nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip. Pronunciation: /daɪv/ 1. To swim under water. Labels: intransitive Example: He dove in the water to save her. 2. To jump into water head-first. Labels: intransitive Example: It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. 3. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. Labels: intransitive Example: to dive into home plate 4. To descend sharply or steeply. Labels: intransitive Example: [the Hammersmith & City at Paddington]: There it dived underground, eventually enabling its train services to run over, and be entangled with, the easterly extensions of the Metropolitan and the District. 5. To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft. Labels: intransitive 6. To undertake with enthusiasm. Labels: especially, intransitive Example: She dove right in and started making improvements. 7. To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised. 8. To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation. 9. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water. Labels: transitive Example: To dive an infant either thrice or but once in Baptism 10. To explore by diving; to plunge into. Labels: transitive Example: The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of flame. Example: The green lane is the school-boy's friend, / Low leaves his quarrel apprehend, / […] / The brimming brook invites a leap, / He dives the hollow, climbs the steep. 11. To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: dive into the Concerns of all about them Example: Google says this lets AI Mode recommend more diverse sources, produce deeper answers to more complex queries, dives deeper – and you have the ability to ask follow-up questions.
Word: dive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip. Pronunciation: /daɪv/ 1. A jump or plunge into water. Example: the dive of a hawk after prey 2. A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. Example: The 24-year-old Brazilian hurdler Joao Vitor de Oliveira progressed to the Rio competition’s semi-finals by executing a Superman-style dive headfirst over the finishing line – beating South Africa’s Antonio Alkana by one hundredth of a second. 3. A downward swooping motion. 4. A swim under water. 5. A decline. 6. A seedy bar, nightclub, etc. Labels: slang 7. Aerial descent with the nose pointed down. 8. A deliberate fall after a challenge.
Word: dive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian dive; see diva. Pronunciation: /ˈdiːveɪ/ 1. plural of diva Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dive Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of daeva. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: dived Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ̯vd/ 1. simple past and past participle of dive (scuba diving) Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. past participle of dive (jump head-first) Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *dūbaną? Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ Proto-West Germanic *dūbā Old English *dūfe Middle English douve English dove From Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō). Pronunciation: /dʌv/, /dʊv/ 1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred species of the family Columbidae. Labels: countable Example: Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations. 2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. Labels: countable Example: On the left are the activist Vietniks, eager to protest the war; next are the doves, who oppose the U.S. role but shun demonstrations; and in the middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand. 3. A term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. Labels: countable Example: O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice. 4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Ellipsis of love dove (“a tablet of the drug ecstasy”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang
Word: dove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A modern formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove. Pronunciation: /dəʊv/, /doʊv/ 1. simple past of dive Labels: Canada, US, dialectal, form-of, past Example: 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude. 2. past participle of dive Labels: form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
Word: lech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from lecher. Pronunciation: /lɛt͡ʃ/ 1. A strong, lecherous desire or craving. Labels: slang 2. A lecher. Labels: slang
Word: lech Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from lecher. Pronunciation: /lɛt͡ʃ/ 1. To behave lecherously. Labels: slang
Word: lech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Welsh llech (“slate, slab”). Pronunciation: /lɛk/ 1. The capstone of a cromlech.
Word: did Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪd/ 1. simple past of do Labels: form-of, past Example: Jeez, did I make a mistake! Example: I never did like her much. 2. past participle of do; done Labels: Southern-US, especially, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: […]But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that." Example: We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?
Word: done Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do. Pronunciation: /dʌn/, /dʊn/, /duːn/ 1. Having completed or finished an activity. Example: He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done." Example: They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived. 2. Completed or finished. Example: I'll text you when the movie's done. 3. Ready, fully cooked. Example: As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat. 4. Being exhausted, used up, or fully spent. Example: When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days. 5. Without hope or prospect of completion or success. Example: He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish. 6. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful. Example: I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done! Example: What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up! 7. Finished with (something). Labels: Canada, Philadelphia, Scotland, predicative Example: I'm done my homework. 8. Punished. Labels: colloquial Example: I can say what I like now because I am mental and I can't get done for it. Example: Normally, when you pass a law in New Zealand, you can't be done for it if you broke the law in the past.
Word: done Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do. Pronunciation: /dʌn/, /dʊn/, /duːn/ 1. past participle of do Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: There's nothing to be done. 2. simple past of do; did. Labels: dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, past Example: I knew I done the right thing and I'd do it all over again. Example: Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love." 3. Used in forming the perfective aspect; have. Labels: Cockney, Southern-US, auxiliary Example: I woke up and found out she done left. Example: I done made some real bad choices with my life
Word: done Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do. Pronunciation: /dʌn/, /dʊn/, /duːn/ 1. Expresses that a task has been completed. 2. Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc. Example: Riker: Would you be interested in selling me the ore you're carrying? / Yog: No. I have a buyer. / Riker: You haven't heard my offer. Half a gram of Anjoran biomimetic gel. / Yog: Done.
Word: done Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English don; equivalent to do + -en (plural simple present ending). 1. plural simple present of do Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural, present Example: The while their Foes done eache of hem ſcoꝛne. Example: O you Cæleſtiall euer-liuing fires, That done inflame our hearts with high deſires; […]
Word: done Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dəʊn/ 1. Clipping of methadone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable Example: on the done
Word: done Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dhoni. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ductility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ductile Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English ductility From ductile + -ity. Pronunciation: /dʌkˈtɪlɪdi/ 1. Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: exeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”. 1. A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery). 2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. 3. Leave of absence from a public school or college. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, dated Example: [I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school. 4. A stage direction to leave the stage. Labels: obsolete
Word: fire Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Germanic *fōr Proto-West Germanic *fuir Old English fȳr Middle English fyr English fire From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Cognates See also Scots feier, fyre (“fire”), Yola vier, vire (“fire”), Saterland Frisian Fjuur, Fjúur (“fire”), West Frisian fjoer (“fire”), Alemannic German Füür (“fire”), Bavarian Feia (“fire”), Central Franconian Fauer, Feier, Füür (“fire”), Cimbrian bôar, vaür, vôar (“fire”), Dutch vier, vuur (“fire”), German Feuer (“fire”), German Low German Füer, Füür (“fire”), Luxembourgish Feier (“fire”), Mòcheno vaier (“fire”), Vilamovian faojer (“fire”), West Flemish vier (“fire”), Yiddish פֿײַער (fayer, “fire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fyr (“fire”), Icelandic funi (“fire”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌽 (fōn, “fire”). Also, compare Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”), Greek πυρ (pyr, “fire”), Latin pūrgō (“to clean, cleanse, clear, purge, purify”), Umbrian 𐌐𐌉𐌓 (pir, “fire”), Bulgarian фир (fir, “ooze, pickle, soak”), Polish perz (“smoke”), Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur, “fire”), Luwian 𒉺𒀀𒄷𒌋𒌨 (pāhūr, “fire”), Tocharian A/B por/puwar (“fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre. Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.ə/, [ˈfaɪ̯ə], [ˈfaː(ə)], [ˈfɑː(ə)], /ˈfaɪ.ɚ/ 1. Amazing; excellent. Labels: not-comparable, predicative, slang Example: This is fire, keep up the amazing work!
Word: fire Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian fioria (“to light a fire”), Saterland Frisian fjuurje (“to fire”), Middle Dutch vûren, vueren, vieren (“to set fire”), Dutch vuren (“to fire, shoot”), Old High German fiuren (“to ignite, set on fire”), German feuern (“to fire”). Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.ə/, [ˈfaɪ̯ə], [ˈfaː(ə)], [ˈfɑː(ə)], /ˈfaɪ.ɚ/ 1. Command to shoot with firearms.
Word: drew Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɹuː/, /dɹuʊ̯/ 1. simple past of draw Labels: form-of, past Example: Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow. Example: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. 2. past participle of draw Labels: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
Word: drawn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Morphologically draw + -n. Pronunciation: /dɹɔːn/, /dɹɔn/, /dɹɑn/ 1. past participle of draw Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
Word: drawn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Morphologically draw + -n. Pronunciation: /dɹɔːn/, /dɹɔn/, /dɹɑn/ 1. Depleted. 2. Depleted. Example: The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form. 3. Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw. 4. Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion. Labels: in-compounds Example: tractor-drawn implement
Word: dreamt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream English -t English dreamt From dream + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɛmt/ 1. simple past and past participle of dream Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dreamt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream English -t English dreamt From dream + -t. Pronunciation: /dɹɛmt/ 1. Imagined or only extant in a dream or dreams. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dreamed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɹiːmd/ 1. simple past and past participle of dream Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains. Example: [Charlie Brown:] Last night I dreamed about that little red-haired girl […]
Word: drank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of drink. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæŋk/, [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷæŋk], [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷæŋk], /ˈdɹeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ŋk] ~ [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷeɪ̯ŋk] 1. Dextromethorphan. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 2. A drink, usually alcoholic. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: You leave your drink around me, believe your drank going to get drunk up.
