nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: amnesia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”) prefixed with the alpha privative. Pronunciation: /ˌæmˈniʒə/, /æmˈniːʒə/, /æmˈniːz.i.ə/ 1. Loss of memory; forgetfulness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia. Example: They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him 2. Forgetfulness. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: a state of cultural amnesia 3. A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana. Labels: UK, countable, slang, uncountable Example: She's lighting up some sensis, he's lighting up amnesias / I'm 'bout to get it started, I'm 'bout to get amnesia'd
Word: dowse Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /daʊs/ 1. Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dowse Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /daʊs/ 1. Alternative form of douse (“to strike”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dowse Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /daʊs/ 1. Alternative form of douse (“strike”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dowse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown; originally a dialectal term from southern England. Pronunciation: /daʊs/, /daʊz/ 1. To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. Labels: intransitive
Word: clam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clam (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams. Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. Example: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price. Example: Long as I have my clams I don't give a damn about revolution / Long as I have my rice I don't have to think twice about a solution 2. A type of strong pincers or forceps. Labels: historical, in-plural 3. A kind of vise, usually of wood. 4. A dollar. Labels: US, in-plural, slang Example: Those sneakers cost me fifty clams! Example: The network canceled—nonco-operation their legal shysters said. Suing me, for, for ten million clams, damages to sponsors, agencies. 5. A Scientologist. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: So the clams have John Travolta, Tom Cruise, et al in their hot li'l ol'P-R hands […] 6. A vagina or vulva. Labels: slang, vulgar 7. A wrong or misplaced note. Labels: slang Example: You had too many fucking days off, and you think this is a game? You think I'm the only one that's going to work up there while you motherfuckers sit out there and clam all over this fucking joint? What do you think this is anyhow? What kind of playing do you think this is? What kind of miscues do you call this?... You afraid you won't be heard? Everybody can hear your fucking clams out there. You don't need a mic for that. You taking up too much time blowing what? Shit! You stand out here all fucking night trying to blow your brains out. When it comes time to play, what do you play? Clams?! You got nowhere to fucking go the next day. I hear one fucking clam from anybody, you've had it! One clam and this whole fucking band is through tonight. Try me! 8. One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak. Labels: informal 9. mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam) Labels: US, dated, slang Example: Why, he hasn't opened his clam since that morning in your room. I expected he would hold forth on every and all occasions. Example: Jason wouldn't shut his clam about the invaders.
Word: clam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clam (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams. Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. To dig for clams.
Word: clam Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Example: By the bells standing too long in leading compass, the rest are thrown and jumbled together; whereby claps and clams so unpleasing to the hearers are occasion'd.
Word: clam Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. Example: When they [bells] lie fifths thus 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8, 'tis then most pleasant and excellent music to clam them; that is, the two notes of each concord to strike together, and if they be clam'd true the eight bells will strike like four, but with far greater musick and harmony.
Word: clam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”). Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. Clammy. Labels: obsolete Example: Ice is said to be clam, when beginning to melt with the sun or otherwise, and not easy to be slid upon.
Word: clam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”). Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. clamminess; moisture Example: The clam of death.
Word: clam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”). Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. Example: A chilling sweat , a damp of jealousy, Hangs on my brows, and clams upon my limbs 2. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. Example: A whole Swarm of Wasps got into a Hony-pot, and there they Cloy'd and Clam'd themselves till there was no getting Out again.
Word: clam Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. Alternative form of CLAM. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: clam Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /klæm/, [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm], /klam/, /klæːm/, [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] 1. Alternative form of clem (“to starve”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nope Part of Speech: particle Etymology: Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup. Pronunciation: /nəʊp/, /noʊp/, [noʊp̚] 1. No. Labels: emphatic, informal, often Example: "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet." Example: "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
Word: nope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup. Pronunciation: /nəʊp/, /noʊp/, [noʊp̚] 1. A negative reply, no. Labels: informal Example: I'll take that as a nope, then. Example: By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt. 2. An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration. Labels: slang Example: This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
Word: nope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp (“bullfinch”). Pronunciation: /nəʊp/ 1. A bullfinch. Labels: archaic Example: 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146, To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she. Example: I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.
Word: nope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly influenced by nape and knap. Pronunciation: /nəʊp/ 1. A blow to the head. Labels: East-Midlands, Northern-England Example: (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw. Example: I'll fetch thee a nope.
Word: nope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly influenced by nape and knap. Pronunciation: /nəʊp/ 1. To hit someone on the head. Labels: East-Midlands, Northern-England, archaic Example: "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter. Example: The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"
Word: daemonize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”). Pronunciation: /ˈdiːmənaɪz/ 1. Archaic spelling of demonize. Labels: alt-of, archaic 2. Of a computer program or script, to prepare to go in to the background and become a daemon.
Word: translators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of translator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laundromat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-der. Proto-Italic *lowō Latin lavo Latin lavareder. Latin lavandarium Latin lavandaria Old French lavanderiebor. Middle English lavendrie English laundry Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.? Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón)? Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-) Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós Proto-Hellenic *mətós Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos) Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der. Classical Latin automatum New Latin automaticusbor. English automatic blend English laundromat Blend of laundry + automatic. From Laundromat, (former) trademark (1940s) of Westinghouse Electric Corporation for its washing machines, coined by Westinghouse publicist George Edward Pendray. Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːndɹəʊˌmæt/, /ˈlɔːndɹəmæt/, /ˈlɑn.dɹəˌmæt/, /ˈloːn.dɹə.mæt/ 1. A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now may use other per-load payment methods) washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items. Labels: Australia, Canada, US Example: In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments. 2. A money laundering operation. Example: The Russian laundromat was soon nicknamed the Moldovan laundromat, as it centred on transactions between Russia and the small, poor country locked between Ukraine and Romania.
Word: feudal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (“fief, fee”), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, owndom, property, fee”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) + -al. More at fee. Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːdəl/, [ˈfjuː.dɫ̩], /ˈfju.dəl/, [ˈfju.ɾɫ̩], /ˈfjʉːdəl/ 1. Of, or relating to feudalism. Labels: not-comparable Example: And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.
Word: taper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid. First attested before the 12th c. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpə/, /ˈteɪpɚ/ 1. A slender wax candle. Example: Strike on the Tinder, hoa: Giue me a Taper […] Example: Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning […] 2. A small light. Labels: broadly 3. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object. Example: the taper of a spire Example: The legs of the table had a slight taper to them. 4. The portion of an object with such a form. Example: ensuring the cleanliness of the taper of a machine tool spindle or of a tool shank 5. Ellipsis of machine taper. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 6. A long wick or thin stick used for transferring flames to candles, now usually chemically-treated to burn particularly slowly. Labels: historical 7. A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing). 8. Gradual reduction over time. Labels: figuratively Example: a drug taper
Word: taper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid. First attested before the 12th c. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpə/, /ˈteɪpɚ/ 1. To make thinner or narrower at one end. Labels: transitive Example: Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. 2. To become thinner or narrower at one end. Labels: intransitive Example: Like other supertall towers, 432 Park relies on the counterweight system to address the forces of wind and reduce the feeling of swaying for residents. But unlike many other supertall towers that are tiered or taper toward the top, 432 Park is rectangular, making it less aerodynamic. 3. To diminish gradually. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Current major clinical practice guidelines provide little support for clinicians wishing to help patients discontinue or taper antidepressants in terms of mitigating and managing withdrawal symptoms. 4. To tighten monetary policy. Labels: intransitive
Word: taper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid. First attested before the 12th c. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpə/, /ˈteɪpɚ/ 1. Tapered; narrowing to a point.
Word: taper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tape + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpə/, /ˈteɪpɚ/ 1. One who operates a tape machine. 2. Someone who works with tape or tapes.
Word: teleological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English teleology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English teleologic English -al English teleological From teleologic + -al. Pronunciation: /tɛliːəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/ 1. Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose. Example: It will be seen that this doctrine is optimistic and teleological: the universe and everything in it is developing towards something continually better than what went before. Example: Do I believe in God? I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.
Word: transplant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant. Pronunciation: /tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/, /tɹænzˈplɑːnt/, /tɹænzˈplænt/ 1. To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place. Labels: transitive Example: Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago. Example: A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky. 2. To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate. Labels: transitive Example: But after half a year the Russian Government prohibited its circulation, and as a consequence the paper ceased to appear. He then went to Tschernowitz and started a Folksblatt. Upon the advice of a friend he transplanted his paper to Jassy, Roumania. Example: Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits. 3. To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another. Labels: transitive
Word: transplant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɑːnzplɑːnt/, /ˈtɹænzplɑːnt/, /ˈtɹænzplænt/ 1. An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant. 2. Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant. 3. An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation. 4. A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft. 5. Someone who is not native to their area of residence. Labels: US Example: The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
Word: vouch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier (“to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce”) [and other forms], from Vulgar Latin *vocicāre, derived from Latin vocāre (“to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to sound out; to speak”). Verb sense 8.1 (“to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land”) in the form vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty is a calque from Anglo-Norman and Old French voucher a garant. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈvaʊt͡ʃ/ 1. An assertion, a declaration; also, a formal attestation or warrant of the correctness or truth of something. Labels: archaic, obsolete Example: VVho will beleeue thee Iſabell? My vnſoild name, th' auſteereneſſe of my life, My vouch againſt you, and my place i'th State, VVill ſo your accuſation ouer-vveigh, That you ſhall ſtifle in your ovvne report, And ſmell of calumnie.
Word: weed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *weud Old English wēod Middle English weed English weed From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad. Pronunciation: /wiːd/ 1. Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. Labels: countable Example: If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed. Example: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common. 2. Ellipsis of duckweed. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 3. Underbrush; low shrubs. Labels: archaic, obsolete, uncountable Example: one rushing forth out of the thickest weed Example: A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed. 4. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Hold up, hey / For my niggas who be actin' too bold, take a seat / Hope you ready for the next episode / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Smoke weed every day Example: And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C. 5. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant. Labels: colloquial, uncountable 6. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant. Labels: colloquial, countable, obsolete Example: "If ever you smoke, my dear aunt (and I am told that many women take a quiet weed under the rose), be very careful how you choose your cigars." 7. A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from. Labels: countable 8. A puny person; one who has little physical strength. Labels: UK, countable, informal 9. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. Labels: countable, figuratively
Word: weed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English wēodian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weudōną (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”), Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”). Pronunciation: /wiːd/ 1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass). Labels: transitive Example: I weeded my flower bed. Example: If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial, such as the wild Fitch, the wild Oat, Darnel, Fennel-flower, Knot-grass, Restharrow, Fox-tail, the several sorts of Bindweed, (Convolvulus) and all the small Poppies, remain in the field. 2. To pilfer the best items from a collection. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser. 3. To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria. Labels: transitive Example: We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year. Example: Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.
Word: weed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wede, from Old English wǣd (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat. Pronunciation: /wiːd/ 1. A garment or piece of clothing. Labels: archaic Example: Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine. Example: Prince [Don Pedro] Come let vs hence, and put on other weedes, / And then to Leonatoes we will goe. / Claudio And Hymen now with luckier iſſue ſpeeds, / Then this for whom we rendred vp this woe. Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe! 2. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress. Labels: archaic Example: His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see. 3. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge. Labels: archaic Example: He wore a weed on his hat. 4. A hatband. Labels: archaic Example: […] he was beat and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than nineteen hundred men; […] 5. Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel. Labels: archaic Example: O Sir, if we could but see the shape of our deare Mother England, as poets are wont to give a personal form to what they please, how would she appeare, think ye, but in a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes, to behold so many of her children expos'd at once, and thrust from things of dearest necessity, because their conscience could not assent to things which the Bishops thought indifferent. Example: Poor Girl! put on thy stifling widow’s weed, / And ’scape at once from Hope’s accursed bands; […]
Word: weed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English wēdan (“to be mad or delirious”), from wōd (“mad, enraged”). Pronunciation: /wiːd/ 1. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable Example: The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed. 2. Lymphangitis in a horse. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable
Word: weed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the verb wee. Pronunciation: /wiːd/ 1. simple past and past participle of wee Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: valour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English valour, from Anglo-Norman valour, from Latin valor. Doublet of valure. Pronunciation: /ˈvælə/, /ˈvælɚ/ 1. Individually sustained verve or passion. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually Example: Valor wins the battle, not death! 2. Value; worth. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually 3. Strength of mind in regard to danger; the quality that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness; a feeling of upstanding bravery against adversity. Labels: UK, uncountable, usually 4. A brave man; a man of valour. Labels: UK, dated, uncountable, usually
Word: feud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”). Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German). Pronunciation: /fjuːd/, /fjʉwd/, /fjud/, /fjʉːd/, /fjʉd/ 1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility. Example: You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. Example: Wherein my sword had not impressure made / Of our ranke feud: but the iust gods gainsay, 2. A staged rivalry between wrestlers. 3. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: feud Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”). Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German). Pronunciation: /fjuːd/, /fjʉwd/, /fjud/, /fjʉːd/, /fjʉd/ 1. To carry on a feud. Labels: intransitive Example: The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified. Example: As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.
Word: feud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee, fief, and feoff. Pronunciation: /fjuːd/, /fjʉwd/, /fjud/, /fjʉːd/, /fjʉd/ 1. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
Word: hostility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity. Pronunciation: /hɒˈstɪlɪti/, /hɑˈstɪlɪti/ 1. The state of being hostile. Labels: uncountable Example: My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us. Example: There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian. 2. A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition. Labels: countable Example: As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
Word: hostilities Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/, /hɒˈstɪlɪtiz/ 1. plural of hostility Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hostilities Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/, /hɒˈstɪlɪtiz/ 1. Acts of war. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The GFAP also called for the deployment of an international armed force, under NATO leadership, of sixty thousand troops to supervise the cessation of hostilities and to provide framework security to enable civilian peace implementation.
Word: demonize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Medieval Latin daemonizō, from daemon + -izō. Compare Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”). By surface analysis, demon + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈdiːmənaɪz/ 1. To turn into a demon. Labels: transitive 2. To describe or represent as evil or diabolic, usually falsely. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both. Example: He calls for a “massive, urgent recruitment effort,” which is a fine idea, but one that’s likely to be futile unless we stop demonizing teachers and start paying them fairly.
Word: cobalt blue Part of Speech: noun 1. A deep blue pigment derived from cobalt; zaffre. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cobalt blue Part of Speech: adj 1. Of the color of the pigment zaffre. Labels: not-comparable
Word: deep blue Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English depe blew, equivalent to deep + blue. 1. An intense, relatively dark blue. 2. Of a geographic area, state, or district, heavily and consistently voting for the Democratic Party. Labels: US
Word: deep blue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English depe blew, equivalent to deep + blue. 1. An intense, relative dark blue. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the azure of her Gypsy Spanish eyes
Word: bootless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bootles, botelees; equivalent to boot + -less. 1. Without boots. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bootless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) + -less. Doublet of botleas. 1. Profitless; pointless; unavailing. Example: I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Example: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
Word: profitless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English profit Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English profitless From profit + -less. 1. not yielding profit Example: I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve...
Word: boots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /buːts/, /bʉwts/, /buts/, /bʉːts/, /bʉts/ 1. plural of boot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /buːts/, /bʉwts/, /buts/, /bʉːts/, /bʉts/ 1. A condom. Labels: Jamaica, plural, plural-only, slang Example: I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth
Word: boots Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /buːts/, /bʉwts/, /buts/, /bʉːts/, /bʉts/ 1. A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. Labels: dated Example: He gave the boots at the Coffee Palace a shilling when that official found his key for him, and having put his boots carefully in the bag with his shirts, and placed his socks outside to be cleaned for the morning, he went to bed in a state of great mental exultation, and slept soundly. Example: If you can get the Boots at the Crown to talk, he will tell you a story which he thinks is amusing, about how he was knocked up at two in the morning by a gentleman who arrived in a car which he had driven in his underclothes. 2. The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain. Labels: UK, slang Example: […] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […] Example: The captain of Hotspur was Lieutenant T. Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet! Being the junior ship, she was given jobs no-one wanted.
Word: boots Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /buːts/, /bʉwts/, /buts/, /bʉːts/, /bʉts/ 1. Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally. Labels: not-comparable Example: That dress is fierce boots! Example: Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.
Word: boots Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /buːts/, /bʉwts/, /buts/, /bʉːts/, /bʉts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of boot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: yummy mummy Part of Speech: noun 1. A mother who is sexually attractive. Labels: Australia, UK, slang Example: I'm not a yummy mummy. No matter what you actually look like after you've had a baby, you just will feel frumpy. Example: It was a guessing game about which car was going to leave next, who was going to come home next and would Yummy Mummy be wearing the tight tights again.
Word: launderette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Genericized trademark of Launderette; originally a proprietary name (1940s) of Bendix corporation, from launder + -ette. Pronunciation: /lɔːnˈdɹɛt/, /lɔndəˈɹɛt/ 1. A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use. 2. A money laundering operation. Example: The distinction is by no means watertight as any 'money launderette' may become a money launderer – and hence be guilty of a money laundering offence – the moment it knowingly engages in a money laundering operation. Example: From drug money to terrorist finance: the launderette's many different washing cycles
Word: manet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin manet (“he remains”), manent (“they remain”), inflections of maneō. 1. Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt. Example: Exeunt Princess and maidens. Manet Lady Blanche.
Word: yep Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”). Pronunciation: /jɛp/, [jɛp̚], [jɛʔ], [jɛʔp̚] 1. Yes. Labels: informal
Word: yep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”). Pronunciation: /jɛp/, [jɛp̚], [jɛʔ], [jɛʔp̚] 1. Yes. Labels: informal Example: I'll take that as a yep, then.
Word: pertaining Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɚˈteɪnɪŋ/, /pəˈteɪnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of pertain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pertaining Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɚˈteɪnɪŋ/, /pəˈteɪnɪŋ/ 1. Something that pertains; an appurtenance. Example: When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.
Word: pertain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pertenen, from Old French partenir, pertenir (modern French appartenir), in turn from Latin pertineō, pertinēre. Pronunciation: /pəˈteɪn/, /pɚˈteɪn/, /pəˈtæɪn/ 1. To belong to or be connected as a part, adjunct, attribute, or accessory. Labels: intransitive Example: That spare wheel pertains to this car. 2. To relate to, concern, or be relevant to. Labels: intransitive Example: That question doesn't pertain to the topic, so I'm not going to answer it. 3. To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable. Labels: intransitive Example: An explanation offered is that every Sabbath Va'ani Tefilati is said in praise of the people of Israel, who, though they eat and drink, read the Torah and pray. However, on Yom Kippur this does not pertain. 4. To be appropriate or suitable.
Word: mansion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ʃən/, /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/ 1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy. 2. A luxurious flat (apartment). Labels: UK 3. An apartment building. Labels: Hong-Kong 4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. Labels: obsolete 5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage. Labels: obsolete Example: According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah. 6. An astrological house; a station of the moon. Labels: historical 7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky. Labels: Chinese 8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.) Labels: in-plural Example: In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you. Example: These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep. 9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Word: capital messuage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: capital + messuage 1. A house together with its yard, outbuildings, and land.
Word: clergyman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English clergy Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English clergyman From clergy + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈklɝd͡ʒimən/, /ˈklɜːdʒimən/ 1. A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister. Example: Holonym: clergy Example: I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.
Word: ordained Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɔɹˈdeɪnd/, /ɔːˈdeɪnd/ 1. Established by authority. Labels: not-comparable 2. Admitted to the ministry of the church. Labels: not-comparable Example: There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.
Word: ordained Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɔɹˈdeɪnd/, /ɔːˈdeɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of ordain Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ordain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ordeynen, from Old French ordiner, from Latin ordinare (“to order”), from ordo (“order”). Doublet of ordinate. Pronunciation: /ɔɹˈdeɪn/, /ɔːˈdeɪn/ 1. To prearrange unalterably. Example: What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind? 2. To decree. Example: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting. 3. To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi. 4. To predestine.
Word: decree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English decre, decree, from Old French decré (French décret), from Latin dēcrētum. Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹiː/, [dɪˈkʰɹʷɪi̯], /dəˈkɹiː/, [dəˈkʰɹʷɪi̯] 1. An edict or law. Example: There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Example: Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree? 2. The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. 3. The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. 4. A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.
Word: decree Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English decre, decree, from Old French decré (French décret), from Latin dēcrētum. Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹiː/, [dɪˈkʰɹʷɪi̯], /dəˈkɹiː/, [dəˈkʰɹʷɪi̯] 1. To command by a decree. Example: A court decrees a restoration of property. Example: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.
Word: edict Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.dɪkt/ 1. A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. Example: By this time the edict had gone forth that the railways were to be nationalised on January 1, 1948. Example: It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out.
Word: proclamation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English proclamacion, from Anglo-Norman and Old French proclamacion, from Late Latin proclāmātiō, from the verb Latin prōclāmō. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɑkləˈmeɪʃən/, /ˌpɹɒkləˈmeɪʃən/ 1. A statement which is proclaimed; formal a public announcement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.
Word: formal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹməl/, /ˈfɔːməl/ 1. In accordance with established forms. Example: She spoke formal English, without any dialect. 2. Official. Example: I'd like to make a formal complaint. 3. Relating to the form or structure of something. Example: Formal linguistics ignores the vocabulary of languages and focuses solely on their grammar. Example: THE THREE DOMINANT FORMS IN METALSMITHING […] At present, there are but three basic volumetric forms dominating the work of metalsmiths, the spherical (usually in its most practical form, the domical), the cylindrical, and the cubical. […] The possibilities for further variations on them are all but exhausted, there being little chance to express new and unusual ideas within the framework of such limited choices. As a result, much of twentieth-century metalsmithing has relied on surface enrichment rather than formal development for its originality. 4. Relating to formation. Example: The formal stage is a critical part of any child's development. 5. Ceremonial or traditional. Example: Formal wear must be worn at my wedding! 6. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual. Example: He's always very formal, and I wish he'd relax a bit. 7. Organized; well-structured and planned. Example: When they became a formal club the rowers built a small boathouse. 8. In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous. Labels: especially Example: Despite efforts by limnologists and freshwater biologists to create a formal definition of “pond”, there is still no universal distinction between a “pond” and a “lake”. Example: Only formal proofs, which derive theorems logically from their given axioms, are considered satisfactory in modern mathematics. 9. Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning. Example: Formal series are defined without any reference to convergence.
Word: formal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹməl/, /ˈfɔːməl/ 1. An evening gown. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Well, I open up the door / And much to my surprise / The girls were wearin' formals / And the boys were wearin' ties 2. An event with a formal dress code. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Jenny took Sam to her Year 12 formal. 3. A formal parameter. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Ellipsis of formal hall. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable