nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: oddments Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of miscellaneous things. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: It was a terrific mess. On a table against a wall sat a television, a radio, and a computer, and upon every other available surface were scattered countless tools, wires, books and charts and notebooks, disconnected antennas, disassembled gadgets, and various other unrecognizable oddments.
Word: odds and ends Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a dialectal alteration of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end. 1. Miscellaneous things; oddments Labels: idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends. Example: I scraped my palette, stuck my brushes in a bowl of black soap, and I strolled into the smoking-room. I really believe that, excepting Geneviève's apartments, no room in the house was so free from the perfume of tobacco as this one. It was a queer chaos of odds and ends hung with threadbare tapestry.
Word: omnium-gatherum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything. Pronunciation: /ˌɒm.nɪəmˈɡæ.ðə.ɹəm/, /ˌɑm.ni.əmˈɡæ.ðɚ.əm/ 1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. Example: But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums. Example: We live in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design any building in England nowadays is therefore to work under the eye, so to speak, of the Society of Antiquaries.
Word: ragbag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of rag + bag. 1. A bag of rags and scraps. 2. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things; a smorgasbord. Labels: figuratively Example: The pages that constitute "Anna Livia Plurabelle" are surely the most easily decipherable in that masterly and monstrous ragbag of a book. Example: In our ragbag of stereotypes, ostriches have thus become the quintessential dim-witted animals. Even the Bible says they're dumb, and bad parents too. 3. A person (especially a woman) of unclean or untidy appearance. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: Near-synonym: ragtag Example: Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian. The man was all alone in the night—a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial.
Word: dianoetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek διανοητικός (dianoētikós, “pertaining to thinking”), from διανοητός (dianoētós), verbal adjective of διανοέομαι (dianoéomai, “to think”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + νοέω (noéō, “to think, suppose”). Pronunciation: /daɪənəʊˈɛtɪk/ 1. Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual. Example: The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
Word: giver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gevar, gyffare, variants (due to English given (“to give”)) of Middle English yevere, ȝevere, ȝyvere, equivalent to give + -er. Cognate with German Geber (“donor”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪvə/, [ˈɡɪvə], /ˈɡɪvɚ/, [ˈɡɪvɚ] ~ [ˈɡɪvɹ̩] 1. One who gives; a donor or contributor.
Word: recension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin recēnsiō (“enumeration; review; reassessment”), from recēnseō (“to count, reckon; to examine, review; to go over, revise”), from re- (“again”) (from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + cēnseō (“to give an opinion; to suppose, think; to assess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱn̥seh₁-, *ḱn̥seye- (“to announce”)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/, [ɹ̠ʷɪ̈ˈsɛ̃n(t̚)ʃə̃n], [-ˈsɛ̃n(t̚)ʃn̩] 1. A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey. Example: The recenſion of the inhabitants is conſidered, firſt, 'with reſpect to the general population, and to the local diſtribution of them into counties, towns, boroughs, villages, and pariſhes.' Among the conveniences expected from ſuch an annual recenſion, it is obſerved, that 'one might ſee what counties, towns, or pariſhes, diſpeopled faſteſt, or made a contrary progreſs.[…]' 2. A critical revision of a text. Example: Of Theon of Alexandria, there remain a recension of Euclid's Elements, Scholia on Aratus, and a Commentary on the Syntaxis of Ptolemy. Example: That this text is evidently a more antient recension of the same Syriac Gospel of St. Matthew, which, so far as we have the means of tracing it, appears to have been always in use in the Syriac canon, and that the variations in the subsequent recension, called the Peshito, have arisen from comparison with the Greek, by which it has been modified and brought in many places into closer conformity with the Greek; […] 3. A text established by critical revision. Example: The Śatapatha-Bráhmaṇa has been commented in the Mádhyaṃdina recension by Harisvámin and Sáyaṇa; but their commentaries are so far extant only in a fragmentary form. The Vṛihad-Áraṇyaka has been explained by Dviveda Gan̄ga (of Gujarát); and in the Káṇva recension by Śaṃkara, to whose commentary a number of other works by his pupils, &c., attach themselves. Example: The first to publish a complete translation of any Recension of the Book of the Dead was [Samuel] Birch, who in 1867 gave an English version of the Turin papyrus in the fifth volume of [Christian Charles Josias von] Bunsen, Egypt's Place in the Universal History, pp. 123–333. Notwithstanding the fact that the Recension here translated is the Saïte or latest of all, and that the text of the Turin MS. is faulty in many places, Birch's rendering gave a new impulse to the study of the Egyptian religion, and it has formed the groundwork of the translations made by Egyptologists subsequently. 4. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts. Example: The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension. Example: The Russian recension of Old Church Slavonic emerged after the 10th century and was characterized by the substitution of /u/ for the nasal sound /õ/.
Word: peace of mind Part of Speech: noun 1. The absence of mental turmoil or anxiety. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minute's peace of mind. Example: Who can describe the pleasure and delight, the peace of mind and soft tranquillity, the sickly boy felt in the balmy air, and among the green hills and rich woods, of an inland village!
Word: compute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Latin computārelbor. French computerbor. English compute 17th century. Borrowed from French computer, from Latin computō (“calculate, compute”). Doublet of count. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpjuːt/, /kəmˈpjut/, /kəmˈpjʉːt/, /kəmˈpjʉt/, /kŏm.pyʈ/ 1. To reckon, calculate. Labels: transitive Example: Can anyone here compute the square root of 10201? Example: Effulgence of my Glorie, Son belov’d, / Son in whoſe face inviſible is beheld / Viſibly, what by Deitie I am, / And in whoſe hand what by Decree I doe, / Second Omnipotence, two dayes are paſt, / Two dayes, as we compute the dayes of Heav’n, / Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame / Theſe diſobedient[…] 2. To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs) Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Does that compute, or do I need to explain further? Example: Then at the last minute Harris was brought aboard as Dr. Zachary Smith, initially an authentic, lip-curling nogoodnik who, it was presently discovered, could be better used for laughs played off Mumy and a sober-sided robot (“You bubbleheaded booby,” sneers Harris. “That does not compute,” returns the robot dryly).
Word: compute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Latin computārelbor. French computerbor. English compute 17th century. Borrowed from French computer, from Latin computō (“calculate, compute”). Doublet of count. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpjuːt/, /kəmˈpjut/, /kəmˈpjʉːt/, /kəmˈpjʉt/, /kŏm.pyʈ/ 1. Computational processing power (number of operations per unit of time) or computational work (to be) done (number of operations). Labels: uncountable Example: The GPU does not have enough on-chip SRAM memory for the parameters, and doesn't have enough compute to run the entire model in real time. Example: Once you have the total, does it exceed the maximum amount of compute that can be served up in your vCenter environment? It is quite normal for users to consume everything you provide.
Word: ostracize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō, “to banish from a city by ostracism”), from ὄστρᾰκον (óstrăkon, “earthenware vessel; fragment of such a vessel, potsherd”) (from the fact that when voting was held to decide whether to banish people, their names were inscribed on potsherds) + -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō, suffix forming verbs)). The English word is cognate with French ostraciser. Pronunciation: /ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/, /ˈɑstɹəˌsaɪz/, /ˈɒstɹəˌsaɪz/, /ˈɔstɹəsɑez/, [ˈɔ̟stɹəsɑe̯z] 1. To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, historical, transitive Example: Republics have been accused of being ungrateful. Aristides was ostracised for being called the Just, and Themistocles banished, after saving his country from desolation. Example: [T]he person who was ostracised was obliged to leave Athens within ten days after the sentence, and unless a vote of the people recalled him before the expiration of that time, to stay in exile for ten years. 2. To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, broadly Example: You then moſt Noble Equivocations and Alluſions, whom Rhetorick would Oſtraciſe, ſeek Revenge for your Baniſhment; [...] Example: The inflexible advocate[s] of the people's rights, were either expelled the Senate Chamber, ostracised, or immolated on the reeking altars of patriotism, by the encrimsoned sword of slaughtering persecution.
Word: sea change Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Act I, scene ii, of The Tempest (1610–1611) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616), spelling modernized: “Full fathom five thy father lies, / Of his bones are coral made: / Those are pearls that were his eyes, / Nothing of him that doth fade, / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange”. The passage refers to how a drowned man’s body lying on the sea bed had been transformed by the sea. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. A profound transformation; a metamorphosis. Labels: idiomatic Example: Public opinion has undergone a sea change since the 2002 elections. Example: A few days wrought, as it were, a magical "sea change" in everything around us. The late dark and angry sea, lashed up into roaring and swashing surges, became calm and sunny; the rude winds died away; and gradually a light breeze sprang up directly aft.
Word: excellence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia. Pronunciation: /ˈɛksələns/ 1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance Labels: uncountable, usually Example: John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security. 2. Something in which one excels. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: commitment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From commit + -ment. Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪtmənt/, /kəˈmɪtmɪnt/ 1. The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The trait of sincerity and focused purpose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Citizenship in the original Greek concept was not simply the granting of rights to do as one pleased; it also demanded a commitment to serve the interests of the many via personal sacrifice. 7. Perpetration as in a crime or mistake. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. State of being pledged or engaged. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: genius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/, /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/, /ˈd͡ʒi.ni.əs/ 1. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc. Labels: countable Example: She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen! Example: Marx stand höher, sah weiter, überblickte mehr und rascher als wir andern alle. Marx war ein Genie, wir andern höchstens Talente. 2. Extraordinary mental capacity. Labels: uncountable Example: Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products. Example: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. 3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. Labels: uncountable Example: a work of genius Example: to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius 4. The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person. Labels: Roman, also, countable, figuratively Example: and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
Word: genius Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/, /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/, /ˈd͡ʒi.ni.əs/ 1. Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original. Labels: informal Example: What a genius idea! Example: Bjarte Birkeland asserts that the reason why Nynorsk writers of fiction have succeeded in coming so close to naked life is not that they are more genius than authors writing in Bokmal, but that they are using their mother tongue
Word: afferent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”). By surface analysis, af- + -fer + -ent. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.fə.ɹənt/, /ˈæ.fɜː.ənt/ 1. Carrying towards. Labels: not-comparable Example: An afferent nerve carries impulses from the body to the brain.
Word: afferent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”). By surface analysis, af- + -fer + -ent. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.fə.ɹənt/, /ˈæ.fɜː.ənt/ 1. An afferent structure or connection
Word: efferent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin efferēns, present active participle of efferō (“bring or carry out”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”). By surface analysis, ef- + -fer + -ent. Pronunciation: /ˈɛf.ɜː.ɹənt/, /ˈɛf.ə.ɹənt/ 1. Carrying away from. Labels: not-comparable Example: An efferent nerve carries impulses from the brain to the body. 2. Carried outward. Labels: not-comparable Example: Efferent impulses are those conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards.
Word: efferent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin efferēns, present active participle of efferō (“bring or carry out”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”). By surface analysis, ef- + -fer + -ent. Pronunciation: /ˈɛf.ɜː.ɹənt/, /ˈɛf.ə.ɹənt/ 1. A duct or stream that carries away.
Word: grouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively. The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested: * From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin grūs (“crane”). * Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word. * Imitative of the bird’s call. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ɡɹaʊs/, /ɡræɔs/, /ɡræus/ 1. Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. Labels: countable Example: Among fowls for the table [of King Henry VIII] are crocards, winders, runners, grows, and peions, but neither Turky or Guiney-fowl. Example: Looke to 't, young growſe: Ile lay it on, and ſure; / Take 't off who's wull. 2. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. Labels: uncountable
Word: grouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively. The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested: * From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin grūs (“crane”). * Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word. * Imitative of the bird’s call. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ɡɹaʊs/, /ɡræɔs/, /ɡræus/ 1. To hunt or shoot grouse. Labels: intransitive
Word: grouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly borrowed from Norman groucier, from Old French groucier, grousser (“to grumble, murmur”) [and other forms] (whence grutch (“to complain; to murmur”) and grouch). The further etymology is unknown, but it may be derived from Frankish *grōtijan (“to make cry, scold, rebuke”) or of onomatopoeic origin. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɡɹaʊs/, /ɡræɔs/, /ɡræus/ 1. To complain or grumble. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind, Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind; Be handy and civil, and then you will find That it's beer for the young British soldier. Example: Grouse away!" he growled. "If grousin' made a man happy, you'd be the champion."
Word: grouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly borrowed from Norman groucier, from Old French groucier, grousser (“to grumble, murmur”) [and other forms] (whence grutch (“to complain; to murmur”) and grouch). The further etymology is unknown, but it may be derived from Frankish *grōtijan (“to make cry, scold, rebuke”) or of onomatopoeic origin. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɡɹaʊs/, /ɡræɔs/, /ɡræus/ 1. A cause for complaint; a grumble. Labels: informal
Word: grouse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from British dialectal groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian (Scotland)), grosh (northeast Lancashire) and groshy (“having thriving vegetation; juicy and tender; of weather: good for vegetation, rainy”) (Lancashire, Yorkshire), grushie (“having thriving vegetation”) (Scotland); from Scots groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian, obsolete), grush (obsolete), grushie, grushy (“growing healthily or lushly; excellent, very good”) (both archaic), from gross (“lacking refinement, coarse; fat; large”) + -ie (suffix meaning ‘rather, somewhat’). Pronunciation: /ɡɹaʊs/, /ɡræɔs/, /ɡræus/ 1. Excellent. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: I had a grouse day. Example: That food was grouse.
Word: initiate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin initiātus, perfect passive participle of initiō (“to begin, originate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from initium (“a beginning”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from initus (“an entrance, coming in, approach”) + -ium, from ineō + -tus, from in- + eō (“to go”). Cognate with French initier. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.eɪt/ 1. To begin; to start. Labels: transitive Example: How are changes of this sort to be initiated? Example: This is a very strong move, aptly timed. It initiates the tactical conception which routs Black's hopes. 2. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce. Labels: transitive Example: Divine Providence would only initiate and enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her, leaving the rest to employ our industry. Example: to initiate his pupil in any part of learning 3. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies. Labels: transitive Example: The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death. Example: He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. 4. To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative. Labels: intransitive Example: The king himself initiates to the power; Scatters with quivering hand the sacred flour, And the stream sprinkles.
Word: initiate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivization of the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French initié (“an initiate, neophyte”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.ət/, /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.ət/ 1. A new member of an organization. 2. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation. 3. One who is oriented in and familiar with a topic or subject; especially, one who is an expert in it.
Word: initiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin initiātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.ət/, /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.ət/ 1. Unpracticed, untried, new. Labels: obsolete Example: the initiate fear that wants hard use 2. Begun, commenced, introduced to or in the rudiments (of), newly admitted. Labels: obsolete Example: To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.
Word: confabulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin cōnfābulātus, perfect active participle of cōnfābulor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/ 1. To speak casually with; to chat. Labels: intransitive 2. To confer. Labels: intransitive 3. To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory. Labels: ambitransitive Example: "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response."
Word: fantasy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy. Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy. Pronunciation: /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/, [ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əsi], [ˈfænəsi] 1. That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Is not this something more than fantasy? Example: A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory. 2. The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A fantastical design. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. 4. The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: fantasy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy. Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy. Pronunciation: /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/, [ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əsi], [ˈfænəsi] 1. To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine. Labels: transitive 2. To fantasize about (something). Labels: literary, transitive Example: Instead of phantasying marriage, she actually feels that she is already married to the man of her phantasy. Example: Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth. 3. To conceive mentally; to imagine. Labels: intransitive Example: Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient. 4. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Which he doth most fantasy. Example: The kyng fantasied so much his daughter Anne that almost everything began to grow out of frame and good order
Word: necromancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsi/ 1. Divination involving the dead or death. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special. Example: And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead. 2. Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Synonym of necroposting. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable
Word: magi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmæd͡ʒaɪ/, /ˈmeɪd͡ʒaɪ/, /ˈmeɪɡaɪ/ 1. plural of mage Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of magus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /⁠maguš⁠/). Doublet of magus. Pronunciation: /meɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic. 2. Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest. Labels: obsolete Example: While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.
Word: scrofulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin scrōfulōsus. Surface analysis: scrofula + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɒfjʊləs/, /ˈskɹɔfjələs/ 1. Of, related to, or suffering from scrofula (form of tuberculosis tending to cause enlarged lymph nodes and skin inflammation). Labels: dated Example: On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers. Example: The proſtate gland is ſometimes ſcrofulous. I have ſeen, in cutting into it, preciſely the ſame white curdly matter, which takes place in a ſcrofulous abſorbent gland. In ſqueezing it alſo, I have forced from out from its ducts a ſcrofulous pus. 2. Having an unkempt, unhealthy appearance. Labels: figuratively Example: Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids. Example: […] I wrestle with the events of the last two years, picking over the past, looking for the reasons why I find myself here, gazing across a multitude of day trippers, sunburned holidaymakers, squalling children, ignorant matrons perusing their puzzle magazines, scrofulous bank clerks surreptitiously kissing their new girlfriends on the lips as if amazed at their daring. 3. Morally degenerate; corrupt. Labels: figuratively Example: a scrofulous politician Example: It is time, [Steve] Huffman concluded, for the “reprehensible” denizens of the Internet’s scrofulous “dark side” to find another home.
Word: hemopoiesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hemo- + -poiesis. 1. Alternative form of hematopoiesis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: mores Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs. Doublet of moeurs. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːɹeɪz/, /ˈmɔːɹiːz/, /ˈmoɹeɪz/, /ˈmoɹiz/, /ˈmoɹz/ 1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past — a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions. Example: It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society.
Word: mores Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /mɔː.ɹz/ 1. plural of more Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mores Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of more Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Little Red Riding Hood Part of Speech: name Etymology: From little + red + riding hood. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/ 1. A traditional fairy tale recounting the story of a young girl who journeys through the forest to vist her grandmother, only to encounter the Big Bad Wolf, (or, in some archaic versions, another ferocious wolf or werewolf). 2. The girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story.
Word: carpal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin carpālis. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/, /ˈkɑɹ.pəl/ 1. Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).
Word: carpal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin carpālis. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/, /ˈkɑɹ.pəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the carpus. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing. Labels: not-comparable Example: The human wrist contains eight carpal bones and the hand has five metacarpals , but in birds just a couple of tiny carpal bones remain besides the carpometacarpus; these are the radiale and the ulnare, involved in the folding of the wrist joint.
Word: Snow White Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of German Schneewittchen (literally “white as snow”). Pronunciation: /snəʊ waɪt/, /snoʊ(h)waɪt/ 1. A fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is targeted by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs. 2. The main character in that story. Example: The discovery of male Cinderellas and Snow Whites in modern Turkish folklore invites further meditations and investigations. Example: Though it is often up to the Prince Charming of each novel to sweep the Austenian Snow Whites and Cinderellas off their feet, it is often up to the Snow Whites and Cinderellas to teach their respective heroes a little sense—or, in the case of Colonel Brandon and his all-but-impassioned Shakespeare reading, a little sensibility. 3. A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Word: metacarpal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From metacarpus + -al or metacarp- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑː.pəl/, /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑɹ.pəl/, /ˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/, /ˌmɛt.əˈkaɹ.pəl/ 1. Of the metacarpus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: metacarpal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From metacarpus + -al or metacarp- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑː.pəl/, /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑɹ.pəl/, /ˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/, /ˌmɛt.əˈkaɹ.pəl/ 1. Any of the bones of the metacarpus.
Word: Native American Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas. 2. An Indigenous person of the contiguous United States. 3. Alternative letter-case form of native American Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Native American Part of Speech: adj 1. Of the American Indians.
Word: humerus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓmsder. Latin umerus Late Latin humeruslbor. English humerus Learned borrowing from Late Latin humerus, from umerus. Cognate with Spanish hombro (“shoulder”). Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/ 1. The bone of the upper arm. Example: Jojo was fine, however—well, she had a fractured humerus and needed to stay overnight, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
Word: clavicle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”). Pronunciation: /ˈklæv.ɪk.əl/, /ˈklæv.ɪk.l̩/ 1. The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone. Example: Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles. Example: And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater. 2. A bone in fish. 3. The upper part of a spiral shell. Labels: obsolete Example: The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.
Word: intrusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English intrusioun, from Old French intrusion, from Medieval Latin intrūsiō, from intrūdō, from Latin in- + trūdō. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹuːʒən/ 1. The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She viewed sales calls as an unwelcome intrusion. Example: Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood. 2. The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The intrusion of the virus rendered our other security efforts useless. 3. Magma forced into other rock formations; the rock formed when such magma solidifies. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A structure that lies within a historic district but is nonhistoric and irrelevant to the district. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This setting is slightly altered by modern intrusion. Example: Although there are modern intrusions (a road and communications facilities on the summit), the mountain is important to the Kumeyaay community's belief system. 5. The insertion of a phoneme into the pronunciation of a word despite its absence from the spelling. (e.g. intrusive r) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A current challenge in recent work on Spanish sound structure is to understand the conditions that determine vowel intrusion and the consequences vowel intrusion may have on Spanish phonology. 6. An involuntarily arising idea or memory that is nuisant and falsifies an accurate impression of the world. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In general, intrusion errors tend to occur with greater frequency in individuals whose cognitive capacity is diminished relative to that of young adults. Poor readers, older participants, and neuropsychological patients exhibit more intrusion errors than controls. Example: To our knowledge, there have been no longitudinal studies that have examined the association between semantic intrusion errors and the longitudinal progression of PreMCI to a formal diagnosis of MCI or, conversely, a return to a cognitively normal state over time. Further, the association between semantic intrusion errors and the progression to dementia among those with aMCI has not been examined. 7. A group of cockroaches. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable Example: The sight of an intrusion had me running for an exterminator.
Word: Rumpelstiltskin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Rumpelstilzchen; Wikipedia discusses the hypotheses. Pronunciation: /ˌɹʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn/ 1. A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name. 2. The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.
Word: inclusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inclusio, inclusionis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, include + -sion. Doublet of enclosure. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkluːʒən/ 1. An addition or annex to a group, set, or total. Labels: countable Example: The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook. 2. The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total. Labels: uncountable Example: The inclusion of the poem added value to the course. 3. Anything foreign that is included in a material. Labels: countable 4. Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone. Labels: countable Example: The fewer inclusions a diamond has, the better is its clarity and value. Often the inclusions can be cut out of a diamond in the rough. 5. A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Restriction; limitation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: collection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + -ion. Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛkʃən/ 1. A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk. Example: The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets. 2. A set of pitch classes used by a composer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F. Example: In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language. 3. The activity of collecting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Collection of trash will occur every Thursday. 4. A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The people here are very good to each other, too. When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took up collections for the people. 6. Debt collection. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. 8. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 9. A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable 10. The quality of being collected; calm composure. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: item Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items". Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.təm/, [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm], [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩], /ˈɑe.təm/, [ˈɑe̯.ɾəm] 1. A distinct physical object. Example: Tweezers are great for manipulating small items. Example: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. 2. An object that can be picked up for later use. Labels: broadly 3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. Example: the items in a bill Example: In response to the first item, we deny all wrongdoing. 4. A question on a test, which may include its answers. Example: The exam has 100 items, each of which includes a correct response and three distractors. 5. A matter for discussion in an agenda. Example: The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic. 6. Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other. Labels: informal Example: Jack and Jill are an item. Example: Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'? 7. A short article in a newspaper. Example: an item concerning the weather 8. A hint; an innuendo. Labels: obsolete Example: A secret item was given to some of the bishops […] to absent themselves. 9. Ellipsis of item girl. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: In this chapter, we will attempt to trace the course of initiation into the classical arts, from the self-taught gyrations of Bollywood items to the serious rigours of a classical Indian dance form.
Word: item Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items". Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.təm/, [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm], [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩], /ˈɑe.təm/, [ˈɑe̯.ɾəm] 1. To make a note of. Labels: transitive
Word: item Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items". Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.təm/, [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm], [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩], /ˈɑe.təm/, [ˈɑe̯.ɾəm] 1. likewise Labels: not-comparable
Word: text Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-seti Proto-Indo-European *téḱseti Proto-Italic *teksō? Latin texō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus New Latin textusbor. Old French textebor. Middle English text English text From Middle English text, from Old French texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“to weave”). Cognate to English texture. Pronunciation: /tɛkst/ 1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A book, tome or other set of writings. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 4. Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text 5. Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: German text