nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Wien Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Wien (“Vienna”); a habitational surname for the city. Doublet of Vienna. 1. A surname from German. 2. Alternative form of Vienna: the capital and largest city of Austria. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The growth of Wien’s population during the first twelve months of the Nazi régime was due neither to biological reasons nor to immigration, but was caused by an extension of the administrative territory of the city. Example: Liebscher & Hübel and Neudorfer Griensteidl Hahnkamper & Stapf have until recently worked in co-operation but Dr Christoph Liebscher’s move to Wien to open an office has emphasised the incompatibility of two Kanzleien from the same city forming a close partnership.
Word: tupo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deliberate typographical error for typo. Compare tpyo. 1. A typographical error. Labels: humorous
Word: automagic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of automatic + magic; from the principle (often called Clarke's third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 1. A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be magic. Labels: uncountable
Word: water tap Part of Speech: noun 1. A spout connected to a socket to provide water from the main water supply.
Word: relocatable power tap Part of Speech: noun 1. A multi-socket power cord that can be used to channel electricity from a single socket.
Word: power tap Part of Speech: noun 1. A multi-socket plug that can be used to channel electricity from a single socket.
Word: relocatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English locate English relocate Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English relocatable From relocate + -able. 1. That can be relocated. Example: [Thoreau Type GWM Mid Age] Seeks similar independent person relocatable to idylic ^([sic]) remote area. Interests must include self sufficiency, honesty, value of quality of life over monetary gain. 2. That can be relocated. 3. That can be relocated.
Word: relocatable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English locate English relocate Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English relocatable From relocate + -able. 1. A temporary building that can be dismantled and set up in another location.
Word: circumvention Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin circumventio, equivalent to circumvent + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈvɛnʃən/ 1. The act of evading or going around (bypassing). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a school in which he learns sly circumvention
Word: mater lectionis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin māter lēctiōnis (literally “mother of reading”), calque of Medieval Hebrew אֵם קְרִיאָה (ʾēm qərîʾā). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪtə lɛktiˈəʊnɪs/, /ˈmeɪtɚ lɛktiˈoʊnɪs/ 1. A consonant letter used to represent a vowel sound in Semitic scripts.
Word: googlewhack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on January 8, 2002. 1. A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words. Labels: Internet
Word: googlewhack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on January 8, 2002. 1. To search for something using Google, resulting in a single hit. Labels: Internet, rare, transitive
Word: googly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; perhaps derived from googie (“an egg, in reference to the unusual direction of bounce”). Though the delivery was perfected and made famous by English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, circa 1900, the term is recorded earlier in Australian English (1896). Pronunciation: /ˈɡʉːɡli/, /ˈɡuɡli/ 1. A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery. Example: His weakness in batting is against googly. Example: He bowled a googly that sparked a shout for LBW.
Word: googly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from goo-goo (“amorous”), or directly from goggle. Attested from 1901. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʉːɡli/, /ˈɡuɡli/ 1. Bulging. Example: “A shtinker,” the bug-eyed man said more loudly. […]“B'seder, fine, a shtinker rabbi,” the googly-eyed man amended, rubbing his lower gut. “But can’t you tell he’s an informer?” 2. Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious. Labels: sometimes, usually Example: ‘Torture my foot! You think it’s torture for a man to ask his wife for attention? God save me from stupid women!’ – my father limped downstairs to make googly eyes at Colaba girls. Example: “Attractive enough? You should see how the mothers here act around him.” She sighed. “Everyone goes all googly when he’s around.”
Word: googly eyes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of googly eye Labels: form-of, plural
Word: googly eyes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of googly eye Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: smeg Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A clipping of smegma, popularised by the British sitcom Red Dwarf. Pronunciation: /smɛɡ/ 1. Used as a swear word. Labels: slang
Word: smeg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A clipping of smegma, popularised by the British sitcom Red Dwarf. Pronunciation: /smɛɡ/ 1. To mess up. Labels: slang Example: "Sorry I smegged up your face, man." Curry shrugged. Example: My finances are completely smegged.
Word: spake Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English spake, spak, from Old Norse spakr (“wise, gentle, quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *spakaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peǵ- (“to understand; intelligent, attentive”). Cognate with Swedish spak (“manageable”), Danish spag (“quiet, gentle, timid, tame”). Pronunciation: /speɪk/ 1. Quiet; tame. Labels: obsolete 2. Ready; prompt. Labels: obsolete
Word: spake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spak, from Old English spæc, first and third person singular past tense of specan (“to speak”). More at speak. Pronunciation: /speɪk/ 1. simple past of speak Labels: archaic, form-of, past Example: And God ſpake vnto Noah, ſaying, / Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy ſonnes, and thy ſonnes wiues with thee:[…] Example: He answered me with pleasure and surprise; / And there was, while he spake, a fire about his eyes.
Word: spake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alternative form. Pronunciation: /speɪk/ 1. Alternative form of spoke (of a wheel). Labels: Scotland, alt-of, alternative
Word: spake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a variant of spoke, which has a variety of extended senses in English dialects and in Scots (including a tree branch or cutting, a windmill's arm, a birdcage's perch, and a bar for carrying a coffin), though none closely matching this. Pronunciation: /speɪk/ 1. A type of wagon on rails used for carrying workers in and out of a colliery. Labels: Wales
Word: lonely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lone + -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊnli/, /ˈloʊnli/, /ˈləʉnli/, /ˈlɐʉnli/, /ˈloːnli/ 1. Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people. Example: At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song Example: Well, since my baby left me, Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel. Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, baby Well, I'm so lonely I'll be so lonely, I could die. 2. Unfrequented by people; desolate. Example: Only to those to whom in lonely passes in the night the gods have spoken, leaning through the stars, to those that have heard the voices of the gods above the morning or seen Their faces bending above the sea, only to those hath it been given to see Sardathrion, to stand where her pinnacles gathered together in the night fresh from the dreams of gods. Example: […] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo. 3. Without companions; solitary. Example: By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
Word: intimation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French intimation, from Latin intimatio. By surface analysis, intimate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈmeɪʃən/ 1. A hint; an indirect suggestion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Example: At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter. 2. The act of intimating. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Announcement; declaration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. 4. The thing intimated. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Romeo and Juliet couple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the eponymous characters in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. 1. A couple who have married without their parents' consent. 2. By analogy with the two Shakespearean characters, a couple consisting of one member from each of two opposing families, parties, or countries. Example: There are, for example, the Romeo and Juliet couples, who come from warring or enemy nations and escape to a neutral third country […] Example: The incidence there was especially high among Indian and Pakistani teens, Romeo-and-Juliet couples.
Word: hope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn; further etymology unclear. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian, West Frisian hoopje (“to hope”), Cimbrian hòffan (“to hope”), Dutch hopen (“to hope”), German, Luxembourgish hoffen (“to hope”), Vilamovian höfnan (“hope”), Yiddish האָפֿן (hofn, “to hope”), Danish håbe (“to hope”), Norwegian Bokmål håpe (“to hope”), Norwegian Nynorsk håpa, håpe (“to hope”), Swedish hoppas (“to hope”). Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊp/, /ˈhoʊp/, /ˈhəʉp/, /ˈhɐʉp/, /ˈhop/ 1. To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not]. Example: They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will. Example: He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine. 2. To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)]. Labels: catenative Example: I hope to succeed. Example: I hope to be going back again soon. 3. To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for]. Labels: intransitive Example: They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good. Example: I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise. 4. To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in]. Labels: intransitive Example: I hope in thy word. Example: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God. 5. To wish. Labels: dialectal, nonstandard, transitive Example: I hope you all the best.
Word: hope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder. Old English tōhopa Old English hopa Middle English hope English hope From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope. Eclipsed non-native early modern English esperance, borrowed from Middle French esperance. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊp/, /ˈhoʊp/, /ˈhəʉp/, /ˈhɐʉp/, /ˈhop/ 1. The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack. Example: After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise. 2. The actual thing wished for. Labels: countable 3. A person or thing that is a source of hope. Labels: countable Example: We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table. 4. The virtuous desire for future good. Labels: uncountable Example: But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Word: hope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊp/, /ˈhoʊp/, /ˈhəʉp/, /ˈhɐʉp/, /ˈhop/ 1. A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland
Word: hope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊp/, /ˈhoʊp/, /ˈhəʉp/, /ˈhɐʉp/, /ˈhop/ 1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges. 2. A small bay; an inlet; a haven. Labels: Scotland Example: Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope. Example: A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea[…]It was called Wolf's Hope (i.e. Wolf's Haven).
Word: plosive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of explosive. Pronunciation: /ˈpləʊsɪv/, /ˈpləʊzɪv/, /ˈploʊsɪv/, /ˈploʊzɪv/ 1. A speech sound produced by opening a closed vocal tract.
Word: plosive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of explosive. Pronunciation: /ˈpləʊsɪv/, /ˈpləʊzɪv/, /ˈploʊsɪv/, /ˈploʊzɪv/ 1. Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage.
Word: bandana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बंधन (bandhan, “the act of binding, a bond”), from Sanskrit बध्नाति (badhnāti, “he binds”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, bond”). Related to Hindi बाँधना (bāndhnā, “to tie”). Doublet of bind. Pronunciation: /bænˈdæn.ə/ 1. A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband. Example: Neighbours now came hurrying in, and one after another missed some trifling article of property which the deceased was known to have possessed. There were three thin spoons, real silver, on which she greatly prided herself; they were gone. A large silver watch, together with a red silk shawl and a Bandana handkerchief, very regular parts of her Sunday attire, were also not to be found. Example: One cure for a headache involved binding the stalk of the herb crosswort to the head with a red bandana[.] 2. A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
Word: conviction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English conviction, from Anglo-Norman conviction, from Latin convictiō, from convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Equivalent to convict + -ion. Pronunciation: /kənˈvɪkʃən/, [kənˈvɪkʃən] ~ [kənˈvɪkʃn̩] 1. A firmly held belief. Labels: countable Example: "...I imagined...that the husband of the lady might very easily be in Russia while his wife's health might necessitate her wintering in Egypt..." "But my mother thinks not. My mother thinks there is not a husband at all,—that there never was a husband. In fact my mother has very strong convictions on the subject..." Example: It is of the nature of the intellectual's job that he must use his own knowledge and convictions in performing his daily task. 2. A judgement of guilt in a court of law. Labels: countable Example: He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer. 3. The state of being wholly convinced. Labels: uncountable Example: Analogies are used in aid of Conviction: Metaphors, as means of Illustration. Example: The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back. 4. The state of being found or proved guilty. Labels: uncountable Example: From G. R. Ratts , Game Warden , fines collected on conviction of violation of State game law . Example: I do not know of any Federal statute which carries with it forfeiture of citizenship or civil rights except this one that we are discussing, which is conviction of desertion committed in time of war and conviction of treason.
Word: waive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. Labels: transitive Example: If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. Example: Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane. 2. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. Labels: transitive 3. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. Labels: Canada, US, transitive Example: Nearly 1,200 players will be cut, waived, or sent packing, and the scramble to land on a practice squad or catch on elsewhere will move fast. Example: Jaden Ivey has played his last game in Chicago, with the Bulls waiving Ivey following his controversial comments on social media about the LGBTQ community. 4. To put aside, avoid. Labels: archaic Example: […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others 5. To outlaw (someone). Labels: obsolete 6. To abandon, give up (someone or something). Labels: obsolete Example: but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
Word: waive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. To move from side to side; to sway. Labels: obsolete 2. To stray, wander. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: waive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above. Pronunciation: /weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wæɪv/, /wev/, [weːv] 1. A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman. Labels: obsolete 2. A waif; a castaway. Labels: obsolete Example: But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
Word: Zumbi Part of Speech: name 1. The famous leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares, located in Brazil, South America.
Word: Zumbi Day Part of Speech: name Etymology: The celebration date is from November 20, 1695; the date of Zumbi's death. 1. November 20, the day of Zumbi's celebration. Usually only celebrated in Rio de Janeiro.
Word: demogogue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós), but with o instead of a by influence of the combining form demo- (“the people”), as in democracy, from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”). 1. Misspelling of demagogue. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: hoopla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Earlier houp-la, hoop la, first attested in c. 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (“upsadaisy, upsy-daisy”), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely onomatopoeic origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo. Pronunciation: /ˈhuːplɑ/ 1. A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night Example: Campers enjoyed all of the traditional camp hoopla: color wars, shared team games with other camps and young eager college students spending their summer as counselors. 2. A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Martha's Vineyard Part of Speech: name Etymology: This was originally the name given to a smaller island to the south by the English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, who sailed to the island in 1602. The island is thought to have been named after Gosnold's mother-in-law or his daughter, both named Martha. 1. An island of Dukes County, Massachusetts, famous for once being home to one of the earliest known deaf communities. Example: Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).
Word: dearth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested at least as early as the late 1300s, and appearing in Tyndale’s Pentateuch (1530) as well as the Coverdale Bible (1535). From Middle English derth, derthe, derþe, probably from Old English *dīerþ, *dīerþu, from Proto-West Germanic *diuriþu, from Proto-Germanic *diuriþō (“costliness, preciousness, honour”); corresponding to dear + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Saxon diuriða (“glory, honour; preciousness”), West Frisian djoerte (“love, dearness, value, worth”), Dutch duurte (“dearness; scarcity, dearth”), Icelandic dýrð (“honour, glory”). Pronunciation: /dɜːθ/, /dɝθ/ 1. A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Scarcity; a lack or short supply. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what. Example: And faine would hee, if he could tell how, haue plentie in his own fields, and scarcity in other mens; superfluitie at home, and dearth abroade, that hee might sell his corne at the dearer rate 3. Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Whatsoever doth remaine for money, let Money-mongers, supply when they will. And I referre to Politicians to dispute among themselves whether the dearth of all things which most complaine of doeth proceede from plenty of gold and silver since the late discoveries, or from Monopolies, and combinations of Merchants and Craftsmen, or from Transportation of graine, or from pleasure of great personages, which doe most highly rate such things as they most like, or excesse in private persons, or to all these conjointly. Example: O God,heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitfull, beasts increase, and fishes do multiply: behold, we beseech thee, the afflictions of thy people, and grant that the scarcity and dearth (which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquitie) may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty…
Word: dearth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested at least as early as the late 1300s, and appearing in Tyndale’s Pentateuch (1530) as well as the Coverdale Bible (1535). From Middle English derth, derthe, derþe, probably from Old English *dīerþ, *dīerþu, from Proto-West Germanic *diuriþu, from Proto-Germanic *diuriþō (“costliness, preciousness, honour”); corresponding to dear + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Saxon diuriða (“glory, honour; preciousness”), West Frisian djoerte (“love, dearness, value, worth”), Dutch duurte (“dearness; scarcity, dearth”), Icelandic dýrð (“honour, glory”). Pronunciation: /dɜːθ/, /dɝθ/ 1. To cause or produce a scarcity in something. Labels: dated, obsolete, transitive
Word: polyandry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + -andry. 1. A form of polygamy where a woman is married to two or more husbands simultaneously. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The mating pattern whereby a female copulates with plural males. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Sexual relations with multiple males, by a female or a male, human or nonhuman, within or without marriage. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. The condition of having many stamens. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Olyroos Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Olympic + kangaroos. 1. The Australian Olympic soccer team.
Word: intra- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder. Latin *interus Latin intrābor. English intra- Borrowed from Latin intrā (“within”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.tɹə/ 1. Within a single entity indicated by the root word: Labels: morpheme Example: intraclade Example: intracoalition 2. Within a single entity indicated by the root word: Labels: morpheme Example: intrabone Example: intracardiac 3. Within a single entity indicated by the root word: Labels: morpheme Example: intraoperational Example: intradiurnal 4. Within a single entity indicated by the root word: Labels: morpheme Example: intrajudge Example: intradoctor 5. A direction that is inward or into the location indicated by the root word. Labels: morpheme Example: intracavitary Example: intracloacal 6. Indicating that the root is internal in nature. Labels: morpheme Example: intramarry Example: intranet 7. In between two entities: Labels: morpheme Example: intrachiral Example: intraploidy 8. In between two entities: Labels: morpheme Example: intramedian Example: intragalactic 9. In between two entities: Labels: morpheme Example: intramercurial Example: intrapetiolar 10. The interior of the region indicated by the root. Labels: morpheme Example: intracalvarium Example: intracranium 11. A part of the root entity. Labels: morpheme Example: intramountain Example: intradiegetic 12. In alignment or synchronous with the root entity. Labels: morpheme Example: intrametric Example: intradirective
Word: vineyard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to vine + yard; from Middle English vyneȝerd (circa 1300), following earlier Old English wīnġeard (“wine yard, vine yard”), with vine (from Old French vigne (“vine, vineyard”), from Latin vīnea) replacing native Old English wīn (“wine, vine”). The earlier wīnġeard may have had the sense of “vine” already, with /w/ → /v/ facilitated by common v-/w- interchange. Compare Dutch wijngaard (literally “wine garden”) and German Weingarten alongside contracted Wingert. (Dutch gaard, German Garten are cognate to English yard.) Pronunciation: /ˈvɪn.jɚd/, /ˈvaɪn.jɑrd/, /ˈvɪn.jəd/, /ˈvɪnˌjɑːd/ 1. A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine. Example: The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the world's greatest and most sought-after red wines. Example: A vineyard is flooded in Walnut Grove on January 4.
Word: vine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ̯n/, [ˈvaɪ̯n] 1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining. 2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground. 3. A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana. Example: This was a full-on jungle, full of all kinds of creepy things - snakes, spiders. They expected Tarzan to come swinging by on a vine. Example: I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders. 4. A climbing plant that produces grapes. Labels: UK, especially Example: They picked the grapes off the vine. Example: Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows. 5. Any plant of the genus Vitis.
Word: grapevine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grape + vine. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪp.vaɪn/ 1. The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow. Example: Although many grapevines have geographical names, these rarely reflect their real origin, if known at all. 2. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip. Example: I heard through the grapevine that Jim will be leaving soon. Example: The Bat—they called him the Bat. […] Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her. 3. A rumor. Labels: rare Example: The legend, like all army grapevine, got around to me. Example: The grapevine was that the reason for the school closure was to do with the fact that a lot of students from Bonda had absconded to go to war because Bonda was close to the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 4. A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns. 5. A leglock. 6. A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).
Word: grapevine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From grape + vine. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪp.vaɪn/ 1. To restrain in a leglock. Labels: transitive Example: From the top he grapevined his leg around Tibbits' leg and planted his elbow in his opponent's opposite side. Example: The Low Mount is the position where your hips are tight to your opponent's and your legs are usually grapevined or locked underneath his. 2. To drape or curl around adjacent objects. Labels: transitive Example: This results from the plug wires being grapevined around each other too closely. Example: I drove around town looking at the limp glitter of Christmas decorations grapevined around traffic lights which just blinked after a certain hour, even on a Friday night. 3. To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving. Labels: intransitive Example: Up on the stage, the dancers twirled and whirled in time to the music and then grapevined across the broad expanse and exited stage left. Example: The underwear-baker grapevined down the length of the display and grabbed a to-go box from the stack on top of it. 4. To score mortar at a joint. Labels: transitive Example: The bridge is faced with rusticated stone and grapevined mortar joints, a trademark of WPA-built structures in southeast Colorado, and features beveled stone piers, corbeled copings and tapered voussoirs for the arches. Example: Generally the mortar line was “grapevined” (scored) and “penciled” (the score painted with a fine white line), which separated each brick. 5. Of information, to spread as a rumor. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: For several years, as Mr. Watson's challenge gradually grapevined its way through the business world, many business groups asked Mr. Russell to speak at their directors' meetings and conventions. Example: But the story grapevined around to Marshal Petain. 6. Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The doctor's orders were soon grapevined around the league, and all the bench jockeys on the circuit were quickly counting ten on every pitch Lefty made. Example: His flock had already grapevined the what and why. 7. To link up through an informal communication network. Labels: transitive Example: But with the Negro foster homes in Pasadena grapevined together, the circumstances of little Narva did not make anyone enthusiastic about taking her into their homes.
Word: plantation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō. Pronunciation: /plænˈteɪʃən/ 1. A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles. Example: Across the street from the church, which is lovingly known as Mother Emanuel, is Marion Park. Until recently, this where a statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun, a slaveowner and staunch supporter of antebellum plantation slavery, stood. […] Drayton Hall, one of the oldest surviving plantations in the South, actively encourages visitors to pay respects at the African-American cemetery on site. 2. An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She used to bound through the plantations, her eye first caught by one object, then another, gazing round for something to admire and to love. Now she walked slowly, her eyes fixed on the ground, as if, in all the wide fair world, there was nothing to attract nor to interest. 3. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Had I plantation of this Iſle my Lord. 4. A colony established thus. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States) Example: The King of Beni, the Lord of seven Kingdomes hath written to mee for Baptisme : but I cannot forsake these two Kings till I have other helpe. This Countrey is as healthfull as any I ever came in, and Sierra Leona would be a fit place for a plantation of the Society : for which King Philip wrote to the Catholike King, offering a place to erect a Fort, and commending the largenesse, wholsomnesse, and fertilitie of his Countrey.
Word: Ravana Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit रावण (rāvaṇa). 1. The king of the asuras, ruler of Lanka and killed by Rama in Ramayana. Labels: Hinduism
Word: speck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”). Pronunciation: /spɛk/ 1. A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt. Example: a tiny speck of soot Example: Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse’s collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master. 2. A very small amount; a particle; a whit. Example: He has not a speck of money. Example: not a speck of truth in her story. 3. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
Word: speck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”). Pronunciation: /spɛk/ 1. To mark with specks; to speckle. Labels: transitive Example: paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture Example: Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained, […]
Word: speck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spik, from Proto-Germanic *spiką (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik. Pronunciation: /spɛk/ 1. Fat; lard; fat meat. Labels: uncountable 2. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. Labels: uncountable 3. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. Labels: uncountable 4. The fat of the hippopotamus. Labels: uncountable
Word: ritual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin rītuālis (adjective), from rītus (“rite”) + -ālis. Displaced native Old English ġewuna and wuna. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ 1. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions. Example: They performed the ritual lighting of the candles. Example: These verses are the basis for the practice of wearing a prayer shawl (tallit) with a ritual fringe (tzitzit) on each of its four corners
Word: ritual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin rītuālis (adjective), from rītus (“rite”) + -ālis. Displaced native Old English ġewuna and wuna. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ 1. A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The priests carried out the religious ritual carefully. Example: Despite their good intentions, family members who participate in OCD rituals help reinforce the problem.
Word: consultation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French consultation, from Latin consultatio. Morphologically consult + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnsəlˈteɪʃən/, [ˌkɒnsɫ̩ˈteɪʃn̩], /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, [ˌkɑnsɫ̩ˈteɪʃn̩], /ˌkɔnsəlˈtæɪʃən/ 1. The act of consulting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Plans were prepared under the auspices of the L.S.W.R. by W. R. Galbraith and R. F. Church, with J. F. Greathead in consultation, for a deep-level electric line on the tube principle, 1½ miles long, from a point under the main-line terminus at Waterloo to the eastern end of Queen Victoria Street, […]. Example: Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night. 2. A conference for the exchange of information and advice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Last month I went to a "consultation" on racism and sexism sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. It was the first of a series of five conferences designed to bring people together fighting racism and sexiam ^([sic]) to discuss […] 3. An appointment or meeting with a professional person, such as a doctor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: 16 Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of 1620 (“1620° spin”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 2. A verse of 16 lines.
Word: 18 Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of 1800 (“1800° spin”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: 33 Part of Speech: noun 1. A gramophone record played at 33⅓ revolutions per minute.
Word: 40 Part of Speech: noun 1. A bottle containing 40 fluid ounces of malt liquor beer. Labels: US, slang Example: [Chorus:Michael Marshall] I got 5 on it (got it, good), grab your 40 let’s get keyed. I got 5 on it, messin’ with that Indo weed. Example: But when it's all said and done, I'll be forty / Before I know it with a 40 on the porch tellin' stories
Word: 45 Part of Speech: noun 1. A gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute. Example: Once he almost fell asleep, and then the little record player started up in his mother and father's bedroom. Mom was playing her scratchy Elvis 45s again.
Word: 45 Part of Speech: name 1. Nickname for Donald Trump, American businessman and politician, as the forty-fifth president of the United States. Labels: US, slang Example: So, given the ever growing list of J6ers that are real estate agents...has anyone looked into whether they attended whatever grift it was that 45 had going about training folks to be real estate agents? (Tonight's random thought)
Word: 69 Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sixty-nine. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: 69 Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of sixty-nine. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: They spent all day in their room, injecting and 69ing, injecting and 69ing. Example: if the Bananas in Pajamas would have somehow teleported themselves to our arena, walked out to midcourt, started 69ing, and then finished each other off with a couple rusty trombones before sprouting wings and flying away[…]
Word: 78 Part of Speech: noun 1. A gramophone record played at 78 revolutions per minute. Labels: retronym Example: She swallowed hard, and her arm jerked sideways, knocking over a table lamp, which fell onto the record player, where our favourite 78 was spinning round.
Word: 88 Part of Speech: noun 1. Ellipsis of German 88 (“WWII German 88mm anti-aircraft artillery piece”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, dated, ellipsis
Word: 93 Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Derived through isopsephy. 1. A numerological abbreviation of the phrase "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"; used as a greeting.
Word: 96 Part of Speech: noun 1. The 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: But the families of the 96 still feel that justice has not been done, and fight on. Example: AS part of our Hillsborough Remembered coverage, we've been asking for your tributes to the 96 and messages of support for those still fighting for Justice twenty-two years on.
Word: 99 Part of Speech: noun 1. An ice cream cone with a chocolate flake inserted into the ice cream. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: "Two 99s please. And your story." The ice cream was in insulated compartments and he scooped it out […] Example: 'Two 99s for you, young man. A Fab? Yes, here you are, madam. A Mivvi coming up.' As he handed over the ices, the kids ran or just sauntered off. I don't know if the ice-cream man thought some adult was going to appear and pay for the lot, […]
Word: brinkmanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brink (“border, edge”) + -manship (suffix denoting expertise, involvement, or special status in an area). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪŋk.mən.ʃɪp/, /ˈbɹɪŋk.mənˌʃɪp/ 1. The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The diplomat accused the other nation’s leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations’ shared border. Example: They say that in ancient times the Romans used to take cold showers before deciding on important questions. Perhaps, this should be recommended to some excessively ardent supporters of the policy of brinkmanship.
Word: reclude Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkluːd/ 1. To open; to unblock. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To close off, to confine. Labels: reflexive, transitive 3. To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc. Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.
Word: recluded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reclude Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: book burning Part of Speech: noun 1. A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship. Labels: countable, literally, uncountable 2. Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material. Labels: broadly, countable, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)
Word: intramural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin intramuralis, from intra (“within”) + muralis (“of a wall”). 1. Within the walls; within one institution, particularly a school. Example: Intramural sports involve teams that are all within the same school. 2. Within the substance of the walls of an organ. Example: intramural pregnancy
Word: intramural Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin intramuralis, from intra (“within”) + muralis (“of a wall”). 1. A (usually sports) competition between teams belonging to the same school.
Word: immure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/ 1. To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. Labels: transitive Example: The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara. Example: [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter. 2. To put or bury within a wall. Labels: transitive Example: John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum. Example: The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities. 3. To wall in. 4. To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring. Labels: transitive Example: 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296, On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.
Word: immure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/ 1. A wall; an enclosure. Labels: obsolete Example: […]Troy, within whose strong emures[…]
Word: midway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”). Pronunciation: /mɪdweɪ/ 1. The middle; the midst. 2. A middle way or manner; a mean or middle path between extremes. Example: Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway Twixt these extreames at all. Example: Paths indirect, or in the midway faint. 3. The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated. Labels: US 4. The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned. Labels: US
Word: midway Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”). Pronunciation: /mɪdweɪ/ 1. Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle. Labels: not-comparable Example: He told me to identify a good midway point at which I could pause the job. Example: A: Where's the ship at currently? B: It is midway.