Word: drank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English drank, from Old English dranc, from Proto-West Germanic *drank. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæŋk/, [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷæŋk], [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷæŋk], /ˈdɹeɪ̯ŋk/, [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ŋk] ~ [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷeɪ̯ŋk] 1. simple past of drink Labels: form-of, past Example: He drank a lot last night. 2. past participle of drink Labels: form-of, informal, obsolete, participle, past Example: He'd drank alcohol prior to driving off the road. Example: Tho’ the Barber had drank down this Story with greedy Ears, he was not yet ſatisfied.
Word: drunk Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn. Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/ 1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. Example: So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart. Example: "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!" 2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication. Labels: derogatory 3. Elated or emboldened. Labels: usually Example: Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle. Example: drunk with recent prosperity 4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. Example: I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Word: drunk Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn. Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/ 1. While drunk. Example: He was arrested for driving drunk.
Word: drunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn. Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/ 1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol. Example: She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to. 2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. Example: Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire. 3. A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind. Example: He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything. 4. A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness. Example: Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas. Example: I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]. 5. A drunken state. Example: Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
Word: drunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn. Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/ 1. past participle of drink Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past of drink Labels: Southern-US, form-of, past
Word: drove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive. Pronunciation: /dɹəʊv/, /dɹoʊv/ 1. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. 2. A large number of people on the move. Labels: broadly, figuratively, plural-normally Example: in droves 3. A group of hares. Labels: collective 4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway. 5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. 6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface. 7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
Word: drove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”). Pronunciation: /dɹəʊv/, /dɹoʊv/ 1. simple past of drive Labels: form-of, past Example: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. Example: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. 2. past participle of drive Labels: dialectal, form-of, participle, past Example: Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence. Example: Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both ſides.
Word: drove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”). Pronunciation: /dɹəʊv/, /dɹoʊv/ 1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. Example: He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh. Example: He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle. 2. To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. Labels: transitive
Word: driven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *drībaną Proto-West Germanic *drīban Old English drīfan Middle English driven English drive English -en English driven From drive + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪvn̩/ 1. past participle of drive Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: driven Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *drībaną Proto-West Germanic *drīban Old English drīfan Middle English driven English drive English -en English driven From drive + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪvn̩/ 1. Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals. Example: highly driven Example: driven person 2. Formed into snowdrifts by wind. (of snow)
Word: dwell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen English dwell From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”). Pronunciation: /dwɛl/ 1. A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. 2. A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. 3. A planned delay in a timed control program. 4. In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
Word: dwell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen English dwell From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”). Pronunciation: /dwɛl/ 1. To live; to reside. Labels: intransitive, literary Example: I am fully resolved to go dwell in another house. Example: The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. 2. To linger (on); to remain fixated. Labels: intransitive Example: Stop dwelling on the past! Example: So it came about that long ere Ailie reached home it was on young Heriotside that her mind dwelled, and it was the love of him that made her eyes glow and her cheeks redden. 3. To be in a given state. Labels: intransitive 4. To abide; to remain; to continue. Labels: intransitive Example: My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue. Example: I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
Word: dwelt Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdwɛlt/ 1. simple past and past participle of dwell Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Word: dwelled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dwɛld/ 1. simple past and past participle of dwell Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: eat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ētą (“food, thing to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with West Frisian iten (“food”), Saterland Frisian Íeten (“food”), German Aas (“carrion”), Vilamovian aosa (“food”), Icelandic át (“eating; solid food”). Pronunciation: /iːt/, /it/ 1. Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. Labels: colloquial Example: Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.
Word: eaten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.tn̩/, [ˈiː.tn̩], [ˈiː.ʔn̩] 1. past participle of eat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eaten Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.tn̩/, [ˈiː.tn̩], [ˈiː.ʔn̩] 1. Having been consumed by eating. Labels: especially, in-compounds
Word: fell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-. Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”). Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. Labels: transitive Example: Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Example: Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge. 2. To strike down, kill, destroy. Labels: transitive Example: Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that had felled its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had felled. Example: "Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop." 3. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat. Example: To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.
Word: fell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-. Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”). Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. A cutting-down of timber. 2. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. 3. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. Example: Cut the first 2 warp ends in half and tie each pair together with an overhand knot, snug (but not tight) against the fell.
Word: fell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fell, fel, vel, from Old English fel, fell (“hide, skin, pelt”), from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pél-no- (“skin, animal hide”). See also West Frisian fel, Dutch vel, German Fell, Latin pellis (“skin”), Lithuanian plėnė (“skin”), Russian плена́ (plená, “pelt”), Albanian plah (“to cover”), Ancient Greek πέλλᾱς (péllās, “skin”). Related to film, felt, pell, and pelt. Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. Skin, hide, pelt. Labels: archaic, rare Example: For he is fader of feith · fourmed ȝow alle / Bothe with fel and with face. Example: Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy.
Word: fell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fell, felle, from Old Norse fell (fjall, fiæl, “mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line”), from Proto-Germanic *felzą, *fel(e)zaz, *falisaz (compare German Felsen 'boulder, cliff', Middle Low German vels 'hill, mountain'), from Proto-Indo-European *pels-; compare Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla, “stone”), Pashto پرښه (parṣ̌a, “rock, rocky ledge”), Sanskrit पाषाण (pāṣāṇa, “stone”). Doublet of fjeld. Cognates includes: Danish fjeld (fjæld), Faroese fjall (fjøll), Icelandic fjall (fell), Norwegian fjell (fjøll, fjødd, fjedd, fjedl, fjill, fill, fil, fel), Swedish fjäll (Old Swedish fiæl). Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line. 2. A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia. Labels: Scotland Example: Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors. Example: The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. 3. A wild field or upland moor. Labels: Scotland Example: As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; Example: The night continued beautifully clear and fine, and as we came into the fell country the outlines of the hills showed up dark against the starlit sky.
Word: fell Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fel, fell (“strong, fierce, terrible, cruel, angry”), either from Old French fel or from Old English *fel, *felo, *fæle (“cruel, savage, fierce”) (only in compounds, wælfel (“bloodthirsty”), ealfelo (“evil, baleful”), ælfæle (“very dire”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *fali, *falu, from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“wicked, cruel, terrifying”). Cognate with Old Frisian fal (“cruel”), Middle Dutch fel (“wrathful, cruel, bad, base”), German Low German fell (“rash, swift”), Danish fæl (“disgusting, hideous, ghastly, grim”). Compare also Middle High German vālant (“imp”) and Dutch fel (“fierce, feisty, bitter”). See felon. Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. Example: one fell swoop Example: […]While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. 2. Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal 3. Very large; huge. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal 4. Eager; earnest; intent. Labels: obsolete Example: I am so fell to my business.
Word: fell Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English fel, fell (“strong, fierce, terrible, cruel, angry”), either from Old French fel or from Old English *fel, *felo, *fæle (“cruel, savage, fierce”) (only in compounds, wælfel (“bloodthirsty”), ealfelo (“evil, baleful”), ælfæle (“very dire”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *fali, *falu, from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“wicked, cruel, terrifying”). Cognate with Old Frisian fal (“cruel”), Middle Dutch fel (“wrathful, cruel, bad, base”), German Low German fell (“rash, swift”), Danish fæl (“disgusting, hideous, ghastly, grim”). Compare also Middle High German vālant (“imp”) and Dutch fel (“fierce, feisty, bitter”). See felon. Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. Sharply; fiercely.
Word: fell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Latin fel (“gall, poison, bitterness”), or more probably from the adjective above. Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. Anger; gall; melancholy. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Example: I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. / What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent / This night!
Word: fell Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
Word: fell Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɛl/, /fel/ 1. simple past of fall Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of fall Labels: colloquial, form-of, participle, past Example: For I have heard that my Enemies have fell into that ſnare which they laid for mee. They which would have taken away my life have loſt their own;[…] Example: I ſhould have fell overboard, or been killed by the enemy ; for having ſo many things to carry along with me, which I knew not how to uſe[…]
Word: fallen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Morphologically fall + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːlən/, /ˈfaːlən/, /ˈfɔlən/, /ˈfɑlən/ 1. past participle of fall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fallen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Morphologically fall + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːlən/, /ˈfaːlən/, /ˈfɔlən/, /ˈfɑlən/ 1. Having dropped by the force of gravity. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: fallen raindrops 2. Killed, especially in battle. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a ceremony to honor fallen soldiers Example: the disposal of fallen livestock 3. Having lost one's chastity. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a fallen woman Example: Madam Julia was the town's ranking prostitute; virtuous female society demanded that they not suffer the unbearable pain of looking at, and being in company with, a fallen woman— one of the happiest, fallenest women in history, by the way. 4. Having collapsed. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: a fallen building 5. Having lost prestige, (Christian) grace, etc. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: That fallenest of our fallen race has left town — said to be near Fontainebleau by some, in Italy by others. More consequent with himself than usual, he is fulfilling, in the only possible way left open to him, his promise […]
Word: fallen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Morphologically fall + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːlən/, /ˈfaːlən/, /ˈfɔlən/, /ˈfɑlən/ 1. The dead. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Casualties of battle or war. Labels: plural, plural-only 3. One who has fallen, as from grace. Labels: countable Example: In the Augustinian period, however, sin was held to be a death-inflicting agent, implying that the fallen was dead, and had to be restored to life.
Word: fed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of federal. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛd/, [ˈfɛd] ~ [ˈfe̞d], [ˈfɛd], /ˈfed/, [ˈfed] ~ [ˈfe̞d] 1. A federal government officer or official. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster! Example: A person is saying that the protester shot in the head by the feds with non lethals is in the hospital, doctors saying they don’t think they will make it. Holy fuck, I’m speechless. 2. A police officer. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang Example: Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station. 3. The federal government of the nation one resides in. Labels: in-plural Example: Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
Word: fed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From federation. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛd/, [ˈfɛd] ~ [ˈfe̞d], [ˈfɛd], /ˈfed/, [ˈfed] ~ [ˈfe̞d] 1. A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete. Labels: slang 2. Clipping of federation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: fed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From federation. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛd/, [ˈfɛd] ~ [ˈfe̞d], [ˈfɛd], /ˈfed/, [ˈfed] ~ [ˈfe̞d] 1. Clipping of federate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: fed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛd/, [ˈfɛd] ~ [ˈfe̞d], [ˈfɛd], /ˈfed/, [ˈfed] ~ [ˈfe̞d] 1. simple past and past participle of feed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: feed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder. Pronunciation: /fiːd/, [fɪjd] 1. To give (someone or something) food to eat. Labels: transitive Example: Feed the dog every evening. Example: If thine enemy hunger, feed him. 2. To eat (usually of animals). Labels: intransitive Example: Spiders feed on gnats and flies. Example: “The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat;[...] 3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. Labels: ditransitive Example: Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby. Example: Feed the fish to the dolphins. 4. To give to a machine to be processed. Labels: transitive Example: Feed the paper gently into the document shredder. 5. To supply (a machine) with something to be processed. Labels: transitive Example: We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data. 6. To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Example: feeding him with the hope of liberty 7. To supply with something. Labels: transitive Example: Springs feed ponds with water. Example: The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed 8. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. Labels: transitive Example: If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Example: Once in three years, or every other year, feed your mowing-lands. 9. To pass to. Labels: transitive Example: Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post 10. To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule). Labels: transitive Example: Nasalization feeds raising. 11. To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule). Labels: transitive Example: This orthodox analysis […] leads to the conclusion that […] Subject–Auxiliary Inversion (SAI) is fed by the contraction operation.
Word: feed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”). Pronunciation: /fiːd/, [fɪjd] 1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals. Labels: uncountable Example: They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses. 2. Something supplied continuously. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a satellite feed 3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the paper feed of a printer 4. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A meal. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial, countable Example: 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […] Example: "There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants." 6. A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities. Labels: countable Example: They held a crab feed on the beach. 7. online content presented sequentially: Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable Example: I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites. 8. online content presented sequentially: Labels: Internet, countable, often, uncountable Example: Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets. Example: I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request. 9. A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]
Word: feed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /fiːd/, [fɪjd] 1. simple past and past participle of fee Labels: form-of, participle, past