nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: green Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːn/, [ˈɡɹʷɪi̯n], /ˈɡɹin/, /ˈɡɾin/, /ˈɡɾiːn/ 1. To make or turn (something) green or greener. Labels: transitive Example: Great spring before greened all the year. Example: Out of that tub had come the day before—Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands. 2. To become or grow green in color. Example: O rosetree planted in my grief, / And growing, on her tomb, / Her dust is greening in your leaf, / Her blood is in your bloom. Example: by greening slope and singing flood 3. To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans. 4. To become environmentally aware. Labels: intransitive 5. To make (something) environmentally friendly. Labels: transitive Example: "The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."
Word: green Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the colors used on traffic lights; green being the one that allows vehicles to move on. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːn/, [ˈɡɹʷɪi̯n], /ˈɡɹin/, /ˈɡɾin/, /ˈɡɾiːn/ 1. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes to commence (or to continue a previously stopped) sexual activity.
Word: grey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray. Example: These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Example: This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line. 2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white). Labels: South-Africa, slang
Word: grey Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray. Example: Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.
Word: grey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray. Example: Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey. Example: Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.
Word: magenta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, in commemoration of the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859. An aniline dye in this colour had been invented the same year by French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin and was named in honour of the battle. The town's name derives from Latin Castra Maxentia (“the camp named Maxentia”), referring to the emperor Maxentius. Compare Castra Regina for a similar appositional use of a proper noun with castra. Pronunciation: /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/ 1. A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mrs Dibble's face blazed with a magenta uprush of blood at that ultimatum and she screamed, "You dare try to do me out of my gin too! You dare!"
Word: magenta Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, in commemoration of the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859. An aniline dye in this colour had been invented the same year by French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin and was named in honour of the battle. The town's name derives from Latin Castra Maxentia (“the camp named Maxentia”), referring to the emperor Maxentius. Compare Castra Regina for a similar appositional use of a proper noun with castra. Pronunciation: /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/ 1. Having the color of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
Word: mauve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye. Pronunciation: /məʊv/, /mɔv/, /moʊv/, /mɑv/, /mov/ 1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
Word: mauve Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye. Pronunciation: /məʊv/, /mɔv/, /moʊv/, /mɑv/, /mov/ 1. Having a pale purple colour. Example: [A]long their time-marked walls wistaria threw patches of mauve blossom.
Word: pink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink. Example: Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something. He had the pink of sex about him still. 2. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks. 5. A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion. Example: Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. 6. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats. Example: it is interesting to note the curious legend that the pink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason. 7. A huntsman. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks. 8. One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink. 9. An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 10. Alternative form of pinko. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: My own guess is that there are some pinks in the State Department and in other government departments and agencies, and of course they should be found and ousted; but it seems to me that this can be done without besmirching innocent people and without making such broadside charges that people will lose faith in all government. 11. The vagina or vulva. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”
Word: pink Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red. 2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet. 3. Having conjunctivitis. 4. By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist. Example: The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism. 5. Relating to women or girls. Labels: informal Example: pink-collar Example: pink job 6. Relating to homosexuals as a group within society. Labels: informal Example: the pink economy Example: pink pound
Word: pink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. To become pink in color, to redden. Labels: intransitive Example: The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy” 2. To turn (something) pink. Labels: transitive Example: They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun. Example: The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure. 3. To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat. Labels: transitive Example: Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”
Word: pink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Some lexicographers suggest comparison to regional German Pinke (“minnow; small salmon”), but this is not widely accepted. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. A common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus0. Labels: regional 2. A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr. Labels: regional
Word: pink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch pincke. Compare French pinque. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. A narrow boat. Labels: obsolete
Word: pink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe. 2. To prick with a sword. Example: ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’ Example: Within three seconds D'Artagnan pinked him thrice, dedicating each thrust as he dealt it. “One for Athos!" he cried. “One for Porthos!" and at the last, “one for Aramis!” 3. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule. Example: “Young man, if you have no authority, let me speak to someone who has! Put me through to Mr. Berquist.” The stooge suddenly lost his smile and Jubal thought gleefully that he had at last pinked him.
Word: pink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron. Labels: obsolete Example: At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye. Example: A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep. 2. A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron. Labels: obsolete Example: Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s Example: small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes
Word: pink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare ping. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine). 2. Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note. Example: And then the record changed, a piano pinking high a Poulenc-like theme.
Word: pink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch pinken. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. To wink; to blink. Labels: obsolete Example: A Hungry Fox that had got a Cock in his Eye, and could not tell how to come at him ; cast himself at his Length upon the Ground, and there he lay winking and pinking as if he had Sore Eyes.
Word: pink Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch pinken. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. Half-shut; winking. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! In thy vats our cares be drowned, With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.
Word: pink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Attested from the late 15th century. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/, [ˈpʰɪŋk], /ˈpiŋk/, [ˈpʰiŋk] 1. Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: To make Dutch pink, boil the stems of woad in a solution of alum, and then mix the liquor with clay, marl, or chalk, which will become mixed with the colour of the decoction Example: Carlyle (2001) lists from her study of nineteenth century British documentary sources yellow carmine, Dutch pink, English pink and yellow lake in descending order of intensity.
Word: purple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.pl̩/, /ˈpɝ.pl̩/, /ˈpøːpl̩/, /pʌɾpl̩/, /peːpl̩/ 1. A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold / The Clouds that on his Weſtern Throne attend. 2. Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to put on the imperial purple Example: Thy head as Carmelus: and the heares of thy head as a kings purple tyed to cundite pipes. 4. Imperial power. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: 1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He was born in the purple. Example: When we picture to ourselves his [Napoleon’s] dawning military genius at Toulon—his daring and decided politics in the storms of the Revolution—his Cæsarian ambition in assuming the purple—[…] 5. Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Sure, some purple Owlsley." Example: “Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours. 7. Purpura. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Earcockle, a disease of wheat. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the banded purple 10. A cardinalate. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Ellipsis of purple drank. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable Example: Fishtailing out the parking lot leaving Magic / Sipping on the purple and the yellow, drinking magic 12. Synonym of snakebite and black. Labels: UK, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: purple Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.pl̩/, /ˈpɝ.pl̩/, /ˈpøːpl̩/, /pʌɾpl̩/, /peːpl̩/ 1. Of a purple hue. Example: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. 2. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. Labels: US Example: purple state Example: purple city 3. Mixed between social democrats and liberals. Labels: Belgium, Netherlands 4. Imperial; regal. Example: Grovel on the earth: aye, hide / In the dust thy purple pride! 5. Blood-red; bloody. Example: O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed Example: Wars, horrid Wars I view; a field of Blood; / And Tyber rolling with a Purple Flood. 6. Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. Example: Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought Example: A writer who has made a career of churning out thick novels may be expected to write too quickly to notice that patches of her writing are unbearably purple. 7. Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
Word: purple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings. Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.pl̩/, /ˈpɝ.pl̩/, /ˈpøːpl̩/, /pʌɾpl̩/, /peːpl̩/ 1. To turn purple in colour. Labels: intransitive Example: [T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky. Example: The gang leader purpled and raised his gun. 2. To dye purple. Labels: transitive Example: Year after year unto her feet, / She lying on her couch alone, / Across the purpled coverlet, / The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […] 3. To clothe in purple. Labels: transitive
Word: red Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós Proto-Germanic *raudaz Proto-West Germanic *raud Old English rēad Middle English red English red Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud, Swedish röd, Faroese reyður, Icelandic rauður; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”). Pronunciation: /ɹɛd/, [ɻʷɛˑd̥], /ɹed/, /ɾɛd/ 1. Of a red hue. Example: The girl wore a red skirt. Example: He was wearing a red jacket. 2. Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. Example: Her hair had red highlights. 3. Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed. Example: [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them. 4. Having a brown color. 5. Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”) Example: I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. 6. Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: Labels: capitalized, often Example: "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. https://web.archive.org/web/20061114093022/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm Example: the red-black grand coalition in Germany 7. Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: Labels: US, capitalized, often Example: a red state Example: a red Congress 8. Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations. Labels: derogatory, offensive Example: All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red 9. Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. 10. Of a red color charge. Labels: particle
Word: red Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós Proto-Germanic *raudaz Proto-West Germanic *raud Old English rēad Middle English red English red Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud, Swedish röd, Faroese reyður, Icelandic rauður; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”). Pronunciation: /ɹɛd/, [ɻʷɛˑd̥], /ɹed/, /ɾɛd/ 1. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.
Word: red Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the archaic verb rede. Pronunciation: /ɹɛd/, [ɻʷɛˑd̥], /ɹed/, /ɾɛd/ 1. simple past and past participle of rede Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past
Word: red Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɛd/, [ɻʷɛˑd̥], /ɹed/, /ɾɛd/ 1. Alternative spelling of redd. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: silver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Germanic *silubrą Proto-West Germanic *silubr Old English seolfor Middle English silver English silver Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin. cognates and etymology discussion Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown. Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪl.və/, /ˈsɪl.vɚ/ 1. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. Labels: uncountable 2. Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable Example: […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. 3. Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable 4. Any items made from silver or any other white metal. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable 5. A shiny gray color. Labels: uncountable Example: I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. 6. A silver medal. Labels: countable 7. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
Word: silver Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Germanic *silubrą Proto-West Germanic *silubr Old English seolfor Middle English silver English silver Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin. cognates and etymology discussion Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown. Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪl.və/, /ˈsɪl.vɚ/ 1. Made from silver. Example: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. Example: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either. 2. Made from another white metal. 3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray. 4. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding. Example: Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary. 5. Premium, but inferior to gold. 6. Pertaining or relating to elderly persons. 7. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. Example: a silver-voiced young girl
Word: silver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Germanic *silubrą Proto-West Germanic *silubr Old English seolfor Middle English silver English silver Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin. cognates and etymology discussion Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown. Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪl.və/, /ˈsɪl.vɚ/ 1. To acquire a silvery colour. Example: Presently all the eastern sky began to silver and shine, and objects before invisible in the west—chiefly the tall towers on Mount Zion—emerged as from a shadowy depth, [...] Example: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon. 2. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal. Example: to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury 3. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver. Example: For here retir'd the ſinking billows ſleep, / And ſmiling calmneſs ſilver'd o'er the deep. 4. To make hoary, or white, like silver. Example: Remote from cities liv'd a Swain, / Unvex'd with all the cares of gain, / His head was ſilver'd o'er with age, / And long experience made him ſage; [...]
Word: violet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin viola Old French -ette Old French violettebor. Middle English violet English violet Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, /ˈvaɪ.lət/ 1. A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers. Example: Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me. Example: Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs. 2. A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy. Labels: figuratively Example: ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’ 3. The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour. 4. Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour. 5. The characteristic scent of V. odorata. 6. Synonym of onion (“vegetable”). Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: violet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin viola Old French -ette Old French violettebor. Middle English violet English violet Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, /ˈvaɪ.lət/ 1. Of a violet colour.
Word: white Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”). Cognates * West Frisian wyt * Dutch wit * German weiß * German weiss * Norwegian Bokmål hvit * Norwegian Nynorsk kvit * Swedish vit * Danish hvid * Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”) * Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”) * Persian سفید (sefid, “white”), Persian سپید (sepid, “white”) * Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”) * Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”) Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪt/, [ˈwaɪ̯t], /ˈʍaɪt/, [ˈw̥aɪ̯t], /ˈʍʌɪt/ 1. To make white; to whiten; to bleach. Labels: transitive Example: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Example: so as no fuller on earth can white them
Word: yellow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈjɛləʊ/, /ˈjɛlo/, /ˈjɛlə/, /ˈjɛlou/, /ˈjɛloʊ/ 1. Of a yellow hue. Example: He had a yellow laptop in his bag. Example: A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf. 2. Lacking courage. Labels: informal Example: What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it. Example: You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! 3. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy. Example: The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco. 4. Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur Example: They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese. 5. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people). Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur Example: Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man. Example: The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp. 6. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry. Labels: Australia, dated, offensive Example: "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?". Example: A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink, yeller feller.” 7. Synonym of high yellow. Labels: US, dated Example: Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself. 8. Related to the Liberal Democrats. Labels: UK Example: yellow constituencies 9. Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany. Example: the black–yellow coalition
Word: yellow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈjɛləʊ/, /ˈjɛlo/, /ˈjɛlə/, /ˈjɛlou/, /ˈjɛloʊ/ 1. To become yellow or yellower. Labels: intransitive Example: Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath. Example: Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […] 2. To make (something) yellow or yellower. Labels: transitive 3. To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral. Labels: historical, transitive Example: Then they might yellow him if they wanted to; he would be satisfied with Admiral’s rank.
Word: yellow Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the colors used on traffic lights; yellow being the one for warning vehicles to stop soon. Pronunciation: /ˈjɛləʊ/, /ˈjɛlo/, /ˈjɛlə/, /ˈjɛlou/, /ˈjɛloʊ/ 1. Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.
Word: grapefruit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape + fruit, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early 19th c. Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pomelo's botanical names is Citrus grandis, meaning “great citrus [fruit]”, due to the size of its fruit. A new pomelo variety might first have been called a GRAYT-froot (see greatfruit), and through the process of assimilation, the word came to be pronounced GRAYP-froot. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹuːt/, /ˈɡɹɛjpfɹʉwt/, /ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹut/, /ˈɡɹæɪ̯pfɹʉːt/, /ˈɡɾepfɾʉt/ 1. The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Results have begun to come in and at Comfort Castle this month I spent a useful and happy half day carting round 8 children in my car to their homes where we all helped to fill in with good soil and manure, their excellently dug holes and planted the grapefruit. 2. The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Grapefruit is high in vitamin C. The pink and red varieties contain vitamin A (betacarotene) and lycopene, an antioxidant that may help prevent cancer. Grapefruit contains a chemical that can alter intestinal absorption of some medications and lead to higher than normal blood levels of some drugs and potential problems. Example: Once loaded by Canaveral, the grapefruit are transported to Japan, where the shipments are unloaded by employees of Japanese stevedoring companies. The grapefruit are then received by the Japanese importers. 3. Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable, vulgar Example: Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness. Example: Dan hauled her to the carpet as she fell limp over him. She stretched out on her back, her grapefruits, fitted snugly into her sturdy cotton bra, rock hard under his nose.
Word: citrus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin citrus (“a citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre. Thus a possible doublet of cedar. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtɹəs/ 1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae. 2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.
Word: citrus Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin citrus (“a citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre. Thus a possible doublet of cedar. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtɹəs/ 1. Of, relating to, or similar to citrus plants or fruit. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Its nose is very citrus and fruity. Example: […] and his cologne was more citrus than the usual leatherwood floating in formaldehyde.
Word: prime number Part of Speech: noun 1. Any natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers. Example: The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that every natural number greater than 1 can be factorized into prime numbers in a way that is unique up to the order in which the factors are written. Example: 2007, James Alfred Walker, Julian Francis Miller, Predicting Prime Numbers Using Cartesian Genetic Programming, Marc Ebner, Michael O'Neill, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcázar, Leonardo Vanneschi (editors), Genetic Programming: 10th European Conference, EuroGP 2007, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 4445, page 215, As the evolved solution for the first 16 prime numbers was capable of accepting inputs up to 31, we decided to extend the experiment to see how the solution generalised on 15 previously unseen inputs (just as we did with the integer-based approach). From the 15 unseen inputs, 7 of the predicted 15 outputs were prime numbers, which is just below 50%, indicating that the solution had learned something about "primeness" or favoured prime numbers. 2. Any natural number (including 1) that is divisible only by itself and 1. Labels: obsolete
Word: fourth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognates Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði. Pronunciation: /fɔːθ/, /fɔɹθ/, /fo(ː)ɹθ/, /foəθ/ 1. The ordinal form of the number four. Labels: not-comparable Example: The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model. Example: Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.
Word: fourth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognates Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði. Pronunciation: /fɔːθ/, /fɔɹθ/, /fo(ː)ɹθ/, /foəθ/ 1. The person or thing in the fourth position. Labels: singular Example: We are one F and two M's seeking the company of a fourth (M or F) for our spacious and friendly Somerville apt. 2. A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole. Labels: US 3. The fourth gear of an engine. Labels: singular 4. A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F). Example: Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth 5. One sixtieth of a third or tierce. Labels: rare Example: […] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.