nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: obscene Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French obscene (modern French obscène (“indecent, obscene”)), and from its etymon Latin obscēnus, obscaenus (“inauspicious; ominous; disgusting, filthy; offensive, repulsive; indecent, lewd, obscene”). The further etymology is uncertain, but may be from ob- (prefix meaning ‘towards’) + caenum (“dirt, filth; mire, mud”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyn- (“to make dirty, soil; filth; mud”)) or scaevus (“left, on the left side; clumsy; (figurative) unlucky”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-). If from caenum, the unexpected extra -s- may be from a variant form of the original PIE root; a similar -s- exists in ex-. Pronunciation: /əbˈsiːn/, /əbˈsin/ 1. To act or speak in an obscene manner; to offend. Labels: ambitransitive, rare Example: They passed the little stenchy cubicles shared by two families to a floor, and the graffiti gratuitously graven onto the walls, obscening the world and telling it, them, those, the fuzz, and everyone to go and . . . Example: That always came as a final apotheosis, showing Phil deep in hell, growling through Greek fire and blue smoke – that is to say, locked upstairs in the bathroom, obscening at her as he never in his life obscened at anybody in public, strangling her with his two fists, shoving her head down into the W.C. and pulling the chain on her for good and all.
Word: obscenity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obscene + -ity, from Latin obscenitas. 1. Something that is obscene. Labels: countable Example: Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!" 2. An act of obscene behaviour. Labels: countable Example: Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community. 3. Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word. Labels: countable Example: Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat. Example: Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference. 4. Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material. Labels: uncountable Example: The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry. Example: Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned. 5. The fact of being obscene. Labels: uncountable Example: Henia Flint Goodman, a Holocaust survivor,spoke in outrage against the obscenity of anti-abortion literature which compares a woman's free choice to have an abortion with the crimes of the Nazi state.
Word: obscurity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English obscurite, obscuryte, from Middle French obscurité and its etymon Latin obscūritās. By surface analysis, obscure + -ity. Pronunciation: /əbˈskjʊəɹɪti/, /əbˈskjɔːɹɪti/, /əbˈskjʊɹɪti/, /əbˈskjɝɪti/ 1. Darkness; the absence of light. Labels: countable, literary, uncountable Example: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity. Example: I walked in, and Stroeve followed me. The room was in darkness. I could only see that it was an attic, with a sloping roof; and a faint glimmer, no more than a less profound obscurity, came from a skylight. 2. The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was plucked from obscurity to star in a Broadway musical. Example: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments[…]; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity. 3. The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: obsolescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obsolēscēns present participle of obsolēscere. Pronunciation: /ˌɒb.səˈlɛs.əns/, /ˌɑb.səˈlɛs.əns/, /ˌɔb.səˈles.əns/, /ˌɒb.səˈles.əns/, [ˌɔ̟b.səˈles.əns] 1. The state of being obsolete—no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected. Labels: uncountable Example: Apart from this feature the Trichoptera also differ from the typical Neuroptera in the relatively simple, mostly longitudinal neuration of the wings, the absence or obsolescence of the mandibles and the semi-haustellate nature of the rest of the mouth-parts. Example: One way is to legislate extended warranties on products, so washing machines and refrigerators last for 30 years instead of 10. Another is to ban planned obsolescence, so manufacturers can’t create products that are designed to fail. 2. The process of becoming obsolete, outmoded or out of date. Labels: countable Example: Shared obsolescences can be of some significance when connected with a functional replacement. If two languages replace an earlier word for 'nose' with some other term and also lose the traditional term, this double agreement is of significance for judging the existence of a common historical period.
Word: fumble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen. Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”. The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“to pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌmbəl/, /ˈfʊmbəl/ 1. To handle nervously or awkwardly. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie. Example: He fumbled the key into the lock. 2. To grope awkwardly in trying to find something Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He fumbled for his keys. Example: He fumbled his way to the light-switch. 3. To blunder uncertainly. Labels: intransitive Example: He fumbled through his prepared speech. 4. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly. Example: to fumble for an excuse Example: My understanding stutters, and my memory fumbles. 5. To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Henderson's best strike on goal saw goalkeeper Kingson uncomfortably fumble his measured shot around the post. 6. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. Example: I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. 7. Of a man, to sexually underperform. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: fumble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen. Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”. The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“to pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌmbəl/, /ˈfʊmbəl/ 1. A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. Labels: Canadian 2. A clumsy sexual encounter. Example: Suzy and Jimmy had a fumble behind the bike shed.
Word: fumble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fool + crumble. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌmbəl/, /ˈfʊmbəl/ 1. A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. Labels: UK
Word: filigree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French filigrane, from Italian filigrana, from Latin fīlum (“thread”) + grānum (“grain”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪl.ɪ.ɡɹiː/ 1. A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, / A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket! Example: There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; […] Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cameos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber. 2. Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear of her again from this moment to the end of time, and that when the great filigree iron gates are once closed on her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. Example: The trees grew so thickly and their foliage spread so widely that I could see nothing of the moon-light save that here and there the high branches made a tangled filigree against the starry sky.
Word: filigree Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French filigrane, from Italian filigrana, from Latin fīlum (“thread”) + grānum (“grain”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɪl.ɪ.ɡɹiː/ 1. To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire. Labels: transitive
Word: sacerdotalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sacerdotal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English sacerdotalism From sacerdotal + -ism. 1. The spirit of the priesthood; devotion to priestly interests; priestcraft. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The belief that priests can act as mediators between God and humankind. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]hey tell fortunes, which practice, confined to a certain caste but forbidden to others, seems to be a kind of sacerdotalism. Example: You make me hate Christianity, or mysticism, or Sacerdotalism, or whatever it may be called, if it’s that which has caused this deterioration in you.
Word: grand-aunt Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of grandaunt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: espouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-. Pronunciation: /ɪˈspaʊz/, /ɪˈspaʊs/ 1. To marry. Labels: transitive Example: For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Example: Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost. 2. To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks. Example: Those that espoused this ideology […]
Word: Miltiades Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Word: off the wall Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of off-the-wall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ethnocentrism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ethno- + -centrism. Pronunciation: /ˌɛθ.nəʊˈsɛn.tɹɪzm̩/ 1. The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Plutarch Part of Speech: name Etymology: Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos). Pronunciation: /ˈpluː.tɑːk/, /ˈplu.tɑɹk/ 1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch. Example: I am indebted to […]those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America. Example: Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.
Word: Plutarch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos). Pronunciation: /ˈpluː.tɑːk/, /ˈplu.tɑɹk/ 1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives Example: Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.
Word: carnivora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin carnivora. 1. Carnivorans. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Naturalists try to arrange the species, genera, and families in each class, on what is called the Natural System. But what is meant by this system? Some authors look at it merely as a scheme for arranging together those living objects which are most alike, and fer separating those which are most unlike; or as an artificial means for enunciating, as briefly as possible, general propositions,—that is, by one sentence to give the characters common, for instance, to all mammals, by another those common to all carnivora, by another those common to the dog-genus, and then by adding a single sentence, a full description is given of each kind of dog. Example: The minds of the great carnivora are therefore little exercised in nature, and do not grow; and, accustomed to power and to seeing all the denizens of the forest quail before them, they do not know what it is to feel a sense of help needed or of favors received.
Word: baseline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From base + line. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪslaɪn/ 1. A line that is a base for measurement or for construction. Example: A laser level generates a convenient baseline for interior work. 2. A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison. Example: We used the last doctor visit to provide baselines for vital statistics. Example: Currently, about fifty million square miles of land on the planet are ice-free, and this is the baseline that's generally used for calculating human impacts. 3. A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs. Example: Several characters typically have descenders below the lower baseline. 4. The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play. Example: The umpire missed the call. The ball hit the baseline. 5. A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference. Example: The baseline configuration includes unsupported components.
Word: baseline Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From base + line. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪslaɪn/ 1. To provide a baseline for measurement. Labels: transitive Example: Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol. Example: To ensure Lojban remains stable while people learn it, the language definition is being closely controlled; the grammar and core vocabulary have already been baselined (frozen) for several years. 2. To play from the baseline. Labels: intransitive Example: By the time Maggie, who is eight years younger than Manuela, started playing, baselining was no longer enough to win points, so she learned to move around the court more …
Word: quiddity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quidite, from Old French quidité, and its source, Late Latin quidditās, from Latin quid (“what”) + -itas (“-ness”) (whence -ity). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪdɪti/ 1. The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with the sun and stars about him. Example: My vision reeked with truth. It had the tone, The quiddity and quaintness of its own Reality. 2. A trifle; a nicety or quibble. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An eccentricity; an odd feature. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
Word: cubby house Part of Speech: noun 1. A child's play house.
Word: copha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a trademark. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊfə/ 1. A vegetable shortening made of coconut oil, used in cooking. Labels: uncountable
Word: nonexistent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + existent. 1. Not existent or existing; not real. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word. Example: His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner. 2. Not present or occurring. Labels: not-comparable Example: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.] Example: The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
Word: nonexistent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + existent. 1. Something that does not exist. Example: By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless.
Word: broadband Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From broad + band. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔːdbænd/, /ˈbɹɔdbænd/, /ˈbɹɑdbænd/ 1. A wideband of electromagnetic frequencies. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem. Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually
Word: broadband Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From broad + band. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔːdbænd/, /ˈbɹɔdbænd/, /ˈbɹɑdbænd/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies Labels: not-comparable
Word: adamantanoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From adamantane + -oid. 1. Having an extended tetrahedral configuration, as in diamond, or adamantane. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of signature. Pronunciation: /sɪɡ/ 1. A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings. Labels: Internet, informal Example: Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude. Example: Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
Word: sig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of signify (“to boast, brag, insult”). Pronunciation: /sɪɡ/ 1. To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: And it is a matter of pride. No Black person wants to be "sigged" about or capped all over. Example: Clearly, signifying ain't lost a beat on the bumpy ride from Africa to America. In fact, it seem like brothas been sigging since they stepped off the boat.
Word: sig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of sigma. Pronunciation: /sɪɡ/ 1. Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations). Example: Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu Example: Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make. Greek alums tend to be big donors. [Phil] Hanlon has shied away from making his reform all Greek life, no doubt to avoid the ire of deep-pocketed former Sig Chis. 2. Short for sigma in phrases like "what the sigma" Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, humorous, slang Example: What the sig is this?
Word: sig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (“to fall”). Pronunciation: /sɪɡ/ 1. Urine. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal, uncountable
Word: puppy love Part of Speech: noun 1. A childish or youthful infatuation with another person. Labels: derogatory, informal, uncountable Example: They're only teenagers; it's hard to take their puppy love seriously. Example: How does a little girl in the second grade who was raised upper-middle class begin to explain that she's fallen into undeniable puppy love with her second grade teacher, Mrs. Dawson?
Word: capability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, [ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ɾi], /ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, [ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ɾi] 1. The power or ability to generate an outcome. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities. 2. A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument. Example: Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.
Word: 'hood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of brotherhood. 1. brotherhood
Word: 'hood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of neighborhood. 1. Alternative form of hood, neighborhood Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: house sitter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of house-sitter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: caption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“to take, to seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæp.ʃən/ 1. The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof. 2. A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc. Example: Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless. 3. A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear. Example: (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event. 4. The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act. 5. A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel). Labels: obsolete Example: 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378). The caption and asportation must be felonious. 6. A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation) Labels: Internet
Word: caption Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“to take, to seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæp.ʃən/ 1. To add captions to a text or illustration. Example: Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it. 2. To add captions to a film or broadcast.
Word: captivate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin captīvātus, the perfect passive participle of captīvō (“to capture”), from Latin captīvus (“captive, prisoner”) (ultimately from capiō (“to capture, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs). Equivalent to captive + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪveɪt/, /ˈkæptəˌveɪt/ 1. To make (a person, an animal, etc.) a captive; to take prisoner; to capture, to subdue. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Hovv ill-beſeeming is it in thy Sex, / To triumph like an Amazonian Trull, / Vpon their VVoes, vvhom Fortune captiuates? Example: Dabuh is the name of a ſimple and baſe creature like a VVolfe, ſaue that his legges and feete are like to a mans: ſo fooliſh, that vvith a ſong, & a Taber, they vvhich knovv his haunt vvill bring him out of his denne, and captiue his eares vvith their muſicke, vvhile another captiuateth his legges vvith a Rope. 2. To capture or control (the mind, etc.); to subdue, to subjugate. Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: Hee hath no skill in Rhetoricke, nor can hee vvith a preface fore-ſtall and captivate the Gentle Readers good vvill: nor careth he greatly to knovve it. Example: They that are vviſe, had rather haue their iudgements at libertie in differences of readings, then to be captiuated to one, vvhen it may be the other. 3. To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Hir ſlippers rauyſhed his eyes, hir bewtye captyuated his mynde, with the swerde ſmote ſhe of his neck. Example: [L]oe thus my ſtrength is tride. / And this I do to captiuate the eye, / Of the faire breeder that is ſtanding by.
Word: captivate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See Etymology 1. Equivalent to captive + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪvət/, /ˈkæptəˌvət/ 1. Made captive; taken prisoner; captured, subdued. Labels: also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: Tuſh, vvomen haue bene captiuate ere novv. Example: VVhat is Gods houſe in Caſtle pent, but like that Arke of bliſſe / In Balaims temple Captivate? Ech place a priſon is.
Word: Mauser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the original designers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser. 1. Any of the firearms made or designed by the German company Mauser, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles. Example: The war has begun, confrontations are escalating across the region, and all his men own are old Mausers.
Word: carat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate and keratin. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.ɹət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ 1. A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls. 2. Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg. Labels: historical 3. A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold. Example: 18-carat gold is 75% gold by mass. 24-carat gold is pure.
Word: purity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas. Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊəɹɪti/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪti/, /ˈpjʊɹɪti/, /ˈpjɝɪti/ 1. The state or degree of being pure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory. Example: She admired the purity of the child’s laughter.
Word: unscriptural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Latin scrīptūrader. Middle English scripture English scripture Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English scriptural English unscriptural From un- + scriptural. 1. Not scriptural. Example: The continuance of these unscriptural terms, without an exact application of them in sermons and catechisms, heathenizes all the common people, nay and great numbers of not unlearned persons.
Word: scriptural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin scrīptūrader. Middle English scripture English scripture English -al English scriptural From scripture + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹəl/, /ˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹəl/, /ˈskɹɪp.ʃɹəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or in accordance with scripture. Labels: not-comparable Example: When explicated in Augustine’s On Christian Teaching or in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the ordo amoris emerges as a concept that is both cogent on its own terms—reciprocal obligations incurred through birth and upbringing are, after all, self-evidently stronger than those we freely undertake through choice or circumstance—and entirely consistent with the moral grammar of the scriptural witness.
Word: scuffer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scuff + -er. 1. An abrasive tool for scuffing the surface of something, such as the tip of a billiard cue. 2. One who scuffs the feet. 3. A London policeman (of the Victorian era). Labels: UK, archaic, slang
Word: cope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”). The noun use went mainstream around 2020. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult. Labels: intransitive Example: Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan. Example: Phyllida Barlow, the sculptor representing the UK at the Venice Biennale, has said that while it may have taken the art world decades to pay attention to her work, the timing of her recognition was perfect, adding: “20 years ago, I wouldn’t have coped.” 2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal. 3. To clip the beak or talons of a bird. Example: the beak and talons should be closely coped
Word: cope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”). The noun use went mainstream around 2020. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation. Labels: slang Example: There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill. Example: My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.
Word: cope Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”). The noun use went mainstream around 2020. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. An expression of spite towards someone who suffered a setback. Labels: derogatory Example: "The other guy cheated, I had no chance!" "Cope." 2. A contemptuous dismissal, implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further. Labels: Internet, derogatory
Word: cope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin cāpa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass. Labels: derogatory Example: […] there went firſt 160 Prieſts, all in their Copes, eight Biſhops next, […] Example: He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls. 2. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle. Labels: derogatory 3. The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc. Labels: derogatory, literary Example: the starry cope of heaven Example: Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,[…]farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet. 4. A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water. Labels: derogatory 5. The top part of a sand casting mold. Labels: derogatory 6. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England. Labels: derogatory
Word: cope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin cāpa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. To cover (a joint or structure) with coping. Labels: derogatory, transitive 2. To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow. Labels: derogatory, intransitive Example: [W]e ſee that wreſtlers onely doe claſpe about, and imbrace one another with their armes; and the moſt part of their ſtriving one againſt another, whether it be performed by taking hold either directly or indirectly, by tripping, by coping and tugging, doe all bring them together, and enterlace them; […]
Word: cope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English copen, borrowed from Middle Dutch copen. Cognate with Dutch kopen, German kaufen. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. To bargain for; to buy. Labels: derogatory, obsolete 2. To exchange or barter. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: [The Patron] Will cope with thee in reasonable wise; That if the living yerely doo arise To fortie pound, that then his yongest sonne Shall twentie have, and twentie thou hast wonne. 3. To make return for; to requite; to repay. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal. 4. To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: I love to cope him in these sullen fits. Example: They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down. 5. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Word: cope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊp/, /ˈkoʊp/ 1. To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits. Labels: derogatory, dialectal, obsolete Example: His nimble ferrets must now become pioners for their master who coupes them, lest they should grow too fat to endure labour. Example: The use of this word is confined to warreners, who are said to 'cope' their ferrets, when they sew or tie up their mouths, to prevent them from biting rabbits, when they are used to drive them from their holes. 2. To silence or prevent from speaking. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, obsolete Example: Well sir? how triflingly soeuer you trauers the matter, these my Philosophicall proceedings (for any thing hitherto heard) might fullie suffice to put your fantasticall fooleries to a perpetuall non-sute: were you not like to the rauenous Ferret, which rendeth in peeces whatsoeuer poore Rabbet doth come in her reach. And therefore it shall not be amisse to cope vp your lips a little, by taking foorthwith so strict a course as you shall neuer be able to contradict with all your skill: which may in this sort be verie fitly effected. Example: And tell me Signior, why when you eate our good cheare i'th City, haue you handſome wide chops, but meeting vs at Court, none; your gumme's glew'd vp, your lips coap'd like a Ferret, not ſo much as the corner of a Cuſtard; if a cold cup, and a dry cheate loaf 'tis well.
Word: coy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English coy, from Old French coi, earlier quei (“quiet, still”), from Latin qu(i)ētus (“resting, at rest”). Doublet of quit, quiet, quite, and quietus. Pronunciation: /kɔɪ/ 1. Bashful, shy, retiring. Labels: dated 2. Quiet, reserved, modest. Labels: archaic 3. Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish. 4. Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way. Example: The ill-bred miss, the bird-brained Jill, / May simper and be coy at will; / A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence. 5. Soft, gentle, hesitating. Example: Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
Word: coy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English coy, from Old French coi, earlier quei (“quiet, still”), from Latin qu(i)ētus (“resting, at rest”). Doublet of quit, quiet, quite, and quietus. Pronunciation: /kɔɪ/ 1. To caress, pet; to coax, entice. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy. 2. To calm or soothe. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To allure; to decoy. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For now there are ſprung up a wiſer generation in this kind, who have the Art to coy the fonder ſort into their nets
Word: coy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare decoy. Pronunciation: /kɔɪ/ 1. A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.
Word: coy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of company. Pronunciation: /kɔɪ/ 1. A company
Word: casino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”). Pronunciation: /kəˈsiːnəʊ/, /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsiːnəʉ/, /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/ 1. A public building or room for gambling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He went to the casino every night till 1:00 am. Example: A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia. 2. A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Quirini [was] knowing in the belles Lettres, & highly skilled in making his Casino comfortable to all the Wits & Blues as we now call them in London. Example: I felt it strange, and regretted it, that so amiable a man should have contracted such dissolute habits, and at this very time, instead of living respectably with his charming Countess, had Baccelli, the superannuated dancing courtesan, in a casino in the neighbourhood. 3. A certain Italian card game for two to four players. Labels: uncountable 4. Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game. Labels: countable
Word: separator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder. Latin sē- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o- Proto-Italic *paro- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *parāō Latin parō Latin sēparō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin sēparātorbor. English separator Borrowed from Latin sēparātor. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/ 1. An object located between two or more things and hence separating them. Example: When applying polish, always use toe separators to keep toes apart. 2. A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk. 3. One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating. Example: Death, the mystery, the great separator of friend from friend and loved one from loved one
Word: complacent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin complacēns (“very pleasing”), present participle of complacēre (“to please at the same time, be very pleasing”), from com- (“together”) + placēre (“to please”); see please and compare complaisant. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpleɪsənt/ 1. Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug. Example: He grew complacent as the years rolled on and the money rolled in. Example: England will feel confident but not complacent against Ukraine, and the shock exit of France to Switzerland shows no-one can be taken lightly. 2. Unduly unworried or apathetic with regard to a need or problem. Example: He tried to paint his audience as complacent, yelling that if they weren't mad as hell then they weren't paying enough attention.
Word: smug Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”). From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal). Compare also Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more. Pronunciation: /smʌɡ/, /smɐɡ/, /smʊɡ/ 1. Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied. Example: Kate looked extremely smug this morning. 2. Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction. Example: a smug look on her face 3. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. Labels: obsolete Example: They be so smug and smooth. Example: the smug and scanty draperies of his style
Word: smug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”). From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal). Compare also Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more. Pronunciation: /smʌɡ/, /smɐɡ/, /smʊɡ/ 1. To make smug, or spruce. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair. 2. to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression. Labels: intransitive Example: 1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables. Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it. "The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure. "I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise." "The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman. "It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities. Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain from murder only so long as they dare not commit it. And the strangest thing about it is that all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign." So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests. 3. To seize; to confiscate. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive 4. To hush up. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive
Word: smug Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /smʌɡ/, /smɐɡ/, /smʊɡ/ 1. The smuggling trade. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Have not they some term by which they distinguish the illicit trade? — They usually call it the Smug-pigeon. Example: The smug-boats have been called centipedes by the Europeans, on account of the great number of oars, with which, like legs, they walk the water.
Word: walkman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman. 1. A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket. 2. Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food. Labels: Philippines, informal, uncountable
Word: tear gas Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtɪə ɡæs/, /ˈtɪː ɡæs/, /ˈtɪɹ ɡæs/ 1. Any lachrymatory, non-lethal chemical compound that causes the eyes to sting and water and/or irritates the respiratory system, mostly used for controlling crowds during riots or as self-defense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Word: tear gas Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtɪə ɡæs/, /ˈtɪː ɡæs/, /ˈtɪɹ ɡæs/ 1. To use tear gas. Example: The riot squad tear gassed the mob.
Word: CS gas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the initials of its creators, Ben Corson and Roger Stoughton. 1. A tear gas formed by mixing o-chlorobenzalmalononitrile powder with a dispersal liquid. Labels: uncountable
Word: CN gas Part of Speech: noun 1. chloroacetophenone used as tear gas for riot control, although it is normally replaced nowadays with CS gas. Labels: uncountable
Word: coil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull. Pronunciation: /kɔɪl/, /kwaɪl/ 1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. Example: the sinuous coils of a snake Example: The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree. 2. Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped). Labels: colloquial Example: ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’ Example: And now, finally, the contraceptive burden would fall on me. After Hayley’s years of toil with a coil, and the pain of childbirth, I was due a little discomfort. 3. A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow. 4. A cylinder of clay. 5. Entanglement; perplexity. Labels: figuratively Example: What trifling coil do we mortals keep; Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.