a zebra dam.
Word: Kalia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਕਾਲੀਆ (kālīā). 1. A surname from Punjabi.
Word: Kaila Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla. 1. A female given name. Example: How we got to Kate I don't know. My mother must have sought it to keep as clear as possible the link to her grandmother Kaila, not realizing how intensely Catholic a name it then was.
Word: air ambulance Part of Speech: noun 1. An aircraft (especially a form of helicopter) equipped as an ambulance. Example: An air ambulance hovered overhead before landing on the track. Frank held his father’s hand through the wreckage, as the firemen tried to cut him out of the car.
Word: aerobus Part of Speech: noun 1. airbus; passenger airliner Labels: dated
Word: banneret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French banneret, from bannière (“banner”) + -et (“-et, -ette: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to banner + -et. Pronunciation: /ˈbænəɹɪt/, /ˌbænəˈɹɛt/ 1. Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, historical 2. A small banner. Example: […] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. Example: His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear. 3. A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain. Labels: historical Example: A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […O]ne may regret “Banneret”, which has a flavour and associations, more especially as the leader of a formation in the air went into battle flying a streamer which formed a rallying mark as did the banner of the knight for his vassals. 4. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Word: feudal lord Part of Speech: noun 1. A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent.
Word: sociopathically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sociopathic + -ally. 1. In a sociopathic way.
Word: civies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of civie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: civies Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of civvies. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: Hintikkian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hintikka + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to the work of Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician. Example: Hintikkian erotetic logic is thoroughly intentional and hence adapts well to the intentional contexts of teaching.
Word: apropos of Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Calque of French à propos de. See apropos 1. Concerning; with regard to; about; apropos; in relation to. Example: Apropos''' of pruning the grape, it may be pointed out here that this can be done when the season's growth has lost its green appearance and assumed a brown or greyish color.
Word: with regard to Part of Speech: prep 1. Concerning; about. Example: I am writing with regard to the advertisement that you placed in last week's Daily News. Example: The Last Wish has a lot on its mind with regard to its characters, especially Puss himself.
Word: portacabin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the trademark Portakabin, itself from portable cabin. 1. A prefabricated hut that is transportable, often used as an office or for storage. Example: It was a standard port-a-cabin, twenty by twelve feet, with two small beds at either end, two lockers, and a table and chair between them. Example: At least I'm not in a portacabin. Whenever I find myself heading towards a peripheral portacabin, I experience the same visceral feeling that the French aristocrats had when they rode the tumbrels to Madame Guillotine.
Word: portacabins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of portacabin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mouse pads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mouse pad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jumping jacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jumping jack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crumps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: luigi Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of Luigi Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Grizelda Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Griselda. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dunce hat Part of Speech: noun 1. A conical hat that a school pupil is made to wear to indicate that he/she is a dunce. Labels: historical 2. The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
Word: dunce cap Part of Speech: noun 1. A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that the person is a dunce. 2. The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
Word: dunce caps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dunce cap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dunce hats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dunce hat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knight's tour Part of Speech: noun 1. A sequence of positions on a chessboard, including each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another. 2. A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.
Word: knight's tours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of knight's tour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rindle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rendel and other variants with d of rinel, whence also the more common form runnel: see that entry for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪndəl/ 1. A small stream or rivulet; a watercourse or gutter. Example: … a rindle o' wetur wur wheem, … Example: … sweat running down i' greight rindles …
Word: traffic cones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of traffic cone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ashes of rose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the fading color of wilted roses. 1. A pinkish gray color. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: There are star-fish, sea-urchins, and sea-anemones, — gorgeous creatures in ashes of rose and orange, or in pink and brown with dashes of yellow. Example: White and black added to the above combinations result in the quieter tones and tints of these — such as old rose, ashes of rose, salmon, red-brown, terra-cotta, brick red and the series of pinkish to orange greys.
Word: ashes-of-rose Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ashes of rose. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: crew chief Part of Speech: noun 1. The leader or the head of a crew. 2. the chief umpire, referee or other official. Labels: US
Word: crew chiefs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crew chief Labels: form-of, plural
Word: typoing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of typo Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: typoed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of typo Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: typo'd Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of typo Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Aquitania Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Aquitania. Doublet of Aquitaine and Guyenne. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.kwɪˈteɪ.nɪ.ə/, /ˌæ.kwɪˈteɪn.jə/, /ˌɑ.kwɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/, /ˌɑ.kwɪˈteɪn.jə/ 1. Ellipsis of Gallia Aquitanica: an ancient province of the Roman Empire. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical 2. Synonym of Aquitaine. Labels: historical
Word: Latter Day Saint Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Latter-day Saint. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Latter Day Saints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Latter Day Saint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chantable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chant + -able. 1. Suitable for being chanted. Example: […] a chantable chorus of “Wooy-yooy-yooy.”
Word: cantabiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cantabile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: percents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of percent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aerophysics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + physics. 1. The physics of the design and construction of aerodynamic devices Labels: uncountable
Word: Chrysler Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the motor company founded by and named after Walter Chrysler in 1925. Surname derives from German Kreißler. 1. A motor vehicle brand (a make) owned by the Chrysler Corporation (1925–1998) and its successor corporations, most recently Stellantis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a Chrysler dealership 2. A former motor vehicle manufacturer, the Chrysler Corporation (1925–1998); its successor corporations still informally called by that name, most recently Stellantis's North American subsidiary. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From the 1920s through the 1960s, Chrysler was known within the automotive industry for impressive engineering. 3. A surname. Labels: countable
Word: Chrysler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the motor company founded by and named after Walter Chrysler in 1925. Surname derives from German Kreißler. 1. An automobile of this make. (Formerly, often used as an example of a luxury car (mid-20th century).) Example: He was driving a brand-new Chrysler. Example: Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale And it's about to set sail I got me a car, it seats about twenty, so come on And bring your jukebox money The love shack is a little old place where We can get together Love shack baby
Word: Chryslers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Chrysler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wire cutters Part of Speech: noun 1. A hand tool resembling pliers, intended for cutting wires. Labels: plural, plural-normally
Word: hedge trimmer Part of Speech: noun 1. A gardening tool or machine used for trimming hedges.
Word: hedge trimmers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hedge trimmer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: starting points Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of starting point Labels: form-of, plural
Word: station throats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of station throat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bubble blower Part of Speech: noun 1. A children's toy for making bubbles by passing air through a membrane of a liquid bubble solution, typically soapy water.
Word: spoofable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spoof + -able. 1. that can be spoofed Labels: not-comparable
Word: hit the bricks Part of Speech: verb 1. To travel about, especially on foot. Labels: idiomatic Example: [T]housands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work. Example: [H]undreds of joggers and walkers from the condos hit the bricks of the Coal Harbor Seawalk starting at 6 a.m. for their morning constitution around Stanley Park. 2. To leave or depart; to get out. Labels: idiomatic Example: Alas, Hancock did not have his receipt, so the shop owner told him to hit the bricks. Example: On Friday and Saturday nights, the old-timers who usually populate the enormous room hit the bricks as an army of young people storm the hall to play "Cosmic Bingo." 3. To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing. Labels: idiomatic Example: When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect. Example: Queens bus driver Mousie Garcia, 30, said she doesn't want a strike but will hit the bricks if the MTA doesn't come through with no-strings-attached raises.
Word: suavities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suavity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: take a licking Part of Speech: verb 1. To suffer a defeat or a beating. Labels: slang
Word: takes time Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of take time Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: taking time Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of take time Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: took time Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of take time Labels: form-of, past
Word: taken time Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of take time Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reap hook Part of Speech: noun 1. A sickle.
Word: reaping hook Part of Speech: noun 1. A sickle, particularly a small one with a short handle used for cutting grass or crops.
Word: cotehardie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French cote-hardie, from cote (“coat”) + hardie (“hardy”). 1. A mid to late 14th century unisex garment tailored to fit the torso and arms, usually with a row of buttons down the front as well as down each fitted sleeve from the elbow to the wrist. Women's coathardies trailed on the floor, but those for men could be cut very short. Labels: historical Example: 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
Word: cotehardies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cotehardie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forprofit Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of for-profit. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: forprofit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of for-profit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Panama Canal Zone Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈpænəmɑː kəˈnæl ˌzəʊn/ 1. A United States concession within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979. Former postal code: CZ Labels: historical Example: On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school. Example: My parents, however, chose not to be subjected to the indignities and unequal treatment doled out in those days to Blacks in the Panama Canal Zone. They chose to give birth to me in a Panamanian hospital.
Word: Guppy Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Canal Zone Part of Speech: name 1. The Panama Canal Zone. 2. The Suez Canal Zone.
Word: Suez Canal Zone Part of Speech: name 1. The territory stretching around the course of the Suez Canal. Labels: historical
Word: Sues Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Sue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tondino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian tondino. 1. A small ceramic plate in the Italian style. Example: Iznikware tondinos survive with other styles of decoration: […]
Word: Mishnic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Mishna + -ic. 1. Mishnaic.
Word: Mishnical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Mishnic + -al. 1. Mishnaic
Word: performance arousal Part of Speech: noun 1. A phenomenon experienced before or while one performs, manifested either positively, as excitement, or negatively, as anxiety. Labels: uncountable
Word: fir-cone Part of Speech: noun 1. The conical fruit of a fir tree. Example: Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification[.]
