nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: charade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades. Pronunciation: /ʃəˈɹɑːd/, /ʃəˈɹeɪd/ 1. A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole. Labels: archaic Example: CHARADE, a trifling species of composition, or quasi-literary form of amusement, which may perhaps be best defined as a punning enigma propounded in a series of descriptions. A word is taken of two or more syllables, each forming a distinct word; each of these is described in verse or prose, as aptly and enigmatically as possible; and the same process is applied to the whole word. The neater and briefer the descriptive parts of the problem, the better the charade will be. In selecting words for charades, special attention should be paid to the absolute quality of the syllables composing them, inaccuracy in trifles of this sort depriving them of what little claim to merit they may possess. The brilliant rhythmic trifles of W. Mackworth Praed are well known. Of representative prose charades, the following specimens are perhaps as good as could be selected:—“My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch!” “My first is company; my second shuns company; my third collects company; and my whole amuses company.” The solutions are Tar-tar and Co-nun-drum. 2. A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles. Labels: uncommon Example: ...The most popular form of this amusement is the acted charade, in which the meaning of the different syllables is acted out on the stage, the audience being left to guess each syllable and thus, combining the meaning of all the syllables, the whole word. A brilliant example of the acted charade is described in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. 3. A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting. Labels: obsolete 4. A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use. Example: This whole charade is absurd. Example: The woman lying dead in the morgue was the woman at the party. Well, Victor, maybe I'm missing something here. You call it fake, a charade… Do you mind telling me what kind of fuckin' charade ends up with somebody turning up dead? 5. A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof. Example: Sometimes the tricks above may be used in combination: a homophone may come in two pieces like a charade (RAINBOW sounding like REIGN + BEAU) or a charade may be reversed (TACKLE having ELK + CAT backwards). Example: Takes is a bit of a charade indicator here, telling you that one word takes on or adds on to another.
Word: charade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades. Pronunciation: /ʃəˈɹɑːd/, /ʃəˈɹeɪd/ 1. To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend. Example: I'm not trying to say: let's try to get away from power rituals because power manifestation is a very important part of sex. It is when it takes the form of charading gay punishment, punishing one of our own in order to allow him a gay contact. Example: She flaps her hands and arms, eyes glaring, head shaking – charading Non, non, NON!
Word: backlash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back- + lash. Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌlæʃ/ 1. A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent. 3. The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ... the word "backlash" is used in the extended sense in which it is understood in Lancashire and Yorkshire , including not only backlash proper , but also break of contact between the working faces of the teeth of the two wheels when the driven wheel overruns the driver without actual backlash . To place rope or belt drums of any considerable size upon shafts driven by spur gearing is nearly always dangerous. 4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In ...breakages from high speed and irregular pitch, ten out of the eleven wheels had spur segments moulded from patterns, instead of by machinery; and in three of the ten the teeth were cast upon the felks, and were twisted and drawn, as they generally are when cast in this way, by the contraction of the mass of metal of which they form a part. In every instance the speed was high, and in several cases there was more or less backlash or over-running.
Word: backlash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back- + lash. Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌlæʃ/ 1. To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause. Example: 1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII Thrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a "long shop" with three hundred, a "top shop" with a hundred, a "back shop" with fifty-three, and a "little shop" with fifteen. Never was its equal for gearing. Shafts were everywhere inside and out, overground and underground, climbing snake-like up the walls, and boring into the roofs; spurwheels, great and small, whirled, clashed and "backlashed" all over the place. Example: Just as it began to get dusk and the shadows from the trees deepening the twilight that had already spread over the lake, giving a peculiarly lonesome effect that water always has upon the approach of night, Uncle succeeded in getting out the longest cast he had yet made — about seventy-five feet. Unfortunately, or perhaps I should say fortunately, his reel over-ran and backlashed for him. Patiently he set about untangling his line; I resting the oars and holding the boat stationary.
Word: lash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”). Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”). Pronunciation: /læʃ/ 1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. Example: I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. 2. A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. Labels: obsolete 3. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment. Example: The culprit received thirty-nine lashes. 4. A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish. 5. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. Example: The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. 6. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash. Example: But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. 7. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure. 8. Flowering plants of genus Blepharis. 9. An attempt; a go at something. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, informal Example: I'll have a lash. Example: Much-loved characters living on after their author’s death is not so unusual these days. Every second bloke in possession of a keyboard seems to have had a lash at a James Bond thriller, including Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz, Christopher Wood and Sebastian Faulks. 10. A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk). Example: the Ayrshire cow gives a lash of milk on comparatively bare pasture Example: The oaks cry oot beneath November's lashes, But not for all the months[…]
Word: lash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”). Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”). Pronunciation: /læʃ/ 1. To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. Labels: transitive Example: We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward Example: A lesbian who was lashed as a teenager for saying she was gay. 2. To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash. Labels: transitive Example: Heavy seas lashed the shore. Example: (A swan) dashed suddenly forward with such a flutter that the water all round was lashed into foam. 3. To throw out with a jerk or quickly. Labels: transitive Example: He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. 4. To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity. Labels: transitive 5. To ply the whip; to strike. Labels: intransitive 6. To strike vigorously; to let fly. Labels: intransitive Example: In the final minute of six added on, Colombia would undo their good work, though, Pérez fumbling the ball allowing Hemp to lash into the empty net. 7. To utter censure or sarcastic language. Labels: intransitive Example: To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. 8. To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down. Labels: intransitive Example: With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March. 9. Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
Word: lash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”). Pronunciation: /læʃ/ 1. To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten. Labels: transitive Example: to lash something to a spar Example: lash a pack on a horse's back
Word: lash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French lasche (French lâche). Pronunciation: /læʃ/ 1. Remiss, lax. Labels: obsolete 2. Relaxed. Labels: obsolete 3. Soft, watery, wet. Example: Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. 4. Excellent, wonderful. Labels: Ulster Example: We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash! Example: That Chinese (food) was lash! 5. Drunk. Labels: UK, slang
Word: lash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French lasche (French lâche). Pronunciation: /læʃ/ 1. Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear). Labels: uncountable Example: setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters Example: excessive lash in the gear train
Word: mark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka. Pronunciation: /mɑːk/, /mɑɹk/, /mäː(ɾ)k/, /maːk/, /maːrk/ 1. A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g. Labels: historical 2. Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver. Labels: historical Example: As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn. 3. A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver. Labels: historical Example: George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’ Example: He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks. 4. Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold. Labels: historical
Word: mark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German. Pronunciation: /mɑːk/, /mɑɹk/, /mäː(ɾ)k/, /maːk/, /maːrk/ 1. A former currency of Germany and West Germany. Labels: historical Example: Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich.
Word: mark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An alternative form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands. Pronunciation: /mɑːk/, /mɑɹk/, /mäː(ɾ)k/, /maːk/, /maːrk/ 1. Alternative form of march. Labels: alt-of, alternative, imperative Example: Mark time, mark! Example: Forward, mark!
Word: substituent Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: [sʌbˈstɪtʃuənt] 1. Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed. Example: Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl. Example: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV). 2. Pro-form.
Word: forever Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858. Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/, /fəˈɹɛvɚ/, /fɚˈɛvɚ/, /fɔɹˈɛvɚ/ 1. For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time. Labels: not-comparable Example: I shall love you forever. Example: Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion. 2. For a very long time, a seeming eternity. Labels: colloquial, excessive, not-comparable Example: We had to wait forever to get inside. Example: That was forever ago. 3. Constantly or frequently. Labels: not-comparable Example: You are forever nagging me. Example: Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
Word: forever Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858. Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/, /fəˈɹɛvɚ/, /fɚˈɛvɚ/, /fɔɹˈɛvɚ/ 1. An extremely long time. Labels: colloquial, countable Example: I haven't seen him in forever! Example: It took me forever to make up my mind. 2. A mythical time in the future that will never come. Labels: colloquial, poetic, uncountable Example: Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
Word: forever Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858. Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/, /fəˈɹɛvɚ/, /fɚˈɛvɚ/, /fɔɹˈɛvɚ/ 1. Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: It'd be a peaceful life / With a forever wife / And a kid someday Example: We'll take care of you and help you find a Forever Home.
Word: homosexual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual. Pronunciation: /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/, /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/, /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/, /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/, /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃuːəl/ 1. Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to other men or a woman who is attracted to other women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.) Labels: formal Example: No, it wouldn't make a difference if the applicant was homosexual. Example: [H]e said he had never noticed anything homosexual in himself. 2. Between two people of the same sex; gay. Labels: formal Example: Most western countries have repealed laws against homosexual activity between consenting adults. Example: Shatner: Have you ever had a homosexual experience? Maher: No. Why, are you...? But it's early! 3. Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc. Labels: dated Example: A petition drive to close all homosexual establishments in response to an assumed general AIDS contagion was begun in late October, according to The Weekly News of Miami.
Word: homosexual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual. Pronunciation: /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/, /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/, /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/, /ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/, /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃuːəl/ 1. A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex. Example: It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge. Example: Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the "meat rack" — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection...
Word: dump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump. Pronunciation: /dʌmp/, [dɐm̥p] 1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. Labels: transitive 2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants. Labels: transitive Example: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped. 3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. Labels: transitive 4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it. Labels: transitive Example: to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge 5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug. Labels: transitive 6. To end a romantic relationship with. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her. 7. To knock heavily; to stump. Labels: Scotland, obsolete, transitive 8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it Labels: transitive Example: We dumped the coal onto the fireplace. 9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily. Labels: US, transitive 10. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards. Labels: Australia, transitive Example: Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
Word: dump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See dumpling. Pronunciation: /dʌmp/, [dɐm̥p] 1. A thick, ill-shapen piece. Labels: UK, archaic 2. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing. Labels: UK, archaic Example: The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
Word: dump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”). Pronunciation: /dʌmp/, [dɐm̥p] 1. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. Labels: Northern-England
Word: therefore Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English therfore, therfor, tharfore, thorfore; synchronically a univerbation of there (pronominal adverb) + for, literally “for that (reason)”. The spelling has been changed due to a reanalysis as there + fore (literally “forward from that; thence”). See also therefor, ultimately the same formation. Compare Saterland Frisian deerfoar, Dutch daarvoor, German dafür, Danish and Norwegian derfor, Swedish därför. Pronunciation: /ˈðɛə.fɔː/, /ˈðɛɹ.fɔɹ/, /ˈðɜːɹˌfɔːɹ/ 1. Consequently, by or in consequence of that or this cause; referring to something previously stated. Labels: conjunctive, not-comparable Example: Traditional values will always have a place—therefore, they will never lose relevance. Example: I've been explicitly forbidden to leave and therefore must stay longer. 2. For that; for it (in reference to a previous statement). Labels: archaic, conjunctive, not-comparable Example: Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
Word: wherefore Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛəˌfɔː/, /ˈweɹˌfɔɹ/, /ˈʍɜːɹˌfɔːɹ/ 1. Why, for what reason, because of what. Labels: archaic, conjunctive, interrogative, not-comparable Example: Ah, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Denie thy Father, and refuſe thy name, / Or if thou wilt not be but ſworne my loue, / And il'e no longer be a Capulet. Example: VVherefore weepe you? 2. Therefore; thus. Labels: archaic, conjunctive, formal, indicative, not-comparable Example: For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the face of the earth, which earth was created by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure? Example: Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office.
Word: wherefore Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛəˌfɔː/, /ˈweɹˌfɔɹ/, /ˈʍɜːɹˌfɔːɹ/ 1. Because of which. Labels: archaic Example: Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant. Example: Wherefore it was that by the time the authorities awoke to the fact that something had happened Billy Byrne was fifty miles west of Joliet, bowling along aboard a fast Santa Fe freight.
Word: wherefore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where- (“what”) + for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore”), German wofür (“for what, what for, why”), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why”), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why”). More at where, for. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛəˌfɔː/, /ˈweɹˌfɔɹ/, /ˈʍɜːɹˌfɔːɹ/ 1. An intent or purpose; a why. Example: Ant[ipholus of Syracuse]. Shall I tell you why? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] I, ſir, and wherefore; for they ſay, euery why hath a wherefore. Example: Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods.
Word: incorrigible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/ 1. Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright. Labels: not-comparable Example: The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse. 2. Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain. Labels: not-comparable Example: an incorrigible youth 3. Incurably depraved; not reformable. Labels: not-comparable Example: His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution. 4. Unchangeably established in a belief or habit. Labels: not-comparable Example: Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist. 5. Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature. Labels: not-comparable Example: The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible. 6. Impossible to cure. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.
Word: incorrigible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/ 1. An incorrigibly bad person. Example: The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.
Word: asthenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσθένεια (asthéneia), from ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”), from ἀ- (a-, “not, un-”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”). By surface analysis, a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ia (“disease”). Pronunciation: /æsˈθi.ni.ə/, /æsˈθiː.nɪə/ 1. Weakness; loss of strength. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The savage gets a headache when his thought is forced to flow in a stream of representation. In the imbecile, in the idiot we find the same thing manifested. They can only think in concrete sensory terms. In mental asthenia which approaches the state of the higher stages of imbecility and also in secondary dementia, states consequent on psychic degeneration, we find the same truth illustrated. The patient's mental activity falls many stages nearer to the level of presentative life. It is only in the higher forms of psychic life that representative elements become free, independent, and are freely and easily associated and dissociated. 2. weakness Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: You see nothing that might even remotely suggest life, beyond the solitary brave watering the ponies below you; but that is because the asthenia of civilization has left you half blind as well as half deaf, for where you see nothing and hear nothing Geronimo is conscious of life, movement and sound-of rodents, reptiles and birds awaiting, quiescent, the lessening heat of dusk.
Word: French kiss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally in reference to a common French greeting. Later, from English and American associations of the French people with sexual boldness (see French), with probable influence from earlier English and continuing European association of the French with oral sex. (See to french.) Pronunciation: /frɛntʃˈkɪs/, /frɛnʃˈkɪs/ 1. A kiss in the French style, variously understood as: Example: She showed me the French kiss where you stick your tongue out, but I didn't like it. Example: Simple lip kissing may be extended into a deep kiss (a French kiss or soul kiss, in the college parlance) which may involve more or less extensive tongue contacts. 2. A kiss in the French style, variously understood as: Labels: uncommon Example: I do not think there would be any harm in sending him a French kiss. It is what no English lawyer can object to, it being only justice to make both sides of the face alike. Example: She had informed the amused seniors that the custom of greeting people with a kiss on each cheek was known as the French kiss. 3. A kiss in the French style, variously understood as: Labels: rare Example: Frenchwomen touch cheeks, first one, then the other, and this touching of cheeks is known in England as the French kiss and has been adopted to a considerable extent in London among society women.
Word: French kiss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally in reference to a common French greeting. Later, from English and American associations of the French people with sexual boldness (see French), with probable influence from earlier English and continuing European association of the French with oral sex. (See to french.) Pronunciation: /frɛntʃˈkɪs/, /frɛnʃˈkɪs/ 1. To give a French kiss, in its various senses. Labels: ambitransitive Example: French kiss, baiser très appuyé. Example: She taught him how to frenchkiss and would stroke his hair.
Word: therefor Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Univerbation of there (“that”) + for. Pronunciation: /ðɛəˈfɔː/, /ðɛəɹˈfɔɹ/ 1. For that; in return for that. Labels: not-comparable Example: During the last fiscal year the Secretary purchased ... 54,355,748 ounces of silver and issued in payment therefor $51,106,608 in notes. Example: Welcoming people from all over the world, Honolulu has the glad heart behind the "glad hand," so to speak, when the welcomees give cause therefor, whether they come to teach, or to learn; to rest, or to work; to earn, or to spend.
Word: therefor Part of Speech: adv Etymology: See therefore. Pronunciation: /ˈðɛəfɔː/, /ˈðɛəɹfɔɹ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of therefore. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: sake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”). Akin to West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, Dutch zaak (“matter; cause; business”), German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ̯k/, [ˈseɪ̯k] 1. Cause, interest or account. Example: For the sake of argument Example: I hope you're right, for all our sakes! 2. Purpose or end; reason. Example: for old times' sake Example: It's not worth risking your life for the sake of getting there a few minutes earlier. 3. The benefit or regard of someone or something. Example: Ne ãd except thoſe dayes ſhulde be ſhoꝛtened / ſhulde no fleſſe be faved: Butt foꝛ the choſens ſake thoſe dayes ſhalbe ſhoꝛtened. Example: When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. 4. Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge. Example: And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Word: sake Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of saké. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: creationism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-der. Latin creō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin creātiōnemlbor. Old French creacionbor. Middle English creacion English creation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English creationism From creation + -ism. Pronunciation: /kɹiˈeɪʃənɪzəm/ 1. The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism ^([sic])) 2. Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken pains to understand the matter that the true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity, between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention nor predicable first cause.
Word: dasypygal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, dense”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”). Pronunciation: /ˌdæsɪˈpaɪɡəl/ 1. Having hairy buttocks. Labels: rare Example: In the Dasypygal division the Orangs (genus Pithecus, Geoffr.) manifest, agreeably with their geographical position, the nearest affinities with the Scleropyga, in the length of the upper limbs and the proportionally small size of the hallux: the Chimpanzees (genus Troglodytes, Geoffr.) show the higher position in the proportions of the upper limbs to the trunk, the large size of the hallux, and other characters set forth in the present and former memoirs on the Anthropoid or Dasypygal Apes. Example: Oh you think so, huh, you dasypygal dickhead!
Word: franc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French franc. Doublet of Frank, frank, and farang. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæŋk/, [ˈfɹʷæŋk], /ˈfɹeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯ŋk], /ˈfɹɛ̃ŋk/ 1. Any of several units of currency. Example: Belgian franc Example: French franc
Word: acalephan Part of Speech: noun 1. An acaleph.
Word: errata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”). Pronunciation: /ɛˈɹɑːtə/, /ɛˈɹɑtə/, [ɛˈɹɑɾə] 1. plural of erratum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: errata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”). Pronunciation: /ɛˈɹɑːtə/, /ɛˈɹɑtə/, [ɛˈɹɑɾə] 1. An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: errata Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”). Pronunciation: /ɛˈɹɑːtə/, /ɛˈɹɑtə/, [ɛˈɹɑɾə] 1. To provide (a published work) with errata. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Thus the present Volume has been printed line for line in correspondence with the celebrated Edition of Mr. Edwards, with its errors, as errataed by Mr. Perceval, and its original imprint.
Word: corrigenda Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌkɒɹɪˈdʒɛndə/ 1. plural of corrigendum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corrigendum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin corrigendum, nominative neuter singular of corrigendus, the future passive participle (gerundive) of corrigō (“to correct”). Pronunciation: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈdʒɛn.dəm/, /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈɡɛn.dəm/, /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈd͡ʒɛn.dəm/, /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈɡɛn.dəm/ 1. An error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication. 2. A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections. (The items thus listed will sometimes be corrected in subsequent print runs, if any occur; they are then called reprint corrections.) Labels: plural-normally Example: errata and corrigenda
Word: Wiktionarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwiki Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English WikiWikiWebclip. English wiki Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English Wiktionary Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Wiktionarian From Wiktionary + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi.ən/, /ˈwɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi.ən/, /ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi.ən/, /ˈwɪk.tʃəˌnɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A person who contributes to Wiktionary, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the site. Example: An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages. Example: In 2020, a ‘Wiktionarian in residence’ was recruited to clean up Wiktionnaire’s content to help the integration of this resource.
Word: Webster Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbstɚ/ 1. An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a weaver. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any of various dictionaries published under the name Webster. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Nickname for a person who is a walking dictionary. Labels: countable, humorous, uncountable 4. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 16. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 17. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 18. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 19. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 20. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 21. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 22. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 23. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 24. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 25. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 26. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 27. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 28. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 29. A placename Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 30. A placename Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 31. A placename Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: outlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English outlete, outeleate, ut-lete, derived from Middle English outleten (“to allow, let out, emit”), equivalent to out- + let. Compare West Frisian útlit (“outlet”), Dutch uitlaat (“outlet”), German Auslass (“outlet”). Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtlɛt/, /ˈaʊtlɪt/ 1. A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something. 2. Something which allows for the release of one's desires. Example: Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress. Example: Song of the bleeding throat, / Death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, / If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die.) 3. A river that runs out of a lake. 4. A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier. 5. A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices. Example: I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
Word: blood royal Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of a royal house or dynasty who has at least one parent who was born into that particular house or bloodline. 2. A royal family.
Word: reason Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English resoun, reson, from Anglo-Norman raisun (Old French raison), from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (“to think”), reanalysed root of *h₂er- (“to put together”). Displaced native Middle English reden (found in compounds), from Old English rǣden (“condition, stipulation, calculation, direction”), from the same Proto-Indo-European source (compare West Frisian reden (“reason”), Dutch reden (“reason”)). Doublet of ration and ratio. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːzən/, [ˈɹʷɪi̯zən] ~ [ˈɹʷɪi̯zn̩] 1. A cause: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted. Example: There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits[…] 2. A cause: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He made reason with his boss about taking a day off. Example: The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money. 3. A cause: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have forgotten the reason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct reason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself. 4. A cause: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. Labels: uncountable Example: Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues. Example: The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved - it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of his reason. 6. Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: 16th century Edmund Spenser, Lines on his Promised Pension I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. 7. Ratio; proportion. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [I]f two Quantities repreſented by the Numbers 20 and 4 be compared, by dividing the Antecedent 20 by the Conſequent 4, the Quotient is 5; but inverting the Terms, by dividing 4 by 20 the Quotient is #92;tfrac#123;4#125;#123;20#125;#61;#92;tfrac#123;1#125;#123;5#125;. By which Quotients are declared the Geometrical Reaſons of the propoſed Quantities, becauſe if the Quotient found be multiplied by the Conſequent, the Product is equal to the Antecedent; for in the former Compariſon 5#92;times4#61;20, in the latter #92;tfrac#123;1#125;#123;5#125;#92;times20#61;4; as Things again are referred to Equality.
Word: reason Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English resoun, reson, from Anglo-Norman raisun (Old French raison), from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (“to think”), reanalysed root of *h₂er- (“to put together”). Displaced native Middle English reden (found in compounds), from Old English rǣden (“condition, stipulation, calculation, direction”), from the same Proto-Indo-European source (compare West Frisian reden (“reason”), Dutch reden (“reason”)). Doublet of ration and ratio. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːzən/, [ˈɹʷɪi̯zən] ~ [ˈɹʷɪi̯zn̩] 1. To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational. Labels: intransitive Example: "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. […]" 2. To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue. Labels: intransitive Example: Still my spirit was not broken. I indulged the anticipation of escape, and that speedily. It was impossible, I reasoned, that men could be so unjust as to detain me as a slave, when the truth of my case was known. Example: “All right, Dad – I did follow you. But only because I was worried about you.” “Worried about me? I was worried about you! Hanging on to the roof of a speeding car! Are you nuts?” “It wasn’t moving when I climbed on to it,” reasoned the boy. 3. To converse; to compare opinions. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 4. To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. Labels: ambitransitive Example: I reasoned the matter with my friend. Example: The talk was mainly between Aleck and Murdie, the others crowding eagerly about and putting in a word as they could. Murdie was reasoning good-humoredly, Aleck replying fiercely. 5. To support with reasons, as a request. Labels: rare, transitive 6. To persuade by reasoning or argument. Labels: transitive Example: to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan Example: That she was not immediately ready, Emma did suspect to arise from the state of her nerves; she had not yet possessed the instrument long enough to touch it without emotion; she must reason herself into the power of performance; and Emma could not but pity such feelings, whatever their origin, and could not but resolve never to expose them to her neighbour again. 7. To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons. Labels: transitive, with-down Example: to reason down a passion 8. To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument. Labels: transitive, usually Example: to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon
Word: reason Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English reason, reson, resen, rasen, from Old English ræsn (“beam, rafter, ceiling, wall panel”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn (“house”), from Proto-Germanic *razną (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːzən/, [ˈɹʷɪi̯zən] ~ [ˈɹʷɪi̯zn̩] 1. A wall plate.
Word: cryptography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crypto- + -graphy. Pronunciation: [kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː], /kɹɪpˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ 1. The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Holonym: cryptology Example: We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.