nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: clapboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clapholt, partial translation from Middle Low German klappholt or Middle Dutch klapholt (“barrel stave”), from klappen (“to crack”) + holt (“wood”). The part "holt" was later calqued to "board". Pronunciation: /ˈklæpˌbɔːd/, /ˈklæbəd/, /ˈklæpˌbɔɹd/, /ˈklæbəɹd/ 1. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Its exterior is covered with clapboards stained dark brown. 2. Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding. Labels: uncountable Example: As the train wound along the river valleys through western Pennsylvania the scenery grew more rugged and the painted houses of Lancaster County gave way to dirty clapboard dwellings and shack homes clinging to the mountainside. Example: Bond turned to the window and watched the pretty clapboard houses slip by as they approached Trenton. He loved trains and he looked forward with excitement to the rest of the journey. 3. An oak board of a size used for barrel staves. Labels: UK, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: clapboard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clapholt, partial translation from Middle Low German klappholt or Middle Dutch klapholt (“barrel stave”), from klappen (“to crack”) + holt (“wood”). The part "holt" was later calqued to "board". Pronunciation: /ˈklæpˌbɔːd/, /ˈklæbəd/, /ˈklæpˌbɔɹd/, /ˈklæbəɹd/ 1. To cover with clapboards. Labels: transitive Example: to clapboard the sides of a house
Word: clapboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clap + board. Pronunciation: /ˈklæpˌbɔː(ɹ)d/ 1. A clapperboard; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
Word: -ric Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Northern Middle English -rike (Southern -riche), from Old English -rīċe (“-ric”), from rīċe (“realm, domain, jurisdiction”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkiją (“realm, power”). Cognate with Dutch -rijk, German -reich. 1. A termination denoting jurisdiction, or a district over which government is exercised. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: bishopric Example: archbishopric
Word: interplate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Vulgar Latin *platta Old French platebor. Middle English plate English plate English interplate From inter- + plate. 1. between tectonic plates Labels: not-comparable
Word: linguolabial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English linguo- English labial English linguolabial From linguo- + labial. 1. articulated with the tongue and the upper lip. Labels: not-comparable
Word: linguolabial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English linguo- English labial English linguolabial From linguo- + labial. 1. A speech sound that is articulated with the tongue and the upper lip.
Word: labiodental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin labium Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English labio- Middle French dentalbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Italic *dents Latin dēns Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin dentālisbor. English dental English labiodental From labio- + dental. Pronunciation: /ˌleɪ.bi.əʊˈdɛn.təl/, /ˌleɪ.bi.oʊˈdɛn.təl/ 1. articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth. Labels: not-comparable Example: /f/ and /v/ are labiodental consonants.
Word: labiodental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin labium Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English labio- Middle French dentalbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Italic *dents Latin dēns Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin dentālisbor. English dental English labiodental From labio- + dental. Pronunciation: /ˌleɪ.bi.əʊˈdɛn.təl/, /ˌleɪ.bi.oʊˈdɛn.təl/ 1. A speech sound articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth.
Word: dentolabial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dento- + labial. Pronunciation: /dɛntəˈleɪbɪəɫ/ 1. Articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dentolabial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dento- + labial. Pronunciation: /dɛntəˈleɪbɪəɫ/ 1. A speech sound articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
Word: bidental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Middle French dentalbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Italic *dents Latin dēns Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin dentālisbor. English dental English bidental From bi- + dental. 1. Having only two teeth. Labels: not-comparable 2. articulated with both the upper and lower teeth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Finally, a position of almost bidental contact can be a paralinguistic voice qualifier or secondary articulation we should acknowledge as a dentalization, that is, the articulation of vowels and consonants 'through one's teeth', which can make the labial kinesic component of normal articulation be still present and vary from lip rounding or protrusion with close front vowels to horizontal distension with close back vowels. Example: dental percussives, produced by clicking maxillary and mandibular teeth together at different speeds, but typically as a bidental chatter, that is, in a repeated rapid way (as in chattering from cold or fear); with bidental percussives resonating in the oral cavity musical notes can be played up and down the scale in various keys.
Word: bidental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Middle French dentalbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Italic *dents Latin dēns Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin dentālisbor. English dental English bidental From bi- + dental. 1. An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia. Example: The letter proceeds to state that, besides this monster, there is a great variety of remains of another new order of animals, which Mr. Bain has deginated as bidentals, from their possessing only two teeth, or rather tusks, in the upper jaw, and none whatever in the lower jaw. Example: That these Bidentals, as Mr. Owen more comprehensively calls them, are amongst the earliest reptiles, has been somewhat rashly assumed.
Word: bidental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bidental. 1. In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed. Labels: historical Example: The bidental was a place that had been struck with lightning, and afterwards expiated by the erection of an altar and the sacrifice of sheep, hostiis bidentibus; from which last circumstance it took its name. Example: The peculiar monument called bidental has a decided place in the question of a circular templum. The bidental was the consecrated burial-place of the thunderbolt of Jove on the spot where the bolt was supposed to have buried itself in the ground.
Word: velar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēlāris, from vēlum (“sail; veil, awning”). By surface analysis, vel(um) + -ar. Pronunciation: /ˈviːlə/, /ˈveɪlə/, /ˈviːlɚ/, /ˈveɪlɚ/ 1. Articulated at the velum or soft palate. 2. Referring to a veil or velum.
Word: velar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēlāris, from vēlum (“sail; veil, awning”). By surface analysis, vel(um) + -ar. Pronunciation: /ˈviːlə/, /ˈveɪlə/, /ˈviːlɚ/, /ˈveɪlɚ/ 1. A sound articulated at the soft palate.
Word: palatal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder. Latin palātumder. Old French palatbor. Middle English palate English palate English -al English palatal From palate + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈpælətl̩/, /pəˈleɪtl̩/ 1. Pertaining to the palate. 2. Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate. Labels: not-comparable 3. Articulated at the hard palate. 4. Articulated at the palate: dorsal. Labels: uncommon
Word: palatal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder. Latin palātumder. Old French palatbor. Middle English palate English palate English -al English palatal From palate + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈpælətl̩/, /pəˈleɪtl̩/ 1. A palatal consonant.
Word: uvular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ūvulāris. By surface analysis, uvula + -ar. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːvjʊlə/, /ˈjuvjələɹ/ 1. Of or relating to the uvula. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a sound, articulated with the uvula (the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate). Labels: not-comparable
Word: uvular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ūvulāris. By surface analysis, uvula + -ar. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːvjʊlə/, /ˈjuvjələɹ/ 1. A sound articulated with the uvula.
Word: pharyngeal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin pharyngeus + -al, from pharynx (“the pharynx”) + -eus (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/, /fəˈɹɪn.ʒi.əl/, /ˌfa.ɹɪnˈd͡ʒiː.əl/, /ˌfɛɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/, /ˌfæɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the pharynx. Labels: not-comparable 2. Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pharyngeal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin pharyngeus + -al, from pharynx (“the pharynx”) + -eus (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/, /fəˈɹɪn.ʒi.əl/, /ˌfa.ɹɪnˈd͡ʒiː.əl/, /ˌfɛɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/, /ˌfæɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/ 1. Ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant (“a sound that is articulated with the pharynx”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: petra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin petra (“rock”). Doublet of piedra. 1. stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds. Example: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
Word: usually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly). Pronunciation: /ˈjuːʒʊəli/, /ˈjuːʒli/, /ˈjuːʒəli/, /ˈju.ʒu.(ə.)li/, /ˈju.ʒə.li/ 1. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. Example: Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work. Example: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…]. 2. Under normal conditions.
Word: tricky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English trick Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English tricky From trick + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪk.i/ 1. Hard to deal with, complicated. Example: They were in a tricky situation. Example: Several types of diesel locomotive have been tested on this working and as a result the probable choice will be Type 2 diesels in pairs, without bankers. The crucial factor in the selection of this method is the higher degree of adhesion obtained than with a single Type 4; on trial one of the latter showed that in very adverse conditions it might slip to a standstill at one of the two tricky spots on the steep climb from Tyne Dock to Consett. 2. Adept at using deception. Example: A tricky salesman can sell anything. Example: Clever got me this far Then tricky got me in Eye on what I'm after I don't need another friend 3. Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick. Labels: colloquial, slang Example: I don't want any of your tricky money, thank you!
Word: bogan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo). Pronunciation: /ˈboʊɡən/ 1. An unsophisticated person from a working class background. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people. Example: The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore. 2. An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts. Labels: New-Zealand, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur 3. A petrolhead. Labels: New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
Word: bogan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo). Pronunciation: /ˈboʊɡən/ 1. To act like a bogan. Labels: derogatory, rare Example: If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.
Word: bogan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of pokelogan influenced by bog (or bogue), or a blend of logan (from pokelogan) + bog. Pronunciation: /ˈboʊɡən/ 1. Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater. Labels: Canada, Maine Example: All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles. 2. An indigenous person. Labels: Canada, North, Ontario, Western, derogatory, offensive, slang Example: Negative Stereotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates, […] Example: Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.
Word: harsh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk, Swedish härsken); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːʃ/, [ˈhɑːʃ], /ˈhäːʃ/, [ˈhäːʃ] ~ /ˈhɐ̞ːʃ/, [ˈhɐ̞ːʃ] 1. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. 2. Severe or cruel. Example: harsh decision Example: harsh penalty
Word: harsh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk, Swedish härsken); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːʃ/, [ˈhɑːʃ], /ˈhäːʃ/, [ˈhäːʃ] ~ /ˈhɐ̞ːʃ/, [ˈhɐ̞ːʃ] 1. To negatively criticize. Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry! Example: Stop harshing on yourself. Who said you're the ugly sister? 2. To put a damper on (a mood). Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: Dude, you're harshing my buzz. Example: They're always harshing on the plan, but we're still going through with it.
Word: murky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mirky. Related to Old Norse myrkr, Russian мрак (mrak) and its Slavic cognates. By surface analysis, murk + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)ki/ 1. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. Example: The Streets of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a dark, dull, murky, winter's night, when there is just enough damp gently stealing down to make the pavement greasy without cleansing it of any of its impurities, […] 2. Dark, dim, gloomy. Example: Ferdinand: As I hope / For quite dayes, faire Iſſue, and long life, / With ſuch loue, as 'tis now the murkieſt den, / The moſt opportune place, the ſtrongſt ſuggeſtion, / Our worſer Genius can, shall neuer melt / Mine honor into luſt,[…] Example: The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program got murkier Tuesday when the Texas attorney general made good on a threat to challenge it in court. 3. Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. Example: murky waters Example: murky territory 4. Dishonest, shady. Labels: broadly Example: Ever since X-Men: First Class set the series' clock back a few decades and installed Michael Fassbender's moody Magneto and James McAvoy's louche Charles Xavier as replacements for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's chess-playing pappies, the big-screen X-Men's central conflict—Xavier's Booker T. Washington-esque School For Gifted Youngsters vs. a rogue's gallery of evil mutants, crew cuts, and politicos—has gotten a lot murkier.
Word: Francie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutives + -ie. 1. A diminutive of the female given names Frances or Francine.
Word: exacerbation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English exacerbacyoun, from Latin exacerbātiōnem, from exacerbāre (“to provoke, make harsh”). See exacerbate. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪʃən/, /ɪɡˈzæsəˌbeɪʃən/, /ɪkˈsæs-/ 1. An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease) Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: sodium lactate Part of Speech: noun 1. The sodium salt of lactic acid; used as a food additive and ingredient in lotions etc.
Word: unchain 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 chain English unchain From un- + chain. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪn/ 1. To remove chains from someone or something. Labels: transitive Example: unchain workers Example: They worked to unchain the prisoners from their shackles. 2. To free; to liberate. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: unchain the mind Example: unchain creativity
Word: hopeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder. Old English tōhopa Old English hopa Middle English hope English hope Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English hopeless From hope + -less. Compare Swedish hopplös. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊplɪs/, /ˈhoʊplɪs/ 1. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. Example: I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Example: And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe; 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. Example: My mind is a camera / Camela mon camela ambra / It brings into focus / The dreams of kings / And even the hopeless 3. Without talent, not skilled. Example: He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well. Example: " It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice." "Not they," said Mailey. "The Press is hopeless. My God, what a responsibility these people take on themselves, and how little they guess the price that each will pay! I know." 4. Of an adverse condition, incurable. Labels: figuratively Example: She is a hopeless romantic. Example: He is a hopeless idler.
Word: catena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain. Pronunciation: /kəˈtiːnə/ 1. A series of related items. Example: And, on the contrary, there is a whole catena of authorities, beginning with Sir Robert Peel and ending with Mr. Lowe, which say that the Banking Department of the Bank of England is only a Bank like any other bank [...] 2. A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope. Example: The changes in soil characteristics from the crest to the foot of a slope are together known as a catena.
Word: block level element Part of Speech: noun 1. An HTML element that normally begins on a new line, and may or may not contain other block level elements or inline elements.
Word: cryonics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́ος (krŭ́os)lbor. English cryo- English -n- Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English cryonics From cryo- + -n- + -ics. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪˈɒnɪks/ 1. The cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible. Labels: uncountable
Word: transpire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former. Pronunciation: /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/, /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ɚ/ 1. To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.). Labels: ambitransitive 2. To perspire. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 3. Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata. Labels: intransitive 4. To become known; to escape from secrecy. Labels: intransitive Example: It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer. Example: The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers. 5. To happen, take place. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired. Example: But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.
Word: sign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English signen, seinen, seinien, partly from Old English seġnian (“to mark; sign”) and partly from Anglo-Norman seigner, seiner et al., Old French signer et al., and their source Latin signāre (“to mark, seal, indicate, signify”); all from Latin signum (“a mark, sign”); see Etymology 1, above. Compare sain. Pronunciation: /saɪn/, /sɑe̯n/, [sɑe̯n] 1. To make a mark Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet. 2. To make a mark Labels: transitive Example: Meantime revolving in his thoughtful mind / The scar, with which his manly knee was sign'd […]. 3. To make a mark Labels: transitive Example: Enquire the Iewes house out, giue him this deed, / And let him signe it […]. 4. To make a mark Labels: transitive Example: I forgot to sign that letter to my aunt. 5. To make a mark Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: Just sign your name at the bottom there. Example: I received a letter from some woman who signs herself ‘Mrs Trellis’. 6. To make a mark Labels: intransitive Example: Please sign on the dotted line. 7. To make a mark Labels: intransitive Example: Agents say Wales back Gavin Henson has signed for Cardiff Blues. 8. To make a mark Labels: transitive Example: It was a great month. I managed to sign three major players. 9. To make the sign of the cross Labels: transitive Example: We receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross. Example: At the baptismal ceremony the child was […] signed with the cross in holy water. 10. To make the sign of the cross Labels: reflexive Example: Shaking a fist at him with one fierce arm, / Signing himself with the other because of Christ. 11. To indicate Labels: intransitive Example: I signed to Brown to make his retreat. 12. To indicate Labels: transitive Example: Pierre signed his acquiescence, and Isabel proceeded: 13. To indicate Labels: transitive Example: He signed me that I should follow him through the doorway. 14. To indicate Labels: intransitive 15. To indicate Labels: transitive 16. To determine the sign of 17. To determine the sign of Labels: transitive
Word: silk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Displaced Old English sīde (“silk”). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge. Pronunciation: /sɪlk/ 1. A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider). Labels: uncountable Example: We harvested a load of silk from the silkworm farm. 2. A thread or yarn made from silk fibers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is sewn from silk. 3. A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'll buy a couple yards of silk. Example: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side. 4. A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: She's a master with the silks. 5. A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An article of clothing made from silk cloth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He's wearing his silk. 7. An article of clothing made from silk cloth. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable 8. An article of clothing made from silk cloth. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An article of clothing made from silk cloth. Labels: colloquial, countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable 10. Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize or the seed covering of bombaxes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
Word: silk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Displaced Old English sīde (“silk”). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge. Pronunciation: /sɪlk/ 1. To develop silk. Labels: intransitive 2. To remove the silk from (corn). Labels: transitive Example: While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […]
Word: slope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb). Pronunciation: /sloʊp/, /sləʊp/ 1. A surface that either inclines or declines in a regular manner from the perspective of an observer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth... Example: the slope 2. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had to climb a small slope to get to the site. Example: a steep slope 3. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point. 4. The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points lying on the line. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The slope of this line is 0.5 5. The slope of the line tangent to the curve at the given point. Labels: countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable Example: The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x. 6. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater. 7. a concept or idea which suggests a type of oblique or accelerating progression Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The habit of lying can quickly become a slippery slope. Example: Not just confined to biking, once you loose that confidence or get knocked back either physically or mentally, it's a hard slope to climb back up... 8. An East or Southeast Asian person, especially one that is Chinese. Labels: countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable, vulgar 9. A hasty departure. Labels: UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable Example: "I did a slope," acknowledged the clerk frankly. "I broke all the records down that passage, I bet you. You'll laugh, I dare say, and think you would have stood, but you don't know what it was like. […]"
Word: slope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb). Pronunciation: /sloʊp/, /sləʊp/ 1. To tend steadily upward or downward. Labels: intransitive Example: The road slopes sharply down at that point. Example: If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. 2. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant. Labels: transitive Example: to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment 3. To try to move surreptitiously. Labels: UK, colloquial, usually Example: I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me. Example: She watched him disappear out of sight, before sloping back to her room. 4. To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder. Example: The order was given to "slope arms".
Word: slope Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb). Pronunciation: /sloʊp/, /sləʊp/ 1. Sloping. Labels: obsolete Example: A bank not steep, but gently slope. Example: Down the slope hills.
Word: slope Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb). Pronunciation: /sloʊp/, /sləʊp/ 1. slopingly Labels: obsolete Example: So promis'd he; and Uriel to his charge Return'd on that bright beam , whose point now rais'd , Bore him slope downward to the sun
Word: fuckspeak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -speak English fuckspeak From fuck + -speak. 1. An aggressive manner of speech making frequent use of the word fuck and its derivatives. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Bond traders are notorious for their use of fuckspeak.
Word: vend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”). Pronunciation: /vɛnd/ 1. Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine. Example: As there was a small establishment that vended tea and toast just across the road, it was reasonable that Partridge should officiate therein as Limpet's host, and so easily adjusted to necessity are the economics of a simple life, that two pots of tea, two plates of toast, tobacco, and one subject of conversation, kept them occupied contentedly till ten o'clock. Example: Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes. 2. To provide or export functionality, especially from an API. Labels: transitive, uncommon Example: As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.
Word: vend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”). Pronunciation: /vɛnd/ 1. The act of vending or selling; a sale. 2. The total sales of coal from a colliery. Labels: Australia, UK, dated
Word: vend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn. 1. The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y. Example: [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ... Example: In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.
Word: foamy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊmi/, /ˈfoʊmi/ 1. Full of foam. Example: He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Example: Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
Word: foamy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊmi/, /ˈfoʊmi/ 1. Alternative spelling of foamie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: accomodate Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of accommodate. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: accomodate Part of Speech: verb 1. Accommated. Labels: Scotland
Word: adjust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”); Equivalent to ad- + just. Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus; if so, it is a doublet of adjute. Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒʌst/, /əˈd͡ʒɐst/, /əˈd͡ʒɛst/, /əɖˈdʒəʂʈ/ 1. To modify. Labels: transitive Example: Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate. Example: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. 2. To improve or rectify. Labels: transitive Example: He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data. Example: But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short. 3. To settle an insurance claim. Labels: transitive Example: Murder is dealt with by the law of blood-revenge, but the innocent manslayer may seek asylum at God's altar. With murder are ranked man-stealing, offences against parents, and witchcraft. Other injuries are occasions of self-help or of private suits to be adjusted at the sanctuary. 4. To change to fit circumstances. Labels: intransitive Example: Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community. Example: She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Word: Middle English Part of Speech: name 1. The ancient or older language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD.
Word: in the nick of time Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. At the last possible moment; at the last minute. Labels: idiomatic Example: He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time. Example: In the nick of time he lassoed with a trounce / the low-down villains who had stubbed our toes.
Word: infuriate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/, /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/ 1. To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury. Example: What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright, Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight? Example: 1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105, They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
Word: infuriate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/, /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/ 1. Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury. Labels: archaic Example: These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the Deep Shall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame, Which into hallow Engins long and round Thick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fire Dilated and infuriate shall send forth From far with thundring noise among our foes Such implements of mischief as shall dash To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands Adverse, Example: […] the steady tyrant man, Who with the thoughtless insolence of power Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste, For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,
Word: hiatus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”). Pronunciation: /haɪˈeɪtəs/, /hɐˈjaː.t̪ʊs/ 1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory. 2. An interruption, break, pause or absence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences. Example: It is wonderful that you should have slipped back into your American life so easily after your English hiatus. 3. An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A gap in geological strata. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regional hiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma. 5. An opening in an organ. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass. 6. A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. Labels: sometimes, uncountable Example: A hiatus is agreeable to any Polynesian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered.
Word: slander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal. Pronunciation: /ˈslɑːndə/, /ˈslandə/, /ˈslændɚ/, /ˈslaːndə/, /ˈslændə/ 1. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Vehement (and often exaggerated) criticism of a character, franchise, etc. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable
Word: slander Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal. Pronunciation: /ˈslɑːndə/, /ˈslandə/, /ˈslændɚ/, /ˈslaːndə/, /ˈslændə/ 1. To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong. Example: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
Word: slanderous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English slander 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 slanderous From slander + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈslændəɹəs/ 1. Both untrue and harmful to a reputation. Example: “Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.”
Word: -ium Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Latin -um (neuter singular morphological suffix), based on Latin terms for metals such as ferrum (“iron”). 1. Used to form the names of metal elements, after the style of early-named elements, as well as the isotopes of hydrogen. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually 2. Used to form the temporary systematic element name of a metallic or nonmetallic element which is postulated to exist, or which has been newly synthesized and has not yet been assigned a permanent name. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually 3. Used to form the name of polyatomic cations. Common examples are quaternary ammonium compounds used as neuromuscular blocking agents, cholinergic agents, anticholinergic agents, antibacterials/antiseptics, or other agents. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually Example: Alternative form: -onium 4. Appended to common words to create scientific-sounding or humorous-sounding fictional substance names. Labels: broadly, humorous, morpheme, uncountable, usually Example: According to the FAQ, a site's coolness can be attributed to a trace element called coolium. Example: Stupidium: Exposure to this Element can cause very silly behavior.
Word: -ium Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Reanalysis from multiple Latin or New Latin compounds suffixed with -ium, whose function, among others, is to derive parasynthetic compounds. 1. Used to form the name of an aggregation or mass of something, such as biological tissue Labels: morpheme Example: epithelium, pollinium 2. Forms the name of biological structures and parts. Labels: morpheme Example: clinanthium, periodontium
Word: -ium Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Reanalysis of Latin words suffixed with -tōrium, -ārium and -ium. 1. Used to indicate the setting where a given activity is carried out Labels: morpheme Example: auditorium, gymnasium, planetarium
Word: unburnt Part of Speech: adj 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 burnt English unburnt From un- + burnt. 1. Not burnt or burned.
Word: sophistry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry, sophestrie, sophestry, sophestrye, sophistre, sophistri, sophistrie, sophistry, sophistrye, sophystrye, from Old French sofisterie, sophistrie and Medieval Latin sophistria, Anglo-Latin sophestria, from Latin sophista, from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “wise man”), from σοφίζω (sophízō, “to be wise”), from σοφός (sophós, “wise”), equivalent to sophist + -ry. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒ.fɪ.stɹi/, /ˈsɑ.fɪ.stɹi/ 1. The actions or arguments of a sophist. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money. 2. Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning. Labels: uncountable 3. An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so. Labels: countable Example: And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.
Word: gypsy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/ 1. Alternative form of Gypsy (“member of the Romani people”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, offensive, sometimes Example: It was at this town of Badajoz, the capital of Estremadura, that I first fell in with those singular people, the Zincali, Gitanos, or Spanish gypsies. Example: He championed the music of the gypsies as he did the Muslim and Jewish roots of Spanish culture. […] All these and more were fused in the forge of the gypsy experience into a singular art form, unlike any of its sources, evoking its own worldview, its own existential stance. 2. An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. Labels: colloquial Example: Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. 3. A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.) Labels: offensive, sometimes 4. A member of a Broadway musical chorus line. 5. A person with a dark complexion. Labels: dated 6. A sly, roguish woman. Labels: dated 7. A fortune teller. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: gypsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/ 1. Alternative form of Gypsy: of or belonging to the Rom, Dom or Lom people. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable 2. Of or having the qualities of an itinerant person or group with qualities traditionally ascribed to Romani people; making a living from dishonest practices or theft etc. Labels: not-comparable, offensive