nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: earnest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ernest, eornest, from Old English eornest, eornost, eornust (“earnestness, zeal, seriousness, battle”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz (“earnest, strength, solidity, struggle, fight”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *arniz (“efficient, capable, diligent, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (“to cause to move, arouse, increase”). Cognate with West Frisian earnst (“earnest, seriousness”), Dutch ernst (“seriousness, gravity, earnest”), German Ernst (“seriousness, earnestness, zeal, vigour”), Icelandic ern (“brisk, vigorous”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌱𐌰 (arniba, “secure, certain, sure”). The adjective is from Middle English eornest, from Old English eornoste (“earnest, zealous, serious”), from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian ernste (“earnest”), Middle Low German ernest, ernst (“serious, earnest”), German ernst (“serious, earnest”). Pronunciation: /ˈɝ.nɪst/, /ˈɜː.nɪst/ 1. To be serious with; use in earnest. Labels: transitive Example: Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use.
Word: earnest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ernest, eornest, from Old English eornest, eornost, eornust (“earnestness, zeal, seriousness, battle”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz (“earnest, strength, solidity, struggle, fight”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *arniz (“efficient, capable, diligent, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (“to cause to move, arouse, increase”). Cognate with West Frisian earnst (“earnest, seriousness”), Dutch ernst (“seriousness, gravity, earnest”), German Ernst (“seriousness, earnestness, zeal, vigour”), Icelandic ern (“brisk, vigorous”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌱𐌰 (arniba, “secure, certain, sure”). The adjective is from Middle English eornest, from Old English eornoste (“earnest, zealous, serious”), from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian ernste (“earnest”), Middle Low German ernest, ernst (“serious, earnest”), German ernst (“serious, earnest”). Pronunciation: /ˈɝ.nɪst/, /ˈɜː.nɪst/ 1. Serious, sincere, ingenuous. 2. Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do. Example: earnest prayers 3. Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration. Example: earnest attention 4. Possessing or characterised by seriousness. Example: an earnest disposition 5. Strenuous; diligent. Example: earnest efforts 6. Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
Word: earnest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; apparently related to erres. Compare also arles. Pronunciation: /ˈɝ.nɪst/, /ˈɜː.nɪst/ 1. A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come. Example: Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Example: As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
Word: earnest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English earn Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istHos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-West Germanic *-ist Old English -est Middle English -est English -est English earnest From earn + -est. Pronunciation: /ˈɝ.nɪst/, /ˈɜː.nɪst/ 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of earn Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: economization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English economize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English economization From economize + -ation. 1. The act or practice of using resources to the best effect. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: edification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare. Pronunciation: /ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification. Example: Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends. 2. A building or edifice. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: e'en Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈiːn/, [ˈɪi̯n] 1. Contraction of even. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction, poetic
Word: e'en Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈiːn/, [ˈɪi̯n] 1. Contraction of even. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction, poetic
Word: e'en Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈiːn/, [ˈɪi̯n] 1. Contraction of even. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction, poetic
Word: effectuation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English effectuate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English effectuation From effectuate + -ion. 1. An act of effectuating. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ejaculation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French éjaculation, borrowed from Latin ēiaculārī. Pronunciation: /iˌdʒækjuˈleɪʃən/ 1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Thus far, we have given a general account of [Nicolas le Fèvre]'s theory. Further elaboration is to be found in his account of the generation of metals. Here it is suggested that it is light "which by its ejaculation and irradiation did imprint and stamp the Idea and Character of its vertue in water as in a general and convenient Matrix, to enable her afterwards to supply both matter and Form, Body and Spirit, Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, [and] all physical generations...". 2. The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: They say no graces; but when their meal is on the table, they sit silent and in a thoughtful posture for a short time, waiting for an illapſe of the Spirit. If they are not moved to make any ejaculation, they begin to eat without more ado. Example: [T]hey entered, and drove slowly towards the village; leaving her with hands clasped and uplifted, as in the act of reiterating her fervent ejaculation for their happiness. Nor was her ejaculation wholly breathed in vain: of their felicity, however, suffice it to record, that blessed with a numerous progeny, Emily found herself completely embosomed in domestic bliss: […] 3. The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dehiscence, or Ejaculation of Pollen or Seed.— The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals. Example: The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation. 4. The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure. Labels: countable, specifically, uncountable Example: The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state. Example: By repeating this process several times before ejaculation and by practicing this procedure, the man will learn to control his ejaculation.
Word: elaboration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion. 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. 2. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the elaboration of food into chyme Example: the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues 3. Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The level of processing of a message or argument. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: elation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elacioun, from Old French elacion, from Latin ēlātiōnem, accusative singular of ēlātiō (“exaltation, elevation; pride, elation”), from ēlātus, perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈleɪʃən/, /iːˈleɪʃən/ 1. An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A feeling of joy and pride. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She [Chloe Kelly] waited for confirmation of the goal before taking off her shirt and waving it around her head, while being lifted by her team-mates in a moment of pure elation. 3. A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: electrification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric English -fy English electrify Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English electrification From electrify + -ation. Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfɪkeɪʃən/ 1. The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The adaptation (of a home, farm, village, city, countryside, industry, railroad) for electric power. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: rural electrification Example: As temperature regulations and quality-control issues were of paramount importance [in American dairying circa the 1920s to 1940s], the superiority of electric milk coolers became recognized. Electrification itself became important to North Pomfret residents. Persis Johnson summed the feeling up best: “You could do a lot with electricity.” Electric household appliances promised to ease labor, lights illuminated the night, and electricity in the barn efficiently operated milking machines and cooled milk in special electric coolers. Before electric companies expanded their power lines into North Pomfret, some residents installed “Delco” household electric-generating systems, which essentially were home-based power plants. Delco systems worked well, but required regular maintenance. Nevertheless, they remained popular until the electrification of North Pomfret was completed. Electrifying the neighborhood took years. […] Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The empty cans were returned to the farm when the next load was picked up. This required the farmer to purchase and keep extra milk cans on hand, but that was a small price to pay for convenience. Platforms were erected by the side of the main road through Pomfret so that during the winter farmers could sleigh their milk cans to them for pickup by the milk trucks, which were unable to navigate the infrequently maintained back roads where many farmers lived.
Word: electrify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric English -fy English electrify From electric + -fy. Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/ 1. To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity. Labels: transitive Example: to electrify a cable Example: Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line." 2. To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to. Labels: transitive Example: to electrify a limb, or the body 3. To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power. Labels: transitive Example: And I want to get different kinds of sound. I want to electrify myself a bit. I got a phase shifter for my guitar, and I've been playing with a drum machine. Example: Baroness Randerson had asked if, following the publication of the Government's Decarbonising transport: setting the challenge report in March, there had been any consideration to electrify more rail lines - and if so, to prioritise routes between Cardiff and Swansea, in the East Midlands and in the Lake District. All had been planned for electrification before subsequently being cancelled. 4. To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill. Labels: transitive Example: Her performance in the play electrified the audience. Example: If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus […] the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. 5. To make electric. Labels: intransitive
Word: eleemosynary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin eleēmosynārius (“alms dispenser”), from Late Latin eleēmosyna (“alms”), from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē, “alms”), from ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn, “merciful”) + -σῠ́νη (-sŭ́nē, “suffix denoting an abstract noun”). Compare Italian elemosina. Pronunciation: /ˌɛl.ɪ.iːˈmɒ.sɪ.nə.ɹi/, /ˌɛl.ɪˈmɑː.sə.nɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛl.ɪˈmɑː.zə.nɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛl.i.ɪˈmɑː.sə.nɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛl.i.ɪˈmɑː.zə.nɛɹ.i/ 1. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving. Example: I am bound to say he didn't criticise his benefactors, though practically he got tired of them; she, however, had the highest standards about eleemosynary forms. Example: He did some work for the New York Public Library . . . and also dabbled in eleemosynary science for the Russell Sage Foundation. 2. Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms Example: An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. Example: His spirited refusal of an eleemosynary supply of shoes, arose, no doubt, from a proper pride. 3. Supported by charity Example: ... it is also true that the policy of nations, or the bounty of individuals, formerly did much to counteract the effect of this limitation of competition, by offering eleemosynary instruction to a much larger class of persons than could have obtained the same advantages by paying their price. Example: [The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution] set the State up as the largest eleemosynary institution in the history of the world.
Word: eleemosynary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin eleēmosynārius (“alms dispenser”), from Late Latin eleēmosyna (“alms”), from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē, “alms”), from ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn, “merciful”) + -σῠ́νη (-sŭ́nē, “suffix denoting an abstract noun”). Compare Italian elemosina. Pronunciation: /ˌɛl.ɪ.iːˈmɒ.sɪ.nə.ɹi/, /ˌɛl.ɪˈmɑː.sə.nɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛl.ɪˈmɑː.zə.nɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛl.i.ɪˈmɑː.sə.nɛɹ.i/, /ˌɛl.i.ɪˈmɑː.zə.nɛɹ.i/ 1. A beggar Labels: obsolete
Word: elevation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis 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 levō Latin ēlevō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin ēlevātiō Old French elevation English elevation From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/ 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: elevation to a throne Example: elevation to sainthood 2. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A hill is an elevation of the ground. Example: Since our sins caused God's presence to withdraw above the "seven heavens," we pray that our prayers may rise through the seven layers and reach the Almighty in the eighth elevation. 4. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the elevation of the pole, or of a star 5. The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An opium mixture used in the Fens to improve the mood and prevent malaria. Labels: UK, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] many of the fen people used what they called "elevation." Farmer Porter was his informant concerning this habit. "What's elevation?" "Oh! ho! ho! — yow goo into druggist's shop o' market day into Cambridge, and you'll see the little boxes, doozens and doozens, a' ready on the counter; and never a ven-man's wife goo by, but what calls in for her pennord o' elevation, to last her out the week. […]
Word: elimination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […] 2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup. Example: Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record. 3. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: elite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English elit, from Old French elit, eslit (“chosen, elected”) past participle of elire, eslire (“to choose, elect”), from Latin eligere (“to choose, elect”), with past participle electus; see elect. Pronunciation: /ɪˈliːt/, /ɛˈliːt/, /ɪˈlit/, /eɪˈlit/, /əˈlit/ 1. Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. 2. Representing the choicest or most select of a group. Example: Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
Word: elite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elit, from Old French elit, eslit (“chosen, elected”) past participle of elire, eslire (“to choose, elect”), from Latin eligere (“to choose, elect”), with past participle electus; see elect. Pronunciation: /ɪˈliːt/, /ɛˈliːt/, /ɪˈlit/, /eɪˈlit/, /əˈlit/ 1. A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group. Example: constituting an elite Example: the hubris of the elites 2. An individual member of such a group. 3. Someone who is among the best at a certain task. Example: The Nations League results have also seen England respond to an ongoing criticism that they fail to beat the top sides, with even Southgate insisting they could not be considered among the world's elite until they beat the best. The World Cup did nothing to answer those questions. 4. A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
Word: elongation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin elongatus Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tio Late Latin elongatio, elongationembor. English elongation Borrowed from Late Latin elongatio, elongationem. 1. The act of lengthening. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being lengthened. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. That which lengthens out; a continuation. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The angular distance of a planet from the sun. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the elongation of Venus
Word: elsewhere Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/, /ˌɛlsˈwɛə/, /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/, /ˈɛlsˌwɛɹ/, [ˈɛls(h)weːɹ] 1. Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place. Labels: not-comparable Example: If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere. Example: These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
Word: elsewhere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/, /ˌɛlsˈwɛə/, /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/, /ˈɛlsˌwɛɹ/, [ˈɛls(h)weːɹ] 1. Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here. Example: We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.
Word: elucidation Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪˌlu.sɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/ 1. A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The essay might, undoubtedly, have been rendered much more complete by a collection of a greater number of facts in elucidation of the general argument. Example: At a time like the present when Eastern æsthetics are attracting the attention of scholars in all quarters, and particularly when the great field of Buddhist art is coming more into focus, a view of a little-known aspect of this subject may perhaps be the humble means of assisting in the elucidation of some of the complex problems with which this study is surrounded.
Word: emaciation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English emaciate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emaciation From emaciate + -ion. 1. The act of making very lean. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.
Word: emanation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin exder. Latin ē Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-no-der. Latin mānō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin mānāre Latin ēmānārebor. English emanate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emanation From emanate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɛməˈneɪʃən/ 1. The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Perfume is an emanation from a flower. Example: Her love for Francis Evelyn was an emanation of that romance which is in the heart of every girl; her preference was as much circumstance as choice, and strengthened by no comparison. 3. (physics, chemistry) The element radon (Rn) Labels: obsolete, uncountable 4. The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: emancipate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)). The verb emancipate has verb sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and verb sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place under one’s control”) which are contradictory. The Latin word ēmancipō had the same senses, and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that according to the Latin grammarian Paulus Festus (fl. 8th century) this is because both actions were effected by the legal process of mancipation. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/, /əˈmæn(t)səˌpət/, /i-/ 1. Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”). Example: For I doe take the conſideration in generall, and at large of hvmane natvre to be fit to be emancipate, & made a knovvledge by it ſelf; […] Example: VVe have no ſlaves at home.—Then vvhy abroad? / And they themſelves once ferried o'er the vvave / That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd.
Word: emancipation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century. Pronunciation: /ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world! Example: As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.] 2. The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Word: emasculation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English emasculate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emasculation From emasculate + -ion. 1. The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.
Word: embargo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/, /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/ 1. An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port. 2. A ban on trade with another country. Example: Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England. 3. A temporary ban on making certain information public. Example: This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m. 4. A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure. Example: They were delighted with the idea of their mamma having forgiven Louisa, but sorry, she thought, such a public proof of her pardon necessary as that of giving a party; for the sisters well knew how great an embargo it would lay on the purses of Helen and Georgiana;...
Word: embargo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/, /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/ 1. To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country. Labels: transitive 2. To impose an embargo on a document. Labels: transitive Example: Embargoed until after first reading in Parliament
Word: embed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English embed From em- + bed. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɛd/, /ɛmˈbɛd/ 1. To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. Labels: transitive Example: to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand Example: To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it. 2. To include (something) in surrounding matter. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it. Example: After some unnecessary, producer-pleasing expository text, he opens the movie in close-up on the back of a camo combat helmet Sharpied in Vietnam-style graffiti, effectively embedding the viewer with a bedraggled squad of human soldiers—armed with assault rifles, sawed-off shotguns, and crossbows—as they inch toward the stake-wall of Caesar’s compound in an attempt to bust through, only to be met with deadly clumps of Amazonian arrows and smoky flung projectiles. 3. To encapsulate within another document or data file. Labels: transitive Example: The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document. 4. To define a one-to-one function from one set to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain. Labels: transitive Example: The torus S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.
Word: embed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English embed From em- + bed. Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.bɛd/ 1. One thing embedded within another, as: 2. One thing embedded within another, as: Example: He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase. 3. One thing embedded within another, as: Example: When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in. Example: Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple. 4. One thing embedded within another, as:
Word: embrocation Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The best cure of those who be in a frensie, is by sleepe: and that may be procured easily by the juice of Peucedanum & vineger together infused vpon the head by way of imbrocation, or by rubbing the same with it: Example: 1684, uncredited translator, Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences by Samuel Du Clos, London: Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, “Advertisements and Corollaries,” p. 121, The Observations of the Effects of these Waters on Persons who use them in Drinking, Bathing, Pumping, Washing, Embrocation, &c. are reserv’d for the Physicians, whose Duty it is to know the Particular Constitutions of those Persons, and the State of their Health Declining or Improving. 2. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Oh! my dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it. Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of Mr. Wingfield’s, which we have been applying at times ever since August.” Example: You are hereby notified that my embrocations burn and tingle as if distilled from liquid flame. My medicines taste vilely, of cimiter, dogbane and gall: the body quickly returns to robust health so that it need assimilate no more of my foul concoctions! That is the secret of my success.
Word: emendation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation. Piecewise doublet of amendation. Pronunciation: /ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɛmənˈdeɪʃən/, /ɪˌmɛnˈdeɪʃən/ 1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. Labels: uncountable Example: ‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […] Example: Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation. 2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document. Labels: countable Example: The book might be improved by judicious emendations. Example: After some deliberation I decided to publish this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated. 3. An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.
Word: emigration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”). 1. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the Irish emigration
Word: eminent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French éminent, from Latin present participle ēminēns, ēminentis, from verb ēmineō (“to project, protrude”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + mineō, related to mons (English mount). Compare with imminent. Unrelated to emanate, which is instead from mānō (“to flow”). Displaced native Old English deal. Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪnənt/ 1. Noteworthy, remarkable, great. Example: His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project. 2. Distinguished, important, noteworthy. Example: In later years, the professor became known as an eminent historian. Example: Why did the eminent Italian writer Primo Levi die in the shocking way he did? 3. High, lofty. Labels: archaic
Word: empiricism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English empiric 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 English empiricism From empiric + -ism. 1. A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Empiricism teaches us that we are unceasingly and intimately in contact with a full, living, breathing Reality, that experience is a constant communion with the real. Example: He agrees with Kant that Hume's empiricism is refuted de facto by the example of mathematics, whose judgments are synthetic a priori. 2. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our whole life in some of its highest and most important aspects is simply empiricism. Empiricism is only another word for experience. Example: I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality.... Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism. 3. Research methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: folk medicine; quackery; charlatanry Example: Empiricism is not peculiar to Denmark; and I know of no way of rooting it out, though it be a remnant of exploded witchcraft, till the acquiring a general knowledge of the component parts of the human frame, become a part of public education.
Word: emulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō. Pronunciation: /ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/, /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/, /-ʃɪn/ 1. The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation Example: Allur'd, not forc'd, encourag'd, not compell'd; The shrinking eye look'd up, the soul was cheer'd, Felt as it learnt, confided e'er it fear'd; And first by emulation's ardour mov'd, Prest onward in the path which soon it lov'd. 2. Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […] , but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […] 3. Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: encase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English case English encase From en- + case. Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkeɪs/ 1. To enclose, as in a case. Example: They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses. Example: She was a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body, with feet to match—these last encased in good thick boots.
Word: encapsulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From en- + capsule + -ation or encapsulate + -ion. 1. The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Recent studies demonstrate that encapsulation of the healing agent provides successive repair by reducing the capsules’ diameter to the material granulometry [2] and by casting them through materials compatible to concrete (i.e., [3]). 2. Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: encincture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Latin cingō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cinctūralbor. English cincture English encincture From en- + cincture. 1. A cincture or girdle.
Word: encincture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Latin cingō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cinctūralbor. English cincture English encincture From en- + cincture. 1. To encircle or gird. Labels: transitive
Word: endow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin dōtāre (present active infinitive of dōtō (“to endow”)); modern French douer). Dōtō is derived from dōs (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdaʊ/, /ɛn-/ 1. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. Labels: transitive Example: His [John, King of England's] Acts and Orders for the VVeale-publike vvere beyond moſt: hee being either the firſt, or the chiefeſt, vvho appointed thoſe noble Formes of Ciuill gouernement in London, and moſt Cities, and Incorporate Tovvnes of England, endovving them alſo vvith their greateſt Franchiſes; […] Example: Men began to build Churches on their own Grounds, at their own Charges, and to endow theſe; and they were naturally the Maſters, and in the true Signification of the Roman word, the Patrons of them. 2. To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. Labels: transitive Example: Wherby we bith lerned þat it shalnot only be goode to owre prince, but also to vs selff, that he be well indowed; ffor ellis the patriarke wolde not haue made such a trety. Example: Vpon her eyelids many Graces ſate, / Vnder the ſhadow of her euen browes, / VVorking belgardes [beautiful looks], and amorous retrate [portrait], / And euerie one her with a grace endowes: […] 3. To naturally furnish (with something). Labels: transitive Example: She was endowed with a beautiful voice. Example: And thus shal the aged Courtier, although he exercise not the qualities that he is indowed withal, comebye his ende at length, to instructe well hys Prince. 4. To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”). Labels: archaic, obsolete, transitive Example: And if a man entice a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he ſhall ſurely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuſe to giue her vnto him, he ſhall pay money according to the dowrie of virgins. Example: Also if a man ſeiſed in Fee Simple beeing within age endoweth his wife at the Monaſterie or Church doore, and dieth, and his wife enter, in this caſe the heire of the huſband may out her. But otherwiſe it is, (as it ſeemeth) where the father is ſeiſed in fee, and the ſonne within age endoweth his wife ex aſſenſu patris, the Father being then of full age.
Word: enigmatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin aenigmaticus and French énigmatique, from Ancient Greek αἰνιγματικός (ainigmatikós); equivalent to enigma + -tic. Pronunciation: /ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/ 1. Pertaining to an enigma. 2. Mysterious. Example: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers. 3. Defying description. 4. Enigmatical. Labels: variant
Word: enlace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French enlacer. 1. To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace Labels: transitive Example: But yet I may ſay ſafely, so many wel lettred Embraudred, enlaſid together, and fettred, And ſo little learning, ſo lewdly alowed, What fault find ye herein but may be avowed? 2. To entangle. Labels: broadly, figuratively, transitive Example: The chains of command are designed to enlace various departments. Example: The bonds of friendship helped enlace the two communities.