nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dependent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɛndənt/ 1. Relying upon; depending upon. Example: At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition. Example: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries. 2. Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event. Example: The formula for finding the probability of one event followed by a dependent event is written P(A, B) = P(A) × P(B/A) where P(B/A) is read “the probability of B given A.” Example: Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic. 3. Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences. 4. Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine. Example: Several groups have shown that the gravitational distribution of pleural pressure is much more uniform when animals are in a prone rather than in a supine position, […] After volume-infusion-induced pulmonary oedema, Ppl was positive in the dependent lung regions in supine animals but much less positive in those in the prone position. Example: The limbs should not assume a dependent position and may be supported; for example, the upper arm and leg may be flexed and supported on pillows[…] 5. Hanging down. Example: a dependent bough or leaf
Word: dependent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɛndənt/ 1. A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support. Labels: US Example: With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all. 2. An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners. Labels: US 3. The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages. Labels: US 4. dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance. Labels: US
Word: desire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English desir, desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. The verb, along with Old Norse derived want (verb), has mostly replaced native will in modern English. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪə/, /dɪˈzaɪɹ/, /dɪˈzaɪɚ/, /diˈzaɪɹ/, /diˈzaɪɚ/ 1. To want; to wish for earnestly. Example: I desire to speak with you. Example: Neither shall any man desire thy land. 2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat. Example: And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him. Example: Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. 3. To want emotionally or sexually. Example: She has desired him since they first met. 4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request. Example: Then shee said, Did I desire a sonne of my Lord ? did I not say, Doe not deceiue me? Example: Desire him to go in; trouble him no more. 5. To require; to demand; to claim. Example: A doleful case desires a doleful song. 6. To miss; to regret. Example: She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.
Word: desire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English desir, desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. The verb, along with Old Norse derived want (verb), has mostly replaced native will in modern English. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪə/, /dɪˈzaɪɹ/, /dɪˈzaɪɚ/, /diˈzaɪɹ/, /diˈzaɪɚ/ 1. The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Too much desire can seriously affect one’s judgement. Example: He stood...filled with the desire that his son should be like him, and should have sons like him, to people the earth. It is the strongest desire that can come to a man - if it comes to him at all - stronger even than love or the desire for personal immortality. 2. Someone or something wished for. Labels: countable, usually Example: It is my desire to speak with you. Example: You’re my heart’s desire. 3. Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His desire for her kept him awake at night. Example: Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire? 4. Motivation. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: endeavor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is from Middle English endeveren (“to make an effort”); the noun is from Middle English endevour, from the verb. Endeveren is from (putten) in dever (“(to put oneself) in duty”), from in + dever (“duty”), partially translating Middle French (se mettre) en devoir (de faire) (“(to make it) one's duty (to do), to endeavour (to do)”) (from Old French devoir, deveir (“duty”)). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛv.ə/, /ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/, /ɪnˈdɛv.ɚ/ 1. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity. Labels: US Example: My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Word: endeavor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is from Middle English endeveren (“to make an effort”); the noun is from Middle English endevour, from the verb. Endeveren is from (putten) in dever (“(to put oneself) in duty”), from in + dever (“duty”), partially translating Middle French (se mettre) en devoir (de faire) (“(to make it) one's duty (to do), to endeavour (to do)”) (from Old French devoir, deveir (“duty”)). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛv.ə/, /ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/, /ɪnˈdɛv.ɚ/ 1. To exert oneself. Labels: US, obsolete 2. To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. Labels: US, intransitive 3. To attempt (something). Labels: US, obsolete, transitive 4. To work with purpose. Labels: US Example: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
Word: endeavour Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛv.ə/, /ɪnˈdɛv.ɚ/, /ɪnˈdev.ə/ 1. British standard spelling of endeavor. Example: And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour, the good of the people. Example: The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians […].
Word: endeavour Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɛv.ə/, /ɪnˈdɛv.ɚ/, /ɪnˈdev.ə/ 1. British standard spelling of endeavor. Example: And such were Prais'd who but endeavour'd well. Example: The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.
Word: pee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The initial letter of piss. Compare eff. Pronunciation: /ˈpiː/ 1. Urine. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: With conventional fuel cells as their model, researchers learned to use similar chemical reactions to make a fuel from microbes in pee.[…]They got to use new, clean toilets lit by the power of their own pee.[…]Microorganisms that feed on nutrients in urine can be used in a microbial fuel cell that generates electricity – or "pee power," as the Sesame girls called it. 2. An act of urination. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountable Example: He was dying for a pee. Example: I have to go for an urgent pee.
Word: pee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The initial letter of piss. Compare eff. Pronunciation: /ˈpiː/ 1. To urinate. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal. Example: The delivery driver took a minute to pee in the woods between houses. 2. To urinate. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, reflexive 3. To urinate. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, transitive Example: I was so excited, I peed the bed! 4. To drizzle. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, mildly, vulgar Example: It's peeing with rain.
Word: pee Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpiː/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p. Example: They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees. Example: It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
Word: pee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence. Pronunciation: /ˈpiː/ 1. Pence; penny (a quantity of money) Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: I bought these carrots for fifty pee. Example: I can't afford that — I'm one pee short.
Word: pee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See peak. Pronunciation: /ˈpiː/ 1. The bill of an anchor.
Word: pee Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpiː/ 1. The sliding weight on a steelyard.
Word: pea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πίσον (píson)bor. Latin pisum Late Latin pisader. Old English pise Middle English pese English peasebf. English pea Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson). Pronunciation: /piː/ 1. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others. 2. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others. Labels: especially Example: Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;... 3. The edible seed of Pisum sativum. 4. The edible seed of various other pea plants. 5. Any of several varieties of bean. Example: peas and rice Example: Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans. 6. Money. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, in-plural Example: Man's making bare peas. Example: Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
Word: pea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant. Pronunciation: /piː/ 1. A ball travelling at high velocity. 2. Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game. Labels: US 3. Ellipsis of green pea galaxy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: pea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo. Pronunciation: /piː/ 1. a peafowl Labels: archaic, rare
Word: pea Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /piː/ 1. Alternative form of peak. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: PIN Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of personal identification number. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: PIN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of preferred IUPAC name. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ATM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Any source of a large amount of money. Labels: broadly, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Too often California is relegated to serving as the nation’s political ATM. 3. Initialism of Adobe Type Manager. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of active traffic management. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of advanced traffic management. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of air traffic management. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of air traffic movement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of available ton mile. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of ass to mouth. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable, vulgar 11. Initialism of amateur telescope maker. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 12. Initialism of at the market, see at-the-market offering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: ATM Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of at the moment. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bowel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau. Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊ.əl/, /baʊl/ 1. A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. 2. The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. Labels: in-plural Example: And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out. Example: Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes, UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes. 3. The (deep) interior of something. Labels: figuratively, in-plural Example: The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship. Example: His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle. 4. The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy. Labels: archaic, in-plural Example: Thou thing of no bowels, thou! Example: Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. 5. offspring Labels: in-plural, obsolete Example: Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
Word: bowel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau. Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊ.əl/, /baʊl/ 1. To disembowel. Labels: archaic Example: Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
Word: IBS Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /aɪ.biːˈɛs/ 1. Initialism of identical by state. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: IBS Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /aɪ.biːˈɛs/ 1. Initialism of irritable bowel syndrome. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: While I don’t have a definitive answer for that, studies suggest that IBS is more common in women than men. 2. Initialism of ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: like two peas in a pod Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Very similar; a couple made for each other.
Word: ticket Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪk.ɪt/, /ˈtɪk.ət/ 1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law. 2. To mark with a ticket. Example: to ticket goods in a retail store
Word: receipt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːt/, /ɹɪˈsit/, [ɹɪˈsɪit], [ɹɪˈsɪ̈it] 1. The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A balance payable on receipt of the goods. Example: Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your letter I am very sick 2. The fact of having received a blow, injury etc. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite[…]. 3. A quantity or amount received; takings. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production! 4. A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. (A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: So, Andy, if you ask me nicely, I might produce a receipt that is my marriage certificate. 6. (A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing. Labels: Internet, broadly, countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: "Oh yes, the Internet trolls went there, and we've got the receipts". 7. A recipe, instructions, prescription. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: She had a receipt to make white hair black. Example: Nor were we without guests: sometimes farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbour, and often the blind piper, would pay us a visit, and taste our gooseberry wine; for the making of which we had lost neither the receipt nor the reputation. 8. A receptacle. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 9. A revenue office. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 10. Reception, as an act of hospitality. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: thy kind receipt of me 11. Capability of receiving; capacity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It has become a place of great receipt. 12. A recess; a retired place. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: receipt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːt/, /ɹɪˈsit/, [ɹɪˈsɪit], [ɹɪˈsɪ̈it] 1. To give or write a receipt (for something). Example: to receipt delivered goods 2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid. Example: to receipt a bill
Word: token Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign, symbol”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną (“indicator, symbol, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law. Cognate with Scots takin, taiken (“token, sign”), Saterland Frisian Teken (“sign, symbol”), West Frisian teken (“sign, mark, symbol”), Dutch teken (“sign, indication, symbol”), German Low German Teken (“sign, symbol”), German Zeichen (“sign, token”), Danish tegn (“sign, token, character”), Swedish tecken (“sign, indication”), Faroese tekn, tekin (“mark, sign, signal”), Icelandic teikn (“sign, omen”), Icelandic tákn (“symbol”). The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊkən/, /ˈtoʊkən/ 1. Done as an indication or a pledge. 2. Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement. Example: a token gesture Example: He made a token tap on the brake pedal at the stop sign. 3. Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity. Example: He was hired as the company's token black person. Example: The television show was primarily directed toward a black audience, but it did have a few token white people as performers.
Word: token Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign, symbol”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną (“indicator, symbol, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law. Cognate with Scots takin, taiken (“token, sign”), Saterland Frisian Teken (“sign, symbol”), West Frisian teken (“sign, mark, symbol”), Dutch teken (“sign, indication, symbol”), German Low German Teken (“sign, symbol”), German Zeichen (“sign, token”), Danish tegn (“sign, token, character”), Swedish tecken (“sign, indication”), Faroese tekn, tekin (“mark, sign, signal”), Icelandic teikn (“sign, omen”), Icelandic tákn (“symbol”). The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian. Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊkən/, /ˈtoʊkən/ 1. To betoken, indicate, portend, designate, denote Example: dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene. Example: The instinct revolted against the inevitable punishment to come, already tokened by those big holes now met in walls and crossings. 2. To betroth 3. To symbolize, instantiate Example: In which sense does ‘∀p ~(p & ~p)’ cause the tokening of the belief in the subject?
Word: diagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”), from διά (diá, “across”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). Pronunciation: /daɪ̯ˈæɡ(ə)nəl/, /daɪ̯ˈeɪ̯ɡ(ə)nəl/, /dɑɪ̯ˈæɡənəl/, /dɑɪ̯ˈæɡənəu̯/ 1. Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron). Labels: not-comparable 2. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings. Labels: not-comparable 3. Having a slanted or oblique direction. Labels: not-comparable Example: The visitors' undoing was caused by a diagonal ball from the right which was nodded into the six-yard area by Ian Evatt and finished off by Campbell. 4. Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left. Labels: not-comparable
Word: diagonal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”), from διά (diá, “across”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). Pronunciation: /daɪ̯ˈæɡ(ə)nəl/, /daɪ̯ˈeɪ̯ɡ(ə)nəl/, /dɑɪ̯ˈæɡənəl/, /dɑɪ̯ˈæɡənəu̯/ 1. A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon. 2. Anything forming or resembling such a line 3. Anything forming or resembling such a line 4. Anything forming or resembling such a line Labels: uncommon Example: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
Word: hiccup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier hickop, alteration of earlier hicket, hyckock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix). Akin to Scots hick, hix (“hiccup”), West Frisian hik (“hiccup”), Dutch hik (“hiccup”), Middle Low German hükup, huckup, hueckup (modern Low German hick (“hiccup”)), German hicksen (“to hiccup”, verb), Alemannic German Hidsgi (“hiccup”), Danish hikke (“hiccup”), Swedish hicka (“hiccup”), hicka (“to hiccup”, verb), Icelandic hiksti (“hiccup”). Displaced yex, from Middle English yexen, ȝisken, ȝixen, ȝoxen (“to hiccup”), from Old English ġiscian, ġeocsian (“to hiccup”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkʌp/, /ˈhɪkəp/ 1. A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. Example: There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter. 2. A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. 3. Any spasm or sudden change. Labels: broadly Example: Albert didn't notice the switch, the subliminal flash and hiccup in time as the man he had been talking to only seconds before was catapulted backwards half an hour. 4. A minor obstacle or setback. Labels: informal Example: There's been a slight hiccup in the processing of this quarter's results.
Word: hiccup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier hickop, alteration of earlier hicket, hyckock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix). Akin to Scots hick, hix (“hiccup”), West Frisian hik (“hiccup”), Dutch hik (“hiccup”), Middle Low German hükup, huckup, hueckup (modern Low German hick (“hiccup”)), German hicksen (“to hiccup”, verb), Alemannic German Hidsgi (“hiccup”), Danish hikke (“hiccup”), Swedish hicka (“hiccup”), hicka (“to hiccup”, verb), Icelandic hiksti (“hiccup”). Displaced yex, from Middle English yexen, ȝisken, ȝixen, ȝoxen (“to hiccup”), from Old English ġiscian, ġeocsian (“to hiccup”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkʌp/, /ˈhɪkəp/ 1. To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups. Labels: intransitive 2. To say with a hiccup. Labels: transitive Example: "I haven't touched a drop, officer," the suspect hiccupped. 3. To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup. Labels: intransitive Example: The car engine hiccupped but wouldn't start.
Word: hiccups Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkəps/, /ˈhɪkʌps/ 1. plural of hiccup Labels: form-of, plural Example: There were several loud hiccups from the back of the room, and the class erupted in laughter.
Word: hiccups Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkəps/, /ˈhɪkʌps/ 1. The condition of having the spasms of hiccupping; singultus; diaphragmatic myoclonus. Labels: plural, plural-only, usually, with-definite-article Example: He has the hiccups – give him a glass of water.
Word: hiccups Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkəps/, /ˈhɪkʌps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hiccup Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: He shakes every time he hiccups.
Word: source Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge. Pronunciation: /sɔːs/, /sɔɹs/, /so(ː)ɹs/, /soəs/, /suːɹs/ 1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. Example: The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling. Example: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel. 2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. Example: The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers. Example: The O-erh-ch'i-ssu River begins in the southern section of the lofty A-erh-t'ai Mountains of Sinkiang. This river is over 2,900 kilometers long and has a large delta area rich in minerals such as gold, iron, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, mica, crystal and "ping-chou-shih" [3056 3166 4258 possibly cryolite]. At the source of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River, the A-erh-t'ai Mountains reach more than 3,000 meters above sea level. The peaks of the mountains are covered with snow year-round, and rainfall is heavy in the summer. 3. A reporter's informant. 4. Source code. 5. The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). 6. A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges. 7. The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from. Example: Coordinate term: target
Word: source Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge. Pronunciation: /sɔːs/, /sɔɹs/, /so(ː)ɹs/, /soəs/, /suːɹs/ 1. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource. Example: But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power. 2. To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for. Labels: transitive
Word: sauce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa. For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet). Pronunciation: /sɔːs/, /soːs/, /sɔs/, [sɔə̯s], [sʊə̯s] 1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: apple sauce; mint sauce Example: [Prince Paul.] […] But, believe me, you are wrong to run down cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. I have never had time enough to think seriously about it, but I feel it is in me, I feel it is in me. 2. Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in Labels: Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable Example: [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce 3. Alcohol, booze. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Maybe you should lay off the sauce. Example: […] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days. 4. Vitality; capability or talent. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce. 5. Anabolic steroids. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: "See here, Captain!" He planted himself squarely in front of Faramir, his hands on his hips, and a look on his face as if he was addressing a young hobbit who had offered him what he called "sauce" when questioned about visiting the orchard. Example: ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah. 8. Vegetables. Labels: US, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...] Example: [...] and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene." 9. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. Labels: UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. Example: The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.
Word: sauce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa. For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet). Pronunciation: /sɔːs/, /soːs/, /sɔs/, [sɔə̯s], [sʊə̯s] 1. To add sauce to; to season. 2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate. Example: Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison! Example: Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […] 3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. Example: Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. 4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to. Labels: colloquial Example: I'll sauce her with bitter words. Example: "A bit of real starvin' would do them no 'arm, and I would 'ave less sauce." "What, has Willie sauced you?" "Yes, when 'e woke up." […] "Wot did he say?" "Cursed me good and proper, 'e did." 5. To send or hand over. Labels: slang
Word: sauce Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sɔːs/, /soːs/, /sɔs/, [sɔə̯s], [sʊə̯s] 1. Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative
Word: peg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare. (To indicate or ascribe an attribute to): Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛɡ/, [ˈpʰɛɡ], /ˈpeɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯ɡ] 1. To fasten using a peg. Labels: transitive Example: Let's peg the rug to the floor. 2. To affix or pin. Labels: transitive Example: I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board. Example: She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall. 3. To fix a value or price. Labels: transitive Example: China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar. Example: Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law. 4. To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape. Labels: transitive 5. To throw. Labels: slang, transitive 6. To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball. Labels: transitive 7. To indicate or ascribe an attribute to; to classify or pigeonhole someone. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He's been pegged as a suspect. Example: I pegged his weight at 165. 8. To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg. Example: She pegged twelve points. 9. To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge). Labels: slang, transitive Example: We pegged the speedometer across the flats. 10. To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo. Labels: slang, transitive Example: When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […] 11. To keep working hard at something; to peg away. Labels: intransitive Example: For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […] 12. To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple. Labels: archaic, slang 13. To drive (a hackney carriage). Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me.
Word: spill one's guts Part of Speech: verb 1. To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: At first, the suspect would not tell us anything about the other participants in the crime. But after being offered a deal, he spilled his guts. 2. To vomit. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching. Example: A stench preceded a green cloud that almost caused the wizard to spill his guts.
Word: leviathan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English leviathan, levyathan, levyethan, from Late Latin leviathan, a transliteration of Biblical Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (liwyāṯān), possibly from לִוְיָה (liwyâ, “garland, wreath”) + ־תָּן (-tān, suffix forming agent nouns), literally “the tortuous one”. Noun sense 2.2 (“political state”) was coined by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) in his work Leviathan (1651): see the quotation. Noun sense 2.3 (“synonym of Satan”) refers to Isaiah 27:1 in the Bible (King James Version, spelling modernized): “In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. Pronunciation: /lɪˈvaɪəθn̩/, /ləˈvaɪəθ(ə)n/ 1. A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean. Example: So is this greate and wyde ſee [sea] alſo, wherin are thinges crepinge innumerable, both ſmall and greate beaſtes. There go the ſhippes ouer, and there is that Leuiathan, whom thou haſt made, to take his paſtyme therin. Example: Euen ſo do I thinke them no trewe Chryſtian men that do not reioyce with the Angels of heauen for the deliuerie of theſe owre brootherne, owre fleſſhe, and owre bones, from the handes of owre commune enemie the oulde ſerpente who hath ſo longe had them in hys poſſeſſion, vntyll the fulneſſe of the gentyles be accomplyſſhed accordynge to the time prefinite by hym, who vnto the yeare after his incarnation. M. CCCC. lxxxxii. hath ſuffered the greate ſerpente of the ſea Leuiathan, to haue ſuche dominion in the Ocean […] 2. A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth. Labels: figuratively Example: Of this laſt requeſt, the Lacquy of this great Leuiathan, promiſde he ſhould be maiſter, but he vvould not bring him to a miles end by land, (they vvere too many to meddle vvith). Example: So can the Lord deal, and often doth, vvith the great Behemoths and Leviathans of the vvorld: […] 3. Sometimes in the form Leviathan: based on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the political state, especially a domineering and totalitarian one. Labels: figuratively Example: Holonym: the System Example: [T]he Multitude ſo united in one Perſon, is called a Common-vvealth, in latine Civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather (to ſpeake more reverently) of that Mortall God, to vvhich vvee ovve under the Immortall God, our peace and defence. 4. Synonym of Satan (“the supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions, who tempts humanity into sin; the Devil”). Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: [S]eu'n times thrice more glorious the name, / By vvhich thrice povverfull vvee coniure the ſame: / VVhich but repeated doth that Dragon feare, / That olde Leuyathan vvhoſe iavves Lord teare. / […] / Then glorious Captaine, our chiefe God and man, / Breake thou the Iavves of old Leuiathan.
Word: leviathan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English leviathan, levyathan, levyethan, from Late Latin leviathan, a transliteration of Biblical Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (liwyāṯān), possibly from לִוְיָה (liwyâ, “garland, wreath”) + ־תָּן (-tān, suffix forming agent nouns), literally “the tortuous one”. Noun sense 2.2 (“political state”) was coined by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) in his work Leviathan (1651): see the quotation. Noun sense 2.3 (“synonym of Satan”) refers to Isaiah 27:1 in the Bible (King James Version, spelling modernized): “In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. Pronunciation: /lɪˈvaɪəθn̩/, /ləˈvaɪəθ(ə)n/ 1. Very large; enormous, gargantuan. Labels: not-comparable Example: Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.
Word: intestine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin intestīnum, neuter of intestīnus (“internal”), as Etymology 2, below. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛs.tɪn/, /ɪnˈtɛsˌtiːn/, /ɪnˈtɛs.taɪn/, /ˈɪn.tɛs.taɪn/, /ˈɪn.tɛs.tɪn/ 1. The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs. 2. One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Word: intestine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin intestīnus (“internal”), from intus (“within”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛs.tɪn/, /ɪnˈtɛsˌtiːn/, /ɪnˈtɛs.taɪn/, /ˈɪn.tɛs.taɪn/, /ˈɪn.tɛs.tɪn/ 1. Domestic; taking place within a given country or region. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued. Example: It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded[…]. 2. Internal. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: a perpetual intestine struggle[…]between authority and liberty Example: If you wish this state to be immortal, if you wish your empire to be eternal, if you with your glory to continue everlasting, then it is our own passions, it is the turbulence and desire of revolution engendered among our own citizens, it is intestine evil, it is domestic plots that must be guarded against. 3. Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her. Example: Every thing labours under an intestine necessity. 4. Shut up; enclosed. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: No thunders shook with deep intestine sound The blooming groves that girdled her around. Example: Where now the vital energy that moved, While summer was, the pure and subtle lymph Through the imperceptible meandering veins Of leaf and flower? It sleeps; and the icy touch Of unprolific winter has impress'd A cold stagnation on the intestine tide.
Word: geology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geo- + -logy, partly after Renaissance Latin geōlogia, from Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + Latin -logia (“the study of”), from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/, /d͡ʒiˈɑ.lə.dʒi/, /d͡ʒiˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The science that studies the structure of the Earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The geological structure of a region. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the geology of the Alps
Word: geologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English geology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English geologist From geology + -ist. Pronunciation: /dʒiˈɒlədʒɪst/, /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/ 1. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of geology, especially at a professional or academic level.
Word: douzaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French douzaine (“dozen”). 1. A parish council, consisting of a dean and twelve douzeniers. Labels: Guernsey Example: If the eldest son will not accept the valuation set upon it by the town Douzaine, then it will be successively offered to the sons and daughters in rotation, according to seniority […] Example: The douzaines of Guernsey, since the year 1844, are represented in the states by deputies, who are delegates rather than representatives.
Word: hola Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hola. Pronunciation: /ˈoʊlɑː/ 1. Hello, hi, hey. Labels: informal
Word: quinzaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French quinzaine. 1. The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both days in the reckoning. 2. A piece of verse having fifteen syllables.
Word: vingtaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French vingtaine. 1. A subdivision of a parish, corresponding to a cueillette in the parish of Saint Ouen. Labels: Jersey