nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: copy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy From Middle English copien, from Old French copier and Medieval Latin cōpiō. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpi/, /ˈkɑpi/ 1. To produce an object identical to a given object. Labels: transitive Example: Please copy these reports for me. Example: Don't copy that floppy! 2. To give or transmit a copy to (a person). Labels: transitive Example: Make sure you copy me on that important memo. Example: All heads of departments have been copied. 3. To place a copy of an object in memory for later use. Labels: transitive Example: First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory. 4. To imitate. Labels: transitive Example: Don't copy my dance moves. Example: Mom, he's copying me! 5. To receive a transmission successfully. Example: Do you copy?
Word: kitten Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kitoun, kytton, kyton, keton (“kitten”), of obscure origin. Seemingly from, and usually explained as being from, unattested Anglo-Norman *kitoun, *ketun (compare Old French chitoun, cheton, chaton (“kitten”), diminutive of cat, chat (“cat”)); whence Modern French chaton (“kitten”). Similar words of Germanic origin may have reinforced this word; compare English kitling (“kit, kitten”), Low German Kitten (“kitten”), Icelandic kettlingur (“kitten”), Middle English chitte ("whelp, pup", see chit). The idea that kitoun, rather than being of Anglo-Norman origin, was in fact a purely Germanic derivation from one of these words is etymologically problematic, but cannot be definitively ruled out. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪtən̩/, [kʰɪtn̩], [kʰɪʔn̩] 1. A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months). Example: It was supposed to have happened thus: the cat had young kittens, and frequently carried them mice, and other animals its prey, and among the rest a young rat: the kittens, not being hungry, played with it, and when the cat came to give suck to the kittens, the rat likewise sucked her. Example: To the sounds, however, I paid no attention at first as I was much interested in the subject upon which I was writing; but at length my som Richard burst into my study, exclaiming that the kitten had climbed up to the top of a young ash tree, and could not get down again. 2. A young rabbit, rat, hedgehog, squirrel, fox, beaver, badger, etc. Example: The first move at beaver raising in North Dakota had its starting in the fall of 1874, when a kitten beaver was taken out of Mandan Lake by the writer and given to a little Indian girl who then lived with her guardians at Pretty Point near the present village of Sanger, Oliver county. Example: 2009, Kathryn Walker, See How Rabbits Grow, publ. by PowerKiDS press (The Rosen Publishing Group Inc.), page 10. Rabbit babies are called kittens or kits. The mother prepares a cosy nest for her kittens. 3. A moth of the genus Furcula. Example: Two of these formed cocoons in a manner I have not seen before. They were supplied when full-grown with plenty of rotten willow wood, which I have always found a most suitable material for insects using bark or old wood in forming cocoons such as the kittens, Apatele alni, etc., and most made the usual cycle of cocoons on it. 4. A term of endearment, especially for a woman. Labels: colloquial Example: Speak only when spoken to, kitten. 5. A term of endearment, especially for a woman. Labels: broadly, colloquial
Word: kitten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English kitoun, kytton, kyton, keton (“kitten”), of obscure origin. Seemingly from, and usually explained as being from, unattested Anglo-Norman *kitoun, *ketun (compare Old French chitoun, cheton, chaton (“kitten”), diminutive of cat, chat (“cat”)); whence Modern French chaton (“kitten”). Similar words of Germanic origin may have reinforced this word; compare English kitling (“kit, kitten”), Low German Kitten (“kitten”), Icelandic kettlingur (“kitten”), Middle English chitte ("whelp, pup", see chit). The idea that kitoun, rather than being of Anglo-Norman origin, was in fact a purely Germanic derivation from one of these words is etymologically problematic, but cannot be definitively ruled out. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪtən̩/, [kʰɪtn̩], [kʰɪʔn̩] 1. To give birth to kittens. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: A cat about to kitten, must not be spoken of by its name, but called a witch. (Madagascar.) Example: 'Princess the Lady Regina of Alphington is about to kitten. I must be there to support her.'
Word: leveret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English leveret(te), from Old French leveret, diminutive of lievre (“hare”), from Latin leporem, of obscure origin. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/, /ˈlɛvɹɪt/ 1. A young hare less than one year old. Example: […] Shall I die like a leveret, Without any resistance?—Help, help, help! I am slain! Example: Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write, Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white, Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show, Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
Word: joey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Older and more general sources state that joey comes from an Australian Aboriginal language (cited as joè), but newer sources that focus on Australian English and Aboriginal languages say the origin is unknown. The Australian National Dictionary includes a sense of “young possum” with citations predating the earliest “young kangaroo” citations. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/ 1. The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc. Example: As soon as a joey is born, it crawls into its mother's pouch. The joey grows in the pouch. 2. A young child. Labels: Australia, slang 3. Ellipsis of joey word. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys. Example: Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey. 4. A parcel smuggled in to an inmate. Labels: Ireland, UK, slang Example: "Visit in two days though," said Tommo. "Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then."
Word: joey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837), a popular English entertainer. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/ 1. A kind of clown.
Word: joey Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/ 1. A member of the Royal Marines. Labels: UK, slang
Word: joey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From British TV personality Joey Deacon (1920–1981), who was the focus of Blue Peter's 1981 charity campaign. The programme was aimed at children, who then picked the term up and used it as an insult. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/ 1. A person with cerebral palsy. Labels: dated, derogatory, offensive, slang 2. A stupid person. Labels: dated, derogatory, offensive, slang
Word: joey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Said to have been named after Scottish politician Joseph Hume (1777–1855). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/ 1. A fourpenny piece, or its value; fourpence worth. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: a joey of brandy
Word: lion cub Part of Speech: noun 1. A young lion Labels: feminine, masculine
Word: lionet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lion + -et. 1. A lion cub.
Word: lamb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk. Pronunciation: /ˈlæm/, /ˈlam/, [ˈlæm], [ˈlɛə̯m] ~ [ˈleə̯m], /ˈlæːm/ 1. A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow. Example: Mark and Mark have raised some lambs for market, and they won a blue ribbon for quality at the fair. 2. A young goat; a kid. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:” 3. The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food. Labels: uncountable 4. A person who is meek, docile, and easily led. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: sheep 5. Lambskin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders. 6. A simple, unsophisticated person. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 8. A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969). Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs. Example: Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.
Word: lamb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk. Pronunciation: /ˈlæm/, /ˈlam/, [ˈlæm], [ˈlɛə̯m] ~ [ˈleə̯m], /ˈlæːm/ 1. Of a sheep, to give birth. Labels: intransitive 2. To assist (sheep) to give birth. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
Word: tiger cub Part of Speech: noun 1. A young tiger.
Word: liger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of lion + tiger Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪɡɚ/ 1. An animal born to a male lion and a tigress. Example: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
Word: tigon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of tiger + lion Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪɡən/ 1. A cross between a male tiger and a lioness. Example: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
Word: cock-sparrow Part of Speech: noun 1. A male sparrow. 2. A quarrelsome, cocky person Example: Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries.
Word: steward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward. Pronunciation: /ˈstjuː.əːd/, [ˈstjʊu̯.əːd], /ˈst͡ʃuː.əd/, [ˈst͡ʃʊu̯.əːd], /ˈstu.ɚd/ 1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity. 2. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity. Labels: historical 3. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. Example: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. 4. A flight attendant, especially male. Labels: dated Example: The gay Kibbutzniks I met were all ex-Kibbutzniks who were curretly holding jobs as El-Al stewards or in some similarly classic gay professions. 5. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management. 6. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals. 7. Someone responsible for organizing an event 8. A bartender. 9. A fiscal agent of certain bodies. Example: a steward in a Methodist church 10. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge. 11. An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students. 12. A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. Labels: Scotland Example: These lands must have been retained by some earlier Steward, perhaps Walter II (1204-41), when most of Erskine had been made into a fief for Henry, first known ancestor of the Erskine family. 13. Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong. 14. A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents. 15. A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
Word: steward Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward. Pronunciation: /ˈstjuː.əːd/, [ˈstjʊu̯.əːd], /ˈst͡ʃuː.əd/, [ˈst͡ʃʊu̯.əːd], /ˈstu.ɚd/ 1. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something) Example: Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”
Word: cock-robin Part of Speech: noun 1. A male robin.
Word: aspidistra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from taxonomic name Aspidistra, coined by English botanist John Bellenden Ker in 1822 from a blend of Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + taxonomic name Tupistra (“a sister genus”). 1. Any of several Asian plants of the genus Aspidistra, having large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers; widely cultivated as a houseplant. Example: 'Thank God they're not gentel aboutit.' 'Some of them are,' said Leiter. 'Tea-cups, aspidistras and tut-tutting all over the place.'
Word: seismograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seismo- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪz.mə.ɡɹæf/ 1. An instrument that automatically detects and records the intensity, direction and duration of earthquakes and similar events.
Word: seismology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seismo- + -logy. Pronunciation: /saɪzˈmɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /saɪsˈmɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /saɪzˈmɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /saɪsˈmɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The study of the vibration of the Earth's interior caused by natural and unnatural sources, such as earthquakes. Labels: uncountable
Word: seismologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English seismology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English seismologist From seismology + -ist. 1. A person who is skilled at, professes, or practices seismology.
Word: seismic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Based on Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós, “shaking, earthquake”) + -ic, equivalent to seismo- + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪzmɪk/, /ˈsaɪsmɪk/, /ˈsismɪk/ 1. Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth. Labels: not-comparable Example: seismic activity 2. Subject to earthquakes. Labels: not-comparable Example: a seismic area 3. Of very large or widespread effect. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: With Spurs having avoided a seismic Cup upset, Newport's heroic display will be rewarded with a lucrative replay at Wembley. Example: But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.
Word: abstract noun Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæbˌstɹækt naʊn/ 1. A noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality, generalization, representation or other abstract or intangible concept, as opposed to a concrete item, or a physical object.
Word: ring species Part of Speech: noun 1. A biological species consisting of overlapping subgroups, each of which can interbreed with the next, but which cannot freely interbreed when taken as a whole Example: Ring species demonstrate that "can interbreed with" is not transitive.
Word: clade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt. Pronunciation: /kleɪd/ 1. A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species. Example: All three clades containing Prunum and “Volvarina” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above). Example: No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending clade — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of clades exhibited sustained trends, we would still focus our attention upon this tiny minority in telling our favored version of the story of life's history. 2. A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
Word: clade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt. Pronunciation: /kleɪd/ 1. To be part of a clade; to form a clade. Example: The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.
Word: apophenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Apophänie, from Ancient Greek ἀποφαίνω (apophaínō, “to appear”), from ἀπο- (apo-) and φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”), coined by German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958. Pronunciation: /æpəˈfiːni.ə/ 1. The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. And had never, as far as Cayce knows, said another word about it. Example: How to recognize something in sheer noise? A striking visual example of pure and conscious apophenia was recently demonstrated by research labs at Google: […]
Word: varnish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi. Pronunciation: /ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/ 1. A clear or translucent liquid coating composed of resin dissolved in a solvent, which dries by evaporation to form a hard, protective, and typically glossy finish. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Anything resembling such a coating; a glossy appearance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the varnish of the holly and ivy 3. A deceptively showy appearance. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: And set a double varnish on the fame / The Frenchman gave you. 4. A passenger train, probably derived from the varnished passenger cars used at one time. Labels: US, countable, dated, informal, uncountable Example: Every transcontinental but two settled on the simple articulated for freight service, and all of them coupled their varnish to the 4-8-4.
Word: varnish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi. Pronunciation: /ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/ 1. To apply varnish. Labels: intransitive 2. To cover up with varnish. Labels: transitive 3. To make something superficially or deceptively attractive Labels: transitive Example: varnish the report 4. To gloss over a defect. Labels: transitive Example: [...] Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.
Word: glottal stop Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡlɒtəl stɒp/, /ɡlɒʔəl stɒp/, /ɡlɑtəl stɑp/ 1. A plosive sound articulated with the glottis. Example: Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words. 2. The glottal stop symbol, ʔ. 3. hiatus
Word: glottal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glottis + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒt.l̩/, /ˈɡlɑ.tl̩/, [ˈɡlɑ.ɾl̩], /ˈɡlɔt.l̩/, [ˈɡlɔɾ.l̩] 1. Of or relating to the glottis. Labels: not-comparable 2. Articulated with the glottis. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication. Example: Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.
Word: glottal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glottis + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒt.l̩/, /ˈɡlɑ.tl̩/, [ˈɡlɑ.ɾl̩], /ˈɡlɔt.l̩/, [ˈɡlɔɾ.l̩] 1. A sound made with the glottis
Word: fool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs. Pronunciation: /fuːl/, /fʉwl/, [fʊwl], /foːl/, /ful/ 1. A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. Labels: derogatory Example: You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking. Example: The village fool threw his own shoes down the well. 2. A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages). Labels: historical Example: 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery. 3. A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations. 4. Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe. Example: Such clouds of nameless trouble cross ⁠All night below the darken’d eyes; ⁠With morning wakes the will, and cries, ‘Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.’ 5. Someone who derives pleasure from something specified. Labels: informal Example: Can they think me […] their fool or jester? Example: I'm a fool for the city. 6. An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man. Labels: slang Example: Upon opening the door, Trech was suddenly drawn aback by the shocking presence of the armed goon standing directly in front of him. “Yo, what up fool? […]” Example: “What up, fool?” he finally responded. “Not too much; fell asleep watching your boys get their asses kicked,” I told him, referring to the Carolina Cougars, the last team he played for before he got sick. 7. A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Word: fool Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs. Pronunciation: /fuːl/, /fʉwl/, [fʊwl], /foːl/, /ful/ 1. To trick; to deceive. Labels: transitive Example: She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance. Example: There appears to be no process of gradually fooling oneself while degrading standards so characteristic of the Solid Rocket Booster or Space Shuttle Main Engine safety systems. 2. To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly. Labels: intransitive Example: 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar Is this a time for fooling? Example: She's always complaining that she got stuck with the worst possible committee. And that me and Jimmy fool more than we work. 3. To make a fool of; to make act the fool. Labels: archaic Example: They fool me to the top of my bent.
Word: fool Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs. Pronunciation: /fuːl/, /fʉwl/, [fʊwl], /foːl/, /ful/ 1. Foolish. Labels: informal Example: Of all the fool, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that begins by deceiving her, is the foolest a sane woman ever undertook. Example: That was a fool thing to do. You could have gotten yourself shot
Word: fool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fouler (“to trample”). 1. A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream. Example: an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool Example: Eton is renowned for its "messes," and "strawberry mess" is Empress of them all, with raspberry mess as a very good second. It does not at all convey the joys of a "mess" to say that it consists of iced fruit and cream, and somewhat resembles a "fool." It is a thing apart, and should be approached with bated breath and unimpaired capacity.
Word: sneeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fnēosan (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”). Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), cognate with Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”), Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”). See neeze. It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequence fn- as ſn- (sn- written with a long s), although the change is regular, seen also in snore and snort from Middle English fnoren and fnorten, and in late Middle English snatted from earlier Middle English fnatted (“snub-nosed”). The fn- forms of all these words fell out of use in the 1400s. Due to this rather universal adoption of the fn- > sn- shift within English by such a time frame, the idea of it being a simple sound shift has been suggested as well, with the specifically being a type of assimilation as the bilabial f- becomes alveolar s- to match the place of articulation of the following n-. Pronunciation: /sniːz/ 1. To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose. Labels: intransitive Example: To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve. 2. To expel air as if the nose were irritated. Labels: intransitive 3. To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above. Labels: transitive Example: Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose. Example: When I crossed the road, I sneezed a big achoo! My nose started to feel itchy.
Word: sneeze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fnēosan (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”). Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), cognate with Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”), Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”). See neeze. It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequence fn- as ſn- (sn- written with a long s), although the change is regular, seen also in snore and snort from Middle English fnoren and fnorten, and in late Middle English snatted from earlier Middle English fnatted (“snub-nosed”). The fn- forms of all these words fell out of use in the 1400s. Due to this rather universal adoption of the fn- > sn- shift within English by such a time frame, the idea of it being a simple sound shift has been suggested as well, with the specifically being a type of assimilation as the bilabial f- becomes alveolar s- to match the place of articulation of the following n-. Pronunciation: /sniːz/ 1. An act of sneezing. Example: Jared's hay fever gives him terrible sneezes.
Word: belch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin. Related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English bealċettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛltʃ/ 1. To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly. Labels: ambitransitive Example: 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us. Example: 1746, attributed to Jonathan Swift, "A Love Poem form a Physician to his Mistress," http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14353/pg14353-images.html When I an amorous kiss design'd, I belch'd a hurricane of wind. 2. To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship. Example: Within the gates of hell sat Sin and Death, In counterview within the gates, that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame Far into Chaos […].
Word: belch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin. Related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English bealċettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛltʃ/ 1. An instance of belching; the sound that it makes. Example: The hotel coffee machine gurgles out an acrid belch. 2. Malt liquor. Labels: obsolete Example: c. 1699, John Dennis, letter to Mr. Collier Porters would no longer be drunk with Belch
Word: snore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”). The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see sneeze for more). Pronunciation: /snɔː/, /snoɹ/, /sno(ː)ɹ/, /snoə/ 1. To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. Labels: ambitransitive Example: While you here do ſnoaring lie, / Open-ey'd Conſpiracie / His time doth take: / If of Life you keepe a care, / Shake off ſlumber, and beware. / Awake, awake. Example: The lumpiſh husband ſnoar'd avvay the night, / Till coughs avvak'd him near the morning light.
Word: snore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”). The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see sneeze for more). Pronunciation: /snɔː/, /snoɹ/, /sno(ː)ɹ/, /snoə/ 1. The act of snoring, and the noise produced. 2. An extremely boring person or event. Labels: informal
Word: hiccough Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɪ.kəp/, /ˈhɪ.kʌp/ 1. Dated spelling of hiccup.
Word: hiccough Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhɪ.kəp/, /ˈhɪ.kʌp/ 1. Dated spelling of hiccup. Example: I sat there, with tears in my eyes, and hiccoughed for breath, quite beside myself with feverish merriment.
Word: figure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡə/, /ˈfɪɡjɚ/, /ˈfɪɡɚ/, /ˈfɪɡəɾ/, /ˈfɪɡəɹ/ 1. To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. Labels: US 2. To come to understand. Labels: US Example: I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying. 3. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. Example: 1. Gent. Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error, I am sound. Example: “I know you figure me for a leftneck fool, correct?” 4. To be reasonable or predictable. Labels: US, intransitive Example: It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation. 5. To enter into; to be a part of. Labels: intransitive Example: It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction. Example: The exchange rate figures heavily in several other aspects of Venezuela's economy. 6. To represent in a picture or drawing. Labels: transitive Example: Although now to be met with in botanic gardens everywhere, there is a certain degree of interest attaching to the figure of it in B.M. 3,992 (1843), although that was by no means the first figure published, for Lambert, Sprengel, and Sir W. Hooker had previously figured it. 7. To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. Labels: obsolete Example: If love, alas! be pain; the pain I bear, / No thought can figure, and no tongue declare. 8. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. Example: The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. 9. To indicate by numerals. Labels: obsolete Example: 1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. 10. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Example: whose white vestments figure innocence 11. To prefigure; to foreshow. Labels: obsolete Example: His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death, And in their ſmoothneſſe, amitie and life: Example: In this the heaven figures some event. 12. To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. 13. To embellish.
Word: speech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak. Pronunciation: /spiːt͡ʃ/, /spɛːt͡ʃ/ 1. The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate. Labels: uncountable Example: He had a bad speech impediment. Example: After the accident she lost her speech. 2. The act of speaking, a certain style of it. Labels: uncountable Example: It was hard to hear his speech over the noise. Example: Her speech was soft and lilting. 3. A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person. Labels: countable Example: The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech. Example: The constant design of both these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. 4. A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language. Labels: countable Example: For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel. Example: The speche of Englande is a base speche to other noble speches, as Italion, Castylion, and Frenche; howbeit the speche of Englande of late dayes is amended. 5. Language used orally, rather than in writing. Labels: uncountable Example: This word is mostly used in speech. 6. An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Public talk, news, gossip, rumour. Labels: uncountable Example: The duke[…]did of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.
Word: speech Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak. Pronunciation: /spiːt͡ʃ/, /spɛːt͡ʃ/ 1. To make (a speech); to harangue. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game. Example: So to Speeching he did go, / And like a Man of Senſe, / He certainly ſaid Ay or No,
Word: Saturn Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Sætern, from Latin Sāturnus, probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre), plausibly influenced by Latin satus, past participle of serere (“to sow”). Pronunciation: /ˈsæt.ɚn/, /ˈsæt.ən/ 1. The sixth planet of the solar system, known for its large rings, and until recent times the furthest known; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♄. 2. The god of fertility and agriculture, equivalent to the Greek Cronos. Labels: Roman 3. A former brand of car by GM (1985–2010). Example: Saturn promised us no-haggle purchasing and no-dent body panels.
Word: Saturn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English Sætern, from Latin Sāturnus, probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre), plausibly influenced by Latin satus, past participle of serere (“to sow”). Pronunciation: /ˈsæt.ɚn/, /ˈsæt.ən/ 1. Sable (black), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures in the arms of certain sovereign people and places as planets. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: 12. Venus, a Staff in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Cross Pattee, Luna surmounted off a Pall of the last, charged with 4. like Crosses fitched Saturn, edged and stringed as the second. This Coat belongs to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, to whose place it appertains to Crown and Inaugurate the Kings of England. Example: […] The Field is Luna, a Chevron, Mars, between three Bull's Heads couped Saturn, armed Sol. This Coat-Armour pertained to the Right Noble Family of Thomas Bulleine Lord hoo and Hastings, Viscount Rochford, […] [pages 200-201:] I have omitted, in this Edition, that Escucheon Sol, charged with three Toads erected Saturn, which, according to some Authors, was the Coat-Armour of the ancient Kings of France; […] 2. Lead (the metal). Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Another pair of terms which caused some confusion were Spirit of Saturn and Spirit of Venus, names suggesting compounds of lead and copper respectively. Jean Beguin described the preparation from minium and distilled vinegar of a liquid he called burning spirit of Saturn, because it was inflammable and he thought it was a compound of lead. Actually the lead takes no part in the reaction and the product of distilling lead acetate is impure acetone. Beguin’s terminology did not go without comment however, for Christopher Glaser later referred to ‘A burning Spirit of Saturn (as it is called) but rather, a Spirit of the Volatile Salt of Vinegar’. Tachenius referred to the product of distillation of copper acetate as ‘pretended spirit of Venus’ because it was really only distilled vinegar - the meaning which Macquer gave to the expression. It is typical of the confusion of terminology in early chemistry that the London Pharmacopoeia of 1721 gave the name Spiritus Veneris to sulphuric acid obtained by the distillation of copper sulphate. Example: The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate). 3. A car of the former Saturn brand by GM. Labels: uncountable Example: Remember that guy who worked in the warehouse who used to drive that blue Saturn? That guy was the best. I wonder where he is now?
Word: globe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus. Pronunciation: /ɡləʊb/, /ɡloʊb/, /ɡloːb/ 1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. 2. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. 3. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. Example: the globe of a lamp 4. A light bulb. Labels: Australia, South-Africa, dated Example: Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them. 5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square. Example: Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed. 6. A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent. Labels: in-plural, slang Example: Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez went with her favorite silhouette: a robe-like dress, barely fastened solely in the areas you actually can’t reveal on the red carpet (remember that famous Versace number at the Grammys?). This year, she wore a silver and cream Zuhair Murad that showed off all of her best assets, which even caused Jeremy Renner to blurt out a comment about her “globes” on stage. Example: 'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts. 7. A group. Labels: obsolete 8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
Word: globe Part of Speech: name Etymology: From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus. Pronunciation: /ɡləʊb/, /ɡloʊb/, /ɡloːb/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Globe (“the earth”) Labels: alt-of Example: They aspired to circumaviate the globe. Example: Already Cæſar Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.
Word: globe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus. Pronunciation: /ɡləʊb/, /ɡloʊb/, /ɡloːb/ 1. To become spherical. Labels: intransitive 2. To make spherical. Labels: transitive
Word: rub out Part of Speech: verb 1. To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser). Labels: transitive Example: The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard. 2. To get by; to live. Labels: obsolete Example: The first will understand but little of them, the latter over much; they might perhaps live and rub out in the middle region. 3. To kill, especially to murder. Labels: slang, transitive Example: It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows. Example: 'Mr Grimaldi,' fills in Smoke, 'what I believe Fay has too much tact to spit out and say is this: the Rey woman might be imagining we rubbed out Dr Sixsmith.' 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, out.
Word: flashlight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flash + light. Pronunciation: /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, [ˈflæʃˌlaɪ̯t], [ˈflæʃˌlɐɪ̯t], /ˈflaʃˌlɑjt/, /ˈflaʃˌlʌɪt/ 1. A battery-powered hand-held light source. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US Example: I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription. Example: At school he used to do Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, shining a flashlight into his face. 2. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography). Example: He sat in an arm-chair with his forefinger to his temple, and when the photographer's flashlight went off, he hoped that the hotel had caught fire and that this would end it all. Example: […] the flashlight exploded like a tiny bomb, making the Vicar jump a little, which explains why his face is a thankful blur, his deadly role forgotten to history (I have the photograph before me now). 3. A photograph taken with a flash camera. Labels: obsolete
Word: flashlight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From flash + light. Pronunciation: /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, [ˈflæʃˌlaɪ̯t], [ˈflæʃˌlɐɪ̯t], /ˈflaʃˌlɑjt/, /ˈflaʃˌlʌɪt/ 1. To illuminate with a flashlight. Labels: transitive Example: Autis stepped carefully while flashlighting the fog in front of himself and Gar.
Word: cantar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kantar. Labels: alt-of, alternative