Word: salchichón Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Spanish salchichón 1. A kind of Spanish summer sausage.
Word: pinery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pine + -ery. 1. A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit. Example: The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England,[…] Example: while Margam was exceptional in the scale of its orangery, it was not alone […] There was, for example, a peach house at Stradey Castle, a melon house and vinery at Nanteos, while Middleton Hall had both a peach house and a pinery. Pineapples were particularly prized because of their flavour and spectacular appearance. 2. A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown. Example: Early in the Moon of Popping Trees they [High Back Bone, Yellow Eagle, and Crazy Horse] began tantalizing the woodcutters in the pinery and the soldiers guarding the wagons which brought wood to Fort Phil Kearny. [Red Cloud's War, 1866]
Word: retraits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retrait Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retraits Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retrait Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pineries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pinery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rejoint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + joint. 1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. 2. to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather.
Word: baryes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barye Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trip up Part of Speech: verb 1. To commit an error, make a mistake. Labels: intransitive 2. To cause (someone) to commit an error, trick into a mistake. Labels: transitive 3. To fall or stumble. Labels: intransitive 4. To cause (someone) to fall or stumble. Labels: transitive
Word: trips up Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of trip up Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tripping up Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trip up Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tripped up Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of trip up Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bogs off Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bog off Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bogging off Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bog off Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bogged off Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bog off Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lay brother Part of Speech: noun 1. A layman who is a member of a religious congregation or monastic order without the intention to become a priest. Example: In feudal days lay brothers were usually uneducated commoners, who did most menial, manual labor while the learned priestly monks held the more spiritual jobs. Example: 2010, WHY A LAY BROTHER?, Franciscan Friars The male branch of the Franciscan family, a community of Lesser Brothers, is made up of men who are both clergy and consecrated laity traditionally called "lay brothers".
Word: terrasse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace. 1. Terrace, patio. Labels: Quebec 2. A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.
Word: terrasse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace. 1. To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces. Example: However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch. Example: Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.
Word: terrasses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terrasse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: terrasses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of terrasse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: haitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A nineteenth-century Hiberno-English phonological overlay of the early medieval Irish Gaelic héis and Middle English aitch. Héis is a graphemic mapping of Classical Latin ha, borrowed into Irish Gaelic to represent the autochthonous phoneme. Middle English aitch derives from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, from Classical Latin ha. See the Wikipedia article about the letter. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈheːt͡ʃ/ 1. Alternative form of aitch. Labels: Australia, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
Word: clickstream Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From click + stream. 1. A profile of a user's activity in a web browser or other software, based on what is clicked. Example: “My clickstream data is sensitive information,” she told Mr. Zaneis, “and it belongs to me.” Example: Clickstream analytics are usually monitored on an aggregate basis. Server-based clickstream analysis provides valuable insight into visitor behavior. For instance, by learning which paths users most frequently take on a site and which routes lead to sales, you can make changes in content and calls to action[…]
Word: clickstreams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clickstream Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haitches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haitch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shed load Part of Speech: noun 1. A load that has been shed. 2. Alternative form of shedload. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shed loads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shed load Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inner city Part of Speech: noun 1. The parts of a large city closer to its core, especially older, populous areas of low-income or immigrant families as opposed to centrally located commercial areas.
Word: dragonless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dragon + -less. 1. Without a dragon or dragons. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: His famous "dragon," so much in request in the neighbouring and dragonless parishes during the period of medieval sentiment, till it appears in a cold-blooded "inventory" as "made of hoopis and coveryd wyth canvass," is as life-like an illustration as could well be given of the disillusionizing processes of the Reformation. Example: As a dragonless man, he was held in a certain respect by the other men.
Word: stoveless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stove + -less. 1. Without a stove. Labels: not-comparable
Word: orchardman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From orchard + -man. 1. A man who owns or tends an orchard. Example: Near-synonyms: orcharder, orchardist; fruitgrower
Word: orchardmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orchardman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feudal law Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feudal, law. 2. The legislation governing feudal matters, such as the procedures, (mutual) rights and duties concerning fiefs, feudal lords and their enfeoffed vassals.
Word: lagg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Most likely from Swedish lagg (“moist, marshy area around a bog”), though compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water). (Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.) Pronunciation: /ˈlæɡ/, [ˈlæɡ], /ˈleɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɡ] 1. Waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects. Example: Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet. Example: Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.
Word: kofte Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kofta. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: koftes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kofte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unflag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + flag. 1. To remove a flag from. Labels: transitive Example: A message that has been unflagged will no longer be displayed at the top of your e-mail inbox.
Word: unflags Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unflag Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: learning difficulties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of learning difficulty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circummure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From circum- + Latin murus; compare immure. 1. To surround with, or as if with, a wall. Labels: transitive Example: This empty roof, / this sleeping town, this great stone wall / which circummures us.
Word: circummures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of circummure Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: circummuring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of circummure Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: circummured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of circummure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: burghul Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bulgur. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: chondrosarcoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chondro- + sarcoma. 1. A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
Word: chondrosarcomas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chondrosarcoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chondrosarcomata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chondrosarcoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ywrought Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɔːt/ 1. past participle of work Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past Example: Of ſhapes tranſformede to bodies ſtraunge,I purpoſe to entreate, Ye gods vouchſafe(for you are they ywrought this wōdrous feate)
Word: commote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh cwmwd, from Middle Welsh kymhwt (literally “abode together”). 1. A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales. Example: Some cantrefi might comprise more than two commotes, for example, and the complement of townships would vary from commote to commote, determined by considerations other than mathematical symmetry.
Word: commote Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from commotion. 1. To disturb or agitate, to disrupt also in the positive sense, to put into (more) commotion, to stir up, to add to the activity of. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: It was incidental to the closeness of relationship into which we had brought ourselves that an unfriendly state of feeling could not occur between any two members without the whole society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable thereby. Example: It is to commote patriotism and to commote life that our Barries, Maclarens, Hardies, and Caines must go for inspiration to revivify a people growing prematurely old in a vain attempt to make the world "Anglo-Saxon."
Word: commotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gangsterlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English gangster Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English gangsterlike From gangster + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a gangster; criminal, ruthless, etc.
Word: gangsterish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gangster + -ish. 1. Gangsterlike. Labels: informal
Word: biscuitlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From biscuit + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a biscuit.
Word: tollfree Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of toll-free. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: freephone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK. 1. A service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers. Labels: Ireland, UK, uncountable Example: If they are not marketed properly they can easily be viewed as a poor man's freephone. Therefore, if such a service is to succeed, it needs to be promoted... Example: One reason for the increase in public contact with companies has been the introduction of freephone, or toll-free, services.
Word: freephone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK. 1. To call a freephone number. Labels: rare
Word: tondini Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tondino Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unpolled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + polled. 1. Not polled (included in a vote). Labels: not-comparable
Word: rotorcraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rotor + craft. 1. Any aircraft that obtains its lift from rotors (usually either a helicopter or an aerial drone with rotors).
Word: woodpigeons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woodpigeon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flayer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flay + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪ.ɚ/, /ˈfleɪ.ə/ 1. One who or that which flays.
Word: flayers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flayer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: LDs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of LD Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fanfuckingtastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Via expletive infixation, from fantastic + -fucking-. 1. Fantastic; great. Labels: often, sarcastic, slang, vulgar Example: A: How is your vacation going? B: It is fanfuckingtastic, and I wish it could last twice as long. Example: "Hey this is fanfuckingtastic," Corky said. "Up and at 'em."
Word: fanfuckingtastic Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Via expletive infixation, from fantastic + -fucking-. 1. Fantastic; great. Labels: often, sarcastic, slang, vulgar Example: A: Austin just broke the faucet again. B: Fanfuckingtastic. Shouldn't someone already have fired that guy by now?
Word: kiddy fiddlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kiddy fiddler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kiddie fiddlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kiddie fiddler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unsubstantially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unsubstantial + -ly. 1. In an unsubstantial way.
Word: frickin' Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of fricking. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: He became furious when developers tore them down to build newer and bigger ones. “It’s like a damned theme park!” he rages. “What happened to the frickin’ sin?”
Word: freshwater pearl mussel Part of Speech: noun 1. Any member of endangered species Margaritifera margaritifera of freshwater mussel, capable of producing quality pearls.
Word: rimmings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rimming Labels: form-of, plural
Word: embrue Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of imbrue. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: embrues Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of embrue Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: embruing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of embrue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: embrued Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of embrue Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: metaanalysis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of meta-analysis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: metaanalyses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metaanalysis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vogueing Part of Speech: adj 1. fashionable, prevailing
Word: I don't speak English Part of Speech: phrase 1. Indicates that the speaker is unable to speak the English language.
Word: assertation Part of Speech: noun 1. An assertion, statement of opinion. Example: And he surveyed the audience with a sweep of his eye as if challenging a denial to his assertation. Dimitry, who looked up to Vanya in all matters, hastened to accord with him: […] Example: The question of causation or aggravation of tuberculosis is primarily a medical question. Appellant has produced no medical opinion evidence to support his assertation that the alleged employment factors played any part […]
Word: sand olive Part of Speech: noun 1. A shrub ranging from South Africa to New Zealand, Dodonaea angustifolia or Dodonaea thunbergii.
Word: skurf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of ski + surf. 1. to ride on a small surfboard towed behind a speedboat, after the manner of water skiing 2. to ride a skateboard using a surfing-like style