nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Martian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Mārtius (“of or relating to the planet Mars”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix). The word is cognate with Middle English marcien, marcyan, mercien (“subject to the influence or power of the planet Mars; relating to the god Mars, that is, warlike”), Middle French martien (“Martian”) (modern French martien), French Martien (“imaginary inhabitant of Mars; any extraterrestrial”), Italian marziano, Latin Mārtiānus (“Martian”), Portuguese marciano, Spanish marciano. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːʃən/, /ˈmɑɹʃən/ 1. Of or relating to the planet Mars, or (science fiction) its imagined inhabitants. Labels: not-comparable Example: The direct heat of the sun, shining through so thin an atmosphere, must be considerable wherever the sun is at a sufficient elevation; and of course the very tenuity of the air renders vaporization so much the easier, for the boiling point (and consequently all temperatures of evaporation at given rates) would be correspondingly lowered. Accordingly, during the greater part of the Martian day, the hoar frost and whatever light snow might have fallen on the preceding evening would be completely dissolved away, and thus the ruddy earth or the greenish ice-masses of the so-called oceans would be revealed to the terrestral observer. Example: Prof. Percival Lowell, the eminent Martian astronomer, said in a recent interview in New York: "The Martian canals are not Panama canals. The word 'canals' you know, really means 'lines.' [...]" 2. Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose. Labels: not-comparable Example: [T]he majority of human beings born under the influence of Mars—the Martians (or "Martials")—are heavily built but physically strong. [...] [T]hey are easily angered, and, for the time being, forget everything in the excess of their violence. The worst Martian type will commit murder before he knows it. 3. Pertaining to battle or war; martial, military. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The iudges vvhich thereto ſelected vvere, / Into the Martian field adovvne deſcended, / To deeme this doutfull caſe, for vvhich they all contended. 4. Pertaining to the Roman god Mars, the god of war. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: Arean
Word: Martian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Mārtius (“of or relating to the planet Mars”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix). The word is cognate with Middle English marcien, marcyan, mercien (“subject to the influence or power of the planet Mars; relating to the god Mars, that is, warlike”), Middle French martien (“Martian”) (modern French martien), French Martien (“imaginary inhabitant of Mars; any extraterrestrial”), Italian marziano, Latin Mārtiānus (“Martian”), Portuguese marciano, Spanish marciano. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːʃən/, /ˈmɑɹʃən/ 1. A person under the astrological influence of the planet Mars. Example: [T]he majority of human beings born under the influence of Mars—the Martians (or "Martials")—are heavily built but physically strong. [...] A male Martian is generally a great favorite with the ladies and is apt to be rather quick and unscrupulous in his courtship methods. He is not a sentimental lover. A bad Martian is a loud, fatiguing talker and a braggard. 2. An inhabitant of the planet Mars. Example: Thus she [one of the moons of Mars] has a disc, always on this assumption be it remembered, equal to about a quarter of our moon's; and being illuminated by the sun, like the other moon, with a light varying from one-half to one-third that which he pours on the earth, it follows that the light she reflects to Martians, or would reflect to them if there were any such beings, varies from one-eighth to one-twelfth of that which we receive from the full moon. Example: Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, [...] 3. An inhabitant of the planet Mars. Labels: rare, specifically Example: Coordinate term: Martianess
Word: Martian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Mārtius (“of or relating to the planet Mars”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix). The word is cognate with Middle English marcien, marcyan, mercien (“subject to the influence or power of the planet Mars; relating to the god Mars, that is, warlike”), Middle French martien (“Martian”) (modern French martien), French Martien (“imaginary inhabitant of Mars; any extraterrestrial”), Italian marziano, Latin Mārtiānus (“Martian”), Portuguese marciano, Spanish marciano. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːʃən/, /ˈmɑɹʃən/ 1. A hypothetical language spoken on Mars. Example: Although impressed by [Catherine Elise] Muller as a person, [Théodore] Flournoy regarded her experiences as a marvel of psychology rather than spiritualism. One of his key findings was that, while Muller's Martian had a consistent 23 letter alphabet, grammar and syntax, it was in fact a twisted variant of French. Example: Suvi: Between the Remnant city, Meridian, and however the Scourge fits in... pardon my Martian, but it's all weird as shit.
