nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: trunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk. Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋk/, /tɹʊŋk/, [t͡ʃɹʌŋk], [tɹʌŋk], /tɹɐnk/ 1. Part of a body. 2. Part of a body. 3. Part of a body. 4. A container. Example: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. 5. A container. Example: To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks 6. A container. Labels: Canada, US Example: I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk. 7. A container. 8. A channel for flow of some kind. Labels: US 9. A channel for flow of some kind. 10. A channel for flow of some kind. 11. A channel for flow of some kind. Labels: archaic Example: He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk. 12. A channel for flow of some kind. 13. In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled. 14. The main line or body of anything. Example: the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches 15. The main line or body of anything. 16. The main line or body of anything. 17. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact. 18. Ellipsis of swimming trunks. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, in-plural
Word: trunk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk. Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋk/, /tɹʊŋk/, [t͡ʃɹʌŋk], [tɹʌŋk], /tɹɐnk/ 1. To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke. 2. To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. Labels: transitive 3. To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
Word: bacterium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion) Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor. New Latin bactēriumbor. English bacterium From New Latin bactērium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”), from βακτηρία (baktēría). Pronunciation: /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəm/ 1. A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles. Example: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
Word: bureau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureauubor. English bureau Unadapted borrowing from French bureau, earlier "coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize", from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”). Doublet of burel and borrel, taken from Old French. Pronunciation: /ˈbjʊ.ɹəʊ/, /ˈbjʊ.ɹə/, /ˈbjʊ.ɹoʊ/, /ˈbjɝ.oʊ/, /ˈbjɝ.ə/ 1. An administrative unit of government; office. Example: Ashley Johnson is an energy, trade and economics expert at the National Bureau of Asian Research, based in the United States. 2. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. Example: a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau Example: Newt Gingrich gives powerful testimony to the appeal of “the last word in content providership” — speakers’ bureaus. 3. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). Example: There was an eerie silence in the dorm [... in] the factory. [...] The lamp glowed in his bureau, warm and reassuring and, through the window, I could see his papers strewn across the desk. [...] I called his name again. A movement from his bureau. [...] I banged on his door until it opened a crack[. ...] He pushed me out onto the staircase. "Get out," he screamed. The door to his bureau slammed in my face. Example: Both my ability to comprehend what is being said [in French] and my ability to fake comprehension have improved expeditiously. Monsieur holds the door open for me as we step inside his bureau. No one looks up as we enter. He offers me a seat, and when I fail to take it he returns to my side of the desk [...]. 4. A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. Labels: UK 5. A chest of drawers for clothes. Labels: Northeastern, US
Word: beau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello and boo. Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ̯/, [ˈbəʊ̯], /ˈbɵʊ̯/, [ˈbɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈboʊ̯/ 1. A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. Labels: dated Example: “[…]—I suppose your brother was quite a beau, Miss Dashwood, before he married, as he was so rich?” “Upon my word,” replied Elinor, “I cannot tell you, for I do not perfectly comprehend the meaning of the word. But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still, for there is not the smallest alteration in him.” “Oh! dear! one never thinks of married men’s being beaux—they have something else to do.” Example: [H]e could not but turn with ineffable contempt to the tawdry beaus and belles from the city, who presumed to mingle in the fashionable gala. 2. A male lover; a boyfriend. Labels: Canada, US, dated Example: Hannah's beau takes all her time 'n' thought, and when she gits a husband her mother'll be out o' sight and out o' mind. Example: “I don’t see how. But anyhow, you’ll be rich some day—your Aunt Elizabeth will likely leave you all her money, Mother says. So I don’t care if you are living on charity—I love you and I’m going to stick up for you. Have you got a beau, Emily?” “No,” cried Emily, blushing violently and quite scandalized at the idea. “Why, I’m only eleven.” 3. A male escort. 4. A suitor of a lady.
Word: beau Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello and boo. Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ̯/, [ˈbəʊ̯], /ˈbɵʊ̯/, [ˈbɵ̞ʊ̯], /ˈboʊ̯/ 1. To act as a beau (towards); to court or woo. Labels: ambitransitive Example: “[…] And now to think that Laura’s teaching school, and Almanzo Wilder’s beauing her home.” ”Oh, no! He isn’t!” Laura cried out. “It isn’t like that at all. He came for me as a favor to Pa.” Example: Everyone was feeling grandacious, as if getting dressed for a night of beauing.
Word: corpus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff. Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːpəs/, /ˈkɔɹpəs/ 1. A collection of written or spoken texts. Example: No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus. Example: A corpus approach is a useful methodology for observing, describing and interpreting the stylistic features of language in literary and non-literary texts. 2. A collection of written or spoken texts. Labels: specifically Example: Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems, NLP systems, etc. Example: Comparable corpora are made up of texts in different languages that may be related in various ways, but are not translations of each other. They may have nothing in common at all, or be on the same subject, of the same genre, or from the same chronological period, etc. 3. A structure of a special character or function in the animal body. Example: the corpus of the uterus 4. A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics. Labels: uncommon Example: About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world, to be studied and systematized. Example: An assessment in 1991 proposed publication of the results of this work in three stages: […] secondly, a corpus of the Roman pottery to present the type series and to discuss the fabrics and forms recovered, […] 5. The body of a man or animal. Labels: archaic
Word: Sarah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (śārâ, “lady, princess”), from the Biblical figure originally named Sarai (שָׂרָי (śārāy, literally “masters, princes”)). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɚ.ə/, /ˈsɛː.ɹə/ 1. The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac in the Bible. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And God ſaid vnto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou ſhalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah ſhall her name be. 2. A female given name from Hebrew. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I also have two daughters, by now grown up. Their names are Sarah and Anne, good sensible names. - - - I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children, because look what happened to Cordelia. Example: Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information. 3. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Sarah Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Hormozgan Province, Iran.
Word: batter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English batteren, batren, bateren, a frequentative of Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), equivalent to bat + -er (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbætə/, /ˈbætɚ/, [ˈbæɾɚ] 1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. Example: The firemen battered down the door. Example: The golden ſtature of their feathered bird That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals, Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot. 2. To coat with batter (the food ingredient). Example: I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs. 3. To defeat soundly; to thrash. Labels: figuratively Example: Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0. Example: There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had. 4. To intoxicate. Labels: UK, passive, slang, usually Example: That cocktail will batter you! Example: I was battered last night on our pub crawl. 5. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. 6. To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: the bible mentioned in the oath emitted this day , by Andrew Murison , as the book and bible from whence the printed leaves , battered on the B. L. Coy's notes , now challenged as forged , are alleged to be taken
Word: batter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture. Pronunciation: /ˈbætə/, /ˈbætɚ/, [ˈbæɾɚ] 1. A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter. 2. A binge; a heavy drinking session. Labels: countable, slang Example: When he went on a batter, he became very violent. 3. A paste of clay or loam. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The batter or lome that goeth to the making of [bricks] 4. A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. Labels: countable Example: In repairing batters at the edges of the plate, when the bevel has been torn away by the catches, &c., it is necessary to solder a piece of metal along the side.
Word: batter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈbætə/, /ˈbætɚ/, [ˈbæɾɚ] 1. To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
Word: batter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈbætə/, /ˈbætɚ/, [ˈbæɾɚ] 1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
Word: batter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English bat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English batter From bat + -er (agent noun suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbætə/, /ˈbætɚ/, [ˈbæɾɚ] 1. The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat. Example: The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double. 2. A player of the batting side now on the field. 3. The player now receiving strike; the striker. 4. Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler. Example: It's hard to put this on his shoulders while the guy is so young, but I firmly believe Kane could go down as New Zealand's greatest ever batter.
Word: aerial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓έρῐος (āérĭos)der. Latin āerius English -al English aerial From Latin āeri(us) + -al, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + -ιος (-ios). By surface analysis, aer- (“air”) + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹiəl/, /ˈɛːɹɪjəl/, /ˈeɹiəl/, /ˈɛɹiəl/, /ˈeə̯ɹiəl/ 1. Living or taking place in the air. Example: The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display. 2. Made up of air or gas; gaseous. Labels: archaic, literary Example: A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial, or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...]. 3. Positioned high up; elevated. Example: The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm. 4. Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary. Example: the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise. 5. Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric. 6. Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft. Example: aerial photography Example: an aerial view of the landscape 7. Above the ground.
Word: aerial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓έρῐος (āérĭos)der. Latin āerius English -al English aerial From Latin āeri(us) + -al, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + -ιος (-ios). By surface analysis, aer- (“air”) + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹiəl/, /ˈɛːɹɪjəl/, /ˈeɹiəl/, /ˈɛɹiəl/, /ˈeə̯ɹiəl/ 1. A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc. Labels: UK 2. A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground. Example: In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air. 3. A move that involves performing a full rotation while in the air, without touching any equipment such as a balance beam or panel mat with one's hands. 4. An aerial photograph. Example: Hemment is on record as being the first person to film aerials of wildlife – he filmed a flock of wild ducks early in 1911, possibly on Rainey's Louisiana property. 5. A highly-contrasting visual artifact in the form of a band or ring. Example: Lanczos3 for sharp results. May produce aerials. — Krita 5.2.2
Word: method Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth₂? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos)bor. Latin methodusbor. Middle French methodebor. English method From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos). By surface analysis, met- + -hod. See also -ode and hodo-. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛθəd/, /ˈmɛtət/ 1. A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process). Labels: countable Example: If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you. Example: He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable. 2. Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order. Labels: uncountable Example: Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […] Example: There's method in the universe. We're lucky that things aren't worse. 3. A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In this case, the application of the famous method was a little shaky. To be fair, the director was dealing with a pretty stroppy cast. 4. A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When you call the method, you provide values corresponding to these variables in your method call. 5. Marijuana. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 6. An instruction book systematically arranged. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: method Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth₂? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos)bor. Latin methodusbor. Middle French methodebor. English method From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos). By surface analysis, met- + -hod. See also -ode and hodo-. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛθəd/, /ˈmɛtət/ 1. To apply a method to. Labels: transitive Example: 1809, Rachel Russell (baroness.), Letters. To which is prefixed, an intr. vindicating the character of lord ... "Says he, there is above ten thousand brisk boys are ready to follow me, whenever I hold up my finger : — Says I, how have you methoded this, that they shall not be crushed, for there will be a great force to oppose you?" 2. To apply particular treatment methods to (a mold). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The company employs extensive use of 3D modelling combined with solidification simulation to ensure that critical castings are properly methoded.
Word: method Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛθəd/, /ˈmɛtət/ 1. Ellipsis of method air. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: scenario Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-der. Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ)bor. Latin scēnabor. Italian scena Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin -āriumbor. Italian -ario Italian scenariobor. English scenario Borrowed from Italian scenario, from scena + -ario. Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɑːɹi.əʊ/, /sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/, /sɪˈnæɹioʊ/, /sɪˈnɑɹioʊ/, /səˈneːɹi.əʉ/ 1. An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events. Example: Hearts were keen to avoid a repeat of the scenario at this stage of last season's competition, when they found themselves two goals down inside the opening quarter of an hour. Example: The researchers believe there are two possible scenarios that have placed J1249+36 on its swift path. 2. An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work. Labels: dated 3. A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it. Labels: dated
Word: shared Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʃɛːd/, /ʃɛɹd/, /ʃeːd/, /ʃeəd/, /ʃiəd/ 1. Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways. Labels: not-comparable Example: "We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That's the dream we share. I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies." Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
Word: shared Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃɛːd/, /ʃɛɹd/, /ʃeːd/, /ʃeəd/, /ʃiəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of share Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: truck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- Proto-Indo-European *drem-influ. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō) Ancient Greek -ῐ́λος (-ĭ́los) Ancient Greek τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā) Ancient Greek τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā)der. Medieval Latin trochleader. Anglo-Norman troclebor. Middle English trokel English truckle? English truck Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós). Pronunciation: /tɹʌk/, /tɹʊk/ 1. To drive a truck. Labels: intransitive Example: My father has been trucking for 20 years. 2. To convey by truck. Labels: transitive Example: Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque. Example: Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs. 3. To travel, to proceed. Labels: US, intransitive, slang Example: I want to tell you a story from 'way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack / In eighteen hundred and sixty-five / A hep cat started some jive / He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the Juneteenth Jamboree." Example: I brought them around again, hard, and some fluff hit me in the face, cool and wet. . .and I laughed and trucked on down, a mad. fiddler dancing to my own music, happy and alone in my private white world. 4. To persist, to endure. Labels: Canada, US, intransitive, slang Example: Keep on trucking! Example: It has been five months since I left Mt. Diablo , and I'm still trucking along gaining slowly and I'm just a few pounds from my goal healthy weight. I'm the happiest I've been in my life because through my experiences with anorexia I[…] 5. To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject. Labels: intransitive 6. To fight or otherwise physically engage with. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them. 7. To run over or through a tackler in American football. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: truck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trokōn (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”). Pronunciation: /tɹʌk/, /tɹʊk/ 1. To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. Labels: dialectal, intransitive 2. To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle. Labels: dialectal, intransitive 3. To deceive; cheat; defraud. Labels: dialectal, intransitive
Word: truck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch. Pronunciation: /tɹʌk/, /tɹʊk/ 1. To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive
Word: truck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words, from Latin trocāre, from Frankish *trokan. Related to Etymology 2. Pronunciation: /tɹʌk/, /tɹʊk/ 1. To trade, exchange; barter. Labels: dialectal, intransitive, transitive Example: We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. 2. To engage in commerce; to barter or deal. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: But while this businesse was in hand, Arrived one Captaine Argall, and Master Thomas Sedan, sent by Master Cornelius to truck with the Collony [...] 3. To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with. Labels: dialectal, intransitive
Word: truck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words, from Latin trocāre, from Frankish *trokan. Related to Etymology 2. Pronunciation: /tɹʌk/, /tɹʊk/ 1. Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter. Labels: dialectal, in-plural, intransitive, obsolete, often Example: There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. Example: It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom. Norah rushed into my room. I think I was mooning over some old papers, or letters, or ribbons, or some such truck in the charming, knife-turning way that women have when they are blue. 2. The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]. Labels: dialectal, historical, intransitive 3. Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden). Labels: US, attributive, dialectal, intransitive, often Example: As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted. Example: "Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels. 4. Social intercourse; dealings, relationships. Labels: dialectal, intransitive, usually Example: "How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome." 5. Relevance, bearing. Labels: dialectal, intransitive, usually Example: Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music. Example: For this reason, Washington is a wonderful and proven humbler of the Texan conceit: Washington isn't a state, and yet it is metaphorically bigger than Texas. It's where Texas learns that not everyone is in love with Texas. (Where yer from orig'nally has no truck here.)
Word: label Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bəl/, [ˈleɪ.bɫ̩], [ˈlɛj.b(ə)ɫ], [ˈleː.b(ə)ɫ], /ˈlæɪ.bəl/ 1. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. Example: We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater. Example: The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine. 2. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group. Example: Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster". 3. A company that sells records. Example: The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape. 4. A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration. Example: Storage devices can be given by label or ID. 5. A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct. 6. A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung. 7. A tassel. Labels: obsolete Example: the arms or escutcheon of France , hanging by a label on an oak 8. A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc. Example: Ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, / Shall be the label to another deed. Example: They […] 'sealed the grave, and rolled a great stone at the mouth of it' and as an ancient tradition says, bound it about with labels of iron. 9. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will. 10. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes. Labels: historical 11. The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. Example: Sculptured ends of labels are called label-stops. 12. In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription. Example: 2654. Two-handled globular vase; early Deruta lustred ware; centre surrounded by a band of scroll work; on each side the neck is an oval compartment with clasped hands, and a label scroll inscribed "Co pura fe.;" decoration, blue outline on white ground filled in with yellow lustre. Example: Boime correctly suggests that medieval artists who employed labels or scrolls to gloss illustrations typically configured text and image in visually overlapping, but cognitively separate, spaces. 13. A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
Word: label Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bəl/, [ˈleɪ.bɫ̩], [ˈlɛj.b(ə)ɫ], [ˈleː.b(ə)ɫ], /ˈlæɪ.bəl/ 1. To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something). Labels: transitive Example: The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop. 2. To give (a label) to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing. Labels: ambitransitive, ditransitive Example: He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once. Example: A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece. 3. To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell. 4. To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro Example: They may be used to label and image a protein within tissue, to isolate cells on the basis of marker expression, or to physically capture a protein from a complex biological mixture....
Word: buyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English buy Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English buyer From buy + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈbaɪ.ɚ/ 1. A person who makes one or more purchases. Example: Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence. Example: There is the ultrasystematic buyer and his twin, the careless buyer. The ultrasystematic buyer goes and checks and counts and touches every copy in the store before buying a new one. 2. A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. Example: The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods. 3. A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
Word: local Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kl̩/, /ˈloʊ.kl̩/ 1. From or in a nearby location. Example: We prefer local produce. Example: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary. 2. Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. Example: local disk drive Example: local file 3. Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program. 4. Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Labels: not-comparable Example: A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact! 5. Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Labels: not-comparable 6. Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Labels: not-comparable 7. Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular: Labels: not-comparable Example: Flatness is a local property. 8. Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular: Labels: not-comparable 9. Having a unique maximal (left) ideal. 10. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. Example: local lesion Example: The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia. 11. Descended from an indigenous population. Example: Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
Word: local Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kl̩/, /ˈloʊ.kl̩/ 1. A person who lives in or near a given place. Example: It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists. Example: Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' and locals. 2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. Example: I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6. Example: Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color. 3. Clipping of local train. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local. 4. One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. Labels: UK Example: I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink. Example: As they take me to my local down the street. 5. A locally scoped identifier. Example: Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable. Example: Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared. 6. An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. Labels: US, slang 7. Clipping of local anesthetic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local. 8. An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. Example: On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals. 9. A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […] Example: Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.
Word: local Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kl̩/, /ˈloʊ.kl̩/ 1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. Example: It's never been more important to buy local. Example: Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Word: scanty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scant + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈskænti/, /ˈskeə̯nti/, /ˈskɛə̯nti/ 1. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent. Example: A girl dressed in scanty clothing Example: To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain. 2. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy. Example: In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
Word: flour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105. Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊ.ə/, [ˈflaʊ̯.ə], /ˈflæʊ.ə/, [ˈflæʊ̯.ə], /ˈflaː.ə/ 1. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. 2. The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Powder of other material. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: mustard flour 4. Obsolete form of flower. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.
Word: flour Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105. Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊ.ə/, [ˈflaʊ̯.ə], /ˈflæʊ.ə/, [ˈflæʊ̯.ə], /ˈflaː.ə/ 1. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. Labels: transitive 2. To reduce to flour. Labels: transitive 3. To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. Labels: intransitive
Word: mango Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/, /ˈmaŋɡəw/, /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/, /ˈmeɪŋɡoʊ/, /ˈmæŋɡəʉ̯/ 1. Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard. 2. Fruit of the mango tree. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango. 3. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers. 4. A green bell pepper suitable for pickling. Labels: US, countable, dated, uncountable Example: Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold. Example: Best mango peppers 5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The breasts. Labels: countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
Word: mango Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/, /ˈmaŋɡəw/, /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/, /ˈmeɪŋɡoʊ/, /ˈmæŋɡəʉ̯/ 1. To stuff and pickle (a fruit). Labels: transitive, uncommon Example: Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered. Example: In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing" all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.
Word: curry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/, /ˈkari/, /-ɾi/ 1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: beef curry Example: vegetarian curry 2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Curry powder. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A person of South Asian heritage. Labels: countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable Example: […] while another tells us that white women “are also THE most racist group of foids. they would rather put a bullet through their brain than date a curry or sandcel.” Example: For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.”
Word: curry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/, /ˈkari/, /-ɾi/ 1. To cook or season with curry powder. Labels: transitive