nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: leaflet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English leaf Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English leaflet From leaf + -let. Pronunciation: /ˈliːflɪt/ 1. One of the components of a compound leaf. 2. A small plant leaf. Example: The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves. 3. A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement. Example: A leaflet had been left under the car's windshield wiper. 4. A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel. Example: the flutter of the anterior mitral leaflet is best delineated
Word: leaflet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English leaf Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English leaflet From leaf + -let. Pronunciation: /ˈliːflɪt/ 1. To distribute leaflets to. Labels: transitive Example: A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen. Example: At approximately 9:30 p.m. the demonstrators regrouped in front of the Copley Plaza and leafleted the area until an entourage of limousines entered the hotel. 2. To distribute leaflets. Labels: intransitive Example: During the summer, Peter earned some extra cash by leafleting for a local pizza delivery restaurant. Example: The leafleter who takes reasonable care not to block the sidewalk, who does not become involved in incidents of violence, and whose leaflet is truthful, has the right to leaflet undisturbed.
Word: brochure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1748, from French brochure (“stitched work”), from brocher (“to stitch”), from Old French brochier (“to pierce”), from broche (“awl”), from Vulgar Latin brocca, from Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed”). Doublet of broach. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊ.ʃə(ɹ)/, /bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ/, /bɹoʊˈʃɝ/ 1. A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes. Example: Have a look in the Acme brochure for a new vacuum cleaner.
Word: tract Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait. Pronunciation: /tɹækt/ 1. An area or expanse. Example: an unexplored tract of sea Example: the deep tract of hell 2. A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract. 3. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses. 4. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject. Example: The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. 5. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject. 6. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent Example: improved by tract of time Example: Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […] 7. Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions. 8. Continuity or extension of anything. Labels: obsolete Example: in tract of speech 9. Traits; features; lineaments. Labels: obsolete Example: The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. 10. The footprint of a wild animal. Labels: obsolete Example: The Prophet Telemus […]mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew 11. Track; trace. Labels: obsolete Example: Efface all tract of its traduction. Example: But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind. 12. Treatment; exposition. Labels: obsolete Example: The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
Word: tract Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”). Pronunciation: /tɹækt/ 1. To pursue, follow; to track. Labels: obsolete Example: Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract? 2. To draw out; to protract. Labels: obsolete Example: Speak to me , muse , the man , who after Troy was sack'd , Saw many towns and men , and could their manners tract.
Word: tract Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin tractāre, from tractō, from trahō + -tō. Pronunciation: /tɹækt/ 1. To treat, discourse, negotiate. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: duct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology. Pronunciation: /dʌkt/ 1. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. Example: heating and air-conditioning ducts Example: The three motors on each bogie are force ventilated from a blower mounted in the adjacent nose-end compartment of the superstructure, the air being led by ducts and flexible bellows connections to the air inlet at the commutator end of the motor. 2. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. 3. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. 4. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. 5. A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path. 6. Guidance, direction. Labels: obsolete Example: […] otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations.
Word: duct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology. Pronunciation: /dʌkt/ 1. To enclose in a duct. Labels: transitive 2. To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts. Labels: transitive
Word: gnaw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą (“to gnaw”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”). Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Danish gnave (“to gnaw”), Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga. Pronunciation: /nɔː/, /nɔ/, /nɑ/ 1. To bite something persistently, especially something tough. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two. Example: Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon 2. To produce excessive anxiety or worry. Labels: intransitive Example: Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else. 3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste. Example: VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
Word: gnaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gnawen, gnaȝen, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaganą (“to gnaw”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”). Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Danish gnave (“to gnaw”), Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga. Pronunciation: /nɔː/, /nɔ/, /nɑ/ 1. The act of gnawing. Example: give something a gnaw Example: have a gnaw of a bone
Word: merger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English merge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English merger From merge + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/, /ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/ 1. One that merges.
Word: merger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun). Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/, /ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/ 1. The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. Example: Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half 2. The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. Example: The company has had some success with its EV offerings, such as the Nissan Leaf, an asset it brought to the table in merger discussions. EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts. 3. An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc. 4. A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one. Example: the cot-caught merger Example: If the presence of *θ in Sardinian words of Punic origin is indeed taken as evidence for an affricated realization of Semitic *z, this implies that the variety of Punic, that was the source of the Sardinian punicisms, did not exhibit the merger of Semitic *s, *z, *ṣ, *ś into /s/.
Word: posh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown. Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) came to refer to money generally. A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from James Payn's The Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money." Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related. A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim. It could also possibly be a clipping of polished. See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion. Pronunciation: /pɑʃ/, /pɒʃ/, /pəʊʃ/ 1. Associated with the upper classes. Example: She talks with a posh accent. Example: In antenatal clinic, an extremely posh patient attends for a routine appointment. All is well with her extremely posh fetus. Her extremely posh eight-year-old asks her a question about the economy (!), and before she answers, she asks her extremely posh five-year-old, ‘Do you know what the economy is, darling?’ ’Yes, Mummy. It’s the part of the plane that’s terrible.’ 2. Stylish; elegant; exclusive; luxurious; expensive. Example: Near-synonym: plush Example: After the performance, they went out to a very posh restaurant. 3. Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, especially, offensive, usually Example: We have a right posh git moving in next door.
Word: posh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unknown. Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) came to refer to money generally. A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from James Payn's The Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money." Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related. A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim. It could also possibly be a clipping of polished. See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion. Pronunciation: /pɑʃ/, /pɒʃ/, /pəʊʃ/ 1. An exclamation expressing derision. Example: The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him.
Word: posh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) came to refer to money generally. A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from James Payn's The Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money." Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related. A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim. It could also possibly be a clipping of polished. See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion. Pronunciation: /pɑʃ/, /pɒʃ/, /pəʊʃ/ 1. A halfpenny or other coin of little value. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang 2. Money. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: posh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) came to refer to money generally. A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from James Payn's The Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money." Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related. A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim. It could also possibly be a clipping of polished. See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion. Pronunciation: /pɑʃ/, /pɒʃ/, /pəʊʃ/ 1. To make posh or posher (more posh).
Word: posh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare pash (“smash, bash; of rain: fall heavily”). 1. A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: Did yer see what a posh the water came down the bruck ater the thaw, and no wonder the snow was a fut deep. Example: There has been quite a posh of rain. 2. Fragments produced by an impact. Labels: uncountable 3. Slush. Labels: uncountable
Word: toilet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔɪ.lət/, /ˈtɔɪ.lɪt/ 1. A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. Labels: Australia, Hong-Kong, India, UK Example: Sorry, I was in the toilet. Example: He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end. 2. A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. Labels: Australia, Hong-Kong, India, New-Zealand, UK 3. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system. Example: My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded. 4. A very shabby or dirty place. Labels: figuratively Example: Look around you. It's a toilet. Example: Mr. Gaunt was urbane and smiling again, not a hair out of place. "Do you like this little town? Do you love it? […]" / […] "I hate this fucking toilet," he said to Leland Gaunt. 5. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room. Labels: obsolete 6. The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table. Labels: obsolete Example: And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid. 7. Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. Labels: archaic, historical Example: Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […]. Example: Beautiful eyes are the gift of Nature, and can owe little to the toilet. 8. One's style of dressing: dress, outfit. Labels: archaic Example: It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face. Example: "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking." 9. A dressing room. Labels: archaic 10. A chamber pot. Labels: obsolete 11. A woman. Labels: derogatory Example: I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life. Example: A user, @blacklister, concludes that “toilets are as vacuous as their value besides pleasing men”, with a remark on how women should be handed out by the state to every man to minimise inceldom.
Word: toilet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔɪ.lət/, /ˈtɔɪ.lɪt/ 1. To dress and groom oneself. Labels: dated 2. To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet. Example: We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly. Example: In many developing regions, toileting at night is especially dangerous for children. Without electrical power for lighting, kids may fall into the deep pits of the latrines through broken or unsteady floorboards. Girls are sometimes assaulted by men who hide in the dark. 3. To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
Word: bucket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkɪt/, /ˈbʌk.ət/, /ˈbʊkɪt/ 1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. Example: I need a bucket to carry the water from the well. Example: The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman. 2. The amount held in this container. Example: The horse drank a whole bucket of water. 3. A large amount of liquid. Labels: in-plural, informal Example: It rained buckets yesterday. Example: I was so nervous that I sweated buckets. 4. A great deal of anything. Labels: in-plural, informal Example: My new suit cost me buckets. Example: We had buckets of fun. 5. A unit of measure equal to four gallons. Labels: UK, archaic 6. The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container). 7. Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine. Labels: derogatory, slang 8. An old vehicle that is not in good working order. Labels: slang 9. The basket. Labels: informal Example: The forward drove to the bucket. 10. A field goal. Labels: informal Example: We can't keep giving up easy buckets. Example: [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block. 11. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement. 12. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key. 13. A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam. Labels: uncommon 14. A bucket bag. Example: Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos. 15. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted. 16. The pitcher in certain orchids. 17. A helmet. Labels: humorous, slang
Word: bucket Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkɪt/, /ˈbʌk.ət/, /ˈbʊkɪt/ 1. To place inside a bucket. Labels: transitive 2. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. Labels: transitive Example: to bucket water 3. To rain heavily. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: It’s really bucketing down out there. 4. To travel very quickly. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: The boat is bucketing along. 5. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. Labels: transitive 6. To criticize vehemently; to denigrate. Labels: Australia, slang, transitive 7. To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. Labels: transitive Example: These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines. Example: Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating^([sic]) the sorted buckets together is O(n). 8. To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market. Labels: US, transitive Example: In United States v. Ficken (N.D. Ohio) the defendant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of converting clients' funds by "bucketing" their orders. 9. To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. Labels: UK, US, transitive
Word: abolla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abolla. Pronunciation: /əˈbɒlə/ 1. A cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch. Example: The best abollas were dyed with the Tyrian purple. Example: Ceispinus did not heed to whom he gave his Tyrian abolla (cloak used at suppers) when he changed his dress, and resumed his toga. Whoever has got it, we pray thee, restore it to its proper shoulders. It is not Crispinus, but his abolla requires this of thee; for it is not every one to whom a dress dyed with purple is suitable; that colour is excluseively appropriated to luxury. If thou art addicted to theft, and feelest a craving thirst for gain, take a toga, not an abolla; there will be less danger of detection.
Word: Abdera Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra). 1. An ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece. 2. A modern municipality of Xanthi regional unit in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece.
Word: abdo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of abdomen or abdominal. Pronunciation: /ˈæbdəʊ/ 1. Abdomen. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: CT chest abdo pelvis
Word: abdo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of abdomen or abdominal. Pronunciation: /ˈæbdəʊ/ 1. Abdominal. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: abdo pain
Word: al Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi आल (āl). Pronunciation: /æl/, /ɑːl/ 1. The Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia, especially as used to make dye. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:al.
Word: al Part of Speech: det 1. Archaic form of all. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
Word: dub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”). Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word. Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade. Labels: transitive Example: You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently. Example: It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […]. 2. To name, to entitle, to call. Labels: informal, transitive Example: They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on. Example: As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.” 3. To deem. Labels: transitive Example: A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. 4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. Example: His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones. 5. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab. Example: to dub a stick of timber smooth 6. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab. Example: For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards 7. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab. Example: 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow 8. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab. Example: if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient 9. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
Word: dub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1505-1515 Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. Example: Now the drum dubb's. 2. To do something badly. 3. To execute a shot poorly.
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1505-1515 Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. A blow, thrust, or poke. Labels: rare Example: And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub 2. A poorly executed shot.
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub. Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. An unskillful, awkward person. Labels: historical, slang Example: As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball. Example: The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!
Word: dub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a shortening of the word double. Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. 2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape. 3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation 4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a shortening of the word double. Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. Labels: countable 2. A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks. Labels: uncountable Example: It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour. 3. A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music. Labels: uncountable Example: But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced. Example: Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle. 4. A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline. Labels: countable, slang Example: […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them. Example: The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides. 5. The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing. Labels: countable
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”). Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. A pool or puddle. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: “Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice. “That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.”
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shortening of double dime (“twenty”). Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana. Labels: slang 2. A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more. Labels: slang Example: When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.
Word: dub Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”). Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. To open or close. Labels: UK, obsolete, transitive Example: "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”). Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. A lock. Labels: UK, obsolete 2. A key, especially a master key; a lock pick. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: […]going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys[…]
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. Clipping of double-u. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: World Wide Web or WWW Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider. Example: I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.” 2. Clipping of double-u. Labels: Internet Example: I haven't had a dub in a few games.
Word: dub Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dʌb/, /dɐb/, /dʊb/ 1. A small copper coin once used in India. Labels: India, historical
Word: del Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta. Pronunciation: /dɛl/ 1. The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. 2. the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential
Word: del Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See deal 1. a part, portion Labels: obsolete
Word: del Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening 1. Abbreviation of delegate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of delegation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: del Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortening 1. Abbreviation of delete. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: del Part of Speech: symbol Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin dēlīneāvit (“he/she delineated”). 1. Abbreviation of Latin delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: ag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of agriculture or agricultural. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ/, [ˈæɡ], /ˈeɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈeɪ̯ɡ] 1. Clipping of agriculture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-compounds Example: He got his degree from the state ag college. Example: My class is over on ag campus.
Word: ag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of aggregate. 1. Clipping of aggregate (“small rocks mixed into concrete”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable Example: The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and small ag. Example: If the mix is too fluid, the ags can sink away from the surface.
Word: ag Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans ag, from Dutch ach. Pronunciation: /ˈax/, [ˈax] 1. Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise, etc.: oh, ah. Labels: South-Africa Example: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee Example: ‘Ag, fuck it,’ he said. ‘Let bygones be bygones, man.’
Word: ag Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of AG (“aggressive (butch)”). Labels: alt-of Example: new forms of female masculinity are exploding, ranging from butches, dykes, and studs to transmen, FTMs, ags, genderqueers, individuals masculine-of-center, and many more. Transgender men and masculine women can make their own movies[…] Example: I don't know what I'd do without them (smiles) Sometimes, I wonder why studs/ag's/butches/transguys be grilling one another in the club. I mean, in my mind, I'm like Why would you hate someone who look like you, act like you,[…]
Word: ai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originated 1685–95, from Brazilian Portuguese aí, from Old Tupi a'y. Pronunciation: /ˈɑ.i/ 1. A type of three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, endemic to forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil.
Word: ai Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of aight (which itself is a contraction of all right). Pronunciation: /aɪ/ 1. All right. Labels: US, contraction, slang Example: Ai, let's go.
Word: alim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim), active participle of عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːlɪm/ 1. An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class Example: Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.
Word: proverb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French proverbe, from Latin proverbium. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒvɜːb/, /ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/ 1. A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom. Example: Near-synonyms: aphorism, maxim, adage, saw, saying, apothegm, byword, paroemia, sententia (Latin) Example: As a Yiddish proverb has it: Badarf men hunik ven tsuker iz zis? Who needs honey when sugar is sweet? 2. Any commonly used turn of phrase expressing a metaphor, simile, or descriptive epithet. Labels: obsolete Example: The definition of a proverb is no simple matter and has occupied scholars from Ancient Greece until the present day. Lord John Russell defined the proverb as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one’. The celebrated Spanish writer Cervantes said that a proverb is ‘a short sentence drawn from long experience’. Generally it is accepted that a proverb is a short, pithy traditional saying, which contains some widely accepted knowledge, or which offers advice or presents a moral. This present volume also contains many phrases and sayings which are not strictly proverbs as we use the term today, although we may still think of them as such. This situation arises because, prior to the eighteenth century it was common for the term to include metaphors, similes, and descriptive epithets. […] The essence of a proverb lies in it being a ‘traditional saying’ i.e. something which has commonly passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. […] In his book On the Lessons in Proverbs (1852), Richard Chevenix Trenchard says that there is one quality of the proverb which is the most essential of all: "… popularity, acceptance and adoption on the part of the people. Without this popularity, without these suffrages and this consent of the many, no saying, however seasoned with salt, however worthy on all these accounts to have become a proverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such." 3. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. Labels: obsolete Example: His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. 4. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. Labels: obsolete Example: Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. 5. A drama exemplifying a proverb. Labels: obsolete
Word: proverb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French proverbe, from Latin proverbium. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒvɜːb/, /ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/ 1. To write or utter proverbs. 2. To name in, or as, a proverb. Example: Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?" 3. To provide with a proverb. Example: I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
Word: haar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”). Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”). Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”). Pronunciation: /hɑː(ɹ)/, /hɑɹ/ 1. Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, countable, especially, uncountable Example: The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea. 2. A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog. Labels: Scotland, countable, especially, uncountable Example: […] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…] Example: [An] easterly haar was blowing in off the sea, the cold wind bringing with it a thick fog that crawled under the collar and clung to the skin. Ahead, the road disappeared as the fog hid anything on either side of the hedges save for the[…]
Word: god Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god English god Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Cognates Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”). Pronunciation: /ɡɒd/, /ɡɔːd/, /ɡɔd/, /ɡɑd/, [ɡɔ̟d] 1. A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed. Example: The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah. Example: When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. 2. An idol. 3. An idol. Labels: figuratively Example: Leo Messi is my god! Example: whose god is their belly 4. A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant. Labels: figuratively Example: In 1951 Stalin was a god and the official tone towards the West was one of total antagonism. 5. A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: He is the god of soccer! 6. An exceedingly handsome man. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods. Example: Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts. 7. The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon. Labels: Internet Example: The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD. Example: The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.
Word: god Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god English god Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Cognates Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”). Pronunciation: /ɡɒd/, /ɡɔːd/, /ɡɔd/, /ɡɑd/, [ɡɔ̟d] 1. Alternative letter-case form of God. Labels: also, alt-of, derogatory, often Example: And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them. Example: “I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.”
Word: god Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god English god Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Cognates Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”). Pronunciation: /ɡɒd/, /ɡɔːd/, /ɡɔd/, /ɡɑd/, [ɡɔ̟d] 1. To idolize. Labels: transitive Example: CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed. Example: a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus". To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones. 2. To deify. Labels: transitive Example: Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new. Example: The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
Word: YHVH Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of YHWH. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: AC Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of acromioclavicular. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: AC joint; AC separation 2. Initialism of air conditioned. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 3. Initialism of antichristian. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: AC Part of Speech: adv 1. Initialism of anno Christi (in the year of Christ). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 2. Initialism of ante Christum, (before Christ). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable