nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dictionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin -ārium ▲ Latin dictiō ▲ Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin dictiōnārius? Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary From Middle English dixionare, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/, /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi/, /ˈdɪkʃ.nə.ɹi/, /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, /ˈɖɪkʃ(ə)nəri/ 1. A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information. Example: If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary. Example: But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries such as Hornby's (1974) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English include not only categorial information in their entries, but also information about the range of Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code). 2. A reference work on a particular subject or activity in which the entries are arranged alphabetically; an alphabetical encyclopedia. Labels: broadly Example: a law dictionary Example: a dictionary of sports 3. A person or thing regarded as a repository or compendium of information. Labels: figuratively 4. The collection of words used or understood by a particular person; vocabulary. Labels: derogatory, especially, possessive, with-of 5. A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language. Example: Look it up in the dictionary, and what do you find? Example: By 1986 the name Walkman was included as a word in the English dictionary. 6. An associative array, or a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (noun sense 1). Example: User calls RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in a RequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
Word: dictionary Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin -ārium ▲ Latin dictiō ▲ Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin dictiōnārius? Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary From Middle English dixionare, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/, /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi/, /ˈdɪkʃ.nə.ɹi/, /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, /ˈɖɪkʃ(ə)nəri/ 1. To look up in a dictionary. Labels: transitive 2. To add to a dictionary. Labels: transitive Example: By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use. Example: Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried. 3. To compile a dictionary. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home—may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies—who can say?
Word: free Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijwaz Proto-West Germanic *friu Old English frēo Middle English fre English free From Middle English fre, from Old English frēo, frēoh, frī, friġ, frīoh (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“pleased, loved”), from *preyH- (“to please; to love”). Related to friend. cognates, etc Germanic cognates include Scots fre (“free”), North Frisian frai, frei, fri, Frii (“free”), Saterland Frisian fräi (“free”), West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), German frei (“free”), Low German free (“free”), Luxembourgish fräi (“free”), Vilamovian frȧj (“free”), Yiddish פֿרײַ (fray, “free”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fri (“free”), Faroese fríur (“free”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (freis, “free”). Other cognates include Cornish rydh (“free”), Welsh rhydd (“free”), Latin propriō (“to appropriate”), Czech přát (“to wish; to favour”), Polish sprzyjać (“to favour, foster”), Serbo-Croatian прѝјати, prìjati (“to please, taste, suit; to be agreeable, relish”), Slovak priať (“to wish”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia, “good, pleasant”), Persian فری (fari, “beloved, dear; agreeable, pleasing”), Sanskrit प्रिय (priya, “beloved”). Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family"). Pronunciation: /fɹiː/, [fɹɪi̯], /fɹɪj/, /fɹi/ 1. Without needing to pay. Example: I got this bike free. Example: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics. 2. Freely; willingly. Labels: obsolete Example: I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.
Word: free Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-, and is cognate with German freien, Dutch vrijen, Czech přát, Serbo-Croatian prijati, Polish sprzyjać. Pronunciation: /fɹiː/, [fɹɪi̯], /fɹɪj/, /fɹi/ 1. To make free; set at liberty; release. Labels: transitive Example: Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this. Example: Liberia was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society whose goal was to resettle freed slaves in Africa. 2. To rid of something that confines or oppresses. Labels: transitive Example: Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil." 3. To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system. Labels: transitive Example: There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.
Word: free Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɹiː/, [fɹɪi̯], /fɹɪj/, /fɹi/ 1. Abbreviation of free kick. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren. 2. A free transfer. Example: Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring. 3. The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. 4. Abbreviation of freestyle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal Example: The team won the 200 meters free relay.
Word: free Part of Speech: num Pronunciation: /fɹiː/, [fɹɪi̯], /fɹɪj/, /fɹi/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of three Labels: alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling
Word: thesaurus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure. Pronunciation: /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/, /θɪˈsoːɹəs/ 1. A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language. Example: "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms. Example: As reference books go, the thesaurus has had a somewhat checkered history, in fact, and has probably occasioned as much bad writing as good. 2. A dictionary or encyclopedia. Labels: archaic 3. A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
Word: encyclopedia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Ancient Greek ἐν (en) Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-) Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos) Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos) Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der. Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs) Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō) Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā) Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)bor. New Latin encyclopaedīalbor. English encyclopedia Borrowed from New Latin encyclopēdīa, encyclopaedīa (“general education”), a univerbated form of Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “childrearing; education”) (q.v.). Nearly all modern English usage of the word was influenced by the scope and format of the French Encyclopédie by Diderot et al. (see quotation). Pronunciation: /ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdi.ə/, /ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpidi.ə/, /ənˌsəɪkləˈpidi.ə/ 1. A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field. Example: I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here. Example: My old encyclopedia has been gathering dust on the shelf for the past decade. 2. Similarly comprehensive works in other formats. Example: Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Example: The ancient Mesopotamians never got to write an encyclopedia on stone. 3. The circle of arts and sciences (see Etymology); a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch thereof. Labels: dated, specifically Example: His life's work is a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics. Example: I have no idea how to build this model railroad, so I'm gonna look it up on Trainpedia, the encyclopedia for all things model train.
Word: portmanteau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂ Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂ Proto-Italic *portā 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 Proto-Italic *portāō Latin portāre Old French porter Middle French porte Latin mantellum Middle French manteau Middle French portemanteaubor. English portmanteau From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”. The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (sense 1). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this. Pronunciation: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/, /pɔɹtˈmæn.toʊ/, /ˌpɔɹt.mænˈtoʊ/ 1. A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections. Example: A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […] Example: Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves. 2. A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning. Example: Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⸺there are two meanings packed up into one word. Example: Well then, ‘mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau for you). 3. A portmanteau film. Example: We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame. Example: His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree. 4. A schoolbag. Labels: Australia, dated 5. A hook on which to hang clothing. Labels: archaic Example: But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are no portmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.
Word: portmanteau Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂ Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂ Proto-Italic *portā 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 Proto-Italic *portāō Latin portāre Old French porter Middle French porte Latin mantellum Middle French manteau Middle French portemanteaubor. English portmanteau From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”. The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (sense 1). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this. Pronunciation: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/, /pɔɹtˈmæn.toʊ/, /ˌpɔɹt.mænˈtoʊ/ 1. Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau. Labels: attributive, not-comparable Example: The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.
Word: portmanteau Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂ Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂ Proto-Italic *portā 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 Proto-Italic *portāō Latin portāre Old French porter Middle French porte Latin mantellum Middle French manteau Middle French portemanteaubor. English portmanteau From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”. The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (sense 1). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this. Pronunciation: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/, /pɔɹtˈmæn.toʊ/, /ˌpɔɹt.mænˈtoʊ/ 1. To create a portmanteau word. Labels: transitive
Word: encyclopaedia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v. Pronunciation: /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/, /ɛn-/ 1. Commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia.
Word: cat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat. Pronunciation: /ˈkat/, [ˈkʰat], /ˈkæt/, [ˈkʰæt], [ˈkʰeə̯t] 1. A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
Word: cat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat. Pronunciation: /ˈkat/, [ˈkʰat], /ˈkæt/, [ˈkʰæt], [ˈkʰeə̯t] 1. To apply the cat command to (one or more files). Labels: transitive 2. To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully. Labels: slang
Word: cat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ˈkat/, [ˈkʰat], /ˈkæt/, [ˈkʰæt], [ˈkʰeə̯t] 1. A street name of the drug methcathinone. Labels: slang 2. Abbreviation of catapult. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: a carrier's bow cats 3. Abbreviation of catalytic converter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 4. Abbreviation of catamaran. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: These cats are a lot of fun in the harbor, but they're a real thrill on the open ocean riding ground swells. 5. Abbreviation of category. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 6. Abbreviation of catfish. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat. Example: Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports. 7. Abbreviation of caterpillar. Labels: slang 8. Abbreviation of caterpillar. 9. Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: cat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /ˈkat/, [ˈkʰat], /ˈkæt/, [ˈkʰæt], [ˈkʰeə̯t] 1. Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous. Labels: Ireland, colloquial, not-comparable Example: The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
Word: gratis Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin grātiīs Latin gratisbor. English gratis Borrowed from Latin gratis. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/, /ˈɡɹætɪs/ 1. Free: without charge. Labels: not-comparable Example: Really syncophant^([sic]) stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.
Word: gratis Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin grātiīs Latin gratisbor. English gratis Borrowed from Latin gratis. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/, /ˈɡɹætɪs/ 1. In a free way: without charge. Labels: not-comparable Example: I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee. Example: Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?
Word: word Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”), from *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb, verve, and vort; further related to vrata. Cognates Cognate with Scots wird (“word”), North Frisian uurd, Uurt, wurd, wårde, wür (“word”), Saterland Frisian Woud, Wud (“word”), West Frisian wurd (“word”), Alemannic German wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört (“word”), Bavarian boart, bort, bört, Wurt (“word”), Cimbrian bóart, bort (“word”), Dutch woord (“word”), German Wort (“word”), German Low German Woord, Woort (“word”), Limburgish waord, Woërt (“word”), Luxembourgish Wuert (“word”), Mòcheno bourt (“word”), Vilamovian wiüt, wuyt (“word”), Yiddish וואָרט (vort, “word”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ord (“word”), Elfdalian uord (“word”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Scanian orð (“word”), Gutnish ård (“word”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (waurd, “word”); also Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós, “spoken, stipulated”); also Latin verbum (“word”), Umbrian 𐌖𐌄𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌄 (uerfale, “temple”), Ancient Greek εἴρω (eírō, “to say, speak, tell”), Latgalian vuords (“name; word”), Latvian vārds (“name; word”), Lithuanian var̃das (“name”), Russian врать (vratʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian ва̏рати, vȁrati (“to cheat, deceive, trick, swindle; to be mistaken”), Armenian հորջորջել (horǰorǰel, “to call, name”), Ashkun vīri (“word”), Kamkata-viri vëri, viri (“word”), Prasuni veri, verī, vëre, vëri (“word”), Sanskrit व्रत (vrata, “command; law; will”). Pronunciation: /wɜːd/, /wɜɹd/, /wəɹd/, [wɚ(ɹ)d], /wɛːd/ 1. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). Labels: transitive Example: strongly worded letter Example: I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council. 2. To flatter with words, to cajole. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / be noble to myself. 3. To ply or overpower with words. Labels: transitive Example: […] if one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest Language [for that task] Example: […] if a man were to be worded to death, or stoned to death by words, the High-Dutch were the fittest [language for that task]. 4. To conjure with a word. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Against him […] who could word heaven and earth out of nothing, and can when he pleases word them into nothing again. Example: "Postcolonialism" might well be another linguistic construct, desperately begging for a referent that will never show up, simply because it never existed on its own and was literally worded into existence by the very term that pretends to be born from it. 5. To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Thus wording timidly among the fierce: / "O Father, I am here the simplest voice, […]"
Word: word Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”), from *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb, verve, and vort; further related to vrata. Cognates Cognate with Scots wird (“word”), North Frisian uurd, Uurt, wurd, wårde, wür (“word”), Saterland Frisian Woud, Wud (“word”), West Frisian wurd (“word”), Alemannic German wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört (“word”), Bavarian boart, bort, bört, Wurt (“word”), Cimbrian bóart, bort (“word”), Dutch woord (“word”), German Wort (“word”), German Low German Woord, Woort (“word”), Limburgish waord, Woërt (“word”), Luxembourgish Wuert (“word”), Mòcheno bourt (“word”), Vilamovian wiüt, wuyt (“word”), Yiddish וואָרט (vort, “word”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ord (“word”), Elfdalian uord (“word”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Scanian orð (“word”), Gutnish ård (“word”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (waurd, “word”); also Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós, “spoken, stipulated”); also Latin verbum (“word”), Umbrian 𐌖𐌄𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌄 (uerfale, “temple”), Ancient Greek εἴρω (eírō, “to say, speak, tell”), Latgalian vuords (“name; word”), Latvian vārds (“name; word”), Lithuanian var̃das (“name”), Russian врать (vratʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian ва̏рати, vȁrati (“to cheat, deceive, trick, swindle; to be mistaken”), Armenian հորջորջել (horǰorǰel, “to call, name”), Ashkun vīri (“word”), Kamkata-viri vëri, viri (“word”), Prasuni veri, verī, vëre, vëri (“word”), Sanskrit व्रत (vrata, “command; law; will”). Pronunciation: /wɜːd/, /wɜɹd/, /wəɹd/, [wɚ(ɹ)d], /wɛːd/ 1. Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond." Labels: slang Example: "Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.") 2. An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. Labels: emphatic, slang Example: "[…] Know what I'm sayin'?" / "Word!" the other man strongly agreed. "Let's do this — " Example: "[…] Not bad at all, man. Worth da wait, dawg. Word." / "You liked it?" I asked dumbly, stoned still, and feeling victorious. / "Yeah, man," said Oral B. "Word up. […]"
Word: word Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of worth (“to become, turn into, grow, get”), from Middle English worthen, from Old English weorþan (“to turn into, become, grow”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to turn, turn into, become”). More at worth § Verb. Pronunciation: /wɜːd/, /wɜɹd/, /wəɹd/, [wɚ(ɹ)d], /wɛːd/ 1. Alternative form of worth (“to become”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: livre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and rottol. Pronunciation: /ˈliːvɹə/, /ˈliːvə(ɹ)/ 1. A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous. Labels: historical Example: They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family? Example: He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse […]. 2. A lira Labels: obsolete 3. An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound. Labels: historical
Word: book Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Old English bōcian Middle English booken English book From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /bʊk/, /bɵk/, /buːk/, /bʉk/ 1. To reserve (something) for future use. Labels: transitive Example: I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night. Example: I can book tickets for the concert next week. 2. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. Labels: transitive Example: They booked that message from the hill. 3. To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. Labels: transitive Example: I booked a flight to New York. 4. To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. Labels: transitive Example: The police booked him for driving too fast. 5. To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 6. To travel very fast. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: He was really booking until he passed the speed trap. 7. To record bets as bookmaker. 8. To receive the highest grade in a class. Labels: transitive Example: The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class. 9. To move or leave, often hurriedly and abruptly. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: He was here earlier, but he booked.
Word: book Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”). Pronunciation: /bʊk/, /bɵk/, /buːk/, /bʉk/ 1. simple past of bake Labels: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, form-of, past
Word: pound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt. Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯nd], /ˈpæʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰæʊ̯nd], /ˈpaːnd/ 1. To wager a pound on. Labels: UK, regional, slang, transitive Example: ‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’ Example: “He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”
Word: pound Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English *pund (“an enclosure”). Related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”). Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯nd], /ˈpæʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰæʊ̯nd], /ˈpaːnd/ 1. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. Example: Mr. Sarnoff also sent to the pound one of the best-known dogs in the world. Nipper, the black-and-white terrier usually depicted peering with head cocked into the horn of a Victrola, listening for “His Master's Voice,” was de-emphasized as a corporate symbol. 2. The people who work for the pound. Labels: metonymically Example: (Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him." 3. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Labels: UK Example: Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway? / Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking. / Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound! 4. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks. 5. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward. Example: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. 6. A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine. Labels: Newfoundland
Word: pound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English *pund (“an enclosure”). Related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”). Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯nd], /ˈpæʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰæʊ̯nd], /ˈpaːnd/ 1. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound. Example: When I short haue shorne my sowce face & swigg’d my horny barrell, In an oaken Inne I pound my skin as a suite of guilt apparrell Example: And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
Word: pound Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”). Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯nd], /ˈpæʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰæʊ̯nd], /ˈpaːnd/ 1. To strike hard, usually repeatedly. Labels: transitive Example: She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee. Example: [...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution. 2. To crush to pieces; to pulverize. Labels: transitive Example: Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […] Example: It was the hour before the first crowing of the cocks, and along with Nyo Boto and Grandma Yaisa's clattering, the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bombpabombpabomp of wooden pestles as the other women of the village pounded couscous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks. 3. To eat or drink very quickly. Labels: slang, transitive Example: You really pounded that beer! Example: The sounds of a house-party rolled down the street / So we pounded our Pilsner and leapt to our feet 4. To pitch consistently to a certain location. Labels: slang, transitive Example: The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night. 5. To beat strongly or throb. Labels: intransitive Example: As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent. Example: My head was pounding. 6. To penetrate sexually, with vigour. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar Example: I was pounding her all night! Example: She acting, so I'm attacking, try break the mattress / Sexy, so I suggested to switch to sideways / Pounded for 'bout a hour she said she tired 7. To advance heavily with measured steps. Example: We pounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom–house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God–forsaken wilderness, with a tin shed and a flag–pole lost in it; landed more soldiers—to take care of the custom–house clerks, presumably. 8. To make a jarring noise, as when running. Example: The engine pounds.
Word: pound Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”). Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯nd], /ˈpæʊ̯nd/, [ˈpʰæʊ̯nd], /ˈpaːnd/ 1. A hard blow.
Word: GDP Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒiːdiːˈpiː/ 1. Initialism of gross domestic product. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually Example: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month. Example: Or take Wikipedia. Supported by investments of time rather than money, it has left the old Encyclopedia Britannica in the dust – and taken the GDP down a few notches in the process. 2. Initialism of guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
Word: rain cats and dogs Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown, but see examples of early use in Citations. 1. To rain very heavily. Labels: idiomatic, impersonal Example: ["]Those weather-gaws aren't out for nothing. It'll rain cats and dogs to-morrow." Marigold wondered what weather-gaws were—and then forgot in thinking how interesting it would be in it really rained cats and dogs. Little silk-eared kittens everywhere by the basketful—loads of darling pudgy puppies.
Word: pond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound. Pronunciation: /pɒnd/, /pɑnd/, /pʌnd/ 1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. Example: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon. 2. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
Word: pond Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound. Pronunciation: /pɒnd/, /pɑnd/, /pʌnd/ 1. Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean. Labels: informal Example: I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond. Example: I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.
Word: pond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound. Pronunciation: /pɒnd/, /pɑnd/, /pʌnd/ 1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. Labels: transitive Example: The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area. 2. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. Labels: transitive 3. To form a pond; to pool. Labels: intransitive
Word: pond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of ponder. Pronunciation: /pɒnd/, /pɑnd/, /pʌnd/ 1. To ponder. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
Word: pies Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /paɪz/ 1. plural of pie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pies Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /paɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pie Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person 2. third-person singular simple present indicative of pi Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nonsense Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒn.səns/, /ˈnɑn.sɛns/, /ˈnɔn.səns/ 1. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense. 2. An untrue statement. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever. Example: While at the hospital, David kept screaming and yelling nonsense, stating Vladimir Putin bailed him out of jail and is a god. 3. That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. Something foolish. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up. 5. A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: nonsense Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒn.səns/, /ˈnɑn.sɛns/, /ˈnɔn.səns/ 1. To make nonsense of; Example: At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds. 2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny. Example: "They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded." Example: Very commanding: very much 'end of this nonsensing'. Mister Fared spread his hands and shook his thin head imperceptibly, as if to say he understood. 3. To joke around, to waste time Labels: intransitive Example: When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.
Word: nonsense Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒn.səns/, /ˈnɑn.sɛns/, /ˈnɔn.səns/ 1. Nonsensical. 2. Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Word: nonsense Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɒn.səns/, /ˈnɑn.sɛns/, /ˈnɔn.səns/ 1. An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with. Example: The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.
Word: pie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain. Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time. The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight. Pronunciation: /paɪ/, /pɑɪ/ 1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert. Example: SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. 2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato. 3. A pizza. Labels: Northeastern, US, countable, uncountable 4. A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other. 6. An especially badly bowled ball. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A pie chart. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals. 8. Something very easy; a piece of cake. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager. 9. The vulva. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it. Example: Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard. 10. A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper Example: My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly