nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Gordon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The main etymology, associated with Celtic names, is from the Scots surname Gordon, from a place name, but the origin is debated: * If the English or Scots name is from a Brythonic language (such as Old Welsh or Old Breton), then possibly from a Proto-Brythonic compound such as *gor (“spacious”) + *din (“fort”); * If the Scots name is itself from English, then possibly from French Gourdon, derived from Gallo-Roman Latin Gordus, from Gaulish *Gordos; * Otherwise, possibly ultimately from Old English *gor-dūn (“mud hill”) whence a habitational name. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔrdn̩/, /ˈɡɔːdn̩/ 1. A Gordon setter.
Word: quale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A direct borrowing from Latin quāle. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɑːleɪ/, /-li/, /ˈkweɪ-/ 1. An instance of a subjective, conscious experience. Example: I was more like a vegetable than a person—with my consciousness only a shadow of self-awareness, only a dim sense of qualia penetrated my mental haze.
Word: Exi Part of Speech: name 1. Clipping of Exhibition Park in Newcastle upon Tyne. Labels: Geordie, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Word: goaler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goal + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix). 1. A goalkeeper in ice hockey. 2. A person who has scored a specified number of goals. Labels: in-compounds Example: a three-goaler
Word: Knowledge Part of Speech: name 1. A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places. Example: The drivers of the officially licensed "black cabs" are famous for their mastery of "The Knowledge" of London streets.
Word: prospective Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French prospectif, from Late Latin prospectivus. See more at English prospect. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/ 1. Likely or expected to happen or become. Labels: not-comparable Example: Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted. 2. Anticipated in the near or far future. Labels: not-comparable Example: A short distance above I-ch’ang is the prospective site of a hydroelectric dam that has vast promise for the industrialization of central China. 3. Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect. Labels: not-comparable Example: And in times long and dark Proſpective Glaſs / Fore-ſaw what future dayes ſhould bring to paſs, 4. Looking forward in time; acting with foresight. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1668-1690, Josiah Child, A new discourse of trade The French king, and the king of Sweden are […] circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. 5. Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future Labels: not-comparable 6. Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin. Labels: not-comparable Example: What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.
Word: prospective Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French prospectif, from Late Latin prospectivus. See more at English prospect. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/ 1. The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect. Labels: obsolete Example: the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective 2. A perspective glass. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp. 3. A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc. Labels: informal, often, plural Example: Would you like to show the prospective around? Example: I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
Word: polemic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”). By surface analysis, polem- + -ic. Pronunciation: /pəˈlɛmɪk/, /pəˈliːmɪk/ 1. A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. 2. An argument or controversy. 3. A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
Word: polemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”). By surface analysis, polem- + -ic. Pronunciation: /pəˈlɛmɪk/, /pəˈliːmɪk/ 1. Having the characteristics of a polemic. Example: A fourth hindrance is by some held to be, that many of our polemic publications are too polemic. Some hold that we should urge the simple Gospel, and make no attack on Hinduism or Muhammadanism . Example: To explain some of these challenges, it is useful to take a brief and polemic look at the one area that is perhaps most fundamentally affected by the new conditions: the workplace.
Word: sometimes Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.taɪmz/ 1. On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always. Labels: not-comparable Example: Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit. Example: It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of : perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world. 2. On a certain occasion in the past; once. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake. Example: For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light […]
Word: sometimes Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.taɪmz/ 1. Former; sometime. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Farewell old Gaunt, thy ſometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, muſt end her life.
Word: fissiparous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: An adaptation of New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split, cleft”) + pariō (“to bring forth”) by analogy with vīviparus. Pronunciation: /fɪˈsɪpəɹəs/ 1. Factious, tending to break into pieces. Example: That nation, inescapably, is Germany, the largest, richest, most important, perhaps most admirable and certainly most pivotal nation in the European Union, the nation around which a flourishing Europe will always centre and the nation upon which a fissiparous Europe always risks foundering. Example: There is no panacea. Iraq is a destroyed and fissiparous country. 2. Causing division or fragmenting something. Example: fissiparous tendencies Example: Was he impressed with the cohesion of the Christians among themselves, and by the contrast thus offered to the fissiparous tendencies of his feudal polity? 3. Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two. Example: Reproduction may be divided into two main classes, namely, sexual and asexual. The latter is effected in many ways—by the formation of buds of various kinds, and by fissiparous generation, that is by spontaneous or artificial division.
Word: wagon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh. Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡən/, [ˈwæɡən] ~ [ˈwæɡn̩], /ˈwaɡən/, [ˈwaɡən] ~ [ˈwaɡn̩], /ˈwæːɡən/ 1. To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon. Labels: US, transitive Example: The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace. Example: Bar iron, of the first quality; pig metal and castings, of various denominations; wheat in large quantities; other grain, whiskey, gin, clover-seed, flax-seed, beeswax, butter et cetera, are wagoned to these points, and others on the streams mentioned, and taken down the Susquehanna. 2. To travel in a wagon. Labels: US, intransitive Example: [T]he toll was taken off freight on ninety miles of the canal between Huntingdon and Duncan's Island, and subsequently off passengers, to enable the companies to meet the unexpected and heavy expense necessarily incurred by staging and wagoning across the breach in the line. Example: “I remember well the stories my great aunt told me in the late 1940’s. / “The stories of my great-grandfather who wagonned with his family from Gravenhurst, Ontario, to Nipissing Village where he built a log cabin and spent the winter.
Word: extelligence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ex- + intelligence (contrasted with knowledge carried within the brain, as if intelligence were derived from in). Coined by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in their book Figments of Reality (1997). 1. All the cultural capital that is available to people in the form of tribal legends, folklore, nursery rhymes, books, videotapes, CD-ROMs etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: production Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin prōductiōder. Old French productionbor. Middle English produccioun English production From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + -tion. See produce. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈdʌkʃən/, /pɹəˈdʌkʃn̩/ 1. The act of producing, making or creating something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The widget making machine is being used for production now. 2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house. 3. The act of being produced. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The widgets are coming out of production now. 4. The total amount produced. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They hope to increase spaghetti production next year. Example: The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing. 5. The presentation of a theatrical work. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We went to a production of Hamlet. 6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He made a simple meal into a huge production. 7. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is the final production model. 8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An extension or protrusion. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Each production is implemented with a function. 11. The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development. Labels: uncountable Example: production environment Example: live production database 12. Written documents produced in support of the action or defence. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 13. Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: establishment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Proto-Italic *staðlis? Latin stabilis Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin stabilīre Old French establir Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French establissementbor. Middle English stablishment English establishment Inherited from Middle English *establishment, stablishment, stablisshement, from Old French establissement (modern French établissement), from the verb establir. By surface analysis, establish + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, /ɪˈstab.lɪʃ.mənt/, /əˈstɛb.ləʃ.mənt/, /ɪˈstab.lɪʃ.mʌnt/, /ɪˈsʈa(ː)b.lɪʃ.menʈ/ 1. The act or process of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since their establishment of the company in 1984, they have grown into a global business. Example: The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. 2. The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The firm celebrated twenty years since their establishment by updating their look. 3. That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pedro's is a fine establishment serving a variety of delicious food. Example: exposing the shabby parts of the establishment 4. The ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was clear that they viewed the British establishment as qualitatively different from the French establishment. Example: It's often necessary to question the establishment to get things done. 5. The number of staff required to run a department or organisation (often used in the context of healthcare and other public services). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The cancer department has an establishment of 10 doctors and 30 nurses. 6. The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not all Anglicans have supported establishment.
Word: metric carat Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of weight, 0.2 grams, used for gemstones, etc.
Word: cutting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cut + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌtɪŋ/ 1. That is used for cutting. Labels: not-comparable Example: I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap. Example: The power consumed in metal cutting is largely converted into heat near the cutting edge of the tool, and many of the economic and technical problems of machining are caused directly or indirectly by this heating action. 2. Piercing, sharp. Labels: not-comparable Example: The weather was atrocious, with bitterly cold wind and cutting sleet—rather appropriate, considering Aunt Fonteyn's temperament. 3. Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful; curt. Labels: not-comparable Example: The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism. Example: [H]e concludes with this cutting remark, But Benefactors may give Money, but not grateful Minds to ſuch as receive it. 4. Of a beverage: half-sized. Labels: India, not-comparable Example: a cutting chai 5. Cutthroat; ruthlessly competitive. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, slang Example: […] there are always some "free lances" who are ready to do a "cutting" trade, and thus become formidable competitors.
Word: cutting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cut + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cut Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cred Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /kɹɛd/ 1. Credibility. Labels: uncountable Example: After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned. Example: Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file. 2. A credential. Labels: countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable Example: DCE programming: using login creds to auth server? 3. A credit (currency unit). Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]
Word: street cred Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From street (“urban youth”) + credibility, by shortening. 1. Credibility among young, hip urban dwellers; particularly important in the hip-hop and rap scenes. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: simp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1903. Clipping of simpleton. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmp/, [ˈsɪmp] 1. A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn. Example: Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads.... 2. Someone who is not worthy of respect. Labels: broadly, slang Example: The JEWS own this country, the IRISH run it, the BRITISH envy it, the GERMANS cuss it, the NEGROES enjoy it, the FRENCH style and perfume it, the CHINESE wash it, BOOTLEGGERS irrigate it, the GREEKS feed and shine it, the JAPS fear it, MEXICANS hate it, RUSSIANS pity it, the ITALIANS fruit it, ALL NATIONS cigarette it, EVERYBODY likes it, and the AMERICANS—well, those poor simps just pay the bills and can keep out of jail if they behave themselves and are very careful about their driving and parking. Example: All of this, inspired by hypersensitive simps who never once had to demonstrate that, by reasonable standards, they had been victimized in any way.
Word: simp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated in West Coast hip hop culture in the 1980s. Further etymology unknown. Possibly from: # a special use of simpleton (above); # a clipping of simper; # a respelled clipping of sympathetic; or # a blend of sissy + pimp or possibly sissy + wimp. Originally restricted to African-American Vernacular English, until it received a boost in usage in the late 2010s through Internet culture, having been popularized through Twitch and TikTok. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmp/, [ˈsɪmp] 1. A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal. Labels: derogatory Example: Baby got it goin' on / A lot of simps won't like this song / 'Cause them punks like to hit it and quit it / And I'd rather stay and play Example: Until you are sure that this girl has a genuine interest and might be compatible, no dates or gifts. Why should you be the one who feeds every straggler in your town? It's time to break away from these byzantine patterns of square behavior. It's time right now to break away from all those years of bad programming. You're a simp because your family made you that way. 2. Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else and defers to them, putting them on a pedestal. Labels: broadly, slang Example: “Trump simp”. Example: Tweet: Crosbee @crosbeelisser . Oct 25 I'm a simp for @justnfields. 3. An advocate for an ideology or cause. Labels: slang
Word: simp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originated in West Coast hip hop culture in the 1980s. Further etymology unknown. Possibly from: # a special use of simpleton (above); # a clipping of simper; # a respelled clipping of sympathetic; or # a blend of sissy + pimp or possibly sissy + wimp. Originally restricted to African-American Vernacular English, until it received a boost in usage in the late 2010s through Internet culture, having been popularized through Twitch and TikTok. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmp/, [ˈsɪmp] 1. To be especially deferential to and emotionally vulnerable with a woman, often with the intent of receiving sexual gratification. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: 1992, Fatlip (The Pharcyde), Passin’ Me By lyrics Now let me tell you 'bout the feelings I feel for you / When I try or make some sort of attempt, I simp / Damn, I wish I wasn't such a wimp Example: 2013, TravieBASED, Whats Wrong With Simping? Dudes wanna talk down on other dudes when they start simping like they're feminine or something when in fact the majority of all dudes and even those motherfuckers saying that shit be simping too. 2. To obsequiously praise or admire. Labels: broadly, intransitive, slang 3. To reminisce melancholically; to recall once fond memories now tinged with sadness, especially regarding a former lover. Labels: broadly, intransitive, slang Example: 2018, mimi (@splendamami), Tweet. the dick can't be that good honey stop simping over that boy Example: 2017, Jody Tran, Spotify playlist *simps in vietnamese* i dedicate this playlist to all my hoes who want to simp in viet. this takes u on an adventure to the modern angsty world of vietnam. this is where we can get into all our feels culturally. we all gonna mfking be CRYING IN THE VIETNAMESE CLUB!!
Word: simp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of simplified. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmp/, [ˈsɪmp] 1. Abbreviation of simplified. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: simpleton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From simple + -ton (as in a surname). Compare French simplet, Italian semplicione. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmpəltən/, [ˈsɪmpəltʰən] ~ [ˈsɪmpl̩tʰn̩] 1. A simple-minded person lacking common sense. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary. Example: Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war.
Word: dweeb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 1968 US college slang, probably related to feeb. The 1980s backronym Dim-Witted Eastern-Educated Boor derives from apparent social and attitudinal differences between West Coast and East Coast US, and describes a stereotypical Ivy League graduate from Harvard, Yale, etc. Pronunciation: /dwiːb/ 1. A boring, studious, or socially inept person. Labels: US, dated, derogatory, general, slang Example: I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb. Example: There never is a Keanu but a dweeb looking at me.
Word: depressed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɹɛst/ 1. simple past and past participle of depress Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: depressed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɹɛst/ 1. Unhappy; despondent. Example: The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them. 2. Suffering from clinical depression. 3. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession. Example: Born in 1980 to hard-working impoverished parents in Newport News, Virginia, Michael Vick grew up in the Ridley public housing project during the Reagan years when funding for such projects was being largely withdrawn. The eastern part of Newport News where Vick grew up became so depressed that it was called 'Bad Newz'. 4. Reduced to a lower degree or form. Example: The cubic function x³ + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.
Word: sometime Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/ 1. At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future. Labels: not-comparable Example: I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening. Example: This will certainly happen sometime in the future. 2. Sometimes. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 3. At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
Word: sometime Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/ 1. Former, erstwhile; at some previous time. Labels: not-comparable Example: my sometime friend and mentor Example: Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state 2. Occasional; intermittent. Labels: not-comparable Example: an author and sometime lecturer
Word: despondent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere (“to give up, to abandon”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɒndənt/ 1. In low spirits from loss of hope or courage. Example: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen. Example: “Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”
Word: snub Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba. Pronunciation: /snʌb/, /snʊb/ 1. Conspicuously short. Example: a snub-nosed revolver 2. Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up. Example: It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a stricter cut. Example: If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon. 3. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Word: snub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba. Pronunciation: /snʌb/, /snʊb/ 1. A deliberate affront or slight. Example: I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub. Example: It was part of Evelyn’s character that in spite of many snubs which she received or imagined, she never gave up the pursuit of people she wanted to know, and in the long run generally succeeded in knowing them and even in making them like her. 2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope. 3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag. Labels: obsolete Example: [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
Word: snub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba. Pronunciation: /snʌb/, /snʊb/ 1. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. Labels: transitive Example: When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing,—by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,—Mr. Roby had snubbed him! Example: For near three mortal months have you trifled with my feelings, eluded me, and snubbed me; and I won’t stand it! 2. To turn down insultingly; to dismiss. Labels: transitive Example: He snubbed my offer of help. Example: The joke is on those who snub books which, judged by their covers, are written for the mass market. Mineshaft is the finest satire in gay literature. 3. To check; to reprimand. Labels: transitive 4. To stub out (a cigarette etc). Labels: transitive 5. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner. Labels: transitive 6. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of. Labels: transitive
Word: snub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snubben, snobben (“to sob”). Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb). Pronunciation: /snʌb/, /snʊb/ 1. To sob with convulsions. Example: He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger.
Word: Taipei Part of Speech: name Etymology: 19th c., from Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 臺北／台北 (Tʻai²-pei³, literally “Taiwan north”), composed of 臺／台 (tái) (short for Taiwan) and 北 (běi, “north”). Pronunciation: /taɪˈpeɪ/ 1. The capital city of and a special municipality of Taiwan, located in the northern part of the island of Taiwan. Example: In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan. Example: Radiotelephonic communications were established in November 1946 between Taipei and Canton, thus augmenting the line already existing between Taipei and Shanghai. The Chinese National Aviation Corporation, which operated air service between Shanghai and Taipei three times a week, has added weekly air service between Foochow and Taipei. The Southwest Aviation Corp. is reportedly planning a Canton-Taipei air service, and damaged Japanese military transport aircraft have been under repair for use on this route. 2. A former county of Taiwan, which became New Taipei City. Example: A century ago, the cities of Taipei County were rustic faming societies made up of mostly aboriginal tribes. After the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949 the area met with a vast influx of Chinese immigrants, and during the 1950s and 1960s small manufacturing facilities began appearing. Taipei County has since become a Taiwanese melting pot of sorts as young people relocate from overseas and southern parts of the island for advanced schooling and settle in the area. Example: C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases. 3. The government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Labels: metonymically Example: In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing. Example: 1993 The first official governmental contacts between Taipei and Beijing take place in Singapore.
Word: cloakroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cloak + room. Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊkɹʊm/, /ˈkləʊkɹuːm/ 1. A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club. 2. A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport. Labels: India, Ireland, UK 3. A private lounge next to a legislative chamber. 4. A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room. Labels: Ireland, UK, euphemistic Example: Although there was a cloakroom on the ground floor, the Old Rectory had only one bathroom, a defect which necessitated embarrassed, low-voiced enquiries before anyone upset their carefully worked-out rota by taking an unexpected bath.
Word: belongings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of belonging Labels: form-of, plural Example: You may leave your belongings in the cloakroom.
Word: engineer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from: * Middle English enginour (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman enginour, engigneour [and other forms], and Middle French and Old French engigneor, engigneour, engignier (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence; architect; carpenter; craftsman; designer; planner; one who deceives or schemes”) (modern French ingénieur), from engin (“contraption, device; machine; invention; creativity, ingenuity; intelligence; deception, ruse, trickery”) + -eor, -or (suffix forming agent nouns); engin is derived from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + gignere (the present active infinitive of gignō (“to bear, beget, give birth to; to cause, produce, yield”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth to; to produce”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns); and * from engine + -er (occupational suffix); and * from engine + -eer (suffix forming nouns denoting people associated with, concerned with, or engaged in specified activities), possibly modelled after Middle French ingénieur (a variant of Middle French, Old French engigneour; see above), and Italian ingegniere (“engineer”) (obsolete; modern Italian ingegnere). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Medieval Latin, Late Latin ingeniārius (“engineer”) * Medieval Latin ingeniator (“one constructing or using an engine”) * Old Occitan engenhador, enginhador * Portuguese engenhador (obsolete), engenheiro (“engineer”) * Spanish engeñero (obsolete), ingeniero (“engineer”) Pronunciation: /ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə/, /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈɪn.dʒɪ.ˈniː.jər/, /ɪnˈdʒiː.nɪ.jər/ 1. To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use. Labels: transitive 2. To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism). Labels: specifically, transitive Example: In an interesting animal study, scientists engineered mice with a specific gene defect that caused memory and learning problems. 3. To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle. Labels: transitive 4. To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme. Labels: intransitive 5. To work as an engineer. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters,—tunnelling Alps, canalling the American Isthmus, piercing the Arabian desert?
Word: postman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English post Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English postman From post + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊs(t)mən/ 1. Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; … Example: A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat. 2. One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sat, the other of the two being the tubman. Labels: England, historical Example: Postman of the Court of Exchequer.
Word: hairdresser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hair English dress 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 hairdresser From hair + dress + -er. 1. A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession. Example: Near-synonyms: barber; beautician, aesthetician, esthetician
Word: assistant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistōbor. Middle French assister Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -ant Middle French -ant Middle French assistantbor. Middle English assistent English assistant From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈsɪstənt/ 1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. Labels: attributive, not-comparable Example: an assistant surgeon 2. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Labels: attributive, not-comparable Example: Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Example: The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]
Word: assistant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistōbor. Middle French assister Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -ant Middle French -ant Middle French assistantbor. Middle English assistent English assistant From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈsɪstənt/ 1. Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness. Labels: obsolete Example: a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable[…]. 2. A person who assists or helps someone else. 3. Sales assistant. Labels: UK 4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
Word: thirsty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig. Pronunciation: /ˈθɝs.ti/, /ˈθɜːs.ti/ 1. Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water. Example: After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty. Example: Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge. 2. Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal. Labels: euphemistic Example: After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty. Example: Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think. 3. Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink. Labels: informal, uncommon Example: Marching is thirsty work. Example: I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. 4. Craving something immaterial. Labels: figuratively Example: thirsty for knowledge Example: thirsty for attention 5. Craving something immaterial. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him. Example: The relentless thrill of “Do You Want to Come Over?” is not the only time Britney Spears’s new album Glory makes you feel like you’re being hit on via thirsty text message.
Word: thirsty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig. Pronunciation: /ˈθɝs.ti/, /ˈθɜːs.ti/ 1. One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.). Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts. Example: A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water. 2. Thirst. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we." Example: The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!
Word: dressing table Part of Speech: noun 1. A low table or chest of drawers with a mirror at which one sits while dressing, applying makeup or similar tasks.
Word: cooker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked). Pronunciation: /ˈkʊkɚ/, /ˈkʊkə/, /ˈkɵkə/, /ˈkuːkə/, [ˈkuːkɐ] 1. A cookstove. Labels: Ireland, UK 2. An appliance or utensil for cooking food. Labels: Ireland, UK 3. One who cooks. Example: […] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all. Example: And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder. 4. Ellipsis of cooking apple. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers. 5. A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis. Labels: Australia, slang 6. The container in which recreational drugs are prepared. Labels: slang Example: […] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig. 7. A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person. Labels: Australia, derogatory, slang 8. A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics. Labels: Australia, derogatory, slang
Word: living room Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Doublet of Lebensraum. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/ 1. A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities. Labels: countable Example: Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer Example: We relax in the living room. 2. Land intended for settlers. Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: But in the quest for ‘lebensraum’ — the Nazi quest for living room for the German people — he was to find to his ultimate cost the Russians were made of sterner stuff than he had envisaged.
Word: front room Part of Speech: noun 1. A room near the entrance of a building. Example: She did not knock at the door, which stood open, but, somewhat to Fermi's amazement, walked at once into the front room, which was plainly the room of state. 2. A room near the entrance of a building. Example: Near-synonyms: foyer, vestibule 3. A room near the entrance of a building. Labels: especially Example: He found the door open, and in the front room, which is bare of furniture, discovered the body of a gentleman, well dressed, and having cards in his pocket bearing the name of ‘Enoch J. Drebber, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.‘ Example: The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties.
Word: armchair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos Proto-Germanic *armaz Proto-West Germanic *arm Old English earm Middle English arm English arm Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English armchair From arm + chair. Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/ 1. A chair with supports for the arms or elbows. Example: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished. Example: [W]hen he [Pooh] suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best arm-chair, he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in. 2. A position removed from that which one is Labels: figuratively Example: Evaluating possible etymologies requires a significant amount of knowledge about the speakers' lived reality […] for instance, the semantic connection between some species of plant and its use in traditional medicine may be fully transparent to a native speaker, but harder to understand from the perspective of a linguist's armchair.