nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: montage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: , La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”). Pronunciation: /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/, /ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/, /mɑnˈtɑʒ/, /ˈmɑn.tɑʒ/ 1. A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. Labels: countable Example: Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage Example: Examples of montage are seen in many modern films, and it is not a device which is physically difficult to use. The difficulty lies in the proper conception of the complete montage, for the cameraman must so completely visualize the finished result that he can proceed to assemble the various units without, at any time, seeing them as a whole until the film is processed. 2. The art or process of doing this. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage Example: There was a period in our cinema when montage was proclaimed as being 'everything'. We are now coming to the end of a period where montage has been regarded as 'nothing'. Since we consider montage to be neither 'nothing' nor 'everything', we now think it necessary to recall that montage is as essential a component of film-making as all the other affective elements of cinematography. […] The fact is that the makers of a number of films in recent years have so thoroughly 'parted company' with montage that they even forgot the basic aim and function, inseparable from its cognitive role, which every work of art sets for itself: the function of providing a coherent, consistent exposition of the work's theme, plot, action and events, and their progression both within each sequence and within the film as a whole. 3. A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene. Labels: countable Example: THE MYTH: Training montages are inspiring, harmless fun. At some point in any sports movie, the grossly unqualified underdog will start training to the sound of some inspirational rock song. Example: Unfortunately, nothing much happens in the rest of the episode either. It gets to the point where a montage is devoted to establishing Sam's monotony at Oldtown.
Word: montage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: , La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”). Pronunciation: /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/, /ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/, /mɑnˈtɑʒ/, /ˈmɑn.tɑʒ/ 1. To combine into, or depict as, a montage. Labels: transitive Example: The Keartons and our staff had out-montaged [Vsevolod] Pudovkin. The result viewed to-day may be somewhat out of date—though I'm not sure—but of one thing I am certain—that it is as fine an example as I know of a maximum effect of cinematic movement achieved by patience in editing. Example: The two background photographs shown in Fig. 2 were selected from the office files of Blakeslee-Lane Studios and then montaged together by copying onto a negative.
Word: aurora australis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin aurōra austrālis, from Latin aurōra austrālis (literally “southern dawn”). 1. The aurora of the southern hemisphere
Word: aurora borealis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin aurōra boreālis (literally “northern dawn”). Pronunciation: /əˌɹɔːɹ.ə ˈbɔːɹ.i.æl.ɪs/ 1. The aurora of the northern hemisphere. Example: Superintendent Chalmers: Yes, I should be— Good Lord what is happening in there!? Principal Skinner: Aurora borealis. Superintendent Chalmers: Uh— Aurora borealis, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen? Principal Skinner: Yes. Superintendent Chalmers: May I see it? Principal Skinner: No. Example: A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies.
Word: IED Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌaɪ iː ˈdiː/ 1. Initialism of Intelligent Electronic Device, a sensor, actuator, or PLC used as part of a SCADA system. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of Interlingua-English Dictionary, the first dictionary of Interlingua. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of interictal epileptiform discharge, a type of brain waves related to epilepsy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Hippocampal sclerosis was less common in the patients with IED. Example: Initial concerns revolved mainly around the relationship between the interictal epileptiform discharge (IED) and the clinical diagnosis of epilepsy. 4. Initialism of improvised explosive device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: She'd been an Army noncombatant, but roadside IEDs didn't distinguish between armed troops and support services. 5. Initialism of intermittent explosive disorder, a mental disorder characterized by short, intense episodes of rage. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: prelapsarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + Latin lapsus (“fall”) + -arian. Pronunciation: /pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/ 1. Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled. Labels: Judaism, not-comparable Example: It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers. Example: Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.
Word: Hastings Part of Speech: name Etymology: The placename in England is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas (“Hæsta's people, the family/followers of Hæsta”), which was later transferred to their settlement. The family name has two possible sources: * from the place name * a patronymic surname derived from the Anglo-Norman personal name Hasten(c), Hastang The later place names in other countries are named either after people with that family name, or after the town of Hastings in England. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪ.stɪŋz/ 1. A place name, including: 2. A place name, including: 3. A place name, including: 4. A place name, including: 5. A place name, including: 6. A place name, including: 7. A place name, including: 8. A place name, including: 9. A place name, including: 10. A place name, including: 11. A place name, including: 12. A place name, including: 13. A place name, including: 14. A place name, including: 15. A place name, including: 16. A place name, including: 17. A place name, including: 18. A place name, including: 19. A place name, including: 20. A place name, including: 21. A place name, including: 22. A place name, including: 23. A place name, including: 24. A habitational surname from Old English. 25. A surname originating as a patronymic.
Word: tuffet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French touffel, diminutive of touffe (“tuft”). Regarding etymological and semantic uncertainty, see Wikipedia at Little Miss Muffet § Tuffet and §§ Uncertain meaning. 1. A clump of grass or similar vegetation; a small grass-covered mound. Example: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away. 2. A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool. 3. An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting.
Word: curds and whey Part of Speech: noun 1. cottage cheese Labels: uncountable
Word: golliwog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a blend of golly + polliwog Coined for the illustrations by Florence Kate Upton for her mother Bertha Upton′s 1895 children′s book, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls — and a ‘Golliwogg’. 1. A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. Example: Lyons was ideal material for the ‘Honest Joe’ image. He had a round chubby face under a mop of curly hair that made him resemble a cross between a koala bear and a golliwog. Example: A golliwog doll, ‘Rickety Kate’, was fixed to the studio wall. 2. A black person. Labels: dated, offensive Example: Deemed equally ‘harmless’ by its perpetrators is that close relation to the cannibal; the golliwog.[…]Dixon′s brilliant essay ‘All things white and beautiful’ (1976) argues that golliwogs are associated with fear and darkness, quoting an Enid Blyton story of Noddy being trapped and robbed of his car and his clothes, even his ‘dear little hat’ by ‘four big strong golliwogs’. Dixon observes how a four-year-old got the message from the pictures alone, which show the golliwogs driving off and ‘poor little’ Noddy on the ground. 3. A hairy caterpillar. Labels: Australia 4. A receiver of stolen goods. 5. Greyhound racing: the jolly dogs. Labels: slang Example: But even wooden limbs get tired/ And want a change of play/ So "Golliwogg"/ A "jolly dog"/ Suggests they run away.
Word: Brno Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnəʊ/, /ˈbɹənəʊ/, /ˈbɝnoʊ/ 1. The capital of the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, and the second-largest city in the Czech Republic.
Word: Friedrich Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Friedrich. 1. A male given name from German, equivalent to English Frederick. Example: As it happened, also, the particular Friedrichs and Wilhelms whom he meant to see and confer with were out of town, or had moved their habitats, so that he could not easily find them. […] “I beg your pardon, but can you tell me where Friedrich Baum lives?” Example: The dour Friedrich Wilhelm I, never out of uniform, accumulating tax income from a dozen different unconstitutional sources, takes time out from drilling his grenadiers to smash an inefficient postillion over the head with his cane. The sleepless Friedrich der Grosse, an atheist Calvin, rises at 6 a.m. to write the day’s orders to his bureaucrats, a shining example to the world of “enlightened despotism.” Even the feckless Friedrich Wilhelm III, defeated by a French revolutionary army, appoints a minister to tell him “Your majesty must do from above what the French have done from below.” […] When the king contemplated (God forbid) his abdication on the issue, Bismarck threw himself into the breach, accepted the office of Chancellor, defied the parliament, and collected the tax, just as the Friedrichs and Wilhelms had done before the French Revolution interrupted the course of progress. 2. A surname from German. Example: It has been learned that mr. blair maintains a second savings account, under the name george friedrich, at Leclair & Cie of Geneva, Switz. […] A search of the photo files showed of the George Friedriches in the United States who hold passports, none bears the remotest physical resemblance to Mr. Blair. Example: We met our landlords-to-be, Frau and Herr Friedrich, themselves émigrés from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. […] When my mother arrived and we brought her to our attic home, she immediately made friends with our landlords and was able to converse in a form of German that the Friedriches easily understood.
Word: transmute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin trānsmūtāre, from trans + mūtāre. Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈmjuːt/ 1. To change or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold. Example: Did the base metals transmute to gold?
Word: homorganic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hom- + organic. Pronunciation: /ˌhɑmɔɹˈɡænɪk/, /ˌhɒmɔːˈɡænɪk/ 1. Of consonants: having the same place of articulation. For example, labial m, b, p, alveolar n, d, t, velar ŋ, g, k. Indic alphabets such as Devanagari, as well as the Korean hangul alphabet, are rationally arranged so that homorganic consonants are grouped together. Labels: not-comparable Example: Two identical consonants (redoubled) in second and third position are frequently found (they are called verba mediae geminatae), but two homorganic consonants are not. 2. produced by the same or homologous organs Labels: not-comparable
Word: homorganic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hom- + organic. Pronunciation: /ˌhɑmɔɹˈɡænɪk/, /ˌhɒmɔːˈɡænɪk/ 1. A consonant having the same place of articulation as another.
Word: terrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”). Pronunciation: /təˈɹeɪn/, /təˈɹæɪn/ 1. A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An area of land or its particular features. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The race will be run over a variety of terrain, including grass and sand. 3. The surface of the earth; the ground. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This approach requires the aircraft to stay at an altitude of at least 3000 feet MSL until crossing the VOR in order to maintain terrain clearance. Example: controlled flight into terrain 4. An individual's overall state of health. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: polytropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From polytrope, equivalent to poly- + -tropic, ultimately from Ancient Greek πολύτροπος (polútropos). 1. of any change in the thermodynamic properties of a gas in which its specific heat remains constant Labels: not-comparable 2. many-valued Labels: not-comparable 3. Focusing one’s attention on multiple sets of things at one time. Labels: not-comparable Example: Our hypothesis is that the difference between autistic and non-autistic is a difference in the strategies employed in the distribution of scarce attention. That is to say, it is the difference between having few interests highly aroused, the monotropic tendency, and having many interests less highly aroused, the polytropic tendency. An aroused interest is an interest charged with feeling. Example: Where polytropic minds comfortably entertain many simultaneous interests, each moderately aroused, the monotropic mind will maintain only very few simultaneous interests, with each one highly aroused and intensely focused upon. 4. Of bees: visiting a wide circle of flowers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: singles Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to unmarried people. Labels: not-comparable Example: a singles bar
Word: singles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of single Labels: form-of, plural Example: He hit three singles last game, two the game before that. Example: The band's first single became a hit record.
Word: singles Part of Speech: noun 1. A game between individual players. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Synonym of tubulars. Labels: Australia
Word: singles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of single Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sample Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑːm.pəl/, /ˈsam.pəl/, /ˈsæm.pəl/, [ˈsɛəm.pəɫ], /ˈsæːm.pəl/ 1. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen. Example: a blood sample Example: He looked down into Glen Doone first, and sniffed as if he were smelling it, like a sample of goods from a wholesale house; and then he looked at the hills over yonder, and then he stared at me. 2. A subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population. Example: Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability. Example: It is interesting to find that, with the exception of a few imperfectly-observed South Sea Islanders, and whose actual numbers, if the measurements are correct, are very few, the English professional classes head the long list [in average height], and that the Anglo-Saxon race takes the chief place in it among the civilised communities, although it is possible it might stand second to the Scandinavian countries if a fair sample of their population were obtained. 3. A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free. 4. A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free. 5. A borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording. 6. Example; pattern. Labels: obsolete Example: Thus he concludes, and euery hardie knight / His ſample follow’d, and his brethren twaine, / The other Princes put on harneſſe light, / As footmen vſe. Example: [The King] Liu’d in Court / (Which rare it is to do) moſt prais’d, moſt lou’d, / A ſample to the yongeſt.
Word: sample Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑːm.pəl/, /ˈsam.pəl/, /ˈsæm.pəl/, [ˈsɛəm.pəɫ], /ˈsæːm.pəl/ 1. To take or to test a sample or samples of. Labels: transitive Example: They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could. Example: Mok was enjoying himself very much. It was not often that he had such an opportunity to sample the delights of Paris. His young master, Ralph, had given him strict orders never to go out at night, or in his leisure hours, unless accompanied by Cheditafa. 2. To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. Labels: transitive 3. To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music. Labels: transitive Example: To address this novel legal quandary, one legal treatise on copyright has developed the concept of fragmented literal similarity, a method of determining whether a sample-based work is substantially similar to the source it sampled. The name reflects the exactness of the similarity between the snippet of a track that is sampled and the sampled copy of that snippet. 4. To make or show something similar to a sample. Labels: transitive Example: It means that a larger image field can be sampled from a lower resolution copy without much loss in comparative data, only the number of data points to be manipulated.
Word: sampling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/, /ˈsɑːmpəlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of sample Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sampling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/, /ˈsɑːmpəlɪŋ/ 1. The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A sample. Labels: countable 3. The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The electronic splicing of pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deterrence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the stem of deterrent + -ence. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛɹəns/, /dɪˈtɝɹəns/, /dɪˈtʌɹəns/, /diˈtɝɹəns/, /diˈtʌɹəns/ 1. The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The policy relies on nuclear deterrence. Example: Strict penalties act as a deterrence against theft. 2. An action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: policy of deterrence 3. The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking. Labels: countable, specifically, uncountable 5. The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: living hell Part of Speech: noun 1. A continuing state of extreme pain, punishment, suffering, or torment with no seeming chance of reprieve. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: snark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /snɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm. Labels: uncountable Example: Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm. Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack. Its subtle insult comprises a tone that acts as a weapon to cut its target down to size. Example: Snark will get you any way it can, fore and aft, and to hell with consistency. In a media society, snark is an easy way of seeming smart. […] Snark doesn't create a new image, a new idea. It's parasitic, referential, insinuating.
Word: snark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /snɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion. Example: Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.” Example: Ah! That was "snark". You snark when your blood sugar is low. I know how to help you. Pizza. Humans seem to find calm in the consumption of food. 2. To snort. Labels: obsolete
Word: snark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Snark, coined by Lewis Carroll as a nonce word in The Hunting of the Snark (1874), about the quest for an elusive creature. In sense of “a type of mathematical graph”, named as such in 1976 by Martin Gardner for their elusiveness. Pronunciation: /snɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search. Labels: literary Example: When the auctioneer had exhausted his vocabulary in describing the merits of an animal, his winding-up formula was "One times! two times! three times!" Then the hammer gave a tap, and he and our party would devote our energies to discovering the last bidder - a research which generally was as promising as the hunting of the snark. Example: Remy said Dad was hunting snarks; at the time, she'd thought it was a euphemism. 2. A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. 3. A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. Labels: particle Example: Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.
Word: cry uncle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Uncle may be an anglicization of Irish anacal (“protection”). 1. To beg for mercy; to give up, admit defeat, surrender; indicate submission, such as when wrestling. Labels: US, colloquial Example: The Powels would serve strong punch and play loud music, and their parties ended when the last guest cried uncle, often a day and half after they began. Example: “I said unconditional. It’s where they cry uncle or when they can’t fight any longer and there’s nobody around to cry uncle — that could happen too,” Trump said when pressed by the Guardian aboard Air Force One.
Word: bitten the dust Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of bite the dust Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fearfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English fearful 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 fearfully From fearful + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɹfəli/, /ˈfɪəfəli/ 1. In a fearful manner; characterized by fear. Example: I stepped fearfully into the pitch-dark cave. 2. very; very much. Labels: UK, dated Example: He's a fearfully good striker. Example: Remember, when a horse is on its side the kicking-strap is useless, and the breechen nearly so, to prevent the swing of its hind legs; your aim is to get it away from the steps or wheel-plate of the trap, which, in its struggles, may cut its legs fearfully.
Word: cc Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /siːˈsiː/ 1. Initialism of carbon copy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: I had meant to cc you on this earlier. Please reply by next Thursday. Thanks. 2. Initialism of courtesy copy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of closed caption or closed captioning. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of cubic centimeter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: This plastic syringe delivers one cc of medicine to the mouth of the animal. The medicine is peanut-flavored. Example: It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
Word: cc Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /siːˈsiː/ 1. Abbreviation of chapters. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, plural, plural-only
Word: cc Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /siːˈsiː/ 1. Initialism of carbon copy (“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”). Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, transitive Example: Please cc me so I stay on top of any situations that might come up & I can be sure we get you answers right away. Example: For messages I'm cc'd on by people within my company, with the exception of a handful of senior execs (including my direct supervisor), whose cc's continue to go to my primary inbox. 2. Initialism of crowd control. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, transitive Example: Just cc him, bro.
Word: gut feeling Part of Speech: noun 1. An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale. Labels: idiomatic Example: Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling. Example: Houston had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car.
Word: hightail it Part of Speech: verb 1. To hurry or run; often, to flee. Labels: Canada, US, informal Example: He started to hightail it out of there, but I stopped him at the door. Example: The cat hightailed it out of the bushes.
Word: bend someone's ear Part of Speech: verb 1. To bore; to talk too long, especially to one particular person. Labels: idiomatic Example: Sorry to bend your ear with the whole story, but I think you ought to know. 2. To call someone's attention to an important matter. Labels: idiomatic Example: I managed to bend his ear about the current crisis. I hope he will act now. 3. To put a hand behind one's ear and cup it around so as to hear better. Labels: reflexive
Word: medley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdli/ 1. Combat, fighting; a battle. Labels: archaic Example: Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym Example: For greater shields they have, than that they can either doe or see ought, and being raunged by hundreds no doubt they will hinder one another in the medley, except some very few 2. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. Example: a fruit medley Example: this medley of philosophy and war 3. A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. Example: They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore. 4. A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. 5. A cloth of mixed colours. Example: Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent was made the wors
Word: medley Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdli/ 1. To combine, to form a medley.
Word: slur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). The ultimate origin is uncertain, but perhaps related to a group of words derived from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“loose, slack, flabby”), such as slumber. Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”). * (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc. Pronunciation: /slɜː/, /slɜɹ/, /slʌr/, /sløː/, /sleː/ 1. An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath. Example: It seems that according to their best guess, our mother's ^([sic]) drank too much coffee or alcohol, took drugs, or were under stress during the period of our conception. Underlying all this speculation is, of course, the big slur: we're some kind of unnatural or abnormal product, outside of humanity and their religions. 2. An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath. Example: In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs. Example: Elon Musk's recent declaration that the term "cis" is a slur indicates just how much transphobia is now central to Twitter. 3. A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain. Example: a slur on one's reputation Example: The undeserved slur which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever. 4. An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation. Example: And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur 5. Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders. 6. A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. 7. The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
Word: slur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). The ultimate origin is uncertain, but perhaps related to a group of words derived from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“loose, slack, flabby”), such as slumber. Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”). * (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc. Pronunciation: /slɜː/, /slɜɹ/, /slʌr/, /sløː/, /sleː/ 1. To insult or slight. Example: And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy? 2. To run together; to articulate poorly. Example: to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk. Example: "Thank you for your donation," the girl says, slurring the words together into a single syllable. 3. To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. Example: Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred 4. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Example: they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…] 5. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. Example: With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. 6. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. Example: to slur men of what they fought for 7. To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. Labels: dated
Word: logjam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From log + jam. 1. An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts. 2. A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress. Labels: figuratively Example: Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam. Example: Mr. Clinton can break the logjam by first convincing the public that he is willing to start with small but meaningful victories.
Word: logjam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From log + jam. 1. To deliberately impede or delay the progress of. Labels: transitive
Word: bottleneck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bottle + neck. 1. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. 2. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. 3. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay. Labels: figuratively Example: "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force. Example: At one time, Reading was regarded as a notorious bottleneck in the rail network, almost incapable of managing the number of services that needed to pass through the station each day. [...] A road widening scheme at Cow Lane has also allowed two-way traffic to run beneath the railway for the first time, helping to remove a notorious road traffic bottleneck in the town. 4. The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck. Example: The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
Word: bottleneck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bottle + neck. 1. To slow by causing a bottleneck. Labels: transitive Example: The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning. 2. To form a bottleneck. Labels: intransitive Example: The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
Word: scroll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow. Pronunciation: /skɹəʊl/, /skɹoʊl/ 1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll. 2. An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern. 3. Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant. Example: I lose myself in a flawed henna plant jutting toward the scroll. Its rose-pink eyes burst off the stems. 4. A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill. 5. The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head. 6. A skew surface. 7. A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape. Example: I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll. 8. The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next. Example: […] the computer sends orders, via electrical impulses, to recompose the liquid crystal structure inside the cells quickly which results in the familiar smooth scroll of the pointer on your screen. 9. A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow. 10. A turbinate bone. 11. A rough draft of anything. Labels: obsolete 12. The act of scrolling. Example: I gave the terms and conditions a quick scroll before signing up to the website. Example: Silicon Valley’s dirtiest design feature – which is everywhere once you spot it – is the infinite scroll, likened to the “bottomless soup bowl” experiment, in which participants will keep mindlessly eating from a soup bowl if it keeps refilling.
Word: scroll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow. Pronunciation: /skɹəʊl/, /skɹoʊl/ 1. To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen. Labels: ambitransitive Example: She scrolled the offending image out of view. Example: She kept scrolling until she found the desired paragraph. 2. To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically. Labels: intransitive Example: The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen. Example: The piano plays on. I watch those little rectangles as they scroll down from the top. 3. To continuously and aimlessly consume content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X. Labels: intransitive Example: With millions of creators worldwide, many of whom are generating income through brand partnerships, affiliate deals, and platform monetization, influencers are likely popping up any time you pick up a phone to scroll. 4. To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read. Labels: Internet, dated, intransitive Example: Hey, stop scrolling! Example: It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl^([sic]) could read it cos it was going so fast - geez. 5. To draft; to write in rough outline. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: catch on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From catch (verb) + on (preposition). Pronunciation: /kæt͡ʃ ˈɒn/, /kɛt͡ʃ ˈɑn/, /kæt͡ʃ-/ 1. Chiefly in the form catch oneself on: to cause (oneself) to get or regain a proper appreciation of a situation; to behave in the expected, sensible way; to stop fooling around or being silly. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Big Pat's still wearing his hair like two floppy ears on a dog. He's amazing: wouldn't you think his wife or someone would tell him to catch himself on. 2. Chiefly followed by to: to cling or hold on to something; to get stuck on something; to take hold. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Every other man in town might have walked over that plank, and it wouldn't gin away. I walked over that plank last night, and airly this morning. I see, when I stepped on to it, that somebody had been a movin' on it; but I didn't know the 'tother eend was only just ketched on to the rock. Example: He meant to drift altogether and literally, body and soul, like a detached leaf drifting in the wind-currents under the immovable trees of a forest glade; to drift without ever catching on to anything. 3. Chiefly followed by to: to cling or hold on to something; to get stuck on something; to take hold. Labels: New-England, dated, idiomatic, intransitive Example: When we stand by the fireplace at Arrows, it's not hard to imagine the ancestor of our farm standing around an iron pot and tending the well-kept fire, taking in the aromas of cooking that filled the room. They waited for the pot roast to "catch on," sticking to the pot just enough to brown, giving the gravy a richness and a savory flavor that coats the lips. 4. Of an idea, a thing, etc.: to become fashionable or popular; also, to become established as standard; to become commonplace. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: It’s a crummy idea, and I certainly hope it doesn’t catch on. Example: At first, many people didn’t like that kind of music, but after a while it caught on. 5. Followed by to: to recognize the potential of something; also, to take advantage of or use something (especially an idea, a trend, etc.). Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: The Chicago papers are quick to "catch on" to a fire sensation and make the most of it. […] The first news received in Cincinnati of the fire in the Planters' House in St. Louis Sunday morning came from Chicago. Example: The NME were very late in catching on to punk, which is why they had to get [Julie] Burchill and [Tony] Parsons in. 6. Chiefly followed by to: to (begin to) understand; to realize. Labels: idiomatic, informal, intransitive Example: He didn’t have to explain; I caught on right away. Example: She’s been catching on pretty well.
Word: crummy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Variant of crumby, mid 19th c. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌmi/ 1. Bad; poor. Labels: informal Example: Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking. Example: Does it look like I care? No, seriously, stare real hard and long at the picture at the top of this column. That’s about as much reaction as you’re gonna get out of me as far as your crummy problems go. 2. Full of crumb or crumbs. Labels: dated 3. Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty. Labels: dated
Word: crummy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌmi/ 1. A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. Labels: British-Columbia, Northwestern, US, informal 2. A cow with a crumpled horn.
Word: high-tail it Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of hightail it. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mandarin orange Part of Speech: noun 1. A small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with oblate fruits smaller than the (so-named) sweet oranges. 2. The fruit of this tree; in loose, informal usage, the term may include other similar citrus fruits such as Citrus unshiu (satsuma or mikan).
Word: rest in peace Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Calque of Latin requiescat in pace. 1. A blessing or expression of hope that a deceased person is at peace. Example: May the souls of the recently departed rest in peace.
Word: rest in peace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Calque of Latin requiescat in pace. 1. To have passed away, or to have died. Labels: euphemistic Example: In his latter years he sought an asylum with his relatives, the O'Conors, of Belanagar, and it was probably there that he rested in peace, in 1735.
Word: passed away Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pass away Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: snuffed it Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of snuff it Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: snuff it Part of Speech: verb 1. to die. Labels: colloquial, euphemistic Example: That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it. Example: 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Python (Monty) Pictures Limited Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Word: lickspittle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪkspɪtl/ 1. A fawning toady; a base sycophant. Example: "I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!" Example: "You're a suck, a suck and a lickspittle, that's what you are," said the pale man, his voice trembling with passion. 2. The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain. Labels: broadly
Word: lickspittle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪkspɪtl/ 1. To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: "[Y]ou take his side, and that is wrong! ...If some young school teacher, or some young lad, lickspittles to him, it's bad enough."
Word: toady Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a shortening of toadeater + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.di/, /ˈtoʊ.di/ 1. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion. Labels: derogatory Example: "But who is she, can you tell me?" / "Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose, that she has got either to toady herself, or take in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible you have never heard of old Mother Montreville?" Example: Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and a humbug. 2. A coarse, rustic woman. Labels: archaic
Word: toady Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a shortening of toadeater + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.di/, /ˈtoʊ.di/ 1. To behave like a toady (toward someone). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: But bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so. Example: He had toadied to the late Mr William Morris: he had toadied to various members of the Fabian Society, he had toadied at first to the great Bransdon himself.
Word: toady Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From toad + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.di/, /ˈtoʊ.di/ 1. toadlike Example: The bath is of greatest advantage in these chronic cases, with an earthy complexion and toady skin, if I am allowed thus to express its appearance.
Word: toady Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toad + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.di/, /ˈtoʊ.di/ 1. Diminutive of toad. Labels: childish, diminutive, form-of