nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: pere Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of père. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken. Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other. 2. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel. 3. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. Labels: historical Example: Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak anything. Example: During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. 4. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes. 5. A bunk. Labels: especially, slang Example: Chief Stevens approached my rack and repeatedly ordered me to vacate my rack and report to the working party. Example: By the time I had unpacked my sea bag, made my rack, and finished a good long hot shower, it was late in the evening. 6. Sleep. Labels: broadly, slang, uncountable Example: Do I have to do this now? Like, I really need to get some rack. 7. A distaff. 8. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it. Example: Holonym: rack and pinion Example: Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel. 9. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow. 10. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow. 11. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk). 12. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs. Example: I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday. 13. A bone of a horse. Labels: obsolete Example: The Par quadratum […] Their Use is to bend the Racks of the Loins with a right Motion forward or downward, but when one only acts, it draws the Loins to one Side somewhat downwards. Example: Racks, the bones of a dead horse. Term used by horse-slaughterers. 14. A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game. 15. A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips. 16. A woman's breasts. Labels: slang, vulgar 17. A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded. Example: rappel rack Example: abseil rack 18. A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc. Labels: slang Example: I used almost a full rack on the second pitch. 19. A grate on which bacon is laid. 20. A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible. 21. A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime. Labels: slang
Word: rack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”). Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. To place in or hang on a rack. 2. To torture (someone) on the rack. Example: He was racked and miserably tormented. Example: As the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt later recalled, his father, Henry VII's jewel-house keeper Henry Wyatt, had been racked on the orders of Richard III, who had sat there and watched. 3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain. Example: Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair. 4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion. Labels: figuratively Example: Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost. Example: The landlords there most shamefully rack their tenants. 5. To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect. Labels: obsolete Example: Foꝛ when we heare one racke the name of God,/Abiure the ſcriptures, and his Sauiour Chꝛiſt... 6. To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table. 7. To strike in the testicles. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Bike7125 raises a great point suggesting that cups could have been recommended "optional" equipment in school PE. I never got racked by a baseball or softball, but we did have a gym teacher, who insisted on a weekly session of a "cruelty sport" called bombardment. The idea was to throw basketballs at a line of guys, and try to hit them. (Guess where most gym bullys aimed!) 8. To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack. Labels: slang Example: He racked three boxes of gum! Example: my buddy used to go racking for spray paint at the home despot. then a banger shot him in the head one night.^([sic]) 9. To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission. Labels: broadly 10. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm. 11. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round. 12. To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack. 13. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. 14. To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points). Example: Post-and-lintel construction racks easily. Example: The racking strength of a wall system is defined in terms of its ability to resist horizon­tal inplane shear forces. The shear, or racking, forces which act on wail systems arise primarily from wind.
Word: rack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”) The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir. 2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
Word: rack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”) The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky. Labels: uncountable Example: The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, […] pass without noise. Example: And the night rack came rolling up.
Word: rack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rakken. Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs. Example: It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner. Example: The Darwin administrator, J.C. Archer, with great ceremony, turned on the flow to rack the precious golden stuff into casks.
Word: rack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb). Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace. Example: The other two (only racking, no thorough-paced protestants) watched their opportunity to run away
Word: rack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb). Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. A fast amble.
Word: rack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See wreck. Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. A wreck; destruction. Labels: obsolete Example: All goes to rack.
Word: rack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of rabbock, an alteration ( + -ock) of rabbit. Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. A young rabbit, or its skin. Labels: obsolete Example: Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole. Example: The skin of a sucker is white, of a quarter, black and white striped, of a rack all black, and of a best all white.
Word: rack Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹæk/ 1. Alternative form of arak. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm nowhere with sacks.
Word: tabor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/ 1. A small drum. 2. A small drum. Example: Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]
Word: tabor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/ 1. To make (a sound) with a tabor. Labels: transitive 2. To strike lightly and frequently.
Word: tabor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur). Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/ 1. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. Example: A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.
Word: city block Part of Speech: noun 1. The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets. Example: The store is huge, occupying an entire city block. 2. The distance from one urban street to the next, or an approximately comparable distance. Example: In Lawrence, a mile is generally 12 city blocks east-west or 8 blocks north-south. Example: Go along that road for about a city block, and you should see an old barn.
Word: citronella oil Part of Speech: noun 1. An essential oil used in perfumery. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blast Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blasten, from Old English blǣstan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blēstijan, from Proto-Germanic *blēstijaną. Possibly related to Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”). Pronunciation: /blɑːst/, /blæst/ 1. Used to show anger or disappointment: damn Labels: UK, informal Example: Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...
Word: blast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βλᾰστός (blăstós, “germ or sprout”). Pronunciation: /blɑːst/, /blæst/ 1. An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
Word: blast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From BLAST (“Basic Local Alignment Search Tool”, acronym). Pronunciation: /blɑːst/, /blæst/ 1. To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). Labels: informal, transitive Example: Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.
Word: bin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket"). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn] 1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. Example: a corn bin Example: a wine bin 2. A container for rubbish or waste. Example: a rubbish bin Example: a wastepaper bin 3. Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc 4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar. 5. Jail or prison. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncommon Example: Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in 6. Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang Example: At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker". Example: “She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.” 7. A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Word: bin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket"). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn] 1. To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. Labels: UK, informal Example: He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest. 2. To throw away, reject, give up. Labels: UK, informal Example: This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […] Example: The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […] 3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups. 4. To place into a bin for storage. Labels: transitive Example: to bin wine
Word: bin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn] 1. son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
Word: bin Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of being. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn] 1. Contraction of being. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: bin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of been. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn] 1. Alternative form of been. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete Example: Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […] Example: ‘Mebbe you’re right, Jed. Mebbe you’re right,’ sighed Peter. ‘I don’t see how you missed your master’s license, though. ’Twould ha’ bin fitter for a master to own shares in his ship than a fust mate.’
Word: bin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of binary. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/, [ˈbɪn] 1. Clipping of binary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Word: gist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down). The verb is derived from the noun. The programming sense is a genericized trademark of GitHub Gist, introduced 2008. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪst/ 1. The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith. Labels: countable Example: I don't wanna belabor my point; I'm sure you get the gist. Example: Should they live and build their church in the American wilderness, their worst dangers would rise in and among themselves rather than outside. That was the gist of the lesson from their pastor and "wellwiller" John Robinson. 2. The essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen. Labels: countable, dated Example: [T]heſe charges, of a traiterous or felonious intent, are the points and very giſt of the indictment, and muſt be anſvvered directly, by the general negative, not guilty; […] Example: [H]e is guilty of a dereliction of opinions that are true and laudable. This is the great giſt of the charge againſt him. 3. Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: Nigeria, uncountable 4. A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For a simple illustration of the issue, take a look at this gist. Example: Every gist created is a tiny repository. You can update gists and see the history using git log. You can download gists, hack on the repository, […]
Word: gist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down). The verb is derived from the noun. The programming sense is a genericized trademark of GitHub Gist, introduced 2008. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪst/ 1. To extract and present the main ideas or substance, or the most essential parts of (a document, piece of writing, etc.); to abridge, to summarize. Labels: transitive Example: There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, and the pupils of the day take these axioms or principles, and accept them as facts, and apply them to this, that or the other individual case. 2. To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip. Labels: Nigeria, intransitive
Word: gist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English giste, geste (“resting or stopping place, hostel, lodgings; food, refreshment; (figurative) seat of the soul”), from Old French giste (“resting place”) (modern French gîte (“lodging, shelter; self-catering holiday home”)), a noun use of the past participle form of gesir (“to lie down”): see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪst/ 1. A stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest. Labels: obsolete Example: Theſe Quailes have their ſet giſts, to vvit, ordinarie reſting and baiting places. Example: But the Conſul after that he had intelligence that Perſeus had croſſed over to Samothracia, departed from Pella, and at the fourth giſt and journey that he made, came to Amphipolis.
Word: père Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater. Pronunciation: /pɛə(ɹ)/ 1. A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest. 2. Sr. - Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the father is being referred to rather than the son (junior, fils).
Word: blasto Part of Speech: noun 1. Blastomyces. Labels: colloquial, uncountable 2. Blastomycosis. Labels: colloquial, uncountable
Word: have eyes bigger than one's belly Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of have eyes bigger than one's stomach. Example: His eyes are bigger than his belly. Example: Your eyes are bigger than your belly.
Word: one's Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English ones, equivalent to one + -'s. Pronunciation: /wʌnz/ 1. Belonging to one. Example: One tries one's best.
Word: one's Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of one + is, equivalent to one + 's. Pronunciation: /wʌns/, /wʌnz/ 1. Contraction of one + is. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction Example: This one's for you.
Word: blue whale Part of Speech: noun 1. A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal. Example: But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
Word: bluish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blewissh, blewisch (also Middle English bloysh), equivalent to blue + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈbluːɪʃ/ 1. Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue. Example: Riding high on love's true bluish light 2. Somewhat depressed; sad. Labels: figuratively Example: To this day, I usually read my Bible a couple of times a day, and I still enjoy attempting to express my feelings through poetry, especially when I'm feeling bluish.
Word: black and blue Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blak and blo, blac and bla (“very dark, bruised”), equivalent to black + and + blow (dialectal term for blue). By surface analysis, black + and + blue. 1. Of a person, having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: My arm is still black and blue from slipping on the ice yesterday. Example: The whole benighted, blooming crew, The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too, Are being beaten black and blue With bottles on the pate.
Word: black and blue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blak and blo, blac and bla (“very dark, bruised”), equivalent to black + and + blow (dialectal term for blue). By surface analysis, black + and + blue. 1. To bruise, to strike (a person in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it). Labels: colloquial, slang Example: ... he black-and-blued her eyes he cooked a big meal to make it up to her. He went out and stole a neighbor's hog or caught some rice birds ... This was a country of rice plantations, but Twig and Peggy lived upriver, where rice[…] Example: Come on through I black and blue your whole crew Then I get Rudy with the Hong Kong Phoo'
Word: aquarelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello). 1. A watercolour (painting) Example: He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth. Example: He wandered about the house, looking into several rooms, and only partially at rest when he discovered Caroline in one, engaged upon some of her aquarelle sketches. 2. A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
Word: rocking horse Part of Speech: noun 1. a child’s toy consisting of a (usually wooden) horse mounted on a rocker or swing
Word: bruise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”): * Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense. * Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form. Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”). Pronunciation: /bɹuːz/, /bɹʉwz/, /bɹuz/, /bɹʉːz/, /bɾɪu̯z/ 1. To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse. Labels: transitive Example: It is as I have spoken: the testing first, next the bruising, and in the last bout the breaking and killing. 2. To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way. Labels: transitive 3. Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly. Labels: intransitive Example: Bananas bruise easily. 4. To become bruised. Labels: intransitive Example: I bruise easily. 5. To fight with the fists; to box. Labels: intransitive Example: Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. 6. To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Her thoughtless remarks bruised my ego. Example: I was bruised by such wanton criticism. 7. To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring. Labels: transitive
Word: bruise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”): * Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense. * Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form. Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”). Pronunciation: /bɹuːz/, /bɹʉwz/, /bɹuz/, /bɹʉːz/, /bɾɪu̯z/ 1. A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow. 2. A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
Word: purplish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English purple Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English purplish From purple + -ish. 1. Somewhat purple in colour/color.
Word: breakfast cereal Part of Speech: noun 1. A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar, fruit, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nickname Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname. For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkneɪm/ 1. A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic. Example: "The Big Apple" is a common nickname for New York City. Example: […] Plato, who was named Aristocles after his grandfather, but received from his gymnastic master the nickname Πλάτων (from πλάτυς, broad), which practically superseded his real name. 2. A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing. Example: My name is Jonathan, but I go by my nickname, Johnny.
Word: nickname Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname. For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkneɪm/ 1. To give a nickname to (a person or thing). Labels: transitive Example: Gerald, nicknamed "Jerry", was usually a very cheerful person. Example: He was nicknamed Chemical Ali by Iraqi Kurds, who also called him the Butcher of Kurdistan
Word: Sony Part of Speech: name Etymology: A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive). Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊni/, /ˈsoʊni/, /ˈsəʉni/, /ˈsɐʉni/ 1. An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan. Example: he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook. Example: Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
Word: Sony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive). Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊni/, /ˈsoʊni/, /ˈsəʉni/, /ˈsɐʉni/ 1. A device produced by Sony. Example: Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep. Example: It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.
Word: ninja Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 忍者 (ninja), of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person. Popularized in Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by the 1980 novel The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja Noun sense 3.1 (“Mongolian miner”) arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the main characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪnd͡ʒə/ 1. Fast and sneaky. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: After Marshall fell asleep Elisa eventually jumped into the bed with me while I was turned facing away from her. She was very ninja about it as she put it. Example: With a meager budget, the decision was made to go to a new construction site after dark to borrow some needed lumber. The ninja theft went as planned.
Word: ninja Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 忍者 (ninja), of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person. Popularized in Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by the 1980 novel The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja Noun sense 3.1 (“Mongolian miner”) arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the main characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪnd͡ʒə/ 1. To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I leapt up, ninja'd over to Gav's bed and wheeched the duvet off. Example: In our dark house we were ninja-ing around with water guns. 2. to beat someone to a post; to make the same reply just before the other party finishes typing, making their response redundant. Labels: Internet Example: When I hit post, I saw that Blue Emu had ninja'd me, so I just deleted my reply. 3. To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics. Labels: Internet, slang Example: That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!
Word: birthday suit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the lack of clothes worn when one is born. 1. Nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing. Labels: humorous, idiomatic, often Example: George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit. Example: Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order that he may be compelled to exert his faculties, and become his own tailor, and thereby his own civilizer. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see birthday, suit.
Word: plot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plot, plotte, from late Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”); or alternatively, perhaps from a rebracketing of Old English land-splott (“small portion, or plot, of ground”) taken as landes-plot (“plot of land”). Compare Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence and reinforcement of noun sense 8. Noun sense 12 is a back-formation from for the plot. Pronunciation: /plɒt/, /plɑt/, /plɑt̞/, /pläʔ/, /plä/ 1. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. Example: If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. 2. An area or land used for building on or planting on. 3. A grave. Example: He's buried in the family plot. 4. A ground plan, map; a nautical chart. 5. A sketch or outline detailing the arrangement of something; a plan. 6. A synopsis of a literary work. 7. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. Example: I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast. 8. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. Example: The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board. Example: The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot. 9. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue. Example: a man of much plot 10. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. Example: And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. 11. A plan; a purpose. Example: no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls 12. Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.
Word: plot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plot, plotte, from late Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”); or alternatively, perhaps from a rebracketing of Old English land-splott (“small portion, or plot, of ground”) taken as landes-plot (“plot of land”). Compare Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence and reinforcement of noun sense 8. Noun sense 12 is a back-formation from for the plot. Pronunciation: /plɒt/, /plɑt/, /plɑt̞/, /pläʔ/, /plä/ 1. To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: They had plotted a robbery. Example: They were plotting against the king. 2. To trace out (a graph or diagram). Labels: transitive Example: They plotted the number of edits per day. 3. To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc). Labels: transitive Example: Every five minutes they plotted their position. Example: This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
Word: corn flakes Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cornflakes. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-normally
Word: cereal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/, [ˈsiːɹiəl] 1. A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains. Labels: countable 2. The grains of such a grass. Labels: uncountable 3. Breakfast cereal. Labels: uncountable Example: Would you like some cereal? Example: Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
Word: cereal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/, [ˈsiːɹiəl] 1. Of or relating to cereal. Labels: not-comparable Example: Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread. Example: Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]
Word: barley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærlīċ (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere + -ly. See English brew. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑɹli/, /ˈbɑːli/ 1. A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The seed of Job's tears. (Coix lacryma-jobi) Labels: Singapore, uncountable, usually
Word: millet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”). Not related to مِلَّة (milla). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪt/, /ˈmɪlət/ 1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’ 2. Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum. Labels: countable, specifically, uncountable
Word: millet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɛt/ 1. A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. Labels: historical Example: The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […] Example: […] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
Word: realm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme, reialme (“kingdom”), of unclear origins. A postulated *rēgālimen (“domain, kingdom”), Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cross of regimen with rēgālis is usually cited. The modern spelling predominates from around 1600. The modern pronunciation with /l/ is either a spelling pronunciation or influenced by the etymology. Pronunciation: /ɹɛlm/, /rɛːm/, /rɛlm/ 1. A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. Labels: archaic, rhetoric Example: And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns. Example: 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan", Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […] 2. A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. Labels: archaic, rhetoric 3. A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. Labels: archaic, obsolete, rhetoric 4. A sphere of knowledge or of influence; a domain. Labels: also, figuratively Example: the realm of physics Example: the realm of corporate governance 5. A primary zoogeographical division of the earth's surface. 6. A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms. 7. A region or zone forming part of a cosmological system. Labels: archaic
Word: sorghum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus. Doublet of the synonyms sorgho (via French) and sorgo (via Italian). Pronunciation: /ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/ 1. A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2, The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.). Example: 1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page, Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family. 2. Sorghum syrup. Labels: Southern-US, countable, uncountable
Word: rye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi. Pronunciation: /ɹaɪ/ 1. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They bought a sack of rye and a sack of wheat with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking. 2. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This field will be planted to rye next spring. 3. Ellipsis of rye bread. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye? 4. Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain. Labels: Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: He likes any whiskey, but his favorite is rye. Example: “Gimme a shot of rye.” The whiskey stung his throat hot and fragrant. 5. A drink (serving) of rye whiskey. Labels: Canada, US, countable Example: I'll have a rye, neat, please. Example: It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure. 6. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself) Labels: broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable 7. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium. Labels: broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable 8. A disease of hawks. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And if it [vndeꝛ the peꝛch] be grene ſhe engenderith the Ry. The condicion of this euell is this, it wil ariſe in the hede and make the hede to ſwell, ⁊ the iyen all glaymous, and dyrke, and bot it haue helpe: it will downe in to the legges, and maake the legges to rancle, and if it goo fro the legges in to the hede a gayne, thi hawke is bot looſt. Example: Of all the diseases that belongs to these Hawkes, there bee onely three that they bee most subiect vnto, which is the Rye, the Crampe, and the Craye. 9. A young man. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Rye is my uncle, Hans Breitmann, Mr. Leland, whom all the Romanies know. His gipsy lore was great; […]
Word: kymatology Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of wave motion. Labels: uncountable
Word: fodder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒdə/, /ˈfɔdə/, [ˈfɔ̟də] ~ [ˈfɞ̠də], /ˈfɑdɚ/, /ˈfɒdɚ/ 1. Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep. 2. A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. 3. Tracing paper. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 4. Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof. 5. The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was^([sic]) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where^([sic]) the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect. Example: Insane Roman! (4) […] Look in -sane Roman and you'll uncover NERO, the insane Roman. Dovetailing the signpost — in — with the hidden fodder — sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting. 6. People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system. Example: cannon fodder
Word: fodder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒdə/, /ˈfɔdə/, [ˈfɔ̟də] ~ [ˈfɞ̠də], /ˈfɑdɚ/, /ˈfɒdɚ/ 1. To feed animals (with fodder). Labels: dialectal Example: Straw will do well enough to fodder them with Example: "When I had foddered the horse, I went into the barn and took the handle of an old rake to chase the dog out with."
Word: vetch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch. Pronunciation: /vɛt͡ʃ/ 1. Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds. 2. Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.