nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Scotland Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Scotland, Scotlond, from Old English Sċotland (“Ireland", later also "Scotland”, literally “land of the Scots”), equivalent to Scot + -land. Compare West Frisian Skotlân (“Scotland”), Dutch Schotland (“Scotland”), German Schottland (“Scotland”), Danish Skotland (“Scotland”), Icelandic Skotland (“Scotland”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɔt.lənd/, /ˈskɒt.lənd/, /ˈskɑt.lənd/ 1. A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England. Example: Head east out of Auckland, around the Firth of Thames and into the Coromandel Peninsula, and you'll see enough hills, valleys and sheep to remind you of the Scotland or Wales that the pioneers left behind. Example: Our main story this week is Scotland. Americans know it as the birthplace of Shrek, and, and that accent you think you can do but actually can’t. 2. A place in England: 3. A place in England: 4. A place in England: 5. A place in England: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States: 19. A number of places in the United States: 20. A habitational surname referring to someone from Scotland.
Word: palm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English palme, from Old English palm, palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch”), from Latin palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, *pl̥h₂emeh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Dutch palm, German Palme, Danish palme, Icelandic pálmur (“palm”). Pronunciation: /pɑːm/, /pɑm/, /pɑlm/, /pɔm/, /pɔlm/ 1. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics. 2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. Example: A great multitude […] stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands. 3. Triumph; victory. Labels: broadly, figuratively 4. Any of the twenty-three awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning eighteen years old.
Word: palm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis”), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂(e)meh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of palmo, palma, and pam. Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”), Old Irish lám (“hand”). Pronunciation: /pɑːm/, /pɑm/, /pɑlm/, /pɔm/, /pɔlm/ 1. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand or other primate hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers. Example: On the boys' palms were handfuls of sand. Example: The chiromancer examined my palms first, and eventually had my hands photographed. 2. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a nonprimate mammal. 3. Synonym of hand, any of various units of length notionally derived from the breadth of the palm, formalized in England as 4 inches and now chiefly used for the height of horses Labels: historical Example: He found it to be ninety-five fathoms wide, and five palms deep at a place of average depth 4. Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers. Labels: historical 5. A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. 6. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers. Example: They watched until the younger bull received a second cut, this one on his flank from a point on the brow palm that would have impaled him if he hadn't jumped out of the way. 7. The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
Word: palm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis”), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂(e)meh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of palmo, palma, and pam. Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”), Old Irish lám (“hand”). Pronunciation: /pɑːm/, /pɑm/, /pɑlm/, /pɔm/, /pɔlm/ 1. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g., for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. 2. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. Example: John palmed the ball. 3. To move something with the palm of the hand. Example: The home side's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to palm the drive on to the post but the sheer pace of the shot forced the ball into the net. 4. To use one's palm as identification to get through a door or security checkpoint. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I palmed in to work. Example: She palmed the door as she talked to the security guard. 5. To bribe. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: He never again appeared in the house where practices of this description are carried on every night, and where officers of the police are palmed (bribed) for their forbearance.
Word: lam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną. Pronunciation: /læm/ 1. To beat or thrash. Labels: informal, transitive Example: 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it. Example: They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […] 2. To flee or run away. Labels: dated, intransitive, slang Example: [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam! Example: […]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.
Word: lam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną. Pronunciation: /læm/ 1. A flight or escape. Labels: slang Example: on the lam
Word: lam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l). Pronunciation: /læm/ 1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
Word: ad hoc Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”). Pronunciation: /ˌæd ˈhɒk/, /ˌæd ˈhɑk/, /ˌæd ˈhɔk/ 1. For a particular purpose. 2. Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu. Example: Over the past 20 years or so, from South America to the Danube basin, ad hoc coalitions of politicians, activists and conscience-stricken billionaires (whose core activities, such as Povlsen’s clothing business, are often less than environmentally friendly), have rewilded millions of acres of mostly failed agricultural and grazing land. 3. Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions. Example: Contrary to the traditional condoning of ad hoc hypotheses, and in line with Popper's and Grünbaum's approaches, we see, once an ad hoc hypothesis is introduced we are unhappy about it and try to eliminate it. 4. Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points. Example: An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The applications for ad hoc networks have grown tremendously with the increase in the use of wireless sensor networks.
Word: ad hoc Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”). Pronunciation: /ˌæd ˈhɒk/, /ˌæd ˈhɑk/, /ˌæd ˈhɔk/ 1. On the spur of the moment. 2. For a particular purpose.
Word: ad lib Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum. Pronunciation: /æd ˈlɪb/, /ˈæd ˈlɪb/ 1. At pleasure. 2. At will. 3. As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction. Example: For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread. 4. Extemporaneously.
Word: ad lib Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum. Pronunciation: /æd ˈlɪb/, /ˈæd ˈlɪb/ 1. Extemporaneous, impromptu. Example: We were shocked to learn that the entire show was an ad lib performance. How did they weave it together so expertly on the fly? 2. That provides as much as each one desires, to each one's fill, without restriction. Example: ad lib feed Example: ad lib access
Word: ad lib Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum. Pronunciation: /æd ˈlɪb/, /ˈæd ˈlɪb/ 1. An instance of something improvised, especially a line. 2. Improvised vocals added after the main vocals have been recorded which serve to emphasize the rhythm or fill the lyrical bar line.
Word: ad lib Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviation of ad libitum, borrowed from New Latin ad libitum. Pronunciation: /æd ˈlɪb/, /ˈæd ˈlɪb/ 1. To perform without a script. 2. To perform without preparation. 3. To perform extemporaneously. Example: She ad libbed the rest of the scene. 4. To perform ad libs; to improvise lyrics after the main lyrics have been recorded. Labels: intransitive 5. To perform (lyrics) as ad libs. Labels: transitive
Word: ad libitum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad libitum. 1. As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ad libitum Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad libitum. 1. As much as desired, to one's fill, without restriction. Labels: not-comparable Example: an ad libitum diet
Word: adherent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Latin adhaerēnsder. Old French adherentbor. Middle English adherent English adherent From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”). Pronunciation: /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/, /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/ 1. Adhesive, sticking to something. Example: Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung. 2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something. 3. Attaching or pressing against a different organ. 4. Showing adherence to a treatment. Example: Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.
Word: adherent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Latin adhaerēnsder. Old French adherentbor. Middle English adherent English adherent From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”). Pronunciation: /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/, /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/ 1. A person who has membership in some group, association, or religion. Example: While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.
Word: admixture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin admixtūra, from admixtus, past participle of admisceō (“to mix in”), from misceō (“to mix”). Analyzable as ad- + mixture. Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/, /ædˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/ 1. An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor. Example: [Penelope and Euryclea] express their feelings in copious direct discourse. Feelings though they are, with only a slight admixture of the most general considerations upon human destiny, the syntactical connection between part and part is perfectly clear, no contour is blurred. 2. An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Both were lean, raw-boned specimens; the man tall, sandy, and grey-eyed, and the woman short and rather dark, with a black straightness of hair suggesting a slight Indian admixture. 3. A mixture, in some contexts Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A mixture, in some contexts: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.
Word: aforementioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From afore- + mentioned. Pronunciation: /əˈfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /ˈæfəˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /ˈæfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /əˈfɔɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /ˈæfəɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/ 1. Previously mentioned. Labels: not-comparable Example: It wasn't until later that we realized that the aforementioned caller and this taciturn man were the same person. Example: The tombs where they lay, rested, and slept to problem solve amongst one another telepathically were secured to the deck by crisscrossing to center heavy stainless-steel chains’ that encapsulated and encased each of the aforementioned Gods, Goddesses, and Princessian High Priestesses.
Word: aforementioned Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From afore- + mentioned. Pronunciation: /əˈfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /ˈæfəˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /ˈæfɔːˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /əˈfɔɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/, /ˈæfəɹˌmɛn.ʃənd/ 1. The one or ones mentioned previously. Labels: uncountable Example: The judge read a list of prisoners' names. She then indicated that the aforementioned were to be set free.
Word: against Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Germanic *in Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *ganganąder.? Proto-Germanic *gagin Proto-Germanic *in gagin Proto-West Germanic *in gagin Old English onġēander. Middle English ayenes English against Formed from Middle English ayenes, agenes, againes (“in opposition to”), a southern variant of agen, or directly from again, either way with adverbial genitive singular ending -es; the parasitic -t was added circa 1350, probably by confusion with the superlative ending -est. By surface analysis, again + -st (excrescent ending). Cognate with Saterland Frisian juun (“against”), West Frisian tsjin (“against”), Dutch tegen (“against”), German Low German gegen (“against”), German gegen (“against”), Icelandic gegn (“against”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡɛ̟nst/, /əˈɡeɪ̯nst/, /əˈɡɪ̟nst/, /əˈɡe̟nst/, /əˈɡæ̝ɪ̯nst/ 1. By the time that (something happened); before. Labels: obsolete Example: Thence she them brought into a stately Hall, / Wherein were many tables faire dispred, / And ready dight with drapets festiuall, / Against the viaundes should be ministred. Example: He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked.
Word: preposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”), equivalent to pre- + position. Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/ 1. Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word. Labels: strict-sense Example: 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Example: And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition, the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT: (121) (a) [To whom] can I send this letter —? (121) (b) [About what] are they quarrelling —? (121) (c) [In which book] did you read about it —? 2. An adposition. Labels: broadly 3. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. Labels: obsolete Example: […] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe
Word: preposition Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English position English preposition From pre- + position. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːpəˌzɪʃən/ 1. Alternative spelling of pre-position. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes Example: It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
Word: pam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name. Pronunciation: /pæm/ 1. The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump. Labels: uncountable
Word: pam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably alteration of panorama. Pronunciation: /pæm/ 1. A panorama. Labels: dated Example: The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.
Word: pam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably alteration of panorama. Pronunciation: /pæm/ 1. To pan a camera in order to show a panorama. Labels: dated Example: In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees; Example: The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
Word: pam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Generic use of PAM. Pronunciation: /pæm/ 1. Cooking spray. Labels: US
Word: pam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo. Pronunciation: /pæm/ 1. Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated, historical
Word: billabong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wiradjuri bilabang, likely a compound from Wiradjuri bila (“river”) and Wiradjuri bong or Wiradjuri bung (“dead”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪləˌbɒŋ/, /ˈbɪləˌbɔŋ/, /ˈbɪləˌbɑŋ/ 1. An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely. Labels: Australia Example: Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong, Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling, 'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'
Word: accused Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * (noun): First attested in the 1590's. * From accuse (“blame”) + -ed Pronunciation: /əˈkjuzd/, /əˈkjuzəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of accuse Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accused.
Word: accused Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * (noun): First attested in the 1590's. * From accuse (“blame”) + -ed Pronunciation: /əˈkjuzd/, /əˈkjuzəd/ 1. The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case. Example: The accused arrived at the Baoshan District Court in Shanghai in the morning and a tribunal officer told AFP that a verdict may be issued later on Monday, but it was up to the judge.
Word: accused Part of Speech: adj Etymology: * (noun): First attested in the 1590's. * From accuse (“blame”) + -ed Pronunciation: /əˈkjuzd/, /əˈkjuzəd/ 1. Having been accused; being the target of accusations. Example: This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country; […] Example: Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]
Word: chemical formula Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of molecular formula. 2. Any other formula used in chemistry.
Word: pain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)). Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯n/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯n], /ˈpæɪ̯n/, [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯n], /ˈpen/ 1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain. Example: I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet. 2. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin. 3. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress Labels: uncountable Example: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life. Example: The pain of departure was difficult to bear. 4. An annoying person or thing. Labels: countable Example: Your mother is a right pain. Example: Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain. 5. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: You may not leave this room on pain of death. Example: We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. 6. Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Word: pain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)). Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯n/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯n], /ˈpæɪ̯n/, [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯n], /ˈpen/ 1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. Labels: transitive Example: The wound pained him. 2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. Labels: transitive Example: It pains me to say that I must let you go. 3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To hurt; to feel painful. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: My infernal thumb pains yet like the very devil. 5. To feel pain; to hurt. Labels: India, intransitive Example: Please help me: I am paining hard. Example: Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.
Word: pain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯n/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯n], /ˈpæɪ̯n/, [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯n], /ˈpen/ 1. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. Labels: obsolete Example: gammon pain; Spanish pain
Word: acidity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French acidité, from Latin aciditātem, accusative singular of aciditās (“sourness, acidity”), from acidus (“sour, acid”). Equivalent to acid + -ity. Pronunciation: /əˈsɪd.ɪ.ti/, [-ɾi] 1. The quality or state of being acid. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the acidity of lemon juice Example: Empty stomachs lead to acidity and leave a sour taste in the mouth. 3. Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A caustic, sour, biting, or bitter quality. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: "What shall we call it?" he asked. "Why should you not take the chance of perpetuating your own name?" said Summerlee, with his usual touch of acidity. Example: It was a brave, good speech, a speech from that staunch and strong spirit which lay behind all the acidities and angularities of the old zoologist.
Word: pin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pinnaz Proto-West Germanic *pinn Old English pinn Middle English pinne English pin From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle. No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn/, [ˈpʰɪn] 1. To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. Labels: often 2. To cause (a piece) to be in a pin. 3. To pin down (someone). Example: He pinned his opponent on the mat. 4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound. 5. To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists. Labels: transitive Example: to pin a folder to the taskbar 6. To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified. Labels: transitive Example: When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled. Example: […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it. 7. To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range. Labels: transitive Example: Now I need to pin those needles. 8. To inject for performance enhancement. Labels: ambitransitive, slang 9. To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
Word: pin Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn/, [ˈpʰɪn] 1. Alternative form of peen. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pin Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn/, [ˈpʰɪn] 1. A cataract of the eye.
Word: vocal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Late Middle English vocal, borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“uttering a voice, sounding, speaking”), from vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of vowel and vocalis. Compare Old French vocal. Pronunciation: /ˈvəʊ̯.kəl/, [ˈvəʊ̯.kl̩], /ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/, /ˈvɔʊ̯.kəl/, [ˈvoʊ̯.kl̩] 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech. Example: vocal problems 2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech. Example: vocal apparatus 3. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech. 4. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech. 5. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech. 6. Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words. Example: vocal melody, vocal prayer, vocal worship 7. Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words. Example: The protesters were very vocal in their message to the mayor. Example: Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this could make real sense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring or third rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line? 8. Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words. Example: To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song. Example: The tide flows down, the wave again ⁠Is vocal in its wooded walls: ⁠My deeper anguish also falls, And I can speak a little then. 9. Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words. 10. Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
Word: vocal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Late Middle English vocal, borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“uttering a voice, sounding, speaking”), from vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of vowel and vocalis. Compare Old French vocal. Pronunciation: /ˈvəʊ̯.kəl/, [ˈvəʊ̯.kl̩], /ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/, /ˈvɔʊ̯.kəl/, [ˈvoʊ̯.kl̩] 1. A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic. 2. A part of a piece of music that is sung. Example: Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer). 3. A part of a piece of music that is sung. 4. A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
Word: larva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin larva (“disembodied spirit, ghost, goblin”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.və/, /ˈlɑɹ.və/ 1. An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. Example: The habits of the second nymphal stage are likewise similar to those of the larva stage. Example: Several possible explanations are advanced for a large decrease in numbers between the egg and larva stage, namely, drift of larvae from the sampling station, escape through the meshes of the net, sinking below the surface layers, and loss from mortality. A seasonally erratic egg to larva ratio is pointed out. 2. An animal in the aforementioned stage. Example: The young larva bores into the tissue of a tobacco leaf, usually near the place where it has emerged from the egg, in cases where the egg was laid on a leaf, and mines into the leaf. Example: What does a mountain newt larva eat? 3. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. Example: In water of 5-6° C, herring hatch in about 22 days, at 11-12° C in 8–10 days. The newly hatched larva is about 6–8 mm long and at first depends on the food reserves of the yolk-sac. Example: Breeding females of both the Lophogastrida and Mysida carry their embryos and larvae in a marsupium, within which their entire embryonic and larval development takes place. 4. A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance. Labels: figuratively Example: In the fourteenth we find, but still in Latin, a quasi-historical drama, in the larva stage of monologue recitation, founded on a subject from the national annals—that of Ezzelino, tyrant-duke of Padua. Example: Man's larva stage is first announced by strong pathetic squalls; — Conscious knowledge of his helplessness, — dependency, appalls, — Evokes maternal sympathy,— for him she will provide,— Most proud mother, happy parent, as he nestles by her side.
Word: galaxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæl.ək.si/, /ˈɡɛl.ək.si/ 1. The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth. Labels: archaic Example: So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...]. Example: Grecian imagination ascribed to the galaxy or milky way an origin in the teeming breast of the queen of heaven[.] 2. Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. 3. An assemblage of things or people seen as luminous or brilliant. Labels: figuratively Example: [a] galaxy of science fiction stars. 4. Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background. Example: Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space. Example: Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.
Word: galaxy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæl.ək.si/, /ˈɡɛl.ək.si/ 1. To furnish with galaxies. Labels: transitive Example: […] how he struggled at one time like a desperate man fiercly ^([sic]) grappling with his mortal foe, and at another like a sanguine lover and noble minded youth, as the cliffy rocks impeded his progress, or dimmed the view he had caught of an aperture, through which the galaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires; […] Example: In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome: / Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear / All galaxied with Stars her flashing hair! 2. To gather together into a luminous whole. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Let all their Vertues then be Galaxied into this one Indiſtinct Luſtre, they vvere Faithful Servants of Chriſt, and Sufferers for their being ſo. Example: The brilliancies on one page of Lalla Roohk ^([sic]) would have sufficed to establish that very reputation which has been in a great measure self-dimned by the galaxied lustre of the entire book.
Word: festoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder. Proto-Italic *θēstos Proto-Italic *fēstosder. Latin fēstus Latin fēsta Late Latin fēsta Italian festa Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ōnem Italian -one Italian festonebor. French festonbor. English festoon Borrowed from French feston. Pronunciation: /fɛsˈtuːn/ 1. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots. 2. A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament. Example: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise. 3. A raised cable with light globes attached. 4. A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone. 5. Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks. 6. A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode. 7. Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment. 8. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia. 9. Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
Word: festoon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder. Proto-Italic *θēstos Proto-Italic *fēstosder. Latin fēstus Latin fēsta Late Latin fēsta Italian festa Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ōnem Italian -one Italian festonebor. French festonbor. English festoon Borrowed from French feston. Pronunciation: /fɛsˈtuːn/ 1. To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots. Example: The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth. 2. To make festoons. 3. To decorate or bedeck abundantly. Example: He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots. Example: A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement. 4. To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue. Labels: transitive
Word: race Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs ("a strong current"; whence German Low German Raas (“mad rush, rage, fury”)), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪs/ 1. To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). Labels: intransitive Example: The drivers were racing around the track. Example: Honesty raced up six lengths in front of Wandering Minstrel, turned, then raced past for the second, and lost his place at the hedge; some work followed to the plantation, but Honesty was always the faster in the racing stretches, and won easily. 2. To compete against in a race (contest). Labels: transitive Example: I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun. Example: […]a fresh fox popped out of a pit, and they raced him to Cherrington, where hounds were stopped at dark[…] 3. To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed. Labels: intransitive Example: As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door. Example: Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room. 4. To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission. Labels: intransitive Example: "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built." Example: He put the transmission into drive and pressed the gas. The engine raced and the motor home rocked, gently, but did not move forward.
Word: race Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin. Partially displaced native Middle English kinde (“kind, type, sort, race, nature”), whence English kind. Fully displaced native Old English cnōsl. theories * Diez and some other scholars suggest derivation from Proto-Germanic *raitō (whence Old High German reiza (“line”) and Old Norse ríta (“to score, log, outline”)), perhaps via Lombardic *raiza (“line”), which Körting notes is a literal rendering of Latin linea sanguinis (“bloodline of descent”). Anatoly Liberman says "the semantic fit is good" but the chronology falters; he says the Germanic word went out of use before the Italian word arose, and he says the intermediary is not attested. * Some scholars suggest derivation from Old Spanish raza, rasa, from earlier ras, res (“head of cattle”), from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”), but Italian razza predates the Spanish word according to Diez and Meyer-Lübke. * Meyer-Lübke suggested Latin generatio as the root; Körting says "the disappearance of two initial syllables hardly seems credible", but Meyer-Lübke notes the Venetian form narazza and the Old Bellunesian form naraccia, positing that after the first syllable ge- was lost, the remaining (una) narazza came to be reanalysed as una razza. * Gianfranco Contini suggests the Italian word comes from Old French haraz (“troop of horses”), whence Modern French haras (“breeding farm for horses; stud farm”), from Old Norse hárr (“grey-haired; hoary”). Liberman considers this derivation the most likely. * Other suggested Latin etyma: ** radius (perhaps via Vulgar Latin *radia) (per Baist). ** radix (“root”) (per Ulrich); Liberman says "the semantic match is excellent", and race (“rhizome of ginger”) (which definitely derives from radix) shows that the phonology is plausible. ** *raptiare (“breed falcons”) (per Körting). ** The nominative of ratio (perhaps via an unattested intermediate form *razzo), as opposed to ragione which derives from the accusative rationem. * Other implausible suggestions include Slavic raz and Basque arraca, supposedly meaning "stud animal" (Basque arrazza, "race", derives from Spanish). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪs/ 1. To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race. Example: To be raced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous. Example: From this perspective, the project of progressive blackness entails the edification of black people and the elimination of all forms of domination that limit this edification for all those raced as black. 2. To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring. Labels: obsolete Example: D'Hervieux obſerves that it is uſual to put the female canary bird to the male goldfinch, linnet, or the like, to breed; but for his part, he ſhould chuſe to put the male canary-bird to the female goldfinch, linnet, &c. becauſe the male uſually races more than the female, i. e. the young ones take more after the male than after the female.
Word: race Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid 16th century. From Middle French raïz, raiz, rais (“root”), from Latin radix (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪs/ 1. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger. Example: I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none—that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun. Example: They have onions and garlick, and some herbs and small roots for sallads; and in the southernmoft parts, ginger growing almost in every place; the large races whereof are there very excellently well preserved, as we may know by our tasting them in England.
Word: race Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English racen, rasen (“to come apart; to pick clean, strip; to pull away, snatch; to pull down, knock down; to pull off, strip off; to pluck or tear out; to tear apart”), either: * an aphetic form of arasen, aracen (“to pluck, pull, or tear away or out”), from Anglo-Norman aracer and Old French aracier, esracier, esrachier (“to pull off”) (modern French arracher), from Latin ērādīcāre, the present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“to root out; to annihilate, extirpate”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + rādīx (“root”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation infinitives of verbs); or * from Anglo-Norman racer, an aphetic form of aracer (see above). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪs/ 1. To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [H]e be-heilde towarde the fier, and saugh the flesshe that the knaue hadde rosted that was tho I-nough, and raced it of with his hondes madly, and rente it a-sonder in peces, and wette it in mylke, and after in the hony, and ete as a wood man that nought ther lefte of the flessh; […] Example: But nowe a ſtronge man not vſed to ſhoote, at a girde, can heue vp ⁊ plucke in ſunder many a good bowe, as wilde horſes at a brunt doth race and plucke in peeces many a ſtronge carte.
Word: maid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”). Pronunciation: /meɪd/, /med/, /meid/ 1. A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. Labels: dated, poetic 2. An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.) Example: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. 3. A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. Labels: archaic Example: You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
Word: maid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”). Pronunciation: /meɪd/, /med/, /meid/ 1. To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon. Labels: rare, transitive Example: And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady.