nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóngʰos Proto-Germanic *gangaz Proto-West Germanic *gang Old English gang Middle English gang English gang From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ/ 1. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. Example: the Gashouse Gang Example: The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night. 2. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang. Example: a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool. 3. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city. Example: a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang. 4. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit. Example: The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets. 5. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal. Example: The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong. Example: Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster. 6. A chain gang. Labels: US 7. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set. Example: a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling. 8. A set; all required for an outfit. Example: a new gang of stays. 9. A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate. Example: an outlet gang box; a double gang switch. 10. A group of wires attached as a bundle. Example: a gang of wires Example: Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet. 11. A going, journey; a course, path, track. Labels: dialectal Example: In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang Example: That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days. 12. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. Labels: obsolete 13. A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice. 14. A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice. Labels: Internet, broadly Example: The sun isn't real? What are you even talking about, gang?
Word: gang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóngʰos Proto-Germanic *gangaz Proto-West Germanic *gang Old English gang Middle English gang English gang From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To attach similar items together to form a larger unit. Labels: transitive Example: Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […] Example: When cutting the back cleats with the T-guide, first gang them together so all the marks on one side align.
Word: gang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See gan. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of gan. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: gang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortening of gangbang. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ/ 1. Synonym of gangbang. Example: He still liked the idea of them all ganging her [...] Example: […] I’ve learned over the years that there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.
Word: gang Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡæŋ/, [ˈɡæŋ], /ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈɡɛ̃ŋ/ 1. Alternative form of gangue. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: gaoler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, gaol + -er. 1. Dated spelling of jailer. Labels: Commonwealth Example: The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler. Example: One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.
Word: gap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gap /gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”). Doublet of gape. Pronunciation: /ɡæp/, /ɡap/, /ɡɛp/ 1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. Example: He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot. 2. An opening allowing passage or entrance. Example: We can slip through that gap between the buildings. 3. An opening that implies a breach or defect. Example: There is a gap between the roof and the gutter. 4. A vacant space or time. Example: I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday. 5. A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous. Example: I'm taking a gap. Example: You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road. 6. A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack. Example: Their departure has left a gap in the workforce. Example: Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence. 7. A mountain or hill pass. Example: The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains. 8. A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names). Example: At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach. 9. The regions between the outfielders. Example: Jones doubled through the gap. 10. The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item. Labels: Australia Example: Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee. 11. The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc. Labels: Australia, literary, usually 12. An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment. 13. The vagina. Labels: euphemistic, slang
Word: gap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gap /gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”). Doublet of gape. Pronunciation: /ɡæp/, /ɡap/, /ɡɛp/ 1. To notch, as a sword or knife. Labels: transitive 2. To make an opening in; to breach. Labels: transitive 3. To check the size of a gap. Labels: transitive Example: I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small. 4. To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin. Labels: especially, intransitive, slang, transitive Example: Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game Example: sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments 5. To leave suddenly. Labels: New-Zealand, slang Example: [Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral 6. To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap. Labels: intransitive Example: The robe gaps open at the waist, breasts spilling out of a lacy bra that looks like she might have had it since her college days.
Word: gap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gup. Pronunciation: /ɡæp/, /ɡap/, /ɡɛp/ 1. Alternative form of gup (“elected head of a gewog in Bhutan”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of gape. Pronunciation: /ɡæp/, /ɡap/, /ɡɛp/ 1. To stare or gape. Labels: US, dated, intransitive, slang, transitive Example: Well, dey would all begin stretchin' and gappin', and den some of dem would say, with a gap and another stretch: […]
Word: gather Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæðə/, /ˈɡaðə/, /ˈɡæðɚ/, /ˈɡaðəɾ/ 1. To collect normally separate things. Example: I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with. Example: She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair. 2. To collect normally separate things. Example: We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane. 3. To collect normally separate things. Example: Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs. 4. To collect normally separate things. Labels: intransitive Example: People gathered round as he began to tell his story. Example: Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, […] 5. To collect normally separate things. Labels: intransitive Example: Their snow-ball did not gather as it went. 6. To bring parts of a whole closer. Example: She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold. 7. To bring parts of a whole closer. Example: A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped. 8. To bring parts of a whole closer. Example: Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting. Example: If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline. 9. To bring parts of a whole closer. 10. To bring parts of a whole closer. Example: to gather the slack of a rope 11. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. Example: From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well. Example: I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match. 12. To be filled with pus Labels: intransitive Example: Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst. 13. To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 14. To gain; to win. Example: He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
Word: gather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæðə/, /ˈɡaðə/, /ˈɡæðɚ/, /ˈɡaðəɾ/ 1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 2. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 3. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather. 4. A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 5. A gathering. Example: "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose." Example: What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.
Word: gauge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galgā (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”). Doublet of gallows. Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɡæɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. Labels: transitive 2. To estimate. Labels: transitive 3. To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. Labels: transitive Example: You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it. Labels: transitive 5. To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris. Labels: transitive 6. To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape. Labels: transitive
Word: gaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”). Pronunciation: /ɡeɪz/, /ˈɡæɪz/ 1. To stare intently or earnestly. Labels: intransitive Example: They gazed at the stars for hours. Example: Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? 2. To stare at. Labels: poetic, transitive Example: Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie Example: I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed I gazed a gazeless stare.
Word: gaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”). Pronunciation: /ɡeɪz/, /ˈɡæɪz/ 1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. Example: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. 2. The object gazed on. Labels: archaic Example: Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell. Example: Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze; 3. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. Example: She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator. 4. The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience. Labels: in-compounds, usually Example: hooks is right to argue that within this culture the ethnographic conceit of a neutral gaze will always be a white gaze, an unmarked white gaze, one which passes its own perspective off as the omniscient Example: The American panorama is indicative of the nation's expansion westward and an example of the American gaze.
Word: gazette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈzɛt/ 1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically. 2. An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
Word: gazette Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈzɛt/ 1. To publish (something) in a gazette. Labels: transitive 2. To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies. Labels: UK, transitive Example: Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.
Word: geld Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Doublet of yield. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield. Pronunciation: /ɡɛld/ 1. Money. Labels: Northern-England, archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable 2. Money. Labels: archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable
Word: geld Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Doublet of yield. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield. Pronunciation: /ɡɛld/ 1. To tax geld. Labels: historical
Word: geld Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Norse geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), German galt, gelt (“not giving milk, barren”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare the archaic German Gelze (“castrated swine”) and gelzen (“to castrate”), Danish galt (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr. Pronunciation: /ɡɛld/ 1. To castrate a male (usually an animal). Labels: transitive Example: "Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men. 2. To suppress or severely reduce sexual desire or libido. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Camphor if smell'd A man will geld. 3. To deprive of anything essential; to weaken. Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: geld Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Norse geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), German galt, gelt (“not giving milk, barren”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare the archaic German Gelze (“castrated swine”) and gelzen (“to castrate”), Danish galt (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr. Pronunciation: /ɡɛld/ 1. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
Word: gentry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/ 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Courtesy; civility; complaisance. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. People of education and good breeding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: landed gentry Example: English gentry 4. In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: genuine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː.ɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː.aɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌaɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒen.jʉː.ɪn/ 1. Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native. 2. Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated. Example: a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship Example: […] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.
Word: Germanization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English German Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English Germanization From German + -ization. 1. The act of making something have more German characteristics. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The adoption of German customs or culture. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The adoption of German customs or culture. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: germination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”) + -ation, from Latin germinātiō, germinātiōnem (“sprouting, budding, growing”), from germinātus (“sprouted, budded, grown”), past participle of germinō (“to sprout, bud, grow”), from germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”). By surface analysis, germinate + -ion. 1. The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
Word: gestation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin gestāre Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin gestātiōlbor. English gestation Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/ 1. The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of development of a plan or idea. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.
Word: gesticulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gesticulation, from Latin gesticulatio. Pronunciation: /dʒɛˌstɪkjəˈleɪʃən/ 1. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs when speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the eagerness of his gesticulations, first he knocked off my hat, then he knocked off Lessingham’s, then his own, then all three together […] Example: It is commonly supposed that they communicated by sounds and tentacular gesticulations; this is asserted, for instance, in the able but hastily compiled pamphlet (written evidently by someone not an eye-witness of Martian actions) to which I have already alluded, and which, so far, has been the chief source of information concerning them. 3. An odd or fanciful motion. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow.
Word: ghee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani گھی (ghī) / घी (ghī), traditionally explained as from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛta, “sprinkled”) (See घृत entry 3 for details). First attested in the late 17th century. Pronunciation: /ɡʰiː/, /ɡiː/ 1. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Of the medicines for relaxing the body; ghee, oil, charbi, marrow, and such are to be used; of these ghee is the best, as it is produced from milk, which is obtained from the cow. Example: A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage. 2. Vegetable oil for cooking. Labels: South-Asia, uncountable, usually Example: There are two kinds of ghee. Usli ghee or clarified butter is used rarely, partly because of its expense and partly because Indians consider it "heavy". The more commonly used ghee is a mixture of various vegetable oils.
Word: gimp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since about 1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming. The regional sense of "gumption" is attested since about 1905, and may have developed due to the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly the influence of the words gumption and gumph. Pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ 1. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks. 2. Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may. 3. The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Gumption. Labels: Northeastern, US, countable, dated, uncountable Example: Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them. Example: You haven't got gimp enough to, any more than you could smash the rest of that pint, instead of swallowing it. You're a weakling...
Word: gimp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested since about 1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming. The regional sense of "gumption" is attested since about 1905, and may have developed due to the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly the influence of the words gumption and gumph. Pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ 1. Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. Example: It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire. Example: ...low strings later than the mid-seventeenth century are commonly gimped (wound with fine wire on a moderate core) to allow sufficient tension without excessive mass or stiffness. 2. To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. Labels: dated Example: They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels. Example: This active material consists of a tape of pure lead, which is gimped whilst cold with deep grooves and ridges...
Word: gimp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp. Pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ 1. A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet. Labels: informal Example: (person) 2. A crippled leg. Labels: informal 3. A limp or a limping gait. Labels: informal Example: She walks with a gimp in one leg, which is why she is called Madame La Gimp... Example: ...Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side... 4. A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar. Labels: derogatory, slang 5. A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material. 6. A character or ability that is underpowered. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: gimp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp. Pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ 1. To limp; to hobble. Labels: informal, intransitive 2. To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: gimp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Scots. Alternative form of jimp. Compare Welsh gwymp (“fair, neat, comely”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪmp/ 1. Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant. Labels: dated
Word: girdle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɝdl̩/, /ˈɡɜːdl̩/ 1. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference. Example: the girdle of the world Example: Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies 2. A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. Example: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles Example: O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep-girdled women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail! 3. A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape. 4. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. 5. A thin bed or stratum of stone. 6. The clitellum of an earthworm. 7. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
Word: girdle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɝdl̩/, /ˈɡɜːdl̩/ 1. To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. Labels: transitive Example: The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles. 2. To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark. Labels: transitive Example: The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.
Word: girdle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɝdl̩/, /ˈɡɜːdl̩/ 1. Alternative form of griddle. Labels: Northern-English, Scotland, alt-of, alternative
Word: glaciation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French glaciation, from glace (“ice”). Pronunciation: /ˌɡleɪsiˈeɪʃən/ 1. The process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena; an ice age Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That the habitability of our planet was severely endangered by the significant rise in oxygen levels and reduction in methane due to oxygen-producing bacteria combined with the low luminosity of the Sun in the Proterozoic era (2500– 542 million years ago) is suggested by geological evidence for severe global glaciations in this epoch. Example: This simulation aims at describing the hydrological conditions at a Swedish deep repository of nuclear waste during a glaciation. 2. A particular instance of glacier formation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Deposits of the Caribou Hills glaciation only locally retain a distinct hummocky morainal form, with filled kettle depressions and subdued knobs. Along the mountain fronts the marginal deposits of this glaciation reach an average altitude of slightly more than 3,000 feet. Example: Deposits from the glaciation are sparse, but glacial surfaces at 4150–4300 m in the Hunza area, above 2600 m in the Gilgit region, above 3200 m in the Haramosh region, above 4000 m on Deosai, and at 3200–3500 m in the Shigar valley area provide much evidence for this glaciation. 3. The act of freezing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For cave glaciation to occur it is necessary that the air temperature outside the caves be negative either for all or part of a year; such conditions exist in many regions of the world.
Word: glans Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin glāns (“acorn”). Pronunciation: /ɡlænz/ 1. A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. 4. Synonym of goiter. 5. Synonym of pessary.
Word: contumacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin contumāx (“stubborn, obstinate”) + -ious. By surface analysis, contum(ax) + -acious. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/, /ˌkɑːn.tʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/, /ˌkɑːn.tjəˈmeɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious. Example: […] and, on his conſtancie, ſounds an accuſation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ſuch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ſome paſſion, and at laſt, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it. Example: In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting. 2. Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
Word: cumbersome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmbəsəm/, /ˈkʌmbɚsəm/ 1. Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious. Example: "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room. 2. Not easily managed or handled; awkward or clumsy. Example: Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production. Example: The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. 3. Hard, difficult, and demanding to handle or get around with. Example: A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines. 4. Inert, lumbering, or slow in movement.
Word: contrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English contreve (“to invent”), from Old French controver (Modern French controuver), from trover (“to find”) (French trouver). Pronunciation: /kənˈtɹaɪv/ 1. To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise Example: […]I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody. Example: Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. 2. To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation. 3. To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light. 4. To spend (time, or a period). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: conveniently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English convenient Middle English -ly English -ly English conveniently From convenient + -ly. Pronunciation: /kənˈvinjəntli/, /kənˈviːnɪəntli/ 1. In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. Example: his body was now conveniently inclin'd towards me, and just softly chucking his smooth beardless chin, I asked him if he was afraid of a lady? 2. In a manner provoking suspicion due to how well it suits someone's purposes. Example: You expect me to believe that someone created a wormhole, and now conveniently has disassembled it? Example: If you prefer to deal in actual figures, as opposed to conveniently distracting speculative ones, then do recall that the British taxpayer bailed out Lloyds to the tune of around £20bn, and continues to face a massive loss on those shares.
Word: convivial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French convivial, from Latin convīvium (“a feast”), combined form of con- (“together”) + vīvō (“to live”). Pronunciation: /kənˈvɪv.i.əl/ 1. Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity Example: I spent many a convivial evening at the club. Example: My grandpa was famously convivial.
Word: coordination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French coordination, from Late Latin coōrdinātiōnem (accusative of coōrdinātiō), from con- + ōrdinātiō. Morphologically coordinate + -ion. Pronunciation: /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, /koʊˌoɹdɪˈneɪʃən/, /kəʉˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃən/, /kɐʉˌoːdəˈnæɪʃən/ 1. The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination, no single head for all these agencies. 2. The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other. 3. The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I’m terrible at sports; I have no coordination. 4. The state of being equal in rank or power. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute co-ordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices. 5. An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There’s a wealth of other complex facts about coordination that could be explored […] coordinations with but are limited to two coordinates […]; yet coordinations with and or with or can have any number of coordinates, with the coordinator preceding just the last one […] or repeated before all except the first […] 6. The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: copulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“to join, unite, connect”). Pronunciation: /kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction. Labels: countable Example: I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion. 2. Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition. Labels: uncountable Example: Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Example: In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
Word: core Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse. Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor). Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. Forming the most important or essential part. Labels: not-comparable Example: Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity. Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 2. Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport. Labels: not-comparable Example: Our interest is not in core skaters such as young males and pro skaters but the voices of those on the periphery of the subculture. Example: We had a segmentation strategy, where the small, independent core skate shops — the three hundred boutiques around the country who really created us — had a certain product line that was exclusive to them. […] We said to the core shops, you don't have to compete with the malls.
Word: core Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse. Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor). Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. 2. To cut or drill through the core of (something). Example: But the other thing to take into account is, when you look at the Katahdin and the Polyphemus, they both have their boiler plants pretty much amidships or slightly forward of amidships, which means that, in the event of a heat-lance strike on the boiler room, not only is that gonna core through the ship right at the center of mass, which is obviously bad for its continued structural stability, but the boilers going up is gonna incinerate pretty much anybody on the bridge, which is gonna leave it completely out of control, and is probably gonna break the ship clean in half right there and then, none of which really speaks to the ship's being able to continue onwards with enough momentum to take down a Martian tripod. 3. To extract a sample with a drill.
Word: core Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See corps. Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. A body of individuals; an assemblage. Labels: obsolete Example: He was in a core of people.
Word: core Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See chore. Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. A miner's underground working time or shift.
Word: core Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr). Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume. Labels: alt-of, alternative, historical
Word: core Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly an acronym for cash on return. Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
Word: core Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From -core, ultimately from Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ], /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/ 1. An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc. Labels: neologism Example: Some of the most popular "cores" at the moment—according to the Wiki's "trending pages" list—are cottage and goblin and trauma and angel. If the last one sounds appealing, you can participate by eating more meringues and buying a pet dove. Example: The rise of micro-cores coincides with the rise of hyper-specific internet aesthetics. There's even an Aesthetics Wiki that chronicles all the possible cores online, including, but not limited to, bubblegumbitchcore, cottagecore, and fairycore.
Word: coronation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns on Jesus; act of rewarding a person with eternal life, happiness, honour, etc.”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman coronacion and Old French coronacion, coronation, from Late Latin *corōnātiōnem, from Latin corōnō (“to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)”) + -ātiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Corōnō is derived from corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”). Pronunciation: /kɒɹəˈneɪʃn̩/, /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌkɑ-/ 1. An act of investing with a crown; a crowning. Labels: also, attributive, literally Example: [A]nd if vvee be Spouſes of this Bridegroom [Jesus], vvee cannot but (as vvee are exhorted) rejoyce in that the marriage of the Lambe is come, and the day of our ovvn coronation vvith an incorruptible Crovvn of glory. 2. An act of investing with a crown; a crowning. Labels: also, attributive, literally, specifically Example: King Charles III’s coronation is to be much less elaborate compared to his mother’s. Example: Some reaſons of this double Corronation / I haue poſſeſſt you vvith, and thinke them ſtrong. 3. A completion or culmination of something. Labels: figuratively 4. A success in the face of little or no opposition. Labels: figuratively 5. In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward. Labels: rare Example: Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.