nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: disgusting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, disgust + -ing. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/, /dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/, /dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ/, /dɪsˈɡʊstɪŋ/, /dɪsˈkʊstɪŋ/ 1. Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful. Example: a disgusting waste of money Example: The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
Word: disgusting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, disgust + -ing. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/, /dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/, /dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ/, /dɪsˈɡʊstɪŋ/, /dɪsˈkʊstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of disgust Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: voile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French voile (“veil”). Doublet of veil and velum. Pronunciation: /vɔɪl/ 1. A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The domestic voile made from imported gray yarns and woven in the United States is the best combination to be had. Example: Cheap narrow voiles.—Plain color voiles practically are off the market.[…]Better grades of voiles usually come in the 39-inch width,[…].
Word: Stancel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Possibly from: * Old English stane cell, which means "stone chamber". Or it could be from Stancil, a village in England. * German Stenzel. * Polish-Jewish Stencel * Polish Stanisław, or Russian Станислав (Stanislav) * Romanian stâncă, meaning rock or cliff Pronunciation: /ˈstæn.səl/ 1. A surname. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: rare
Word: flexibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“to bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility. Pronunciation: /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Researchers have developed a new gel they say is as durable as metal, has the flexibility of jello, and could revolutionize how our bodies heal and age. Example: Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies. 2. The quality of having options. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast. Example: For millions of people like Poteat, pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities have made health care much more accessible. […] “What the flexibility of telehealth allows during Covid was to shift gears extraordinarily rapidly,” said Dr. Shawn Ryan, a regional director of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Word: comforting Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/, /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/ 1. Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress. Example: Your comforting words help ease my mind. Example: It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.
Word: comforting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/, /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of comfort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: comforting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/, /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/ 1. The act of giving comfort. Example: Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]
Word: dreaded Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛ.dɪd/, /ˈdɹɛ.dəd/ 1. Causing fear, dread, or terror. Example: I have got the dreaded flu. Example: Young and old a dreaded lot/In knots our rivals tied. 2. Having or wearing dreadlocks.
Word: dreaded Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛ.dɪd/, /ˈdɹɛ.dəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of dread Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: get off with Part of Speech: verb 1. To kiss passionately, fondle, or have sex with. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: He got off with my sister at the party. Example: "Hero, obviously, has been getting off with a number of young Basques. I hope her parents won't let it go too far." 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get off, with. Example: [She] masturbates herself for almost two hours and ends up getting off with a bicycle wheel. Example: Josh […] learned that clients wanted one thing: to watch him get off. Sometimes they got off with him, ordering him to watch them masturbate, or they wanted him to use toys on himself.
Word: sine qua non Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [condiciō] sine quā nōn (“[condition] without which not”), an expression which originated in the works of Boethius as a translation of some Aristotelian expression (perhaps Ancient Greek οὗ οὐκ ἄνευ (hoû ouk áneu); compare also Modern Greek εκ των ων ουκ άνευ (ek ton on ouk ánef) / Katharevousa ἐκ τῶν ὧν οὐκ ἄνευ (ek tón ón ouk ánef)), and was later popularized by scholastics. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪnɪ kweɪ ˈnɒn/, /ˌsɪn(e)ɪ kwɑː ˈnəʊn/, /ˌsɪn(e)ɪ kwɑː ˈnɒn/, /ˌsɪni kwɑ ˈnɑn/, /ˌsɪni kwɑ ˈnoʊn/ 1. An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient. Example: Near-synonyms: dealbreaker, necessary condition Example: it is hardly likely he would have found any one so singularly interesting and fascinating as Margarita Riccardini; for the striking and animated beauty of her father was softened and relieved by that peculiar something, half modesty, and half pride, which is the characteristic of English loveliness, and which every Englishman requires as a sine qua non ere he resigns himself to a bondage it is the habit of his nature, or the result of his privileges, to admit reluctantly.
Word: rigging Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English riggyng, ryggyng, riggynge, equivalent to rig + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪɡɪŋ/ 1. Dress; tackle; especially (nautical), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The moon was full and shone down on us through the masts and rigging of an old fishing wreck, which had been grounded just off the beach where we were sitting. Example: For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, though the wind still screamed in the rigging and the clouds scudded under us like flecks of foam in a mill race. 2. Similar supporting material used for construction work, or in film, theater, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering their miles, the night long, in the thousands of unheard messages. 3. The shiplike mechanical components and weaponry attached to a shipgirl. Labels: Japanese, countable, uncountable Example: Max Factory presents a figma of Nagato Kai-II from "Kantai Collection -KanColle-"! Her rigging has been carefully recreated in figma form, featuring loads of articulation to create perfect poses! 4. A system of rods, levers etc. that operate a brake, notably on rail vehicles. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A hand parking brake operated from the adjacent cab is connected by rigging to the inner pair of wheels.
Word: rigging Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪɡɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of rig Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: meddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin misceō (“to mix”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛd.əl/, [ˈmɛɾəɫ] 1. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. Example: […] why ſhouldeſt thou meddle to thy hurt,[…]? Example: […] the Civil Lawyers […] have medled in a matter, that belongs not to them;[…]. 2. To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. Labels: obsolete Example: […]ſtuddy to be quyet / and to medle with youre owne buſynes[…]. Example: The Pythagoreans who, as Ariſtotle ſays, were the firſt among the Greeks, that meddled with Mathematics, divided them into four Parts, of which, two were Pure and Primary, namely Arithmetic and Geometry; and the other two Mixed and Secondary, as Muſic and Spheres, i. e. Aſtronomy. 3. To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. Labels: obsolete Example: [H]e cutt a lock of all their heare, / Which medling with their blood & earth, he threw / Into the graue,[…]. 4. To have sex. Labels: US, intransitive, regional Example: But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour Example: Take a Rammes head that neuer medled with an Ewe, cut off at a blow, and the hornes onely taken away, boyle it well skinne and wooll together,[…].
Word: reign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum. Displaced native Old English rīċe (“a reign”) and ricsian (“to reign”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪn/ 1. The exercise of sovereign power. Example: England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign. Example: Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be. 2. The period during which a monarch rules. Example: The reign of Victoria was a long one. 3. The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. Example: And the Fox guileful, and most covetous; / That neither pleased was, to have the reign / Twixt them divided into even twain
Word: reign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum. Displaced native Old English rīċe (“a reign”) and ricsian (“to reign”). Pronunciation: /ɹeɪn/ 1. To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch. Labels: intransitive Example: He reigned in an autocratic manner. Example: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators. 2. To reign over (a country) Labels: nonstandard, rare, transitive Example: The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385. 3. To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition. 4. To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule. Example: Silence reigned. Example: Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
Word: never mind Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈnɛ.vɚˌmaɪnd/, /ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)ˌmaɪnd/ 1. It is not important; do not fret; used to reassure or comfort the person to whom it is said. Labels: hortative Example: I'm afraid I’ve broken your mug. — Never mind, it was old and I was going to throw it away. Example: Did you fall over and hurt your knee? Never mind, I’ll put a bandage on it. 2. Do not be concerned (about someone or something, or about doing something). Labels: hortative Example: Never mind about me — you go and I’ll join you later. Example: Here’s some money for you. Never mind about paying me back; you can keep it. 3. Indicates a withdrawal or retractment of a previous statement. Labels: hortative Example: You're a fool. — What did you call me? — Never mind. Example: Can you hand me that screwdriver? Wait, never mind, give me the fire extinguisher instead. 4. Let alone; much less. Labels: idiomatic Example: They wouldn't go near that place, never mind spending an entire day there. Example: It’s remarkable that this game could have been even better than it was. The U.S. has rarely outplayed any opponent in its modern era of World Cup games, never mind a superpower that won its opener 6-2 over Iran.
Word: never mind Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnɛ.vɚˌmaɪnd/, /ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)ˌmaɪnd/ 1. Alternative form of nevermind. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: But close enough in spirit as to make no never mind.
Word: ponder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderāre (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒn.də/, /ˈpɑn.dəɹ/ 1. To wonder, think of deeply. 2. To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly. Example: I have spent days pondering the meaning of life. Example: Ponder the path of thy feet. 3. To weigh. Labels: obsolete
Word: ponder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderāre (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒn.də/, /ˈpɑn.dəɹ/ 1. A period of deep thought. Labels: colloquial Example: I lit my pipe and had a ponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.
Word: get lost Part of Speech: intj 1. Used to rudely tell somebody to go away or leave one alone. Labels: colloquial, impolite
Word: get lost Part of Speech: verb 1. To lose one's way. Labels: intransitive Example: Don't you have a map? How did we get lost? Example: I got lost in his reasoning. 2. To go missing; to be in a location unknown to someone who is looking for it. Labels: intransitive Example: My keys got lost while I was out today. 3. To be absent, to seem to be absent. Labels: intransitive Example: The violins get lost with the rest of the music. 4. To exit from the scene. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: I don't want to have to tell you again: Get lost! Example: They had a row and Fred told Jack to get lost.
Word: hijack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.dʒæk/ 1. To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat). 2. To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one. Example: hijack the radio show Example: 2013, Jon Raasch, JavaScript Programming: Pushing the Limits Once the polyfill kicks in, it hijacks the user's input cursor and places it into a different field, a problem that does not exist in the native implementation of autofocus. 3. To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
Word: hijack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.dʒæk/ 1. An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking. 2. An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process. Example: I opened my closet door and stared. Should I pack my good suit and black loafers? Uh-uh. Travel light. Think positive. Go there, get done whatever there was to do, and get back. I loved Lolly, but I couldn't let her stroke hijack my life. How many guys would do this much for their aunt? 3. An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions. 4. Preflop, the position two before the dealer. Labels: slang 5. A highwayman, robber. Labels: obsolete Example: One lone "high-jack" held up 11 harvest hands in a freight car [...] last night, making a clean getaway with slightly over $180.
Word: plague Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”), from plangō (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plāghe (> Dutch plaag), plāghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German plāge; Middle High German plāge, pflāge (> German Plage); plāgen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English wōl. Pronunciation: /pleɪɡ/, [pʰl̥eɪɡ], /plɛɡ/, [pʰɫ̥ɛːɡ] 1. The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. Labels: capitalized, countable, often, sometimes, uncountable Example: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland[…] It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again. 2. An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but especially that caused by the above disease. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Great plagues, such as the bubonic plague or smallpox or syphilis or influenza, can happen again. 3. A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go. Example: A plague a both the Houſes, I am sped: / Is he gone and hath nothing? 4. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Bart is an utter plague; his pranks never cease. Example: "I'm not doing anything as far as that goes," admitted Tulloch. "In fact," he added ruefully, "that's the plague of it. I'm waiting to hear from a man who's waiting to hear from another man, and he's depending on something that may or mayn't, you understand." 5. A group of common grackles. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: plague Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”), from plangō (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plāghe (> Dutch plaag), plāghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German plāge; Middle High German plāge, pflāge (> German Plage); plāgen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English wōl. Pronunciation: /pleɪɡ/, [pʰl̥eɪɡ], /plɛɡ/, [pʰɫ̥ɛːɡ] 1. To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly. Labels: transitive Example: "Moreover," replied Congreve, "it was a sort of flattery to the duke. It showed that she valued the power of plaguing him more than her own fairest ornament. Flattery is the real secret by which a woman keeps her lover." Example: [W]hat we have here, they believe, are two members of gangs that have been plaguing Islington for more than a year. They snatch smartphones from pedestrians, then sell the items on the black market. 2. To afflict with a disease or other calamity. Labels: transitive Example: Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland. Example: Falling prices and drought plagued the cattle industry.
Word: stronghold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stranghalde, strong-hold, strong-holde, from strong (“having physical strength, sturdy, strong; built to withstand assaults, fortified”) (from Old English strang, strong (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“stiff, tight”)) + hōld (“grasp, grip; control, possession, rule”) (from Old English). By surface analysis, strong + hold. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɒŋhəʊld/, /ˈstɹɔŋˌhoʊld/ 1. A place built to withstand attack; a fortress. Example: AFter this victory thus opteyned by the Sicambris, they waxed so stronge that they wan frome yᵉ Almaynes dyuers Townes & stronge holds wᵗin Germania, and after that they opteyned yᵉ famous Cytie named Treueris; which as wytnessyth yᵉ Auctour of Cronica Cronicaruin, was firste foundyd in the Towne of the Patryarch Abraham before the Incarnation of Criste. Example: For security's sake they [the Germans] gathered together in villages and cities. These they surrounded with heavy walls and towers, and protected them by castles, erected on steep cliffs and mountains. The custody of these strongholds was entrusted to the most efficient warriors, who in time formed a separate class, the nobility, from which the heads of the whole nation, the princes, kings and emperors were chosen. 2. A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea. Labels: figuratively Example: the last stronghold of the Cornish language Example: With the numerous soldiers of Asia, with all of warlike stores, ships, and military engines, that wealth and power could command, the Turks at once resolved to crush an enemy, which creeping on by degrees, had from their stronghold in the Morea, acquired Thrace and Macedonia, and had led their armies even to the gates of Constantinople, while their extensive commercial relations gave every European nation an interest in their success.
Word: car bomb Part of Speech: noun 1. An automobile laden with a large amount of explosives, and used as a bomb primarily in order to cause external damage. 2. An explosive device installed in an automobile with the primary purpose of killing the occupants of the car. 3. Flatulence in an enclosed automobile. Labels: slang 4. An alcoholic beverage made by dropping a shot of liquor into a glass of beer.
Word: cuddle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain, but probably from a frequentative form of Middle English *cudden, cuththen, keththen (“to embrace”), a variant of cuthen, kuthen, kithen (“to be familiar with, make known”), from Middle English cuth, couth (“known, familiar”), equivalent to couth + -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch kudden (“to come together, flock together”). More at couth. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌd.l̩/ 1. An intimate physical embrace, typically while lying (or sitting): a snuggle, an instance of lying together snugly, as one might with a partner (more intimate than a hug, and typically of longer duration). Labels: US Example: I'm so impatient / I can't stand the wait / When will I get my cuddle? 2. An affectionate embrace, a hug, such as is given to family members and close friends (less intimate than a snuggle, and typically of shorter duration). Labels: UK Example: Give me a cuddle, Paul; it'll cheer you up.
Word: cuddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain, but probably from a frequentative form of Middle English *cudden, cuththen, keththen (“to embrace”), a variant of cuthen, kuthen, kithen (“to be familiar with, make known”), from Middle English cuth, couth (“known, familiar”), equivalent to couth + -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch kudden (“to come together, flock together”). More at couth. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌd.l̩/ 1. To lie together snugly (with someone), in an intimate physical embrace; to snuggle. Labels: US, intransitive, transitive Example: The young lovers cuddled on the couch. 2. To embrace (someone) affectionately; to hug (someone) closely. Labels: UK, intransitive, transitive 3. To cradle (e.g. a baby) in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth. Labels: transitive Example: She cuddled the infant before bedtime. Example: I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey? 4. To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle. Example: She cuddles low behind the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
Word: cuddly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English cuddle Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English cuddly From cuddle + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌdli/, /ˈkʌdəli/, /ˈkʌdl̩i/ 1. Suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled. Example: a cuddly teddy bear 2. Fond of or prone to cuddling. Example: My girlfriend is very cuddly.
Word: tomfoolery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tom (a common man) + foolery. Pronunciation: /ˌtɒmˈfuːlə.ɹi/, /ˈtɑmˌful.ɚ.i/, [ˈtʰɑmˌɸuɫ.ɚ.i], [ˈtʰɑɱˌfuɫ.ɚ.i] 1. Foolish behaviour or speech. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Do not think THAT," I put in. "It was not so at all. I grant you that my behaviour was bad—I fully confess that it was so, and make no secret of the fact. I would even go so far as to grant you that my behaviour might well be called stupid and indecent tomfoolery; but, MORE than that it was not. 2. Jewellery. Labels: Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: chisel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Late Latin cīsōrium Old French cisoir Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Old French -el Old French cisel Anglo-Norman chiselbor. Middle English chisel English chisel From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/ 1. A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools. 2. A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs. 3. A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs. Example: Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
Word: chisel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Late Latin cīsōrium Old French cisoir Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Old French -el Old French cisel Anglo-Norman chiselbor. Middle English chisel English chisel From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/ 1. To use a chisel. Labels: intransitive 2. To work something with a chisel. Labels: transitive Example: She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood. 3. To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something). Labels: dated, transitive 4. To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away. 5. To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating. Labels: ambitransitive, informal Example: He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere. Example: She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father.
Word: chisel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/ 1. Gravel. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour. Labels: plural-normally, uncountable, usually
Word: half-mast Part of Speech: noun 1. The lowered position, half the height of a mast, at which a flag is flown when mourning, especially expressing respect for the deceased. Labels: uncountable Example: Any other UK national flags flown alongside the Union Flag when it is at half-mast should also be at half-mast. Example: He is to be cremated later Thursday at a ceremony likely to be attended by the country's top leadership. Flags were seen flying at half-mast in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. China's state news agency Xinhua reported that flags would be lowered at government buildings across mainland China, semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and in consulates abroad. 2. The lowered position of anything. Labels: broadly, uncountable 3. An unfashionably short length of a pair of trousers. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: I looked around. Ari in a green jacket with four inches of fore arm showing and trousers at half mast, Penny and I in mismatched padded jackets and ski trousers which were way too long; and all wearing the silver moon boots that had been the rage in the early eighties. 4. The state of having a partially erect penis. Labels: euphemistic, uncountable Example: Finally, he was at half-mast, hanging out over the toilet seat, barely erect.
Word: half-mast Part of Speech: verb 1. To fly a flag in this position. Labels: transitive
Word: hum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌm/ 1. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 2. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. Example: They could hear a hum coming from the kitchen and found the dishwasher on. Example: the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums 3. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 4. Unpleasant odour. Labels: UK, slang 5. An imposition or hoax; humbug. Labels: dated 6. A kind of strong drink. Labels: obsolete Example: you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with 7. A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. Example: There is a range of theories from farm or factory machinery to conspiracy theories such as flying saucers. And yet, "the hum" remains an unsolved case.
Word: hum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌm/ 1. To make a sound from the vocal cords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. Labels: intransitive Example: We are humming happily along with the music. 2. To express by humming. Labels: transitive Example: to hum a tune Example: The team hummed “We Shall Overcome” as they came back onto the field after the break. 3. To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly. Labels: intransitive Example: The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells. Example: A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window. 4. To buzz, be busily active like a beehive. Labels: intransitive Example: The streets were humming with activity. 5. To produce low sounds which blend continuously. Labels: intransitive 6. To reek, smell bad. Labels: UK, slang Example: This room really hums — have you ever tried spring cleaning, mate? 7. To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug. Labels: UK, dated, slang, transitive
Word: hum Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌm/ 1. Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. Example: Hum! hum! What's all this? 2. Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. Example: Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves.
Word: hum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 蚶 (ham). Pronunciation: /hʌm/, [häm(˦)] 1. Synonym of see hum (“blood cockles, ark clams”). Labels: Malaysia, Singapore, informal, uncountable
Word: shiver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvɚ/, /ˈʃɪvə/ 1. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. Example: They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air. Example: The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. 2. To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. Labels: transitive
Word: shiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvɚ/, /ˈʃɪvə/ 1. The act of shivering. Example: A shiver went up my spine. Example: But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking. 2. A bodily response to early hypothermia.
Word: shiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvɚ/, /ˈʃɪvə/ 1. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone. 2. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone. Labels: Norfolk 3. A thin slice; a shive. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: a shiver of their own loaf 4. A variety of blue slate. 5. A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. 6. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. 7. A spindle. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: shiver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvɚ/, /ˈʃɪvə/ 1. To break into splinters or fragments. Labels: transitive Example: The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way / Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; / That wandered wondrous far, when he the town / Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down; […] Example: But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time. 2. To be broken into splinters or fragments. Labels: intransitive Example: The dirty clay pipe dropped from the tremulous hand, and shivered against the iron fender, but the old man made no effort to find a fresh one; […]
Word: shiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvɚ/, /ˈʃɪvə/ 1. A group of sharks. Labels: collective
Word: burner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnə/, /ˈbɝnɚ/ 1. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. Example: She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type" 2. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. 3. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. 4. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. 5. A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW. 6. Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang Example: No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless 7. An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user. 8. Ellipsis of burner account. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang Example: Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information. 9. An elaborate piece of graffiti. Labels: slang Example: […] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […] Example: There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece. 10. A pyrotechnic tear gas canister. Labels: slang 11. A handgun. Labels: slang 12. Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang 13. Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”). Labels: alt-of, slang Example: In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders. Example: White Ocean, co-founded by entrepreneurs Timur Sardarov, the son of a Russian oil magnate, and Oliver Ripley, and involving the trance DJ Paul Oakenfold, is viewed as one such camp, although it provides one of Burning Man’s biggest stages and claims to “feed hundreds of non-White Ocean burners a day”.
Word: mistrust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mistrust; equivalent to mis- + trust. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈtɹʌst/ 1. Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: mistrust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mistrust; equivalent to mis- + trust. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈtɹʌst/ 1. To have no confidence in (something or someone). Labels: transitive Example: The Britans marching out againſt them, and miſtruſting thir own power, ſend to Germanus and his Collegue, repoſing more in the ſpiritual ſtrength of thoſe two men, than in thir own thouſands arm’d. Example: He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. 2. To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone). Labels: transitive Example: It is most strange to report what outragious acts […] haue beene committed […] by women especially, that will runne after their husbands into all places, all companies, as Iouianus Pontanus wife did by him, follow him whether soeuer hee goes, it matters not, or vpon what businesse, rauing […] , cursing, swearing, and mistrusting euery one she sees. Example: The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner […] 3. To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case. Labels: transitive Example: […] I propheſie, that many a thouſand, Which now miſtruſt no parcell of my feare, And many an old mans ſighe, and many a Widdowes, And many an Orphans water-ſtanding-eye, Men for their Sonnes, Wiues for their Husbands, Orphans, for their Parents timeles death, Shall rue the houre that euer thou was’t borne. Example: As soon as it was dark enough to conceal our Flight, we assembl’d together, and took a considerable Quantity of Muslins and Callicoes, and hung them upon the Bushes, that the Spies, who we knew watch’d us, might not any ways mistrust our sudden Removal. 4. To be suspicious. Labels: intransitive Example: She wuz soft in her complexion, her lips, her cheeks, her hands, and as I mistrusted at that first minute, and found out afterwards, soft in her head too. Example: And yes, she has long mistrusted That a cider apple tree In bearing there to-day is hers, Or at least may be.
Word: blackmail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From black + mail (“a piece of money”). Compare Middle English blak rente (“a type of blackmail levied by Irish chieftains”). The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to border reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods or labour, in Latin reditus nigri (“black mail”); the opposite is blanche firmes or reditus albi (“white rent”), denoting payment by silver. McKay derives it from two Scottish Gaelic words blàthaich, pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich, "to protect" and màl (“tribute, payment”). He notes that the practice was common in the Scottish Highlands as well as the Borders. More likely, from black + Middle English mal, male, maile (“a payment, rent, tribute”), from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement, lawsuit, terms, bargaining”), from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”); related to Old English mæðel (“meeting, council”), mæl (“speech”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl, “meeting place”), from Proto-Germanic *maþlą (“gathering, agreement”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to give advice, measure”). From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the practice. Expanded c. 1826 to any type of extortion money. Compare silver mail (“rent paid in money”) (1590s); buttock mail (“fine imposed for fornication”) (1530s, Scottish). Pronunciation: /ˈblækˌmeɪl/ 1. The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure. Labels: uncountable 2. Compromising material that can be used to extort someone. Labels: broadly, uncountable 3. Compromising material that can be used to extort someone. Labels: broadly, uncountable 4. A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage. Labels: archaic, uncountable 5. Black rent; rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver. Labels: England, historical, uncountable
Word: blackmail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From black + mail (“a piece of money”). Compare Middle English blak rente (“a type of blackmail levied by Irish chieftains”). The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to border reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods or labour, in Latin reditus nigri (“black mail”); the opposite is blanche firmes or reditus albi (“white rent”), denoting payment by silver. McKay derives it from two Scottish Gaelic words blàthaich, pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich, "to protect" and màl (“tribute, payment”). He notes that the practice was common in the Scottish Highlands as well as the Borders. More likely, from black + Middle English mal, male, maile (“a payment, rent, tribute”), from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement, lawsuit, terms, bargaining”), from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”); related to Old English mæðel (“meeting, council”), mæl (“speech”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl, “meeting place”), from Proto-Germanic *maþlą (“gathering, agreement”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to give advice, measure”). From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the practice. Expanded c. 1826 to any type of extortion money. Compare silver mail (“rent paid in money”) (1590s); buttock mail (“fine imposed for fornication”) (1530s, Scottish). Pronunciation: /ˈblækˌmeɪl/ 1. To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc. Labels: transitive Example: He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. 2. To speak ill of someone; to defame someone. Labels: Kenya
Word: postpone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin postpōnō (“to put after; to postpone”) from post (“after”) + pōnō (“to put; to place”), compare forestall. Pronunciation: /pəʊstˈpəʊn/, /poʊstˈpoʊn/, /pəʉstˈpəʉn/, [pɐʉstˈpɐʉn], /pɐʉstˈpɐʉn/ 1. To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc. Example: “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.” Example: Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances – in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation. 2. To place after in order; to deem less important. Labels: obsolete Example: Why should the See of Antioch, that most ancient and truly Apostolical Church, where the Christian name began […] be postponed to Alexandria?
Word: figure out Part of Speech: verb 1. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. Labels: informal Example: As soon as I figure out what is wrong with my car, I will fix it. Example: This part of the work, however, would of course come under the head of designing, while the object of this book is to teach you how to figure out the patterns whether you understand anything about designing or not. 2. To calculate. Labels: informal Example: We'd already figured out that the trip would cost $1,000. Example: Now after you are through with the plan and are ready to figure out the number of brick, take your estimate sheet and do so, following the dimensions you have set down from the plans.
Word: sequin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French sequin, from Italian zecchino, from zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of zecchin. Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.kwɪn/ 1. Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey. Labels: historical Example: ‘Let him receive as many robes of honour and thousands of sequins of gold as he hath spoken words.’ Example: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pices stamped with what looked like wisps of string or its of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck - nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection... 2. A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing. Example: His ideas of music-hall costumes had never gone beyond short skirts, a swirl of lace, and glittering sequins; but Miss Antonia had expressed herself on that subject in no uncertain terms. Example: Neer imagined Jane in tulle and leather and sequins and knew the answer.
Word: sequin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French sequin, from Italian zecchino, from zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of zecchin. Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.kwɪn/ 1. To decorate with sequins. Labels: transitive
Word: cloche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”). Doublet of cloak and clock. Pronunciation: /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/ 1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth. Example: Old window screens were shade cloth; flattened cardboard and carpet offcuts were weed matting; plastic bottles, when sliced in half, became little cloches to fit over seedlings to keep them warm. 2. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim. Example: Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies. 3. A tableware cover, often resembling a bell. Example: Pistachio and date-filled cakes glisten under a glass cloche as customers drinking cardamom tea settle into brightly tapestried pouf chairs at the Pouya café and cultural center in Paris. 4. An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bell-shaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, etc. Labels: historical
Word: pretty Polly Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Polly is a name traditionally given to a pet parrot. 1. A phrase traditionally said to parrots, and a phrase that parrots are traditionally taught to speak. Example: Pretty Polly! Pretty Polly! Squawk! 'Allo! Who's a pretty boy! Squawk! 'Allo! 'Allo!