nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: armchair Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos Proto-Germanic *armaz Proto-West Germanic *arm Old English earm Middle English arm English arm Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English armchair From arm + chair. Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/ 1. Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: armchair travels Example: These days I'm an armchair detective. 2. Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, not-comparable Example: He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog. Example: After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win.
Word: armchair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos Proto-Germanic *armaz Proto-West Germanic *arm Old English earm Middle English arm English arm Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English armchair From arm + chair. Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/ 1. To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data. Example: Research for program's subject matter is like mining gold. The more raw material we have, the more likely we are going to find gold nuggets. But this step is often overlooked and a program is "armchaired" from the office of the vice-president or vice-president of sales. Example: The very serious question is then raised as to whether reasonable and logical distractors can be "armchaired" or whether the practice of administering a question in open-end format to obtain logical distractors is a better procedure. 2. To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect. Example: In past years, we administered this questionnaire and gave the results to the president who sat at a conference table with top management and armchaired some answers. Example: Briefly it may be stated: Operations come first; concepts follow; theory aims at developing concepts, from operations, plus a nomological network for those concepts, which explains the structure of the data obtained through those operations. And this does not exclude the theorist from doing some 'armchairing' in thinking about logically consistent models, their empirical potentialities, their assumptions and their implications; he may, and usually will, venture some possible empirical interpretations of a model, but in doing so he will carefully avoid any substantive (nonformal) pre-operational definition of a concept or construct.
Word: untidy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tidy. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈtaɪdi/ 1. Sloppy. Example: I have never seen such an untidy bedroom! 2. Disorganized. Example: His finances were in an untidy state when he died. Example: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
Word: untidy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + tidy. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈtaɪdi/ 1. To make untidy, to make a mess Labels: transitive Example: Before she closed each drawer she rummaged her hands through the clothes, untidying them just enough to feel comfortable.
Word: favourite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“to favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ 1. Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.) Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, superlative Example: This is my favourite day! Example: I saw a hilariously funny movie with all of my favourite comedians in it. 2. Liked, cherished. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, positive Example: What joy has this dog in miſchief!—More than I can have in the completion of my moſt favourite purpoſes!
Word: favourite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“to favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ 1. A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: The teacher's favourite always went first. 2. A person who is preferred or trusted above all others. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK 3. A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: You were my favourite to win the spelling competition. Example: She's the favourite, she'll probably be elected. 4. A bookmark on a web browser or website. Labels: Commonwealth, Internet, Ireland, UK 5. A short curl dangling over the temples, fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, in-plural Example: the Favourites hang loose upon the Temples with a languishing Lock in the middle
Word: favourite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“to favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ 1. To favour. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK 2. To bookmark. Labels: Commonwealth, Internet, Ireland, UK 3. To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists. Labels: Commonwealth, Internet, Ireland, UK
Word: cheerful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪəfl̩/, /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl̩/, /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fəl/, /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fʊl/ 1. Noticeably happy and optimistic. Example: Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them. Example: He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick. 2. Bright and pleasant. Example: They enjoyed a cheerful room. Example: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Word: downcast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/, /-kæst/, /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/ 1. Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty. Example: Briefly then heere Dido, with downe caſt phiſnomie, parled. Example: [A]s before Empire and Arts made vvay, / (For no leſſe Harbingers vvould ſerve then they) / So they might ſtill, and point us out the place / VVhere firſt the Church ſhould raiſe her dovvn-caſt face. 2. Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground. Example: VVhere liues all vvoe? conduct him to vs three, / The dovvne-caſt ruines of calamitie. Example: […] Dovvncaſt Lucifer revolves his State, / VVith his fall'n Angels ſits in Dark Debate, / And from This Conſtellation bodes his Fate. 3. Of a thing: directed downwards. 4. Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged. Labels: figuratively Example: His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness. 5. Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined. Labels: figuratively
Word: downcast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective). The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/, /-kæst/, /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/ 1. Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”). Labels: obsolete Example: a downcast dyke
Word: downcast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English downcast (“misfortune”), adoun-cast (“destruction, overthrow”), from adoun (“downward”) + cast (“a throw, a cast”) (from Old Norse kast (“a throw”), from kasten (“to cast, throw”)), from Middle English casten adoun: see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“act of throwing”, noun). Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/, /-kæst/, /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/ 1. An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy. Labels: countable Example: [C]ome lets be ſad my girles, / That dovvne caſt of thine eye Olimpias, / Shovves a faind ſorrovv; […] Example: I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look! 2. An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 3. A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin. Labels: archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable 4. A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype. Labels: countable 5. A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine. Labels: attributive, countable
Word: downcast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“to cast or throw (something) downwards; to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”): see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“to throw”, verb). Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/, /-kæst/, /daʊnˈkɑːst/, /-ˈkæst/, /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/ 1. To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty. Labels: transitive 2. To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something). Labels: transitive Example: For there shall come a mightier blast, / There shall be a darker day; / And the stars, from heaven down-cast, / Like red leaves be swept away! 3. To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.). Labels: transitive 4. To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype. Labels: transitive 6. To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone). Labels: Scotland, transitive 7. To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also (sometimes reflexive), to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: r-value Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for resistance value. 1. A measure of thermal resistance used in domestic insulation.
Word: terrible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin terribilislbor. Old French terriblebor. Middle English terrible English terrible Inherited from Middle English terrible, from Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terreō (“to frighten, terrify, alarm; to deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter. By surface analysis, terror + -ible. Displaced Old English atol and sliþe, while also largely overtaking grimm. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəbəl/, [ˈtɛɹəbl̩], /ˈtɛɹɪbəl/, [ˈtɛɹɪbl̩], /ˈteɹəbəl/ 1. Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome Example: The witch laid a terrible curse on him. Example: People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly. 2. Formidable, powerful. Example: […]and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea. Example: "He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure," thought the farmer. 3. Intense; extreme in degree or extent. Example: He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking. Example: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers? 4. Very unpleasant; disagreeable. Example: The food was terrible, but it was free. Example: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling. 5. Very bad; lousy. Example: Whatever he thinks, he is a terrible driver. Example: The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek. 6. Prone to a particular temptation. Labels: Ireland, especially Example: He's a terrible man for beer. Example: I should have known designing was in my blood as I'm terrible for tweaking patterns I'm stitching.
Word: terrible Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin terribilislbor. Old French terriblebor. Middle English terrible English terrible Inherited from Middle English terrible, from Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terreō (“to frighten, terrify, alarm; to deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter. By surface analysis, terror + -ible. Displaced Old English atol and sliþe, while also largely overtaking grimm. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəbəl/, [ˈtɛɹəbl̩], /ˈtɛɹɪbəl/, [ˈtɛɹɪbl̩], /ˈteɹəbəl/ 1. In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully. Labels: colloquial, dialectal Example: ‘Oh, terrible bad, sir, terrible deep the snow is,’ said the hedgehog.
Word: biscuit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪs.kɪt/, /ˈbəs.kət/, /bɪs.keʈ/, [ˈbɪs.kë̞ʈ], /bɪs.kɪʈ/ 1. A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie. Labels: Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, sometimes, uncommon, uncountable Example: Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit. 2. A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet. Labels: Canada, US, countable, rare, uncountable 3. A cracker. Labels: Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK, countable, uncountable Example: cheese and biscuits Example: water biscuits 4. Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils. Labels: countable, especially, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: tack, bread Example: He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. 5. A form of unglazed earthenware. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […]. Example: In 1740, Thomas Whieldon of Little Fenton made 'toys' in either the clay or biscuit state. They were coloured with zaffre, copper, manganese, etc. and glazed with black, red or white lead. 6. A light brown colour. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable 9. A handgun, especially a revolver. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: I shoot my biscuit in the air until the sky is gone 10. A puck (hockey puck). Labels: countable, uncountable 11. The head. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Damn, damn, what they say about me? I don't know man, fuck is on your biscuit Example: Me and my down ass nigga get twisted Nigga get to trippin', knock the gravy out your biscuit 12. An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting. Labels: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable 13. A young woman. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: biscuit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪs.kɪt/, /ˈbəs.kət/, /bɪs.keʈ/, [ˈbɪs.kë̞ʈ], /bɪs.kɪʈ/ 1. To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze. Labels: transitive 2. To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube. Labels: New-Zealand, intransitive
Word: butcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/, /ˈbɵt͡ʃə/, /ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈbʉt͡ʃəɾ/, /ˈbʉt͡ʃəɹ/ 1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). Example: He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days... 2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer. Labels: figuratively Example: Butcher of an innocent child. 3. A look. Labels: Cockney, slang 4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. Labels: informal, obsolete 5. A king playing card. Labels: archaic, colloquial
Word: butcher Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/, /ˈbɵt͡ʃə/, /ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈbʉt͡ʃəɾ/, /ˈbʉt͡ʃəɹ/ 1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. Labels: transitive 2. To work as a butcher. Labels: intransitive Example: He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering. 3. To kill brutally. Labels: transitive 4. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. Labels: transitive Example: The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California". 5. To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition. Labels: transitive Example: I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
Word: butcher Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English butcher From butch + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/, /ˈbɵt͡ʃə/, /ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈbʉt͡ʃəɾ/, /ˈbʉt͡ʃəɹ/ 1. comparative form of butch: more butch Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).
Word: assist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistō Old French assisterbor. Middle English assisten English assist From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb). Pronunciation: /əˈsɪst/ 1. To help. Example: This book will assist you in getting your life in order. Example: Tutor feedback assists the learning process. 2. To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring. 3. To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy. 4. To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion). Labels: archaic Example: A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion. 5. To be present (at an event, occasion etc.). Labels: archaic Example: I assisted with pleasure at the representation of several tragedies and comedies. Example: To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
Word: assist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistō Old French assisterbor. Middle English assisten English assist From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb). Pronunciation: /əˈsɪst/ 1. A helpful action or an act of giving. Example: The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter. 2. The act of helping another player score points or goals Example: Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself. 3. The act of helping another player score points or goals Example: He had two assists in the game.
Word: windy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪn.di/ 1. Accompanied by wind. Example: It was a long and windy night. Example: “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 2. Unsheltered and open to the wind. Example: They shagged in a windy bus shelter. 3. Empty and lacking substance. Example: They made windy promises they would not keep. 4. Long-winded; orally verbose. Example: I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew. 5. Flatulent. Labels: informal Example: The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy. 6. Nervous, frightened. Labels: slang Example: The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.
Word: windy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪn.di/ 1. A fart. Labels: colloquial
Word: windy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English wind Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English windy From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪndi/ 1. Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
Word: housework Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + work. Cognate with Dutch huiswerk (“homework”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊsˌwɝk/ 1. domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking Labels: uncountable Example: In the preindustrial era the burden of housework fell on the shoulders of every inhabitant of the house: men, women, and children all devoted their energies and time to work in the home and on the farms, because most Americans were involved with at least some of their own food production. 2. homework Labels: uncommon, uncountable
Word: quarterdeck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quarter + deck. 1. The aft part of the upper deck of a ship; normally reserved for officers
Word: artillery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”). Pronunciation: /ɑːˈtɪləɹi/, /ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/ 1. Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Weapons, especially siege engines. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie. Example: The old walls […] were surely strong enough to keep out men without battering-rams, balistas, or artillery of any kind. [Footnote] Artillery is here used in its old English meaning for any kind of warlike engine. Cf. I Sam. XX. 40. 5. One or more guns. Labels: Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: queasy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil”) ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwiː.zi/ 1. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach. Example: She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food. 2. Easily troubled; squeamish.
Word: gunnery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English gunnery From gun + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌn.əɹ.i/ 1. The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery— / When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,— 2. The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Originally, doubtless, that petty officer's function was the instruction of the men in the use of arms, sword, or cutlass. But very long ago, owing to the advance in gunnery, making hand-to-hand encounters less frequent, and giving to nitre and sulphur the preeminence over steel, that function ceased [...] 3. The firing of guns. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. Example: The 12th march company telephoned claiming that someone in the office had heard that they were waiting to do some shooting practice at moveable targets and that they would only leave after gunnery practice under front conditions. 4. A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use. Labels: countable, usually
Word: Zionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn)bor. Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn)bor. Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōnbor. Old English Syon Middle English Sion Early New High German Zioninflu. English Zion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism German Zionismuscalq. English Zionism From Zion + -ism, calqued in analogy to German Zionismus, coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890. Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm/ 1. Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of Israel as a Jewish state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: These investigations indicate that although a large proportion of American Jews call themselves Zionists, their meanings of Zionism are closer to what some investigators have called pro-Israelism. According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists. Example: A version of Zionism from the 1940s might perhaps have coexisted with an equal Palestinian state, but its mature version, fed by military victories and unwavering American support, no longer can. 2. A religion practiced throughout sub-Saharan Africa, most popular in Swaziland, consisting of a mixture of Protestantism and animism. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Zionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn)bor. Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn)bor. Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōnbor. Old English Syon Middle English Sion Early New High German Zioninflu. English Zion 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 Zionist From Zion + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪənɪst/ 1. An advocate of Zionism. Example: More than those who are merely pro-Israel, Zionists (1) see contemporary Israeli society as presenting a challenge to their Jewish life in the Diaspora; (2) believe Israel offers a greater chance of a fulfilling and secure Jewish life; and (3) are confronted with the possibility of settling in Israel and attracted to it. Thus, while most American Jews are pro-Israel, far fewer are Zionists in the classical sense. Example: These investigations indicate that although a large proportion of American Jews call themselves Zionists, their meanings of Zionism are closer to what some investigators have called pro-Israelism. According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists. 2. A believer in the African Zionism religion.
Word: Zionist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn)bor. Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn)bor. Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōnbor. Old English Syon Middle English Sion Early New High German Zioninflu. English Zion 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 Zionist From Zion + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪənɪst/ 1. Of or relating to Zionism. Example: Even the remaining supporters of a two-state solution can offer only a shrunken, nostalgic version of Zionist nationalism. 2. Of or relating to a Zionist or Zionists. Example: Two, out of millions, who gave their lives and were prepared to sacrifice everything in the fight against fascist and racist Nazi Germany. And I salute you and I pay tribute to you and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you've stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. 3. Of or relating to Israel or Israelis. 4. Of or relating to the African Zionism religion.
Word: mailman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mail + man. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪl.mæn/, /ˈmeɪl.mən/, /ˈmeɪl.mɛən/ 1. Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. Labels: Canada, US Example: "What I'm thinking," she said, "is that I'll become a mailman. They're hiring women mailmen now, you know. […]"
Word: tracheotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₂gʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰréh₂gʰ-us Proto-Hellenic *tʰrākʰús Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîă)bor. Late Latin trāchīa Medieval Latin trāchēader. Middle English English trachea Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English tracheo- Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)der. English -tomy English tracheotomy From tracheo- + -tomy. 1. A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing.
Word: aerosol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder. Latin se- Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éti Proto-Indo-European *luh₁éti Proto-Italic [Term?] Latin luō Latin solvō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin solūtiō Latin solūtiōnembor. Old French solucionbor. Middle English solucioun English solution English sol English aerosol From aero- + sol (“solution”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/, /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɑl/, /ˈɛə.ɹəˌsɒl/ 1. A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium. Example: Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke. Example: The entire side of the barge chases itself inward, like the steel has become liquid and is running down a deain, and the metal turns bright as shock waves simply turn that thick layer of rust into an aerosol, blast it free from the steel borne on a wave of sound so powerful that it hurts Hiro down inside his chest and makes him feel sick. 2. An aerosol can. 3. The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can. 4. A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.
Word: aerosol Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder. Latin se- Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éti Proto-Indo-European *luh₁éti Proto-Italic [Term?] Latin luō Latin solvō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin solūtiō Latin solūtiōnembor. Old French solucionbor. Middle English solucioun English solution English sol English aerosol From aero- + sol (“solution”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/, /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɑl/, /ˈɛə.ɹəˌsɒl/ 1. To spray with an aerosol. Labels: transitive Example: The door entrance and space going up the steps was aerosoled just before passengers started to enter. A second spray was given after they were aboard.
Word: oleaginous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French oléagineux, borrowed from Medieval Latin oleāginōsus (“oily”), from olea (“the olive tree or its fruit”). Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.lɪˈæd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/, /ˌoʊ.liˈæd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/ 1. Oily, greasy. Example: […] the use of Linseed-oyl, Tar, or such oleaginous Matter, tends much to their Preservation and Duration. Example: Looking back, it seemed to me that a slight oleaginous mist was still hovering round the chair. 2. Falsely or affectedly earnest; persuasively suave. Example: The oleaginous salesman convinced me to buy a more expensive car. Example: Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
Word: dulcify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin dulcificō. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌlsɪfaɪ/ 1. To sweeten the taste of. 2. To make sweeter or more pleasant. Example: And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes. 3. To neutralise the acidity of. Labels: obsolete 4. To mollify or make peaceful. Labels: transitive Example: He knew all the things to say to dulcify his mother.
Word: stinker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stink + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪŋ.kə(ɹ)/, /ˈstɪŋ.kɚ/ 1. One who stinks. Example: Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom. 2. A contemptible person or thing. Labels: slang Example: "Stop squallin', you little stinker!" She struck the child with her open hand across the face. Example: "But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace." 3. Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter). Labels: slang Example: Today's crossword is a stinker. Example: I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort. 4. Something of poor quality. Labels: UK, slang Example: The barely-released stinker Dark Tide continues Stockwell’s fetishistic pattern, coming alive whenever it’s paddling among the sharks off the South African coast and settling in for a long snooze once it gets back on the boat or reaches dry land. Example: Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker: His new book is a stinker. [title] 5. Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar. 6. A chemist. Labels: slang 7. A hot day. Labels: Australia, slang 8. A black eye. Labels: Australia, slang 9. A western grey kangaroo. Labels: Australia, informal 10. A giant petrel. Labels: colloquial 11. An eastern long-necked turtle (which emits a foul-smelling musk when threatened). Labels: colloquial
Word: great room Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From great + room. Compare Middle English grete chaumbre (“greatroom”). 1. In many modern homes, a room that combines the roles of several more traditional rooms such as the family room, living room, and study. Labels: Canada, US Example: Its homes are tract mansions and starter castles of 4,000 square feet and upward, featuring two-story entrance halls, great rooms, three- or four-car garages, huge kitchens, spa-sized bathrooms, […] Example: As he crossed the greatroom floor he could smell smoke. It was coming from his bedchamber!
Word: association Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin sociō Latin associō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin associātiōbor. English association From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion. The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio. Pronunciation: /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/, /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/, /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/, /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/ 1. The act of associating. Labels: uncountable Example: And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state. 2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. Labels: countable Example: "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations." Example: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept? 3. Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business. Labels: Philippines, countable, uncountable
Word: slow food Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fast food, popularized by the organization Slow Food. 1. Food, in contrast to fast food, that is normally a part of a complete meal; especially the traditional cuisine of a region. Labels: uncountable Example: I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.
Word: sebaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sebaceus (whence -aceous), from Latin sebum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”), which Proto-Germanic *saipǭ ("soap") is also derived from. Pronunciation: /səˈbeɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Of or relating to fat, sebum. Labels: not-comparable 2. Oozing fat. Labels: not-comparable 3. Tallowy, waxy. Labels: not-comparable Example: a sebaceous plant secretion