nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: staid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective. Pronunciation: /steɪd/, /sted/ 1. Obsolete spelling of stayed. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The Company had now ſtaid ſo long, that Mrs. Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all deſigned to ſtay out each other. She therefore reſolved to rid herſelf of Jones, he being the Viſitant, to whom ſhe thought the leaſt Ceremony was due. Example: Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him farther in his profession. Lydia was occasionally a visitor there, when her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath; and with the Bingleys they both of them frequently staid so long, that even Bingley's good humour was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.
Word: stang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stang, stong, from Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”). Pronunciation: /ˈstæŋ/, [ˈstæŋ], /ˈstaŋ/, /ˈstaŋɡ/, /ˈsteɪŋ/ 1. A forked ritual staff. Example: The stang represents the horned god and the masculine force of nature. Much like the wand or athame, the stang is used for raising or directing power[…] Example: In more common (and private) Wiccan circles, the stang is replaced by the athame (black handled knife) and the cauldron replaced with the chalice but its^([sic]) pretty much /whatever works for you/. 2. A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. Labels: archaic, obsolete Example: Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared. 3. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. Labels: historical, obsolete Example: These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")
Word: stang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stangen, from Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”). Pronunciation: /ˈstæŋ/, [ˈstæŋ], /ˈstaŋ/, /ˈstaŋɡ/, /ˈsteɪŋ/ 1. To shoot with pain, to sting. Labels: Scotland, intransitive 2. To spear; to sting. Labels: Scotland, transitive
Word: stang Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈstæŋ/, [ˈstæŋ], /ˈstaŋ/, /ˈstaŋɡ/, /ˈsteɪŋ/ 1. simple past of sting Labels: dialectal, form-of, past, rare
Word: stang Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstæŋ/, [ˈstæŋ], /ˈstaŋ/, /ˈstaŋɡ/, /ˈsteɪŋ/ 1. Clipping of Mustang, a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Word: starch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːt͡ʃ/, [ˈstɑːt͡ʃ], /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/, [ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ] 1. A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: Meronym: saccharide Example: The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances. 2. Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods. Labels: countable 3. A stiff, formal manner; formality. Labels: uncountable Example: this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits 4. Fortitude. Labels: uncountable Example: The thought of the gun in his back put some starch in him. He needed the handrail, and he limped step by step, but he ascended at his full height. 5. Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener. Labels: countable Example: You're the starch in my collar / You're the lace in my shoe / You will always be my necessity / I'd be lost without you
Word: starch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːt͡ʃ/, [ˈstɑːt͡ʃ], /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/, [ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ] 1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, in order to create a hard, smooth surface. Labels: transitive Example: She starched her blouses.
Word: starch Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːt͡ʃ/, [ˈstɑːt͡ʃ], /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/, [ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ] 1. Stiff; precise; rigid. Labels: not-comparable Example: misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing
Word: startle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English startlen, stertlen, stertyllen (“to rush, stumble along”), from Old English steartlian (“to kick with the foot, struggle, stumble”), equivalent to start + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stirtla (“to hobble, stagger”), Icelandic stirtla (“to straighten up, erect”). Compare also Middle English stertil (“hasty”). More at start. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːt(ə)l/, /ˈstɑɹt(ə)l/ 1. To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Labels: intransitive Example: a horse that startles easily Example: Why shrinks the soul / Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 2. To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. Labels: transitive Example: The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. Example: Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel. 3. To deter; to cause to deviate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: it would blast all their hopes, and startle all other princes from joining Example: As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
Word: startle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English startlen, stertlen, stertyllen (“to rush, stumble along”), from Old English steartlian (“to kick with the foot, struggle, stumble”), equivalent to start + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stirtla (“to hobble, stagger”), Icelandic stirtla (“to straighten up, erect”). Compare also Middle English stertil (“hasty”). More at start. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːt(ə)l/, /ˈstɑɹt(ə)l/ 1. A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger. Example: The figure of a man heaving in sight amidst these wide solitudes, always causes a startle and thrill of expectation and doubt, similar to the feeling produced by the announcement of " a strange sail ahead" on shipboard, during a long voyage.
Word: stark Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch. In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of Middle English stert naked, from stert (“tail”), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked. Pronunciation: /stɑɹk/, /stɑːk/ 1. Hard, firm; obdurate. Labels: obsolete 2. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). Example: Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything. 3. Strong; vigorous; powerful. Labels: archaic, literary, poetic Example: Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Example: a stark, moss-trooping Scot 4. Stiff, rigid. Example: His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke. Example: Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff / Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. 5. Plain in appearance; barren, desolate. Example: I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks. Example: I would have to remind her, counteringly, that you don’t pick the person who fronts your life—you get picked, you watch the picker’s ankles vanish into the scrunched socks afterward (his whole body going blank behind the blue-black of the uniform), and the picker goes off in the starkest of transportations: you keep an ear cocked ever after for the return of his van and its paraphernalian clatter in the gravelled driveway. 6. Naked. Example: They bore me to a cavern in the hill Beneath that column, and unbound me there; And one did strip me stark; and one did fill A vessel from the putrid pool; one bare A lighted torch, and four with friendless care Guided my steps the cavern-paths along […] 7. Complete, absolute, full. Example: I screamed in stark terror. Example: A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
Word: stark Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch. In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of Middle English stert naked, from stert (“tail”), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked. Pronunciation: /stɑɹk/, /stɑːk/ 1. Starkly; entirely, absolutely. Labels: not-comparable Example: He's gone stark, staring mad. Example: She was just standing there, stark naked.
Word: stark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow stiff or hard”), from Proto-Germanic *starkōną, *starkēną (“to stiffen, become hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with German erstarken (“to strengthen”). Pronunciation: /stɑɹk/, /stɑːk/ 1. To stiffen. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: statistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from statistics. Pronunciation: /stəˈtɪs.tɪk/ 1. Alternative form of statistical. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: statistic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from statistics. Pronunciation: /stəˈtɪs.tɪk/ 1. A single item in a statistical study. 2. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation). 3. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information. Example: By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.
Word: statistic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from statistics. Pronunciation: /stəˈtɪs.tɪk/ 1. To analyze or describe using statistics. Labels: transitive Example: This is the only subject in the world which has not been statisticked, which is another proof of scientific neglect by the investigators. Example: When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me? 2. To cite or calculate statistics. Labels: intransitive Example: When a fellow quits statisticking for a while, they say, "Oh, haven't you one more statistic?” Example: I ran into what to me is the most horrible statistic I have ever run into in some thirty-five years of statisticking. 3. To comprise (as statistics) Labels: transitive Example: The afternoon game was pitched by Walter Johnson and was the start of the sixteen-game winning streak which statisticked that one in Boston, four in St. Louis, four in Chicago, four in Detroit, three in Cleveland and none for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Word: statuette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌstætjuˈɛt/, /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/ 1. A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc. Example: […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother. Example: Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.
Word: stave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff. Pronunciation: /steɪv/ 1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc. Example: For the Cherubims ſpread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the ſtaues thereof, aboue. 2. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel 3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. Example: Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave. 4. The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. 5. The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme. Labels: rare Example: Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…] Example: [The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.) 6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic. 7. A staff or walking stick.
Word: stave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff. Pronunciation: /steɪv/ 1. To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. Labels: transitive Example: vpon paine of death to bring it out and to ſtaue it 2. To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Labels: transitive, usually Example: to stave in a cask Example: A great Sea constant runs here upon the Rocks, and before they got to Land their Boat was stav’d in Pieces […] 3. To push, or keep off, as with a staff. Labels: transitive Example: The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. 4. To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Labels: transitive, usually Example: We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger. Example: Congress had authorized seeds to be granted to the farmers there to stave hunger, but President Cleveland vetoed the bill. 5. To burst in pieces by striking against something. Labels: archaic, intransitive, rare Example: But Donald would not hear of that proposal at all, assuring the Prince that it was impossible for them to return to the land again, because the squall was against them, and that if they should steer for the rock the boat would undoubtedly stave to pieces and all of them behoved to be drowned, for there was no [fol. 284.] possibility of saving any one life amongst them upon such a dangerous rock, where the sea was dashing with the utmost violence. 6. To walk or move rapidly. Labels: dated, dialectal, intransitive Example: He turned and blundered out of the house, stumbling over a chair and trying a wrong door on the way, and went staving down the street as if afraid to look behind him. 7. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask. Example: All the […]wine in the city hath been staved. 8. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron. Example: to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run
Word: stead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sted, stede (noun) and steden (verb), from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, location”). Doublet of stad. cognates and related terms Cognate with Scots steid (“location, place”), North Frisian Stair, Stat, steed, stää (“city, town; place, stead”), Saterland Frisian Steede (“place, stead”), Stääd (“city, town”), West Frisian stêd (“city, town”), Bavarian Stådt (“city, town”), Dutch stad, stede (“city, town”), German Stadt (“city, town”), Statt (“abode, place, stead”), Stätte (“place, spot, venue”), German Low German Stee (“location, place”), Luxembourgish Stad (“city, town”), Vilamovian śtaod (“city, town”), Yiddish שטאָט (shtot, “city, town”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål stad (“city, town”), sted (“place”), Faroese stað (“place”), staður (“location, place; town”), Icelandic staður (“location, place”), Norn sta (“domicile, farm”), Norwegian Nynorsk stad (“place; city, town”), Swedish stad, stadh, stedt (“city, town”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (staþs, “location, place”). See the doublet stasis. Pronunciation: /stɛd/ 1. To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful. Labels: obsolete Example: May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer? Example: I could never better stead thee than now.[…] 2. To fill the stead or place of something. Labels: obsolete
Word: stead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of steady. Pronunciation: /stɛd/ 1. One's partner in a romantic relationship. Labels: Singapore, colloquial Example: C'mon lah!! Wake up.. Y R U stupid girls so CHEAP!! Imagine a baby making out with an adult! Want to have stead,.. Go find 1 16yr old rich kid lah!! At for let those men take advantage!! Remember Men CANNOT be Trusted!! Boys maybe can. Example: I prefer to know a guy better as a friend first before even considering him as a potential stead.
Word: steak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak. Pronunciation: /steɪk/, /stɛːk/ 1. Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks 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. 3. A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: steak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak. Pronunciation: /steɪk/, /stɛːk/ 1. To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak. Example: Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.
Word: stealthily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English stealthy Middle English -ly English -ly English stealthily From stealthy + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈstɛlθɪli/ 1. In a stealthy manner, furtively. Example: The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together. Example: So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle; nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking and the noise of his sucking lips and gurgles of satisfaction drowned the quiet approach of the intruder.
Word: steed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stede (“steed”), from Old English stēda (“stallion, stud”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōdijō; (compare Old Dutch stoti (“herd of horses”), Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”)). Pronunciation: /stiːd/ 1. A stallion, especially one used for riding. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: The studded bridle on a ragged bough Nimbly she fastens: -- O, how quick is love! -- The steed is stalled up, and even now To tie the rider she begins to prove: Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust, And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust. Example: The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws. 2. A bicycle or other vehicle. Labels: humorous, slang Example: In the green lanes of Merrie England the bicycle rider in his natty uniform, speeding along on his silent steed, is met with almost as often as vehicles drawn by horses, and it is safe to say that in the various countries of the world not less than half a million bicycles and tricycles are now in use. Example: I may not scorch on thee again—thou'rt pinched, my silent steed!
Word: steep Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-der.? Proto-Germanic *staupaz Proto-West Germanic *staup Old English stēap Middle English steep English steep From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”). Compare Old Frisian stāp ("high, towering"; > Modern Saterland Frisian stiep (“steep”)), Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”). The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856. Pronunciation: /stiːp/ 1. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical. Example: a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep barometric gradient Example: They will be called upon to deal with freight trains of up to 900 tons over gradients considerably steeper than those of the Central Section—for example, the frequent stretches of 1 in 100 between Victoria and the Medway towns—and their running to fast schedules will include the haulage of the "Night Ferry", which may load up to as much as 700 tons, and fully-fitted trains of 30 or more heavy Continental train ferry wagons. 2. Expensive. Labels: informal Example: Twenty quid for a shave? That's a bit steep. 3. Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high. Labels: obsolete Example: Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected 4. resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular. Example: The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior.
Word: steep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-der.? Proto-Germanic *staupaz Proto-West Germanic *staup Old English stēap Middle English steep English steep From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”). Compare Old Frisian stāp ("high, towering"; > Modern Saterland Frisian stiep (“steep”)), Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”). The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856. Pronunciation: /stiːp/ 1. The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity. Example: It ended precipitously in a dark and narrow ravine, formed on the other side by an opposite mountain, the lofty steep of which was crested by a city gently rising on a gradual slope Example: [L]ess scared, but not built for gazelle cavorting, so awkward on the steep that she had to take to hands and knees, and looked more like a monkey.
Word: steep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijaną (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Related to stoop. Pronunciation: /stiːp/ 1. To soak or wet thoroughly. Labels: transitive Example: They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather. Example: The tea is steeping. 2. To soak or wet thoroughly. Labels: transitive 3. To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: a town steeped in history Example: The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
Word: steep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijaną (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Related to stoop. Pronunciation: /stiːp/ 1. A liquid used in a steeping process Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Corn steep has many industrial uses. 2. A rennet bag. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: stenograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From steno- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹɑːf/, /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹæf/, /ˈstɪn.ə.ɡɹæf/ 1. A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand. 2. A shorthand character. 3. A stenography machine.
Word: stenograph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From steno- + -graph. Pronunciation: /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹɑːf/, /ˈstɛn.ə.ɡɹæf/, /ˈstɪn.ə.ɡɹæf/ 1. To write or report in stenographic characters.
Word: stent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein. Pronunciation: /stɛnt/, /stɪnt/ 1. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure. Example: Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.
Word: stent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein. Pronunciation: /stɛnt/, /stɪnt/ 1. To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
Word: stent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See stint. Pronunciation: /stɛnt/, /stɪnt/ 1. An allotted portion; a stint. Labels: archaic Example: The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.
Word: stent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See stint. Pronunciation: /stɛnt/, /stɪnt/ 1. To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Labels: archaic Example: Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement. 2. To stint; to stop; to cease. Labels: archaic
Word: stickleback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dialectal stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), from Old English sticel + bæc. See stick (transitive verb) and compare banstickle. 1. Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds. Example: [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.
Word: stillbirth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From still + birth. 1. The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.
Word: stingy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb). Pronunciation: /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/ 1. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean. Example: "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster." 2. Small, scant, meager, insufficient. Example: The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them. Example: As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
Word: stingy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sting + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪŋi/ 1. Stinging; able or inclined to sting. Labels: informal Example: Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.
Word: stockinet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of stocking net. 1. An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, undergarments, etc., are made. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The black cloth bodies were stuffed, and were sometimes made of stockinet, or old stockings, for everyone wore black ones in those days.
Word: stout Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)). Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" was first attested in c. 1386, but has been to a large extent displaced by the euphemistic meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in stout-hearted (1552). The noun "strong, dark-brown beer" is first recorded 1677, from the adjective. Pronunciation: /staʊt/, /stʌʊt/ 1. Large; bulky. Example: Yossarian walked out of the office and down the stairs into the dark, tomblike street, passing in the hall the stout woman with warts and two chins, who was already on her way back in. 2. Bold, strong-minded. Labels: obsolete Example: Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte? Example: a stouter champion never handled sword. 3. Proud; haughty. Labels: obsolete Example: Your words have been stout against me. Example: Commonly […] they that be rich are lofty and stout. 4. Firm; resolute; dauntless. Example: he had reason to be extremely grateful to Sterling, his Manchester City teammate, who won and converted the penalty that appeared to have broken Iceland’s stout resistance. Example: So, Andover featured in the Glorious Revolution, which involved the deposition of Catholic fraterniser James II and his replacement by stout Protestants William and Mary. 5. Materially strong, enduring. Example: Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth. Example: […] Pipes, who acted as the enemy's forlorn hope, advanced to the gate with great intrepidity, and clapping his foot to the door, which was none of the ſtouteſt, with the execution and diſpatch of a petard, ſplit it into a thouſand pieces. 6. Obstinate. 7. drunk. Labels: Ireland Example: Yit sum people used to wink an' luk knowin' whin Failey was gostherin', fur it was obsarved that he was mighty shy o' crassin' the foord o' Ahnamoe afther nightfall; an' that whin onst he was ridin' past the ould church o' Tipper in the dark, tho' he'd got enough o' pottheen into him to make any man stout, he med the horse trot so that there was no keepin' up wid him, an' iv'ry now an' thin he'd throw a sharp luk-out ovir his lift shouldher.
Word: stout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)). Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" was first attested in c. 1386, but has been to a large extent displaced by the euphemistic meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in stout-hearted (1552). The noun "strong, dark-brown beer" is first recorded 1677, from the adjective. Pronunciation: /staʊt/, /stʌʊt/ 1. A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. Example: Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer. Example: To be precise, he had an immense plate of steak and oysters, and a bottle of stout. 2. A serving of this beer. 3. An obese person. Example: Incidentally the survey pointed up the sad plight of the stylish stouts, today's “forgotten men.” The clothing situation is getting so critical for them that they may have to choose between eating and dressing. 4. A large clothing size. Example: 1918, Isidor Rosenfeld, The Practical Designer for Women's and Misses' Underwear - The Study of the Stout Form The all-around waist is increased or over-built, according to size, which makes this form a stout.
Word: stout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stouten, from the adjective (see above). Pronunciation: /staʊt/, /stʌʊt/ 1. To be bold or defiant. Labels: archaic, intransitive 2. To persist, endure. Labels: dialectal, transitive
Word: stout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stout, from Old English stūt (“gnat; midge”). Pronunciation: /staʊt/, /stʌʊt/ 1. Gnat. 2. Gadfly. 3. Firefly or miller (moth). Labels: dialectal
Word: strain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-West Germanic *streun, from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”). Pronunciation: /stɹeɪn/ 1. Race; lineage, pedigree. Labels: archaic Example: He is of a noble strain. Example: […] with animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigour and fertility to the offspring; […] 2. A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one. Example: They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain. Example: European scientists have discovered a new strain of the virus that causes AIDS and linked it to gorillas, creating a mystery about when and how the first patient found to have the strain became infected. 3. Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition. Labels: figuratively Example: There is a strain of madness in her family. Example: Intemperance and Luſt breed infirmities and diſeaſes, which, being propagated, ſpoil the Strain of a Nation. 4. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc. Example: Yet Keats, though for so many years he has given nothing to the world, is understood to have devoted himself to the composition of an epic poem. Some passages of it have been communicated to the inner circle of his admirers, and impressed them as the loftiest strains that have been audible on earth since Milton’s days. Example: A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history. 5. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened. 6. A kind or sort (of person etc.). Labels: rare Example: the common strain 7. Treasure. Labels: obsolete 8. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg. Labels: obsolete
Word: strain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”). Pronunciation: /stɹeɪn/ 1. To hold tightly, to clasp. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd, and colled tenderly […] Example: Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend. 2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out. Labels: transitive Example: to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship Example: Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues. 3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force. Labels: transitive Example: The gale strained the timbers of the ship. 4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam. Labels: transitive 5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker. Example: To build his fortune I will strain a little. 6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning. Labels: transitive Example: to strain the law in order to convict an accused person Example: There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it. 7. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander. Labels: transitive Example: Strain the noodles and rinse with fresh water until it runs clear. The noodles should be soft, but not mushy. Example: Except for the indigo, the dyebaths are steeped over heat to release their pigment and then strained to remove the dyestuff. 8. To percolate; to be filtered. Labels: intransitive Example: water straining through a sandy soil 9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. Labels: transitive Example: Prince. How does my Father? / Princeſs. Still talks and plays with Fatyma, but his mirth / Is forc'd and ſtrain'd: In his look appears / A wild diſtracted fierceneſs; […] Example: The quality of mercy is not strained. 10. To urge with importunity; to press. Labels: transitive Example: to strain a petition or invitation Example: Note, if your lady strain his entertainment. 11. To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly. Labels: transitive
Word: strain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”). Pronunciation: /stɹeɪn/ 1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet. Example: If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching ... 2. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: he jumped up with a strain Example: the strain upon the sailboat's rigging 3. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations. Example: Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. 4. A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain. Labels: uncountable Example: Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower. 5. The track of a deer. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.
Word: strain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English strēonan, strīenan, strȳnan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-West Germanic *striunijan, from Proto-Germanic *striunijaną (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”). Pronunciation: /stɹeɪn/ 1. To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world. Labels: obsolete Example: A man straineth, liveth, then dieth. Example: Man, look at that cat straining that kitty.
Word: strainer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English strener, streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹeɪnɚ/ 1. A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid. 2. A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline. 3. Debris in water that blocks the passage of solid objects. Example: A strainer is something on the surface of the water that allows water to pass through it but not solid objects, like boats and people. Strainers are likely to consist of fallen trees, old fencing, guardrails […] 4. One who strains. Example: An important factor with respect to recurrence [of rectal prolapse] is the fact that many of these patients are chronic strainers.
Word: stray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stray, strey, from Anglo-Norman estray, stray, Old French estrai, from the verb (see below). Pronunciation: /stɹeɪ/ 1. Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray. 2. A person who is lost. Labels: figuratively, literally Example: But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him? 3. An act of wandering off or going astray. 4. An area of common land for use by domestic animals. Labels: historical 5. An article of movable property, of which the owner is not known (see waif). Labels: UK, archaic Example: waifs and strays 6. An instance of atmospheric interference. Example: This invention relates broadly to radio communication, but more particularly to a radio receiving system used for the reception of high frequency current signals wherever they are subject to interference from "static" or strays of an untuned or aperiodic character. Example: Because of their shortness, such signals are usually easy to distinguish from the bomb returns but, when such a stray is recorded just before the bomb return, too close to be distinguished by ear […] 7. A casual or offhand insult. Labels: slang 8. A submissive that has not committed to submit to any particular dominant, particulary in petplay. 9. Ellipsis of stray bullet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: catch a stray Example: Hit by a stray, but I pray that there's a hood in heaven
Word: stray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English strayen, partly from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin via strata, and partly from Middle English strien, streyen, streyȝen (“to spread, scatter”), from Old English strēġan (“to strew”). Pronunciation: /stɹeɪ/ 1. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. Labels: intransitive Example: Thames among the wanton valleys strays. 2. To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray. Labels: intransitive 3. To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. Labels: intransitive Example: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy. 4. To cause to stray; lead astray. Labels: transitive Example: Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love, Example: To ease myself I was compelled to leave my basket behind me, trusting to return and find it, if I should ever reach safety and discover on what pathless hill I had been strayed.