nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Dutchman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Dutch duutschbor. Old Saxon thiudisk Middle Low German dütschbor. Middle English Duch Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English Ducheman English Dutchman From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌt͡ʃmən/ 1. A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands. Example: About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […] Example: The Dutchman hit his 33rd league goal of the calendar year to move him three behind Alan Shearer's record of 36. 2. A male Pennsylvania German. Labels: US 3. A male German. Labels: archaic, dated Example: […]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz. 4. A male white Afrikaner. Labels: South-Africa, derogatory Example: […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners. 5. Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: Dutchman Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Dutch duutschbor. Old Saxon thiudisk Middle Low German dütschbor. Middle English Duch Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English Ducheman English Dutchman From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌt͡ʃmən/ 1. A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Labels: US Example: President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].
Word: Dutchwoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Dutch Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English Dutchwoman From Dutch + -woman. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌt͡ʃˌwʊmən/ 1. A Dutch woman; a woman from the Netherlands. 2. A woman of Dutch descent. 3. A female Pennsylvania German. Labels: US 4. A woman from Germany. Labels: archaic, dated 5. A female white Afrikaner. Labels: South-Africa, derogatory, ethnic, slur
Word: Netherlander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Netherlands + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛðɚˌlændɚ/ 1. Someone from the Netherlands
Word: agora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- Proto-Indo-European *h₂goréh₂ Proto-Hellenic *agorā́ Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá)lbor. English agora Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.ɡə.ɹə/, /əˈɡɔː.ɹə/ 1. A place for gathering. Example: The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place. 2. A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
Word: agora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew אֲגוֹרָה (agorá), from the root א־ג־ר (ʾ-g-r, “forming words relating to hoarding and storing”). Pronunciation: /ˌæɡ.əˈɹɑː/ 1. Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel.
Word: want Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-. Pronunciation: /wɒnt/, /wɑnt/, /wʌnt/, /wɔnt/, [wɔːnt] 1. A desire, wish, longing. Labels: countable Example: After a search which produced most of the things on our wants list, we went down to picnic on the shore in the sunshine-with a good stretch of shingle behind us over which no triffid could approach unheard. 2. Lack, absence, deficiency. Labels: countable Example: She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers. Example: [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels. 3. Poverty. Labels: uncountable Example: Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. 4. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Habitual superfluities become actual wants. 5. A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: want Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wont (“mole”), from Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz. Pronunciation: /wɒnt/ 1. A mole (Talpa europea). Labels: dialectal Example: Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?
Word: start Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below. Pronunciation: /stɑːt/, /stɑɹt/, /stɑrt/, /start/, [sta̠ɹ̠t̚] 1. The beginning of an activity. Example: The movie was entertaining from start to finish. Example: I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start. 2. A sudden involuntary movement. Example: He woke with a start. Example: Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry. 3. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. Example: Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board. 4. An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event. Example: Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday. Example: Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match. 5. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later. Example: You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant. 6. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start. Example: to get, or have, the start Example: The man has got two clear days' start and the chances are nine to one against catching him. 7. A happening or proceeding. Labels: UK, archaic, slang Example: “It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […] 8. Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”) Labels: alt-of
Word: start Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare. Pronunciation: /stɑːt/, /stɑɹt/, /stɑrt/, /start/, [sta̠ɹ̠t̚] 1. To begin, commence, initiate. Labels: ergative Example: to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business Example: I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject which the people of that kingdom love to start in discourse. 2. To begin, commence, initiate. Labels: ergative Example: The President fired the gun to start the footrace. Example: The rain started at 9:00. 3. To begin, commence, initiate. Labels: ergative Example: to start the engine 4. To begin, commence, initiate. Labels: ergative 5. To begin, commence, initiate. Labels: ergative Example: Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start. 6. To have its origin (at), begin. Labels: intransitive Example: The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town. Example: The blue line starts one foot away from the wall. 7. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle. Labels: intransitive Example: But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Example: I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular haire to ſtand an end, Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […] 8. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle. Labels: intransitive Example: I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; [...] 9. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle. Labels: transitive Example: The hounds started a fox. Example: Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet? 10. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle. Labels: ergative Example: the storm started the bolts in the vessel Example: One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternon. 11. To put into play. Labels: transitive Example: The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on. Example: “Look at Portu,” Michel insisted, “he scores goals and I never start him. He says: ‘You’re sinking me, but OK, I’ll just go out and score again.’” 12. To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from. Labels: transitive Example: to start a water cask 13. To begin one's menstrual cycle. Labels: euphemistic, intransitive Example: Have you started yet?
Word: start Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare. Pronunciation: /stɑːt/, /stɑɹt/, /stɑrt/, /start/, [sta̠ɹ̠t̚] 1. An instance of starting.
Word: start Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stert, start (“tail, handle, projection”), from Old English steort (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Scots start, stairt (“side post, shaft, upright post”), Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Danish stjert (“tail of a bird”), Faroese stertur (“tail”), Icelandic stertur (“short horse tail”), Norn skjårt (“tail”), sterti (“tail of a large fish”), stjårt (“tail of a large fish”), Norwegian stjert (“tail of a bird”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”). Pronunciation: /stɑːt/, /stɑɹt/, /stɑrt/, /start/, [sta̠ɹ̠t̚] 1. A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out. 2. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket. Example: The fall of water is 6 feet, and the radius of the curve is 8 feet, from the centre of the water-wheel to the extreme point of the start. 3. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. Example: ... horses, a number of men who seemed to acquire strength as the necessity for it increased, applied their shoulders to the starts, or shafts of the gin, and worked it with extraordinary speed. By twelve o'clock, thirty-two[…] Example: […] so that the horse may not expend his force in an oblique direction, but get a fair pull on the "starts."
Word: start Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Variant of stark. Pronunciation: /stɑːt/, /stɑɹt/, /stɑrt/, /start/, [sta̠ɹ̠t̚] 1. Completely, utterly. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: Col.—The age has no sense—the people are start mad—as mad as a March mare. We should have fine times, indeed if our laws did'nt compel the poor people to protect the property of the rich.
Word: welding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, weld + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛldɪŋ/ 1. The action or process of welding: Example: […] and at Dinsdale work will commence in 1957 on a depot to deal with rail welding and track pre-assembly. The plant envisaged will weld new flat-bottom rails into 180-ft. lengths for laying in selected lines. Example: This type of physical testing by the non-destructive test is performed to check the welding quality in a closed container such as tanks and pressure vessels. 2. The action or process of welding:
Word: welding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, weld + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛldɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of weld Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lekker Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Afrikaans lekker, from Dutch lekker. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛkə(ɹ)/ 1. Tasty, nice, fun, great. Labels: South-Africa Example: There were 2 000 rounds of ammo to fire between us four loadies. We sat there for hours and took our potshots. It was kiff; the R5 was a lekker thing. 2. Good in a generic sense, worthy, functional. Labels: South-Africa Example: The other men ask why he's crying, when he's got such a lekker car. The guy shakes his head and says, "I just saw my wife, and she was driving a skateboard."
Word: colloquy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder. Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/ 1. # A conversation or dialogue. Labels: countable, formal, uncountable Example: And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety. Example: House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds. 2. A formal conference. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A church court held by certain Reformed denominations. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A written discourse. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal. 6. A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals. Example: That a man should speak Latin was taken for granted, but to speak good Latin required training, and to give this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ...
Word: colloquy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder. Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/ 1. To converse. Labels: intransitive, rare
Word: anarchism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ) Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek ἄναρχος (ánarkhos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (ănărkhĭ́ā)der. New Latin anarchiader. English anarchy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English anarchism From anarchy + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈanəkɪz(ə)m/, /ˈænəɹˌkɪzəm/, /ˈæˌnɑɹˌkɪzəm/ 1. A political and philosophical belief that all forms of government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and as such that society would function without a state. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Der Anarchismus ist die rechtsphilosophische Verneinung des Staates, das heisst diejenige Art der rechtsphilotopbischen Staatslehren, welche den Staat verneint. 2. A political and philosophical belief that proposes the establishment of a stateless society as well as the abolition of authority and hierarchy in most or all forms. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Opposed as it is to authority and hierarchy, anarchism is typically associated with chaos and disorder, and thus often connected with violence and terror. The means by which to achieve a nonhierarchical society animate debates within anarchism. Example: Anarchism is skepticism toward authority. Its unifying position is that not all forms of authority are justified, and we should refrain from any acceptance of them prior to their satisfactory justification. One form of authority that anarchists consider unjustified is the political authority of the state. 3. The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body. Labels: rare, uncountable, usually Example: By now the evils of the governments born of twentieth-century revolutions have been documented. And so anarchism – the absence of government, the direct administration by people of their own lives – is still intact as an ideal, for it has never been tried.
Word: sofa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish. Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊ̯fə/, /ˈsɵʊ̯fə/, /ˈsoʊ̯fə/, /ˈsɔʊ̯fə/ 1. A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting. Labels: East, Middle, archaic 2. An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. Example: He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived. Example: His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
Word: sofa Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish. Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊ̯fə/, /ˈsɵʊ̯fə/, /ˈsoʊ̯fə/, /ˈsɔʊ̯fə/ 1. To furnish with one or more sofas. Example: The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are. Example: First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery. 2. To seat or lay down on a sofa. Example: Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence of these relics of refinement she is floored or she may have to submit standing (especially if the doctor is in a hury and meets her at the gate or corner drug store) with an unerring plunge, of a not overly clean index finger, the darksome cavern is penetrated and perhaps, not, a cervix is touched and reveals, of course, a lacerated cervix, just as had been predicted. Example: A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.
Word: sofa Part of Speech: noun 1. A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire. Labels: historical Example: 1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.
Word: rhinoceros Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs, “nose-horned”), composed of ῥῑ́ς, ῥῑνός (rhī́s, rhīnós, “nose, of (the) nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”). Pronunciation: /ɹaɪˈnɒs.ə.ɹəs/, /ɹaɪˈnɑ.sə.ɹəs/, /ɹɑɪˈnɔs.ə.ɹəs/ 1. Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts. Example: Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian Oxe, Indian Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros, or Unicornis. 2. An ungulate mammal of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including the hornless Paraceratherium.
Word: reprehensible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/, /ˌɹɛpɹəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l/ 1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty. 2. Deserving of reprehension. Example: Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett. Example: We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?
Word: reprehensible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/, /ˌɹɛpɹəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l/ 1. A reprehensible person; a villain.
Word: smart ass Part of Speech: noun 1. A person regarded with an obnoxiously determined advancement of one's own personality, wishes, or views. Labels: slang, sometimes, vulgar
Word: ROFL Part of Speech: phrase Pronunciation: /ɑɹˌoʊˌɛfˈɛl/, /ɹɒfl̩/ 1. Initialism of rolling on the floor, laughing; used to indicate great amusement. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of ran out for lunch. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, dated, initialism, rare
Word: ROFL Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɑɹˌoʊˌɛfˈɛl/, /ɹɒfl̩/ 1. Initialism of roll on the floor, laughing; to experience great amusement at something. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: IF YOU PLAYED Boiling Point and didn’t find yourself outwardly ROFLing at the absurd number of bugs the game was drowning in, then maybe you saw the potential Deep Shadows’ free-roaming Columbian RPG had hidden in its floating-puma infested jungles. Example: My REFs may be ROFLing⁷ while I’m definitely not. My RLFs will know the minute they see me or talk to me on the phone that I need cheering up.
Word: acalycinous Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.kəˈlɪs.n̩.əs/ 1. Acalycine. Labels: not-comparable
Word: a cappella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.kəˈpɛl.ə/, /ˌæ.kæˈpɛl.ə/, /ˌɑ kəˈpɛl.ə/ 1. A vocal performance with no instrumental accompaniment.
Word: a cappella Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.kəˈpɛl.ə/, /ˌæ.kæˈpɛl.ə/, /ˌɑ kəˈpɛl.ə/ 1. In the manner of a choir with no instrumental accompaniment. Labels: not-comparable Example: Groups of teens singing a cappella on street corners got recording contracts. 2. In alla breve time. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: a cappella Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.kəˈpɛl.ə/, /ˌæ.kæˈpɛl.ə/, /ˌɑ kəˈpɛl.ə/ 1. Singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment. Labels: not-comparable Example: An a cappella group sang during the wedding reception. 2. Related to a form of purely vocal music mostly associated with American college performance groups. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: Socially, a cappella groups tend to be tight-knit ensembles in which close interpersonal relationships are formed. 3. alla breve. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: ventripotent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French ventripotent, from Latin venter (“belly”) + potens (“powerful”). Pronunciation: /vɛnˈtɹɪpətənt/ 1. Having a big belly. Example: Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how, and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent [translating ventripotent] god. Example: The reception committee consisted of Constance and a ventripotent Swiss banker, representing the Red Cross …. 2. Gluttonous. Example: I'm sure your being so ventripotent is useful in county fair competitions, George, but it's driving our bakery into the ground, so we're replacing you.
Word: tractor beam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a shortening of attractor beam; note however the broader meaning of tractor (“machinery that pulls something”). Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1931 in his novel Spacehounds of IPC, first serialized in Amazing Stories. 1. A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance. Example: Through it Stevens saw with satisfaction that the Forlorn Hope was not being abandoned; in the grip of powerful tractor beams, every fragment of the wreckage was following close behind them in their flight through space. Example: By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.
Word: Cypriot Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). By surface analysis, Cypr(us) + -iot. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪp.ɹi.ət/ 1. The dialect of Greek spoken in Cyprus. 2. The dialect of Turkish spoken in Cyprus.
Word: Cypriot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). By surface analysis, Cypr(us) + -iot. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪp.ɹi.ət/ 1. A person from Cyprus.
Word: Cypriot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). By surface analysis, Cypr(us) + -iot. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪp.ɹi.ət/ 1. Of, from, or relating to Cyprus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Andorran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Catalan Andorrabor. English Andorra Middle English -n English -n English Andorran From Andorra + -n. Pronunciation: /ænˈdɔːɹən/, /ænˈdɒɹən/, /ænˈdoɹən/, /ænˈdɔɹən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Andorra; a person of Andorran citizenship or nationality and their descendants.
Word: Andorran Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Catalan Andorrabor. English Andorra Middle English -n English -n English Andorran From Andorra + -n. Pronunciation: /ænˈdɔːɹən/, /ænˈdɒɹən/, /ænˈdoɹən/, /ænˈdɔɹən/ 1. Of, from or relating to Andorra or the Andorran people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: wealth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian wielde (“wealth”), Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German Weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“wealth”). Related also to German Wohl (“welfare, well-being, weal”), Danish vel (“weal, welfare”), Swedish väl (“well-being, weal”). More at weal, well. Pronunciation: /wɛlθ/, [wɛl̪θ] 1. Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions. Labels: uncountable Example: Money talks, but true wealth whispers. 2. A great amount; an abundance or plenty. Labels: countable Example: She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project. Example: There is a wealth of carved wood inside: from pulpit to pews, screens to lectern, and a large medieval chest made from a hollowed-out log of bog-oak with a massive lid. 3. Prosperity; well-being; happiness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: I once did lend my body for his wealth, / Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, / Had quite miscarried: […] Example: Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Word: burden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːdn̩/, /ˈbɝdn̩/, /bʌɾdn̩/, /bøːdn̩/, /beːdn̩/ 1. A heavy load. Example: I know that this was Life,—the track ⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared; ⁠And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back. Example: There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens. 2. A responsibility, onus. 3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. Example: c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown. 4. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry. Example: a ship of a hundred tons burden Example: "[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes." 5. The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. 6. The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. 7. A fixed quantity of certain commodities. Example: A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds. 8. A birth. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: … that bore thee at a burden two fair sons. 9. The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism. 10. The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
Word: burden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːdn̩/, /ˈbɝdn̩/, /bʌɾdn̩/, /bøːdn̩/, /beːdn̩/ 1. To encumber with a burden. Labels: figuratively, literally, transitive Example: to burden a nation with taxes Example: My burdened heart would break. 2. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). Labels: transitive Example: He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.
Word: burden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English burdoun (“accompaniment”), from Old French bordon (“drone”), from Medieval Latin burdō. Doublet of bourdon. 1. A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad. Example: Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Example: As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought. 2. The drone of a bagpipe. Example: BURDEN in some musical instruments, the Drone or Bass, and the pipe or string that plays it 3. A Theme, a core idea. Example: the burden of the argument
Word: penguin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kʷennom Proto-Brythonic *penn Welsh pen? Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.? Proto-Celtic *windos Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn Welsh gwyn? Proto-Indo-European *peyh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-influ.? Latin pinguisder.? English penguin Uncertain. First attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia article. Etymology 1 sense 3 originates from the often black-and-white habit worn by nuns, which resemble the bird's colors. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/, /ˈpɪŋ.ɡwɪn/, /ˈpeŋ.wɪn/ 1. Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage. Example: Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […] 2. An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere. Labels: historical, obsolete Example: This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F. Example: More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called " wobble-birds." 3. A nun. Labels: slang Example: Jake (John Belushi): What are we doing here? Elwood (Dan Aykroyd): You promised you'd visit the penguin the day you got out. Jake: Yeah. So, I lied to her. Elwood:You can't lie to a nun. We gotta go in and visit the penguin. 4. A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin. 5. A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft. Labels: UK, slang Example: Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […] Example: Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.
Word: penguin Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/, /ˈpɪŋ.ɡwɪn/, /ˈpeŋ.wɪn/ 1. Obsolete form of pinguin. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: These productive patches, and the houses, were each surrounded by a fence, made of a prickly shrub, called the Pinguin, which propagates itself with great rapidity.
Word: coffee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfi/, /ˈkɔːfɪ/, /ˈkɔfi/, /ˈkɑfi/, /ˈkoəfi/ 1. A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water. Labels: uncountable Example: He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out. Example: The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…]. 2. A serving of this beverage. Labels: countable Example: As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one. 3. The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A tropical plant of the genus Coffea. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A pale brown color, like that of milky coffee. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The end of a meal, when coffee is served. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He did not stay for coffee.
Word: coffee Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfi/, /ˈkɔːfɪ/, /ˈkɔfi/, /ˈkɑfi/, /ˈkoəfi/ 1. Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on. Labels: not-comparable
Word: coffee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfi/, /ˈkɔːfɪ/, /ˈkɔfi/, /ˈkɑfi/, /ˈkoəfi/ 1. To drink coffee. Labels: intransitive Example: I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing. Example: In the afternoon with Hilda and suite in three Einspänner to just beyond Pontresina; we got out and crossed the bridge over the Bernina to Sans Souci Café, where we coffee'''’d. 2. To give coffee to. Labels: transitive Example: The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed. Example: Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.
Word: breakfast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/, /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/, /ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/ 1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow. Example: I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb. 2. A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: We serve breakfast all day. 3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
Word: breakfast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/, /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/, /ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/ 1. To eat the morning meal. Labels: intransitive Example: May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Example: “Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]” 2. To serve breakfast to. Labels: transitive Example: By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea
Word: saponaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sapōnāceus, from oblique stem of sāpō, sāpōnis + -āceus. 1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy. 2. Slippery; evasive. Labels: figuratively
Word: nominatival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin nōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκή (onomăstĭkḗ)calq. Latin nōminātīvusder. Old French nominatifbor. ▲ Latin nōminātīvusbor. Middle English nominatyf English nominative English -al English nominatival From nominative + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌnɑmɪnəˈtivəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the nominative case; nominative Labels: not-comparable
Word: nominatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin nōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκή (onomăstĭkḗ)calq. Latin nōminātīvusder. Old French nominatifbor. ▲ Latin nōminātīvusbor. Middle English nominatyf English nominative 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 English -ly English nominatively From nominative + -ly. 1. In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
Word: escape pod Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈskeɪp.pɒd/ 1. Any small, secondary, emergency-use vehicle used to evacuate from the main vehicle during times of danger.
Word: genitocrural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From genito- + crural. 1. Synonym of genitofemoral. Labels: not-comparable
Word: genitival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From genitive + -al. 1. Having genitive form; pertaining to, expressing, or derived from, the genitive case. Example: genitival adverb
Word: genitival Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From genitive + -al. 1. A genitive.
Word: geniting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from a diminutive of French Jean (“John”), so named as becoming ripe about St. John’s Day, June 24. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtɪŋ/ 1. A variety of apple that ripens very early Example: In July come gilliflowers of all varieties, musk-roses, the lime-tree in blossom, early pears, and plums, in fruit, genitings, codlins[…]
Word: genitor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to genō + -tor. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtə(ɹ)/ 1. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring. 2. a generator; an originator Example: […]prophane legends (though termed by their Genitours and forefathers, Aureæ Legendæ, Golden Legends)[…] 3. The genitals Labels: in-plural, obsolete Example: The same[…]healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.
Word: accusatival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Suffixation of the Latin accūsātīvum with the English -al. Pronunciation: /əˌkjuːzəˈtaɪvəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the accusative case. Labels: not-comparable
Word: accusatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek αἰτῐᾱτῐκή (aitĭātĭkḗ)calq. Latin accūsātīvusder. Anglo-Norman accusatifbor. ▲ Latin accūsātīvusder. Middle French acusatifbor. ▲ Latin accūsātīvusbor. Middle English accusative English accusative 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 English -ly English accusatively From accusative + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈkjuːzətɪvlɪ/ 1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar. Labels: not-comparable
Word: accusatorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin accūsātōrius + -al. Pronunciation: /əˌkju.zəˈtɔɹ.i.əl/ 1. Containing or implying accusation. 2. Of or pertaining to the system of a public trial in which the facts are ascertained by the judge or jury from evidence presented by the prosecution and the defence.
Word: accusatorially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English accusatorial Middle English -ly English -ly English accusatorially From accusatorial + -ly. 1. By way of accusation; in an accusatorial manner.
Word: datively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English dative Middle English -ly English -ly English datively From dative + -ly. 1. As a gift. Labels: rare
Word: datiscin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Datisca + -in. 1. A white crystalline glucoside extracted from bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: datolite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δατέομαι (datéomai, “to divide”) + -lite; in allusion to the granular structure of a massive variety. 1. A borosilicate of lime commonly occurring in glassy, greenish crystals, with the chemical formula CaBSiO₄(OH). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: datholite Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of datolite. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: dater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From date + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtə(ɹ)/ 1. One who dates. Example: Strategic presentation is a challenging issue for many online daters, of whom 22% have asked someone else to help them create or review their profile […] 2. A date-stamping device.