nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: triumph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French triumphe, from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”). Doublet of thriambus and trump. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ̯ʌmf/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷaɪ̯ʌɱf], [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪ̯ʌɱf], /ˈtɹaɪ̯əmf/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷaɪ̯əɱf] ~ [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷaɪ̯ɱ̩f] 1. A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the triumph of knowledge Example: After being defeated in three previous finals, Roger finally tasted triumph at this year's competition. 2. A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: We are ready, & our daughter heere, / In honour of whoſe Birth, theſe Triumphs are, / Sits heere like Beauties child, 4. A state of joy or exultation at success. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven. Example: Hercules from Spain / Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain. 5. A trump card. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Eros has Packt Cards with Cæsars, and false plaid my Glory Unto an Enemies triumph 6. A card game, also called trump. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander. Labels: Ancient-Rome, countable, historical, uncountable 8. A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Scorsese's latest film is a triumph. Example: This wedding cake is a triumph. 9. A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: triumph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin triumphō. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ̯ʌmf/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷaɪ̯ʌɱf], [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪ̯ʌɱf], /ˈtɹaɪ̯əmf/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷaɪ̯əɱf] ~ [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷaɪ̯ɱ̩f] 1. To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation. Example: England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate. Example: How long shall the wicked triumph? 2. To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties. Example: Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me And we will triumph ouer al the world. 3. To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy. Example: On this occasion, however, genius triumphed. Example: No one reckoned in advance that he had anything but a very testing job as host. He had to be tough, brave, witty, engaging – and decent. He triumphed on every count, thanks to sheer ability. 4. To be prosperous; to flourish. Example: where commerce triumphed on the favouring gales 5. To play a trump in a card game. Example: Of the kings and the queens that triumph in the cards
Word: trope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /tɹəʊp/, [tɹ̥əʊp], /tɹoʊp/ 1. To use, or embellish something with, a trope. Labels: transitive Example: The motive for troping the introit was twofold. Firstly there was the desire to add colour, mystical fervour, to the restrained, matter-of-fact Roman rite. Besides this psychological reason there was a practical one. The introit was sung by the choir while the celebrants proceeded towards the altar to officiate at mass. This part of the ritual lent itself very readily to embellishment and expansion. Example: The specific outcome of that 'story-telling' largely derives from how managers 'figure' their world – how they trope or 'figuratively turn' meanings. So, management decision(s) making is about figurative synthesis – troping literal meaning – as much as it might be analysis. 2. Senses relating chiefly to art or literature. Labels: transitive Example: "So clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fold" (4.192), [John] Milton writes, thus troping Satan's transgression as neither deception, seduction, nor disobedience, though he presents it in those terms elsewhere, but rather as robbery. Example: It suggests that the "masculine" (or exaggeratedly masculine) style of Death in the Afternoon [by Ernest Hemingway] is not a formal or immanent attribute of the text but must be "engendered" through acts of interpretation. And it suggests that what was at stake in this "engendering" was nothing less than the preservation of powerful forms of authentic masculinity in the face of a work that, puzzlingly, seemed to trope the very notions of masculinity and modernism. 3. Senses relating chiefly to art or literature. Labels: transitive Example: I troped the World Wide Web as an especially dangerous research venue. "Don't pick up anything unless you know where it has been," I said. 4. Senses relating chiefly to art or literature. Labels: transitive 5. To think or write in terms of tropes. Labels: intransitive Example: By acting in loco parentis, the written word performs its own usurpations of generating authority and generated meanings. Therefore, after the brothers demolish the authority of the word as written, they ar able to substitute alternative authorities: the word as spoken, the word as added, the word as troped, the word as altered, the word as hidden.
Word: troll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly: * from Middle English trol (“demon (?); sorcerer (?)”) [and other forms], from Old Norse trǫll (“conjurer, mage; witch”), from Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“supernatural being; demon, fiend; giant; monster”), probably from *trudaną (“to step on; to tread”) + *-ilą (suffix forming agent nouns); and * borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål troll, Swedish troll, or Danish trold, from Old Norse trǫll (see above). Doublet of droll and trow. Cognates * Danish fortrylle (“to bewitch”), trylle (“to conjure”) * Icelandic tröll * Middle High German trol, crewtrolle (“spook, wraith; ogre, monster”) * Norwegian fortrylle (“to bewitch”), trylle (“to conjure”) * Swedish trolla (“to conjure”) Pronunciation: /tɹɒl/, /tɹəʊl/, /tɹɑl/, /tɹoʊl/ 1. a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. Labels: European, also Example: He followed their advice, and rode through a rye-field, where the Trolls were unable to follow him, but in their exasperation cried after him, "The red cock shall crow over thy dwelling." And behold! his house stood in a blaze. Example: The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,—a kind of goblin men, with vast power of work and skilful production,—divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths, and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver. 2. a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. Labels: European, also, obsolete Example: The more usual appellation of the Dwarfs is Troll or Trold, a word originally significant of any evil spirit, giant monster, magician, or evil person; but now in a good measure divested of its ill senses, for the Trolls are not in general regarded as noxious or malignant beings. [...] They are obliging and neighbourly; freely lending and borrowing, and elsewise keeping up a friendly intercourse with mankind. 3. An ugly or unpleasant person. Labels: broadly, derogatory, slang Example: The way Torchie had talked about him, I expected him to be some kind of troll. But he could have passed for one of those actors who makes a couple of movies, gets real popular with the girls for a year or two, and then vanishes from sight. He had that kind of face. Example: In this work, the abject object—a sculpture of a fat, hairy woman—is heartbreakingly comforted by a text that claims the artist's love and desire to protect the 'ugly' troll. 4. An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops. Labels: broadly 5. A Michigander who lives on the mainland, i.e. not a resident of the Upper Peninsula, so named due to living south of the Mackinaw Bridge. Labels: broadly, informal Example: People from the Upper Peninsula—the UP, or the Yoop—some-times call citizens of northern Michigan trolls, because they live “below the bridge.”
Word: troublesome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trouble + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌbəlsəm/, /ˈtɹʌbl̩səm/ 1. Causing trouble or anxiety. Example: The computer has been very troublesome for me. It never works when I need to use it. Example: As was the case with the "Merchant Navy" locomotives, some of these features have proved troublesome, and this in turn at times has reflected on performance as well as on maintenance.
Word: trowel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaʊ.əl/ 1. A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. 2. A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc. Example: I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel? 3. A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Word: trowel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaʊ.əl/ 1. To apply (a substance) with a trowel. Labels: transitive Example: He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs. 2. To pass over with a trowel. Labels: transitive Example: Most finish coats are troweled smooth, but sometimes you will have to add cosmetic touches to make the patch match the surrounding plaster, texturing the surface randomly or uniformly with any of a variety of tools, ranging from sponges to special trowels. 3. To apply something heavily or unsubtly. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.
Word: truculent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌk.jʊ.lənt/, /ˈtɹʌk.jə.lənt/ 1. Cruel or savage. Example: The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare. Example: She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. 2. Defiant or uncompromising. Example: In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening. Example: Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan’s threats. 3. Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict. Example: She might pity herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want any quarrel; she blamed him for wanting one, but she could not help assuming a truculent attitude. Example: If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating. 4. Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh. Example: Voltaire is never either gross or truculent. Example: […] or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog. 5. Destructive; deadly. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: More or less truculent Plagues.
Word: trustee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trust + -ee. Pronunciation: /tɹʌsˈtiː/ 1. A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another. Example: The trust property is now managed by a trustee who holds formal title to the asset; the trustee can sell it, but only for the benefit of the beneficiary, and he must replace it with like assets. 2. A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
Word: trustee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From trust + -ee. Pronunciation: /tɹʌsˈtiː/ 1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee. Labels: transitive Example: to trustee an estate 2. To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. Labels: transitive
Word: tumbleweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tumble Proto-West Germanic *weud Old English wēod Middle English weed English weed English tumbleweed From tumble + weed. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌmbəlwiːd/, /ˈtʌmbəlˌwid/ 1. Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: Putting an ad in the local paper that Spock's Beard and Arena are in town will get you a tumbleweed response and some wasted revenue. Example: “Why do families argue?” may only induce the tumbleweed response. (Could you answer that question out of the blue?) 3. A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: turbid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek τύρβη (túrbē)bor.? Latin turba Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turbidusbor. Middle English turbide English turbid From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/ 1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid) Example: turbid water Example: turbid wine 2. Smoky or misty. Example: Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity. Example: Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist. 3. Unclear; confused; obscure. Example: Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo. Example: Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety.
Word: tutelage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tūtēla (“a watching, guardianship, protection”) + -age, from tuērī (“to watch, guard”). See tuition. Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈt͡ʃuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈtuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈtjuːtələd͡ʒ/, /ˈt͡ʃuːtələd͡ʒ/ 1. The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the king's right of seigniory and tutelage Example: The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. 2. The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Taught from their cradle-bed to know The bitter tutelage of wo, No idle fears in their bosoms glow, But pride and wrath in their dark eyes glance, As they lift their martyr'd fathers' lance. Example: Kirk has attempted to write the definitive explanation of myth, but he too has overlooked von Dechend and, therefore, cannot make much sense concerning "Inanna's Descent into the Nether World." But when from von Dechend's tutelage we realize that Inanna is identified with the planet Venus, then we understand that there is more going on in the myth than a dramatization of the empty storehouse in winter.
Word: tweak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak. Pronunciation: /twiːk/ 1. To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. Labels: transitive Example: to tweak the nose. 2. To adjust slightly; to fine-tune. Labels: informal, transitive Example: If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural. Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it. 3. To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc). Labels: transitive Example: Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say. Example: I know what kinds of intervals and melodies tweak people—I know how to make people's skin crawl, how to make them shiver. I can't say it works on all listeners. There are some people, such as overly trained composers and theorists ... 4. To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth. Labels: US, intransitive, slang 5. To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse. Labels: US, intransitive, slang 6. To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening. Labels: broadly, intransitive, slang Example: Am I tweaking or does 2020 feel like 6 months ago? Example: If you didn't think that was a good halftime show you're actually tweaking 7. From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile. Labels: uncommon
Word: tweak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak. Pronunciation: /twiːk/ 1. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. Example: a tweak of the nose 2. A slight adjustment or modification. Example: He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally. 3. Trouble; distress; tweag. 4. A prostitute. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: Thence to Bautree, as I came there, From the bushes near the lane, there Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting With a leering eye, and wanton: But my flesh I did subdue it Fearing lest my purse should rue it. 5. Methamphetamine. Labels: slang 6. A single inhalation of cocaine. Labels: slang 7. An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
Word: twine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Pronunciation: /twaɪn/ 1. A twist; a convolution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine: 2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…] 3. The act of twining or winding round. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm 4. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music. The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …
Word: twine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *twīnian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”). Pronunciation: /twaɪn/ 1. To weave together. Labels: transitive 2. To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. Labels: transitive Example: Let me twine Mine arms about that body […] Example: She was twining her fingers together. 3. To wind about; to embrace; to entwine. Labels: transitive Example: “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]” 4. To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine. Labels: intransitive Example: Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks. 5. To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. Labels: intransitive Example: As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline: 6. To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally. Labels: intransitive Example: Many plants twine. 7. To turn round; to revolve. Labels: obsolete Example: dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades 8. To change the direction of. Labels: obsolete Example: For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed, He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid, 9. To mingle; to mix. Labels: obsolete Example: As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.
Word: twine Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /twaɪn/ 1. Alternative form of twin (“to separate”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: twinge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English twengen (“to nip, pinch, tweak; to tear at”), from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, squeeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *twangijan (“to pinch, squeeze”), from Proto-Germanic *twangijaną (“to pinch, squeeze”), the causative form of *twinganą (“to press, squeeze”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to *þwangiz (“belt, strap, thong; pressure, restraint”) or *þwinganą, *þwinhaną (“to constrain; to force”) (whence German zwingen), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to press, pressure, squeeze”). However, the Oxford English Dictionary says there is no evidence for such a relationship. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /twɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch. Labels: intransitive Example: My side twinges if I sit too long. 2. To pull and twist. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: That ring-dove, who was cooing half-a-mile away, has hushed his moan; that flock of long-tailed titmice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones a few minutes since, are gone; and now there is not even a gnat to quiver in the slant sun-rays. 3. To pull and twist (someone or something); to pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, transitive Example: I tell thee, I do vſe to teare their hair, to kick them, and to tvvindge their noſes, if they be not carefull in auoiding me. Example: Thus Captaine Beſſus, thus; thus tvvinge your noſe, thus kicke, thus tread you. 4. To affect or torment (someone, their mind, or part of their body) with one or more sudden, pinching or sharp pains; to irritate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For the Chiefeſt cauſe of pain in VVounds of the nerves is the excrementitious matter ſhut up; vvhich being overlong detayned getteth to it ſelf a depraved quality, pulleth and tvvingeth the Nerves, and at length putrifieth. Example: The Gnat Charg'd into the Noſtrils of the Lyon, and there Tvving'd him, till he made him Tear himſelf vvith his Ovvn Pavvs. And in the Concluſion he Maſter'd the Lyon. 5. To prick or stimulate (one's conscience). Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: [N]othing did tvvinge my Conſcience like this: Every time that I thought of the Lord Jeſus, of his Grace, Love, Goodneſs, Kindneſs, Gentleneſs, Meekneſs, Death, Blood, Promiſes and bleſſed Exhortations, Comforts and Conſolations, it vvent to my Soul like a Svvord; […] Example: [I]f any of his father's old notions of economy by chance twinged his conscience, Belle very judiciously asked how he ever came to think of her for a wife?
Word: twinge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English twengen (“to nip, pinch, tweak; to tear at”), from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, squeeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *twangijan (“to pinch, squeeze”), from Proto-Germanic *twangijaną (“to pinch, squeeze”), the causative form of *twinganą (“to press, squeeze”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to *þwangiz (“belt, strap, thong; pressure, restraint”) or *þwinganą, *þwinhaną (“to constrain; to force”) (whence German zwingen), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to press, pressure, squeeze”). However, the Oxford English Dictionary says there is no evidence for such a relationship. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /twɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, especially one lasting for a short time. Example: I got a twinge in my arm. Example: Sir Boun[teous Progress]. You feele as it vvere a tvvinge my Lord? / Folly-vv [i.e., Richard Follywit]. I, ee'n a tvvinge, you ſay right. / Sir Boun. A pox diſcouer e'm, that tvvinge I feele too. 2. A turn, a twist. Labels: also, figuratively, rare Example: "Easy!" exclaimed Arthur, a half-contemptuous twinge in his lip, and added: "I take it that the simple question with me is, what is right, and what is best." 3. A sudden, sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of guilt or sadness; a pang, a paroxysm, a throe; also, a prick of the conscience. Labels: figuratively Example: a twinge of embarrassment Example: [T]he VVickedneſs of this old Villain ſtartles me, and gives me a tvvinge for my ovvn Sin; though it come far ſhort of his: […] 4. A sudden, sharp occurrence of something; a nip. Labels: figuratively 5. Synonym of earwig (“insect of the order Dermaptera”). Labels: UK, dialectal 6. An act of pulling and twisting; a pinch, a tweak, a twitch. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he ſpirite of Jeſus hath (as it were) nipped my herte alſo with a litell twynge, […] Example: For the tvvinge by th' noſe, / 'Tis certainly unſightly, ſo my tables ſaies, / But helpes againſt the head-ache, vvondrous ſtrangely.
Word: twofold Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two + -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig. Pronunciation: /ˈtuːfəʊld/, /ˈtufoʊld/, /ˈtʉːfəʉld/, /ˈtʉːfɐʉld/ 1. Double; duplicate; multiplied by two. Labels: not-comparable Example: The wheat produced a twofold harvest. 2. Having two parts, especially two different parts. Labels: not-comparable Example: a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument Example: 1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Pythian Ode III, page 65. Had I but landed there and brought unto him a twofold joy, first golden health and next this my song of triumph to be a splendour in his Pythian crown […]
Word: twofold Part of Speech: adv Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two + -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig. Pronunciation: /ˈtuːfəʊld/, /ˈtufoʊld/, /ˈtʉːfəʉld/, /ˈtʉːfɐʉld/ 1. In a double degree; doubly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: typo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of typographical error. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/ 1. A typographical error. Example: Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ Example: Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.
Word: typo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of typographical error. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/ 1. To make a typographical error. Labels: transitive Example: Tell your mother that that essay I wrote for THE WRITER, that mentions you, is now in print in the Aw-Ghost issue. But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist. I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.
Word: typo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of typographer. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/ 1. A compositor; a typographer. Labels: colloquial, countable, dated Example: On the highest, rear seat was James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri, and his Bride. Capitalise it, friend typo—that last word—word of words in the epiphany of life and love. Example: “Ever since I was twelve,” she said, “I have worked in a printing office where a celebrated London morning journal is put in type and goes to press. […] I am attached to a man in our office, to whom I shall be married some day. […] I am nineteen now, and have carried on with my ‘typo’ for nearly three years now.
Word: typo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/ 1. Alternative form of taipo. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unbend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unbenden, equivalent to un- + bend. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbɛnd/ 1. To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight. Example: to unbend a bow Example: He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis. 2. To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax. Example: to unbend the mind from study or care Example: You do unbend your noble strength. 3. To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use. 4. To cast loose or untie Example: Unbend the rope. 5. To cease to be bent; to become straight. 6. To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like Example: He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence. 7. to enjoy oneself; to become affable and free from formality Labels: archaic
Word: unborn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born. 1. Not yet born; yet to come; future. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby. 3. Existing without birth or beginning. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unborn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born. 1. A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation. Labels: countable Example: Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal. 2. Unborn offspring collectively. Labels: uncountable Example: Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
Word: uncanny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkæni/ 1. Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird. Example: He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor. Example: An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful. 2. Careless. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: uncanny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkæni/ 1. Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort. Example: This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself. Example: As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.
Word: uncap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + cap. Piecewise doublet of uncape. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkæp/ 1. To remove a physical cap or cover from. Labels: transitive Example: Then, with an opener, she uncapped both drinks. 2. To remove a cap or limit from. Labels: transitive Example: to uncap the frame rate of a game console emulator 3. To take off one's cap. Labels: intransitive
Word: underlet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English let English underlet From under- + let. 1. To let below the value. 2. Synonym of sublet.
Word: underlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English let English underlet From under- + let. 1. Synonym of sublease. Labels: informal
Word: underplay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English play English underplay From under- + play. 1. The act of underplaying.
Word: underplay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English play English underplay From under- + play. 1. To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part. Labels: transitive 2. To make something seem less important than it really is. Labels: transitive Example: As a working-class person I want to tell Tucker and any other gay and lesbian activists who call themselves socialists and so should certainly know better, that when they underplay survival issues and don't acknowledge the faultline under their feet that is class in this society, it hurts me right in the gut. 3. To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage. Labels: transitive
Word: underset Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”). 1. To set under or beneath. Labels: transitive Example: How it was shaped up with proper foreway and under-set for dished wheels, or how iron "clouts" (with "clout-nails") were carefully fitted into it to take the wear — is all but gone from my memory, as indeed it was hardly worth storing [...] 2. To prop or support. Example: being a company at that time , and well underset with rich men , and good order Example: Unless posts are underset in very steep mines they are apt to fall out before the pressure of the roof has tightened them. Posts are sometimes too much underset, owing to their being too long.
Word: underset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”). 1. undercurrent (of water)
Word: uneasy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unesy, equivalent to un- + easy. Merged with Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”). See uneath. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈiːzi/ 1. Not easy; difficult. Labels: rare
Word: uneasy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unesy, unaisie (“not comforting”), from un- + esy (“comfortable, at ease”). More at easy. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈiːzi/ 1. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety. Example: I've been uneasy about your friend ever since I met him. Are you sure we can trust him? Example: Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. 2. Not easy in manner; constrained Example: He was behaving in an uneasy way. 3. Causing discomfort or constraint
Word: unearth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + earth. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɜː(ɹ)θ/ 1. To drive or draw from the earth. Example: to unearth a fox or a badger 2. To dig up. Labels: broadly Example: Modern archaeological excavations have unearthed the remains of a large number of ancient cities that lay buried deep under the sands for more than a thousand years, along the trade route from Bactria to China passing between the Tien Shan mountains in the north and the desert of Taklamakan in the south. Example: Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed. 3. To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment. Example: Near-synonym: discover Example: to unearth a secret
Word: unhand 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- Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand English unhand From un- + hand. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈhænd/ 1. To release from the hand; to let go. Example: He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he. Example: “Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer
Word: unhealth Part of Speech: noun 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 health English unhealth From un- + health. 1. Lack or absence of health; unhealthiness; unsoundness; infirmity; disease. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: unicellular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Latin ūni-der. English uni- English cellular English unicellular From uni- + cellular. Pronunciation: /ˌjuːnɪˈsɛljʊlə(ɹ)/ 1. Describing any microorganism that has a single cell. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unicellular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Latin ūni-der. English uni- English cellular English unicellular From uni- + cellular. Pronunciation: /ˌjuːnɪˈsɛljʊlə(ɹ)/ 1. A single-celled organism; a unicell. Example: Among unicellulars, the rate of increase is beyond belief. Example: In unicellulars the uncoupling of the various nutritional and energy sources is much more widely spread.
Word: uniformitarian Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌjuːnɪˌfɔːmɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /ˌjunɪˌfɔɹmɪˈtɛɹi.ən/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
Word: uniformitarian Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌjuːnɪˌfɔːmɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /ˌjunɪˌfɔɹmɪˈtɛɹi.ən/ 1. One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.
Word: unkind Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English unkynde; equivalent to un- + kind. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkaɪnd/ 1. Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. Example: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart; Example: Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind: When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe, Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow: 2. Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. Labels: obsolete Example: […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye. Example: Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old, Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt Them to be theirs; 3. Having no race or kindred; childless. Labels: obsolete Example: O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.
Word: unlay 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 lay English unlay From un- + lay. 1. To untwist. Labels: transitive Example: to unlay a rope
Word: unleash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder. Proto-Germanic *anda- Proto-West Germanic *anda- Old English and- Old English on- Middle English on- English un- English leash English unleash From un- + leash. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈliʃ/ 1. To free from a leash, or as from a leash. Labels: transitive Example: He unleashed his dog in the park. Example: Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s. 2. To let go; to release. Labels: figuratively Example: He unleashed his fury. Example: It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust. 3. To precipitate; to bring about. Labels: figuratively Example: Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession. Example: People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?
Word: unlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlaɪk/ 1. Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike. Example: The brothers are quite unlike each other. Example: It may be conjectured with some confidence that it is very unlike what is called the Wild and sometimes the Woolly West, which I did not see. 2. Unequal. Example: They contributed in unlike amounts. Example: The earth is unlike the wire in size, resistance, and carrying capacity. Hence, telephone service calk for two wires of equal size, resistance, and carrying capacity. 3. Not likely; improbable; unlikely. Labels: archaic
Word: unlike Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlaɪk/ 1. Different from; not in a like or similar manner. Example: The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before. Example: Hal kept pace beside her in his ambling, arm-swinging way. He walked unlike other men she knew, like someone who had never carried a briefcase. 2. In contrast with; as opposed to. Example: Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home. Example: Canadians can not bring a "national" piece of litigation, unlike what can be done in the United States. 3. Not typical of one's character or personality. Example: Being late is unlike him.
Word: unlike Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants). Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlaɪk/ 1. Something that is not like something else; something different. Example: 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science If the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes.
Word: unlike Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlaɪk/ 1. To dislike. Example: The incounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge, so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the ground to nourish or raise this plant, but the ill season also of the weather, by which it hath been checked and blasted. Example: We are not insensible of the fact that these principles ever will be unliked by the men of tho world 2. To cancel a "like" action. Example: I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist. Example: Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state. 3. To cancel a "like" action. Labels: broadly Example: My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.