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Word: orange Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Doublet of aranzada. Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red. Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹənd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹɪnʒ/, /ˈɒɹənʒ/, /ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/ 1. An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit). Labels: countable 2. Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree. Labels: countable 3. Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree. Labels: countable 4. The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow. Labels: uncountable 5. Various drinks Labels: uncountable Example: “What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked. Example: I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men. 6. Various drinks: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Various drinks: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Various drinks: Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable 9. A rarely-used nontraditional tincture found in Catalan, South African, and French municipal heraldry. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An orange-coloured roundel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.
Word: orange Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Doublet of aranzada. Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red. Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹənd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹɪnʒ/, /ˈɒɹənʒ/, /ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/ 1. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
Word: orange Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Doublet of aranzada. Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red. Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹənd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹɪnʒ/, /ˈɒɹənʒ/, /ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ/ 1. To colour orange. Labels: transitive Example: It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold Example: Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak. 2. To become orange. Labels: intransitive Example: Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky Example: It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.
Word: EBITA Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of earnings before interest, taxes and amortization. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Word: Polish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/, /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/ 1. Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language. Labels: not-comparable Example: Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed. Example: As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.
Word: Polish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/, /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/ 1. The language spoken in Poland. Labels: uncountable Example: The big advantage of learning Russian is that, once you’re proficient, you can understand other Slav languages such as Czech, Polish or Bulgarian. 2. A breed of chickens with a large crest of feathers. Labels: uncountable
Word: bbl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Often thought to be modified from bl for barrel (b⸺l), reflecting a way of abbreviating that was used especially in previous centuries (compare do for ditto), wherein a doubled letter indicated plural count, as also with p.=page but pp.=pages and l.=line but ll.=lines; this method was used not only in English but also in scholarly New Latin and other modern languages heavily affected thereby, such as with Spanish EE. UU. According to this idea, addition of the suffix -s, as sometimes seen (e.g., 5 bbls or 5 bbls.), would seem to have come from writers who left the unit abbreviation itself unanalyzed (unparsed), thus adding a venially redundant marker of plural, somewhat like with MPGs for miles per gallon. Some sources claim that the abbreviation bbl is from Standard Oil's 42-gallon blue barrels. But this is contested: one source calls this a "persistent oilfield myth" and notes that "the abbreviation 'bbl' had been in use before the 1859 birth of the petroleum industry". Nonetheless, Standard Oil's blue barrels may have helped the bbl abbreviation stick. 1. Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular). Labels: especially Example: measured in 1000-bbl units Example: At present prices, cylindrical steel tankage in 55,000-bbl. units costs approximately 73c. per barrel storage. 2. Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular). Labels: especially Example: 5 bbls. flour Example: Quantity & quality of Beef to be put in a bbl. 3. Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular). Example: 1-bbl carburetor Example: 4-bbl carburetor
Word: bbl Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of BBL. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative
Word: seven Part of Speech: num Etymology: PIE word *septḿ̥ From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्त (saptá). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvən/, /ˈsɛvn̩/, [ˈsɛbm̩] 1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements. Example: 1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in. 2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes. 4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets. 5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him. Example: The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.
Word: seven Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *septḿ̥ From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्त (saptá). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvən/, /ˈsɛvn̩/, [ˈsɛbm̩] 1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He wrote three sevens on the paper. 2. A card bearing seven pips. Labels: countable 3. The soft drink 7 Up. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: a whisky and seven
Word: premature Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛ.məˈtjʊə/, /ˈpɹɛ.mə.tjə/, /ˌpɹi.məˈtʊɹ/, /ˌpɹi.məˈt͡ʃʊɹ/ 1. Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived. Example: a premature birth Example: premature reports of the singer's death 2. Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired. Example: I was lost in reveries of death, and the idea of premature burial held continual possession of my brain. 3. Suffering from premature ejaculation. Labels: informal
Word: premature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛ.məˈtjʊə/, /ˈpɹɛ.mə.tjə/, /ˌpɹi.məˈtʊɹ/, /ˌpɹi.məˈt͡ʃʊɹ/ 1. An infant born prematurely.
Word: birth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder. Proto-Germanic *burþiz Old Norse burðrbor. Middle English birthe English birth From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear. Pronunciation: /bɜːθ/, /bɜːð/, /bɜɹθ/, /bɝð/, /bɪɹθ/ 1. The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment. Labels: uncountable 2. An instance of childbirth. Labels: countable Example: Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births. Example: In Greece a child was given its name on the seventh or tenth day after birth. 3. A beginning or start; a point of origin. Labels: countable Example: the birth of an empire 4. The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing. Labels: uncountable Example: He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him. Example: without reference to birth, but solely for their qualifications 5. That which is born. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That poets are far rarer births than kings. Example: Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself.
Word: birth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bʰértisder. Proto-Germanic *burþiz Old Norse burðrbor. Middle English birthe English birth From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear. Pronunciation: /bɜːθ/, /bɜːð/, /bɜɹθ/, /bɝð/, /bɪɹθ/ 1. A familial relationship established by childbirth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
Word: birth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English birthen, birðen, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /bɜːθ/, /bɜːð/, /bɜɹθ/, /bɝð/, /bɪɹθ/ 1. To bear or give birth to (a child). Labels: transitive Example: I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies! Example: Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold? Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat. Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown. 2. To produce, give rise to. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.
Word: birth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See berth. Pronunciation: /bɜːθ/, /bɜːð/, /bɜɹθ/, /bɝð/, /bɪɹθ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of berth. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He vvas a Surgeon, and they called him Doctor; but he vvas not employed in the Sloop as a Surgeon, but vvas going to Berbadoes to get a Birth, as the Sailors call it. Example: And vvhen he had ſhevvn me their birth (as he called it) I vvas filled vvith aſtoniſhment and horror.—VVe deſcended by divers ladders to a ſpace as dark as a dungeon, vvhich I underſtood vvas immerſed ſeveral feet under vvater, being immediately above the hold: I had no ſooner approached this diſmal gulph, than my noſe vvas ſaluted vvith an intolerable ſtench of putrified cheeſe, and rancid butter, […]
Word: accord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below). Pronunciation: /əˈkɔːd/, /əˈkɔɹd/ 1. Agreement of opinion, will, or action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen. Example: a mediator of an accord and peace between them 2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. 3. Agreement or harmony of things in general. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the accord of light and shade in painting 4. A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. Labels: countable Example: Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees. Example: Fougères are built on an accord between lavender and coumarin, with every conceivable variation and elaboration. 5. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account 6. An international agreement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War. 7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord. Example: That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Word: accord Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via prefix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô). Pronunciation: /əˈkɔːd/, /əˈkɔɹd/ 1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. Labels: transitive Example: [H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […] 2. To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. Labels: transitive Example: But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […] Example: All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […] 3. To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. Labels: intransitive Example: For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […] Example: Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape. 4. To agree in pitch and tone. Labels: intransitive 5. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. Labels: transitive Example: And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw That column, and those corpses, and the moon, And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […] Example: In respect of the protection of industrial property,[…]a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country. 6. To give consent. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 7. To arrive at an agreement. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: wolf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós? Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos Proto-Germanic *wulfaz Proto-West Germanic *wulf Old English wulf Middle English wolf English wolf Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus. Cognates Cognate with Scots wouf, North Frisian wulew, Saterland Frisian and German Low German Wulf, West Frisian, Alemannic German, and Dutch wolf, Bavarian bolf, bölf, Woif, Cimbrian and Mòcheno bolf, German Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, Vilamovian wuf, Yiddish וואָלף (volf), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ulv, Faroese úlvur, Icelandic úlfur, Swedish ulf, ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic olc (“bad, evil”), Lepontic 𐌖𐌋𐌊𐌏𐌔 (ulkos), Manx olk (“bad”), Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Latgalian vylks, Latvian vìlks, Lithuanian vilkas, Belarusian воўк (vowk), Bulgarian вълк (vǎlk), Czech and Slovak vlk, Macedonian and Russian волк (volk), Polish wilk, Serbo-Croatian вук, vuk, Slovene volk, Ukrainian вовк (vovk), Albanian ujk, ulk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Hittite 𒉿𒀠𒆪𒉿𒀸, Lydian 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤 (walwe, “lion”), Tocharian B walkwe. Pronunciation: /wʊlf/, [wʊɫf], [wɵɫf], [wʟ̩ːf], [wʊwf] 1. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily. Labels: countable Example: He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves. 2. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily. Labels: countable 3. A man who makes amorous advances to many women. 4. A wolf tone or wolf note. Example: The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves. 5. Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation. Labels: figuratively Example: They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. Example: the bee wolf 6. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths. 7. A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth. 8. A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.). 9. An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus. Labels: obsolete Example: If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side 10. A willying machine, that uses willow twigs to cleanse wool. Example: The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth
Word: wolf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós? Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos Proto-Germanic *wulfaz Proto-West Germanic *wulf Old English wulf Middle English wolf English wolf Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus. Cognates Cognate with Scots wouf, North Frisian wulew, Saterland Frisian and German Low German Wulf, West Frisian, Alemannic German, and Dutch wolf, Bavarian bolf, bölf, Woif, Cimbrian and Mòcheno bolf, German Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, Vilamovian wuf, Yiddish וואָלף (volf), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ulv, Faroese úlvur, Icelandic úlfur, Swedish ulf, ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic olc (“bad, evil”), Lepontic 𐌖𐌋𐌊𐌏𐌔 (ulkos), Manx olk (“bad”), Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Latgalian vylks, Latvian vìlks, Lithuanian vilkas, Belarusian воўк (vowk), Bulgarian вълк (vǎlk), Czech and Slovak vlk, Macedonian and Russian волк (volk), Polish wilk, Serbo-Croatian вук, vuk, Slovene volk, Ukrainian вовк (vovk), Albanian ujk, ulk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Hittite 𒉿𒀠𒆪𒉿𒀸, Lydian 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤 (walwe, “lion”), Tocharian B walkwe. Pronunciation: /wʊlf/, [wʊɫf], [wɵɫf], [wʟ̩ːf], [wʊwf] 1. To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. Labels: transitive Example: "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it." Example: After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places. 2. To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: [1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’ 3. To hunt for wolves. Labels: intransitive
Word: craggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English crag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English craggy From crag + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæɡ.i/ 1. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features. Example: The goat climbed up the craggy rocks. Example: The old man had craggy, uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.
Word: planet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (itself an ellipsis of ἀστέρες πλανῆται (astéres planêtai, “wandering stars”)), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt. So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of πλάνης (plánēs, “who wanders around, wanderer”), also "wandering star, planet", in medicine "unstable temperature." Displaced native Old English tungol. Pronunciation: /ˈplænɪt/, /ˈplænət/, [ˈpʰlɛən.ɪt], /ˈplɛnət/ 1. Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Labels: historical Example: Be they not dreames of humane vanity,[…]to make of our knowne earth a bright shining planet [translating astre]? Example: The moon[…]began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening? 2. Any body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets) Labels: historical Example: A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets 3. A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Example: Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets and three newly defined "dwarf planets"—a new category of object that includes Pluto. 4. construed with the or this: The Earth. Example: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]." Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:[…]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is;[…].
Word: sky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”). Partly displaced Old English heofon, which survives in the reflex heaven, still sometimes used in the sense of sky, but usually in high or poetic register. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe. Pronunciation: /skaɪ/ 1. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen. Example: That year, a meteor fell from the sky. Example: For beſides the groues, / The skyes, the fountaines, euery region neare / Seeme all one mutuall cry. I neuer heard / So muſicall a diſcord, ſuch ſweete thunder. 2. With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc. Example: I lay back under a warm Texas sky. Example: We’re not sure how long the cloudy skies will last. 3. Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven. Labels: archaic, literary, poetic Example: This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies. Example: Now am I dead, now am I fled, my ſoule is in the sky. 4. Ellipsis of sky blue. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: But yet methinks, thoſe knots of Sky, do not / So well with the dead colour of her Face. Example: [W]hy, / Brother, I have beſpoke Dinner, and engag'd / Mr. Rake-hell, the little ſmart Gentleman I have / Often promis'd thee to make thee acquainted / Withal, to bring a whole Bevy of Damſels / In Sky, and Pink, and Flame-colour'd Taffeta's. 5. The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time. 6. In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung. Labels: informal, obsolete, rare 7. A cloud. Labels: obsolete
Word: sky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Volsci (“a tribe who opposed the Romans”). Pronunciation: /skaɪ/ 1. A disagreeable person; an enemy. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang
Word: obfuscate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1536; either borrowed from Middle French obfusquer, offusquer, from Old French offusquer, or directly from Late Latin obfuscātus, offuscātus, the perfect passive participle of obfuscō, offuscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”). Doublet of dusken (“to darken, make obscure”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒbfəskeɪt/, /ˈɑbfəskeɪt/, /ˈɑbfjuskeɪt/, /ˈɔbfəskæɪt/, /ˈɒbfəskæɪt/ 1. To make dark; to overshadow. 2. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth. Example: obfuscate facts Example: Can weakness be really obfuscated? 3. To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent. Example: We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.
Word: obfuscate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1536; either borrowed from Middle French obfusquer, offusquer, from Old French offusquer, or directly from Late Latin obfuscātus, offuscātus, the perfect passive participle of obfuscō, offuscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”). Doublet of dusken (“to darken, make obscure”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒbfəskeɪt/, /ˈɑbfəskeɪt/, /ˈɑbfjuskeɪt/, /ˈɔbfəskæɪt/, /ˈɒbfəskæɪt/ 1. Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. Labels: obsolete Example: Also the vertues beynge in a cruell persone be nat only obfuscate or hyd : But also lyke wyse as norysshynge meates and drynkes in an sycke body
Word: can Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti Proto-Germanic *kunnaną Proto-West Germanic *kunnan Old English cunnan Middle English can English can From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn/, [ˈkʰæn], /ˈkan/, [ˈkʰan], /ˈkæːn/ 1. To know how to. Labels: auxiliary, defective Example: She can speak English, French, and German. Example: I can play football. 2. To be able to. Labels: auxiliary, defective Example: Can you remember your fifth birthday? Example: Animals can experience emotions. 3. May; to be permitted or enabled to. Labels: auxiliary, defective, informal, modal Example: You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Example: Can I use your pen? 4. To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to. Labels: auxiliary, defective, modal Example: Can it be Friday already? Example: Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. 5. Used to form requests, typically polite. Labels: auxiliary, defective, informal, modal Example: Can you please come over here? Example: Can we try that scene again? 6. To know. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood. Example: ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can no Latin, quod she. 7. To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can Labels: India, nonstandard, proscribed Example: Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants. Example: Children in need of care and protection can allowed to be placed in foster care based on the orders of the CWC. The selection of the foster family is based on the family's ability, intent, capacity, and prior experience of taking care[…] 8. To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary, intransitive Example: Can anot? 9. To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, intransitive Example: Can liao, don’t need to use so much glue. Example: We have been doing this for 50 years, we have shown you what we can do. If I say can, means can. […]
Word: can Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti Proto-Germanic *kunnaną Proto-West Germanic *kunnan Old English cunnan Middle English can English can From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn/, [ˈkʰæn], /ˈkan/, [ˈkʰan], /ˈkæːn/ 1. OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment. Labels: Manglish, Singlish 2. Used to convey reassurance. Labels: Manglish, Singlish
Word: can Part of Speech: particle Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti Proto-Germanic *kunnaną Proto-West Germanic *kunnan Old English cunnan Middle English can English can From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning. Pronunciation: /ˈkæn/, [ˈkʰæn], /ˈkan/, [ˈkʰan], /ˈkæːn/ 1. OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, interrogative Example: I cut this wire, can? Example: Can you go collect them or not? The shop is at Jalan Sultan. I’m not free, otherwise I’ll do it myself. Can?
Word: can Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn/, /ˈkan/, /ˈkaːn/, /ˈkæːn/, [ˈkeːn] 1. A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal. Example: I keep a can of fuel for emergencies. 2. A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal. Example: Soup in a can lasts for years. 3. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). 4. A chamber pot. Labels: archaic 5. A chamber pot. Labels: US, archaic, slang Example: Shit or get off the can. Example: Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. 6. Buttocks. Labels: Canada, US, childish, slang, vulgar 7. The breasts of a woman. Labels: Canada, US, slang, vulgar 8. Jail or prison. Labels: slang Example: Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years. Example: The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man / Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can 9. Headphones. Labels: in-plural, slang 10. A drinking cup. Labels: archaic Example: VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande. Example: SIR ANDREW: Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up late is to be up late. / SIR TOBY: A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can. 11. A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark 12. A chimney pot. 13. An E-meter used in Scientology auditing. Labels: in-plural, slang 14. An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana. Labels: US, slang Example: […] prosecution for selling and giving away marijuana, the evidence clearly constituted substantial proof that a package purchased by defendant contained marijuana where he requested "four cans" of marijuana to be delivered to himself and […] 15. A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
Word: can Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæn/, /ˈkan/, /ˈkaːn/, /ˈkæːn/, [ˈkeːn] 1. To seal in a can. Labels: transitive Example: They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists. 2. To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can. Labels: transitive Example: They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. 3. To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. Example: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside. 4. To shut up. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Can your gob. Example: Maurrant: Aw, can all that talk! You been listenin’ to them bolshevikis, that’s the trouble. 5. To fire or dismiss an employee. Labels: US, euphemistic, transitive Example: The boss canned him for speaking out. Example: As a result of his refusal, the employee was subsequently canned in 2015 on the basis of "professional inadequacy" and failing to embody the "party" atmosphere that the consultancy was trying to cultivate. 6. To hole the ball. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par. 7. To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover. Labels: transitive
Word: o Part of Speech: character Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ/, /ˈoʊ/ 1. The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script. Labels: letter, lowercase 2. Alternative form of ο, the fifteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, called omicron and (astronomy) used as an abbreviation of omicron in star names. Labels: alt-of, alternative, letter, lowercase Example: The system's Bayer designation is o Persei.
Word: o Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ/, /ˈoʊ/ 1. The fifteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script. Labels: lowercase
Word: o Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ/, /ˈoʊ/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter O/o. 2. A zero (used in reading out numbers). Example: It is currently two-o-five in the afternoon (2:05 PM). Example: The first permanent English settlement in America was in Jamestown in sixteen-o-seven (1607).
Word: o Part of Speech: particle 1. alternative form of O (vocative particle) Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard Example: I lift my soule to thee o Lord mee, o Iehovah, heare In thee, o Lord, I put my trust
Word: o Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of oh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: o Part of Speech: noun 1. Operator Labels: Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of 2. Object, see SVO Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: o Part of Speech: adj 1. Clipping of over. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: o Part of Speech: prep Etymology: See o'. 1. Alternative form of of. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ppl Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of people. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, plural, plural-only Example: Here's my promised posting of internetwork mailing.. There was a HUGE amount of mail in response to the original posting.. ppl are really interested in this... It took me 3 days to sort out all the mail... 8-) Example: I have the serving bowls, and they're so durable and cute (ppl ask where they're from literally all the time). 2. Initialism of parts per litre. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
Word: ppl Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of participle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: zero Part of Speech: num Etymology: Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪəɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪːɹəw/, /ˈzɪɹoʊ/, /ˈziɹoʊ/ 1. The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0. Example: The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero. Example: A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.
Word: zero Part of Speech: det Etymology: Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪəɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪːɹəw/, /ˈzɪɹoʊ/, /ˈziɹoʊ/ 1. Synonym of no. Example: She showed zero respect. Example: You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.
Word: zero Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪəɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪːɹəw/, /ˈzɪɹoʊ/, /ˈziɹoʊ/ 1. Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less. Labels: not-comparable 3. Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form. Labels: not-comparable Example: The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet". 4. Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories Labels: not-comparable, postpositional
Word: zero Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪəɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪɹəʊ/, /ˈzɪːɹəw/, /ˈzɪɹoʊ/, /ˈziɹoʊ/ 1. To set some amount to be zero. Labels: transitive Example: They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter. Example: Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization. 2. To disappear or make something disappear. Example: Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed, then peaked again, and zeroed again. Example: They discovered the object code for the simulator that was DON, and zeroed it. DON — or his creator — was clever and had planted many copies, 3. To adjust until the variance is reduced to an acceptably low amount. Example: The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.
Word: number Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From numb (adjective) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌmə/, /ˈnʌmɚ/ 1. comparative form of numb: more numb Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to numb (verb) + -er Pronunciation: /ˈnʌmə/, /ˈnʌmɚ/ 1. Something that numbs.
Word: count noun Part of Speech: noun 1. A noun which refers to something that can be counted. Example: Count nouns refer to countable things, like objects, types of people and animals, and even abstract things and events. Such nouns can be singular or plural. Plural number is typically marked on English count nouns with an -s or -es on the end of the word, such as girls, pizzas, rocks, neighbors, ostriches.
Word: mass noun Part of Speech: noun 1. A common noun that normally cannot be counted.