nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hardwareman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hardewareman, hardwareman; equivalent to hardware + -man. 1. An ironmonger. Labels: obsolete
Word: metadata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth₂? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin datusnom. Latin datumbor. English data English metadata From meta- + data. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/, [ˈmɛɾ.əˌdeɪ.ɾə], /ˈmet.əˌdæɪ.tə/, [ˈmet.əˌdæɪ.ɾə] 1. Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label. Labels: uncountable Example: Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen. 2. Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc). Labels: uncountable Example: That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.
Word: nag screen Part of Speech: noun 1. A message displayed by a nagware program to encourage the user to purchase the full version. Example: WinRAR shows a nag screen once its 40-day trial is over to encourage users to buy a license. Example: The first screen to pop up is the nag screen; be patient, it disappears after 5 seconds. (Have you ever wondered why nag screens are mandatory for shareware?)
Word: vapourware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English vapour Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English vapourware From vapour + -ware. Pronunciation: /ˈveɪ.pə.wɛə(ɹ)/, /ˈveɪpɚwɛɹ/ 1. Alternative form of vaporware. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: webmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Web + master. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbmæstɚ/ 1. A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.
Word: webmaster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Web + master. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbmæstɚ/ 1. To design, develop and maintain a website.
Word: Aborigine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from Aborigines. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ə.ni/, /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ 1. An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonisation), Aboriginal Australian. Labels: dated, offensive Example: Aborigines not to be counted in reckoning population.
Word: AA Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Initialism of anti-aircraft or anti-air. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 2. Initialism of air-to-air. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 3. Initialism of atlantoaxial. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: AA joint; AA instability 4. Initialism of arterioarterial. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: AA anastomosis 5. Initialism of Afro-Asiatic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 6. Initialism of Austroasiatic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: AA Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Initialism of antialias. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, transitive Example: On the other hand, edge AA in EF2000 didn't make much difference because only the objects were AAed and they made up only a very small percentage of the screen area. Example: Vector images can be considered to have extremely high resolution, so it is possible to AA them.
Word: husband Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Germanic *būaną Old Norse búa Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Old Norse -andi Old Norse bóndibor. Old English bonda ▲ Old Norse húsbóndicalq. Old English hūsbonda Middle English husbonde English husband Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌzbənd/, /ˈhʊzbənd/ 1. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. Example: You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband. Example: The husband and wife are one person in law. 2. A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist. Labels: UK 3. A prudent or frugal manager. Labels: archaic Example: God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof. Example: [S]o I went and fetch’d a good Dram of Rum, and gave him; for I had been ſo good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left: When he had drank it, I made him take the two Fowling-Pieces, which we always carry’d, and load them with large Swan-Shot, as big as ſmall Piſtol Bullets; then I took four Muſkets, and loaded them with two Slugs, and five ſmall Bullets each; and my two Piſtols I loaded with a Brace of Bullets each; I hung my great Sword as uſual, naked by my Side, and gave Friday his Hatchet. 4. The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. Labels: dated 5. A tiller of the ground; a husbandman. Example: […] a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […] Example: The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields 6. The male of a pair of animals. Example: Husband of the Herd 7. A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position. Example: While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind. 8. A polled tree; a pollard. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: husband Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Germanic *būaną Old Norse búa Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Old Norse -andi Old Norse bóndibor. Old English bonda ▲ Old Norse húsbóndicalq. Old English hūsbonda Middle English husbonde English husband Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌzbənd/, /ˈhʊzbənd/ 1. To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise. Labels: transitive Example: And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little. 2. To conserve. Labels: transitive Example: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise. 3. To till; cultivate; farm; nurture. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Land so trim and rarely husbanded. 4. To provide with a husband. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded? 5. To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own. Labels: transitive
Word: religion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin relegōder.? ▲ Latin re- Latin ligō Latin religōder.? Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin religiōbor. Old French religionbor. Middle English religioun English religion From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/, /ɹəˈləd͡ʒ.ən/ 1. Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief. Labels: uncountable Example: Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy Example: My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much. 2. A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it. Labels: countable Example: Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy Example: Near-synonyms: credo, creed 3. The way of life committed to by monks and nuns. Labels: uncountable Example: The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age. 4. Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion. Example: Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion. 5. Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted. Labels: countable Example: At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion. Example: 'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.' 6. Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
Word: religion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin relegōder.? ▲ Latin re- Latin ligō Latin religōder.? Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin religiōbor. Old French religionbor. Middle English religioun English religion From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/, /ɹəˈləd͡ʒ.ən/ 1. Engage in religious practice. Example: On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning. Example: A similar caution is made by Nye when he calls for a re-evaluation of the category of religion in relationship to theory and method, suggesting that this category: be reconstructed in terms of practice theory as religious practice or religioning. 2. Indoctrinate into a specific religion. Example: To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress Example: “What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?” 3. To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify. Example: The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'. Example: The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
Word: derecho Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Spanish derecho (“straight”). First used by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in 1888, apparently coined to distinguish the winds from tornadoes, which rotate; compare tornado. Doublet of direct. Pronunciation: /dəˈɹeɪ.t͡ʃoʊ/, /dəˈɹɛ.t͡ʃoʊ/, /dəˈɹeɪ.t͡ʃəʊ/, /dəˈɹɛ.t͡ʃəʊ/ 1. A windstorm characterized by strong, straight-line winds. Labels: US Example: Combining all of the above, the Arkansas Valley, Ouachita Mountains, Interior Plateau, and Southwest Appalachian ecoregions have the greatest risk of wind damage from tornadoes and derechos, whereas weakening hurricanes are an important disturbance, especially in the Piedmont ecoregion. Example: Derechos have winds as powerful as those of some hurricanes and tornadoes. "Derecho" comes from the Spanish word meaning "straight."
Word: government Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English governement, from Old French governement (modern French gouvernement), from governer (see govern) + -ment. Morphologically govern + -ment. Displaced native Old English gerec, leodweard, ræden, rǣding and ealdordōm. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌv.ɚ(n).mənt/, /ˈɡʌv.ə.mənt/, /ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/, /ˈɡʌv.mənt/, /ˈɡɐvɘ(n)mɘnt/ 1. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: British government has historically centred exclusively on London. Example: […]and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 2. The relationship between a word and its dependents. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: state, administration Example: If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution. 4. The management or control of a system. Labels: uncountable Example: The government of the Church is maintained without material alteration in a settled hierarchical form. Example: Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the government of Her Majesty's Navy, whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom so much depend: 5. The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain. 6. In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A guberniya. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: with its centre in Liubawitz, in the Government of Mohilev. 9. Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: big Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug. Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann. Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/ 1. In a loud manner. 2. In a boasting manner. Example: He's always talking big, but he never delivers. 3. In a large amount or to a large extent. Example: He won big betting on the croquet championship. Example: Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas! 4. In a large amount or to a large extent. Labels: informal Example: I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football. 5. On a large scale, expansively. Example: You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing. Example: 'You've got to put it over big,' he was saying in a loud nasal voice. 6. Hard; with great force. Labels: colloquial Example: He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
Word: big Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug. Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann. Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/ 1. Someone or something that is large in stature. Example: You could throw out everything else, but I had the speed to split double-teams. Like, go at double-teams numerous times in a possession, on consecutive possessions where I'm testing your endurance, your bigs. 2. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. 3. The big leagues, big time. Labels: in-plural Example: In the Appalachian League, where Cal Ripken once played in Bluefield, W.Va., a ballplayer's chances of making it to the bigs are less than one in six. 4. An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little). Example: He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board. Example: She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends. 5. The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
Word: big Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English biggen, byggen, from Old Norse byggja, byggva (“to build, dwell in, inhabit”), a secondary form of Old Norse búa (“to dwell”), related to Old English būan (“to dwell”). Cognate with Danish bygge, Swedish bygga. Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/ 1. To inhabit; occupy. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive 2. To locate oneself. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, reflexive 3. To build; erect; fashion. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive Example: Don't big it up. 4. To dwell; have a dwelling. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive
Word: big Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg (“barley, probably Hordeum vulgare, common barley”), from Proto-Germanic *bewwuz (“crop, barley”). Cognate with Old English bēow (“barley”). Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/ 1. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, uncountable Example: The poor lass was sitting bemoaning herself - "Were it nae for thy girning face, I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal," - "Lowse the cradle-band," said the child, "and tent the neighbours, and I'll work yere work." Up he started - the wind arose - the corn was chopped - the outlyers were foddered - the hand-mill moved around, as by instinct - and the knocking-mill did its work with amazing rapidity.
Word: wall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk. Pronunciation: /wɔːl/, /woːl/, /wɔl/, /waːl/, /wɑl/ 1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. Labels: transitive Example: He walled the study with books. 2. To use a wallhack. Labels: slang 3. To wallbang. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I walled her. She's low [health].
Word: wall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“wave”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well. Pronunciation: /wɔːl/, /woːl/, /wɔl/, /waːl/, /wɑl/ 1. To boil. 2. To well, as water; spring.
Word: wall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”). Pronunciation: /wɔːl/, /woːl/, /wɔl/, /waːl/, /wɑl/ 1. A spring of water. Labels: dialectal
Word: wall Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /wɔːl/, /woːl/, /wɔl/, /waːl/, /wɑl/ 1. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
Word: wall Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /wɔːl/, /woːl/, /wɔl/, /waːl/, /wɑl/ 1. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope). Labels: transitive
Word: wall Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /wɔːl/, /woːl/, /wɔl/, /waːl/, /wɑl/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of well. Labels: US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.") Example: Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.
Word: OMC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of original male character. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Example: OTOH, if an OFC or OMC is written to further the story, well, if you can make me believe it, congratulations. Example: It involves archaeology, the mysterious death of an immortal and the development of a menage a trois between Mac, Methos and a very well developed OMC. 2. Initialism of outlaw motorcycle club. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: morning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English morwenynge, from morwen + -ynge. By surface analysis, morn + -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe). Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/, /ˈmoːnɪŋ/, /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/, /ˈmɔːnɪŋɡ/, /ˈmɑːɹnən/ 1. The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon. Example: I'll see you tomorrow morning. Example: I'm working in the morning, so let's meet in the afternoon. 2. The early part of anything. Labels: figuratively 3. That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon). Labels: obsolete Example: Celestina […] retired to her own room, leaving her friend to the pleasing and important occupation of the toilet, in which half of what is now called morning, was usually passed by Matilda. Example: We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough. 4. The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught. Labels: Scotland
Word: morning Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English morwenynge, from morwen + -ynge. By surface analysis, morn + -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe). Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/, /ˈmoːnɪŋ/, /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/, /ˈmɔːnɪŋɡ/, /ˈmɑːɹnən/ 1. Ellipsis of good morning. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Hey, ‘morning, Mario. Have you been to the dining car yet today?
Word: Mexican Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”). By surface analysis, Mexico + -an. Doublet of Mexicano. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n/, /ˈmɛksək(ə)n/, /ˈmɛksəkɪn/ 1. A Mexica; an Aztec. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find the Mexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure? Example: Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli 2. The Nahuatl language. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican. 3. A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick. Example: When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh. 4. The Mexican dialect of Spanish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly. Example: You really scare me when you speak Mexican. 5. A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country. Labels: US, countable, offensive, slang, uncountable Example: Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries." Example: What kind of Mexican are you? 6. A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria). Labels: Australia, New-South-Wales, countable, slang, uncountable 7. A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria. Labels: Australia, countable, slang, uncountable 8. Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: I'm hungry. Want to go out for Mexican?
Word: Mexican Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”). By surface analysis, Mexico + -an. Doublet of Mexicano. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n/, /ˈmɛksək(ə)n/, /ˈmɛksəkɪn/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Mexica people. Labels: obsolete 2. Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language. Labels: obsolete Example: The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte. Example: 1810, review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", in The Eclectic Review The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican. 3. Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico. Example: In the first year of her administration, ACLED data shows, Sheinbaum’s efforts to contain violence have generally coincided with a drop in attacks against civilians; since January, civilian killings have declined in nearly every Mexican state.
Word: send Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye-ti (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sende (“to send”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk senda (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith. Pronunciation: /sɛnd/ 1. An operation in which data is transmitted. Example: In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […] 2. An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message. Labels: capitalized, often Example: Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo. 3. Alternative form of scend. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west Example: the send of the sea 4. A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride. Labels: Scotland 5. A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track. Labels: UK, slang Example: Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send. 6. A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
Word: market Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːkɪt/, /ˈmɑɹkɪt/, /ˈmɑɹkət/ 1. To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. Labels: transitive Example: We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter. 2. To promote for or as if for sale. Labels: transitive Example: However, the intention here is not to market any particular belief, but rather to catalyze people to think more about life after death and its meaning in the face of grief and loss. 3. To sell. Labels: transitive Example: We marketed more this quarter already than all last year! 4. To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. Labels: intransitive 5. To shop in a market; to attend a market. Labels: intransitive Example: We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.
Word: food Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *fōdô Old English fōda Middle English fode English food From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster. Pronunciation: /fuːd/, [fuːd], [fʊwd], [fu̟(ː)d], [fʉwd] 1. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The innkeeper brought them food and drink. Example: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]” 2. A foodstuff, a type of food. Labels: countable, usually Example: Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates. 3. Anything that nourishes or sustains. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought. Example: Mozart and Bach are food for my soul. 4. Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, uncountable, usually Example: What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot. Example: I'm so London, I'm so south / Food in the ends like there ain't no drought / Flipz don't talk like he's got no mouth
Word: meeting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtɪŋ/, /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ] 1. The act of persons or things that meet. Labels: gerund, uncountable Example: Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people. 2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We need to have a meeting about that soon. Example: In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said. 3. The people at such a gathering. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable Example: What has the meeting decided. 4. An encounter between people, even accidental. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work. 5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates. 6. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off. 7. An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Labels: Quakerism, countable, uncountable Example: Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Word: meeting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtɪŋ/, /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of meet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: global Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From globe + -al; compare French global. Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡləʊ̯b(ə)ɫ], /ˈɡloʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡloʊ̯b(ə)ɫ], /ˈɡlɐʉ.bəl/ 1. Concerning all parts of the world. Example: Pollution is a global problem. Example: World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts. 2. Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal Labels: not-comparable Example: The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator. 3. Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: Labels: not-comparable Example: Global variables keep support engineers employed. 4. Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: Labels: not-comparable 5. Spherical, ball-shaped. Example: In the center was a small, global mass. 6. Of or relating to a globe or sphere. Labels: not-comparable
Word: global Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From globe + -al; compare French global. Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡləʊ̯b(ə)ɫ], /ˈɡloʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡloʊ̯b(ə)ɫ], /ˈɡlɐʉ.bəl/ 1. A globally scoped identifier.
Word: global Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From globe + -al; compare French global. Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡləʊ̯b(ə)ɫ], /ˈɡloʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡloʊ̯b(ə)ɫ], /ˈɡlɐʉ.bəl/ 1. In the global manner; world-wide. Example: Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Word: globalisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From global + -isation or globalise + -ation. Popularized by German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School Theodore Levitt. Pronunciation: /ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɡləʉ.bə.lɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The process of becoming a more interconnected world. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models, according to the World System Theory. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sure, globalization as flows of trade will continue. But globalization as the driving logic of world affairs — that seems to be over.
Word: aflare Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English flare English aflare From a- + flare. Pronunciation: /əˈflɛə/, /əˈflɛɹ/, /əˈfleː/, /əˈfleə/, /əˈfliə/ 1. Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion). Labels: not-comparable Example: 1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248, the flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk Example: Ho! Get to lair! The sun’s aflare / Behind the breathing grass: 2. Illuminated (with something blazing or shining). Labels: not-comparable Example: […] Old Pye Street, Peter’s Street, and Duck Lane were aflare with the coarse lights of open naphtha lamps, Example: He used to tell me how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate. 3. Flaring (opening outward). Labels: not-comparable Example: ballet skirts aflare Example: To balance like a bird with wings aflare,
Word: aliveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībanąder. Proto-Germanic *lībą Proto-West Germanic *līb Old English līfder. Old English līfe Old English on līfe Middle English alyve English alive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English aliveness From alive + -ness. Pronunciation: /əˈlaɪvnəs/ 1. The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the aliveness of the colours in a painting Example: […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.
Word: world Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”). Cognates Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”). Pronunciation: /wɜːld/, /wɜɹld/, [wɝɘɫd], /wɵːld/, [wɵːɯ̯d̥] 1. To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize. Labels: transitive Example: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too. Example: In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control. 2. To make real; to make worldly. Labels: transitive
Word: appeaser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From appease + -er. 1. A person who appeases.
Word: quisling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark. This term first appeared in 1940. The surname is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvisle(mark) + -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). However, the earlier form of the name, Quislinus/Quislin, appears to have been a fanciful coinage based upon Kvisle(mark) + Latin -inus (“suffix indicating a relationship of position, possession, or origin”), and only later on came to be reinterpreted as containing Norwegian -ing (“suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities”). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) + mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *twīsilō. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”). Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle. By surface analysis, quisle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪz.lɪŋ/ 1. A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. Labels: derogatory Example: In many countries, including some where the Jews were neither numerically strong nor in possession of important posts, these envoys of the German Secret Service have been able, solely by the use of anti-Jewish slogans, to create those "national" Fascist movements from which Quislings are bred. Example: If, in the nation about to be attacked, influential persons were discovered who could be bribed or corrupted, German agents made use of these quislings.
Word: quisling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark. This term first appeared in 1940. The surname is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvisle(mark) + -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). However, the earlier form of the name, Quislinus/Quislin, appears to have been a fanciful coinage based upon Kvisle(mark) + Latin -inus (“suffix indicating a relationship of position, possession, or origin”), and only later on came to be reinterpreted as containing Norwegian -ing (“suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities”). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) + mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *twīsilō. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”). Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle. By surface analysis, quisle + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪz.lɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of quisle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: take part Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English taken part, a calque of Latin participō. Compare partake, German teilnehmen, Finnish ottaa osaa. 1. To participate or join. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add. Example: I listened to a discussion in which she took part. 2. To share or partake. Labels: idiomatic Example: So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness. Example: We have two famous tribal drums called Ntiri and Abia which are so stimulating that everybody used to take part when they sounded, but Ndiuka were educated not to dance it because it is native. 3. To support or ally oneself (with). Labels: dated Example: Yet we take part, on the whole, with the author : — and heartily wish him success in the great object of vindicating his country from unmerited aspersions, and trying to make us, in England, ashamed of the vices and defects which he has taken the trouble to point out in our national character and institutions. Example: When the Spaniards were formerly contending against France, the noble earl said he felt for them, but he then recommended a cautious and prudent line of conduct to this country, and advised us not to take part with Spain.
Word: infotopia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of information + utopia. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.fəˈtəʊ.pi.ə/, /ˌɪn.fəˈtoʊ.pi.ə/ 1. An idealized information resource. Example: A free, open Internet without advertising or paywalls would be an infotopia.
Word: Macaddict Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Macintosh + addict 1. A fanatical advocate of the Macintosh computer system. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: macrovirus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From macro + virus. Pronunciation: /ˈmækɹoʊˌvaɪɹəs/ 1. A computer virus written in a macro language. Example: A macrovirus is a type of virus that is embedded in a document that used the macro programming language.
Word: but Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌt/, [bʌ̈t], /ˈbʊt/, /ˈbət/, /ˈbɜt/ 1. Apart from, except (for), excluding. Example: Everyone but Father left early. Example: I like everything but that. 2. Outside of. Example: Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.