nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Blackfoot Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Blackfoot Siksiká (literally “black foot”). Pronunciation: /ˈblæk.fʊt/ 1. The Algonquian language of these people. 2. A city, the county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.
Word: knot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”). See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus. * (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the logline (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile. Pronunciation: /nɒt/, /nɑt/ 1. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots. Labels: transitive Example: We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling. Example: For many weeks about my loins I wore / The rope that haled the buckets from the well, / Twisted as tight as I could knot the noose, / And spake not of it to a single soul, / And spake not of it to a single soul, / Until the ulcer, eating through my skin, / Betray'd my secret penance, so that all / My brethren marvell'd greatly. 2. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc. Labels: transitive Example: She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands. 3. To unite closely; to knit together. Example: The party of the papists in England are become more knotted, both in dependence towards Spain, and amongst themselves. 4. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive 5. To form knots. Labels: intransitive 6. To knit knots for a fringe. Labels: intransitive
Word: knot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus. Pronunciation: /nɒt/, /nɑt/ 1. One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus). Example: My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
Word: Chamorro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Chamorro Chamorro. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəˈmɒɹəʊ/, /t͡ʃəˈmɔɹoʊ/ 1. An indigenous native islander of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.
Word: Chamorro Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Chamorro Chamorro. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəˈmɒɹəʊ/, /t͡ʃəˈmɔɹoʊ/ 1. An Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous native islanders of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.
Word: Chamorro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Chamorro Chamorro. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəˈmɒɹəʊ/, /t͡ʃəˈmɔɹoʊ/ 1. Pertaining to the indigenous native islanders of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian. Labels: not-comparable
Word: kam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous. 1. Crooked, awry. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: [Agrippa] Mene[nius Lanatus]. […] And what is left, to looſe it by his Countrey, / Were to vs all that doo’t, and ſuffer it / A brand to th’end a’th World. / [Lucius] Sicin[ius Vellutus]. This is cleane kamme. / [Junius] Brut[us]. Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, it honour’d him.
Word: pedo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der. Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits Ancient Greek παιδ- (paid-)lbor. English pedo- Proto-Indo-European *bʰil- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor. Latin -philalbor. English -phile ▲ Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs) ▲ Ancient Greek φῐ́λος (phĭ́los) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek φῐλέω (phĭléō) Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophĭ́lēs)der. English pedophileclip. English pedo Clipping of pedophile. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛd.əʊ/, /ˈpiːd.əʊ/ 1. Alternative spelling of paedo (“pedophile”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fussy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fuss Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fussy From fuss + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌ.si/, /ˈfʊ.si/ 1. Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please. Example: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. 2. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies). 3. Having much unnecessary detail or decoration. Example: The internal decor of the SR-built Bulleid corridor stock was noticeably cleaner and less fussy than that of prewar coaches.
Word: bother Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɔðə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɒðə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɑðɚ/ 1. To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. Labels: transitive Example: Would it bother you if I smoked? 2. To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. Labels: euphemistic, imperative, transitive 3. To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: I never bother about such trivialities. Example: I wouldn't bother with an umbrella if I were you. 4. To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something). Labels: catenative, intransitive Example: Why do I even bother to try? 5. To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something). Labels: catenative, intransitive Example: You didn’t even bother to close the door.
Word: bother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɔðə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɒðə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɑðɚ/ 1. Fuss, ado. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book. Example: It was a 15-minute return trip to walk back home to pick up my device, but I weighed it up and decided that it wasn’t worth the bother. 2. Trouble, inconvenience. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yes, I can do that for you—it’s no bother.
Word: bother Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɔðə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɒðə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɑðɚ/ 1. A mild expression of annoyance. Labels: dated, euphemistic Example: She flung off her sealskin paletot and the beautiful felt hat, not heeding that they rolled off the untidy bed upon the floor. / “Sarah,” whispered Mrs. Malone, “what you goin’ to do? Look at your elegant clothes on the floor.” / “Oh, bother!” retorted Sarah. Example: [H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
Word: annoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odium 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 Late Latin inodiāre Old French enoiierbor. Middle English anoyen English annoy From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman. Pronunciation: /əˈnoɪ̯/, [əˈnoɪ̯], /əˈnɔɪ̯/, [əˈnɔɪ̯] 1. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. Labels: transitive Example: Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off. Example: Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys. 2. To molest; to harm; to injure. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade Example: tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
Word: annoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English anoy, from Old French enui. Doublet of ennui. Pronunciation: /əˈnoɪ̯/, [əˈnoɪ̯], /əˈnɔɪ̯/, [əˈnɔɪ̯] 1. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes. Labels: archaic, literary Example: VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding. Example: [I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy. 2. That which causes such a feeling. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […] Example: The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]
Word: extensive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extensīvus, from Latin extensus. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/, /ɛkˈstɛn.sɪv/, /ɪkˈsten.sɪv/, /əkˈsten.səv/ 1. Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast. Example: In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. 2. Considerable in amount. Labels: figuratively Example: I have done extensive research on the subject. 3. Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension. Example: For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure. 4. Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems. Example: According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1.
Word: intensive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of intend. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/ 1. Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough. Example: Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand. 2. Being made more intense. 3. Making something more intense; intensifying. 4. Making something more intense; intensifying. Example: an intensive verb or preposition Example: Ariſtophanes deriueth it [the word asp] from Alpha, an intenſiue Particle, and Spizo vvhich ſignifieth to extend; either by reaſon of his ſharpe-ſhrill hiſſing, or for the length of his body. 5. Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated. Example: I took a three-day intensive course in finance. 6. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent. 7. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding. Example: This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive. 8. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding. Example: She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital. 9. That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree. Labels: obsolete Example: As his [God's] Perfection is infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, ſo it is infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel; and vvere it not infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel, it could not be infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, becauſe the intenſive diſtance betvveen the perfection of an Angel and of a Man is but finite: […] 10. Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”). Labels: obsolete Example: Faſcination is the povver and act of Imagination, intenſiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant; […] Example: The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]
Word: intensive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of intend. The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/ 1. A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built. 2. A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time. Example: Beginning in 2014, ETSI [the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative] embarked on a six-year implementation phase at three monastic universities (Sera, Ganden, and Drepung). This program is composed of summer intensives taught by faculty from Emory and other institutions, year-round study led by on-site instructors, translation and production of bilingual textbooks and instructional videos, and further curriculum refinement.
Word: intent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Existing since Middle English entente, from Old French entent or entente, ultimately from Latin intentus. Modified later in spelling to align more closely with the Latin word. Compare intention. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnt/ 1. Something that is intended. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: intent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Existing since Middle English entente, from Old French entent or entente, ultimately from Latin intentus. Modified later in spelling to align more closely with the Latin word. Compare intention. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnt/ 1. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something. Example: a mind intent on self-improvement Example: Yea more, with his own hand he ſeem’d Intent to aggravate my woe; 2. Engrossed. 3. Unwavering from a course of action.
Word: breadth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”). Pronunciation: /bɹɛdθ/, /bɹɛtθ/, /bɹɛθ/ 1. The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres. Example: The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth. 2. A piece of fabric of standard width. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: expand one’s breadth of marketing Example: "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search." 4. A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: width Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From wide + -th (abstract nominal suffix), possibly by analogy with Old Norse vídd (“width”), though this is unlikely, as the word is not attested before the end of the 16th century and was historically unknown in Scots and the traditional dialect of Northern England, where one would expect Old Norse influence to be the strongest (these varieties traditionally employed wideness instead). Replaced Middle English wide, wyde (“width”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtθ/, /ˈwɪdθ/, /ˈwɪθ/, [wɪd̪θ] 1. The state of being wide. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Manchester United like to play with width. Example: England looked to put width on the ball after the restart, Armitage very nearly going over in the corner only for the video referee to decide his foot was in touch. But Armitage did get on the score-sheet five minutes later, Ben Foden straightening and putting the London Irish man in.
Word: height Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kewk- Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s Proto-Germanic *hauhaz Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der. Proto-Germanic *-iþō Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu Old English hīehþu Middle English heighte English height From Middle English heighte, heiȝþe, from Old English hēahþu, hēhþo, hīehþu (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō (compare *hauhaz). Equivalent to high + -t (abstract nominal suffix). The regular pronunciation is now obsolete /heɪt/ (as with other words in -eight); the modern form developed early on, at first as a variant, by analogy with the underlying adjective. Cognates See also Saterland Frisian Höchte, Hööchte (“height”), West Frisian hichte (“height”), Dutch hoogte (“height”), Middle High German hœhede, hœhte (“height”), Old Norse hæð (“height”) (compare Swedish höjd, Norwegian høyde), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 (hauhiþa, “height”). Pronunciation: /haɪt/, /həɪt/, /heɪt/ 1. The distance from the base to the top of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem] Example: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts. 2. The distance from the base to the top of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: — What's your height? — 180 centimetres. 3. The distance from the base to the top of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The area of a triangle is "a half base times height". 4. The distance from the base to the top of something. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We flew at a height of 15 000 meters. Example: I'm afraid of heights. 6. A high point. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country. Example: The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin and warding off intruders – though in reality the eerie sounds are more likely to have come from the strong winds blowing over the valley. 7. A high point. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: She's at the height of her career. Example: […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…] 8. A high point. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A high point. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: snack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”). Cognate with German schnäken (“to snack”). Pronunciation: /snæk/ 1. A light meal. 2. An item of food eaten between meals. Example: Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner. Example: The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone. 3. A very sexy and attractive person. Labels: slang Example: Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.” Example: You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.
Word: snack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”). Cognate with German schnäken (“to snack”). Pronunciation: /snæk/ 1. To eat a light meal. Example: Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance. 2. To eat between meals.
Word: snack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See snatch (transitive verb). Ultimately of the same origin as the word under Etymology 1, but perhaps through a different source. Pronunciation: /snæk/ 1. A share; a part or portion. Labels: obsolete Example: All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks." Example: "Have you exhibited very much?" said Young Person in the bar-parlour of the "Coach and Horses," where Mr Watkins was skilfully accumulating local information on the night of his arrival. / "Very little," said Mr Watkins, "just a snack here and there."
Word: snack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See snatch (transitive verb). Ultimately of the same origin as the word under Etymology 1, but perhaps through a different source. Pronunciation: /snæk/ 1. To snatch. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To bite. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To share. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: public Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective and noun are derived from Late Middle English publik, publike (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public or public affairs; (noun) a generally observable place or situation”), from Anglo-Norman public, publik, publique, Middle French public, publique, and Old French public (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively”) (modern French public, publique (obsolete)); and from their etymon Latin pūblicus (“of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public”), an alteration of poplicus (influenced by pūbēs (“adult men; male population”)), from poplus (“community; the people, public; nation, state”) (later populus; from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”); further origin uncertain, possibly from Etruscan or from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Related to people, populus, etc. The Middle English word displaced native Old English ceorlfolc and folclic. The verb is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌblɪk/, /ˈpʊblɪk/ 1. To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: [H]e is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites and to the irony of the stars.
Word: public Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Semantic loan from Russian па́блик (páblik) and Ukrainian па́блік (páblik, “public webpage on a blog or on social media”), both borrowed from English public: see etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈpʌblɪk/, /ˈpʊblɪk/ 1. An internet publication. Labels: neologism Example: Russian publics report that the fighters of the Wagner group have already practically taken possession of Soledar, there are fights on the outskirts, where the Vushniks are trying to fight back in the salt mines. Example: Complex inductions are unconscious powerful components of influence. They include the following varieties: […] 4) Truisms. The term comes from the English word "true", which means "truth". Therefore, under truism it is accepted to understand banal truths, i.e. something that in principle does not require confirmation, but it is so banal and common knowledge that it is rather strange to base on it, but here again there is a "but". In our subconsciousness we perceive it as a certain axiom, and this axiom is interpreted by our subconsciousness itself. As an example, the phrase "In matters of war, Russia is Russia, and Ukraine is Ukraine" was repeatedly encountered in Russian publics. In principle, there is no sense in this phrase, because not a single fact is given. However, each of the readers interpreted it for himself, and putting the word "Russia" in the foreground makes a hint that Russia is stronger than Ukraine in military terms, but the phrase itself does not express such a meaning extra-linguistically.
Word: private Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English privat(e) (“individual, exclusive, private”), from Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“to bereave, deprive, release”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more), from prīvus (“private, one's own, proper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.vɪt/, /ˈpɹaɪ.vət/, [ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt], [ˈpɹəjvət], [ˈpʰɹɑɪ̯vɪt] 1. Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state. Example: In some countries, healthcare is provided by both the government and private companies. Example: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. 2. Relating to an individual or group of individuals outside of their official roles; often, sensitive or personal. Example: This book is her private journal. Example: It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about. 3. Not publicly known or divulged; secret, confidential; (of a message) intended only for a specific person or group. Example: The identity of the beneficiaries of the trust is private. Example: The key point in the original article was that the relationship with the woman, named “Colette,” came to light because Aupetit had sent a private letter meant for her to his secretary instead. 4. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible. Example: Can we go somewhere more private? Example: I invited him to take breakfast with me; he accepted the invitation, and told me he would tell me about himself when we were in a more private place. 5. Not in governmental office or employment. Example: Military secrets should not be entrusted to unreliable private individuals. 6. Secretive; reserved. Example: He is a very private person. 7. Not traded by the public. Example: private equity Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 8. Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient. 9. Financially reliant on fees rather than government funding. Labels: UK 10. Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses. Labels: not-comparable 11. Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others.
Word: private Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English privat(e) (“individual, exclusive, private”), from Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“to bereave, deprive, release”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more), from prīvus (“private, one's own, proper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.vɪt/, /ˈpɹaɪ.vət/, [ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt], [ˈpɹəjvət], [ˈpʰɹɑɪ̯vɪt] 1. A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. 2. A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care. Example: In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals. Example: Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […] 3. The genitals. Labels: euphemistic, in-plural 4. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. Labels: obsolete Example: The Count Meloone, a Noble Lord of France, Whose priuate with me of the Dolphines loue, s much more generall, then these lines import. 5. Personal interest; particular business. Labels: obsolete Example: Nor must I be unmindful of my private. 6. Privacy; retirement. Labels: obsolete Example: Go off, I diſcard you: let me enioy my priuate: go off. 7. One not invested with a public office. Labels: obsolete Example: And what haue Kings, that Priuates haue not too,[…] 8. A private lesson. Labels: plural-normally Example: If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates.
Word: private Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English privat(e) (“individual, exclusive, private”), from Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“to bereave, deprive, release”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more), from prīvus (“private, one's own, proper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪ.vɪt/, /ˈpɹaɪ.vət/, [ˈpʰɹaɪ̯vɪt], [ˈpɹəjvət], [ˈpʰɹɑɪ̯vɪt] 1. To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently). Labels: Internet, transitive Example: During these negotiations, however, the Kleins say that Hosseinzadeh issued a copyright takedown for the video — even after it had already been privated. Example: Shay has also since briefly returned to social media, making a quick post on Instagram. His account was privated following his scandal in February and his Twitter remains inactive.
Word: stuffing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, stuff + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstʌfɪŋ/, /ˈstʊfɪŋ/, /ˈstʊfɪŋɡ/ 1. present participle and gerund of stuff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stuffing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, stuff + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstʌfɪŋ/, /ˈstʊfɪŋ/, /ˈstʊfɪŋɡ/ 1. The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The stuffing is made of synthetic goose down. 2. Any of many food items used to stuff another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: stuffing for a Christmas turkey 3. The act of stuffing something with another thing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I'll make the sauce if you do the stuffing of the chicken. 4. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Severe defeat. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: United were given an absolute stuffing by City. 6. The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable 7. A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 8. An act of penetrative sexual intercourse. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: I gave her a good stuffing.
Word: hardy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹdi/, /ˈhɑːdi/ 1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. Example: It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size. Example: Even adding 1mm of thickness to the cardboard, to make it hardier, might use up a substantial forest when multiplied across hundreds of billions of boxes. 2. Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost. Example: A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost. Example: The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes. 3. Brave and resolute. Example: But he was not ſo hardy to abide That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare: 4. Impudent.
Word: hardy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹdi/, /ˈhɑːdi/ 1. Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy. Labels: plural-normally Example: Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands. 2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil. 3. A hardy hole.
Word: Laurel and Hardy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the name of a famous American comedy duo from the 1920s and 1930s. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɹ.əl ænd ˈhɑː.di/, /ˈlɔːɹ.əl ænd ˈhɑː.di/, /ˈlɔɹ.əl ænd ˈhɑɹ.di/ 1. Any duo who are so inept at practical tasks as to be humorous. Example: We put a Laurel and Hardy thing together. With ordinary actors I've tried this, and it's like playing music without an instrument, but these guys could do anything. Example: Then about a hundred yards ahead, two men, one rotund the other thin and spare, leaped over a gate onto the road. They had the appearance of a Laurel and Hardy duo.
Word: skinny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪni/ 1. Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense). Labels: informal Example: Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender 2. Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories. Labels: informal Example: skinny flat white Example: ...into the skinny chocolate milk? 3. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping). Example: Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny. Example: We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks. 4. Tight-fitting. Example: skinny jeans 5. Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).
Word: skinny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪni/ 1. The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor. Labels: colloquial Example: She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club. 2. A state of nakedness; nudity. Example: Again, she appears nude whilst dipping in the skinny, but this time, instead of being eaten by a shark or a bear, she encounters a Japanese submarine Example: "Nobody would bother peeking these days," she said ruefully, "in bathing suits or in the skinny." 3. A low-fat serving of coffee. Labels: informal 4. A skinny being. Labels: nonstandard Example: "Either a skinny had judged (correctly) that it was worth one of their buildings to try for one of us, or one of my own mates was getting mighty careless with fireworks" .."A congregation in church — a skinny flophouse — maybe even their defense headquarters. All I knew was that it was a very big room filled with more skinnies than I wanted to see in my whole life." 5. An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a narrow fence.
Word: skinny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪni/ 1. To reduce or cut down. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down. Example: By the end of the chapter, we will have (hopefully) skinnied the list of contenders further (perhaps there will be none left).
Word: croc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of crocodile. Pronunciation: /kɹɒk/, /kɹɑk/ 1. A crocodile. Labels: colloquial
Word: croc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the American shoe company Crocs, Inc., reportedly named for the shoe's resemblance in profile to a crocodile snout or the "multi-environment, amphibious nature" of the animal. Pronunciation: /kɹɒk/, /kɹɑk/ 1. A type of EVA foam slip-on clog-style shoe with an open heel, thick sole, rounded toe, retractable heel strap, and ventilation holes on the top and sides.
Word: oneirology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oneiro- + -logy, historically from Latin oneirologia from Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”). 1. The study of dreams and their interpretation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oneirologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English oneirology 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 oneirologist From oneirology + -ist. 1. An interpreter of dreams.
Word: red herring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (figurative): One possible origin of the idiom was that red herring were used to train dogs to track scents. This was true, but the modern meaning of a false trail may have been popularized in a news story by English journalist William Cobbett, c. 1805, in which he claimed that as a boy he used a red herring (a cured and salted herring) to mislead hounds following a trail; the story served as an extended metaphor for the London press, which had earned Cobbett's ire by publishing false news accounts regarding Napoleon. The OED has another possible earlier origin in the legacy of clergyman Jasper Mayne in 1672 when he misled a servant by leaving him "Somewhat that would make him Drink after his Death" in a large trunk. When the trunk was opened, the contents were found to be red herring. (soldier): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; soldier is, reciprocally, a slang term for the fish. 1. A herring that is cured in smoke and brine strong enough to turn the flesh red; a type of kipper. Example: Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before. Example: ‘Mamma,’ said Rosamond, ‘when Fred comes down I wish you would not let him have red herrings. I cannot bear the smell of them all over the house at this hour of the morning.’ 2. A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue. Labels: figuratively Example: Caroline visibly wavered for a second or two, much as a roulette ball might coyly hover between two numbers. Then she declined the tempting red herring. Example: By its thirtieth episode, the show [Twin Peaks] had degenerated into tics and shticks and mannerisms and red herrings, and part of the explanation for this was that [David] Lynch was trying to divert our attention from the fact that he really had no idea how to wrap the central murder case up. 3. A red herring prospectus. 4. A soldier. Labels: archaic, slang Example: “Devil a bit, Ma’am,” said the Major. “We couldn’t afford it. Unless the world was peopled with J.B.’s—tough and blunt old Joes, Ma’am, plain red herrings with hard roes, Sir—we couldn’t afford it. It wouldn’t do.”
Word: horology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin horologia, from horo- + -logia, equivalent to Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “period of time, hour”) + -λογία (-logía, “-ology: study or proper knowledge of”). Equivalent to horo- + -ology. 1. The study or measurement of time Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The study or measurement of time Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: horologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English horology 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 horologist From horology + -ist. 1. A person skilled in horology, particularly a person who makes or repairs timekeeping devices.
Word: diversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English diversion, dyversioun, from Medieval Latin diversiō, from Latin divertō (“to divert”); see divert. Pronunciation: /daɪˈvɜː.ʃən/, /daɪˈvɜː.ʒən/, /dɪˈvɝ.ʒən/, /daɪˈvɝ.ʒən/ 1. A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Of those therefore that have attained to the highest degree of honour and riches, some have affected mastery in some art; as Nero in music and poetry, Commodus in the art of a gladiator. And such as affect not some such thing, must find diversion and recreation of their thoughts in the contention either of play, or business. 3. The act of diverting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Further, in response to the trust defense raised at trial, the court did properly instruct the jury on partial diversion when it charged that the funds diverted to Moon's personal use became taxable "to the extent so diverted." Obviously, the word "divert" is in common enough use and understandable by ordinary jurors, so as to require no explanatory charge. Example: Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ... 4. Removal of water via a canal. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A detour, such as during road construction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: An interesting feature in the weeks preceding the diversions was the provision of a road-learning train to familiarise main line drivers with the alternative route. 6. The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a different mode of transportation before arrival at the ultimate destination. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of the accused person to a treatment or care program. Labels: countable, uncountable