nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: bachelor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)). Pronunciation: /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/, /ˈbæt͡ʃ.lɚ/, /ˈbɛt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/ 1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet. Example: As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. Example: I shall die a bachelor. 2. The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree. 3. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree. 4. A bachelor apartment. Labels: Canada 5. An unmarried woman. Labels: obsolete Example: A bachelor still, by keeping of your portion : And keep you not alone without a husband 6. A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field. Labels: obsolete 7. Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery. Labels: obsolete 8. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
Word: bachelor party Part of Speech: noun 1. A party held for a man who is about to be married, normally attended only by male friends and relatives. Labels: Canada, South-Africa, US
Word: stag party Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstæɡ ˈpɑɹ.ti/, /ˈstæɡ ˈpɑː.ti/ 1. A bachelor party; a party held for a man who is about to be married. Labels: Canada, UK
Word: bachelorette party Part of Speech: noun 1. A party held for a woman who is about to be married. Labels: Canada, US
Word: hen party Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɛn ˌpɑɹ.ti/, /ˈhɛn ˌpɑː.ti/ 1. A bachelorette party; a party held for a woman who is about to be married. Labels: Australia, UK
Word: tutoyer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French tutoyer. 1. To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou. Labels: transitive Example: As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so. Example: […] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.
Word: vouvoyer Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of vousvoyer. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [Guy] Bertrand said he should also have twigged when “Bouchard” – whom he has addressed using the familiar “tu” for years – started off the conversation using the formal “vous.” “I found myself saying, ‘Hello, Lucien, how is it going?’ and he ‘vouvoyered’ me and he had a bit of a haughty air. So I told myself that even though we know each other well, perhaps it’s better if we use vous.” Example: An outraged Parisian gave up skiing when his instructor addressed him as tu, while a fashionable personal trainer insists upon it because he would not feel right about vouvoyer-ing deltoids and abs.[…]Questioned on his use of tu and vous, a Paris doctor said he doesn't know why he addresses his daughter-in-law as vous and his son-in-law as tu or why he tutoyers his golf pro but vouvoyers his golf partners.
Word: taxman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tax + man. Pronunciation: /ˈtæksmæn/, /ˈtaksman/ 1. A tax collector. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year. 2. A tax-collecting organ, personified. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: The taxman’s taken all my dough. Left me in my stately home. Example: ... a duty even more dreaded: to pay taxes. The taxman is primarily interested in those strong enough to create and lucky enough to sell.
Word: dough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century. Pronunciation: /dəʊ/, /doʊ/, [ˈdö̞ʷʊ̯ʷ], /dʊf/, /ɖo/ 1. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Pizza dough is very stretchy. 2. Money. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: His mortgage payments left him short on dough. Example: "I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?" 3. Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, usually
Word: dough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century. Pronunciation: /dəʊ/, /doʊ/, [ˈdö̞ʷʊ̯ʷ], /dʊf/, /ɖo/ 1. To make into dough. Labels: transitive Example: The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
Word: pancreatitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pancreas Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor. New Latin -itisder. English -itis English pancreatitis From pancreas + -itis. 1. Inflammation of the pancreas. Example: Chronic pancreatitis is a condition in which the pancreas is inflamed or swells for an extended period.
Word: keck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Compare German köken (“to vomit”). Pronunciation: /kɛk/ 1. To heave or retch as if to vomit. Labels: intransitive Example: The faction (is it not notorious?) / Keck at the memory of Glorious [William III of England]: […] Example: Indeed Erskine never opened his mouth, in Watt's presence, except to eat, or belch, or cough, or keck, or muse, or sigh, or sing, or sneeze.
Word: keck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier dialectal kex, of Celtic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Latin cicuta (“hemlock”). Pronunciation: /kɛk/ 1. The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). Labels: dialectal, uncountable
Word: keck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Manx keck (“shit”). Pronunciation: /kɛk/ 1. animal dung Labels: uncountable
Word: gristmill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grist + mill. 1. A mill that grinds grain; especially, a small-scale local mill that grinds grain brought by a local farmer to be exchanged for the resulting flour (less a percentage). Example: Near-synonyms: flourmill, feed mill Example: Next day after school, I drove over to the town hall and found out where Hay was building their dinky little shoebox of a house. It was out in the sticks, out past the old gristmill. I drove out there around dusk. The place was framed; the chimney was up. Overhead was a pockmarked moon.
Word: glurge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative of the retching that might be induced by stories of this kind. This term has been used in the journalism and greater writing community for decades. 1. oversentimental stories with a moral, often with hidden negative undertones. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: The email was so syrupy and overblown that it read like pure glurge.
Word: bake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb). Pronunciation: /beɪk/, /bæɪk/, /bek/, /beːk/ 1. To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. Labels: ditransitive, intransitive, transitive Example: I baked a delicious cherry pie. Example: She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner. 2. To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. Labels: intransitive Example: The cake baked at 350°F. 3. To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. Labels: intransitive Example: In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake. 4. To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. Labels: figuratively Example: Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake. Example: Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change. 5. To heat or dry. Labels: intransitive Example: The clay baked in the sun. 6. To heat or dry. Labels: transitive Example: They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture. 7. To heat or dry. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: It is baking in the greenhouse. Example: I'm baking after that workout in the gym. 8. To heat or dry. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun. 9. To harden by cold. Labels: broadly, obsolete, transitive Example: The earth […] is baked with frost. Example: They bake their sides vppon the cold, hard stone. 10. To harden by cold. Labels: broadly, intransitive, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: (Let's bake tonight.) 11. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance. Labels: transitive
Word: bake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb). Pronunciation: /beɪk/, /bæɪk/, /bek/, /beːk/ 1. The act of cooking food by baking. Example: Taking one of her cakes or a tray of biscuits from the oven always gives her satisfaction and a moment of pride; that is, of course, unless there happens to be some little element that doesn't please her with the bake. 2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, especially Example: A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […] Example: If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions. 3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry. Example: bake pan Example: Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect! 4. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. Labels: US Example: an oyster bake on the shore Example: The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […] 5. A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted). Labels: Barbados, UK, US, sometimes Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.
Word: baked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /beɪkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of bake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: baked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /beɪkt/ 1. That has been cooked by baking. Example: SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. 2. Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned. Labels: slang 3. Hungover. 4. Lastingly brain-damaged from drug use (either truly or allegedly). Example: Don't bother talking to that guy — he's baked from all the coke he used to do. 5. Of a person: crazy, insane. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, slang
Word: baking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. present participle and gerund of bake. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: baking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. That bakes. Labels: not-comparable Example: baking bread; baking clay; baking dish 2. Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: I’m baking—could you open the window? Example: The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.
Word: baking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. An action in which something is baked. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I’m going to do some baking this afternoon. Example: Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children. 2. The way in which something is baked. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings. Example: Clissold’s work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence. 3. The production of a batch of baked product. Labels: countable, usually
Word: chronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, chron- + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒn.ɪk/, /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/, /ˈkɹɔn.ɪk/, /ˈkɹɒn.ək/, [ˈkɹɔ̟n.ək] 1. Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time. Example: chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life Example: Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic. 2. Prolonged or slow to heal. Example: chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness Example: So dreadful was the concentration of his glare that it seemed as if it must become chronic and stay like that for ever. 3. Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal. Example: Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition. 4. Inveterate or habitual. Example: He's a chronic smoker. 5. Very bad, awful. Labels: slang Example: That concert was chronic. 6. Extremely serious. Labels: informal Example: They left him in a chronic condition. 7. Good, great; "wicked". Labels: slang Example: That was cool, chronic in fact.
Word: chronic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, chron- + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒn.ɪk/, /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/, /ˈkɹɔn.ɪk/, /ˈkɹɒn.ək/, [ˈkɹɔ̟n.ək] 1. Marijuana, typically of high quality. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic Example: Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger. She told us she was living next door with her grandmother while her mother was in jail, and she took us up to the roof to smoke some chronic. 2. A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients. Example: And then there were the chronics, not only those with marked pathology but life-long sufferers from "indigestion" or migraine, who had been passed around from doctor to doctor with nothing but temporary relief.
