nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: important Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English important, from Medieval Latin important-, importāns. By surface analysis, import (“to be important”) + -ant. Displaced native Old English hēah and hefiġ. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/, [ɪmˈpʰɔːʔn̩ʔ], [ɪmˈpʰɔːtənt̚], /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt/, [ɪmˈpʰɔɹʔn̩t] 1. Having relevant and crucial value; having import. Example: We thought it important for there to be a fire escape at the back of every building. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between. His clerks, however, understood him very well. 2. Pompous; self-important. Labels: obsolete Example: "[…] It is a match that must give universal satisfaction. In short, it is a kind of thing that"—lowering his voice to an important whisper—"will be exceedingly welcome to all parties." Recollecting himself, however, he added, "That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly […]"
Word: house Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”). Pronunciation: /haʊz/ 1. To keep within a structure or container. Labels: transitive Example: The car is housed in the garage. Example: Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times. 2. To admit to residence; to harbor. Labels: transitive Example: Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots. 3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. Example: You shall not house with me. Example: The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members. 4. To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses. Labels: transitive Example: Where Saturn houses. 5. To contain or cover mechanical parts. Labels: transitive 6. To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole. Labels: transitive Example: The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them. 7. To drive to a shelter. Labels: obsolete Example: Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere 8. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. Labels: obsolete Example: Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre 9. To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe. Example: to house the upper spars 10. To eat; especially, to scarf down. Labels: Canada, US, slang, transitive Example: All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
Word: house Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985. Pronunciation: /haʊs/ 1. House music. Labels: uncountable Example: […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers. Example: And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.
Word: hospital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Latin hospitālis Late Latin hospitālebor. Old French hospitalbor. Middle English hospital English hospital From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/ 1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. Example: Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. 2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them. 3. A place of lodging. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]
Word: hospital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Latin hospitālis Late Latin hospitālebor. Old French hospitalbor. Middle English hospital English hospital From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/ 1. Hospitable. Labels: obsolete Example: At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.
Word: doctor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éye-ti Proto-Italic *dokejō Proto-Italic *dokeō Latin doceō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin doctorbor. Old French doctur Anglo-Norman doctourder. Middle English doctour English doctor From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɑktɚ/, /ˈdɔktə/, /ˈdɒktə/, /ˈdɒktəɹ/ 1. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK. Example: If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor. Example: By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too. 2. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university. 3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals. 4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions. 5. A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man. Labels: obsolete Example: So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries. Example: one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel 6. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency. Labels: dated Example: the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter Example: the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine" 7. A fish, the friar skate. 8. A witchdoctor. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he material operation is that the doctor would catch a certain species of lizard under particular circumstances at a particular time. He would croon over it the name of the man while gently rattling his ‘devil bones,’ thus calling up the evil spirit that follows these particular charmed bones. 9. A ship's cook. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […] Example: His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.”
Word: doctor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éye-ti Proto-Italic *dokejō Proto-Italic *dokeō Latin doceō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin doctorbor. Old French doctur Anglo-Norman doctourder. Middle English doctour English doctor From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɑktɚ/, /ˈdɔktə/, /ˈdɒktə/, /ˈdɒktəɹ/ 1. To act as a medical doctor to. Labels: transitive Example: Her children doctored her back to health. 2. To act as a medical doctor. Labels: humorous, intransitive Example: 2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck. Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor! 3. To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon. Labels: transitive 4. To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior. Labels: transitive Example: They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick. Example: We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido. 5. To genetically alter an extant species. Labels: transitive Example: Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored. 6. To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery. Example: That picture – the one that Andrew claimed on BBC’s Newsnight might have been doctored, since he had “no recollection” of then or ever meeting Giuffre at Tramp nightclub in London – will likely serve as both a prequel and postscript of the saga. 7. To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink). Labels: transitive Example: There is no doubt that a few months ago Creake deliberately planned to poison her with some weed-killer. […] The gist of it was that she had the strongest suspicion that Creake doctored a bottle of stout which he expected she would drink for her supper when she was alone. 8. To take medicine. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: knife Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel. * The verb is first attested in 1865. The variant knive is first attested in 1733. Cognates Cognate with Yola kunnife (“knife”), North Frisian knif (“knife”), Dutch knijf (“long pointy knife, poniard”), German Knifte (“rifle; thick slicebread”), German Low German Knief (“knife”), Luxembourgish Knäip (“paring knife”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk kniv (“knife”), Faroese knívur (“knife”), Icelandic hnífur, knífur (“knife”), Swedish knif, kniv (“knife”). Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ̯f/, /ˈnɐɪ̯f/, /ˈnɜɪ̯f/, /ˈnʌɪ̯f/, /ˈnəɪ̯f/ 1. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing. Example: He was looking for a knife to chop some steak. Example: Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat. 2. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger. 3. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
Word: knife Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel. * The verb is first attested in 1865. The variant knive is first attested in 1733. Cognates Cognate with Yola kunnife (“knife”), North Frisian knif (“knife”), Dutch knijf (“long pointy knife, poniard”), German Knifte (“rifle; thick slicebread”), German Low German Knief (“knife”), Luxembourgish Knäip (“paring knife”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk kniv (“knife”), Faroese knívur (“knife”), Icelandic hnífur, knífur (“knife”), Swedish knif, kniv (“knife”). Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ̯f/, /ˈnɐɪ̯f/, /ˈnɜɪ̯f/, /ˈnʌɪ̯f/, /ˈnəɪ̯f/ 1. To cut with a knife. Labels: transitive 2. To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. Labels: transitive Example: She was repeatedly knifed in the chest. Example: One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought before a court-martial, was condemned to fifteen years at the galleys. 3. To cut through as if with a knife. Labels: intransitive Example: The boat knifed through the water. 4. To betray, especially in the context of a political slate. Labels: transitive 5. To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut. Labels: transitive
Word: metal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der. Latin metallum Old French metalbor. Middle English metal English metal From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛ.təl/ 1. Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. 2. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc. Example: The beast will destroy everything in his path With this song on the upcoming brawl It sure is a long one and tough to pronounce but It's the most metal title of all Example: Top tip: Bowling gloves are for sissies, although they look metal as fuck.
Word: metal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der. Latin metallum Old French metalbor. Middle English metal English metal From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛ.təl/ 1. To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
Word: mountain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native English barrow (from Old English beorg) and down (from Old English dūn), and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount). Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊn.tɪn/, /ˈmuːn.tɪn/, /ˈmaʊn.t(ə)n/, [ˈmaʊn.tn̩], /ˈmaʊn.tən/ 1. An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. Labels: countable Example: Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Example: We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains. 2. Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap. Labels: countable Example: He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall. Example: There's still a mountain of work to do. 3. A difficult task or challenge. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity. 4. Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: Called on Courtenay, with whom I walked to Hampstead Heath, and got into excellent spirits, enjoying fine fresh air; then dined with him tête-a-tête on mutton broth and mackerel and drank mountain and old port moderately. 5. A woman's large breast. Labels: countable, slang 6. The twenty-first Lenormand card. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: salt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt. Pronunciation: /sɒlt/, /sɔːlt/, /sɔlt/, /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt] 1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt Example: Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […] 2. One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. Labels: countable, uncommon 4. A sailor (also old salt). Labels: countable, slang Example: Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Example: I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. 5. A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Flavour; taste; seasoning. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us. 8. Piquancy; wit; sense. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Attic salt 9. A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts. 10. Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine. Labels: countable, historical, in-plural, uncountable 11. Skepticism and common sense. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt. 12. Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision. 13. The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem. Labels: UK, historical, uncountable
Word: salt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt. Pronunciation: /sɒlt/, /sɔːlt/, /sɔlt/, /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt] 1. Of water: containing salt, saline. Example: Why the Sea is Salt Example: After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar. 2. Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted. Example: salt beef Example: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. 3. Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea. Example: a salt marsh 4. Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea. Example: salt grass 5. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use. Example: a salt mine Example: The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure. 6. Bitter; sharp; pungent. Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […]. 7. Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat. Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk. Example: And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […] 8. Costly; expensive. Labels: archaic, colloquial
Word: salt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt. Pronunciation: /sɒlt/, /sɔːlt/, /sɔlt/, /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt] 1. To add salt to. Labels: transitive Example: to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter 2. To deposit salt as a saline solution. Labels: intransitive Example: The brine begins to salt. 3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber. 4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have. 5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have. 6. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have. Labels: transitive Example: The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted. 7. To sprinkle throughout. Labels: transitive Example: They salted the document with arcane language. Example: The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They are salted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting. 8. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive. 9. To render a thing useless. Labels: transitive Example: In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas. 10. To render a thing useless. 11. To seek employment at a company in order to help unionize it. Example: And then there was a different faction of organizers who you call more like “professional activists” or “white leftists,” and they were maybe more privileged, maybe just joined the job to salt for the union.
Word: salt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel- Proto-Indo-European *-yétor Proto-Indo-European *sl̥yétor Proto-Italic *saljō?? Latin saliō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin saltusbor. English salt Borrowed from Latin saltus. 1. A bounding; a leaping; a prance. Labels: obsolete Example: […] he hath the skill to draw Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make More wanton salts from this brave promontory, Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;
Word: sugar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery and sucro-. The verb is from Middle English sugren, from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈʃʊɡə/, /ˈʃɵɡə/, /ˈʃʊɡɚ/, /ˈʃʉɡəɾ/, /ˈʃʉɡəɻ/ 1. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar. Labels: transitive Example: John heavily sugars his coffee. Example: See, I've put sugar-plums on his coat for fancy buttons, sugared his shirt-frill, and put on a red almond to his hat-front. 2. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so. Labels: transitive Example: She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words. Example: He also published the "Weekly Recorder," an indefinite title, which was his way of sugaring what soon became in the region where it was published, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a very bitter pill. 3. In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off. Labels: Canada, US, regional Example: To sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly. Example: A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there. 4. To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths. Example: Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom. Example: The latter are best taken by "sugaring" — painting patches of mixed beer and sugar on a series of tree trunks, and making several rounds at twilight with a lantern and a cyanide bottle. 5. To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar. Labels: transitive Example: You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […] Example: Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former. 6. To compliment (a person). Labels: transitive 7. To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
Word: sugar Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery and sucro-. The verb is from Middle English sugren, from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈʃʊɡə/, /ˈʃɵɡə/, /ˈʃʊɡɚ/, /ˈʃʉɡəɾ/, /ˈʃʉɡəɻ/ 1. Minced oath of shit. Example: Oh, sugar! Example: "Oh, sugar! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.
Word: tail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *taglą Proto-West Germanic *tagl Old English tæġl Middle English tayl English tail From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ̯l/, [ˈtʰeɪ̯l], /ˈteːl/, /ˈtæ̝ɪ̯l/, /ˈtæ̝ɪ̯u/ 1. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into 2. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. Example: This vessel tails downstream. 3. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. Example: Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled. 4. To follow and observe surreptitiously. Labels: transitive Example: Tail that car! 5. To pull or draw by the tail. Example: The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd
Word: tail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ̯l/, [ˈtʰeɪ̯l], /ˈteːl/, /ˈtæ̝ɪ̯l/, /ˈtæ̝ɪ̯u/ 1. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed. Example: estate tail
Word: tail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ̯l/, [ˈtʰeɪ̯l], /ˈteːl/, /ˈtæ̝ɪ̯l/, /ˈtæ̝ɪ̯u/ 1. Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. Example: tail male Example: in tail
Word: whip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wippōną (“to move back and forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to shake; to swing”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)). The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in whisk and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh. The political senses are from whipper-in (“huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering”), from 18th-century hunting terminology. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪp/, /ˈʍɪp/, [ˈw̥ɪp] 1. To hit with a whip. Labels: transitive Example: The rider whipped the horse. 2. To hit with any flexible object. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: I whipped her with a newspaper. 3. To defeat, as in a contest or game. Labels: slang, transitive Example: She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break. 4. To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food. Labels: transitive Example: to whip eggs or cream 5. To urge into action or obedience. Labels: transitive Example: He whipped the department into shape. 6. To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy. Labels: transitive 7. To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling. Labels: transitive Example: 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut 8. To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. Labels: transitive 9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread. Example: to whip a ruffle Example: In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie. 10. To throw or kick an object at a high velocity. Labels: transitive Example: He whipped the ball at me. Example: Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar. 11. To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts. Labels: ambitransitive Example: whipping its rough surface for a trout 12. To snap back and forth like a whip. Labels: intransitive Example: The pennants whipped in the wind. 13. To move very fast. Labels: intransitive Example: The wind whipped through the valley. Example: Two Friends, Travelling, met a Bear upon the way; the one Whips up a Tree, and the Other Throws himself Flat upon the Ground. 14. To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc. Labels: transitive Example: She,[…] in a hurry, whips up her Darling under her Arm. Example: He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. 15. To transfer momentum from one skater to another. Labels: transitive 16. To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc. Labels: figuratively Example: They would whip me with their fine wits. 17. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking. Example: to whip wheat
Word: blade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der. Proto-Germanic *bladą Proto-West Germanic *blad Old English blæd Middle English bladder. Middle English blade English blade From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Cognate with West Frisian bled, German Blatt, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blad, Faroese and Icelandic blað, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow. Pronunciation: /bleɪd/ 1. To skate on rollerblades. Labels: informal Example: Want to go blading with me later in the park? 2. To furnish with a blade. Labels: transitive 3. To put forth or have a blade. Labels: intransitive, poetic Example: As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. 4. To stab with a blade Labels: transitive Example: The gang member got bladed in a fight. 5. To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Nowadays, blading happens on occasion in a televised match and more often on pay-per-view but the practice isn't used as much for several reasons, among them an increased awareness of the transmission of AIDS has made blading more dangerous.
Word: sword Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from West Midland Middle English sword (swerd in most dialects), from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Swērt, Swiirt, swörd (“sword”), Saterland Frisian Swid, Swäid (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Luxembourgish Schwäert (“sword”), Vilamovian świert (“sword”), Yiddish שווערד (shverd, “sword”), Danish sværd (“sword”), Faroese svørð (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Norn svird (“small longish object”), Norwegian Bokmål sverd (“sword”), Norwegian Nynorsk sverd, svørd (“sword”), Swedish svärd (“sword”); also Belarusian све́рдзел (svjérdzjel, “drill, drill bit”), Bulgarian свре́дел (svrédel, “drill, drill bit”), Czech svider (“drill bit”), Polish świder (“drill”), Russian сверло́ (sverló, “auger, bore, drill, drill bit”), Serbo-Croatian свр̏дло, svȑdlo (“auger”), Slovene sveder (“drill”), Ukrainian све́рдел (svérdel), све́рдло (svérdlo, “drill bit”). Pronunciation: /soɹd/, /sɔːd/, /soːd/, /so(r)ɖ/, /swɔ(r)ɖ/ 1. A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack. Labels: countable Example: He took out his sword and stabbed the man in the stomach. Example: Malicious tunges, though they have no bones, Are ſharper then ſwordes, ſturdier then ſtones. 2. A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination. 3. A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination. 4. One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. 5. Violence; military might. Labels: figuratively
Word: sword Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from West Midland Middle English sword (swerd in most dialects), from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Swērt, Swiirt, swörd (“sword”), Saterland Frisian Swid, Swäid (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Luxembourgish Schwäert (“sword”), Vilamovian świert (“sword”), Yiddish שווערד (shverd, “sword”), Danish sværd (“sword”), Faroese svørð (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Norn svird (“small longish object”), Norwegian Bokmål sverd (“sword”), Norwegian Nynorsk sverd, svørd (“sword”), Swedish svärd (“sword”); also Belarusian све́рдзел (svjérdzjel, “drill, drill bit”), Bulgarian свре́дел (svrédel, “drill, drill bit”), Czech svider (“drill bit”), Polish świder (“drill”), Russian сверло́ (sverló, “auger, bore, drill, drill bit”), Serbo-Croatian свр̏дло, svȑdlo (“auger”), Slovene sveder (“drill”), Ukrainian све́рдел (svérdel), све́рдло (svérdlo, “drill bit”). Pronunciation: /soɹd/, /sɔːd/, /soːd/, /so(r)ɖ/, /swɔ(r)ɖ/ 1. To stab or cut with a sword Labels: uncommon
Word: boiling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil English -ing English boiling From boil + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of boil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: boiling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil English -ing English boiling From boil + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water. Labels: countable, figuratively 4. An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance. Labels: figuratively, uncountable
Word: boiling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil English -ing English boiling From boil + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. That boils or boil. Example: boiling kettle boiling oil 2. Of a thing: extremely hot or active. Labels: excessive, informal Example: The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit. Example: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which now, in mid-morning, was in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze. 3. Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot. Labels: excessive, informal Example: I’m boiling – can’t we open a window? 4. Of the weather: very hot. Labels: excessive, informal Example: It’s boiling out today!
Word: boiling Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil English -ing English boiling From boil + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. Extremely Labels: not-comparable Example: He was boiling mad.
Word: brass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”). In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats. Pronunciation: /bɹɑːs/, /bɹas/, /bɹæs/ 1. A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually 2. A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually 3. A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: A few measures later, the brass comes in strong! 4. Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. The color of brass (etymology 1, noun sense 1). Labels: uncountable, usually 6. High-ranking officers: the brass hats. Labels: metonymically, uncountable, usually Example: The brass are not going to like this. Example: The brass is not going to like this. 7. A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence. Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that! 8. Money. Labels: Northern-England, dated, slang, uncountable, usually 9. Inferior composition. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: brass Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”). In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats. Pronunciation: /bɹɑːs/, /bɹas/, /bɹæs/ 1. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass. 2. Of the color of brass. 3. Impertinent, bold: brazen. Labels: informal Example: At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough. Example: [...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of." 4. Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments. Labels: slang Example: Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders. Example: I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...] 5. Of inferior composition. Example: As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush
Word: brass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”). In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats. Pronunciation: /bɹɑːs/, /bɹas/, /bɹæs/ 1. To coat with brass. Labels: transitive
Word: brass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute". Pronunciation: /bɹɑːs/, /bɹas/, /bɹæs/ 1. A prostitute. Labels: countable, slang, usually Example: Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses, round or skinny bottoms Example: Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.
Word: brass Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute". Pronunciation: /bɹɑːs/, /bɹas/, /bɹæs/ 1. Brass monkey; cold. Labels: slang
Word: brass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese braça and Spanish braza, from Old Galician-Portuguese and Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“arm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”). Pronunciation: /bɹɑːs/, /bɹas/, /bɹæs/ 1. Synonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse. Labels: historical, obsolete