nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: desert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English desert, deseert, from Old French deserte, from deservir (“to deserve”), from Vulgar Latin dēserviō (“to gain or merit by giving service”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɜːt/, /dɪˈzɝt/, /dəˈzɝt/ 1. That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward. Labels: in-plural, often Example: just deserts Example: From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.
Word: desert Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of dessert. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Francis, besides being an excellent Cook, knowing how to provide genteel Dinners, and giving aid in dressing them, prepared the Desert, made the Cake, and did every thing that Hyde & wife conjointly do;—[…] Example: They answer for caramel or gum paste baskets, for desert or suppers. […] BARBERRIES / For Deserts, or Second Course Pastry. […] Under these impressions—admitting, as they would, such a variety of combinations, the Author has confined himself to a plain selection of the principal articles in season in each month, merely to give a good general idea of laying out a table for deserts, leaving to the house[-]keeper to vary, and increase or diminish, according to her taste, or the extent of her company.
Word: puella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin puella. 1. Ellipsis of puella aeterna. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: As I mentioned earlier, the circumstances that precipitate puer development prece sexual differentiation and the formation of a strong identity based on gender. Some puers and puellas are, therefore, heterosexual, others are homosexual. Example: TR spirit-work: For some extreme and gifted puers and puellas, Jesus or Mary another spirit comes in vivid visions. […] The blessing, though related to the body, takes place mainly on a heavenly-spiritual place. It is a necessary beginning for puers and puellas, though much embodied “shadow-material” remains to be dealt with, including the “nasty old (wo)man.” 2. A young girl. Labels: rare Example: Carol’s family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with Christmas a rite full of surprises and tenderness, and “dressing-up parties” spontaneous and joyously absurd. The beasts in the Milford hearth-mythology were not the obscene Night Animals who jump out of closets and eat little girls, but beneficent and bright-eyed creatures—the tam htab, who is woolly and blue and lives in the bathroom, and runs rapidly to warm small feet; the ferruginous oil stove, who purrs and knows stories; and the skitamarigg, who will play with children before breakfast if they spring out of bed and close the window at the very first line of the song about puellas which father sings while shaving. Example: “No; you called it that. Anyway, what’s wrong with ‘whither’?” / “Oh, that; we had to struggle through a high school commencement speech one time, something about ‘Whither now, oh, puers and puellas?’ and now the word gives us the hiccoughs.”
Word: passer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Italic *pattus Latin passus Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *passāre Old French passerbor. Middle English passen English pass Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English passer From pass + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːsə(ɹ)/, /ˈpæsəɹ/ 1. One who succeeds in passing a test, etc. Example: The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted […] 2. One who passes something along; a distributor. Example: a passer of counterfeit banknotes 3. Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass. Example: A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition. 4. Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass. 5. A passed pawn. Labels: informal 6. One who passes; a passer-by. Labels: archaic Example: There was a promise of it in the gorgeous purity of the western sky; there was an intimation in the mild, unimpertinent gaze of the passers of a certain natural facility in things. Example: Passers stopped and began to stare. A policeman was approaching up the street. Dave dodged back into the cab and banged the door. 7. One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging. Example: Explores the history, literature, and sociology of passing, and provides case studies of six individuals who are "passers," including a black man who passed as a white Jew and a lesbian naval officer who passed as straight. Example: Passers and would-be passers make every effort to be convincing in their chosen gender role […]
Word: nerd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Attested since 1951 as US student slang. * Perhaps an alteration of nerts (“nuts", "crazy”); see references below. * The word, capitalized, appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo as the name of an imaginary animal: *: And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Katroo / And bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker too! * Possibly a rebracketing of inert as a nert, as in he's inert = he's a nerd, in reference to one's lack of competence or athletic ability. * Various unlikely folk etymologies and less likely backronymic speculations also exist. Pronunciation: /nɜːd/, /nɝːd/, /neɹd/, /nøːd/, /neːd/ 1. A person who is intellectual but generally introverted. Labels: derogatory, slang, sometimes Example: The bullies used to call him a nerd at school. Example: 1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Michael Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter. 2. One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. Labels: derogatory, informal, sometimes Example: a computer nerd Example: a comic-book nerd 3. A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. Labels: derogatory, informal, sometimes 4. One who is stupid and socially inept or unattractive; a social outcast. Labels: dated, derogatory, informal, sometimes Example: ALICE: Prithee , what might a nerd be ? GLORIA: A nerd is an idiot or other person absurd. Example: To much of the world, we in America are nerds. We don't understand the world we live in.
Word: surd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the mid 16th century from Latin surdus (“deaf, mute”), used in mathematics for “irrational,” reflecting ἄλογος (álogos, “irrational, speechless”) as found in Euclid, apparently transmitted via Arabic جِذْر أَصَمّ (jiḏr ʔaṣamm, “deaf root”). The phonetic sense, “voiceless,” emerged in the 18th century. Doublet of surdo. Pronunciation: /sɜːd/, /sɝd/, /sʌɹd/, /søːd/, /seːd/ 1. An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. 2. A voiceless consonant.
Word: surd Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in the mid 16th century from Latin surdus (“deaf, mute”), used in mathematics for “irrational,” reflecting ἄλογος (álogos, “irrational, speechless”) as found in Euclid, apparently transmitted via Arabic جِذْر أَصَمّ (jiḏr ʔaṣamm, “deaf root”). The phonetic sense, “voiceless,” emerged in the 18th century. Doublet of surdo. Pronunciation: /sɜːd/, /sɝd/, /sʌɹd/, /søːd/, /seːd/ 1. Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf. Labels: obsolete Example: …how all Words fall to the Ground, spent upon such a surd and Earless Generation of Men, stupid unto all Instruction… 2. unheard Labels: obsolete Example: To this errour, of blending the ſurd and vocal modes of articulation together, may be added the too frequent uſe of compound articulations both vocal and ſurd. 3. Involving surds, or irrational numbers; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers. Example: a surd expression or quantity; a surd number 4. unvoiced; voiceless
Word: turd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle. Pronunciation: /tɜːd/, /tɝd/, /tʌɹd/, /tøːd/, /teːd/ 1. A piece of solid feces. Labels: informal, mildly, vulgar Example: Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away. Example: Thy teeth more comely than two dirty rakes are, / Thy breath is stronger than a douzen jakes are. / A fart for all perfumes, a turd for roses / Smell men but thee, they wish them selves all noses. 2. A worthless person or thing. Labels: humorous, informal, mildly, vulgar Example: Last year, he arrested some crankhead turd, brings him down to the station. The guy's cuffed and Fred sets him down on the bench in the booking room. Now you know Fred, right? Not an abusive guy. Never even talks smack to suspects. Well, this turd, he starts kicking and shouting, […] Example: "Don't be a turd," Freddi says. "Don't be a Tones Turd." / "If telling the truth makes a man a turd, then a turd I shall be." / "Yeah," Freddi says. "You'll go down in history. Tones the Truth-Telling Turd. Kids will learn about you in school."
Word: turd Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle. Pronunciation: /tɜːd/, /tɝd/, /tʌɹd/, /tøːd/, /teːd/ 1. To defecate. Labels: rare, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: You ought to see that owlet […] . We brought it to table and it turded in F's salad, it sits on your finger and squeaks like Peggy does when she gets tipsy. Example: [P]iano dropped chords like a Wolfean horse turding in the steamy Brooklyn winter morn
Word: thorn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thorn, þorn, from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Cognates Near cognates include West Frisian toarn, Low German Doorn, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, Danish and Norwegian torn, Swedish torn, törne, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus). Further cognates include Old Church Slavonic трънъ (trŭnŭ, “thorn”), Russian тёрн (tjorn), Polish cierń, Kamkata-viri taňi, tai (“thorn”), Sanskrit तृण (tṛ́ṇa, “grass”). Pronunciation: /θɔːn/, /θoɹn/, [θo̞ɹn], /θɔɹn/, [θɔːɹn] 1. A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike. 2. Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle. Example: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns. 3. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn. Example: the white thorn Example: the cockspur thorn 4. That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome. Labels: figuratively Example: There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. Example: The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine. 5. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives). Example: In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.] Example: See also Etymology of ye (definite article).
Word: thorn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thorn, þorn, from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Cognates Near cognates include West Frisian toarn, Low German Doorn, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, Danish and Norwegian torn, Swedish torn, törne, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus). Further cognates include Old Church Slavonic трънъ (trŭnŭ, “thorn”), Russian тёрн (tjorn), Polish cierń, Kamkata-viri taňi, tai (“thorn”), Sanskrit तृण (tṛ́ṇa, “grass”). Pronunciation: /θɔːn/, /θoɹn/, [θo̞ɹn], /θɔɹn/, [θɔːɹn] 1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object). Example: […] human nature is, above all things, lazy, and needs to be thorned and goaded up those heights where it ought to fly. Example: Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.
Word: draft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”). Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur. By surface analysis, draw + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɑːft/, /dɹæft/, /dɹaft/, /dɾaft/ 1. To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch. Labels: transitive 2. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing. 3. To write a law. 4. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. Example: There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President. Example: They drafted me to be the chairperson of the new committee. 5. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. Labels: US, transitive Example: He was drafted during the Vietnam War. 6. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. Example: The calves were drafted from the cows. 7. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. Labels: US, transitive Example: After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins. 8. To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed. Labels: ambitransitive Example: At the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there. 9. To draw out; to call forth. 10. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn. 11. To play a collectible card game by strategically selecting from a shared pool of cards.
Word: draft Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”). Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur. By surface analysis, draw + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɑːft/, /dɹæft/, /dɹaft/, /dɾaft/ 1. Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer. 2. Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: A Clydesdale is a draft horse.
Word: draught Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɑːft/, /dɹæft/, /dɹɔt/ 1. Alternative form of draft in some of its senses. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: She could feel a draught where she was sitting. Example: […]he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught. 2. A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 3. Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable 4. A mild vesicatory. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught? Example: Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught, / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough. 6. Any picture or drawing. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion. 7. A sudden attack upon an enemy. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
Word: draught Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɑːft/, /dɹæft/, /dɹɔt/ 1. Alternative spelling of draft Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: draught beer or cider Example: draught oxen, a draught horse
Word: draught Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɑːft/, /dɹæft/, /dɹɔt/ 1. Alternative spelling of draft. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative Example: The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
Word: reply Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplaɪ/ 1. To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: (intransitive) Please reply to my letter. Example: (transitive) "Sorry I'm late," replied the student. 2. To act or gesture in response. Labels: intransitive Example: Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face. Example: It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire[…] 3. To repeat something back; to echo. Labels: intransitive
Word: reply Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplaɪ/ 1. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. Example: For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle ‘Why are you here?’ And the reply took three years. 2. Something given in reply. 3. A counterattack. 4. The answer of a figure. 5. A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer. Labels: US
Word: empty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈɛm(p).ti/, [ˈɛm(p).tʰi], /ˈɪm(p).ti/, [ˈɪm(p).tʰi], /ˈem(p).ti/ 1. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. Example: an empty purse Example: an empty jug 2. Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value). 3. Free; clear; devoid; often with of. Labels: obsolete Example: And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, Right ioyfull of your reformation. Example: For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good wherein consists Womans domestic honour and chief praise; 4. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened. Example: I hope our Ladies treaſure and our owne, May ſerue for ranſome to our liberties: Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe, That we may trauell into Siria, […] Example: I hope it remaines not vnkindly with your Lordſhip, that I return'd you an empty Meſſenger. 5. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language. Example: empty words, or threats Example: empty offer 6. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain. Example: empty pleasures Example: Ev'n I more sweetly pass my careless days, Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise; 7. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial. Example: empty dreams 8. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy. Example: empty brains Example: an empty coxcomb 9. Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season. Example: Empty cow rates have increased in recent years. 10. Producing nothing; unfruitful. Labels: obsolete Example: an empty vine Example: […] and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind[…] 11. Hungry. 12. Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish. Example: Grotesquely vegetal, excessively oaked, empty wines were routinely produced in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1980s, however, the quality has soared.
Word: empty Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈɛm(p).ti/, [ˈɛm(p).tʰi], /ˈɪm(p).ti/, [ˈɪm(p).tʰi], /ˈem(p).ti/ 1. To make empty; to remove the contents of. Labels: ergative, transitive Example: to empty a well or a cistern Example: The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film. 2. Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. Labels: intransitive Example: Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River. Example: Of these the Rhine empties into the Northern ocean and the Danube into the Euxine.
Word: empty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English. Pronunciation: /ˈɛm(p).ti/, [ˈɛm(p).tʰi], /ˈɪm(p).ti/, [ˈɪm(p).tʰi], /ˈem(p).ti/ 1. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. Labels: in-plural Example: Put the empties out to be recycled. Example: The east-west flow consists in the westerly direction of the agricultural and industrial products of East Anglia; imports through London and Parkeston (Harwich); special traffic in coke to the Northamptonshire ironfield; and mineral empties returning to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire coalfields.
Word: job Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop. Pronunciation: /dʒɒb/, /dʒɑb/ 1. A task. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes? Example: I didn't speak to many coworkers for the ﬁrst year on the job. 2. An economic role for which a person is paid. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That surgeon has a great job. Example: He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January. 3. Plastic surgery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had a nose job. 4. A sex act. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: hand job Example: You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothing. 5. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer). Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A robbery or heist. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: a bank job Example: This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safe job and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them. […] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough! 8. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall). Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it. Example: One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […] 10. The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: “He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.” Example: But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together. 11. Synonym of penis. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
Word: job Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop. Pronunciation: /dʒɒb/, /dʒɑb/ 1. To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. Labels: intransitive Example: Authors of all work, to job for the season. 2. To work as a jobber. Labels: intransitive 3. To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner. Labels: intransitive, slang 4. To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in. Labels: transitive 5. To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. Labels: often, transitive Example: We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms. 6. To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. Labels: intransitive Example: And judges job, and bishops bite the town. 7. To hire or let in periods of service. Example: to job a carriage Example: […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...
Word: job Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /dʒɒb/, /dʒɑb/ 1. To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into). Labels: archaic, intransitive, regional Example: a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore 2. To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab. Labels: transitive Example: He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman. 3. To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab. Labels: Australia, transitive Example: A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.
Word: job Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /dʒɒb/, /dʒɑb/ 1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch. Labels: obsolete Example: Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.
Word: Rangoon Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the pronunciation of Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun) in the Rakhine dialect. Pronunciation: /ɹæŋˈɡuːn/ 1. Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar before Naypyidaw was made the capital in 2006. Labels: historical
Word: Yangon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun), pronounced /jàɴɡòʊɴ/ in standard Burmese. Pronunciation: /jɑŋˈɡɑn/, /jɑŋˈɡoʊn/, /jæŋˈɡɒn/ 1. The largest city and former capital of Myanmar; formerly, Rangoon (19th–21st c.), Dagon (16th–18th c.), and Dagoon (rare).
Word: smog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of smoke + fog. Pronunciation: /smɒɡ/, /smɑɡ/, /smɔɡ/ 1. A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog. Example: Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.
Word: smog Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of smoke + fog. Pronunciation: /smɒɡ/, /smɑɡ/, /smɔɡ/ 1. To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. Labels: informal Example: If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.
Word: haze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. * Possibly back-formation from hazy. * Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”). Pronunciation: /heɪz/ 1. Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.) Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain. Example: A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery. 2. A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses. Example: The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax. 4. Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: And is it that the haze of grief ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? ⁠The lowness of the present state, That sets the past in this relief? Example: In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret. 5. The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film. 6. Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine. Labels: countable, usually Example: Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.
Word: haze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. * Possibly back-formation from hazy. * Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”). Pronunciation: /heɪz/ 1. To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. Example: Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.
Word: haze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”) Pronunciation: /heɪz/ 1. To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting person, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit. Labels: US, informal 2. To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. Example: […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […] 3. In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line. Labels: transitive 4. To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans. Labels: transitive Example: Hazing a bear involves creating a "negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas," the release said. That involves using non-lethal rubber shotgun slugs, or rubber rounds and noise-deterrent rounds in sequence to scare bears away, according to the release.
Word: semi-weekly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English weekly English semi-weekly From semi- + weekly. 1. Occurring twice a week; occurring once every one-half a week Labels: not-comparable
Word: semi-weekly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English weekly English semi-weekly From semi- + weekly. 1. Twice a week. Labels: not-comparable
Word: semi-weekly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English weekly English semi-weekly From semi- + weekly. 1. A periodical published twice a week.
Word: bi-weekly Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of biweekly. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: In all cases of this sort, it will be sufficient, that a letter is put into the post-office early enough after the day of the dishonor of the Note to go by the next post, whether it be a bi-weekly, or tri-weekly, or a mere weekly conveyance, if it be the ordinary mode of communication. Example: Joyce had a major but not leading role in a good bi-weekly TV serial daytime program.
Word: bi-weekly Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of biweekly. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Meet weekly or bi-weekly to discuss duties and responsibilities and to encourage other girls in the squads to greater participation and better results. Example: With a Site Coordinator at each agency responsible for day-to-day operations and service assistance, the support groups meet bi-weekly in addition to individual counseling sessions and other types of group activities.
Word: semi-annually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From semi- + annual + -ly. 1. Occurring twice yearly; biannually. Labels: not-comparable
Word: final Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”). Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnl̩/, /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/, [-nəɫ] 1. A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US Example: It was tough cramming for those midterms and finals, staying up 72 hours straight hepped up on caffeine and pizza. 2. A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification. 3. The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined. 4. The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology. 5. The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
Word: final Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”). Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnl̩/, /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/, [-nəɫ] 1. Last; ultimate. Example: final solution; the final day of a school term Example: Yet despair not of his final pardon. 2. Conclusive; decisive. Example: a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue 3. Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view. 4. Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause. 5. Word-final; occurring at the end of a word. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
Word: final Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”). Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnl̩/, /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/, [-nəɫ] 1. To qualify for the final round of a competition. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Mike finalled in both the 400 meter and the 800 meter races. Example: Early in his swimming career, Baker finaled in the 200 fly at both the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Trials and was a two-time Pacific 10 Champion in the event for the University of Arizona.
Word: semifinal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin semifinalis, equivalent to semi- + final. 1. A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final. Example: Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany. Example: In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match! 2. A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.
Word: quarter-final Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of quarterfinal. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
Word: semester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”). Pronunciation: /sɪˈmɛstə/, /sɪˈmɛstɚ/ 1. Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester. Example: I will graduate at the end of the spring semester. 2. A period or term of six months.
Word: trimester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /tɹ(a)ɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈt(ʃ)ɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/, /t(ʃ)ɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/ 1. A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter. Example: She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy. 2. One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester. Example: The school operates on a trimester schedule.
Word: per Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin perder. English per From Latin per (“through, during”), from Proto-Indo-European *per. Doublet of par. Pronunciation: /pɜː/, /pɝ/, /pɛr/, /pøː/, /peː/ 1. For each. Example: Admission is £10 per person. Example: miles per gallon 2. To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units). Example: 12 inches per foot Example: 100 centimeters per meter 3. By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin). Example: Introduce the endoscope per nasum. Example: The medication is to be administered per os. 4. In accordance with, as per. Example: I parked my car at the curb per your request. Example: Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text, per the below. 5. According to. Example: Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources Example: The Heat were too close to the luxury tax line -- $1.6 million over before this trade, per ESPN's Bobby Marks
Word: per Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979) Pronunciation: /pɜː/, /pɝ/, /pɛr/, /pøː/, /peː/ 1. They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she. Labels: gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person Example: This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per? 2. Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her. Labels: gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person Example: This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per? Example: "Kalypso!" I call out as phe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I loved per.
Word: per Part of Speech: det Etymology: Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979) Pronunciation: /pɜː/, /pɝ/, /pɛr/, /pøː/, /peː/ 1. Belonging to per; their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.
Word: semi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmi/, /ˈsɛmaɪ/ 1. A semi-detached house. Labels: Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, informal Example: 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40, I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay. Example: The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces. 2. A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US Example: I was hungry an' freezin' an' done caught a chill / When the lights of a big semi topped the hill Example: All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill. 3. A semifinal. Labels: informal 4. A partial erection of the penis. Labels: slang Example: The twink got a semi just from that look. 5. A semiautomatic firearm. Labels: slang Example: See these niggas through the reticle sight up on my semi […] For niggas plottin', I might blow it at your fitted Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin' Ain't no kiddin', got that semi 6. Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market. Labels: slang 7. An intermediate in the production of end-use goods. Labels: colloquial Example: Mining companies crush and grind the extracted ore, and then use flotation processes to produce copper concentrates, which typically contain up to 30 percent copper. These concentrates are then smelted to produce copper blister, which has a purity of up to 99 percent. The blister is further refined to produce copper cathode, or pure copper, with a grade of around 99.99 percent. This process is known as pyrometallurgy, and is suitable for sulfide ores as opposed to oxide ores. The pure copper then feeds into the fabrication of various copper products, such as wire rods, wires, bars, and sheets—collectively known as semis—used as inputs in the manufacturing of end-use products, including consumer goods and construction, transportation (e.g., EVs) and infrastructure components.
Word: semi Part of Speech: adv Etymology: The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmi/, /ˈsɛmaɪ/ 1. Somewhat; to some extent. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: 'Is that a serious question?' he asked. Ralph shrugged with his face, jutting out his bottom lip. 'Well ... semi,' he said.
Word: corporal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English corporal, corporall, corporel, corporell, from Old French corporal (French corporel), from Latin corporālis, from Latin corpus (“body”); compare corporeal. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːp(ə)ɹəl/, /ˈkoɹ.pɚ.əl/, /ˈkoɹ.pɹəl/ 1. Having a physical, tangible body; material, corporeal. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted as breath into the wind. 2. Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body; bodily. Labels: not-comparable Example: corporal punishment Example: corporal suffering 3. Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: The smaller 9 9 have less elongated fins, drabber corporal colors, and more transparent fins.
Word: corporal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French caporal, probably influenced by corporal (above), from the Italian caporale, from capo (“head, leader”) from Latin caput (“head”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːp(ə)ɹəl/, /ˈkoɹ.pɚ.əl/, /ˈkoɹ.pɹəl/ 1. A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private. 2. A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman. 3. A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy. Labels: historical 4. A dragonfly of the genus Ladona.
Word: corporal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English corporall, corporalle, from the Latin corporāle, the neuter of corporālis representing the doctrine of transubstantiation in which the Eucharist becomes the body of Christ. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːp(ə)ɹəl/, /ˈkoɹ.pɚ.əl/, /ˈkoɹ.pɹəl/ 1. The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth. Example: He had […] many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria
Word: corporeal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal. Pronunciation: /kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/, /kɔːˈpɔːɹiəl/ 1. Material; tangible; physical. Example: His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. Example: She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels. 2. Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal. Labels: archaic