nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: plausible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”). Pronunciation: /ˈplɔː.zɪ.bl̩/, /ˈplɔː.zə.bl̩/, /ˈplɑ.zɪ.bəl/, [ˈplɑ.zɪ.bl̩], /ˈploː.zɪ.bəl/ 1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely. Example: a plausible excuse Example: In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows (innately) or learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years). 2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious. Example: a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion 3. Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready. Labels: obsolete Example: capable of receiving a plauſible Anſwer Example: […] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."
Word: playmate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪˌmeɪt/ 1. A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with. Example: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’. 2. A person's lover. Labels: euphemistic
Word: plight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)). Pronunciation: /plaɪt/ 1. A dire or unfortunate situation. Example: Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both. Example: Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin. 2. A (neutral) condition or state. Labels: archaic Example: although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…]. 3. Good health. Labels: obsolete Example: All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].
Word: plight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge. Pronunciation: /plaɪt/ 1. Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril. Labels: dialectal 2. An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation. Labels: dialectal 3. Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime. Labels: dialectal 4. One's office; duty; charge. Labels: dialectal 5. That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge. Labels: archaic Example: Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty
Word: plight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge. Pronunciation: /plaɪt/ 1. To nominate an object of value as a security against a promise; to pledge something, as one's faith, trust, allegiance, or something symbolic of this. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: "Travel shall I and woo; Plight me shall I a flower; Try shall I my sword so good, To my weal or my woe in the stour." 2. Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony. Labels: transitive 3. To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something. Labels: reflexive Example: I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
Word: plight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plyghten, plyȝten, pleyȝten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below). Pronunciation: /plaɪt/ 1. To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait. Labels: obsolete Example: ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,
Word: plight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pliȝt, plight, plyt, pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (“pleat, fold”). More at plait. Pronunciation: /plaɪt/ 1. A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. Labels: obsolete Example: Many a folded plight.
Word: plunge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce. Pronunciation: /plʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. Labels: transitive Example: to plunge the body into water Example: "Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about." 2. To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: to plunge a dagger into the breast Example: to plunge a nation into war 3. To baptize by immersion. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. Labels: intransitive Example: he plunged into the river 5. To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: to plunge into debt Example: to plunge into controversy 6. To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. Labels: intransitive Example: [N]ature affects a looſe kinde of liberty, vvhich it cannot indure to have reſtrained: neither fares it othervviſe vvith it, then vvith ſome vvilde colt; which at the firſt taking up, flings and plunges, and vvill ſtand on no ground; but after it hath been ſomvvhile diſciplin'd at the Poſt, is grovvn tractable, and quietly ſubmits either to the ſaddle, or the collar: […] 7. To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling. Labels: intransitive, slang 8. To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle). Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca. 9. To overwhelm, overpower. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: plunge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce. Pronunciation: /plʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. The act of plunging or submerging. 2. A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water). Example: to take the water with a plunge Example: A plunge into the sea 3. A swimming pool. Labels: dated 4. The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse. Labels: figuratively 5. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. Labels: slang 6. An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty. Labels: obsolete
Word: plunge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from plunger. Pronunciation: /plʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. To remove a blockage by suction. Labels: transitive Example: to plunge a toilet
Word: pollinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English pollin- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English pollinate From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix). From oblique stem of Latin pollen, pollinis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/ 1. To apply pollen to (a stigma). Example: pollinate plants Example: pollinate flowers
Word: pollinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English pollin- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English pollinate From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix). From oblique stem of Latin pollen, pollinis. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/ 1. Pollinose.
Word: porch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus. Pronunciation: /pɔːtʃ/, /pɔɹt͡ʃ/, /po(ː)ɹtʃ/, /poətʃ/ 1. A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings. Example: He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over. Example: But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there. 2. A portico; a covered walk. 3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft. Example: By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.
Word: portray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English portray, from Middle French portraire. Pronunciation: /pɔːˈtɹeɪ̯/, [pʰɔːˈtɹ̝̊eɪ̯], /poːˈtɹæ̝ɪ̯/, [pʰoːˈtɹ̝̊æ̝ɪ̯], /poɹˈtɹeɪ̯/ 1. To paint or draw the likeness of. Example: I will portray a king on horseback. 2. To represent by an image or look. Labels: figuratively Example: Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, And in his eies the furies of his heart, That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks. 3. To describe in words; to convey. Labels: figuratively 4. To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event. Example: For my next movie, I will be portraying Shakespeare. 5. To adorn. Labels: obsolete
Word: potential Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”). By surface analysis, potent + -ial. Pronunciation: /pəˈtɛnʃəl/, /po(ʊ)ˈtɛnʃəl/ 1. A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician. Example: Comrades, our own fleet doesn't know our full potential. They will do everything possible to test us, but they will only test their own embarrassment. 2. The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: potential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”). By surface analysis, potent + -ial. Pronunciation: /pəˈtɛnʃəl/, /po(ʊ)ˈtɛnʃəl/ 1. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. Labels: not-comparable Example: The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances. 2. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: And hath, in his effect, a voice potential 3. irrotational Labels: not-comparable Example: From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r). 4. irrotational (see potential flow on Wikipedia) Labels: not-comparable Example: The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational). 5. Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: poussette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French Pronunciation: /puːˈsɛt/ 1. A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. Example: But, now, the Bird of Paradise was seen to flutter down the middle; and the little bells began to bounce and jingle in poussette; and the Doctor's rosy face spun round and round, like an expressive peg-top highly varnished; and breathless Mr. Craggs began to doubt already, whether country dancing had been made 'too easy,' like the rest of life; and Mr. Snitchey, with his nimble cuts and capers, footed it for Self and Craggs, and half-a-dozen more. 2. A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.
Word: poussette Part of Speech: verb Etymology: French Pronunciation: /puːˈsɛt/ 1. To waltz around each other, as two couples do in a contra dance. Labels: intransitive Example: Came wet-shod alder from the wave, / Came yews, a dismal coterie; / Each pluck'd his one foot from the grave, / Poussetting with a sloe-tree: […]
Word: poverty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertās, from pauper (“poor”) + -tas (“noun of state suffix”). Cognates include pauper, poor. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒvəti/, /ˈpɑːvɚti/ 1. The quality or state of being poor; lack of money Labels: uncountable, usually Example: get into poverty Example: get out of poverty 2. A deficiency of something needed or desired Labels: uncountable, usually Example: poverty of soil Example: poverty of the blood
Word: pout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)). Pronunciation: /paʊt/, /pʌʊt/ 1. To push out one's lips; especially, to do so in a gesture of dismay, either serious or playful. Labels: intransitive 2. To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. Labels: intransitive 3. To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. Labels: intransitive 4. To say while pouting. Labels: transitive Example: "Don't you love me any more?" she pouted.
Word: pout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)). Pronunciation: /paʊt/, /pʌʊt/ 1. One's facial expression when pouting. Example: 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time. 2. A fit of sulking or sullenness.
Word: pout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *poute, from Old English *pūte as in ǣlepūta, ǣlepūte (“eelpout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”). Related to pout (“to push one's lip out”). Pronunciation: /paʊt/, /pʌʊt/ 1. Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae). Labels: rare
Word: pout Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /paʊt/, /pʌʊt/ 1. Alternative form of poult. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pout Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /paʊt/, /pʌʊt/ 1. To shoot poults. Labels: Scotland
Word: prate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”). Related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata;; also cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”). Pronunciation: /pɹeɪt/ 1. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: prate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”). Related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata;; also cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”). Pronunciation: /pɹeɪt/ 1. To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it. Example: What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
Word: precipitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From obsolete French précipiteux, from Vulgar Latin *praecipitōsus, from praeceps, praecipit- (“ precipice”) + -ōsus (“-ful, -ous”), from prae- (“before”) + caput (“head”). Equivalent to precipice (“steep cliff, brink”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtəs/ 1. Steep, like a precipice Example: a precipitous cliff Example: a precipitous mountain 2. Headlong Example: a precipitous fall 3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden Example: precipitous attempts Example: […]humans have been responsible for a precipitous decline of elephants, from perhaps 300,000 in the early 1970s to some 10,000 today.
Word: preconceive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English conceive English preconceive From pre- + conceive. 1. To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to have a preconception
Word: predecease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English decease English predecease From pre- + decease. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːdəˈsiːs/ 1. The death of one person or thing before another. Example: ‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer to behold the contents.
Word: predecease Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English decease English predecease From pre- + decease. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːdəˈsiːs/ 1. To die sooner than. Labels: transitive Example: Husbands usually predecease their wives. Example: Frederick, Prince of Wales, predeceased his father and never became king.
Word: predecessor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English predecessour, from Old French predecesseor (“forebear”), from Late Latin praedēcessor, from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + Latin dēcessor (“retiring officer”), from Latin dēcēdō (“to retire, to die”) (English decease). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsə(ɹ)/, /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsɚ/, /ˈpɹɛd.ə.sɛs.ɚ/, /ˈpɹi.də.sɛs.ɚ/ 1. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. Example: I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease. Example: "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know. 2. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. Example: The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives. Example: No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher. 3. A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
Word: premise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”). Sense 4, a piece of real estate arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛm.ɪs/, /ˈpɹem.ɪs/, /ˈpɹem.əs/, /prɪˈmajz/, /pɹɪˈmaɪz/ 1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. Example: The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. 2. Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. Example: While the premises stand firm, 'tis impossible to shake the conclusion. 3. Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. Labels: plural-normally 4. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. Labels: plural-normally Example: trespass on another’s premises Example: On the premises is a beautiful lawn, well stocked with flowering shrubs; hard and soft water. 5. The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story. Example: In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.
Word: premise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”). Sense 4, a piece of real estate arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛm.ɪs/, /ˈpɹem.ɪs/, /ˈpɹem.əs/, /prɪˈmajz/, /pɹɪˈmaɪz/ 1. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument. 2. To make a premise. 3. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows. Example: I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. Example: Having premised thus much, we will now detain those who like our bill of fare no longer from their diet, and shall proceed directly to serve up the first course of our history for their entertainment. 4. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. Example: the premised flames of the last day Example: 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia if venesection can be previously performed, even to but few ounces, the effect of the opium is much more certain; and still more so, if there be time to premise a brisk cathartic, or even an emetic
Word: prenatal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós Proto-Italic *gnātos Latin gnātus Latin nātus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nātālisbor. Middle English natal English natal English prenatal From pre- + natal. 1. Being or happening before birth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Holonym: perinatal Example: prenatal care
Word: prenatal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós Proto-Italic *gnātos Latin gnātus Latin nātus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nātālisbor. Middle English natal English natal English prenatal From pre- + natal. 1. A person who is expecting to give birth. 2. A dietary supplement to be taken by somebody expecting to give birth. Example: She was recommended a course of zinc prenatals.
Word: prevail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English prevailen, from Old French prevaler, from Latin praevaleō (“be very able or more able, be superior, prevail”), from prae (“before”) + valeō (“be able or powerful”). Displaced native Old English rīcsian. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈveɪl/, /pɹɪˈvæɪl/, /pɹəˈvæɪl/ 1. To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others. Labels: intransitive Example: Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag. Example: Sunny skies will prevail across the Northeast. 2. To triumph; to be victorious. Labels: intransitive Example: There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed. Example: Zakharova also made light of Moore’s claims that Russia will not be able to regain momentum in the war after the MI6 chief said he was”optimistic”^([sic]) Ukraine would prevail against the Russian invasion. 3. To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence. Labels: intransitive Example: In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe. 4. To succeed in persuading or inducing. Labels: intransitive, often Example: I prevailed on him to wait. Example: Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself. 5. To avail. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: prevalence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French prévalence. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛvələns/, /pɹɪˈveɪləns/ 1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool. 2. The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: prey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English preye, prei, preyȝe, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French preie, one of the variants of proie, from Latin praeda. Compare predator. Doublet of prede. Pronunciation: /pɹeɪ/ 1. That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The deer became prey to the lion. Example: Already sees herself the monster's prey. 2. A person or thing given up as a victim. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk […] Example: Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business. 3. A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey. Example: Stranded without any weapons, we made very easy prey. 4. Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: And they brought the captiues, and the pray, and the spoile vnto Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, vnto the campe at the plaines of Moab, which are by Iordan neere Iericho. 5. The act of devouring other creatures; ravage. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, […] lion in prey. 6. The victim of a disease. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He became the prey of dengue.
Word: prey Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English praien, prayen, preyen, partly from the noun and partly from Old French praer, preer, earlier preder, from Late Latin praedō, collateral form of Latin praedor, from praeda (“plunder, booty, loot”) + -ō (verbal suffix). Doublet of prede. Pronunciation: /pɹeɪ/ 1. To act as a predator. Labels: intransitive Example: The ridge had been a haven for birds and small earth creatures, creeping, crawling, and hopping in a little world of balanced ecology where wild things preyed and were preyed upon […]
Word: pride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪd/, [ˈpɹ̥ʷaɪ̯d], /pɾʌɪd/ 1. The quality or state of being proud. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He swelled with pride as he held the trophy. His family watched with pride from the bleachers. Example: He takes great pride in his work. 2. The quality or state of being proud. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pride goeth before the fall. 4. Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her long ginger hair is her pride. Example: The 18th century table is the pride of Mark's house/ 5. Show; ostentation; glory. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: lofty trees yclad with summer's pride Example: Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war. 6. Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a falcon, towering in her pride of place 7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Lust or heat; sexual desire (especially in a female animal) Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 9. A company of lions or other large felines. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable Example: A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until they are able to seize/establish a family pride of their own. 10. Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”). Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.
Word: pride Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪd/, [ˈpɹ̥ʷaɪ̯d], /pɾʌɪd/ 1. To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. Labels: reflexive Example: I pride myself on being a good judge of character. Example: Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.
Word: pride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pryde, from Middle Low German lampride, from Medieval Latin lampreda. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪd/, [ˈpɹ̥ʷaɪ̯d], /pɾʌɪd/ 1. The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis. Labels: uncountable
Word: primacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French primacie, from Medieval Latin primatia (“office of a church primate”), from Latin primas plus a suffix corresponding to -acy. By surface analysis, prime + -acy. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.si/, /ˈpɹɪ.mə.si/ 1. The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: establish the primacy of something Example: acknowledge the primacy of something 2. Excellence; supremacy. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually 3. The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor in Eastern Orthodoxy, emphasized the many areas of agreement between Pope Francis and himself in response to the social concerns of the day. 4. The office or dignity of an archbishop. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: primeval Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin primaevus (“in the first or earliest period of life”) + -al, from primus (“first”) + aevum (“time, age”); see prime and age. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪ̯ˈmiː.vəl/, /pɹʌɪ̯-/, /pɹaɪ̯ˈmi.vəl/, /pɹʌi̯-/, /pɹəi̯-/ 1. Belonging to the first ages. Example: a primeval galaxy Example: And Tarzan had to be contented with that arrangement, though he would have liked it well enough to have set off the next morning—he was as impatient as a child. Really Tarzan of the Apes was but a child, or a primeval man, which is the same thing in a way. 2. Primary; original. Example: A letter from Mr. [Brian Houghton] Hodgson to Mr. Bayley, was then read, giving an outline of the theocracy of the Buddha system of Nepal. […] According to the information now communicated, the northern Buddhas acknowledge four sets of divine beings, or of superhuman objects of veneration. The first of these is, contrary to the generally supposed atheistical tendency of the faith, one primæval and uncreated deity. This first Buddha manifested five of his attributes, as five secondary Buddhas; in one of whom, Amitabha, or the 'immeasurably splendid,' in Prakrit and Pali, Amitabo, we recognise the Amito of the Japanese. Example: But if life has a happiness over which the primeval curse has passed and harmed not, it is the early and long enduring affection of blood and habit. 3. Primitive. Example: If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.
Word: primitive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/ 1. An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative. 2. A member of a primitive society. 3. Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature. Example: It may be that, living among primitive surroundings, the dormant primitive deep within the white man is drawn towards the absolute primitive in the aboriginal. 4. Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society. Example: Out there in the primitive, white-man Rust had made his tools out of the primitive, as these stone-age people were making excellent string from the primitive. 5. A simple-minded person. 6. A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures. 7. Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language. Example: A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory 8. A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed. 9. A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
Word: primitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/ 1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first. Example: primitive innocence; the primitive church Example: it is from such primitive beings that the highest organisms now extant are the marvellously developed descendants 2. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity. Example: a primitive style of dress Example: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect. 3. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity. Example: I used primitive hearts to decorate the quilt. 4. Crude, obsolete. Example: primitive ideas 5. Original; primary; radical; not derived. Example: a primitive verb Example: The primitive root in "children" is "child." 6. Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution. Labels: dated 7. Not derived from another of the same type 8. most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of Labels: dated Example: We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like Primitive Germanic (Primitive Slavic, Primitive Celtic, and so on).
Word: priority Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, /pɹaɪˈɔɹɪtɪj/, /pɹaɪˈoɹəti/, [pɹaɪˈoɹəɾi], /pɹaɪˈɑɹəti/ 1. An item's relative importance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He set his e-mail message's priority to high. 2. A goal of a person or an organisation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games. 3. The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first. Example: But it's now platform extension work which will allow the station to handle LNER Azuma trains which needs to take priority, if a direct service to London King's Cross is to begin in 2021. 4. A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority." 5. Precedence; superior rank. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority. Example: Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […] 6. Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: prise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪz/ 1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry. Example: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. Example: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! 2. To extract something that is difficult to obtain. Example: prise information out of someone
Word: prise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪz/ 1. An enterprise or adventure. Labels: obsolete Example: In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise 2. Obsolete form of prize. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: prize Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prēndere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc. Doublet of prise. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ̯z/, /ˈpɹɑ̟ɪ̯z/, /ˈpɹɒ̈ɪ̯z/, /ˈpɹaːz/ 1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. Example: […] wherefore he now begunne To challenge her anew, as his owne prize, Whom formerly he had in battell wonne, 2. Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel. Example: Having taken all the Treasure on Board their own Ships, and plundered their Prize of every Thing elſe they either wanted or liked, they let her go; ſhe not being able to continue her Voyage, returned back: […] 3. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort. Example: I fought and conquer’d, yet have lost the prize. 4. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery. Example: Cecil Rhodes […] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatest prize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled. 5. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect. Example: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 6. A contest for a reward; competition. Labels: obsolete Example: Like one of two contending in a prize, That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […] 7. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
Word: prize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English prysen, borrowed from Old French preisier (“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), from pris (“price”), from Latin pretium (“price, value”), whence price; see also praise, a doublet. Compare appraise, apprize. 1. To consider highly valuable; to esteem. Example: […] I Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world Do love, prize, honour you. Example: I pris’d your Person, but your Crown disdain. 2. To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate. Labels: obsolete Example: […] no life, I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour, Example: […] a goodly price that I was prized at. 3. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry. Example: ‘Find some other black boxes to prize open.’ 4. To compete in a prizefight. Labels: obsolete
Word: prize Part of Speech: adj 1. Having won a prize; award-winning. Labels: not-comparable Example: a prize vegetable 2. First-rate; exceptional. Labels: not-comparable Example: He was a prize fool.
Word: prize Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alternative forms. 1. Obsolete form of price. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: My prizes – for a head is thirty five Guineas – As far as the Knees seventy – and for a whole-length one hundred and fifty.