nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Adam Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔadam- Hebrew אָדָםbor. Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám)bor. Latin Ādāmlbor. Old English Adam Middle English Adam English Adam From Middle English Adam, from Old English Adam, from Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”). Pronunciation: /ˈædəm/, [ˈædəm] ~ [ˈædm̩], /ˈæɾəm/, [ˈæɾəm] ~ [ˈæɾm̩], /ˈɛdɘm/ 1. The first man and the progenitor of the human race. Example: And Adam called his wiues name Eue, because she was the mother of all liuing. Example: Say Goddeſs, what enſu'd when Raphael, / The affable Arch-angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apoſtaſie, 2. A male given name from Hebrew. Example: In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, proninent, and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood. Example: Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication. 3. Original sin or human frailty. Labels: figuratively 4. Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin. Labels: usually Example: And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a liuing soule, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Example: Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in thy love. 5. Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam. Example: Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam-period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level. Example: McIntyre's best pieces, such as the fireplace in the Otis house, managed to convey both an opulent warmth and a restrained elegance, and compares favorably with the artistic saturnalia of an Adam fireplace. 6. An English surname originating as a patronymic. 7. A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic. 8. A French surname originating as a patronymic. 9. A German surname originating as a patronymic. 10. The drug ecstasy. Labels: slang Example: I prefer to call it "Adam." "Ecstasy" is a beautiful word, but I think Ecstasy is a word more often used by people taking it for thrills. Example: I heard people say they were taking "Adam." Is that the same drug or something different? Ecstasy goes by many different names […]
Word: adance Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor. Middle English dauncen English dance English adance From a- + dance. 1. Dancing. Labels: not-comparable Example: shadows across the table sent adance
Word: adangle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English dangle English adangle From a- + dangle. 1. Dangling. Labels: not-comparable Example: The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle. Example: […] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped
Word: trajectory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin trāiectōria f (“trajectory”) (used by Newton), the feminine of trāiectōrius (“of or pertaining to throwing across”), from Latin trāiectus (“thrown over or across”), past participle of trāiciō, from trans- (“across, beyond”) (see trans-) + iaciō (“to throw”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw, impel”)). Middle French and Middle English had trajectorie (“end of a funnel”), from Latin trāiectōrium. Pronunciation: /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/ 1. The path an object takes as it moves. Example: The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner. 2. The path of a body as it travels through space. 3. The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution. 4. A course of development, such as that of a war or career. Labels: figuratively Example: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
Word: affray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English affraien (“to terrify, frighten”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”) and Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”) (compare modern French effrayer), from Vulgar Latin *exfridāre. The second part of this is in turn from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Old High German fridu (“peace”), Old English friþ (“peace, frith”), Old English frēod (“peace, friendship”), German Friede (“peace”). More at free, friend. Pronunciation: /əˈfɹeɪ/ 1. To startle from quiet; to alarm. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: That voice doth us affray.
Word: affray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English affraien (“to terrify, frighten”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”) and Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”) (compare modern French effrayer), from Vulgar Latin *exfridāre. The second part of this is in turn from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Old High German fridu (“peace”), Old English friþ (“peace, frith”), Old English frēod (“peace, friendship”), German Friede (“peace”). More at free, friend. Pronunciation: /əˈfɹeɪ/ 1. The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident for affray towards attending paramedics. 2. A tumultuous assault or quarrel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The patient, who had a full view of the skirmish, was so tickled at the affray, that he burst into a laughter, which broke the quinsey, and cured him. 3. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder. 4. Terror. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: full of ghastly fright and cold affray
Word: agenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + -genesis. Pronunciation: /eɪˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/ 1. Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: agennesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek γέννησις (génnēsis, “engendering”). 1. Impotence; sterility. Labels: uncountable
Word: ageratum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78, The way before him was little more than a bridle-path along the earth […] . The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually. Example: They helped carry things up a sidewalk bordered with a purple fringe of ageratums into the small house behind the parsonage.
Word: agential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English agential From agent + -ial. 1. Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Example: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training. 2. That forms agent nouns. Example: Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function.
Word: agential Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English agential From agent + -ial. 1. An affix that forms agent nouns. Example: Semantically, a majority of agentials refer to avian vocalization. Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat.
Word: agendum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin agendum, substantive use of the neuter singular of agendus (“which ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”). Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.dəm/ 1. A task which ought to be done. Labels: uncommon 2. Something to be done; a practical duty, rather than an article of faith.
Word: aggeneration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin aggeneratio (“generating in addition”), from aggenerat- (past participle stem of aggenerare) + io (“-ion”). 1. The act of producing in addition. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: There haue beene..additions vnto this Church without substraction; continuall adgeneration without corruption. 2. The act of producing in addition. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 3. The act of producing in addition. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: The higher task is now ours of the regeneration of the race, or, if we wish to express that betterment less questionably, the aggeneration of the race.
Word: agger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English agger (“heap, pile”), from Latin agger (“earthwork, rubble, rampart”), from ad- (“toward, towards”) + gerere (“to carry”). Pronunciation: /ædʒə(ɹ)/ 1. A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again Example: The phænomenon of long continued high water or double high water in estuaries is, we believe, not uncommon. [...] The first high water appears to be considered by the Dutch, in common language, as the real high water, and the second is called the agger, but so little difference is there between them, that, in making the extensive series of simultaneous tide-observations proposed by Mr. Whewell, the agger was sometimes observed for high water. Example: A double tide or agger is a high tide consisting of two maxima of nearly the same height, separated by a relatively small depression; or a low tide consisting of two minima separated by a relatively small elevation. 2. Synonym of earthwork in ancient Roman contexts, particularly a defensive wall or mound. Labels: historical Example: By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.
Word: aggerate Part of Speech: verb 1. To heap up. Labels: transitive
Word: aggerose Part of Speech: adj 1. In heaps; full of heaps.
Word: agglomerate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus, glomeris Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/, /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ 1. collected into a ball, heap, or mass
Word: agglomerate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus, glomeris Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/, /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ 1. A collection or mass. 2. A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate. 3. An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
Word: agglomerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus, glomeris Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/, /əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/ 1. To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together, and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so agglomerated, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups […] appear to belong to one whole, by the artifice of composition, and the effect of light. Example: 1820, William Hazlitt, “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in Dramatic Essays London: Scott, 1895, p. 197, His [Jean Racine’s] tragedies are not poetry, are not passion, are not imagination: they are a parcel of set speeches, of epigrammatic conceits, of declamatory phrases, without any of the glow, and glancing rapidity, and principle of fusion in the mind of the poet, to agglomerate them into grandeur, or blend them into harmony. 2. To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).
Word: agglomerative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin agglomerāt- (past participial stem of agglomerō) + -ive. By surface analysis, agglomerate + -ive. 1. Having a tendency to agglomerate.
Word: agglutinant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English agglutinant From agglutinate + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈɡluːtɪnʌnt/ 1. Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
Word: agglutinant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English agglutinant From agglutinate + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈɡluːtɪnʌnt/ 1. Any viscous substance which causes agglutination
Word: agglutinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡluːtɪnət/ 1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together. 2. Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning. Example: an agglutinate language Example: an agglutinate family of languages
Word: agglutinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/ 1. To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. Labels: transitive Example: This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied. Example: This is farther evident in the making glue of the dry skins of beasts and of fishes; and paste of starch; whose agglutinating quality is owing solely to the proportions of water absorbed, or intermixed by infusion, maceration, or decoction. 2. To form clusters or lumps; to clump. Labels: intransitive Example: It is […] a strong and valuable coal which does not agglutinate in burning. Example: If the test cells are contaminated with bacteria, they may agglutinate even in the absence of specific antibodies. 3. To form through agglutination.
Word: agglutinate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡluːtɪnət/ 1. A clump of agglutinated material. Labels: countable Example: In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent. 2. Agglutinated material. Labels: uncountable Example: The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.
Word: aggrace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin aggratiare, from ad (“to”) and gratia (“grace”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹeɪs/ 1. To favour; to grace. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And heare the wisedome of her words diuine. / She graunted, and that knight so much agraste, / That she him taught celestiall discipline, / And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine
Word: aggrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aggratiare, from ad (“to”) and gratia (“grace”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹeɪs/ 1. grace; favour Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: So goodly purpose they together fond, / Of kindnesse and of curteous aggrace;
Word: aggrandizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English aggrandize Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English aggrandizable From aggrandize + -able. 1. Capable of being made great; increasable. Labels: rare Example: The supremacy of the various dynasties over the country depicts more of an aggrandizable character than of a permanent settlement. Example: Especially now, in a culture that rewards self-aggrandizement (I mean, please, Donald Trump is still a celebrity?) to such a warped degree that some people find even their most grotesquely squalid distinctions aggrandizable.
Word: aggrandizement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French agrandissement, from agrandir; equivalent to aggrandize + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈɡrændɪzmənt/, /əˈɡrænˌdaɪ̯zmənt/ 1. The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. Example: He contented himself therefore with repeating, that his attachment was to Miss Ashton personally; that he desired neither wealth nor aggrandizement from her father's means and influence, and that nothing should prevent his keeping his engagement, excepting her own express desire that it should be relinquished—and he requested as a favour that the matter might be no more mentioned betwixt them at present, assuring the Marquis of A—— that he should be his confident in its progress or its interruption.
Word: aggrandization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English aggrandize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English aggrandization From aggrandize + -ation. 1. The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The emperor seeks only the aggrandization of his own family.
Word: aggrandize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree French a- Proto-Italic *grandis Latin grandis Old French grant Middle French grand French grand Proto-Italic *-jezi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -īre French -ir French agrandirbor. English ag- English grand Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English aggrandize From French agrandir. By surface analysis, ag- + grand + -ize. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹændaɪ̯z/ 1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase. Labels: transitive Example: to aggrandize one's authority, distress Example: [They] doe adde vnto the bitternesse of that Day, and agrandise the heauie weight of trouble. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: […] the aggrandizing of your estate by well managed fortune […] may well set out your praises to the world […] Example: […] under pretence of ſecuring the purity of religion, he had laid a ſcheme of aggrandizing his own family, by extending its dominions over all Germany. 3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Labels: formal, transitive Example: aggrandize one's accomplishments and downplay others' Example: […] they contrive to make all approaches to them difficult and vexatious, and imagine that they aggrandize themſelves by waſting the time of others in uſeleſs attendance, and by mortifying them with ſlights, and teazing them with affronts. 4. To increase or become great. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: 1946, Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume 2, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, p. 317, The generals, like Hitler, wanted Germany to aggrandize at the expense of neighboring countries, and to do so if necessary by force or threat of force.
Word: aggrandizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aggrandize + -er. 1. One who makes great or aggrandizes.
Word: aggravative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English aggravate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggravative From aggravate + -ive. 1. Tending to aggravate.
Word: aggravative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English aggravate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggravative From aggravate + -ive. 1. That which aggravates.
Word: Tigrinya Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Tigrinya ትግርኛ፟ (təgrəñña). The spelling Tigrigna came via Italian. Pronunciation: /tɪˈɡɹiːnjə/ 1. A Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It is written in the Ge'ez alphabet.
Word: earthnut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English erthenote, from Old English eorþhnutu, from Proto-Germanic *erþōhnuts; equivalent to earth + nut. Pronunciation: /ˈɜːθ.nʌt/, /ˈɝθ.nʌt/ 1. Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground: 2. Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground: 3. Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground: 4. Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground:
Word: vaagmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Icelandic vagmeri (“flounder”, literally “wave mare”). Pronunciation: /vɑɡ.mɝ/ 1. The dealfish, Trachipterus arcticus
Word: aggregately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English aggregate Middle English -ly English -ly English aggregately From aggregate + -ly. 1. collectively; in mass.
Word: wanghee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 黃藜 /黄藜 (huánglí). Pronunciation: /ˈwe(ɪ)ŋˌhi/ 1. Bamboo species of the genus Phyllostachys, especially Phyllostachys nigra. 2. A walking cane made from such bamboo.
Word: aggrege Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French agreger, from Vulgar Latin *aggraviō, variant of Classical Latin aggravō. Doublet of aggravate and aggrieve. 1. To make heavy; to aggravate, make graver. Labels: transitive
Word: aggress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɛs/ 1. Aggression. Labels: uncountable Example: his aggress / Was made with such precaution as to quench / Douay's intent and throw him in a mess.
Word: aggress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɛs/ 1. To set upon; to attack. Labels: transitive 2. To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone. Labels: intransitive
Word: aggrievance Part of Speech: noun 1. oppression; hardship; grievance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: aggroup Part of Speech: verb 1. To bring together in a group; to group. Labels: archaic
Word: aggroupment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English aggroup Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English aggroupment From aggroup + -ment. 1. Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
Word: aggri Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of aggry. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: agist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman agister (“to pasture for a fee”). Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɪst/ 1. To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Labels: transitive 2. To charge lands etc. with any public burden. Labels: transitive
Word: agistor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From agist + -or. 1. One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. 2. an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. Labels: historical
Word: agistment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English agist Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English agistment From agist + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɪstmənt/ 1. The taking in by anyone of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 3. A charge or rate against lands. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: an agistment of sea banks (i.e. charge for banks or dikes)
Word: agitatedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English agitated Middle English -ly English -ly English agitatedly From agitated + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒɪtˌeɪtɪdli/ 1. In an agitated manner. Example: She has long, raven-colored hair with a floppy widow's peak, and tosses it agitatedly as she speaks.
Word: agitato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian agitato. 1. A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style. 2. A passage having this mark.
Word: agitato Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian agitato. 1. Played in a restless agitated style. Labels: not-comparable
Word: agitato Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian agitato. 1. Describing a passage having this mark. Labels: not-comparable
Word: scientist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 (see the quotation) as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪəntɪst/, /ˈsaɪəntəst/ 1. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others. Example: As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist. Example: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
Word: lagoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacūna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune. Pronunciation: /ləˈɡuːn/ 1. A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
Word: battleax Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of battle axe. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: paste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus. Pronunciation: /peɪst/ 1. A soft moist mixture, in particular: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A soft moist mixture, in particular: Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones. 3. A soft moist mixture, in particular: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A soft moist mixture, in particular: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive 5. A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s. 7. Pasta. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity. Example: Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis. 8. The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: paste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus. Pronunciation: /peɪst/ 1. To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. Labels: transitive 2. To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. Labels: transitive
Word: paste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun. Pronunciation: /peɪst/ 1. To strike or beat someone or something. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth. 2. To defeat decisively or by a large margin. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: paste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”). Pronunciation: /ˈpæsteɪ/, /ˈpɑsteɪ/ 1. plural of pasta Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: ma Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, plural-normally
Word: ma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The sound, which parents interpret as a reference to themselves, is very commonly made by infants. For more on the linguistic process whereby infants' monosyllables are tied to ancient word roots for parents, see mama, papa, mātēr, and patēr. Pronunciation: /mɑː/ 1. mother, mama Labels: colloquial Example: Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins. 2. The landlady of a theater. Labels: colloquial Example: […] that dear little man writing in the guestbook of the "Ma" or theatrical landlady […]
Word: ma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. May.
Word: ma Part of Speech: det Etymology: From my. 1. Alternative spelling of my. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, informal
Word: ma Part of Speech: particle Etymology: From Cantonese 嘛 (maa³, “of course!”). 1. Alternative form of mah. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Word: ma Part of Speech: particle Etymology: From Mandarin 嗎／吗 (ma). 1. Alternative spelling of mah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 間. 1. Negative space in Japanese art. Labels: uncountable
Word: ambulatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory, or, by surface analysis, ambulator + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/, /-bjʊ-/, /ˌæm.bjəˈleɪ.tɹi/ 1. Of, relating to, or adapted to walking. Example: ambulatory exercise Example: The princess of whom his majesty […]had an ambulatory view in his travels. 2. Able to walk about and not bedridden. Labels: comparable Example: an ambulatory patient 3. Performed on or involving an outpatient. Example: an ambulatory electrocardiogram Example: ambulatory medical care 4. Relating to ambulances. Example: ambulatory fleet 5. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable. Example: an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places Example: As ſoon as God began to conſtitute a Church and fix the Prieſthood, which before was very ambulatory, and diſpenſed into all families, but ever officiated by the Major domo, God gives the power and deſigns the perſon. 6. Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable. Example: The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
Word: ambulatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory, or, by surface analysis, ambulator + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/, /-bjʊ-/, /ˌæm.bjəˈleɪ.tɹi/ 1. The semicircular walkway behind the altar and apse in many cathedrals. 2. Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
Word: reaper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːpɚ/ 1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping. Example: Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields. 2. A machine used to harvest crops. 3. Ellipsis of Grim Reaper. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, ellipsis, often Example: Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?” Example: Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly 4. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
Word: reaper Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːpɚ/ 1. Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles. Labels: India, obsolete
Word: giant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Largely Displaced native Old English ent, eoten, and þyrs. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin ("a giant"), and thurse ("a giant"). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/, /ˈd͡ʒaɪnt/, /ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/, [ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt] 1. A mythical human or humanoid of very great size. Example: The Dwarf then swelled and grew higher and higher till he became a monstrous Giant, and vanished in the air, while the old people were praying to God and thanking him for their deliverance. 2. Specifically: 3. Specifically: Example: The giants also had been outlawed along with Satan because they had fought against god. 4. A very tall and large person. Example: "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly. 5. A tall species of a particular animal or plant. 6. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature. 7. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes. 8. A very large organization. Example: The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains. Example: Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada. 9. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. Example: But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…]. Example: she's not the intellectual giant 10. A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
Word: giant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Largely Displaced native Old English ent, eoten, and þyrs. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin ("a giant"), and thurse ("a giant"). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/, /ˈd͡ʒaɪnt/, /ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/, [ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt] 1. Very large. Labels: not-comparable Example: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
Word: frigid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos Proto-Italic *srīgos Latin frīgus Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin frīgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin frīgidusbor. English frigid Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd/ 1. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy. Example: A frigid, fine rain was falling. Example: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages. 2. Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive. 3. Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman. Labels: colloquial Example: In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.
Word: haunted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːntɪd/, /ˈhɑntɪd/ 1. Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts. Example: The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit. 2. Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.). Example: a soldier haunted by the memories of combat 3. Showing a feeling of being disturbed. Example: a haunted expression
Word: haunted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːntɪd/, /ˈhɑntɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of haunt Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.
Word: divulge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English divulgen, from Latin dīvulgō + -en (verb-forming suffix), from dī- (“widely”) + vulgō (“to make known, announce; to publish”). Pronunciation: /daɪˈvʌld͡ʒ/, /dɪˈvʌld͡ʒ/ 1. To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known. Labels: transitive Example: I will never divulge that secret to anyone. Example: In an interview with The Economist last year, he insisted his attack on the CPP had nothing to do with his views on global warming, which he would not divulge. 2. To indicate publicly; to proclaim. Labels: transitive Example: God... marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven.
Word: bilge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”). Pronunciation: /bɪld͡ʒ/ 1. The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] water deluged into the cockpit and Niagaraed into the bilge. Only constant use of the pump kept the floorboards from going adrift. 3. The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water. Labels: uncountable 4. Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: talk bilge Example: complete bilge 5. The bulging part of a barrel or cask. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bilge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”). Pronunciation: /bɪld͡ʒ/ 1. To spring a leak in the bilge. Labels: intransitive 2. To bulge or swell. Labels: intransitive 3. To break open the bilge(s) of. Labels: transitive
Word: nowadays Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From now + adays. Pronunciation: /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, /ˈnuː.ə.deɪz/ 1. At the present time; in the current era. Labels: not-comparable Example: Cars nowadays are more efficient. Example: Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.
Word: bilgewater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bilge + water. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪld͡ʒwɔtɚ/ 1. Water which collects in the bilges of a ship. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually
Word: onset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From on- + set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”). For semantic parallels for the meaning to assault, compare cognate Russian насе́сть pf (naséstʹ), наседа́ть impf (nasedátʹ). Pronunciation: /ˈɒnˌsɛt/, /ˈɔnˌsɛt/, /ˈɑnˌsɛt/ 1. The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent. Example: the onset of schizophrenia Example: In mild cases of hypergonadism prior to puberty, the onset of physical and mood changes may not be abnormally early or significant enough to cause any psychological or long-term physical complications. 2. The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus. Example: The only regular sources for Sardinian *θ are Lat. ci̯ and ti̯, which are absent from Latin onsets. This means that the substantial number of words starting in *θ, discussed in § 3 – 7, cannot regularly continue a Latin form. 3. The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak. 4. A setting about; a beginning. Example: the onset of puberty Example: There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. 5. Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage. Labels: obsolete Example: And will with deeds requite thy gentleness: And, for an onset, Titus, to advance Thy name and honourable family, Lavinia will I make my empress. 6. An attack; an assault especially of an army. Labels: archaic Example: Heralds, from off our towers, we might behold From first to last, the onset and retire Of both your armies Example: Who on that day the word of onset gave.
Word: onset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From on- + set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”). For semantic parallels for the meaning to assault, compare cognate Russian насе́сть pf (naséstʹ), наседа́ть impf (nasedátʹ). Pronunciation: /ˈɒnˌsɛt/, /ˈɔnˌsɛt/, /ˈɑnˌsɛt/ 1. To assault; to set upon. Labels: obsolete 2. To set about; to begin. Labels: obsolete