nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mordant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/, /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/ 1. Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the mordant which fixes the dye in the wool. 2. Any corrosive substance used in etching. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mordant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/, /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/ 1. To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant. Labels: transitive Example: Mordant these goods for dyeing.
Word: prolixity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix + -ity. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/, /pɹəʊˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/ 1. Long-windedness, tiresome length, an excess of words. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines. Example: Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?
Word: col Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum. Pronunciation: /kɒl/, /kɑl/ 1. A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks. Example: We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it. Example: I recall one specific trip when we climbed to Madison Hut which is located in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Jefferson. 2. A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
Word: col Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation Pronunciation: /kɒl/, /kɑl/ 1. Clipping of column. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. Abbreviation of color. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: 4WD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of four-wheel drive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of four-wheel drive. Labels: metonymically, often
Word: aerofoil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- English foil English aerofoil From aero- + foil. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹ.əˌfɔɪl/ 1. UK standard form of airfoil. Labels: UK, alt-of, standard Example: We may look upon this figure as representing in section a theoretical wing-form, or aerofoil
Word: airfoil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor. Latin āēr Old French airbor. Middle English aire English air English foil English airfoil From air + foil. 1. A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air. Labels: Canada, US 2. A wing of an aircraft. Labels: Canada, US
Word: jail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós? Proto-Italic *kawos Latin cavus Latin cavea Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -ola Late Latin caveola Anglo-Norman jaiolebor. Middle English gayole English jail Inherited from Middle English gayole, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiole, from Late Latin caveola, from Latin cavea (“cage”) + -ola (diminutive ending). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole. Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”). Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”). Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪl/ 1. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: serve time in jail Example: released from jail 2. Confinement in a jail. Labels: uncountable Example: He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer. 3. The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). Labels: uncountable 4. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: jail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós? Proto-Italic *kawos Latin cavus Latin cavea Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -ola Late Latin caveola Anglo-Norman jaiolebor. Middle English gayole English jail Inherited from Middle English gayole, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiole, from Late Latin caveola, from Latin cavea (“cage”) + -ola (diminutive ending). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole. Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”). Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”). Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪl/ 1. To imprison. Example: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits. Example: A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.
Word: gaol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gayole, gaiol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪl/ 1. Dated spelling of jail. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning – he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way — Example: There was a simple reason for Sirius' complete absence from Harry's life until then – Sirius had been in Azkaban, the terrifying wizard gaol guarded by creatures called Dementors, […]
Word: gaol Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gayole, gaiol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪl/ 1. Dated spelling of jail. Labels: UK
Word: out of the box Part of Speech: prep_phrase Pronunciation: /æɔt əv ðə bɒks/, /æʊt əv ðə bɒks/, /ʌʊt əv ðə bɑːks/, /aʊt əv ðə bɒks/, /ɘʉt əv ðə bɒks/ 1. Of a product, immediately, without intervention from the customer. Example: This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation. Example: As well as trade union opposition when the new Class 195s arrived, they could not work 'out of the box' due to gauge clearance issues. 2. Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking. Labels: figuratively Example: He started out with the rather obvious alternative of talking to Junior; Hesh’s scheme was more imaginative; and Tony’s idea of torching the restaurant really is out of the box. Example: Mom and dad didn’t have a ready answer to Mort’s out of the box idea, but Mickey did. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See out of, the, box.
Word: cider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *šikar- Hebrew שֵׁכָרder. Ancient Greek σίκερα (síkera)bor. Medieval Latin sīcerader. Old French sidrebor. Middle English sider English cider From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Ancient Greek σίκερα (síkera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār, “liquor”). Doublet of cyser. Partially displaced earlier English apple wine. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯.dɚ/, [ˈsʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)], /ˈsaɪ̯.də/ 1. An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples. Labels: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable 2. This or any similar alcoholic drink made from similar fruit, such as pears. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The procedures for cyser are identical to cider with a notable exception: honey is a much more complex sugar than cane or corn sugars, meaning honey takes a long time to clear and an even longer time (at least six months) to ferment out[…] 3. A non-alcoholic uncarbonated beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: I picked up a jug of cider for the kids. 4. A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples or pears. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable 5. A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage. Labels: Japan, South-Korea, countable, uncountable 6. A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages. Labels: countable
Word: WAN Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /wæn/ 1. Acronym of wide area network. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.
Word: sparkling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, sparkle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈspɑɹklɪŋ/, /ˈspɑːkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈspɑːklɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of sparkle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sparkling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, sparkle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈspɑɹklɪŋ/, /ˈspɑːkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈspɑːklɪŋ/ 1. Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Methinks 't were sweet once more to see Our native forest shade, And the wild streamlet leaping free Along the sparkling glade,... 2. Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles. Labels: not-comparable 3. Brilliant and vivacious. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s. Example: While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.
Word: sparkling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, sparkle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈspɑɹklɪŋ/, /ˈspɑːkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈspɑːklɪŋ/ 1. Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam. Example: Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew. 2. A sparkling wine. Example: Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould. 3. Ellipsis of sparkling water (“fizzy drinking water”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: limpet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lempet, from Old English lempedu (“lamprey”), borrowed from Medieval Latin lampreda, alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to derive from lambō (“to lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of lamprey, which came through Old French. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.pɪt/ 1. Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces. 2. Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space. Labels: UK Example: He stuck to me like a limpet all day!
Word: limpet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lempet, from Old English lempedu (“lamprey”), borrowed from Medieval Latin lampreda, alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to derive from lambō (“to lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of lamprey, which came through Old French. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.pɪt/ 1. To gather limpets. Example: Mother visited the little cottage over the hill, and found Lisette's story to be quite correct; and many times the Frenchwoman blessed the day when Margie went limpeting and Lisette lent the old knife to the golden-haired little English lady. Example: Razor-fishing, sand-eeling and limpeting used to be popular activities but have declined in importance.
Word: sandcastle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sand + castle. Pronunciation: /ˈsæn(d)ˌkæsəl/ 1. A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach. Example: Children learn the importance of water in soil mechanics from an early age. They learn on the beach while making sandcastles. When they use dry sand, their castle flows into a heap even as they lift the bucket. The particles of sand have no cohesion and little friction between them.
Word: TNT Part of Speech: noun Etymology: All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of Tagalog tago nang tago (literally “hide and hide”). 1. Abbreviation of trinitrotoluene (an explosive substance used in blasting) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: "We have grown accustomed to a deadly paradox: the world's greatest megatonnage of TNT is buried in the heart of the earth's most productive agricultural area. 2. Dynamite or any weak explosive. Labels: informal 3. An illegal immigrant. Labels: Philippines, informal Example: These illegal immigrants are popularly known as “TNTs,” or tago ng tago (literally, “hide and hide”). Some married American citizens to legalize their stay, while others paid for “green card” marriages.
Word: TNT Part of Speech: name Etymology: All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of Tagalog tago nang tago (literally “hide and hide”). 1. Initialism of Turner Network Television, a U.S. television channel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SKU Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɛsˌkeɪˈjuː/, /skjuː/, /skuː/ 1. Initialism of stock-keeping unit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: In general, however, it is clear that attributes like SKU cube and weight, SKU maximum and average inventory, SKU retrieval rate, SKU environmental requirements, etc., will be important. What also may be important is information such as what SKUs often appear together in customer orders.
Word: trinitrotoluene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tri- Egyptian nṯrjder. Semiticbor. Ancient Greek νῐ́τρον (nĭ́tron) English nitro- German Tolu German Toluinder. English toluene English trinitrotoluene From tri- + nitro- + toluene. 1. A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH₃C₆H₂(NO₂)₃), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: knock out of the box Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause a pitcher to be replaced by heavy hitting. 2. To cause something to be replaced by something else. Labels: idiomatic
Word: straw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German and German Low German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”). Pronunciation: /stɹɔː/, /stɹɔ/, /stɹɑ/ 1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant. Labels: countable 2. Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. Labels: uncountable 3. A drinking straw. Labels: countable 4. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. Labels: countable, uncommon, uncountable 5. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: to not care a straw Example: ‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw, Nor all thine arrows to boot; If I get a knop upon thy bare scop, Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’ 6. A straw owner. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.
Word: straw Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German and German Low German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”). Pronunciation: /stɹɔː/, /stɹɔ/, /stɹɑ/ 1. Made of straw. Labels: not-comparable Example: straw hat 2. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. Labels: not-comparable 3. Imaginary, but presented as real. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
Word: straw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German and German Low German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”). Pronunciation: /stɹɔː/, /stɹɔ/, /stɹɑ/ 1. To scatter or to spread loosely. Labels: idiomatic, transitive 2. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. Labels: transitive 3. To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger. Example: I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent.
Word: drinking straw Part of Speech: noun 1. A long tube (usually made out of plastic or paper) through which a beverage is drunk via suction.
Word: stripe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”). Pronunciation: /stɹaɪp/ 1. A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions. Example: zebra stripes 2. A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background. Example: 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lightning bolt of intellect. 3. The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces. Labels: in-plural 4. Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort. Labels: informal Example: persons of the same political stripe Example: a tyrant of a very different stripe 5. A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge. Example: Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness! Example: Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed: 6. A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment. Example: But if there were any one who tried and could not make her laugh, he would have three red stripes cut out of his back and salt rubbed into them and, sad to relate, there were many sore backs in that kingdom. Example: [At the Saturnalia] not even a word of reproof would be administered to him [a slave] for conduct which at any other season might have been punished with stripes, imprisonment, or death. 7. A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. 8. Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots. 9. A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy. 10. The start/finish line. Labels: slang
Word: stripe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”). Pronunciation: /stɹaɪp/ 1. To mark with stripes. Labels: transitive 2. To lash with a whip or strap. Labels: transitive Example: I did try to ask questions and talk to Nanny but different things but that was considered "Talking back" or sassing which resulted in the striping of the legs or mashing of one's mouth, and then being put in the dark closet until the crying stopped. Example: But when practice yielded no improvement, curses and the crack of a whip followed. Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back. 3. To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write. Labels: transitive 4. To record (a time code) onto videotape. Labels: transitive
Word: themself Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English theimself. Equivalent to them + -self. Reinforced by analogy with the singular-plural distinction between yourself and yourselves. Pronunciation: /ðɛmˈsɛlf/ 1. The reflexive form of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis). Labels: pronoun, proscribed, reflexive, sometimes, third-person Example: Someone could hurt themself. Example: Anyone who wants a car like mine can buy one themself. 2. Synonym of themselves (the third-person plural). Labels: nonstandard, proscribed, sometimes, third-person Example: […] and the same is here thought of al men to be so vailable and sufficient, as can be required, accept and take the said commission and dispensation so thankfully, and themself so satisfied with the same, that they repute and think themself not only singularly obstringed and bound to the Popes […] Example: Antony.- That fear I much, cousin, too. But thereby shall it well, as I said, appear, that seemed they never so good and virtuous before, and flattered they themself with never so gay a gloss of good and gracious purpose that they kept their goods for, yet were their hearts inwardly in the deep sight of God, not sound and sure, such as they should be, and as peradventure some had themself weened they had been, […]
Word: straw poll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: It may allude to a straw (thin plant stalk) held up to see in what direction the wind blows: in this case, the metaphorical wind of group opinion. 1. A survey of opinion or a vote that is nonbinding, unofficial, casual, or ad hoc. Labels: idiomatic Example: 2002: I don't think it was innocence that made me want to carry out a straw poll of women friends on the plausibility of this passage — James Meek in London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 22, 14 November 2002
Word: prepend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + (ap)pend, back-formation from append. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈpɛnd/ 1. To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix. Labels: transitive Example: The final cleaned assemblies in GenBank were downloaded, and the contig identifiers were pre-pended with the sample name and haplotype integer (where 1 = paternal and 2 = maternal).
Word: prepend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + (ap)pend, back-formation from append. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈpɛnd/ 1. The act of prepending.
Word: prepend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + Latin pendere (“weigh”). Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈpɛnd/ 1. To premeditate; to weigh up mentally. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: bygone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From by (adverb) + gone. See go by. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪɡɒn/, /-ɡɔːn/, /ˈbaɪɡɔn/, /-ɡɑn/ 1. Having been or happened in the distant past. Labels: not-comparable Example: I had thought (Sir) to haue held my peace, vntill You had drawne Oathes from him, not to ſtay: you (Sir) Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are ſure All in Bohemias well: this ſatisfaction, The ''by-gone-day proclaym'd, ſay this to him, He's beat from his beſt ward. Example: Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.
Word: bygone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From by (adverb) + gone. See go by. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪɡɒn/, /-ɡɔːn/, /ˈbaɪɡɔn/, /-ɡɑn/ 1. An event that happened in the past. Labels: plural-normally Example: Jennie Fox watched it with thoughtful pleasure, and the rest were chatting and telling of bygones, enjoying a glass of egg-hot; it being a custom for them to partake of this beverage on this particular night. 2. An object from the past; a relic, antique, etc. Labels: plural-normally Example: And now just as the Victorians collected the minute objects with which to fill these houses, so today grown-ups are paying large sums for these bygones, while the children are given more modern houses to play with.
Word: teaching Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English teching, techinge, from Old English tǣċing, tǣċung (“instruction, direction, teaching”), equivalent to teach + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many follow the teachings of Confucius. 2. The profession of educating people; the activity that a teacher does when he/she teaches. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Teaching has seen continual changes over the past decades. Example: I have found a teaching job.
Word: teaching Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English techinge, techynge, techende, techand, from Old English tǣċende, from Proto-Germanic *taikijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show, point out”), equivalent to teach + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of teach Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: parafoil Part of Speech: noun 1. A parachute, kite or glider with an aerofoil-shaped fabric canopy or wing. 2. The wing or sail of such an apparatus.
Word: cords Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cord Middle English -es English -s English cords From cord + -s. Pronunciation: /kɔːdz/, /kɔɹdz/ 1. plural of cord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cords Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English cord Middle English -es English -s English cords From cord + -s. Pronunciation: /kɔːdz/, /kɔɹdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cord Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cords Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of corduroys Pronunciation: /kɔːdz/, /kɔɹdz/ 1. Corduroys. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only
Word: corduroys Part of Speech: noun 1. Trousers made from corduroy. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: -na Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ne. 1. -n't Labels: morpheme Example: Balgruntie wasna that—
Word: -na Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Contraction of -ing to. 1. -ing to (with infinitive); indicates the grammatical present continuous active mood Labels: morpheme, slang Example: I'm tryna (trying to) figure this one out.
Word: exegesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐξήγησις (exḗgēsis, “interpretation”), from ἐξηγέομαι (exēgéomai, “to explain, interpret”), from ἐξ (ex, “out”) + ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead, guide”). Pronunciation: /ɛksɪˈdʒiːsɪs/, /ɛksɪˈd͡ʒisɪs/ 1. A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Accordingly Athanasius complains loudly of their exegesis (Ep. Æg. 3–4, cf. Orat. i. 8, 52), and insists (id. i. 54, cf. already de Decr. 14) on the primary necessity of always conscientiously studying the circumstances of time and place, the person addressed, the subject matter, and purpose of the writer, in order not to miss the true sense. Example: As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis. 2. An explanatory note; a gloss. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gitano Part of Speech: noun 1. A male gypsy. Example: It was at this town of Badajoz, the capital of Estremadura, that I first fell in with those singular people, the Zincali, Gitanos, or Spanish gypsies.
Word: DASK Part of Speech: name Etymology: Acronym from Danish Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator ("Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator"). 1. A computer of the late 1950s, the first to be developed and built in Denmark. Labels: historical
Word: climate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”). Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪ.mɪt/, /ˈklaɪ.mət/ 1. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted. Example: And the effects from climate change are already extreme. 2. The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate. Example: In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. 3. An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. A region of the Earth. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: climate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”). Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪ.mɪt/, /ˈklaɪ.mət/ 1. To dwell. Labels: obsolete, poetic Example: The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!
Word: scripting language Part of Speech: noun 1. A computer language designed to be used as part of a larger application. Example: It's a great application, but the scripting language is hard to learn.
Word: pilgrimage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey. Example: In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj. Example: Rome, the mighty mother of the Christian faith, whose amphitheatres had been red with the blood of the saints, and where the pilgrimage and the miracle still testified to the truth. 2. A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event. Labels: broadly Example: Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met. Example: The Berghof, too, was largely reduced to ash, sparing it the indignity of the tour guides Hitler so dreaded, and leaving a place of pilgrimage for future generations of Hitler worshippers—exactly how Adolf Hitler would have wanted it.
Word: pilgrimage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim + -age. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To go on a pilgrimage. Example: in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.
Word: delegation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation. Pronunciation: /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/ 1. An act of delegating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Decentralisation of the railways was provided for by the establishment of Area Boards for each Region, which began to function on January 1, 1955, and by the extended delegation of powers to the Boards and their General Managers; […]. 2. A group of delegates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the American delegation 3. A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mere delegation of a performance imposes no duty on the delegate to perform. If the delegate performs the duty, the duty is discharged. If the delegate does not perform the duty, the duty is not discharged, but any claim of the obligee for breach is against the delegating party and not against the delegate.
Word: bice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bis, akin to Italian bigio (“light gray, tawny”). Doublet of beige. Pronunciation: /baɪs/ 1. A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A cobalt blue pigment. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: trouble and strife Part of Speech: noun 1. Wife. Labels: Australian, Cockney, slang
Word: sandarac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sandaraca, from Ancient Greek σανδαράκη (sandarákē, “realgar”). Pronunciation: /ˈsændəɹæk/ 1. Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. A white or yellow resin obtained from a north African tree (Tetraclinis articulata), and pulverized for pounce; probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sandarach is procured from common juniper; and incense from a juniper with yellow fruit. Example: Oil was also used for making varnish, by dissolving sandarac in it, and as the 'vernysshe' which appears so frequently in accounts was always bought by the pound, the term was evidently applied to the sandarac, or other similar resinous substance. 3. Any tree from the genus Tetraclinis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: plumber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”). The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation. Pronunciation: /ˈplʌmə/, /ˈplʊmə/, /ˈplʌməɾ/, /ˈplʌmɚ/, /ˈplɐmə/ 1. One who works in or with lead. Labels: dated 2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. Example: Mario and Luigi's profession is plumbers. Example: Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green party councillor, was elected as the party’s first MP in northern England after overturning Labour’s 13,000-vote majority. 3. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information. Example: It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.” 4. In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer. Labels: UK, informal 5. A urologist. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist. Example: Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.
Word: plumber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”). The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation. Pronunciation: /ˈplʌmə/, /ˈplʊmə/, /ˈplʌməɾ/, /ˈplʌmɚ/, /ˈplɐmə/ 1. To botch or ruin. Labels: US, slang, transitive Example: There is nothing to work him into a fine feeling of agony and despair like an exam scheduled for the next day, or a paper to write, or a concert in which he is to sing. Wish him the top of the morning when he is looking forward to one of these events, and then hear the woeful story of how badly he is going to be plumbered. Example: And yet she sent back his letters unopened and crashed down the telephone receiver on him with monotonous regularity. Well, he guessed it was his own fault. He’d plumbered the works beyond repair that first day. 2. To work as a plumber. Labels: informal, intransitive, rare Example: Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets. Example: Most of us were at the bottom end of the service industry, the ones who plastered or plumbered by day and painted or wrote at night. 3. To work on (something) as a plumber. Labels: informal, rare, transitive Example: PIPES PLUMBERED BY US stay plumbered till they wear out. No leaky joints or splitting follow our work. How about the pipes on your steam or hot water heater? Don’t they need repacking or perhaps replacing? HAVE US LOOK AT THEM NOW. Example: Water shows up where no water ever was seen before as the underground water table riseth and runneth over. The surface of the world is a chocolate pudding plumbered by an untutored bride who failed to read the directions. 4. To do, work, devise (something). Labels: rare, slang, transitive Example: Q. [Mr. Goodman] At the period of time we have spoken of, that strike settled down, did it not, in 1910 and 1911, and there was no strike? A. [Fred C. Schanberger] No. Q. What happened to the Vaudeville Managers’ Co-operative Association’s activities at that time? A. Oh, they kind of plumbered it along and I think I never heard of it so far as I am concerned until this second strike was started. Example: The other afternoon Silly here pilfered a melody from the classics, threw a little jazz at it and I plumbered some words. I got a copy of them with me now. Grab this while it’s hot, Joe. 5. To equip (something) with plumbing. Labels: informal, rare, transitive Example: How many times should a bathroom be “plumbered”? IT should be “plumbered” once more if it is an old bathroom of the tin-tub, iron-pipe era. Call in your plumber and have him rip out the old, unsanitary fixtures and the rusting iron or steel pipe and put in modern fixtures connected with good brass pipe that cannot rust. If you are building a new house it should be “plumbered” just once. Example: The silver grey timbers he turned inside out or rather put the weathered side in, heated and plumbered the place and, with his freezing apparatus can live off his chickens, ducks and garden-produce all the year round.
Word: plumbing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈplʌmɪŋ/ 1. The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Water was dripping from the ceiling, so we figured there was a problem with the plumbing. 2. The trade or occupation of a plumber. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor. Example: I am sure that there are those who dislike me […] but as a person, not for the sake of my plumbing. 4. Practical, concrete work serving to support other work. Labels: countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable Example: This is not scientific research as such: it's just plumbing. 5. A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments. Labels: countable 6. The genitourinary system. Labels: countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable 7. The set of Git commands, such as {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|git hash-object|inline="True"|lang="text"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}} and {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|git write-tree|inline="True"|lang="text"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}}, which control the low-level state of the repository, typically not intended to be used in ordinary situations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Coordinate term: porcelain Example: The {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|git(1)|inline="True"|lang="text"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}} manpage includes a list of all the Git commands separated into porcelain and plumbing. The distinction between plumbing and porcelain commands was mentioned as a tip in Chapter 4, Managing Your Worktree, when we encountered the first low-level plumbing command without a user-facing and user-friendly porcelain equivalent.
Word: grozing iron Part of Speech: noun 1. A plumber's tool for soldering lead pipes. 2. A tool used in making stained glass windows; a pair of groziers. Example: A hot iron rod, being drawn along the outline, produced a crack, which enabled the outlying portions of the glass to be broken off. The ragged edge so produced was then cleaned up with the grozing-iron.
Word: wattling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wattle + -ing. 1. An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material. 2. The act of making such a mesh. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: osier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French osier (“basket willow, withy”) Pronunciation: /ˈəʊzɪə/, /ˈəʊʒə/, /ˈoʊʒəɹ/ 1. A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America, considered the best willow for wickerwork. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any kind of willow. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 3. Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She pulled half a dozen fine fish out of the water within the reeds, killing each as she took it out, and threading it on a long osier that she carried. Then she knotted the osier, hung it on her arm, picked up the pitcher, and turned to come back. Example: Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.
Word: parget Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/, /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/ 1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues. Example: parget the outside of their houses. Example: the pargeted ceiling with pendants 2. To paint; to cover over. Labels: obsolete
Word: parget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/, /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/ 1. Gypsum. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners. 2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones. 3. Paint, especially for the face. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable