nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: freshwater Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/, /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɑtər/, /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔtər/ 1. Living in fresh water. Labels: not-comparable Example: The trout is a freshwater fish. 2. Consisting of fresh water. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume. 3. Unskilled as a seaman. Labels: not-comparable Example: “Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […] 4. Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: 2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.
Word: freshwater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/, /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɑtər/, /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔtər/ 1. A body of fresh water. Labels: countable Example: Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […] Example: Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2. 2. Alternative form of fresh water. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater. Example: Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.
Word: peer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan Old English *pȳran Middle English peren English peer From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear. Pronunciation: /pɪə/, /pɪː/, /pɪjə/, /pɪɹ/, /niə̯/ 1. To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. Labels: intransitive Example: […] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads; Example: As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d With broad and burning face. 2. To come in sight; to appear. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Example: I, I, let you alone, cunning Artificer! / See, hovv his gorget peeres aboue his govvne; / To tell the people, in vvhat danger he vvas.
Word: peer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan Old English *pȳran Middle English peren English peer From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear. Pronunciation: /pɪə/, /pɪː/, /pɪjə/, /pɪɹ/, /niə̯/ 1. A look; a glance. Example: Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]
Word: peer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par. Pronunciation: /pɪə̯/, /pɪɹ/ 1. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). Example: In song he never had his peer. Example: Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers? 2. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else). 3. A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners. Example: a peer of the realm Example: a noble peer of mickle trust and power 4. A comrade; a companion; an associate. Example: He all his Peeres in beautie did surpas,
Word: peer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par. Pronunciation: /pɪə̯/, /pɪɹ/ 1. To make equal in rank. Example: Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex. 2. To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic. Labels: Internet
Word: peer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: pee + -er Pronunciation: /piː.ə/, /pi.ɚ/ 1. Someone who pees, someone who urinates. Labels: informal Example: As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?). Example: SOunds^([sic]) like you've already broken him quite well, if he's peeing when disciplined. Pretty sad. He's not a dog, not that treating a dog like this is any better either. You've turned your child into a submissive peer.
Word: perch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-der. Ancient Greek πέρκη (pérkē)der. Latin percader. Old French perchebor. Middle English perche English perch From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin perca, from Ancient Greek πέρκη (pérkē, “perch”), cognate with περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-, whence also Old English forn (“trout”), German Forelle (“trout”). Pronunciation: /pɜːtʃ/, /pɝt͡ʃ/ 1. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. 2. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: Labels: South-Africa 3. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: 4. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: Labels: Australia 5. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: Labels: US 6. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: Labels: UK 7. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
Word: perch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff, long pole, measuring rod”). Pronunciation: /pɜːtʃ/, /pɝt͡ʃ/ 1. A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird. Example: We know him now: […] / Not making his high place the lawless perch / Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground / For pleasure; […] 2. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach. 3. A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated. Labels: figuratively Example: Last year, Eighth Grade found poignancy and humor in its eponymous time period: that purgatorial perch between childhood and adulthood. Example: [W]inning Wimbledon at just 19 years, earning her rightful place on the perch as world number one. 4. A position that is overly elevated or haughty. Labels: figuratively Example: You may thanke me, (Lady) / I haue taken you off your mellancholly pearch, / Boare you vpon my fiſt, and ſhew'd you game, / And let you flie at it: I pray the kiſſe me, […] 5. A linear measure of 5+¹⁄₂ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¹⁄₄ chain; the related square measure. Labels: dated Example: The whole surface of the country is divided into irregular patches, following the undulations of the ground, from many acres to a few perches in extent, each of which is itself perfectly level, but stands a few inches or several feet above or below those adjacent to it. 6. A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet. 7. A frame used to examine cloth. 8. A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church. 9. A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
Word: perch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff, long pole, measuring rod”). Pronunciation: /pɜːtʃ/, /pɝt͡ʃ/ 1. To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost. Labels: intransitive Example: The macaw perched on Jim's shoulder. 2. To sit upon the edge of something. Labels: intransitive Example: The platform was already crowded, but the newcomers threaded their way to the front amid a decorous murmur of welcome. Mr. Peeble shoved and exhorted and two end seats emerged upon which Enid and Malone perched themselves. 3. To stay in an elevated position. Labels: intransitive 4. To place something on (or as if on) a perch. Labels: transitive Example: The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years. 5. To inspect cloth using a perch. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: bass Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base ▲ Italian bassoinflu. English bass A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”). Pronunciation: /beɪs/ 1. Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency. Example: The giant spoke in a deep, bass, rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.
Word: bass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base ▲ Italian bassoinflu. English bass A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”). Pronunciation: /beɪs/ 1. A low spectrum of sound tones. Example: Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass. 2. A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. Example: The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra. 3. One who sings in the bass range. Example: Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers. 4. An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a bass guitar, double bass, electric bass, or bass synthesiser. Example: The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise. 5. The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C. Example: The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.
Word: bass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base ▲ Italian bassoinflu. English bass A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”). Pronunciation: /beɪs/ 1. To sound in a deep tone. Labels: transitive Example: […] and the Thunder / (That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd / The name of Proſper : it did baſe my Treſpaſſe
Word: bass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bace, bas, alteration of bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰórsos (“prickle, thorn, scale”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at barse. Pronunciation: /bæs/ 1. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A corruption of bast. Pronunciation: /bæs/ 1. The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: BASS, 1, a door mat Example: I set off half-heartedly, as best I could sheltering my spare clothes (which were in the straw fish-bass) under my coat. […] The rain made a channel from my trilby down my neck and one handle of the fish-bass gave way.
Word: beard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Cognates Cognate with Scots beird (“beard”), Yola bearde (“beard”), North Frisian biard (“beard”), Saterland Frisian Boart (“beard”), West Frisian burd (“beard”), Bavarian Bårt (“beard”), Dutch baard (“beard”), German Bart (“beard”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Baart (“beard”), Vilamovian biöt (“beard”), Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), Icelandic barð (“brim; edge, ridge”), Norwegian Bokmål bart (“moustache”), Norwegian Nynorsk bard, barde (“edge, rim”), bart (“moustache”), Crimean Gothic bars (“beard”); also Latin barba (“beard”), Latvian bārda (“beard”), Lithuanian barzda (“beard”), Belarusian барада́ (baradá, “beard”), Bulgarian and Macedonian брада́ (bradá, “beard; chin”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene brada (“beard”), Russian and Ukrainian борода́ (borodá, “beard”), Serbo-Croatian бра́да, bráda (“beard”). Doublet of barb. Pronunciation: /bɪəd/, [bɪːd], /bɪɹd/, /biɚd/, /bɜː(ɹ)d/ 1. To grow hair on the chin and jaw. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 2. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. Labels: transitive Example: Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham. Example: Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk? 3. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. Labels: transitive 4. To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills. Labels: transitive 5. Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape. Labels: intransitive 6. Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual. Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […] Example: Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.
Word: mustache Part of Speech: noun 1. US standard spelling of moustache. Labels: US, alt-of, standard Example: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.” Example: The fly, named “Daptolestes leei,” has markings on its face reminiscent of Lee’s characteristic sunglasses and white mustache.
Word: coalesce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”). Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊ.əˈlɛs/, /ˌkoʊ.əˈlɛs/, /ˌkəʉ.əˈles/ 1. To join into a single mass or whole. Example: The droplets coalesced into a puddle. Example: […] when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks. 2. To form from different pieces or elements. Example: The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together. 3. To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify. 4. To merge, to intermingle freely. Example: It was not a wise thing to enter a close clique, my good madam, until you had examined both them and yourself, and considered how far you were likely to coalesce. Example: We in the gay male community who are white […] will need to do conscious raising on racism with each other to effectively work with different racial groups. It follows that when attempting to coalesce with women that sexism conscious raising would need to occur. 5. To convert a null value to a defined value. Example: You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.
Word: seem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːm/, [ˈsɪi̯m], /ˈsɪjm/ 1. To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. Labels: copulative Example: She is seeming a bit down these days. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How'd she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. "It seems like rain". "It seems to me (to be) rather sleety."; "There seem to be a few problems." Example: It seems a pity, but I can't see you this weekend. 2. To befit; to beseem. Labels: obsolete Example: And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farre: Faire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.
Word: seam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”). Cognate with Dutch zoom (“hem, edge”), German Saum (“hem, edge”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål søm (“seam”), Norwegian Nynorsk saum (“seam”), Swedish söm (“seam”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːm/, [ˈsɪi̯m] 1. A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. Example: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. 2. A suture. 3. A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. Example: He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: […]. He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch. 4. The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam. 5. A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials. Example: Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc. 6. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. 7. A line of junction; a joint. Labels: figuratively Example: Precepts should be so finely wrought together[…]that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
Word: seam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the noun seam. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːm/, [ˈsɪi̯m] 1. To put together with a seam. Example: Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended! 2. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. 3. To mark with a seam or line; to scar. Example: Seam'd o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave. 4. To crack open along a seam. Example: Later their lips began to parch and seam. 5. Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam. 6. Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
Word: seam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English sēam (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːm/, [ˈsɪi̯m] 1. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. Labels: historical 2. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds. Labels: historical Example: As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
Word: seam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seym (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːm/, [ˈsɪi̯m] 1. Grease; tallow; lard. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: shall the proud lord That bastes his arrogance with his own seam And never suffers matter of the world Example: scour their rusty shields with seam
Word: cheval Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Latin caballus Old French cheval Middle French cheval French chevalbor. English cheval Borrowed from French cheval. See cavalcade. Doublet of caple. Pronunciation: /ʃɛˈvɑl/ 1. A support or frame. Labels: in-compounds, obsolete Example: cheval-glass 2. Ellipsis of cheval glass. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: "Very well, indeed, exceeding well, for un peu passée, the mother of five young women. 'Tis as well they are not here, perhaps," said Lady Anne, as she examined herself from side to side, in the longest cheval the hotel afforded.
Word: profile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfiːl/, /pɹoʊˈfiːl/ 1. The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object. Labels: countable Example: His fingers traced the profile of the handle. 2. The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view. Labels: countable Example: The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman. Example: Driver's licenses have a photograph of the person on them, which is in full face if the person is above legal drinking age, or in profile if not. 3. A summary or collection of information, especially about a person. Labels: countable Example: Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect. 4. A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems. Labels: Internet, countable Example: I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged. Example: After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix. 5. Reputation, prominence; noticeability. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile. 6. The amount by which something protrudes. Labels: uncountable Example: Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things. 7. A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What's the thermal profile on that thing? 9. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 12. A user's preferences. Labels: countable Example: A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.
Word: profile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfiːl/, /pɹoʊˈfiːl/ 1. To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp. Example: A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy. 2. To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling. 3. To draw in profile or outline. Labels: transitive 4. To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc. Labels: transitive 5. To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks. Labels: transitive Example: […] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.
Word: exposé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French exposé. Pronunciation: /ˌɛkspoʊˈzeɪ/ 1. The act of exposing somebody or something; a shameful showing up. Example: "What shall be said to my sister? We cannot steal from her without saying something, as she would conclude we were murdered, apply to the ambassador, and bring on the very exposé we desire to avoid." Example: Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network. 2. A publication of investigative journalism that reveals hidden and often scandalous truths. 3. A formal recital or exposition.
Word: convoluted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *welH-der. Proto-Italic *wolwō Latin volvō Latin convolvō Latin convolūtusbor. English convolute English -ed English convoluted From convolute + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnvəˈl(j)uːtɪd/, /ˈkɒnvəl(j)uːtɪd/, /-vəʊ-/, /ˌkɑnvəˈlutəd/, /ˈkɑnvəˌlutəd/ 1. Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute. Example: [B]y the means of theſe hooks, and Spikes it [a tapeworm in the intestines] might faſten it ſelf, and ſo prevent it's too eaſy ejection out of the body. For it being ſo very long, and large too, and it's body in many places winding, and convoluted, the deſcent of the fæces upon all occaſions would be apt to carry it out with them; had it not this hold, [...] Example: The figure [of the constellation Anguilla] is that of the common eel in that convoluted ſtate in which it is uſually ſeen when in motion. 2. Complex, complicated, or intricate. Labels: figuratively Example: He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence. Example: There is a convoluted cypher which designates the name and titles of the Sultan, contained in a single complicated figure, which is seen on the coins of the empire, and on all public edifices.
Word: convoluted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *welH-der. Proto-Italic *wolwō Latin volvō Latin convolvō Latin convolūtusbor. English convolute English -ed English convoluted From convolute + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnvəˈl(j)uːtɪd/, /ˈkɒnvəl(j)uːtɪd/, /-vəʊ-/, /ˌkɑnvəˈlutəd/, /ˈkɑnvəˌlutəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of convolute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: humongous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Of expressive origin, likely inspired by huge, with the termination of monstrous. Pronunciation: /ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/, /ˌhjuːˈmɒŋɡəs/, [çu̟ːˈmʊŋɡəs], [ˌçu̟ːˈmɐŋɡəs] 1. Of an extremely large size. Labels: informal Example: Other students make wide detours to avoid the humiliation and fear of being chased and attacked by the humongous numbers of bees in front of Atkinson. Example: Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.
Word: abundant number Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈbʌn.dn̩t ˈnʌm.bə/, /əˈbʌn.dn̩t ˈnʌm.bɚ/, /əˈbn̩.dn̩t ˈnʌm.bɚ/ 1. A number that is less than the sum of its proper divisors (all divisors except the number itself). Example: The factors of 30 are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 30, and 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 6 + 10 + 15 = 42, which is greater than 30, so 30 is an abundant number. Example: It has been shown that the largest odd number which cannot be written as the sum of two abundant numbers is 20161.
Word: brewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew + -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors, usually as part of an alemaking or beermaking process. Example: His great-grandfather was the brewer for the estate. Example: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 2. A company that brews beer or ale. Example: By that time, Anheuser-Busch was the largest brewer in the region.
Word: brew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley. Pronunciation: /bɹuː/, [bɹuʊ̯], /bɹɪʊ̯/ 1. To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […] 2. To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. Labels: transitive Example: Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. 3. To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. Labels: intransitive, transitive 4. To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. Labels: intransitive, transitive 5. To foment or prepare, as by brewing. Labels: transitive Example: Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […] 6. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. Labels: intransitive Example: I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […] 7. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering. Labels: intransitive Example: There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, Example: Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months. 8. To boil or seethe; to cook. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
Word: brew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley. Pronunciation: /bɹuː/, [bɹuʊ̯], /bɹɪʊ̯/ 1. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. Example: Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth. 2. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. Labels: slang Example: Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill 3. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. Labels: UK, slang Example: Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on. 4. A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients. Example: In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.
Word: brew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow. 1. An overhanging hill or cliff. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: homebrewed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From home + brewed. 1. Brewed at home. Labels: not-comparable Example: The girl made a wry little face. "I don't like beer, Mr. Landon," she said. "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed! Example: Two common questions are, "How long will a homebrewed beer keep?" and "Will it spoil?" The answer is that homebrewed beer has a fairly long storage life. 2. Homemade. Labels: broadly, not-comparable Example: It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section. Example: Bob concocts his own homebrewed version of the fuel by mixing old cooking oil, a small amount of gasoline, methanol from an antifreeze called Heet (found at the auto parts store), and a few gallons of Drano (which contains sodium hydroxide).
Word: homebrewed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From home + brewed. 1. Drink brewed at home. Labels: uncountable Example: They soon made friends again over a pipe and some homebrewed. Example: And they shook hands on it there and then, and Mr. Lang called for a girl to bring out some homebrewed from the cellar to make a bargain of it.
Word: homebrewed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From home + brewed. 1. simple past and past participle of homebrew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: home Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)). Pronunciation: /həʊm/, /hoʊm/, [hoːm], /hom/ 1. To return to its owner. Labels: intransitive Example: The dog homed.
Word: home Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)). Pronunciation: /həʊm/, /hoʊm/, [hoːm], /hom/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. Labels: not-comparable Example: home manufactures 2. That strikes home; direct, pointed. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: a home truth 3. Personal, intimate. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […]. 4. Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). Labels: not-comparable Example: the home end, home advantage, home supporters
Word: home Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)). Pronunciation: /həʊm/, /hoʊm/, [hoːm], /hom/ 1. To one's home. Labels: not-comparable Example: go home Example: come home 2. To one's home. Labels: not-comparable 3. To one's home. Labels: not-comparable Example: She drove the nail home Example: ram a cartridge home 4. To one's home. Labels: Internet, not-comparable Example: Click here to go home. 5. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night. 6. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral, I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. Example: How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […] 7. into the goal Labels: UK, not-comparable Example: 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February, Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked. 8. into the right, proper or stowed position Labels: not-comparable Example: sails sheeted home
Word: homebrewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homebrew + -er or home + brewer. 1. One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews. 2. An amateur who builds radio equipment or develops video games, etc. Example: Homebrewer Martin Malý illustrates the slowness of BASIC with the following story: […]
Word: commission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”) + noun of action missiō (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”) + noun of action suffix -iō. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃən/ 1. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: David received his commission after graduating from West Point. Example: Let him see our commission. 3. The thing to be done as agent for another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have three commissions for the city. 4. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the European Commission Example: the Electoral Commission 5. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a reseller's commission Example: The real-estate broker charged a four percent commission for their knowledge on bidding for commercial properties; for their intellectual perspective on making a formal offer and the strategy to obtain a mutually satisfying deal with the seller in favour of the buyer. 6. A bonus in pay awarded to a salesperson for selling a particular, secretly sponsored product, for which the sponsor will reimburse the employer. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A payment by a fan to an artist, after which the artist will produce a work of art requested by the fan. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism Example: Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
Word: commission Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”) + noun of action missiō (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”) + noun of action suffix -iō. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃən/ 1. To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something. Labels: transitive Example: James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents. Example: Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider^([sic – meaning soldier]) to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated. 2. To place an order for (often a piece of art). Labels: transitive Example: He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months. 3. To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service. Labels: transitive Example: The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII. Example: The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.
Word: commission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Italian camicia and Romanian cămeșă. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃən/ 1. A shirt or chemise. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: As from our beds, we doe oft cast our eyes, / Cleane linnen yeelds a shirt before we rise, / Which is a garment shifting in condition; / And in the canting tongue is a commission.
Word: pail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of uncertain origin. Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare West Frisian pegel (“liquid measure, fourth of a litre, half-pint”), German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”). Doublet of peil. Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both. Pronunciation: /peɪl/, [pʰeɪ̯ɫ], [pʰeəɫ] 1. A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover). Example: The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand. 2. A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
Word: upside Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up + side. Pronunciation: /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/ 1. The highest or uppermost side or portion of something. 2. A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect. Labels: figuratively Example: The only upside of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much. Example: They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. There would be no downside, only upsides. 3. An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.