nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: forebode Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈbəʊd/ 1. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device). Example: There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. 2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. Example: Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death. Example: Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart forebodes a mystery: / He names the name Eternity.
Word: forebode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈbəʊd/ 1. prognostication; presage Labels: obsolete
Word: homocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Hellenic *homós Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der. English homo- Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der. English -centric English homocentric From homo- + -centric. 1. Having the same centre. Example: Naturally, there exist three kinds of optical beams: parallel, divergent, and convergent (see Fig. 1.1.1). If a beam, either divergent or convergent, has a single point of intersection of all optical rays it is called a homocentric beam (Fig. 1.1.1b,c). An example of a non-homocentric beam is shown in Fig. 1.1.1 d.
Word: homocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English homosexualbf. English homo- Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der. English -centric English homocentric From homo- + -centric. 1. Having a homosexual bias or basis. Example: With this year's onslaught of homocentric networks, queer television programs for 2005 literally run the entire gay gamut.
Word: homocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ōm Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ Proto-Italic *hemō Latin hemō Latin homō Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der. English -centric English homocentric From Latin homō (“human”) + English -centric. 1. Focused on human beings; anthropocentric. Example: Hay's main concern, in the light of an antigreen backlash, is that homocentric democracy is insufficient for the achievement of the ecocentric goals[…]
Word: homage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɒmɑːʒ/, /ɒˈmɑːʒ/, /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, /ˈ(h)ɑmɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I ſought no homage from the Race that vvrite; / I kept, like Aſian Monarchs, from their ſight: […] Example: When a man squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, […] she will consider such an impertinent freedom in the light of an insult, if she have any true delicacy, instead of being flattered by this unmeaning homage to beauty. 2. An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. Labels: countable Example: He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen. 3. In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.
Word: homage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɒmɑːʒ/, /ɒˈmɑːʒ/, /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, /ˈ(h)ɑmɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To pay reverence to by external action. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To cause to pay homage. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams
Word: addressee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Italic *dwizrektos Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti Proto-Italic *dwizregō Latin dīrigō Latin dīrēctus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -iāre Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre Old French drecier Old French adrecierbor. Middle English adressen English address English -ee English addressee From address + -ee. Pronunciation: /ˌædɹɛˈsiː/ 1. The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended. 2. A person or entity to whom discourse is directed, or the words referring to such an entity. Example: Person is a grammatical property which is overtly manifested in so-called Personal Pronouns: forms which include the speaker (I/we) are said to be ‘first personʼ Pronouns; forms which include the addressee (you) and not the speaker are said to be ‘second personʼ Pronouns; while forms which exclude both speaker and addressee (he/she/it/they) are ‘third personʼ Pronouns.
Word: aflame Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English a- Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Italic *flagmā Latin flamma Old French flame Anglo-Norman flaumebor. Middle English flawme Middle English a-flame English aflame The adverb is derived from Late Middle English a-flame, from a- (prefix meaning ‘on’ forming adverbial phrases; or denoting being engaged in or occupied by an activity) + flame, flaume, flawme (“flame”). Flame, flawme is derived from Anglo-Norman flaumbe, flaume, and Old French flame, flambe, from Latin flamma, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blaze, burn (?); bright flame, fire (?)”). By surface analysis, a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’ denoting a condition, manner, or state) + flame (noun). The adjective is derived from the adverb, which is attested earlier. Pronunciation: /əˈfleɪm/ 1. Often preceded by set: in or into flames; so as to be burned by fire. Example: [T]hat blessed martyr, St. Thomas of Canterbury [Thomas Becket], sometime your predecessor, did withstand the unlawful requests of the prince of his time, but would still not only yield and bear with things not to be borne withal, but also set a-flame the fire already kindled— […] Example: Thou wert the baite that Paris gave the dame, / Who in reward, ſet ſtately Troy aflame. 2. Often preceded by set. Labels: figuratively Example: The sky was soft and bright, but not so gorgeous as Kenyon had seen it, a thousand times, in America; for there the western sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths and depths of color, with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to copy. Example: The low sun had set aflame the numerous windows of a large building which turned slowly, demonstrating one huge chimney, then another, as the train clattered by. 3. Often preceded by set. Labels: figuratively Example: He who sent (If He sent) all those hearts aflame?
Word: aflame Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English a- Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Italic *flagmā Latin flamma Old French flame Anglo-Norman flaumebor. Middle English flawme Middle English a-flame English aflame The adverb is derived from Late Middle English a-flame, from a- (prefix meaning ‘on’ forming adverbial phrases; or denoting being engaged in or occupied by an activity) + flame, flaume, flawme (“flame”). Flame, flawme is derived from Anglo-Norman flaumbe, flaume, and Old French flame, flambe, from Latin flamma, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blaze, burn (?); bright flame, fire (?)”). By surface analysis, a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’ denoting a condition, manner, or state) + flame (noun). The adjective is derived from the adverb, which is attested earlier. Pronunciation: /əˈfleɪm/ 1. With flames coming from it; burning, flaming, in flames, on fire. Example: Workmen employed in the alcohol plant rushed out, their clothing aflames^([sic – meaning aflame]) and many groping their way, blinded by the fire. 2. Having the colour of a flame. Labels: figuratively Example: In autumn the trees are aflame with colour. Example: Through the slats of the jalousies Bond looked across the little garden, aflame with hibiscus, bougainvillea and roses, which ended in the tiny crescent of white sand half obscured by the trunks of the palms. 3. In a state of great activity or emotion (anger, excitement, etc.). Labels: figuratively Example: She said nothing and simply stared at him, eyes aflame. Example: [M]en and women all a-flame / For action, all alive, and forced to prove / Their life by living out heart, brain, and nerve, […]
Word: aflame Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Middle English a- English a- Old French flamberbor. Middle English flawmen English flame English aflame From a- (intensifying prefix) + flame (verb). Flame is derived from Middle English flamen, flaumben, flaumen, flawmen (“to emit flames, blaze; to shine like fire, gleam; to arouse (an emotion), kindle; to give off (an odour); of an odour: to issue; (cooking) to baste (meat) with grease; to glaze (pastry)”), from Anglo-Norman flaumber, flaumer, and Old French flamber, flammer (“to blaze, burn”) (modern French flamber), from flambe, flamme (“flame”, noun) + -er (variant of -ier (suffix forming verbs)). Flamme is derived from Latin flamma (“fire; flame”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, bʰl̥g- (“to blaze, burn; to glow, shine; to be bright or brightly coloured (?); bright flame, fire (?)”). Pronunciation: /əˈfleɪm/ 1. Synonym of inflame (“to set (something) on fire; (figurative) to intensify or kindle (a feeling, such as appetite or passion); to intensify or kindle a feeling in (someone)”). Labels: transitive Example: So that we might serve God, / confirmed from above, / she [the Holy Spirit] tests us with fire / and aflames us with love. Example: Through nights while great darkness, / I aflamed killed beasts' heads, […] 2. Chiefly in the present participle: to be in flames or on fire; to blaze, to flare up. Labels: intransitive Example: [A]s regards Prince Yusuf, when Ibn Ibrahim left him, he felt love-lowe aflaming in his heart, […] Example: She "believeth all things" and always gives him the benefit of the doubt. She "hopeth all things" will work out well, and keepeth that hope aflameth in her heart. (Yes, I'm having fun with this.)
Word: ut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ut (“first degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian ut in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the opening word Latin ut (“how”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Benedictine monk Paulus Deacon (8th c. CE). Pronunciation: /ʊt/, /ʌt/, /ut/ 1. Syllable (formerly) used in solfège to represent the first note of a major scale. Labels: dated Example: Old Mantuam, old Mantuan. Who vnderſtandeth thee not, vt re ſol la mi fa: Vnder pardon sir, What are the contents? […] Example: The French added si for the seventh, and the Italians changed ut to do. Modern music-books name the whole thirteen notes of the semi-tone scale, and expect the pupil to learn them all.
Word: ready Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd.i/, /ˈɹed.i/, /ˈrɛɖi/ 1. Prepared for immediate action or use. Example: I made ready to set out on my journey. Example: The troops are ready for battle. 2. Prepared for immediate action or use. Example: a loaf of ready-sliced bread Example: The cave was like a ready-made home for us. 3. Inclined; apt to happen. 4. Liable at any moment. Example: The seed is ready to sprout. Example: My heart is ready to crack. 5. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind. Example: a ready apprehension Example: ready wit 6. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient. Example: Through the wilde Deſert, not the readieſt way, Example: A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.
Word: ready Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd.i/, /ˈɹed.i/, /ˈrɛɖi/ 1. To prepare; to make ready for action. Labels: transitive Example: Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie.
Word: ready Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd.i/, /ˈɹed.i/, /ˈrɛɖi/ 1. Ready money; cash. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: [H]e vvas not fluſh in Ready, either to go to Lavv or clear old Debts, neither could he find good Bail: […] Example: But it's no secret that W. & S. have been getting short of the ready for more than a year now; it's claimed that the fire began in three or four places at once; and Mr Barrowford was the last to leave the premises.
Word: prima donna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian prima donna (“first lady”). Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːməˈdɒnə/ 1. The principal female singer or the leading lady. Example: The truth is, the inhabitants of that languid and luxurious city wanted some little variety; and the minister ... supported a favourite actress in the range of first-rate characters in the Opera—supported her against the united musical opinion of Naples. One night she sang worse than ever; and the next morning half the city rose up, demanding liberty and a new prima donna. 2. A person who considers themselves much more important than others, has high expectations of others and becomes angry when their demands are not met. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: I've had enough of watching scenes / With schizophrenic, egocentric, paranoiac, prima-donnas Example: This year Mata has done more than anyone to give fresh belief that professional football is not only built on greed and staggering wages for its strutting prima donnas. The Manchester United and Spain midfielder, instead, has broken new ground and begun to use football’s power and wealth to help ordinary people around the world.
Word: Nessie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ness + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛsi/ 1. The Loch Ness monster. Labels: informal Example: That flurry of activity had been set off by a magisterial book (Whyte, 1957), reinforced by Dinsdale’s filming of a Nessie (Dinsdale, 1961) and culminating in successful underwater photography (Rines et al., 1976) by the Academy of Applied Science (AAS). Nessies were assigned the taxonomic identity Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Anonymous, 1975). Example: And if it comes down to just one vote, we all know who will be called upon to break that tie. Go with your gut, Nessie. You do you, Nessie, you do you.
Word: Nessie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Suffixed with -ie, compare Neddie and Nellie, respectively from Edward and Eleanor Pronunciation: /ˈnɛsi/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Agnes.
Word: Zazaki Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Zazaki Zazaki, from Zaza, the name of the people who speak the language. 1. The language spoken by the Zaza people of eastern Turkey. Example: Zazaki has three sub-dialects: Northern, Central, and Southern Zazaki.
Word: manger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger). Cognate with Galician manxadoira, Italian mangiatoia, Occitan manjadoira, French mangeoire. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəː/, [ˈmeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəː], /ˈmæɪ̯n.d͡ʒəː/, [ˈmæ̝ɪ̯n.d͡ʒəː] ~ [ˈmæ̝ɪ̯n.d͡ʒɐ̝ː], /ˈmeɪ̯n.d͡ʒɚ/ 1. A trough in a stable or barn for animals to eat from. Example: A Churliſh Envious Curr vvas gotten into a Manger, and there lay Growling and Snarling to keep the Horſes from their Provender. The Dog Eat None himſelf, and yet rather Ventur'd the Starving his Own Carcaſe then he would ſuffer any thing elfe to be the Better for't. Example: It was the Winter wilde. While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies: Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize: It was no ſeaſon then for her To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour. 2. A section of a bow of a ship partitioned from the hawsehole to keep water out. Example: Though I was close by I could not fully comprehend the whole manœuvre. The captain was head and shoulders immersed in the filthy trough, which, uncleaned, was taken from the manger, that part of the main deck directly under the forecastle and filled with salt water.
Word: resign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”). Piecewise doublet of re-sign. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzaɪn/ 1. To give up; to relinquish ownership of. Labels: transitive Example: And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies[…]unto an Affrican servant[…]. 2. To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another. Labels: transitive 3. To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees. Example: He resigned the crown to follow his heart. 4. To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. Labels: transitive Example: He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion. Example: Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?
Word: resign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English sign English resign From re- + sign. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈsaɪn/ 1. Alternative spelling of re-sign. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed Example: Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.
Word: cage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail. Pronunciation: /keɪd͡ʒ/ 1. An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation. Example: We keep a bird in a cage. Example: The tigers are in a cage to protect the public. 2. The passenger compartment of a lift. 3. The goal. 4. Short for roll cage, a protective structure around the passenger compartment of a vehicle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 5. Synonym of automobile. Labels: US, broadly, slang 6. Something that hinders freedom. Labels: figuratively Example: Schwartz examines with dignity and tenderness the battles within and without of […] families, created and biological, and the cages and freedom they can provide. Example: My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key 7. A prison or prison cell. Labels: slang Example: The 'out of the closet' lesbians and gay men here in the Iowa Cages are harassed and discriminated daily by oppressive pigs, believe me, I know, as a lesbian I've experienced it first hand and seen my fellow lesbian and gay friends oppressed to where I'm ready to explode. 8. The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer. 9. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it. Example: Cage, in carpentry, is an outer work of timber inclosing another within it. Thus the cage of a stair is the wooden inclosure that encircles it. 10. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve. 11. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 12. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. 13. The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet. 14. A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth. 15. In killer sudoku puzzles, a group of connecting cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
Word: cage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail. Pronunciation: /keɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. Labels: transitive Example: And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity. Example: Laying out the zoo on horseback, he went about making plans to combine his scrubby mesas and canyons with moats, and thereby eliminate caging many large animals—a revolutionary advance in American zoo design. 2. To imprison. Labels: slang, transitive Example: The serial killer was caged for life. 3. To restrict someone's movement or creativity. Labels: figuratively, transitive 4. To immobilize an artificial horizon. Example: To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence. 5. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
Word: scatter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scateren, skateren, also schateren, * probably a variant of shatter, which is imitative; * or from Old English *sceaterian, probably akin to a dialect of Old Norse, possibly ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split, shatter”). Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). and Tocharian B kät- (“to scatter, sow seeds”). Doublet of shatter. Pronunciation: /ˈskætə/, /ˈskætɚ/, /ˈskæt̞ɚ/, /ˈskæʔɐ/, /ˈskæhɐ/ 1. To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. Labels: ergative Example: The crowd scattered in terror. Example: Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. 2. To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. Labels: transitive Example: Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall. Example: Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains? 3. To deflect (radiation or particles). Labels: transitive Example: Chasca's ring is unique. It appears to be, for lack of a better term, a massive piece of alien "installation art." The rings are made of small pieces of synthetic material, and are almost invisible from space. From the ground, they catch and scatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways. It is not known who created the ring or when. 4. To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals. Labels: intransitive 5. To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. Labels: transitive Example: to scatter hopes or plans 6. To be dispersed upon. Labels: transitive Example: Desiccated stalks scattered the fields. Example: […] its beauty is obscured by the environmental waste and loose trash that scatter the countryside. 7. Of a pitcher: to spread out a high number of hits or walks between innings so as not to give up a high number of runs Labels: transitive 8. To leave. Labels: US, slang Example: When the police showed up, I scattered.
Word: scatter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scateren, skateren, also schateren, * probably a variant of shatter, which is imitative; * or from Old English *sceaterian, probably akin to a dialect of Old Norse, possibly ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split, shatter”). Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). and Tocharian B kät- (“to scatter, sow seeds”). Doublet of shatter. Pronunciation: /ˈskætə/, /ˈskætɚ/, /ˈskæt̞ɚ/, /ˈskæʔɐ/, /ˈskæhɐ/ 1. The act of scattering or dispersing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A collection of dispersed objects. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Los Angeles Basin evolved as a mobility surface principally through the combination of an initial system of electric railways connecting a scatter of agricultural settlement settlements. Example: A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.
Word: enter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre. Pronunciation: /ˈɛntə(ɹ)/, /ˈɛntɚ/, [ˈɛɾ̃ɚ], [ˈɪɾ̃ɚ], /ˈentə(ɹ)/ 1. The action of entering; an instance of entering. 2. Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 3. Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: arrêt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French arrêt. 1. A formal sentence of the King or Parliament of France; hence, a decree, a ruling. Labels: historical Example: His father now shewed him an arret, which, on the fourth of June, 1776, he had obtained from the parliament of Rouen against his marriage. Example: “Prior Aymer,” said the Templar, “you are a man of gallantry, learned in the study of beauty, and as expert as a troubadour in all matters concerning the arrets of love;[…]”
Word: entropy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1867, as the translation of German Entropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie (“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”)). Pronunciation: /ˈɛntɹəpi/ 1. A measure of the disorder present in a system. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A measure of the disorder present in a system. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. Labels: countable Example: Near-synonym: unavailable energy 4. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal. Labels: countable 7. The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos. Labels: uncountable
Word: crop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup. Pronunciation: /kɹɒp/, /kɹɑp/ 1. A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. Example: The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else? 2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants. Example: It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop! 3. A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time. Labels: figuratively Example: The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel. Example: The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes. 4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease. Example: The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox. 5. The lashing end of a whip. 6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding. 7. A rocky outcrop. 8. The act of cropping. 9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts. Example: This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size. 10. A short haircut. Example: She went from a ponytail to a crop. Example: Eton crop 11. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation. Example: A little bird sat on the edge of her nest; Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops; That day she had done her very best, And had filled every one of their little crops. Example: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. 12. The foliate part of a finial. 13. The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree. Labels: archaic, dialectal 14. Tin ore prepared for smelting. 15. An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. 16. An entire oxhide. 17. Marijuana. Labels: in-plural, slang Example: Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down
Word: crop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /kɹɒp/, /kɹɑp/ 1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. Labels: transitive Example: I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. 2. To mow, reap or gather. Labels: transitive 3. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short. Labels: transitive Example: And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all. 4. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better. Labels: transitive Example: Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high. Example: You'll see that when you enlarge a subject to many times its normal size, and then crop the photo so there is nothing in proportion to be recognized, all resemblance to the original can be hidden. 5. To yield harvest. Labels: intransitive 6. To cause to bear a crop. Labels: transitive Example: to crop a field 7. To beat with a crop, or riding-whip. Labels: transitive Example: She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.
Word: blaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”). Pronunciation: /bleɪz/ 1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. Example: Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…]. 2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. Example: They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun. Example: O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day! 3. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing. 4. A bursting out, or active display of any quality. Example: his blaze of wrath Example: For what is glory but the blaze of fame? 5. A hand consisting of five face cards.
Word: blaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above. Pronunciation: /bleɪz/ 1. To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. Labels: intransitive Example: The campfire blazed merrily. 2. To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame. Labels: intransitive Example: And far and wide the icy summit blaze. Example: Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 3. To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.). Labels: intransitive, poetic 4. To set in a blaze; burn. Labels: rare, transitive 5. To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with. Labels: transitive 6. To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage. Labels: figuratively Example: “I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl. 7. To smoke marijuana. Labels: slang Example: I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing Example: Fam, I don’t blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I’m like mm, kill it
Word: blaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /bleɪz/ 1. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. Example: The palomino had a white blaze on its face. 2. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Example: The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road. 3. A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
Word: blaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: ] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /bleɪz/ 1. To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse). Labels: transitive 2. To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark). Labels: transitive Example: They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart’s tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees “blazed” and marked “S.,” as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration. Example: We drew them up, therefore, and concealed them among the bushes, blazing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again. 3. To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes. Labels: transitive Example: The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth. 4. To mark off or stake a claim to land. Labels: transitive Example: He blazed his claim on the land. 5. To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.
Word: blaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast. Pronunciation: /bleɪz/ 1. To blow, as from a trumpet. Labels: transitive 2. To publish; announce publicly. Labels: transitive 3. To disclose; bewray; defame. Labels: transitive 4. To blazon. Labels: transitive Example: And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first. Example: [...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.
Word: blaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast. Pronunciation: /bleɪz/ 1. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
Word: avellano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Italian avellano 1. Synonym of Chilean hazelnut (“Gevuina avellana”). Example: The avellano and some other trees are readily injured by frost if grown alone, but are common enough amid the forest, where the general foliage acts as a protection.
Word: freedom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fredom, freedom, from Old English frēodōm (“freedom, state of free-will, charter, emancipation, deliverance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijadōm (“freedom”). Equivalent to free + -dom. Cognate with North Frisian fridoem (“freedom”), Dutch vrijdom (“freedom”), Low German frīdom (“freedom”), Middle High German vrītuom (“freedom”), Norwegian fridom (“freedom”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːdəm/, /ˈfɹi.dəm/, /ˈfɾi.dəm/, /ˈfɾiːdəm/ 1. The state of being free. Labels: uncountable Example: Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom. Example: Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries. 2. The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained. Labels: countable Example: Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value. Example: People in our city enjoy many freedoms. 3. The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Freedom of a city Example: Yet the wisest princes, who adopted the maxims of Augustus, guarded with the strictest care the dignity of the Roman name, and diffused the freedom of the city with a prudent liberality. 4. Frankness; openness; unreservedness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I doubt not, that you will take amiss my freedom; but as you have deserved it from me, I shall be less and less concerned on that score, as I see you are more and more intent to show your wit at the expense of justice and compassion. 5. Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "A first love is not easily extinguished, Mr. Allanson," said she. "You may guess from my appearance, that I have been fortunate in life; but, for all that, my first love for you has continued the same, unaltered and unchanged, and you must forgive the little freedoms I used to-day to try your affections, and the effects my appearance would have on you."
Word: cover artist Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who creates cover art for a published work. Example: He learned first from watching his grandfather, then from obsessing over Swedish landscape artists including Bruno Liljefors and Lars Jonsson. In his teens he found the work of Pink Floyd cover artist Storm Thorgerson, then Hollywood sci-fi concept artists such as Ralph McQuarrie (Star Wars, ET) and Syd Mead (Blade Runner, Aliens, Tron). 2. A musical artist who makes a cover version of a song.
Word: chant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑːnt/, /t͡ʃant/, /t͡ʃaːnt/, /t͡ʃænt/, /t͡ʃæːnt/ 1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music. Example: the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind 2. To sing or intone sacred text. 3. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group. Example: The football fans chanted insults at the referee. Example: On their way to Parliament Square, the demonstrators chanted slogans, sang the Hungarian national anthem, and waved banners and Hungarian flags (minus the hated Communist emblem). 4. To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: chant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑːnt/, /t͡ʃant/, /t͡ʃaːnt/, /t͡ʃænt/, /t͡ʃæːnt/ 1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony. 2. A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. 3. A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. 4. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. Example: His strange face, his strange chant. 5. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
Word: eighty-eight Part of Speech: num 1. Number between eighty-seven and eighty-nine; decimal 88 2. An abbreviation for 'Hugs and kisses' in amateur radio. Used especially in Morse code.
Word: eighty-eight Part of Speech: noun 1. A piano (from the number of keys) Labels: slang 2. A butterfly of the genera Callicore, Perisama, or Diaethria, some of which have a pattern on their wings similar to the digits "88".
Word: frat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apocopic form of fraternity. Pronunciation: /fɹæt/ 1. Shortened form of fraternity, college organization. Labels: attributive, often Example: frat party Example: See you at the frat house.
Word: hast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hast, havest, second-person present singular form of haven, from Old English hæfst, hafast, second-person present singular form of habban, from Proto-Germanic *habaisi, second-person present singular form of *habjaną; equivalent to have + -est. Compare German and West Frisian hast. Pronunciation: /hæst/, /həst/ 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of have Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Example: Thou hast lovely eyes! Example: Thou hast left me alone.
Word: paleologism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paleo- + -logism, from Ancient Greek: παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) in combination with λόγος (lógos, “word”). 1. A word or phrase that was coined in the distant past, often now obscured or offensive, or if recently used: possibly having a definition or implication different from that of any earlier usage. Example: Another is the paleologism of pars pro toto in which a part of an organ or function can symbolize the whole organ or concept; eg, the stomach may be the locus of difficulty with a patient with a history of frustrated dependency needs because of its association with the process of being fed and loved by the mother. Example: Levinas seems to be offering new words or newly burnished words for old, those apparent semantic neologisms are more like pre-semantic paleologisms. 2. An obsolete term.