nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: me Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”. Pronunciation: /miː/, /mi/, /mɪ/, /meɪ/, /me/ 1. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self. Example: “Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes. That’s the very point—You can’t be knowing the thing you don’t know, can you?” “No.” “Which me do you know?” “The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,” answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. […] “Do you know the other me as well?” “No. I can’t. I shouldn’t like to.” “There it is. You don’t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?” “Yes.” “And you are sure there can’t be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the me you don’t know must be the same as the me you do know—else there would be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the other me you don’t know must be as kind as the me you do know?” Example: The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?
Word: me Part of Speech: det Etymology: A spelling representing the pronunciation (/miː/), which is the older pronunciation (see Middle English mi (“my”); Middle English me (“me”) was pronounced /meː/, similar to modern May); the Great Vowel Shift in the Middle Ages changed /iː/ to /aɪ/, but some dialects retained or reinnovated /iː/ in this word. Pronunciation: /miː/ 1. Alternative form of my. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative, colloquial, regional Example: There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!) Example: I want me money back!
Word: me Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mi (“third note of a major scale”) + -e (“flat”), from Glover's solmization, Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon. 1. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.
Word: me Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English me, an unstressed phonetic reduction of men, man (pronouns; q. v.). Compare German man (“one, you”, indefinite pronoun). 1. Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone. Labels: Early, Modern, obsolete
Word: him Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪm/, /əm/, [ɪ̈m] 1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. Labels: objective, personal, pronoun Example: […]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf. Example: ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers. 2. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. Labels: objective, personal, pronoun Example: She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak. 3. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. Labels: objective, personal, pronoun Example: ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’ 4. As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction. Labels: colloquial, objective, personal, pronoun, uncommon Example: Now him and Bernie are best friends. Example: He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup. 5. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be). Labels: objective, personal, pronoun Example: Who was there? —Him. Example: Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.) 6. Used reflexively: (to) himself. Labels: archaic, objective, personal, pronoun Example: Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them. Example: Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; [...] But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil. 7. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. Labels: objective, personal, pronoun Example: Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough. Example: Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him. 8. A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity. Labels: objective, personal, pronoun, slang Example: Stop trying that, you're not him bro. Example: Bro thinks he's him.
Word: him Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪm/, /əm/, [ɪ̈m] 1. A male person or animal. Labels: informal Example: I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. Example: […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
Word: them Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim. Pronunciation: /ˈðɛm/, [ˈðʌm], [ˈðɪm], /ðəm/ 1. A non-binary person. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, sometimes
Word: them Part of Speech: det Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim. Pronunciation: /ˈðɛm/, [ˈðʌm], [ˈðɪm], /ðəm/ 1. Those. Labels: dialectal Example: Gimme two of them yellow ones. Example: How would you like a scrummage, Andy, with them Scotchmen that stole your mother's chickens this morning?
Word: Taiwanese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Taiwan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Taiwanese From Taiwan + -ese. Pronunciation: /taɪwəˈniːz/, /ˌtaɪwɑˈniːz/ 1. Of or pertaining to Taiwan or its people, culture, language/s, etc. Example: We know the “ethnic” distribution between Taiwanese and mainland Chinese households in each district (ch’ü) of Taipei. In 1963, the percent of Taiwanese households varied from only 28.8% in Taan district to 86% in Chiencheng district. In 1991, Taan again had the lowest percent of Taiwanese households (63%) and Tatung the highest (86%). Example: As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the first reports came in of China’s invasion of the Taiwanese island of Peikan, just off the coast of Fujian.
Word: Taiwanese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Taiwan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Taiwanese From Taiwan + -ese. Pronunciation: /taɪwəˈniːz/, /ˌtaɪwɑˈniːz/ 1. People from Taiwan. Labels: collective, in-plural, plural, plural-only Example: Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling. Example: Taiwan was the touchstone for both sides. We felt that we should not and could not abandon the Taiwanese; we were committed to Taiwan's right to exist as an independent nation.
Word: Taiwanese Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Taiwan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Taiwanese From Taiwan + -ese. Pronunciation: /taɪwəˈniːz/, /ˌtaɪwɑˈniːz/ 1. The variant of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan, the native language of the Hoklo. Example: Language. Mandarin is the official language, but many people speak Taiwanese (a variant of a southern Chinese dialect) and Japanese. The younger generation and those engaged in the tourist trade speak some English. Example: The gay and lesbian movement in Taiwan is composed largely of students and other intellectuals and therefore is largely Mandarin-speaking, middle-class, and young. Koa-a-hi actresses, by contrast, almost always speak Taiwanese as their primary language, are rarely educated beyond elementary school, and can barely make ends meet.
Word: Canadian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat- Laurentian kanatader. French Canadabor. English Canada Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Canadian From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Pronunciation: /kəˈneɪ.di.ən/, [kʰəˈneɪ.ɾi.ən] 1. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people. Example: After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed. 2. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English. Labels: informal 3. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian French. Labels: informal, nonstandard
Word: Canadian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat- Laurentian kanatader. French Canadabor. English Canada Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Canadian From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Pronunciation: /kəˈneɪ.di.ən/, [kʰəˈneɪ.ɾi.ən] 1. A native or inhabitant of Canada. Example: Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody! 2. Canadian national championship. Labels: informal Example: “If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday. Example: "When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said. 3. canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)
Word: Canadian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat- Laurentian kanatader. French Canadabor. English Canada Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Canadian From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Pronunciation: /kəˈneɪ.di.ən/, [kʰəˈneɪ.ɾi.ən] 1. The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English. Labels: informal 2. An epoch from to million years ago, a subdivision of the Ordovician.
Word: Canadian Part of Speech: name Etymology: A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river, while the Australian suburb is named after an 1850's Canadian gold digger known as Swift. Pronunciation: /kəˈneɪ.di.ən/, [kʰəˈneɪ.ɾi.ən] 1. The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River. 2. A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. 3. A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River. 4. A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia.
Word: talent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English talent, from Old English talente, borrowed from the plural of Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”). Compare Old High German talenta (“talent”). Later figurative senses are from Old French talent (“talent, will, inclination, desire”), derived from the biblical Parable of the Talents. Pronunciation: /ˈtæl.ənt/, /ˈtal.ənt/, [ˈtäl.ənt] 1. A marked natural ability or skill. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public. Example: He has a real talent for drawing. 2. People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening. Example: And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly. 3. One, especially a woman, from a particular place or area, judged by their attractiveness. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs. Example: I went down to the beach front, of course, for that was the first thing that all Vaalies did: to look at the sea and to check the talent on the beach. 4. A historical unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 5. A desire or inclination for something. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: bepowder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English powder English bepowder From be- + powder. 1. To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: graft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft/, /ɡɹæft/ 1. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. 2. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. 3. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
Word: graft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft/, /ɡɹæft/ 1. To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. Labels: transitive 2. To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. Labels: intransitive 3. To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. Labels: transitive 4. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union. Labels: transitive Example: And graft my love immortal on thy fame! Example: Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries. 5. To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns. Labels: transitive 6. To form a graft polymer
Word: graft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch graft (“canal”), from graven (“dig”). The contemporary senses “depth of digging blade” and “narrow spade” may have a separate history, but this is uncertain. Compare Old English grafet (“trench”), Old Norse grǫft (“the action of digging”). Attested from the 17th century. Doublet of gracht. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft/, /ɡɹæft/ 1. A ditch, a canal. Labels: obsolete 2. The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel. Example: […] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…] 3. A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
Word: graft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft/, /ɡɹæft/ 1. Corruption in official life. Labels: uncountable 2. Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life. Labels: uncountable 3. A criminal’s special branch of practice. Labels: slang, uncountable 4. A con job. Labels: countable 5. A cut of the take (money). Labels: countable, slang 6. A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. Labels: US, uncountable Example: If policemen take graft now from the liquor dealers for the privilege of keeping open on Sunday, what is to prevent them, if this bill is passed, from taking graft from the liquor men for the privilege of selling liquor before 1 p.m. on Sunday[…]? 7. Work; labor requiring effort. Labels: UK, colloquial, uncountable Example: We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done. Example: Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal. 8. A job or trade. Labels: UK, colloquial, countable
Word: graft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft/, /ɡɹæft/ 1. To work hard. Labels: colloquial, intransitive 2. To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
Word: handicap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap. Pronunciation: /ˈhændikæp/ 1. Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Age is often a handicap. Example: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard. 2. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters. Example: A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook. 3. An individual's physical or mental disadvantage or disability. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An old card game, similar to lanterloo. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. 6. Synonym of hand-in-cap (“old English trading game”). Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: handicap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap. Pronunciation: /ˈhændikæp/ 1. To encumber with a handicap in any contest. Labels: transitive 2. To place at disadvantage. Labels: broadly, figuratively, transitive Example: The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience. 3. To estimate betting odds. Example: Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.
Word: polydactylous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English polydactyl Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English polydactylous From polydactyl + -ous. 1. Having more than the normal number of digits. Labels: not-comparable Example: A polydactylous cat may have six or more toes on its paw. Example: Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
Word: polydactyl Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos), equivalent to poly- + -dactyl. 1. Polydactylous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: polydactyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos), equivalent to poly- + -dactyl. 1. A polydactylous animal.
Word: pyramis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English piramis, from Latin pȳramis, from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɹəmɪs/ 1. A pyramid. Labels: obsolete Example: And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut. Example: For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts[…]
Word: pyramidoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pyramid + -oid. Pronunciation: /pɪˈɹæmɪdɔɪd/ 1. A solid resembling a pyramid.
Word: pyramoid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pyramidoid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unvicar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English vicar English unvicar From un- + vicar. 1. To deprive of the position or office of a vicar. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: upbreed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + breed. Pronunciation: /ʌpˈbɹiːd/ 1. To rear, or bring up; to nurse. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: upbred in a foreign country
Word: vox humana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vōx hūmāna. 1. An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice. Example: Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells. Example: While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof. It had thirty-nine keys and two stops — vox humana and vox celeste.^([sic])
Word: tooth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Germanic *tanþs Proto-West Germanic *tanþ Old English tōþ Middle English toth English tooth From Middle English toth, tothe, tooth, from Old English tōþ, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine. Related to tusk. Cognates Cognate with Scots tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian Ter, teän, tosch, toske, tuis, tus, tusch, täis (“tooth”), Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Bavarian Zåhn (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Limburgish tandj (“tooth”), Luxembourgish Zant (“tooth”), Vilamovian cōn (“tooth”), Yiddish צאָן (tson, “tooth”), Danish and Swedish tand (“tooth”), Faroese tonn (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Norn *tann, *tant (“tooth”), Norwegian Bokmål tann (“tooth”), Norwegian Nynorsk tann, tonn (“tooth”), Breton and Welsh dant (“tooth”), Cornish dans (“tooth”), Irish déad (“tooth”), Scottish Gaelic deud (“tooth”), Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and Spanish diente (“tooth”), Aragonese dien (“tooth”), Catalan and French dent (“tooth”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese dente (“tooth”), Romanian dinte (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Lithuanian dantis (“tooth”), Belarusian дзясна́ (dzjasná, “gum”), Bulgarian and Russian десна (desna, “gum”), Czech dáseň (“gum”), Polish dziąsło (“gum”), Serbo-Croatian dȇsni (“gum”), Slovak ďasno (“gum”), Slovene dlesni (“gum”), Ukrainian я́сна (jásna, “gum”), Armenian ատամ (atam, “tooth”), Ossetian дӕндаг (dændag, “tooth”), Baluchi دنتان (dantán), دتھاں (datʰāⁿ, “tooth”), Central Kurdish ددان (ddan, “tooth”), Northern Kurdish didan, diran (“tooth”), Persian دندان (dandân, “tooth”), Sanskrit दत् (dat), दन्त (danta, “tooth”). Pronunciation: /tuːθ/, /tʊθ/, /tuθ/, /tʉθ/ 1. To provide or furnish with teeth. Example: His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […] 2. To indent; to jag. Example: to tooth a saw 3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels. Example: Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
Word: wisdom tooth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wisdom + tooth, calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστῆρες (sōphronistêres, “prudent or self-controlled ones (i.e. teeth)”), because they arrive approximately when one has reached the age of prudence or wisdom. Compare also German Weisheitszahn (“wisdom tooth”), Danish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Swedish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Icelandic vísdómstönn (“wisdom tooth”), Dutch verstandskies (“wisdom tooth”, literally “intellect molar”), German Low German Verstandskuus (“wisdom tooth”, literally “wisdom molar”). Chinese 智齒 /智齿 (zhìchǐ), Russian зуб мудрости (zub mudrosti), Hebrew שן בינה (shen biná) and Finnish viisaudenhammas also mean “tooth of wisdom”. 1. One of the four (one upper and one lower on each side) rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24.
Word: wisdom teeth Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wisdom tooth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier, Híer (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Cimbrian haar, har (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German and Low German Haar (“hair”), Luxembourgish Hoer (“hair”), Mòcheno hor (“hair”), Yiddish האָר (hor, “hair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hår (“hair”), Faroese and Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”). The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛə/, [ˈhɛə̯], [ˈhɛː], /ˈhɛː/, /ˈheː/ 1. To remove the hair from. Labels: singular, transitive, usually Example: Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour. Example: By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours. 2. To grow hair (where there was a bald spot). Labels: intransitive, singular, usually Example: He has haired up and healed over. Example: It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect. 3. To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair Labels: singular, transitive, usually Example: THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class. Example: So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us. 4. To string the bow for a violin. Labels: singular, usually Example: The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it. Example: The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection. A bowmaker has a different attitude toward hairing than a repairman and this I believe reflects the type of the finished job that is done.
Word: ear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear From Middle English eare, eere, ere, eyr, ire, yere, ȝhere, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (“ear”), from *h₂ew- (“to perceive”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian uaar, uar, uur (“ear”), Saterland Frisian Oor (“ear”), West Frisian ear (“ear”), Alemannic German Oor (“ear”), Central Franconian Uhr (“ear”), Dutch oor (“ear”), German Ohr (“ear”), Low German Ohr, Oor, Or, our, Ur (“ear”), Luxembourgish Ouer (“ear”), Vilamovian ür (“ear”), Yiddish אויער (oyer, “ear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre (“ear”), Elfdalian ära (“ear”), Faroese oyra (“ear”), Icelandic eyra (“ear”), Jamtish ǿre (“ear”), Norwegian Nynorsk øra, øre, øyra, øyre (“ear”), Swedish öra (“ear”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍉 (ausō, “ear”); also Old Irish áu, ó (“ear”), Latin auris, ōris (“ear”), Greek αφτί (aftí), αυτί (aftí, “ear”), Albanian vesh (“ear; handle”), Latvian auss (“ear”), Lithuanian ausis (“ear”), Belarusian ву́ха (vúxa, “ear”), Bulgarian ухо́ (uhó, “ear”), Czech, Polish, Silesian, and Slovak ucho (“ear”), Kashubian ùchò (“ear”), Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian wucho (“ear”), Macedonian уво (uvo, “ear”), Polabian vaux’ü (“ear”), Russian у́хо (úxo, “ear”), Serbo-Croatian у̏во, у̏хо, ȕho, ȕvo (“ear”), Slovene uho (“ear”), Slovincian wùchô (“ear”), Ukrainian ву́хо (vúxo, “ear”), Armenian ունկ (unk, “ear”), Persian هوش (hōš / huš, “intellect; intelligence; understanding”), Sanskrit उषस् (uṣas, “outer passage of the ear”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪə̯/, [ˈɪː], [ˈiːə], /ˈɛː/, [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯] 1. To take in with the ears; to hear. Labels: humorous, transitive Example: I eared her language. 2. To hold by the ears. Labels: transitive Example: Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold. Example: The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two men eared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him.
Word: ear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱos Proto-Germanic *ahaz Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ Old English ēar Middle English er English ear From Middle English er, ere, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Cognate with Dutch aar, German Ähre, and West Frisian ier; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), and Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge. Pronunciation: /ˈɪə̯/, [ˈɪː], [ˈiːə], /ˈɛː/, [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯] 1. The fruiting body of a grain plant. Labels: countable Example: He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
Word: ear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱos Proto-Germanic *ahaz Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ Old English ēar Middle English er English ear From Middle English er, ere, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Cognate with Dutch aar, German Ähre, and West Frisian ier; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), and Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge. Pronunciation: /ˈɪə̯/, [ˈɪː], [ˈiːə], /ˈɛː/, [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯] 1. To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does. Labels: intransitive Example: This corn ears well.
Word: ear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English eren, from Old English erian, from Proto-West Germanic *arjan, from Proto-Germanic *arjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪə̯/, [ˈɪː], [ˈiːə], /ˈɛː/, [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯] 1. To plough. Labels: archaic Example: That power I have, discharge; and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, For I have none. Example: And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley
Word: nose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”). See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”). Pronunciation: [nəʊ̯z], [nəwz], [noːz], [noʊ̯z], [nəʉ̯z] 1. A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. Example: She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes. Example: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…]. 2. A snout, the nose of an animal. 3. The tip of an object. Example: the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane Example: We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff. 4. The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece. 5. The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race. Example: Red Rum only won by a nose. 6. A perfumer. Example: Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant. 7. The sense of smell. Example: We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master. 8. Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine. Labels: idiomatic 9. The skill in recognising bouquet. Example: It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose. 10. Skill at finding information. Labels: broadly Example: A successful tabloid reporter has a nose for gossip. Example: I got to know one or two other girls who wrote, and they told me that my sort of stuff would be all right when I got into the peerage or became a leading lady, but if I wanted to live meanwhile it was absolutely necessary to cultivate a "news-nose". 11. The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop Labels: also, idiomatic Example: They had a nose around the abandoned property. 12. A downward projection from a cornice. 13. An informer. Labels: slang Example: […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]
Word: nose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”). See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”). Pronunciation: [nəʊ̯z], [nəwz], [noːz], [noʊ̯z], [nəʉ̯z] 1. To move cautiously by advancing its front end. Labels: intransitive Example: The ship nosed through the minefield. Example: Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did. 2. To snoop. Labels: also, ambitransitive, idiomatic, intransitive Example: She was nosing around other people’s business. 3. To detect by smell or as if by smell. Labels: transitive Example: […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby. Example: Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.] 4. To push with one's nose; to nuzzle. Labels: transitive Example: [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […] 5. To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out. Labels: transitive 6. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang. Labels: transitive Example: to nose a prayer Example: It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter. 7. To furnish with a nose. Labels: transitive Example: to nose a stair tread 8. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to. Labels: transitive 9. To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive Labels: intransitive 10. To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction. Labels: intransitive Example: The plane is nosing up! Example: We have to get it nosing down.
Word: mouth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tó-s Proto-Germanic *munþaz Proto-West Germanic *munþ Old English mūþ Middle English mouth English mouth From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun. Pronunciation: /maʊθ/, /mʌʊθ/, [məʊθ], /muːθ/ 1. The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested. Example: "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor. Example: She kissed him on the mouth. 2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river. Example: The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn. Example: The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli. 3. An outlet, aperture or orifice. Example: But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. Example: ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’ 4. A loud or overly talkative person. Labels: slang Example: My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up. 5. A gossip. Labels: slang Example: Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth. 6. The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. 7. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. Labels: obsolete Example: Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. 8. Speech; language; testimony. Labels: obsolete Example: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established 9. A wry face; a grimace; a mow. Labels: obsolete Example: Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
Word: tongue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tongue, a late spelling of tong(e), tung(e), from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā (“tongue”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Cognate with Dutch tong (“tongue”), German Zunge (“tongue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tunge (“tongue”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tunga (“tongue”), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō, “tongue”), Irish teanga (“tongue”), Asturian and Catalan llengua (“tongue”), Aragonese luenga (“tongue”), French langue (“tongue”), Galician, Italian, and Latin lingua (“tongue”), Leonese llingua (“tongue”), Mirandese lhéngua (“tongue”), Portuguese língua (“tongue”), Spanish lengua (“tongue”), Belarusian and Russian язык (jazyk, “tongue”), Bulgarian ези́к (ezík, “tongue”), Czech and Slovak jazyk (“tongue”), Macedonian јазик (jazik, “tongue”), Polish język (“tongue”), Serbo-Croatian jèzik (“tongue”), Slovene jézik (“tongue”), Ukrainian язи́к (jazýk, “tongue”), Persian زبان (zabân, “tongue”), Sanskrit जि॒ह्वा (jihvā́, “tongue”). Doublet of langue and lingua. The expected modern spelling, both phonetically and etymologically, would be tung. Using ⟨on⟩ for ⟨un⟩ was fairly common in Middle English; compare e.g. yong (“young”). The final ⟨gue⟩ arose to prevent tonge being misread with a soft /dʒ/. However, this spelling only became common at a time when the final ⟨e⟩ was already largely silent, so it is not clear why it was not simply dropped instead. Perhaps the spelling was influenced directly by French langue (“tongue”). Pronunciation: /tʌŋ/, /tʊŋɡ/, /tɒŋɡ/, /tɐŋ/ 1. On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive). Labels: ambitransitive Example: Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece. 2. To manipulate with the tongue. Labels: transitive Example: [T]he cattle tongued at the damp grass, licking rather than grazing. […] 3. To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex. Labels: slang, sometimes, transitive, vulgar Example: Hot I tongued her. She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me. Example: I was tonguing her ear and serenading her in a passionate whisper, mimicking Elvis, mimicking Joey. 4. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections. Example: a soil horizon that tongues into clay 5. To join by means of a tongue and groove. Example: to tongue boards together 6. To talk; to prate. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 7. To speak; to utter. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: ’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not; 8. To chide; to scold. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: How might she tongue me! 9. To flense Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: elbow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛlbəʊ̯/, [ˈæ̝wbɐw], /ˈɛlboʊ̯/, [ˈɛɫboʊ̯], /ˈe̞lbəʉ̯/ 1. The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. Example: Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes. Example: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics." 2. Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. Labels: broadly Example: the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back Example: The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […] 3. A detective. Labels: US, dated Example: "An elbow, huh?" putting all the contempt he could in his voice; and somehow any synonym for detective seems able to hold a lot of contempt. 4. Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane. 5. A hit, strike, or blow with the elbow. Example: In the fair dinkum department that elbow prop Barrie McDermott threw into the face of Paul Sironen deserved to get him four months on the side-lines[.] Example: England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef. 6. Two nearby crossings of a rope.