Word: logic bomb Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met. Example: The disgruntled programmer's logic bomb would wipe files from the network if he had not logged in within the past six weeks.
Word: yill Part of Speech: noun 1. A yell. Labels: Ireland, archaic, dialectal
Word: yill Part of Speech: verb 1. To yell. Labels: Ireland, archaic, dialectal
Word: globular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/, /ˈɡlɑbjəlɚ/ 1. Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped. Example: "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.[…]" Example: Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing. 2. Comprising globules.
Word: globular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/, /ˈɡlɑbjəlɚ/ 1. A globular cluster
Word: tumor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb. Pronunciation: /tjuː.mə/, /tuː.məɹ/, /tɪʊ̯.məɾ/ 1. An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. Labels: US Example: a benign tumor Example: a malignant tumor
Word: anticipointment Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of anticippointment. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?
Word: doona Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally a product name, derived from Danish dyne /dyːnə/. Trademark owned by the Tontine Group. Pronunciation: /ˈdu(ː)nə/, [ˈdʊunə], /ˈdʉːnə/, [ˈdʊ̈ʉnə] 1. A padded blanket used as a cover in bed; a duvet. Labels: Australia Example: He had put the doona on sideways. My feet were sticking out. Example: Well when I say it was cool, it was actually cold enough to freeze the nuts off a fruit cake and it took Dad half an hour [...] to get me from under the nice warm doona.
Word: doona Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Modelled on dinna. 1. Contraction of do + not, used by some American fiction authors to signify that a character has a Scottish accent, although the word does not exist in Scots or Scottish English. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction Example: “I doona ken how he found us,” he muttered darkly. Example: “Are you talking to those cats again? Do you really think they listen? Do you really think they understand?” “I doona know, Grandma. And I doona care.”
Word: duvet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French duvet, from Middle French duvet, from Old French duvet (“down, the feathers of young birds”), alteration of dumet, dumect, which in turn derives from dum, dun (“down, feathers”), from Old Norse dúnn (“down, down feather”), from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, fume, raise dust”). Cognate with Icelandic dúnn (“down”), Danish dun (“down”), German Daune (“down”), Dutch dons (“down”). More at down. Pronunciation: /d(j)uːˈveɪ/, /ˈd(j)uːveɪ/ 1. A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English. Labels: Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK Example: He pulled the thick duvet over his head to block out the morning light. 2. Short for duvet cover. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: computer virus Part of Speech: noun 1. A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.
Word: lis Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of fleur-de-lis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: […] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle.
Word: lis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lis (“quarrel, lawsuit”). 1. The substance of a legal dispute.
Word: lis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of li Labels: form-of, plural
Word: on the piss Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From on (“regularly taking”) + the + slang piss (“any alcoholic drink”). 1. Drinking alcoholic beverages to excess. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar Example: We're going out on the piss tonight. Want to come? Example: Life is meaningless, when I've been on the piss.
Word: piss off Part of Speech: verb 1. To leave, to go away. Labels: Commonwealth, colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar Example: They've pissed off and left us in the lurch! Example: Why don't you piss off and leave us alone? 2. To annoy, anger. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, transitive, vulgar Example: What really pisses me off about my job is that I have to get up at six o'clock. Example: Baby, what you doin' now? / You're pissin' me off / But your hair is so luxurious / And your lips are so soft
Word: piss off Part of Speech: intj 1. Go away! Labels: Commonwealth, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar Example: Piss off, pal! This is my work table and yours is in the corner.
Word: pissed off Part of Speech: adj 1. Very annoyed, upset, angry. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, mildly, vulgar Example: You cant disagree with the adopted values of a bunch of people without they get pissed off at you^([sic]) Example: 1984, Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Stuart Brown, Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace, page 103, They don't like that kind of talk and that made me even more pissed off.
Word: pissed off Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of piss off Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: wilk Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlk/ 1. Obsolete form of whelk. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: take place Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A verb phrase, with place functioning as the direct object of the transitive verb take. 1. To happen or to occur. Labels: intransitive Example: Unfortunately, the meeting never took place. Example: The wedding was to take place in the rose garden. 2. To take precedence or priority. Labels: obsolete Example: I know him a notorious liar, / Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; / Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, / That they take place, when virtue’s steely bones / Look bleak i’ the cold wind […] Example: As a British Free-Holder, I should not scruple taking place of a French Marquis; and when I see one of my Countreymen amusing himself in his little Cabbage-Garden, I naturally look upon him as a greater Person than the Owner of the richest Vineyard in Champagne. 3. To take effect; to prevail. Labels: obsolete Example: But he to shifte their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place; / Her crased helth, her late recourse to rest, / And humid euening ill for sicke folkes cace, / But none of those excuses could take place; / Ne would they eate, till she in presence came. Example: […] the moderate advice took place, and the people, upon the Kings engagement of soon remedying their miseries, return’d with blessings for him […] 4. To sit in a particular location, take one's place. Labels: obsolete Example: King Henry VIII takes place under the cloth of state; Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius sit under him as judges. Queen Katharine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII. Example: Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew's repeated salutations, and signed to him to take place at the lower end of the table, where, however, no one offered to make room for him.
Word: character Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to engrave”). Displaced native English thew from Old English þēaw (in the plural). Doublet of charakter. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.ɹɪk.tə/, /ˈkæɹ(ə)ktɚ/, /ˈkɛɹ(ə)ktɚ/ 1. To write (using characters); to describe. Labels: obsolete Example: O Roſalind, theſe Trees ſhall be my Bookes, / And in their barkes my thoughts Ile charracter, / That euery eye, which in this Forreſt lookes, / Shall ſee thy vertue witneſt euery where.
Word: clan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta. Pronunciation: /klæn/, /klan/, /klɛn/ 1. A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known. 2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain. 3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity. Example: Holonym: nation Example: Near-synonym: canton (uncommon outside of certain dialects) 4. A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games. 5. A badger colony.
Word: triskelion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρισκέλιον (triskélion). Pronunciation: /trɑɪˈskɛ.li.ən/, /trɪˈskɛ.li.ən/ 1. A figure composed of three interlocked spirals (or three bent human legs), with threefold rotational symmetry. Example: Coordinate term: tetraskelion Example: Sicily and the Isle of Man use triskelia as their emblems.
Word: tora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Amharic ቶራ (tora). 1. Synonym of tora hartebeest.
Word: lacerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, the adjective in 1514; inherited from Middle English laceraten, borrowed from Latin lacerātus, perfect passive participle of lacerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/ 1. To tear, rip or wound. Labels: transitive Example: Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed 2. To defeat thoroughly; to thrash. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.
Word: lacerate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, the adjective in 1514; inherited from Middle English laceraten, borrowed from Latin lacerātus, perfect passive participle of lacerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlæ.sɚ.ət/ 1. Mangled, torn, lacerated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: But as they detrected the doing of theyr duetie, so god euer graunted vnto this realme force to compell them thervnto within memory, not withstandyng any theyr interruption by resistence, which vnto the tyme of our progenitour Henry the VI. neuer indured so longe as it made intermission within tyme of mynde, wherby the possession myght seme to be enpaired: from the tyme of Henry the VI vnto the seuenth yere of our reigne, how our realme hathe ben for a season lacerate and torne by diuersitie of titles, tyl our time and syns by warre outwardly vexed and troubled, The story is so lamentable for some parte therof, as were tedious to reherse. Example: But who can gaze Upon that other form, which on the rood In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed, And lacerate with the body's pendent weight; 2. Jagged, as if torn or lacerated. Labels: not-comparable Example: The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
Word: immolate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ 1. To kill as a sacrifice by burning. Example: Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks. Example: A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images. 2. To kill, harm, or destroy by fire. Example: She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
Word: immolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ 1. Immolated, sacrificed. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: flay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Pronunciation: /fleɪ/, /fliː/ 1. To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive 2. To frighten; scare; terrify. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive Example: If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape 3. To be fear-stricken. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive
Word: flay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Pronunciation: /fleɪ/, /fliː/ 1. A fright; a scare. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking person. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: flay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flen, from Old English flēan, from Proto-West Germanic *flahan, from Proto-Germanic *flahaną. Pronunciation: /fleɪ/, /fliː/ 1. To strip the skin off; to skin. Example: The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin. 2. To lash or whip.
Word: await Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪt/ 1. To wait for. Labels: formal, transitive Example: I await your reply to my letter. Example: Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night; 2. To expect. Labels: transitive 3. To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. Labels: transitive Example: Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell. Example: Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire. 4. To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon. Labels: intransitive, transitive 5. To watch, observe. Labels: intransitive 6. To wait; to stay in waiting. Labels: intransitive Example: These are exotic lands where great adventures await.
Word: await Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait. Pronunciation: /əˈweɪt/ 1. A waiting for; ambush. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte, as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred. Example: For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […]
Word: apace Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English apās (“step by step, slowly; quickly, rapidly; at once, promptly”), from Old French à pas (“at a quick pace”). Pronunciation: /əˈpeɪs/ 1. Quickly, rapidly, with speed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace. Example: Gallop apace, you fiery footed ſteedes, / Towards Phœbus lodging, ſuch a Wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the weſt, / And bring in Cloudie night immediately.
Word: monitor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/, /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ], /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ] 1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone. Example: The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep. Example: And oft, mild friend, to me thou art A monitor, though still; Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart, Beyond the preacher's skill. 2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something. 3. A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer. Example: The information flashed up on the monitor. 4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker. 5. A program for viewing and editing. Example: a machine code monitor 6. The command line interface of an operating system. Labels: dated 7. A student leader in a class. Labels: Hong-Kong, Singapore, archaic Example: So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order. Example: But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors! 8. A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. 9. A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae). 10. A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position. 11. A monitor nozzle. 12. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. Labels: obsolete Example: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king. Example: There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […] 13. An ironclad warship with a low freeboard and a rotating turret. Labels: archaic 14. A modern shallow-draft warship for coastal bombardment.
Word: monitor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/, /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ], /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ] 1. To watch over; to guard. Labels: transitive Example: Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly. Example: During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
Word: SOB Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɛs oʊ ˈbi/ 1. Initialism of son of a bitch. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, vulgar 2. Initialism of shortness of breath. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of souls on board. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, in-plural, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of sum of best. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of start of business. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of share of business. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of seal on a bedsheet, used humorously to recall the first sense Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Word: imbibe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbaɪb/ 1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages). Example: Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for. Example: Without its sting, the common yellowjacket would be unable to steal ham from our sandwich or imbibe the sweet juice from our peach. 2. To take in; absorb. Labels: figuratively Example: to imbibe knowledge Example: “Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems, and useless names. Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient? I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew.” 3. To steep; to cause to absorb liquid. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: replete Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpliːt/ 1. Abounding, amply provided. Example: A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances. Example: A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway His subjects with delight obey: His tail was beauteous to behold, Replete with goodly eyes and gold. 2. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink. Example: And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […] Example: In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…] 3. Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.
Word: replete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpliːt/ 1. A honeypot ant.
Word: replete Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpliːt/ 1. To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted. Labels: transitive
Word: lambent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lambēns, present participle of lambō (“lick”). Pronunciation: /ˈlæmbənt/ 1. Brushing or flickering gently over a surface. Example: 1800, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI: "The Winter Walk at Noon", Poems, J. Johnson, page 232, No foe to man / Lurks in the ſerpent now: the mother ſees, / And ſmiles to ſee, her infant's playful hand / Stretch'd forth to dally with the creſted worm, / To ſtroke his azure neck, or to receive / The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. Example: “As they walked together between the houses, Lena’s smooth arm brushed his. His skin felt lambent at the touch.” 2. Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat. Example: The lambent glow of fireflies delighted the children. Example: [W]hile I held my son, in the short space Betwixt our kisses and our last embrace; Strange to relate, from young Iülus’ head A lambent flame arose, which gently spread Around his brows, and on his temples fed. 3. Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness. Labels: figuratively Example: We appreciated her lambent comments. Example: Byron was insouciant towards the risks he took. Many of his best passages are strikingly joyous and carefree, in prose that’s lambent, simple and brilliantly observed, as in this conclusion to a sunset at the shrine of Niamatullah: […]
Word: Mount Everest Part of Speech: name Etymology: From mount + Everest, coined by the British army officer and Surveyor General of India Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878)—originally as Mont Everest—in a paper of 1 March 1856 to the Royal Geographical Society, after his predecessor George Everest (1790–1866): see the quotation. The name Mount Everest was used in a paper on 27 October 1856 by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894) and by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871), the President of the Society, at a meeting of the Society on 11 May 1857 at which the two papers were read. Pronunciation: /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹɪst/, /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹəst/ 1. A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border of Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world's highest mountain above sea level. Example: [T]he privilege, as well as the duty, devolves on me to assign to this lofty pinnacle of our globe, a name whereby it may be known among geographers and become a household word among civilized nations. In virtue of this privilege, in testimony of my affectionate respect for a revered chief, in conformity with what I believe to be the wish of all the Members of the scientific department, over which I have the honour to preside, and to perpetuate the memory of that illustrious master of accurate geographical research, I have determined to name this noble peak of the Himalayas ‘Mont Everest.’ […] In the case of Mont Everest the accordance of the independent heights is closer than could have been anticipated, because the mountain, though lofty and massive, is not a sharp well-defined peak and was observed from great distances. Example: It appears from a late survey made of the Himalaya range, by Colonel Waugh, that the Khanchinjinga, which has been hitherto supposed to be the highest summit, is, in fact, not so—a higher mountain having been discovered, situated between Katmandoo and Khanchinjinga. This last named is 28,156 feet above the level of the sea; but the new summit reaches the enormous height of 29,002 feet. It has been proposed to call this Mount Everest, after a former Surveyor-General of India.
Word: Mount Everest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mount + Everest, coined by the British army officer and Surveyor General of India Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878)—originally as Mont Everest—in a paper of 1 March 1856 to the Royal Geographical Society, after his predecessor George Everest (1790–1866): see the quotation. The name Mount Everest was used in a paper on 27 October 1856 by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894) and by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871), the President of the Society, at a meeting of the Society on 11 May 1857 at which the two papers were read. Pronunciation: /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹɪst/, /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹəst/ 1. An endeavor that is very demanding yet rewarding; also, something which is the highest achievement, challenge, etc.; the epitome, the pinnacle, the ultimate. Labels: figuratively Example: We stand on the colossal peak of King Lear, with Othello on our right hand and Macbeth on our left, the sublime masses of Elizabethan mountain country rolling on every side of us, yet plainly dominated by the extraordinary central cluster of aiguilles on which we have planted ourselves. This triple summit of the later tragedies of [William] Shakespeare forms the Mount Everest of the poetry of the world. Example: After this rather tricky problem let's climb the Mount Everest of all writing problems. I mean, of course, the world-famous, forbidding peak of U.S. income-tax prose.
Word: P45 Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The form number designated by Britain's HM Revenue and Customs department. 1. A form that an employee receives when they terminate their employment, detailing income for social security and taxation purposes for the current financial year. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: 2012, Forbes, Has Unconventional Oil Production Peaked? Get any concessions wrong in advanced markets, and CEO’s know they’ll pay a very heavy price on stock markets. ‘P45’s’ all round, and that’s before we consider any national flags involved, or the small fact that host nations are piling on pressure to get pumps working, donkey’s nodding and receipts rolling in.
Word: Bahá'í Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Baháʼí. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Bahá'í Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Baháʼí. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable