nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: so Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-European *swē, *swō (reflexive pronomial stem). Cognate with Scots sae (“so”), Saterland Frisian so (“so”), West Frisian sa (“so”), Dutch zo (“so”), German Low German so (“so”), German so (“so”), Danish så (“so”), Norwegian Nynorsk so (“so”), Swedish så (“so, such that”), Faroese so (“so”), Icelandic svo (“so”), Old Latin suad (“so”), Albanian sa (“how much, so, as”), Ancient Greek ὡς (hōs, “as”), Urdu سو (sō, “hence”). Pronunciation: /səʊ/, /siː/, /sə/, /soʊ/, [soː] 1. That which was previously mentioned; that. Labels: demonstrative Example: I'll become a loyal friend and remain so. Example: If that's what you really mean, then just say so.
Word: so Part of Speech: pron 1. Abbreviation of someone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: so Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from sol, to make it an open syllable for uniformity with the rest of the scale, from Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon. 1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale. 2. A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
Word: so Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蘇 (so). 1. A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and tenth centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it. Labels: uncountable
Word: TA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Territorial Army. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of transportation authority. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 2. Initialism of teaching assistant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 3. Initialism of travel agent. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 4. Initialism of target audience. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 5. Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 6. Initialism of transactional analysis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of term assurance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: TA Part of Speech: verb 1. To act as a teaching assistant (for a class). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The university offered me a chance to TA this semester. Example: I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.
Word: TA Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of toxin-antitoxin. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: TB Part of Speech: symbol Pronunciation: /ˌtiːˈbi/ 1. Abbreviation of terabyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, formal Example: We’ve found the T7 Touch SSD to be fast, secure and quite portable. But the inclusion of a fingerprint sensor for security onboard increased the price: $129.99 for 500GBs, $229.99 for 1TB and $399.99 for 2TB. 2. Abbreviation of tebibyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal
Word: TB Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌtiːˈbi/ 1. Initialism of Tampa Bay: a bay of Florida, United States, on which are located the cities of Tampa and St. Petersburg. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TB Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌtiːˈbi/ 1. Initialism of terabyte. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Experiments in labs produce considerable amounts of raw data, easily in the range of many TBs. 2. Initialism of tuberculosis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of total bases. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Abbreviation of throwback. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 5. Initialism of torpedo boat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of torpedo bomber. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of trainer bomber (“a bomber that also serves as a trainer aircraft”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Initialism of teen baby. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of test board, a circuit board used to test a circuit for some specialized task. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: TL Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of target language. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Abbreviation of team leader. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of timeline. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Example: TL Lost All Composure After That Clip […] And of course, there are plenty who said she just pisses them off so bad, but hey, you can’t deny she keeps the timeline entertained. Example: Although cortisol videos still crop up on my TL every so often, I’ve seen enough marked as ‘paid partnership’ to know that I shouldn’t be taking them seriously. 4. Initialism of trade-last. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, dated, initialism, slang Example: Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense." Example: So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […] 5. Abbreviation of translation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal 6. Abbreviation of translator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal 7. Abbreviation of translator's note /translation note. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal 8. Initialism of trophic level. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 9. Abbreviation of Turkish lira. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 10. Abbreviation of turntable ladder. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: VC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Victoria Cross. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Post-nominal letters for a person who has been awarded the Victoria Cross. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Initialism of vice-chancellor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of venture capitalist. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of venture capital. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: In 2021, Israeli startups raised a record-breaking $27 billion of VC investments — more than in the previous three years combined, according to the Israel Innovation Authority, a government agency. 6. Initialism of voluntary controlled. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of Victor Charlie (“Vietcong”). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable Example: Anyone who run is a VC, anyone who stand still, is a well disciplined VC! 8. Initialism of VIP cargo, a prefix code for very important persons transport aircraft. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of voice call. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of voice chat. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 11. Abbreviation of vinylene carbonate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: VC Part of Speech: verb 1. Initialism of voice call. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: YC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Combination of prefix C and prefix modifier Y 1. prototype cargoplane (prefix) Labels: US
Word: YC Part of Speech: name Etymology: Combination of prefix C and prefix modifier Y 1. Initialism of Y Combinator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The venture capitalist Chris Dixon told me, “They created the greatest business model of all time. For basically no money”— YC gives each company just a hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to cover expenses—“they get seven per cent of a lot of the best startups in Silicon Valley!” Example: “If Sam [Altman] smiles, it’s super deliberate,” a former YC founder says. “Sam has smiled uncontrollably only once, when 'PG told him to take over YC.” 2. Initialism of yellow card Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ZA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of zinc-aluminium (alloy). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: sanction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French sanction, from Latin sānctiō. Pronunciation: /ˈsæŋkʃən/, [ˈsæŋkʃən] ~ [ˈsæŋkʃn̩], /ˈseɪ̯ŋkʃən/, [ˈseɪ̯ŋkʃən] ~ [ˈseɪ̯ŋkʃn̩], /ˈsɛ̃ŋkʃən/ 1. An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government. Example: The idea that it was more comfortable in the house than out of it, did much towards reconciling his lordship. He felt positively glad that, as his wife had acted without his sanction, she should be subject to all possible inconvenience, as if such could be felt in Henrietta's state of mind. 2. A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa. 3. A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sanction Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French sanction, from Latin sānctiō. Pronunciation: /ˈsæŋkʃən/, [ˈsæŋkʃən] ~ [ˈsæŋkʃn̩], /ˈseɪ̯ŋkʃən/, [ˈseɪ̯ŋkʃən] ~ [ˈseɪ̯ŋkʃn̩], /ˈsɛ̃ŋkʃən/ 1. To ratify; to make valid. Labels: transitive 2. To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance. Labels: transitive Example: The school's inaction further sanctions this misbehavior. Example: Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest. 3. To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions. Labels: transitive Example: The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found.
Word: cease-fire Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ceasefire. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hear Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan Old English hīeran Middle English heren English hear From Middle English har, heoren, her, here, heren, from Old English hēran, hīeran, hīran, hȳran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian hear, hiar, hiir, hiire (“to hear”), Saterland Frisian heere, here (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Bavarian hearn (“to hear”), Central Franconian hüre (“to hear”), Cimbrian hòrran, höarn (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German and Low German hören (“to hear”), Luxembourgish héieren (“to hear”), Yiddish הערן (hern, “to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Elfdalian ära (“to hear”), Faroese hoyra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk haur, høra, høre, høyra, høyre (“to hear”), Swedish höra (“to hear”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hausjan, “to hear”); also Greek ακούγω (akoúgo), ακούω (akoúo, “to hear”), Italiot Greek κούω (koúo, “to hear”), Tocharian B āks- (“to awaken”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪə/, /ˈhɪɚ/, [ˈhɪɹ̩], /ˈhiː/, /ˈhiːə/ 1. you hear me Example: Y'all come back now, hear?
Word: listen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English listenen, listnen, alteration (due to Middle English listen (“to listen, give heed to”)) of Old English hlysnan (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic *hlusnijaną, *hlusnōną (compare Middle High German lüsenen), from Proto-Germanic *hlusēną (compare Old High German hlosēn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Swedish lyssna (“to listen”). Compare Ancient Greek κλαίω (klaíō, “to make known, famous”), Welsh clywed (“to hear”), Latin clueō (“to be famous”), Lithuanian klausýti, Old Church Slavonic слушати (slušati, “to hear”), Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati, “an exclamation used in making an offering with fire to the gods or departed spirits”) & Sanskrit श्लोक्य (ślókya, “voice, sound, noisy”)). Related to loud and German lauschen. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪsən/, [ˈlɪsən] ~ [ˈlɪsn̩] 1. To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound. Example: Please listen carefully as I explain. Example: I could hear you talking upstairs, but I didn’t really listen to your conversation. 2. To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent. Labels: intransitive Example: Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because I was upset, OK? Example: Good children listen to their parents.
Word: listen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English listenen, listnen, alteration (due to Middle English listen (“to listen, give heed to”)) of Old English hlysnan (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic *hlusnijaną, *hlusnōną (compare Middle High German lüsenen), from Proto-Germanic *hlusēną (compare Old High German hlosēn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Swedish lyssna (“to listen”). Compare Ancient Greek κλαίω (klaíō, “to make known, famous”), Welsh clywed (“to hear”), Latin clueō (“to be famous”), Lithuanian klausýti, Old Church Slavonic слушати (slušati, “to hear”), Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati, “an exclamation used in making an offering with fire to the gods or departed spirits”) & Sanskrit श्लोक्य (ślókya, “voice, sound, noisy”)). Related to loud and German lauschen. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪsən/, [ˈlɪsən] ~ [ˈlɪsn̩] 1. An instance of listening. Example: Give the motor a listen and tell me if it sounds off. Example: The diss song, “Back to Back,” now has more than 124 million listens, a sign that the streaming can attract a sizable audience for a single track.
Word: smile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”). Pronunciation: /ˈsmaɪl/, /ˈsmaɪ.əl/ 1. A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety. Example: She's got a perfect smile. Example: He has a sinister smile. 2. Favour; propitious regard. Labels: figuratively Example: the smile of the gods 3. A drink bought by one person for another. Labels: dated, slang
Word: smile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”). Pronunciation: /ˈsmaɪl/, /ˈsmaɪ.əl/ 1. To have (a smile) on one's face. Labels: ambitransitive Example: When you smile, the whole world smiles with you. Example: I don't know what he's smiling about. 2. To express by smiling. Labels: transitive Example: to smile consent, or a welcome Example: Mr Carlyle smiled his indulgence privately. "My dear chap, you mustn't let your retentive memory of obscure happenings run away with you," he remarked wisely. 3. To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. Labels: intransitive Example: When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled. 4. To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy. Labels: intransitive Example: The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky. 5. To be propitious or favourable; to countenance. Labels: intransitive Example: The gods smiled on his labours. 6. Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked. Labels: intransitive Example: The fruit looks a bit like a large pink mango or guava, until it has ripened. Then it “smiles,” bursting open, exposing yellow meat with black seeds.
Word: think Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Gothic þagkjan (“to think”), Latin tongeō (“know”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋk/, [ˈθɪŋk], /ˈθæŋk/, [ˈθæŋk], /ˈθeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. An act of thinking; consideration (of something). Labels: UK, uncountable, usually Example: I'll have a think about that and let you know.
Word: think Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken (also thinchen, thünchen), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”), from Proto-Germanic *þunkijaną (“to seem”). Cognate with Dutch dunken (“to seem, appear”), German dünken (“to seem, appear”), Danish tykkes (“to seem”), Swedish tycka (“to seem, think, regard”), Icelandic þykja (“to be regarded, be considered, seem”). More at methinks. Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋk/, [ˈθɪŋk], /ˈθæŋk/, [ˈθæŋk], /ˈθeɪ̯ŋk/ 1. To seem, to appear. Example: And whanne syr launcelot sawe he myghte not ryde vp in to the montayne he there alyghte vnder an Appel tree […] And then he leid hym doune to slepe And thenne hym thoughte there came an old man afore hym the whiche sayd A launcelot of euylle feythe and poure byleue wherfor is thy wille tourned soo lyghtely toward thy dedely synne
Word: talk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English *tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-West Germanic *talkōn, from Proto-Germanic *talkōną (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell + -k. Cognates Cognate with Low German taalken (“to chatter, gossip, talk”). Related also to Bavarian zoin (“to pay”), Cimbrian zaln (“to pay”), Dutch talen (“to care, long; to speak; to say”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Mòcheno zoln (“to pay”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tale (“to talk, speak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Norwegian Nynorsk tala (“to speak, talk”); also Latin dolus (“deceit, deception, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery; malice; artifice, device, stratagem”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “deceit, trick; wiles; bait”), Armenian տող (toġ, “line (in a text)”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- (“to talk”) (due to Grimm's law), which is the source of loquacious. Pronunciation: /tɔːk/, [tʰoːk], /tɔk/, /taːk/, /tɑk/ 1. To communicate, usually by means of speech. Labels: intransitive Example: Let's sit down and talk. Example: Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures. 2. To discuss; to talk about. Labels: informal, transitive Example: They sat down to talk business. Example: That's enough about work, let's talk holidays! 3. To speak (a certain language). Labels: transitive Example: We talk French sometimes. 4. Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money. Example: We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy. 5. To confess, especially implicating others. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Suppose he talks? Example: She can be relied upon not to talk. 6. To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself. Labels: intransitive Example: I am not the one to talk. Example: She is a fine one to talk. 7. To gossip; to create scandal. Labels: intransitive Example: People will talk. Example: Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk? 8. To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action. Labels: transitive Example: Remember that Christ and Christianity may not always be the same thing; e.g. Jerry Falwell talks "Christianity" but practices hatred […] which is diametrically opposed to what Jesus really taught. 9. To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner. Labels: informal Example: That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it! Example: "So, are you going to give up all this good living and easy money and come fly for the Russians?" "Hello no. I told you that yesterday." "That was your wallet talking. The shooting has started. Now I appeal to your patriotism, your manhood, your sense of duty."
Word: talk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above). Pronunciation: /tɔːk/, [tʰoːk], /tɔk/, /taːk/, /tɑk/ 1. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We need to have a talk about your homework. Example: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place. 2. A lecture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight. 3. Gossip; rumour. Labels: uncountable Example: There's been talk lately about the two of them. 4. A major topic of social discussion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She is the talk of the day. Example: The musical is the talk of the town. 5. A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Have you had the talk with Jay yet? I found a condom in his room. 6. A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular: Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Later, I made sure to have the talk with my son about being a black boy, […] Example: All the black parents I have ever spoken to have had “the talk” with their sons and daughters. “The talk” is a conversation about how to behave and not to behave with police. 7. Empty boasting, promises or claims. Labels: uncountable Example: The party leader's speech was all talk. 8. Meeting to discuss a particular matter. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.
Word: breath Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-West Germanic *brāþi (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) (compare German Brodem (“haze, vapor; breath”), of a different but related formation). Pronunciation: /bɹɛθ/, [bɹ̠ʷɛθ], /bɹeθ/, /bɾɛθ/, /brɛːθ/ 1. The act or process of breathing. Labels: uncountable Example: I could hear the breath of the runner behind me. Example: The child's breath came quickly and unevenly. 2. A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air. Labels: countable Example: I took a deep breath and started the test. Example: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat. 3. Air expelled from the lungs. Labels: uncountable Example: I could feel the runner's breath on my shoulder. 4. A rest or pause. Labels: countable Example: Let's stop for a breath when we get to the top of the hill. 5. A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even with all the windows open, there is hardly a breath of air in here. Example: If she had a breath of common sense, she would never have spoken to the man in the first place. 6. Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Autumn[…]Who wakenest with thy balmy breath Example: the breath of flowers 7. Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: an after dinner's breath
Word: breath Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-West Germanic *brāþi (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) (compare German Brodem (“haze, vapor; breath”), of a different but related formation). Pronunciation: /bɹɛθ/, [bɹ̠ʷɛθ], /bɹeθ/, /bɾɛθ/, /brɛːθ/ 1. voiceless, surd; contrasting with voice (breath sounds, voice sounds) Labels: not-comparable
Word: breath Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English brǣþ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-West Germanic *brāþi (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) (compare German Brodem (“haze, vapor; breath”), of a different but related formation). Pronunciation: /bɹɛθ/, [bɹ̠ʷɛθ], /bɹeθ/, /bɾɛθ/, /brɛːθ/ 1. Misspelling of breathe. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.
Word: remember Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + member. 1. Alternative form of re-member. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death. Example: According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.
Word: song Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *singwaną Proto-Germanic *sangwaz Proto-West Germanic *sangu Old English sang Middle English song English song From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Norwegian Bokmål sang (“song”), Norwegian Nynorsk song (“song”), Icelandic söngur (“song”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”). More at sing. Pronunciation: /sɒŋ/, /sɔŋ/, /sɑŋ/, [sɔ̟ŋ] 1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday. Example: The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge 2. Any musical composition. Labels: broadly, colloquial, countable, uncountable 3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This subject for heroic song. Example: The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song. 4. The act or art of singing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, the buds bursting into flower, all nature bursting into life!—as though a state of things in which everything around us is bursting is at all pleasant. Example: Or take one that is less of an explanation and more of a song , The Spider . I knew all along what I wanted to say about a spider . I wanted to say all the good things I could . For spiders are the one order of creation that I thoroughly dislike.[…] 5. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I love hearing the song of canary birds. Example: That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets. 6. The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He bought that car for a song. Example: his [a common soldier's] pay is a song. 8. An object of derision; a laughing stock. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Word: sing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English singen, from Old English singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sjunge (“to sing”), West Frisian sjonge (“to sing”), Dutch zingen (“to sing”), German Low German singen (“to sing”), German singen (“to sing”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synge (“to sing”), Swedish sjunga (“to sing”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Faroese, and Icelandic syngja (“to sing”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋ/, [ˈsɪŋ], /ˈsiŋ/, [ˈsiŋ] ~ [ˈsɪ̝ŋ], /ˈsɪŋɡ/ 1. The act, or event, of singing songs. Example: I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower. Example: Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well. 2. Any sound likened to human singing. Example: heard the unmistakable twang of bowstrings against bracers, the sing of a long-bow volley, and made for the door Example: the sing of axe on concrete
Word: cry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is from Middle English crien (13th century), from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, generally thought to derive from Classical Latin quirītāre (Proto-West Germanic *krītan has also been suggested as a source). The noun corresponds to Middle English cry, crie, from Old French cri, a deverbal of crier. etymology note Middle English crien eventually displaced native Middle English galen (“to cry out”) (from Old English galan), Middle English greden (“to cry out”) (from Old English grǣdan), Middle English yermen (“to bellow, mourn, lament”) (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen (“to cry out”) (from Old Norse hóa), Middle English remen (“to cry, shout”) (from Old English hrīeman, compare Old English hrēam (“noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm”)), Middle English greten, graten (“to weep, cry, lament”) (from Old English grǣtan and Old Norse gráta). More at greet, regret. Already in the 13th century, the meaning was extended to include the sense "to shed tears" (natively weep); cry used in this sense had mostly replaced weep by the 16th century. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪ/ 1. To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness. Labels: intransitive Example: That sad movie always makes me cry. Example: - Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said... 2. To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. Labels: transitive Example: All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak. Example: [T]he Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: [...] 3. To shout, scream, yell. Labels: ambitransitive Example: And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. 4. To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. 5. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do. Labels: intransitive Example: the young ravens which cry Example: In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry. 6. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping. Labels: transitive Example: Tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep. 7. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc. Example: to cry goods Example: Love is lost, and thus she cries him. 8. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc. Example: I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
Word: cry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is from Middle English crien (13th century), from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, generally thought to derive from Classical Latin quirītāre (Proto-West Germanic *krītan has also been suggested as a source). The noun corresponds to Middle English cry, crie, from Old French cri, a deverbal of crier. etymology note Middle English crien eventually displaced native Middle English galen (“to cry out”) (from Old English galan), Middle English greden (“to cry out”) (from Old English grǣdan), Middle English yermen (“to bellow, mourn, lament”) (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen (“to cry out”) (from Old Norse hóa), Middle English remen (“to cry, shout”) (from Old English hrīeman, compare Old English hrēam (“noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm”)), Middle English greten, graten (“to weep, cry, lament”) (from Old English grǣtan and Old Norse gráta). More at greet, regret. Already in the 13th century, the meaning was extended to include the sense "to shed tears" (natively weep); cry used in this sense had mostly replaced weep by the 16th century. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪ/ 1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying. Example: After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry. 2. A shout or scream. Example: I heard a cry from afar. 3. Words shouted or screamed. Example: a battle cry 4. A clamour or outcry. Example: His pupil, Maimonides, that he might not be under the necessity of violating the laws of friendship and gratitude, by joining the general cry against Averroes, left Corduba. 5. A group of hounds. Labels: collective Example: A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Example: 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659. […] Before the gates there sat / On either side a formidable shape; / The one seem’d woman to the waste, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm’d / With mortal sting: about her middle round / A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark’d / With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung / A hideous peal; yet, when they list,would creep, / If ought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, / and kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d, / Within unseen. […] 6. A pack or company of people. Labels: broadly, derogatory, obsolete Example: Would not this […] get me a fellowship in a cry of players? 7. A typical sound made by the species in question. Example: "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse. Example: But the shrill wild cry of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant. 8. A desperate or urgent request. 9. Common report; gossip. Labels: obsolete Example: The cry goes that you shall marry her.
Word: tear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire. Pronunciation: /tɛə/, /tɛː/, /tɛɹ/, /teː/, /tiə/ 1. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. Labels: transitive Example: He tore his coat on the nail. 2. To injure as if by pulling apart. Labels: transitive Example: He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident. 3. To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. Labels: transitive Example: He was torn by conflicting emotions. 4. To make (an opening) with force or energy. Labels: transitive Example: A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite. Example: His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out. 5. To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force. Labels: often, transitive Example: Tear the coupon out of the newspaper. Example: [A] surge of muddy water tore him free from his sandy nook and tumbled him down the gully. 6. To demolish. Labels: transitive, with-down Example: The slums were torn down to make way for the new development. 7. To become torn, especially accidentally. Labels: intransitive Example: My dress has torn. 8. To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence. Labels: intransitive Example: He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour. Example: The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright. 9. To smash or enter something with great force. Labels: intransitive Example: The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry. 10. To be interrupted midway through. Labels: intransitive Example: torn write
Word: tear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire. Pronunciation: /tɛə/, /tɛː/, /tɛɹ/, /teː/, /tiə/ 1. A hole or break caused by tearing. Example: A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam. 2. A rampage. Labels: slang Example: to go on a tear
Word: tear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tear, teer, teere, ter, tere, tyar, tyear, tyer, tær (“tear”), from Old English teagor, tēar, tæher, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tear”). Cognates Cognate with German Zähre (“tear”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tåre (“tear”), Faroese and Icelandic tár (“tear”), Swedish tår (“tear”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr, “teardrop”); also Cornish dager (“tear; drop”), Irish deoir (“tear”), Manx jeir (“tear”), Scottish Gaelic deur (“tear; drop”), Welsh deigryn (“tear”), Latin dacrima, dacruma, lachryma, lacrima, lacruma, lacryma (“tear”), Greek δάκρυ (dákry, “tear”), Armenian արտոսր (artosr, “tear”). Pronunciation: /tɪə/, /tɪː/, /tɪəɹ/, /tiə/ 1. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. Example: Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks. Example: Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on. 2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. Example: Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears. 3. A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. 4. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. Example: Without meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well [...]
Word: tear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tear, teer, teere, ter, tere, tyar, tyear, tyer, tær (“tear”), from Old English teagor, tēar, tæher, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tear”). Cognates Cognate with German Zähre (“tear”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tåre (“tear”), Faroese and Icelandic tár (“tear”), Swedish tår (“tear”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr, “teardrop”); also Cornish dager (“tear; drop”), Irish deoir (“tear”), Manx jeir (“tear”), Scottish Gaelic deur (“tear; drop”), Welsh deigryn (“tear”), Latin dacrima, dacruma, lachryma, lacrima, lacruma, lacryma (“tear”), Greek δάκρυ (dákry, “tear”), Armenian արտոսր (artosr, “tear”). Pronunciation: /tɪə/, /tɪː/, /tɪəɹ/, /tiə/ 1. To produce tears. Labels: intransitive Example: Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.
Word: eye Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ̯/, [ˈaɪ̯], /ˈɑɪ̯/, [ˈɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈɒɪ̯/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i. Example: It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh." Example: IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
Word: eye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ̯/, [ˈaɪ̯], /ˈɑɪ̯/, [ˈɑ̟ɪ̯], /ˈɒɪ̯/ 1. A brood. Example: an eye of pheasants
Word: breathe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”). Eclipsed Middle English ethien and orðiæn, from Old English ēþian and orþian (“to breathe”); as well as Middle English anden, onden, from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”). More at breath. Pronunciation: /bɹiːð/, /bɹið/ 1. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases. Labels: intransitive 2. To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way. Labels: intransitive Example: Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater. 3. To inhale (a gas) to sustain life. Labels: transitive Example: While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane. 4. To live. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe. Example: I am in health, I breathe. 5. To draw something into the lungs. Labels: transitive Example: Try not to breathe too much smoke. 6. To expel air from the lungs, exhale. Labels: intransitive Example: If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up. 7. To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath. Labels: transitive Example: The flowers breathed a heady perfume. Example: Mountain Drakes breathe fire, Ice Drakes breathe ice, Swamp Drakes breathe acid, and Forest Drakes breathe lightning. 8. To give an impression of, to exude. Labels: transitive Example: The decor positively breathes classical elegance. 9. To whisper quietly. Labels: transitive Example: He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all. 10. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently. Example: The wind breathes through the trees. Example: The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. 11. To inspire (scripture). Example: The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely breathed." Example: […] that God, who breathed the Scriptures, "cannot lie," […] 12. To exchange gases with the environment. Labels: intransitive Example: Uncork the wine and leave it on the table for a few minutes to allow it to breathe. 13. Of a material etc., to allow gases to pass through. Labels: intransitive Example: Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise. 14. To rest; to stop and catch one's breath. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed Example: Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! 15. To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath. Labels: transitive Example: At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often. 16. To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise. Labels: transitive 17. To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: ―Do you like hiking? ―Are you kidding? I breathe hiking.
Word: AZ Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of availability zone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AZ Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Arizona: a state of the United States. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of AstraZeneca, a COVID-19 vaccine made by the AstraZeneca company. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, neologism Example: Risks? Suck it up buttercup. The risk of death by Covid is real and so many others of your age had AZ with limited ill or side-effects.
Word: AR Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. Initialism of autoregressive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable