nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: accloy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English acloyen, from Old French encloyer, encloer (“to drive in a nail”), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus (“nail”). Pronunciation: /əˈklɔɪ/ 1. To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To clog, clog up; to block. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes. 4. To be disgusting to. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: accoast Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkəʊst/ 1. Obsolete form of accost (“sail along the coast or lie alongside”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: […] whether high towering or accoasting low […]
Word: accolade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, via Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar) + -āta. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, /ˌæk.əˈlɑd/, /ˈæ.kəˌleɪd/ 1. An expression of approval; praise. Example: The scientist received the highest accolade in her field for the groundbreaking discovery. Example: Winning the championship brought the team immense accolade from sports analysts worldwide. 2. A special acknowledgment; an award. Example: This film is likely to pick up major accolades. Example: Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade. 3. An embrace of greeting or salutation. Example: […] for the tears stood in the old gentleman's eyes, when, having first shaken Edward heartily by the hand in the English fashion, he embraced him a-la-mode Françoise, and kissed him on both sides of the face; while the hardness of his gripe, and the quantity of Scotch snuff which his accolade communicated, called corresponding drops of moisture to the eyes of his guest. 4. A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword. Labels: historical Example: “Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight,” said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon’s sword—“rise, and seat thyself. Thy petition is granted. Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse.” Example: As he had already told him, he said, there was no chapel in the castle, nor was it needed for what remained to be done, for, as he understood the ceremonial of the order, the whole point of being dubbed a knight lay in the accolade and in the slap on the shoulder, and that could be administered in the middle of a field;[…]. 5. A brace used to join two or more staves. 6. A written presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Labels: US 7. An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. 8. Synonym of curly bracket.
Word: accolade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, via Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar) + -āta. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, /ˌæk.əˈlɑd/, /ˈæ.kəˌleɪd/ 1. To embrace or kiss in salutation. Labels: transitive 2. To confer a knighthood on. Labels: historical, transitive 3. To confer praise or awards on. Labels: transitive Example: an accoladed novel
Word: accombination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin; the first part is equivalent to ad; the second part to combination. 1. A combining together. Labels: rare
Word: accommodable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French accomodable. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒmədəb(ə)l/ 1. That may be accommodated; suitable. Example: who besides that, should also bee of a fit and accommodable condition for such a dignitie.
Word: accommodately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate 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 accommodately From accommodate + -ly. 1. suitably; fitly Labels: rare
Word: accommodateness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate Proto-Germanic *-in- ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English accommodateness From accommodate + -ness. 1. Fitness. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: accommodating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate English -ing English accommodating From accommodate + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/ 1. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful. Example: Richard DeLongpre: I have to say, we were surprised that Principal Gottlieb wasn't more accommodating. Judith Gottlieb: Oh, for God's sake, he's a child. I'm not gonna date him. Example: The staff were very accommodating and made sure we had everything we needed. 2. Pliable; easily corrupted.
Word: accommodating Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate English -ing English accommodating From accommodate + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of accommodate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accommodator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English accommodator From accommodate + -or. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɚ/, [əˈkɑmədeɪtɚ], [əˈkɒmədeɪtə] 1. One who accommodates.
Word: accompt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English accompt. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒmpt/ 1. Account. Labels: archaic Example: You muſt make an accompt of balance on the next void leaf or folio of your ledger to your other accompts; but after ſo done, do not venture to draw out the accompt of balance in the ſaid folio, till you have made it exact on a ſheet of paper, ruled and titled for that purpoſe, becauſe of miſtakes or errors that may occur or happen in the courſe of ballancing your ledger; […] Example: This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
Word: accompt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English accompt. Pronunciation: /əˈkɒmpt/ 1. To account. Labels: archaic Example: Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.
Word: accordable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English acordable, from Anglo-Norman acordable. Pronunciation: [əˈkʰɔrɾəbɫ̩] 1. Able to be given or dispensed. 2. Reconcilable; in accordance Labels: obsolete
Word: accordancy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː(ɹ)dənsi/ 1. accordance Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually Example: This mention of alms and offerings certainly brings the narrative in the Acts nearer to an accordancy with the epistle […]
Word: accordant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English acordaunt, equivalent to accord + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔɹd.ənt/ 1. In agreement; agreeing. Example: The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime. Example: And now his voice accordant to the string. 2. Harmonious. Example: From the accordant strings of Michael's melodious fiddle
Word: accordantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English accordant Middle English -ly English -ly English accordantly From accordant + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔːdəntli/, [əˈkʰɔɹɾɨ̞nʔɫi] 1. In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably.
Word: accorder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English accord Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English accorder From accord + -er. 1. One who accords. Labels: rare
Word: according Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From accord + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/, /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of accord Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Let knowledge grow from more to more, ⁠But more of reverence in us dwell; ⁠That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster. […]
Word: according Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From accord + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/, /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ/ 1. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. Example: This according voice of national wisdom.
Word: according Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From accord + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/, /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ/ 1. Accordingly; correspondingly. Labels: obsolete Example: That apprehends no further than this world, / And squarest thy life according.
Word: accordingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English acordingli, equivalent to according + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/, /əˈkɔː(ɹ).dɪŋ.li/ 1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably Example: He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card. Example: We may the number of ships behold, and so proceed accordingly. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Labels: conjunctive Example: Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail. Example: Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose, - there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead, - came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.
Word: accordion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Latin cor Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin concordāreder. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-der. Vulgar Latin *accordāre Old French acorder Middle French accorder French accorderdeverb. French accordbor. German Akkord German -ion German Akkordeonbor. English accordion First attested in 1831. Borrowed from German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː.diː.ən/, [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.n̩], /əˈkoɹ.di.ən/, [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.n̩], /əˈkɔɹ.di.ən/ 1. A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds). Example: A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked. 2. A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents. 3. Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows. Labels: attributive, figuratively Example: See also: telescoping Example: "Accordion" skirts are named from the musical instrument of that title, because the peculiar plaiting draws out and falls together again, in the same kind of folds, and with the same effect.
Word: accordion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Latin cor Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin concordāreder. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-der. Vulgar Latin *accordāre Old French acorder Middle French accorder French accorderdeverb. French accordbor. German Akkord German -ion German Akkordeonbor. English accordion First attested in 1831. Borrowed from German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː.diː.ən/, [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.n̩], /əˈkoɹ.di.ən/, [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.n̩], /əˈkɔɹ.di.ən/ 1. To fold up, in the manner of an accordion Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops. Example: Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
Word: accordment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English accordement, from Old French acordement. 1. Agreement; reconcilement. Labels: obsolete
Word: accostable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originally from French accostable, in later usage partly recoined from accost + -able. 1. Approachable; affable; willing to be accosted. Labels: dated, uncommon Example: Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter. Example: Online communities becoming increasingly accostable to their users does not always lead to higher overall activity.
Word: accoucheur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.kuˈʃɝ/, /ˌæ.kuˈʃɜː/ 1. A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth). Example: And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages. Example: Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.
Word: accountableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English accountable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English accountableness From accountable + -ness. Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊn.tə.bəl.nəs/ 1. The quality or state of being accountable; accountability. Labels: uncountable
Word: accountantship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English accountant Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English accountantship From accountant + -ship. Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊnt.əntˌʃɪp/ 1. The office or employment of an accountant.
Word: accoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). By surface analysis, a- + coy. Pronunciation: /əˈkɔɪ/ 1. To soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue. Labels: obsolete Example: Of faire Pæana I received was, And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee, And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.
Word: accrementitial Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to accrementition.
Word: accrementition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See accresce, increment. 1. The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: accresce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin accrescere. Doublet of accrease. See accrue. Pronunciation: /əˈkrɛs/ 1. To accrue. Labels: intransitive, rare 2. To increase; to grow. Labels: Early, Modern, intransitive, obsolete
Word: accroach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English acrochen, from Old French acrochier (“to hook in”), from a + croche (“hook”). Pronunciation: /əˈkɹəʊtʃ/, /əˈkɹoʊtʃ/ 1. To hook, or draw to oneself as with a hook. Labels: transitive 2. To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. Labels: transitive Example: They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. 3. To encroach. Labels: intransitive
Word: accroachment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French accrochement. 1. An encroachment; usurpation. Labels: obsolete
Word: accrual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From accrue + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈkɹuːəl/ 1. The act or process of accruing; accumulation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The effect of her alcoholism wasn't over, of course, and our relationship continues well past her death. What did change was that the accrual of new events stopped. I didn't have to worry about her anymore. She would never drink again. 2. An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The finding out of the source accrual or arisal of income is not material as the incidence of charge is dependent on the place of accrual or arisal of income. 3. from the creditor's viewpoint, a receivable incurred in one fiscal year, but paid during another. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. from the debtor's viewpoint, a debt incurred in one fiscal year, but paid during another. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: accruer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From accrue + -er. 1. The act of accruing; accretion. Example: title by accruer
Word: accrument Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of accruement. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: accumulative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Latin accumulātusbor. Middle English accumylaten English accumulate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English accumulative From accumulate + -ive. Pronunciation: /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɪv/, /əˈkjum.jəˌlə.tɪv/ 1. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass Example: At the back of it all was a nebulous, accumulative foreboding; a gathering together in the cumulus sky; a mounting excitement in the heart of secrecy […] 2. Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
Word: accurate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys-der. Proto-Italic *kʷoizā Latin cūra Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cūrō Latin accūrō Latin accūrātusbor. English accurate Borrowed from Latin accūrātus, perfect passive participle of accūrō (“to take care of”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“care for”). First attested in 1610. Compare English cure. Pronunciation: /ˈak.jʊ.ɹɪt/, /ˈak.jə.ɹɪt/, /-ət/, /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/, /ˈæk.ɹɪt/ 1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty. Example: an accurate calculator Example: an accurate measure 2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits. Example: My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate. 3. On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed. Example: an accurate pass Example: an accurate shot 4. Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool. Example: an accurate marksman Example: an accurate shooter 5. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. Labels: obsolete Example: for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have
Word: accurately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English accurate Middle English -ly English -ly English accurately From accurate + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈak.jə.ɹɪt.li/, /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/, /ˈæk.jə.ɹət.li/, /ˈæk.jɚ.ɪt.li/, /ˈæk.jɚ.ət.li/ 1. In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect. Example: For much of the 20th century, the image of Mexico popularized abroad through film, music, art and literature was, more accurately, a portrayal of Jalisco state and especially its capital, Guadalajara. Example: The internal NES clock must accurately measure down to milliseconds for its games to work properly.
Word: acetary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin acetum (“vinegar”) + -ary, resembles Latin acetaria (“salad”). Pronunciation: /əˈsiːtəɹi/ 1. An acid pulp in certain fruits, such as the pear. Example: In a pear, there are five diſtinct Parts, the Pilling, the Parenchyma, Branchery, Calculary, and Acetary. [A]s the Acetary hath no Branches of the Lignous Body, ſo neither hath it any Knots. Hence likewiſe it is, that vve have ſo different and contrary a taſt in the Parenchyma beyond the Calculary, from that in the Acetary: […]
Word: Achean Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈki.ən/ 1. Alternative spelling of Achaean. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Achean Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈki.ən/ 1. Alternative spelling of Achaean. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: achene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French achène and its source, New Latin achena, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”). Pronunciation: /əˈkiːn/ 1. A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup. Example: The mulberry puts forth its messy clusters of achenes.
Word: first name Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English firste name, first nam, equivalent to first + name. 1. The first element of a full name, particularly when it could also be surname in East Asian and other cultural traditions. Example: In a structure typical for East Asia cultures, first names are usually used as family names. It usually identifies that person is a one of the members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common family name. 2. Synonym of given name, particularly when it forms the first element of a full name. Example: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]Children address teachers by their first names. Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes' homework a night.
Word: true name Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuː ˈneɪm/ 1. The unique name of an entity, which can be used to control or manipulate that entity. Example: He saw that in this dusty and fathomless matter of learning the true name of each place, thing, and being, the power he wanted lay like a jewel at the bottom of a dry well. For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing. Example: It would be back to the stone floors and getting up when it was still dark and no alcohol under any circumstances and memorising the true names of everything until the brain squeaked. 2. A person's preferred name, particularly where this does not match their legal name. Example: Near-synonym: chosen name Example: I suggested to Sofie that another baptism wasn't necessary since God always knew her deepest self, but we could do an affirmation of baptism with her true name.
Word: rag week Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rag (“university students society run for charitable fundraising”) + week, possibly from the verb rag (“tease; torment; banter”). 1. An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: This week has been the University College Rag Week. The students are given more or less a free hand all the week. They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon. Example: The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private detective.
Word: rag week Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rag (“piece of old cloth”) + week. From the former use, by women, of rags to protect their clothing from menstrual blood. 1. The days of the month when a woman has her period. Labels: British, slang, vulgar Example: I wouldn't bother trying to get off with her – it's rag week.
Word: plural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), Borrowed from Latin plūrālis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plūs, plūris (“more”) + -ālis. Pronunciation: /ˈplʊəɹəl/, /ˈplɔːɹəl/, /ˈpljʊəɹəl/, /ˈplɵːɹəl/, /ˈploːɹəl/ 1. Consisting of or containing more than one of something. Example: The notion of culture is one whose meanings are plural and shifting. Example: Than plural faith which is too much by one: Thou counterfeit to thy true friend! 2. In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual. Example: English nouns usually have singular and plural forms. 3. Pluralistic. Labels: comparable Example: Although the nation was far more plural than Canada in the number of its Christian groups Example: The Hong Kong and Singapore markets are way more "plural" than most Western economies, but they have not led to pluralistic politics. 4. Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder. Labels: not-comparable
Word: plural Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), Borrowed from Latin plūrālis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plūs, plūris (“more”) + -ālis. Pronunciation: /ˈplʊəɹəl/, /ˈplɔːɹəl/, /ˈpljʊəɹəl/, /ˈplɵːɹəl/, /ˈploːɹəl/ 1. The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something. Labels: uncountable Example: "There are three numbers; the singular, the dual, and the plural. [...] The dual is sometimes used to denote two objects, but even here the plural is more common." 2. A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. Labels: countable Example: The plural of 'cat' is 'cats', but the plural of 'child' is 'children'. Example: Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers. For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books. 3. A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder. Labels: countable Example: Singlet and monocultural identity is so normalized that many voice hearers and plurals don’t share their experiences with anyone, living in isolation (and sometimes in poverty) and spending considerable inner resources to manage postures and performances of ‘mental health’. Example: More strongly, respect might require that singlets themselves accept, in the context of interacting with plurals, that people are truly distinct people.
Word: homeworld Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of home + world. 1. The world on which someone or something originated; a home planet or moon. Example: But Woman's heart within itself lives more, / And in her Homeworld she can happy be, / Loving and lov'd: from Nature's founts her Lore / Instinctive flows, she drinks it fresh and free Example: "First the Patrons wipe-out our home world, now you blow any chance of us making any credits," Kane said in his gruff sinking voice.
Word: outer space Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From outer + space. Pronunciation: /ˌaʊtə ˈspeɪs/, [ˌaʊ̯tə ˈspɛɪ̯s], /ˌaʊtɚ ˈspeɪs/, [ˌaʊ̯ɾɚ ˈspeɪ̯s] 1. A region outside of explored space. Labels: uncountable 2. Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere; sometimes, space beyond Earth's solar system. Labels: uncountable Example: Astronauts train for years before traveling to outer space. Example: The telescope captured incredible images from outer space. 3. A bluish shade of black. Labels: uncountable
Word: avatar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1784, in The Hindu Wife; or, The Enchanted Fruit, by William Jones. Borrowed from Hindustani अवतार (avtār) / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root तॄ (tṝ, “to cross”) (whence तरति (tarati)). In the computing sense, some use appeared in video games in the 1980s, such as the online roleplaying game Habitat (1985) by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)), and the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun (1989). Also popularized by the novel Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson. Pronunciation: /əʋ(ə)t̪ɑr/, /ˌæv.əˈtɑː(ɹ)/, /ˈæv.ə.tɑː(ɹ)/, /-θɑː(ɹ)/, /ˈæv.ə.tɑɹ/ 1. An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu. Labels: Hinduism 2. The embodiment of an idea or concept; an instantiation, especially a personification or incarnation. Example: ...that a new avatar of Mrs. Siddons has appeared at Covent Garden, in the shape of her niece Fanny Kemble... Example: And honest Alan, who was a grim fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, […] [Contrasting the historical Alan Breac with his incarnation in the novel.] 3. A digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse. Labels: Internet Example: The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse. Example: A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with. 4. A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in nonvirtual, nonmetaversal ones. Labels: Internet
Word: alien Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ən/, /ˈeɪ.ljən/ 1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. Example: An animated film intended to inform travellers about the dangers that alien species present to Arctic ecosystems is being released today. The message is that it is important to ensure that nobody accidentally brings alien species with them as stowaways in their clothing, baggage or equipment. 2. A citizen or national of another sovereign state. Example: An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them. Example: The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens, not owing allegiance to the United States. 3. A mischievous or suspicious foreigner. Labels: derogatory, sometimes 4. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. Example: You might not have much use for me. You spend too much time with the damn aliens, pretending your time in the gangs back on Earth never happened. I know you weren't happy when I found you at the Citadel a couple years back. But I'm glad you're on this. I hope you find whoever took my people on Freedom's Progress and kick their scaly asses. I'm glad it's a human finding these bastards. 5. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged. Example: […]aliens from the common wealth of Iſrael[…] Example: The One Who, in this marvellous utterance, brings those who were by nature aliens and enemies of God into intimate and holy relations with God the Father, is the very One Who had to come to offer that Sacrifice without which such relationship would have been forever an impossibility; without which there would have been nothing for the best of men but death and judgment and the lake of fire.
Word: alien Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ən/, /ˈeɪ.ljən/ 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. Example: alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores 2. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. Example: principles alien to our religion Example: An alien sound of melancholy. 3. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature. Example: It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]
Word: alien Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ən/, /ˈeɪ.ljən/ 1. To estrange; to alienate. Labels: transitive 2. To transfer the ownership of something.
Word: definition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English diffinicioun, from Middle French definition, from Latin dēfīnītiō, from dēfīniō. Equivalent to define + -ition. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛf.ɪˈnɪʃ.ən/, /ˌdɛf.əˈnɪʃ.ən/ 1. A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Your definition of "elephant" needs to be more precise than "a big animal with large ears". Example: DEFINITIONS mean nothing unless the concept in the mind of the men who makes the definition is the same as that in the mind of the man who hears it. 2. A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: Baroque is a good game, but only for a very narrow subset of the gaming audience. It is the very definition of a niche title. Example: Comedy Bang! Bang! It’s silly, it spoofy – it’s the very definition of a hidden gem 3. A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The action or process of defining. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act of defining; determination of the limits. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A product of defining. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her comic genius is beyond definition. 8. Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The definition of a telescope. Example: Improve the definition of an image. 9. Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A jacket with distinct waist definition. 11. The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function). Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. The part of a cryptic clue which defines but does not indicate the solution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: However, some clues include words that do not form part of the wordplay or the definition.
Word: season Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)). Pronunciation: [ˈsiː.zn̩], [ˈsi.zn̩], [ˈsɪi.zən] 1. To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance. Labels: transitive Example: to season oneself to a climate 2. To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The timber needs to be seasoned. 3. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate. Labels: intransitive 4. To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance. Labels: intransitive Example: The wood has seasoned in the sun. 5. To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture. Labels: transitive 6. To impregnate (literally or figuratively). Labels: obsolete Example: When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her. Example: For this prince[…]would not ſuffer the Buls to come unto the Kine and ſeaſon them, before they were both foure yeares old.
Word: season Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree French a- Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *sísh₁eti Proto-Italic *sizō Latin serō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin satiōnem Old French saison French saison Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French assaisonnerbor. English season Borrowed from French assaisonner. Pronunciation: [ˈsiː.zn̩], [ˈsi.zn̩], [ˈsɪi.zən] 1. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. Labels: transitive
Word: autumn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəm/, /ˈɔtəm/, [ˈɔɾɪ̈m], [ˈɔɾm̩], /ˈɑtəm/ 1. Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: autumn leaves Example: The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […] 2. The time period when someone or something is past its prime. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn. Example: It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above. 3. A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: autumn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəm/, /ˈɔtəm/, [ˈɔɾɪ̈m], [ˈɔɾm̩], /ˈɑtəm/ 1. To spend the autumn (in a particular place). Labels: intransitive Example: True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore; Example: If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…] 2. To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!” Example: […]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…]
Word: autumn Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: summer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *s(e)m-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ór-o-der. Proto-Germanic *sumaraz Proto-West Germanic *sumar Old English sumor Middle English somer English summer From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor m, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar m, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz m, derived from Proto-Indo-European *semh₂- (“summer”). Cognates Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer, West Frisian simmer, Saterland Frisian Suumer, Dutch zomer, Low German Sommer, German Sommer, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer, Swedish sommar, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar; Welsh haf, Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn), Northern Kurdish havîn, Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmə/, [ˈsʌmə], /ˈsʌmɚ/, [ˈsʌmɚ] ~ [ˈsʌmɹ̩] 1. One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the heat of summer Example: Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight. 2. year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one. Labels: countable, humorous, poetic, uncountable Example: He was barely eighteen summers old. Example: She had seen not more than twenty summers. 3. Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: O! craving heart, for the lost flowers And sunshine of my summer hours! Example: Here we are in our summer years / Livin' on ice cream and chocolate kisses / Would the leaves fall from the trees / If I was your old man and you was my missus 4. Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. Labels: countable
Word: summer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *s(e)m-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ór-o-der. Proto-Germanic *sumaraz Proto-West Germanic *sumar Old English sumor Middle English somer English summer From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor m, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar m, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz m, derived from Proto-Indo-European *semh₂- (“summer”). Cognates Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer, West Frisian simmer, Saterland Frisian Suumer, Dutch zomer, Low German Sommer, German Sommer, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer, Swedish sommar, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar; Welsh haf, Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn), Northern Kurdish havîn, Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmə/, [ˈsʌmə], /ˈsʌmɚ/, [ˈsʌmɚ] ~ [ˈsʌmɹ̩] 1. To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday. Labels: intransitive Example: She had summered in England and France and Germany and Switzerland. She had wintered in Italy and Egypt and India and Spain. Example: For he was an oddity, a black multimillionaire who summered on the Riviera, had an apartment in Paris and a penthouse, in a building he owned, high above Sugar Hill.