Word: Venusian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Venus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Venusian From Venus + -ian. Pronunciation: /vɪˈnjuː.ziən/, /vɪˈnjuː.si.ən/, /vəˈnuʒən/, /vəˈnuʃən/ 1. An inhabitant of the planet Venus. Example: The Venusians, unlike other planetary races, were almost like Earthpeople. There was only one notable difference—they had feathers on their heads instead of hair.
Word: Venusian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Venus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Venusian From Venus + -ian. Pronunciation: /vɪˈnjuː.ziən/, /vɪˈnjuː.si.ən/, /vəˈnuʒən/, /vəˈnuʃən/ 1. Of or relating to the planet Venus. Labels: not-comparable Example: the Venusian landscape Example: The robot craft, the fifth from the Soviet Union to land on Venus, is a module detached from Venera 13. It plunged through the dense, baking-hot carbon dioxide atmosphere and touched down in the foothills of a mountainous region known as Phoebe, just south of the Venusian equator and also below the active volcanic region of Beta. An identical lander, from Venera 14, is expected to reach Venus Friday and probably put down on the plains east of the Phoebe landing site. 2. Of or relating to inhabitants of Venus. Labels: not-comparable Example: a Venusian invasion Example: The farms emulate Venus's atmosphere, so as the generations of Taumoeba go by, they'll get even better at Venusian life. 3. Pertaining to the Roman goddess Venus. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: Aphrodisian
Word: Venusian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Venus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Venusian From Venus + -ian. Pronunciation: /vɪˈnjuː.ziən/, /vɪˈnjuː.si.ən/, /vəˈnuʒən/, /vəˈnuʃən/ 1. A hypothetical language spoken on Venus.
Word: venereal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English venereal, venerealle (“of or relating to sexual intercourse”), from Latin venereus, venerius (“of or relating to sexual love”), from Venus (“Roman goddess of love”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”)) + -eus, -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Pronunciation: /vəˈnɪə.ɹɪ.əl/, /vɪ-/, /vəˈnɪ.ɹi.əl/ 1. Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse. Labels: not-comparable Example: Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch? Example: [B]ecauſe ſuch hot temperaments are prone to Venerie, hence the Poets feigned, that Mars lay with Venus; and withall to ſhew, how much ſouldiers are given to Venereall luſts; [...] 2. Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease. Labels: not-comparable Example: a venereal medicine Example: [...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre. 3. Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The Venereall, are the delitious, laſcivious, mild, kinde, pleaſant, and tame; as the Calfe, cony, dog, goat, and ſcinck. 4. Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists). Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: When after their beaſtly ſport and pleaſure Mounſieur Libid[inoſo] heat of luſt was ſomewhat aſſwaged, and ready to goe, féeling his pocket for a venereall remuneration [i.e., a copper coin] finds nothing but a Teſter, or at leaſt ſo little, that it was not ſufficient to pleaſe dame Pleaſure for her hire. [...] My Ladie would not beléeue Monſ. Libid. a great while, but ſearched and féeled for more coine, [...]
Word: arrears Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪə(ɹ)z/ 1. plural of arrear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arrears Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪə(ɹ)z/ 1. The state of having outstanding debt or liabilities. Labels: uncountable Example: annuities in arrears Example: Mr Hay had been irregular with his rent at the best, and when he disappeared he was a week in arrears.
Word: diabolo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French diabolo, from older diable (literally “devil”), fancifully altered after cognate Italian diavolo and/or their common source, Latin diabolus. First attested in the early 20th century. The Latin noun is from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “devil”), itself derived from the verb διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”, literally “to throw across”). The notion that this literal sense of “throw across” could be applied to the diabolo itself has led some commentators to assume a direct semantic connection, but there is no evidence suggesting that it is anything other than a coincidence. Pronunciation: /dɪˈæbələʊ/ 1. A juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks.
Word: watertight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From water + tight. Compare Scots wattirticht (“watertight”), West Frisian wetterticht (“waterproof”), Dutch waterdicht (“waterproof, watertight”), German wasserdicht (“watertight, waterproof”), Danish vandtæt (“watertight”), Swedish vattentät (“watertight, waterproof”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɔː.tə.taɪt/, /ˈwɑː.tɚ.taɪt/, /ˈwɔː.tɚ.taɪt/ 1. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. Example: What a day, eh? Demmy, it's like the commencement of the rainy season in Bengal. But you'll find my carriage is watertight. Come along, my mother and Emmy are in the vestry. Example: There is no reference to rough weather, and, indeed, the state of the vessel’s paint and rigging excludes the idea that she was abandoned for any such reason. She is perfectly watertight. 2. So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify. Labels: figuratively Example: a watertight alibi Example: a watertight contract
Word: hump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?). Cognate with West Frisian hompe (“lump, chunk”), Icelandic huppur (“flank”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow”), Latin incumbō (“to lie down”), Albanian sumbull (“round button, bud”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”), Avestan 𐬑𐬎𐬨𐬠𐬀 (xumba, “pot”), Sanskrit कुम्ब (kúmba, “thick end of bone”). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, Old English crump (“crooked, bent”). More at cramp. Pronunciation: /hʌmp/, [hɐmp] 1. A mound of earth. 2. A speed bump or speed hump. 3. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. 4. A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. Example: Fat, melted down from the hump of the camel, is suggested in an Oriental manual as an aphrodisiac aid. 5. An act of sexual intercourse. Labels: slang, vulgar 6. A bad mood. Labels: UK, slang, with-definite-article Example: She's got the hump with me. Example: Go away! You're giving me the right hump. 7. A painfully boorish person. Labels: slang Example: That guy is such a hump! 8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
Word: hump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?). Cognate with West Frisian hompe (“lump, chunk”), Icelandic huppur (“flank”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow”), Latin incumbō (“to lie down”), Albanian sumbull (“round button, bud”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”), Avestan 𐬑𐬎𐬨𐬠𐬀 (xumba, “pot”), Sanskrit कुम्ब (kúmba, “thick end of bone”). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, Old English crump (“crooked, bent”). More at cramp. Pronunciation: /hʌmp/, [hɐmp] 1. To bend something into a hump. Labels: transitive Example: The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes. 2. To carry (something), especially with some exertion. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen. 3. To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Stop humping the table, you sicko. 4. To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse. Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive, vulgar 5. To exert oneself; to make an effort. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: Lessons are keeping me humping now, and will probably do so all summer. 6. To vex or annoy. Labels: dated, slang 7. To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard. Example: In the first phase of the new yard's operation, from March 6 last, it was wisely decided to restrict the yard's use to allow for any "teething" ailments with complex electronic gadgets, so when I visited Margam early in May it was working well below its capacity, humping about 1,000 wagons a day; […]. 8. To botch or spoil. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: "Why, sir," said one patterer, "I've gone out with a mate to work a litany, and he's humped it in no time." To 'hump,' in street parlance, is equivalent to 'botch,' in more genteel colloquialism.
Word: conversely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English converse Middle English -ly English -ly English conversely From converse + -ly. Pronunciation: /kənˈvɜːsli/, /ˈkɒnvɜːsli/, /kənˈvɝsli/ 1. With a reversed relationship. Labels: conjunctive, not-comparable, often Example: If two parallelograms, which have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, be equal to one another, the sides about the equal angles are reciprocally proportional, and conversely. Example: Proposition I. If four quantities are proportional, the product of the extremes is equal to the product of the means, and conversely. 2. From another point of view; on the other hand. Labels: broadly, conjunctive, not-comparable Example: At 123 yards, Royal Troon's par-3 eighth in the shortest hole in the Open Championship rota. Known as the "Postage Stamp," the eighth's distance has produced plenty of aces – most recently, Ernie Els in 2004, but Gene Sarazen's hole-in-one remains the benchmark, as the Squire accomplished said feat at 71 years old. Conversely, the hole is not a walk in the park. Example: So the issue of unification only comes up when the geometry can no longer be treated as a mere background, or conversely, when the classical theory is no longer accurate. But these circumstances exist (as far as we know) in only two places: the earliest moments of the Big Bang, and the immediate vicinity of singularities hidden behind black hole event horizons.
Word: saké Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine”), where the final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent in other senses of sake, as well as to differentiate it. Likely influenced by French saké. Pronunciation: /ˈsækeɪ/, /ˈsɑːkeɪ/, /ˈsæki/, /ˈsɑːki/ 1. Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: piranha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1869. The term entered English either via Portuguese piranha or Spanish piraña, from Old Tupi pirãîa. Pronunciation: /pɪˈɹɑːn(j)ə/, /pɪˈɹɑn(j)ə/, /pɪˈɹæn(j)ə/ 1. Any of certain freshwater fish of the subfamily Serrasalminae, native to South America; they are characterised by razor-sharp teeth and a reputation of being ferocious predators (despite most species being omnivorous). Example: At a length of 36cm (14in), the red-bellied piranha was a giant of its kind – more than eight inches longer than an average specimen. Example: In The Simpsons, Millhouse is more worried about piranhas than that his mother will stop loving him. Bart is reduced to a skeleton by piranhas from a hosepipe. 2. Someone, especially a critic, who appears to be part of a swarm and attacks someone when they are vulnerable, as if in a feeding frenzy. Labels: derogatory, figuratively Example: With the piranhas of Fleet Street working themselves into a feeding frenzy over Commander Brian Paddick, a vicious vocabulary you might have naively imagined abandoned in these more tolerant times has been dusted off and brought back into use.
Word: debilitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From debilitatus, the past passive participle of Latin dēbilitō (“to weaken, debilitate”), from the adjective dēbilis (“weak”), itself from de- + habilis (“able”). Equivalent to Latin dēbilitō + -ate (verb-forming suffix; adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪt/, /dəˈbɪləteɪt/ 1. To make feeble; to weaken. Labels: transitive Example: The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis. Example: Twice, they found themselves behind, seemingly on their way out, and on both occasions they absolutely refused to let their lack of numbers debilitate them.
Word: debilitate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From debilitatus, the past passive participle of Latin dēbilitō (“to weaken, debilitate”), from the adjective dēbilis (“weak”), itself from de- + habilis (“able”). Equivalent to Latin dēbilitō + -ate (verb-forming suffix; adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪt/, /dəˈbɪləteɪt/ 1. Feeble, enfeebled. Labels: obsolete Example: It is powerfull in helping extenuat and leane perſons who are troubled with difficultie of drawing their Brath: gives vigour and ſtrength to vithered and debilitat members; […]
Word: sit up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upsitten (“to sit up”). 1. To assume a sitting position from a position lying down. Labels: intransitive Example: Despite being cancer-ridden, Lorin sat up to greet the visitors. Example: She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door. 2. To sit erect. Labels: intransitive Example: Sit up straight, mister! 3. To show sudden interest or surprise. Labels: intransitive Example: He sat up when we mentioned the increased pay package. 4. To bounce, especially to a comfortable height. Example: And within five minutes of the change United were level. Gabriel Obertan tuned his marker inside out and delivered a cross from the right that hit Hernandez and sat up perfectly for Owen to nod home. 5. To not go to bed (notionally remaining in a sitting position). Example: I sat up all night waiting for her to come home. 6. For a young lady to open her house for several successive nights for any visitors who wish to pay their respects. Labels: India, historical
Word: sit up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English upsitten (“to sit up”). 1. Alternative spelling of sit-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sit down Part of Speech: verb 1. To assume a sitting position from a standing position. Labels: intransitive Example: Sit down! We have work to do. Example: I sat down in the armchair, and my sis sat down on the floor. 2. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to. Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: Sit your ass down and shut up. Example: I sat him down and explained to him how things truly work around here. 3. To meet formally at a conference table. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements. 4. To meet with someone for discussions, negotiations or interrogation. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I sat down with him about the allegations. 5. To assume a low or sunken position. Labels: intransitive Example: The ball scooted off the fairway and sat down in the thick rough. Example: As we all climbed aboard, the little boat sat down low in the water. 6. In Aboriginal use, to live or stay at (a place). Labels: Australia, intransitive Example: He ‘sat down’ for days, regaining his strength, quietly sizing up his little kingdom. Example: ‘He sit down long time, plenty days, too quiet altogether. All a time he look out young lubra.’ 7. To take up residence in or settle (an area). Labels: Australia, intransitive, obsolete
Word: stand-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from stand up. Pronunciation: /ˈstændˌʌp/ 1. Honest; honorable; genuine. Example: He's a stand-up guy, and a hard worker. Example: For the first time on an English railway there was a good stand-up smash between a heavy steam-engine and a train of light cars, and it was 'bad for the coo.' 2. Upright; while standing. Example: stand-up comedy 3. Performed while standing although normally done while sitting. Example: Every morning we have a stand-up meeting. 4. That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide. Example: stand-up double; stand-up triple
Word: stand-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from stand up. Pronunciation: /ˈstændˌʌp/ 1. A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage Labels: uncountable Example: Sometimes the club has music, sometimes stand-up. 2. A comedian who performs on stage. Labels: countable 3. A news broadcast delivered by an announcer who is filmed standing near the scene of the event. Labels: countable Example: Reporters covet standups rather than the voiceover narration of news footage because it puts their faces on the air. 4. A short meeting throughout which participants remain standing (to encourage brevity). Labels: countable Example: How come you weren't at the stand-up this morning? Example: Esther Crawford, a project manager, asked people to join a “standup” meeting at 9:30 p.m. in San Francisco on Thursday as some layoff notices went out. 5. A free-standing photographic print or promotional item; a standee. Labels: countable
Word: quism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of quasi-isomorphism. 1. A quasi-isomorphism. Example: Most authors speak of a quasi-isomorphism or quism, but Bourbaki's term is more descriptive. Example: Then the composition is a quism and therefore is an acceptable Adams-Hilton model for E.
Word: Howard Part of Speech: name Etymology: Medieval personal name from Middle English Howard, Howarde, from Old Norse Hávarðr, from hár (“high”) + varðr (“guard”). In some cases a variant of Heward, from Old French Huard. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊɚd/, /ˈhaʊəd/ 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Henry Howard, the most noble Earl of Surry, who flourishing in the time of King Henry the 8.th, as his name is sufficiently famous for the martial exploits of that family for many generations, so deserves he, had he his due, the particular fame of learning, wit, and poetic fancy 2. A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred back from the surname. Short form: Howie. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "King Howard Kashpaw, Junior," said his new teacher. "Which one of those names would you like to be called?" He had never thought about it. "Howard," he was surprised to hear himself answer. It was that simple. After that he was Howard at school. - - - ""He don't call himself Little King anymore," Lynette said from the kitchen. "He thinks his name's Howard." "Howard?" The boy looked at me and nodded. "He won't claim his dad no more," said King, standing in the doorway. "He's too good." Example: “For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm,” said Howard Chen, study author and Ph.D candidate at Northwestern University. 3. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 16. A rural town in Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable 17. Ellipsis of Howard University. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: kanaka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1840. From Hawaiian kanaka (“person”), ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *taŋata. 1. A person of Hawaiian descent. Example: It was considered one of the nation’s strictest bans because of the reference to Kanakas – native Hawaiians – and because Nevada was the only other state to add Chinese. Example: "Who was the call from?" "I don't know. Sound like a kanaka though.” When Erin frowned, he added, “A Hawaiian, like me.” 2. A South Pacific Islander, especially a labourer in Australia or Canada. Labels: historical Example: There remains one case to be considered, that of the deportation of the Kanakas who were introduced into Queensland for the purpose of work on the sugar plantations.[…]It was, however, felt in the south that a white Australia was essential, and the Commonwealth passed in 1901 an Act (No. 16) which arranged for the deportation of all Kanakas within a few years. Example: The Kanaka at the wheel gave him a glance, but did not speak.
Word: Navidad Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Navidad. The surname is mostly found in the Philippines. 1. A city in Chile. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A surname from Spanish. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: irony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek εἴρων (eírōn) 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 εἰρωνείᾱ (eirōneíā)der. Latin īrōnīader. Old French Middle French ironieder. English irony First attested in 1502. From Middle French ironie, from Old French, from Latin īrōnīa, from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía, “irony, pretext”), from εἴρων (eírōn, “one who feigns ignorance”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪə.ɹə.ni/, /ˈaɪ.ɹə.ni/, /ˈaɪ.ɚ.ni/, /ˈɑɪ.ɹən.i/ 1. The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: Irony, saying what it ne'er intends, Censures with praise, and speaks to foes as friends. Example: A principal virtue of Rorty's recognition of both the lightminded and the serious side of irony is to urge us in that direction. 2. The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. Labels: countable, rhetoric Example: It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper. Example: The second irony is that the only American who intuitively or otherwise grasps this reality and possesses a large enough ego potentially capable of governing in these circumstances is the president. 3. Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: irony Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hyrony, yreny, yrony, yrunny, equivalent to iron + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪə.ni/, /ˈaɪ.ɚ.ni/ 1. Of or pertaining to the metal iron. Example: The food had an irony taste to it. Example: The scrap yard had bins marked for irony aluminum, such as aluminum engine blocks not wholly cleaned of bolts, studs, brackets, and so on.
Word: irony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hyrony, yreny, yrony, yrunny, equivalent to iron + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪə.ni/, /ˈaɪ.ɚ.ni/ 1. A kind of metallic marble. Labels: childish, dated Example: And before the season's over millions of "glassies" and "aggies" or "ironies" will change hands, and thousands more will manage to get themselves lost.
Word: practically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English practical Middle English -ly English -ly English practically From practical + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪk(ə)li/ 1. In practice; in effect or in actuality, though possibly not officially, technically, or legally. Example: Stalin was not technically or legally the head of state but was practically so. Example: It is true that the Articles of the [Argentine] Constitution promise fair conditions under which to live; but, unfortunately, the self-same Constitution, in the hands of unscrupulous administrators, becomes so elastic as to be practically a dead letter. 2. Almost completely; almost entirely. Example: Near-synonyms: effectively, nearly, virtually Example: He was practically uneducated, barely able to read and write a simple sentence. 3. With respect to practices or a practice. Example: He wasn't very good with words or numbers; he was more of a practically minded person Example: He was practically educated and lacked theoretical depth. 4. In a way that is practical: feasibly; unchallengingly. Example: practically achievable
Word: literally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-der. Old Latin leitera Latin līterader.? Proto-Hellenic *dipʰtʰérā? Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā)bor. Etruscan [Term?]bor.? Latin littera Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin litterālisbor. Old French literalbor. Middle English literal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English litteraly English literally From Middle English litteraly. See literal and letter. By surface analysis, literal + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li/, /ˈlɪ.tɹə.li/, /ˈlɪ.təɹ.li/ 1. In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word. Example: He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally. Example: There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth. 2. In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word. Example: When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan. Example: I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks. 3. In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word. Example: My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears. Example: What literally broke the ice that first night was when a 98-year-old retired professor spoke up. “Well, I have a choice of what to think about when I have insomnia at night. Being a lover of mathematics, last night when I couldn't sleep, I decided to calculate the tonnage of ice I delivered as a boy.” 4. As an intensifier. Labels: colloquial Example: I had no idea, so I was literally guessing. Example: I was literally having breakfast when she arrived. 5. As an intensifier. Labels: proscribed, sometimes Example: He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air. Example: On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets. 6. Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely. Labels: colloquial Example: It's not even hard⁠ to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done. Example: It won't take me long to get back, 'cause the store's literally two blocks away.
Word: enormity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), from ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). Ēnōrmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’) + nōrma (“norm, standard”) + -is (Latin suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɔːmɪti/, /ɪˈnoɹmɪti/, [-ɾi] 1. Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty. Labels: uncountable Example: Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot’s oppression. Example: I had an obscure feeling that all was not over, and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past. 3. A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness. Labels: countable Example: Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands; for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited, was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed. Example: Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century. 4. Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness. Labels: proscribed, sometimes, uncountable Example: I am in Amerika! I felt like weeping at the enormity of this fact. Amerika, the fabled, the mythic, the coveted. The knowledge that we had no visas, and therefore would not be allowed to set foot on land, dampened my enthusiasm only a little. Example: But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.
Word: enormousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English enormous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English enormousness From enormous + -ness. 1. Great size or magnitude. Labels: uncountable Example: "The Last Emperor," written by Mark Peploe "with" (as the credits say) Mr. Bertolucci, may have been inhibited by the enormousness of its subject, and even by the apparently enthusiastic support of China, which acted as host to Mr. Bertolucci, his cast and production crew. Example: I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.
Word: uninterested Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English interested English uninterested From un- + interested. 1. Not interested; indifferent, not concerned. Example: I was uninterested in the TV program, so I read a book instead. Example: Once the government had changed and we got a prime minister uninterested in - even hostile to - railways, the transition team was working in an atmosphere of uncertainty. 2. Unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested. Labels: obsolete Example: The judge was uninterested in the case.
Word: shave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”). Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven, Low German schaven, German schaben, Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava, Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban), all roughly “to scrape, chafe, shave, plane, remove the outer lay of”. Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, [ˈʃeɪ̯v] 1. To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. Labels: transitive 2. To cut anything in this fashion. Labels: transitive Example: The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […] 3. To remove hair from one's face by this means. Labels: intransitive Example: I had little time to shave this morning. 4. To cut finely, for example slices of meat. Labels: transitive 5. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. Example: Now shaves with level wing the deep. Example: […] I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin–pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; […] 6. To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount. Example: Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal. Example: The acceleration was impressive, and these trains should allow TfW to look at shaving a few minutes off schedules here and there in the fullness of time, […]. 7. To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat. Labels: archaic, transitive 8. To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. Labels: US, dated, slang, transitive 9. To injure by employing a knife. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive Example: Took one of the goons, the fuck they gonna do? Shave him in the heart then the mandem smoke a zoot
Word: shave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô. Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, [ˈʃeɪ̯v] 1. An instance of shaving. Example: I instructed the barber to give me a shave. 2. A thin slice; a shaving. Example: a jolly mealy 'tator, with a shave of butter, and a shake of pepper 3. An exorbitant discount on a note. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: yea, tis knowable that the paper money of some of them would not pass, comparatively speaking, much, if any, beyond the smoke of the chimney from whence 'twas issued and circulated before you, or those who had it would have to take a broker's shave on it , at the rate of from a ¼, to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, or more per cent, before it could be used as solvently available means of payment. Example: Being unable to pay the note at maturity, Laws went with Starr to one Snyder, to whom the note was sold at a “shave,” as the parties called it, of 10 per cent. 4. A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: If this were a dishonest transaction, why did the companies settle? If it were not, why did the heirs submit to a shave of one-half their claims? Example: Where S made a note to raise money upon, and H, agreeing to discount it for a shave of six dollars, received the note and soon returned with the check of V for the amount of such note, less legal discount, payable to the order of S, and he drew the money thereon and having no knowldge of the agreement or of the payment,–Held, that V was not guilty of usury, but was entitled to recover on the note. 5. A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end. 6. A narrow miss or escape; a close shave. Labels: informal Example: "[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie. Example: "Was it a near thing?" asked Carrados confidentially. "Well, strictly between ourselves, I don't mind admitting that it might have been something of a shave," confessed Tulloch, with a cheerful grin.
Word: shaven Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ.vən/ 1. Having been shaved. Example: This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
Word: shaven Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ.vən/ 1. past participle of shave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: iterate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1533, the noun in 1941; partly inherited from Middle English iterat(e) (adjective), partly borrowed from Latin iterātus, perfect passive participle of iterō (“to do something for a second time, repeat”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)) , from iterum (“again”) + -ō. Sporadical participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/, /ˈaɪtəɹeɪt/, [ˈɪɾəɹeɪt], /ˈɪtəɹæɪt/, [ˈɪɾəɹæɪt] 1. To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set. Example: The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value. 2. To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action. Example: In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration. 3. To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: to iterate advice Example: Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared. 4. To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time. Labels: ambitransitive Example: For NASA and most private aerospace companies, a single crash is a setback that can take years to recover from. SpaceX works more like a Silicon Valley startup, where the goal is to fail quickly and iterate.
Word: iterate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1533, the noun in 1941; partly inherited from Middle English iterat(e) (adjective), partly borrowed from Latin iterātus, perfect passive participle of iterō (“to do something for a second time, repeat”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)) , from iterum (“again”) + -ō. Sporadical participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ˈɪtərət/ 1. An n-fold self-composition of a function. Example: An important example of such a semigroup in infinite dimensional Hilbert space is the weak operator closed monothetic semigroup generated by a linear operator with equibounded iterates. 2. The image of a certain value under such a function. Example: f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.
Word: iterate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1533, the noun in 1941; partly inherited from Middle English iterat(e) (adjective), partly borrowed from Latin iterātus, perfect passive participle of iterō (“to do something for a second time, repeat”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)) , from iterum (“again”) + -ō. Sporadical participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. 1. Said or done again; repeated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: When our faith is otherwise well enough known, there needs no iterate confession, saith Baldwin, which if, as he saith, it be vain boasting rather than a Christian vertue in us to offer it, it can be no lesse than needlesse, imperious usurpation in them to call as to it. 2. Iterated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Therfore I beseche you brethren doe not neglect this holsome & profitable sacrament, but diligently consyder what ayde and what grace is geuen vnto you in it, & if by your necgligence & fal ye haue lost that grace, for a great part: yet it may be recouered agayne, not by a newe Confirmation, which may not be iterate, but by your inward conuersion & faythfull penaunce, and after ye bee risen and haue recouered your strength agayne, than take better hede, and do not make heauye, nor dryue not a∣way the holy ghost from you, who flieth alwaies from fained ypocrisy & wil not dwel in that body that is subiect and seruaunt to synne
Word: circumspect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin circumspectō (“look around”). Compare periscope. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.kəm.spɛkt/, /ˈsɝ.kəm.spɛkt/ 1. Carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent. Example: Being aware of the danger of upsetting her audience, she was somewhat circumspect in her comments. Example: Comment must be circumspect until fuller particulars are available, [...].
Word: circumspectly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English circumspect Middle English -ly English -ly English circumspectly From circumspect + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈsɝː.kəm.spekt.l/ 1. In a circumspect manner; with consideration for all that is pertinent. Example: But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up. Example: Coverage of Mr. Carter’s many Monitor Breakfasts reveals a man ready to shake things up, in his own way. At the 1974 gathering, when he publicly revealed his presidential aspirations, he said he would ask for the power to use wage and price controls to address the struggling economy – “but I would use it circumspectly,” he added.