nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; the word is similar to other words from Germanic or Romance languages listed in the table below, but the connection between the English word and those words is unclear. One suggestion is that they ultimately derive from the town of Arras in France, known for its cloth and wool industries (whence arras (“tapestry, wall hanging”)); compare German Rasch (“lightly woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (said to be from Middle High German arrasch (“arras”), and ultimately from the name of the town), and the obsolete names for the fabric, Catalan drap de arraz, drap d'Arraç, Spanish paño de ras (literally “cloth of Arras”). The Oxford English Dictionary states that even if rash did not originally derive from Arras, the name of the town could have influenced the English word. possible cognates * Catalan ras (“smooth fabric woven from silk”) (also raç (obsolete)) * Danish rask (“thin, coarse woollen cloth usually made from worsted”) (also rasch (obsolete), derived from German) * Dutch ras (“woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (also rasch (obsolete, rare), rass (obsolete)) * Middle French ras (modern French ras (“various types of short-nap cloth”)) * German Rasch, Low German Rasch (“lightly woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (archaic or historical) * Italian raso (“smooth fabric woven from silk”), rascia (“serge”) * Late Latin rasum (“some form of fabric”), pannus rasus (“satin”) * Old Occitan ras (modern Occitan ras (“smooth fabric woven from silk”); also rac (obsolete)) * Spanish raso (“smooth fabric woven from silk; other types of fabric”) * Swedish rask (“thin woollen cloth usually made from worsted; similar cloth made from silk”) (also rasch (archaic), rass (obsolete)) Pronunciation: /ɹæʃ/ 1. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: cloth rash silk rash Example: Sleeveleſſe his jerkin vvas, and it had beene / Velvet, but 'tvvas novv (ſo much ground vvas ſeene) / Become Tufftaffatie; and our children ſhall / See it plaine Raſhe avvhile, or nought at all.
Word: rash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /ɹæʃ/ 1. A soft crackling or rustling sound. Labels: obsolete Example: Look on thoſe grave plodding fellovvs, […] I'll undertake three parts of four are going to their Courtezans. I tell thee, Jack, the vvhiſking of a Silk-Govvn, and the raſh of a Tabby-Pettycoat, are as comfortable ſounds to one of theſe rich Citizens, as the chink of their Pieces of Eight.
Word: rash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Middle English rashen, rassh (“to hasten, hurry, rush”) [and other forms], from Old English ræscan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”); see further at etymology 1. probable cognates * Dutch rasschen, rassen (“to hasten, hurry, rush”) (obsolete) * Old Norse raska (“to dislodge, displace; to stir up”) (Swedish raska (“to hurry; to act carelessly or hastily”)) Pronunciation: /ɹæʃ/ 1. To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction. Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive Example: Reg[an]. VVherefore to Douer ſir? / Gloſt[er, i.e., Gloucester]. Becauſe I vvould not ſee thy cruell nayles / Pluck out his poore old eyes, nor thy fierce ſiſter / In his aurynted fleſh raſh boriſh phangs, […] 2. To break (something) forcefully; to smash. Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive Example: Fair lordes sayd syre Launcelot leue your noyse and your rassyng and I shalle sette open this dore and thenne may ye doo with me what it lyketh yow. "Fair lords, said Sir Launcelot, leave your noise and your rashing, and I shall set open this door, and then may ye do with me what it liketh you." 3. To emit or issue (something) hastily. Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive 4. Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise. Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, rare, transitive Example: Retur[n]e to the places of Peter, the one in his firſt epiſtle, the other in the latter: and ſo be you contented with this preſent anſvver raſhed up in haſte. 5. To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush. Labels: Scotland, archaic, intransitive, obsolete 6. To fall heavily; to dash down. Labels: Scotland, archaic, intransitive, obsolete Example: […] the rain rashed down - the road was battered, As with the force of billows shattered; […] Example: ... rain rashed down. The sound was as of a deluge, and all the parched lips of earth seemed to be drinking in the delicious moisture. 7. Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: To collide or hit. Labels: Scotland, archaic, intransitive, obsolete
Word: rash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *wréh₂ds Probably an aphetic form of arace (“to tear up by the roots; to draw away”) (obsolete), from Middle English aracen (“to remove (something) by force, pluck or pull out, tear out; to grab; to lacerate; to flay or skin (an animal); to erase, obliterate”) [and other forms], from Old French aracer, arachier (“to pull off (by physical force)”) [and other forms] (whence Anglo-Norman racher, aracher (“to pluck out, pull out”); modern French arracher (“to pull up, tear out, uproot; to extract, take out (a tooth); to peel, pull off, rip off; to buy, snap up; to fight over; to tear (oneself) away from”)), a variant of esrachier (“to eradicate, get rid of”), from Latin exrādīcāre, ērādīcāre (“to root out; to annihilate, extirpate”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + rādīx (“root of a plant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Pronunciation: /ɹæʃ/ 1. Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently. Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive Example: There Marinell great deeds of armes did ſhevv; / And through the thickeſt like a Lyon flevv, / Raſhing off helmes, and ryuing plates a ſonder, / That euery one his daunger did eſchevv. Example: His Creſt is raſh'd away; his ample Shield / Is falſify'd and round with Jav'lins fill'd.
Word: rash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a variant of race, raze (“to demolish; to destroy, obliterate; to scrape as if with a razor”), possibly modelled after rash (etymology 5 or etymology 6). Raze is derived from Middle English rasen, racen, rase (“to scrape; to shave; to erase; to pull; to strip off; to pluck or tear out; to root out (a tree, etc.); to pull away, snatch; to pull down; to knock down; to rend, tear apart; to pick clean, strip; to cleave, slice; to sever; to lacerate; to pierce; to carve, engrave; to dig; (figuratively) to expunge, obliterate; to alter”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman raser, rasere, rasser, Middle French, Old French raser (“to shave; to touch lightly, graze; to level off (grain, etc.) in a measure; to demolish, tear down; to erase; to polish; to wear down”), from Vulgar Latin *raso (“to shave; to scrape; to scratch; to touch lightly, graze”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”); see further at etymology 2. Pronunciation: /ɹæʃ/ 1. To hack, slash, or slice (something). Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive Example: And dravving both their ſvvords vvith rage extreme, / Like tvvo mad maſtiffes each on other flevv, / And ſhields did ſhare, & mailes did raſh, and helmes did hevv. Example: [N]ovv he, comes violently on, and vvithall advancing his Rapier to ſtrike, […] Sir, I miſt my purpoſe in his arme, raſht his doublet ſleeue, ran him cloſe by the left cheeke, and through his haire: […] 2. Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate. Labels: Scotland, archaic, obsolete, rare, transitive
Word: gnash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”). Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃ/ 1. To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. Labels: transitive Example: gnashing your teeth 2. To grind between the teeth. Labels: transitive Example: to gnash the air in fury Example: The dog was gnashing a carpet 3. To clash together violently. Labels: figuratively Example: There they were, boiling up in snowy spouts of spray, smiting and gnashing together like the gleaming teeth of hell. 4. To run away. Labels: Geordie
Word: gnash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”). Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃ/ 1. A sudden snapping of the teeth.
Word: cash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ/, [ˈkʰæʃ], /ˈkaʃ/, /ˈkɛʃ/ 1. Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash. Example: When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […] 2. Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […]. 3. Money. Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget. 4. Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located. Labels: Canada, countable, usually Example: Let me just bring these to the cash for you. Example: Visit Apple’s jam-packed stores and you won’t see lines at the cash — because every sales clerk is also your cashier, using cellphone card-readers to zip you through. 5. An instance of winning a cash prize. Labels: countable, usually Example: In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI. 6. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. Labels: archaic, countable, usually Example: This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money, Example: She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;
Word: cash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ/, [ˈkʰæʃ], /ˈkaʃ/, /ˈkɛʃ/ 1. To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills. Labels: transitive Example: My single "Lick and Move" had made it to number four on the Top Ten charts, and I had gotten a nice check from Ruthless Rap. I cashed that shit and took Muddah shopping in Midtown and told her to get any damn thing she wanted. 2. To obtain a payout from a tournament. Labels: slang
Word: cash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ/, [ˈkʰæʃ], /ˈkaʃ/, /ˈkɛʃ/ 1. Great; excellent; cool. Labels: slang
Word: cash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa. Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ/, [ˈkʰæʃ], /ˈkaʃ/, /ˈkɛʃ/ 1. The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818. Labels: historical 2. Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin. Labels: historical Example: Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.
Word: cash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See cashier. Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ/, [ˈkʰæʃ], /ˈkaʃ/, /ˈkɛʃ/ 1. To disband. To do away with, to kill. Example: He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.
Word: gash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”). Pronunciation: /ɡæʃ/, /ɡaʃ/, /ɡɛʃ/ 1. A deep cut. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade. Example: Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle. 2. A vulva. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.” 3. A woman. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, uncountable Example: "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.
Word: gash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”). Pronunciation: /ɡæʃ/, /ɡaʃ/, /ɡɛʃ/ 1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash. Example: My leg got gashed.
Word: gash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French gâcher (“to waste, to mess up”) or gâchis (“waste, a mess”), likely borrowed into English by ships' crews in the 19th century. Became increasingly vulgar by association with Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ɡæʃ/, /ɡaʃ/, /ɡɛʃ/ 1. Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft. Labels: UK, countable, slang, uncountable Example: […] each man was on 'gash duty' about once in eighteen days. Example: You will learn flight safety, aircraft duties, uniform, SEP, oxyCrew, gash cart, safety card, bar seals, life jacket, diagram, uplift, C209, plonky kit, Crew lounge! 2. Nonsense. Labels: UK, countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: I hope you don't mind, but instead of “a load of gash” in this paragraph, could we say, “completely without merit”? 3. Something low quality. Labels: UK, countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: This new one he's got for free off a friend (I think), but it's absolute gash. It's huge and doesn't fit in with the deco of the room, but because he's got it for nowt he's not arsed about that. Example: When you load up the game, the first thing you notice is that it looks like complete and utter gash. Everything is made up of ugly blocks. 4. Unused film or sound during film editing. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 5. Poor-quality beer, usually watered down. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: gash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French gâcher (“to waste, to mess up”) or gâchis (“waste, a mess”), likely borrowed into English by ships' crews in the 19th century. Became increasingly vulgar by association with Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ɡæʃ/, /ɡaʃ/, /ɡɛʃ/ 1. Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted. Labels: UK, not-comparable, slang, vulgar 2. Spare, extra. Labels: UK, dated, not-comparable, slang Example: "All gash kit? There won't be no trouble with the books?"
Word: gash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ghastful, by association with gash. Pronunciation: /ɡæʃ/, /ɡaʃ/, /ɡɛʃ/ 1. ghastly; hideous Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: dash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush. Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃ/, [ˈdæʃ] 1. To run quickly or for a short distance. Labels: intransitive Example: He dashed across the field. Example: As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained. 2. To leave or depart. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: I have to dash now. See you soon. 3. To destroy by striking (against). Labels: transitive Example: He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight. Example: There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel. 4. To throw violently. Labels: transitive Example: The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident. Example: If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound. 5. To sprinkle; to splatter. Labels: ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes Example: On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall. Example: The very source and fount of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night. 6. To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality. Labels: dated, transitive Example: to dash wine with water 7. To ruin; to destroy. Labels: transitive Example: Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage. Example: Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund. 8. To dishearten; to sadden. Labels: transitive Example: Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy. 9. To complete hastily. Labels: transitive Example: He dashed down his eggs. Example: She dashed off her homework. 10. To draw or write quickly; jot. Labels: transitive Example: "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe. Example: Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table. 11. Damn (in forming oaths). Labels: dated, euphemistic, transitive Example: Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?
Word: dash Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush. Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃ/, [ˈdæʃ] 1. Damn! Labels: euphemistic
Word: hash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæʃ/, [ˈhæʃ] 1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. Example: Near-synonym: scramble Example: I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. 2. A confused mess. Example: Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again. 3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). Example: The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned. 4. The result generated by a hash function. 5. One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate. 6. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing. Example: October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. 7. A hash run. Example: Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children. 8. A stupid fellow. Labels: Scotland
Word: hash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”). Pronunciation: /ˈhæʃ/, [ˈhæʃ] 1. To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. Labels: transitive Example: In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford. Example: I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.] 2. To make a quick, rough version. Example: We need to quickly hash up some plans. Example: Buchman’s device is to hash together successfully the “good” words—democracy, peace, morality and God—packaging them in a few cliches. 3. To transform according to a hash function. Labels: transitive Example: Recall that our goal with the distributed Merkle tree (DMT) is to hash together all the messages sent during the execution of the distributed algorithm, in such a way that a node can produce openings for its own sent messages. 4. To make a mess of (something); to ruin. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: [Julie Jacquette]: "All right, you've hashed it. I knew damn well you should have stayed in the other room. Now he knows he'll have to kill you too." 5. Ellipsis of hash noise. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: hash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of hashish. Pronunciation: /ˈhæʃ/, [ˈhæʃ] 1. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: brash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæʃ/, [ˈbɹʷæʃ] 1. Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless. Example: a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour Example: Mrs. Mayfield looked away, and the girl stricken with remorse, hastened to her and said: “There, I have been too brash, haven’t I? You must forgive me for I didn’t intend to be brash.” “Brash, my dear? What do you mean by that?” She laughed. “Why, I thought everybody know’d what brash meant. Well, it’s er—too quick to say somethin’ you oughtn’t to say.” 2. Overly bold, impetuous or rash. Example: […] just because you’re a little hot under the collar, don’t do anything brash, for fear you may regret it afterward. Example: Now, Mr. Reed, you’ve committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste by bypassing the standard channels. 3. Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way. Example: brash colours Example: a brash perfume
Word: brash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæʃ/, [ˈbɹʷæʃ] 1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A sudden burst of rain. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An attack or assault. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: brash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæʃ/, [ˈbɹʷæʃ] 1. To disturb. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: brash Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare American English bresk, brusk (“fragile, brittle”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæʃ/, [ˈbɹʷæʃ] 1. Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables). Labels: US, colloquial, dated Example: Hickory axles […] all cut from tough butt logs. Brash timber is excluded. Example: Brash wood, when tested in bending, breaks with a short, sharp fracture instead of developing a splintering failure and absorbs a comparatively small amount of work between the elastic limit and final failure
Word: brash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare American English bresk, brusk (“fragile, brittle”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæʃ/, [ˈbɹʷæʃ] 1. Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Alluvium differs from the rubble or brash, just described, as being composed of sand and gravel, more or less rolled 3. Broken fragments of ice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The sea dashed in an angry surf over its inclined sides, rattling the icy fragments or “brash” against its irregular surface
Word: clash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian klatskje (“to smack, slap”), West Frisian kletse, kletskje, Dutch kletsen (“to smack, slap, clash”), German Low German klattsen, klatsken (“to smack, splash”), German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”), Danish klaske (“to clash, splatter”). Pronunciation: /ˈklæʃ/, [ˈkʰl̥æʃ] 1. A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash. Labels: countable, onomatopoeic, uncountable Example: I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans. Example: Alone amid clashes of rain against the house. 2. A skirmish, a hostile encounter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point. At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre. Example: Protesters took to the streets and stormed federal buildings. At least 77 people died in violent clashes between protesters and police and then-Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli was forced to resign. 3. match; a game between two sides. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales. 4. An angry argument. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: clash of beliefs Example: culture clash 6. A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange. 7. An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Chatter; gossip; idle talk. Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable 9. A heavy fall (of rain); heavy rain. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, possibly, uncountable Example: clay soils ploughed in Autumn must often meet with heavy clashes of rain before frost: therefore , those salutary effects, expected to be derived from a frosty Winter, must often be frustrated, by the land being too much condensed by the rains before the frost comes on. Example: T' taties offer't ta be a grand crop et forend, bet then seea mitch clash an caald wes again em, an thaev tean up varra smo, […]
Word: clash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian klatskje (“to smack, slap”), West Frisian kletse, kletskje, Dutch kletsen (“to smack, slap, clash”), German Low German klattsen, klatsken (“to smack, splash”), German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”), Danish klaske (“to clash, splatter”). Pronunciation: /ˈklæʃ/, [ˈkʰl̥æʃ] 1. To make a clashing sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The cymbals clashed. 2. To cause to make a clashing sound. Labels: transitive Example: Thorfinn clashed his shield against Vallon's and swung his axe to hook Vallon's ankle. 3. To come into violent conflict. Labels: intransitive Example: Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game. 4. To argue angrily. Labels: intransitive Example: My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota. 5. To face each other in an important game. Labels: intransitive Example: The veteran American legend claims he and Welsh two-weight world champion Calzaghe will clash on 20 September, probably at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas. 6. To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize. Labels: intransitive Example: You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers. Example: The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet. 7. To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all. Labels: intransitive Example: I can't come to your wedding because it clashes with a friend's funeral. Example: I wanted to take German, but it clashed with art on the timetable. 8. To chatter or gossip. Labels: Scotland, intransitive 9. To play Clash Royale or Clash of Clans. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Dude, are we clashing tonight? Example: Let's clash before bedtime.
Word: sash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”). Pronunciation: /sæʃ/ 1. A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist. 2. A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions. 3. Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people.
Word: sash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”). Pronunciation: /sæʃ/ 1. To adorn with a sash. Labels: transitive Example: 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46, […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
Word: sash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis. Pronunciation: /sæʃ/ 1. The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. Example: Near-synonym: casement Example: One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone. 2. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows. 3. The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate. 4. A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people. Example: Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […] Example: […] it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when the sash is pulled down.
Word: sash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis. Pronunciation: /sæʃ/ 1. To furnish with a sash. Labels: transitive Example: The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,
Word: quash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quaschen, quasshen, cwessen, quassen, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassāre, under the influence of cassō (“to annul”), from Latin quatiō (“to shake”) Cognate with Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), Spanish quejar (“to complain”). Pronunciation: /kwɒʃ/, /kwɑʃ/, /kwɔʃ/ 1. To defeat decisively, to suppress. Example: The army quashed the rebellion. Example: Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief. 2. To crush or dash to pieces. Labels: obsolete Example: The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. 3. To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). Example: In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.
Word: psycho- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- From Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-), combining form of ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.kəʊ/, [ˈsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯], /ˈsaɪ.koʊ/, [ˈsʌɪ̯.koʊ̯], /ˈsɑe.kəʉ/ 1. Relating to the soul, the mind, or to psychology. Labels: morpheme Example: This endeavour forms the core of Daniel Pick's fascinating study of the mobilisation of psychoanalysis not only for the Allied war effort, but for a postwar world momentarily seduced by the idea that war and violence might be eridicated by a bit of psycho-science.
Word: meal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”). Pronunciation: /ˈmiːl/, [ˈmɪi̯l] 1. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. Labels: countable Example: Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal. Example: c1450, Secreta Secretorumː He that will cast meal upon meal is not able to have (a) long life. 2. Food served or eaten as a repast. Labels: countable Example: a1450, The Macro Playsː If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me. Example: This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger, / It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . 3. A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: They [tape recorders] can be turned off while officers are on meal or in the car to protect their private conversations […] Example: “I was on meal when I heard the call on the radio and recognized the address. What the hell?” 4. A time or an occasion. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: Ye wolde wepe at every mele; But for my sone wepe ye never a dele. You would weep at every meal, but for my son you never weep a deal. Example: […] by occasion whereoff thai woll than at every mele groche with the kinge […] […] by occasion whereof they will, then at every meal, grouch with the king […]
Word: meal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *melwą Proto-West Germanic *melu Old English melu Middle English mele English meal From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian moal, Dutch meel, German Mehl, Albanian miell, Proto-Slavic *melvo (“grain to be ground”) (Bulgarian мливо (mlivo)), Dutch malen (“to grind”), German mahlen (“to grind”), Old Irish melim (“I grind”), Latin molō (“to grind”), Tocharian A/B malywët (“you press”)/melye (“they tread on”), Lithuanian málti, Old Church Slavonic млѣти (mlěti), Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”). More at mill. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːl/, [ˈmɪi̯l] 1. The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. 2. Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: meal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *melwą Proto-West Germanic *melu Old English melu Middle English mele English meal From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian moal, Dutch meel, German Mehl, Albanian miell, Proto-Slavic *melvo (“grain to be ground”) (Bulgarian мливо (mlivo)), Dutch malen (“to grind”), German mahlen (“to grind”), Old Irish melim (“I grind”), Latin molō (“to grind”), Tocharian A/B malywët (“you press”)/melye (“they tread on”), Lithuanian málti, Old Church Slavonic млѣти (mlěti), Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”). More at mill. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːl/, [ˈmɪi̯l] 1. To yield or be plentiful in meal. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Of course the yield of grain was small, but much greater than could have been expected; and, the ears being well filled, it mealed well. The pastures were burnt up, so that there was nothing left for the cattle to eat.
Word: meal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːl/, [ˈmɪi̯l] 1. A speck or spot. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A part; a fragment; a portion.
Word: meal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːl/, [ˈmɪi̯l] 1. To defile or taint. Labels: transitive Example: Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous.
Word: lunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms of luncheon include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin. In contrast, the more common sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”). Pronunciation: /lʌnt͡ʃ/, /lʌnʃ/, [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ] 1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. 2. A break in play between the first and second sessions. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery. Example: “Oh, you mustn’t dream of going home without your tea,” cried Anne in distress. “I’ll get it right off—I’ll go and put the tea down this very minute.” “I must go home,” repeated Diana, stupidly but determinedly. “Let me get you a lunch anyhow,” implored Anne. “Let me give you a bit of fruit-cake and some of the cherry preserves. […]” 4. A thin piece or hunk (of bread, meat, etc.) Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: lunch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms of luncheon include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin. In contrast, the more common sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”). Pronunciation: /lʌnt͡ʃ/, /lʌnʃ/, [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ] 1. To eat lunch. Labels: intransitive Example: I like to lunch in Italian restaurants. Example: The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. 2. To treat to lunch. Labels: transitive Example: We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.
Word: dinner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪnə/, /ˈdɪnɚ/, /ˈdɪnːa/ 1. The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb. Example: 1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Philips Interactive Media (publ.). I wonder what's for dinner. 2. An evening meal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had some friends to dinner two nights ago. Example: Do I have to change for dinner? 3. A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor. Example: It was already late for school, so the boy took his time and only arrived in the village when Heidi came home for dinner. […] "Come to the table now and eat with us. Then you can go up with Heidi, and when you bring her back at night, you can get your supper here." 4. A meal given to an animal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Give the dog its dinner. 5. A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My family gathers twice a year, namely at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners. Example: When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. 6. The food provided or consumed at any such meal. Labels: uncountable
Word: dinner Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɪnə/, /ˈdɪnɚ/, /ˈdɪnːa/ 1. To eat a dinner; to dine. Labels: intransitive Example: Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp. 2. To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine. Labels: transitive Example: 1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181, She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club. Example: ‘The Irish were awful anyway,’ Lady Wolseley said, ‘and their not attending the season should be greeted with relief. The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them. The truth is that no one wants to marry their daughters, no one at all.’
Word: ea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Compare English aqua. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”). Pronunciation: /ˈiː(ə)/ 1. A river or watercourse. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
Word: ea Part of Speech: det Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. Alternative form of ea. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of elephant. Pronunciation: /ˈɛliː/ 1. Elephant. Labels: informal
Word: SVT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of supraventricular tachycardia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of standard variable tariff. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable