nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Oriya Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā). Which in turn is derived from Prakrit 𑀑𑀟𑁆𑀟𑀺𑀅 (ŏḍḍia), from Sanskrit औड्रिक (auḍrika, “relating to the Odras”), an adjective suffixed from the vriddhi of ओड्र (oḍra, “Odra”). Pronunciation: /ɔˈrijə/ 1. Odia, the language spoken in the state of Odisha, India. Example: This Gitagovinda pattern of the entire medieval Oriya literature, the number of translations this book has had in Oriya, the deep influence it has exercised on the art and society of Orissa and the fact that all the events that mattered in the poet Jayadeva’s life happened at Puri, as well as the great honour given to his book in the temple of Jagannatha, all naturally make Jayadeva an integral part of Orissa’s medieval culture and tend to prove the great poet-saint’s Orissan citizenship, as claimed by the Oriyas. Example: Orissa achieved excellence in the spheres of painting, sculpture, art, architecture and literature. Along with Oriya language and Oriya script, a distinct Oriya culture came into prominence.
Word: Oriya Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā). Which in turn is derived from Prakrit 𑀑𑀟𑁆𑀟𑀺𑀅 (ŏḍḍia), from Sanskrit औड्रिक (auḍrika, “relating to the Odras”), an adjective suffixed from the vriddhi of ओड्र (oḍra, “Odra”). Pronunciation: /ɔˈrijə/ 1. An inhabitant of Odisha. Example: Full of human kindness and sick to his soul with the atrocities the Marathas were committing on the innocent masses of Orissa, he was, under the guise of doing his pfficial duties, secretly helping the Oriyas. Example: Thus the Oriyas, as a distinct society has been able to exist in spite of all dangers to its existence.
Word: starfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From star + fish. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/ 1. Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach. Example: Near-synonym: Asteroidea 2. Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod. Labels: obsolete Example: But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms. 3. A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs. Labels: slang 4. The anus. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.
Word: starfish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From star + fish. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/ 1. To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. Labels: intransitive Example: "Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up. Example: The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water. 2. To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. Labels: intransitive 3. To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. Labels: transitive Example: The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands.
Word: pathos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”). Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪˌθɒs/, /ˈpɑːθɒs/, /ˈpæθɒs/, /ˈpeɪˌθɑs/, /ˈpeɪˌθɔs/ 1. The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled. Example: She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak. 2. A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer. 3. An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: heterography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English heterography From hetero- + -graphy. Pronunciation: /hɛt.əˈɹɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, /hɛt.əˈɹɑ.ɡɹə.fi/ 1. An incorrect spelling; a spelling different from accepted spelling. Labels: countable 2. Spelling in which a particular letter represents more than one possible sound. Labels: uncountable Example: Heterography in English makes it difficult for foreigners to learn pronunciation.
Word: blather Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”). Pronunciation: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/ 1. To talk rapidly without making much sense. Labels: derogatory, intransitive Example: “There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke. Example: It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows. 2. To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way. Labels: derogatory, transitive Example: Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail! Example: […] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.
Word: blather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”). Pronunciation: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/ 1. Foolish or nonsensical talk. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather; Example: Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
Word: blather Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bladder. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes, […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe A blather, where the windes imboweld were,
Word: Norge Part of Speech: name 1. A brand name of major household appliances. 2. A town in Oklahoma.
Word: forty minutes of hell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reportedly coined by Arkansas Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson. 1. The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable
Word: marsh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English merssh, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) + -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere. Pronunciation: /mɑɹʃ/, /mɑː(ɹ)ʃ/, /mæʃ/ 1. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. Example: Many animals live in the marsh. Example: Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.
Word: compensate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/, /ˈkɒm.pɛn.seɪt/, /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/, /ˈkɔm.penˌsæɪt/, [ˈkɔ̟m.penˌsæɪt] 1. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens. 2. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration. Example: It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it. 3. To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even. Labels: ambitransitive Example: His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality. Example: To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway. 4. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation. Example: I hate that old car because it steers a little to the left and I'm always compensating for that when I drive it. Example: To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
Word: decry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: C. 1600, from Middle French decrier (“to denigrate; depreciate”), from Old French descrier (“to shout”) (modern décrier). Doublet of descry. The pejorative meaning had not been present in the Middle English loan, but it was present in the French word from at least the 13th century, with a meaning of "to denigrate; depreciate; to announce the depreciation or suppression of a currency", presumably from the interpretation of de- as meaning "down, inferior". Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹaɪ/ 1. To denounce as harmful. Labels: transitive Example: Nothing is more uſual and more natural for thoſe, vvho pretend to diſcover any thing nevv to the vvorld in philoſophy and the ſciences, than to inſinuate the praiſes of their ovvn ſystems, by decrying all thoſe, vvhich have been advanced before them. Example: All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. 2. To blame for ills. Labels: transitive
Word: rant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), from Middle Dutch ranten (“to rant, babble, goof around”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”). Pronunciation: /ɹænt/, /ɹant/, /ɾant/, /ɹæːnt/, /ɹɛnt/ 1. To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger. 2. To disseminate one's own opinions in a—typically—one-sided, strong manner. Example: Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention. 3. To criticize by ranting. 4. To speak extravagantly, as in merriment. Labels: dated 5. To dance rant steps.
Word: rant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), from Middle Dutch ranten (“to rant, babble, goof around”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”). Pronunciation: /ɹænt/, /ɹant/, /ɾant/, /ɹæːnt/, /ɹɛnt/ 1. A criticism done by ranting. 2. A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. 3. A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
Word: frail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile. Pronunciation: /fɹeɪl/ 1. Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish. Example: Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day. Example: Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird 2. Weak; infirm. Example: Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either. Example: O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids 3. In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly. 4. Mentally fragile. 5. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
Word: frail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile. Pronunciation: /fɹeɪl/ 1. A girl. Labels: dated, slang Example: She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale. Example: There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
Word: frail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile. Pronunciation: /fɹeɪl/ 1. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
Word: frail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frayel, from Old French frael, fraiel, of unknown origin; possibly a dissimilatory variant of flael, flaiel (“flail”). Pronunciation: /fɹeɪl/ 1. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets.
Word: frail Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɹeɪl/ 1. Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
Word: frail Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɹeɪl/ 1. Synonym of flail. Labels: England, dialectal, obsolete Example: The scythe, the sickle and the flail (or "frail", is it is invariably called) - these should surely be incorporated in the county arms, for on their use much of the prosperity of Essex has always rested until now.
Word: Gaby Part of Speech: name Etymology: Short form of Gabrielle. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæbi/ 1. A female given name from French.
Word: Gaby Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Southern French Gaby, a hypocoristic form of Gabriel. 1. A surname from French.
Word: impertinent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/, /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/, /ɪmˈpɝt.nənt/ 1. Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful. Example: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.” 2. Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless. Labels: archaic Example: Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness Example: How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
Word: impertinent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/, /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/, /ɪmˈpɝt.nənt/ 1. An impertinent individual. Example: Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.
Word: invert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French invertir. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɜːt/, /ɪnˈvɜɹt/ 1. To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it. Labels: transitive Example: to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. Example: That doth inuert th’atteſt of eyes and eares, / As if thoſe organs were deceptions^([sic – meaning deceptious]) functions, […] 2. To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch. Labels: transitive 3. To undergo inversion, as sugar. Labels: intransitive 4. To divert; to convert to a wrong use. Example: [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […] 5. To turn (the foot) inwards.
Word: invert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French invertir. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.vət/, /ˈɪn.vəɹt/ 1. An inverted arch (as in a sewer). 2. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch. 3. The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point. 4. An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe. 5. A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp. 6. A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory. Labels: obsolete Example: We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess. 7. Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation. Labels: Internet
Word: invert Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French invertir. 1. Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted. Labels: not-comparable Example: invert sugar
Word: invert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation of invertebrate. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.vət/, /ˈɪn.vəɹt/ 1. An invertebrate. Labels: informal
Word: peevish Part of Speech: adv Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English pievish, peuysche, pevish, pevysh (“capricious, wilful; perverse, wayward”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from one of the following: * From an unattested Old French word, from Latin perversus (“corrupted, perverted, subverted; overthrown”), the perfect passive participle of pervertō (“to corrupt, subvert; to overthrow”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘intensively, thoroughly’) + vertō (“to turn; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, subvert”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). However, the Oxford English Dictionary says this derivation “presents some formal difficulties”. * From Middle French *expaive + -ish (similar to; somewhat, rather). *Expaive is an unattested variant of Middle French espave, Old French espave (“(adjective) of an animal: stray; of a person: foreign; (noun) flotsam; lost property”) (referring to the behaviour of stray animals; modern French épave), from Latin expavidus (“extremely frightened or horrified”), from ex- (intensifying prefix) + pavidus (“fearful, terrified; quaking, trembling; shy, timid”) (from paveō (“to be afraid; fear; to quake or tremble with fear”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to hit, strike”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)). The adverb is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːvɪʃ/, /ˈpivɪʃ/ 1. Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”). Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: She was not halfe so wyse / As she was peuysshe nyse. Example: Be the atturney of my loue to her. / Pleade vvhat I vvill be, not vvhat I haue bene, / Not by deſertes, but vvhat I vvill deſerue, / Vrge the neceſſitie and ſtate of times, / And be not pieuiſh, fond in great deſignes.
Word: ref Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /ɹɛf/ 1. Clipping of referee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal 2. Abbreviation of reference. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Clipping of refsheet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 4. Abbreviation of refectory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 5. Clipping of refrigerator. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: Please close the ref.
Word: ref Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /ɹɛf/ 1. To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. Labels: ambitransitive, informal Example: On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.
Word: unmount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + mount. 1. To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible. Labels: transitive Example: Please unmount the external hard drive before unplugging it. Example: You must unmount the filesystem before running the data recovery tool.
Word: umount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the Unix program name umount. 1. To unmount. Labels: Unix, transitive
Word: athlete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English athlete, from Latin āthlēta (and probably also partly from Middle French athlete), from Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs), from ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete for a prize”), from ἆθλον (âthlon, “prize”) or ἆθλος (âthlos, “competition”). Pronunciation: /ˈæθ.liːt/, /ˈæθ.lit/, /ˈæθ.ə.liːt/ 1. A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. 2. A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson. Labels: Canada, US Example: She's the first athlete in her sport to obtain a corporate sponsor. Example: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent. 3. An exceptionally physically fit person.
Word: attach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack. Displaced native Old English þīedan. Pronunciation: /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ 1. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively). Labels: transitive Example: You need to attach the carabiner to your harness. Example: An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship. 2. To adhere; to be attached. Labels: intransitive Example: The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. 3. To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication). Example: I've attached the contract to this email. 4. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest. Example: Dower will attach. Example: it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach. 5. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to. Example: attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery Example: incapable of attaching a sensible man 6. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to. Example: to attach great importance to a particular circumstance Example: Some of the guilt must attach to the parents. 7. To take, seize, or lay hold of. Labels: obsolete Example: Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress. 8. To arrest, seize. Labels: obsolete Example: Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […] Example: Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Word: zealot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initially only found as Middle English zelote, an epithet of Simon the Zealot, acquiring its current senses in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Middle English derives from Latin zēlōtēs, from Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs, “emulator, zealous admirer, follower”), from ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate, to be jealous”), from ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Pronunciation: /ˈzɛl.ət/ 1. One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic. Example: For Modes of Faith let graceleſs zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whoſe life is in the right: 2. A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews. Labels: Judaism, historical 3. A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350. Labels: historical
Word: zealous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-der. Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos)der. Latin zēlus Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin zēlōsusder. Middle English zelose English zealous From Middle English zelose, from Latin zēlōsus, from zēlus + -ōsus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate, to be jealous”). By surface analysis, zeal + -ous. Doublet of jealous. Pronunciation: /ˈzɛləs/, /ˈziːləs/ 1. Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion, particularly in matters of religion. Example: They neuer paſſe for the procuring of Gods honor, neither regard they how much they be bound vnto him. But euery man in the meane ſeaſon followes his owne likings. One burnes in couetouſneſſe, and another in vaine glorie, ſeeking to be aduaunced to authoritie and honour, and to bee taken to be I wote not what. Thus ye ſee at what point they bee, which will needes be taken to bee greateſt and zealouſeſt Chriſtians. Example: I had almoſt forgotten to acquaint your honor, that one major Alford (who was in mr. Love's conſpiracy) was of the graund inqueſt at Saliſbury, and was very zealous in his highneſſe ſervice here, and his good affection and wiſe carriage here, did much advantage the buſſineſe.
Word: ardent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested circa 14th century as Middle English ardaunt, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ardent and Old French ardant, from Latin ardentem, accusative of ardēns, present participle of ardeō (“to burn”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːdənt/, /ˈɑɹdənt/ 1. Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm. Example: This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows. Example: I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery. 2. Providing light or heat. Labels: literary
Word: passionate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné. Pronunciation: /ˈpæʃənɪt/, /ˈpæʃənət/ 1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both. Example: Mandy is a passionate lover. 2. Fired with intense feeling. Example: 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93, Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms. 3. Suffering; sorrowful. Labels: obsolete Example: She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent. Example: Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Word: passionate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner. Pronunciation: /ˈpæʃəneɪt/ 1. To fill with passion, or with another given emotion. Labels: obsolete Example: Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...]. 2. To express with great emotion. Labels: obsolete Example: Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
Word: fanatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1525. Learned borrowing from Latin fānāticus (“of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”), from fānum (“temple”). Influenced by French fanatique. Pronunciation: /fəˈnæt.ɪk/, /ˈfæ.nət.ɪk/, /fəˈnaʔɪk/ 1. Fanatical. Example: But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast / To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. 2. Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous. Labels: obsolete
Word: fanatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1525. Learned borrowing from Latin fānāticus (“of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”), from fānum (“temple”). Influenced by French fanatique. Pronunciation: /fəˈnæt.ɪk/, /ˈfæ.nət.ɪk/, /fəˈnaʔɪk/ 1. A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause. Example: The reclusive tycoon calling himself the Illusive Man is a human nationalist focused on advancing human interests, whatever the cost to non-humans. The Citadel Council regards him as a fanatic posing a serious threat to galactic security. Example: A zealot can't change his mind. A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. —Winston Churchill (attributed)
Word: floury Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English floury, equivalent to flour + -y. Piecewise doublet of flowery. Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊəɹi/, /ˈflaʊɹi/ 1. Resembling flour. Example: These mashed potatoes have a floury texture. 2. Covered in flour. Example: The baker wiped his floury hands on his apron. 3. High in starch; tending to break down easily when cooked. Example: Boil four large floury potatoes till they are thoroughly done; peel them and mash them smooth with the back of a spoon Example: As we all know, there are great differences among potatoes; some are waxy, others floury; and these, again, vary according to the manner and degree of cooking.
Word: trout pout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme and suggesting the grimace of a fish's mouth. 1. The exaggerated, grotesque result of injection of excessive quantities of collagen into the lips in order to make them appear fuller. Labels: UK, slang
Word: outie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English ūt Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *-ai Proto-Germanic *ūtai Proto-West Germanic *ūtē Old English ūte Middle English oute English out English -ie English outie From out + -ie. 1. Anything convex; especially: Labels: informal, slang 2. Anything convex; especially: Labels: informal, slang 3. Anything convex; especially: Labels: childish, euphemistic, informal 4. An extrovert.
Word: outie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Old English ūt Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *-ai Proto-Germanic *ūtai Proto-West Germanic *ūtē Old English ūte Middle English oute English out English -ie English outie From out + -ie. 1. Alternative form of outtie. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: outy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English ūt Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *-ai Proto-Germanic *ūtai Proto-West Germanic *ūtē Old English ūte Middle English oute English out English -y English outy From out + -y. 1. Alternative spelling of outie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: innie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Germanic *in Proto-West Germanic *in Old English in Middle English in English in English -ie English innie From in + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈɪni/ 1. Anything concave; especially: Labels: informal, slang 2. Anything concave; especially: Labels: informal, slang 3. Anything concave; especially: Labels: childish, euphemistic, informal 4. An introvert.
Word: acred Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Germanic *akraz Proto-West Germanic *akr Old English æcer Middle English aker English acre English -ed English acred From acre + -ed. 1. Owning or possessing many acres of land.
Word: adobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Egyptian ḏbt Demotic Egyptian tb Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe)der. Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba) Andalusian Arabic طُوبَة Andalusian Arabic طُوبder. Spanish adobebor. English adobe From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”). Pronunciation: /əˈdəʊ.bi/, /əˈdoʊ.bi/ 1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses. Example: “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.” 2. The earth from which such bricks are made. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A house made of adobe brick. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].
Word: orbed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From orb + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ)bd/, /ˈɔː(ɹ)bɪd/ 1. Having the form of an orb; round; spherical. Example: Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Word: addend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for addendum, by surface analysis, add + -end. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ɛnd/ 1. Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together. 2. A moiety added to another molecule.
Word: addend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Short for addendum, by surface analysis, add + -end. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ɛnd/ 1. To furnish with an addendum. 2. To furnish with an addend.
Word: adept Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin apiō Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -scō Latin apīscor Latin adipīscor Latin adeptusbor. French adeptebor. English adept Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”). Pronunciation: /əˈdɛpt/, /ˈæd.ɛpt/ 1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Example: Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Word: adept Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin apiō Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -scō Latin apīscor Latin adipīscor Latin adeptusbor. French adeptebor. English adept Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”). Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ɛpt/, /ædˈɛpt/ 1. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient Example: adepts in philosophy Example: When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
Word: adipic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin adeps (“lard, fat”). 1. Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of, or derived from adipic acid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: admix Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from admixture; analyzable as ad- + mix. Pronunciation: /ædˈmɪks/, /ədˈmɪks/ 1. To mingle with something else; to mix. Labels: transitive Example: Therefore in our account of the development of their intellectual ideas, we also admix pertinent personal details. Example: They have 78 chromosomes, and all are known to admix.
Word: admix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from admixture; analyzable as ad- + mix. Pronunciation: /ˈædmɪks/ 1. The act of admixing. Example: In light (vision) the admix results in white and in pigments the admix results in grey. 2. The mixture that results from admixing, especially an alloy. Example: In the late 1990s metal-reinforced glass ionomers were introduced for use as core buildups. These contain a silver alloy admix.
Word: addle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dəl/ 1. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid. Example: addle eggs Example: Pan. Troilus! Why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg. Cres. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell. 2. Unfruitful or confused; muddled. Labels: broadly Example: addle brains Example: Thus far the Poet, but his brains grow Addle; / And all the reſt is purely from this Noddle.
Word: addle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dəl/ 1. Liquid filth; mire. Labels: obsolete
Word: addle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dəl/ 1. To make or become addled; to muddle or confuse. Example: to addle someone's brain Example: The same female bard—descended, possibly, from those terrible old Scalds who seem to have existed for the express purpose of addling the brains of mankind when they begin to investigate languages—made a standing pretence which greatly assisted in forcing me back to a number of hideous places that I would by all means have avoided. 2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell. Example: Their eggs were addled. Example: The term shocking or addling trout and salmon eggs is applied to the process of turning the infertile eggs white so they can be separated from the fertile ones. Actually, this amounts to nothing more than agitating the eggs enough to rupture the yolk membrane in the infertile eggs, which causes them to turn white.
Word: addle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dəl/ 1. An unwise or intellectually impaired person.
Word: addle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English addlen, adlen, probably from Old Norse ǫðlask (“to gain possession of property”), from ōðal (“owndom, property”). Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dəl/ 1. To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. Labels: Northern-England Example: ADDLINGS, wages. "Poor addlings," small pay for work. "Hard addlings," money laboriously acquired. "Saving's good addling," as the well known saying, "a penny saved is a penny gained." Example: ADDLE. To earn. "It's weel-addled" – well-earned. "Addle nowt an' ware at t' end on 't, an' tha'll soin ha' to leuk raand t' corners." – Earn nothing and spend hard, and you'll soon come to poverty. 2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. Labels: Northern-England Example: Kill ivy, or else tree will addle no more.
Word: ados Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ado Labels: form-of, plural
Word: adsorb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French adsorber, from Latin ad- (“to”) + sorbeō (“suck in”). Pronunciation: /ədˈzɔːb/, /ədˈsɔːb/ 1. To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption. Labels: physical, transitive Example: The gas was purified by adsorbing the impurities onto active carbon.
Word: affine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin affinis (“connected with”). Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪn/ 1. Assigning finite values to finite quantities. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to a function expressible as f(⃑x)=A⃑x+⃑b (where A is a linear transformation and ⃑b is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now, let P, Q, and R be three noncollinear points that are left fixed by an affine transformation T. Example: In our example of the affine cryptosystem family, deciphering is also accomplished by an affine map, namely P#92;equiva#123;-1#125;C-a#123;-1#125;b#92;bmodN, and so the deciphering transformation uses the same algorithm as the enciphering transformation, except with a different key, namely, the pair (a#123;-1#125;,-a#123;-1#125;b). 3. Of two materials, having mutual affinity. Labels: comparable
Word: affine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin affinis (“connected with”). Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪn/ 1. A relative by marriage. Example: 1970 [Routledge and Kegan Paul], Raymond Firth, Jane Hubert, Anthony Forge, Families and Their Relatives: Kinship in a Middle-Class Sector of London, 2006, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 135, The element of personal idiosyncracy may be expected to be most marked in regard to affines (i.e. those related by marriage) and particularly with the consanguines of affines, who are linked by still more tenuous bonds. There are many possible degrees of affinal relationship here, but broadly affines separate into two main types: spouse of consanguine of Ego, and consanguine of spouse of Ego—exemplified by my brother's wife, and my wife's brother. Example: In contrast to bonds of kaḅisu membership, which require ritual maintenance and can produce intense factional rivalries, and those of affines, which demand ongoing exchanges, unmediated relations of blood are created by nothing more than physical procreation.[…]People's ability to swivel between these two rhetorical possibilities reflects the inherent tension that lies between affines, who are both others and extensions of oneself.
Word: affine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin affinis (“connected with”). Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪn/ 1. To refine. Labels: transitive Example: The next stage is remelting: the affined sugar is dissolved in hot water and the syrup formed is made alkaline by adding milk of lime. 2. To set the CPU affinity of something Labels: transitive Example: affined the sequential regions to run only on CPU 0 Example: the affined CPU will be randomly allocated
Word: afire Part of Speech: adv Etymology: 13ᵗʰc., from Middle English afire, equivalent to a- (“on”) + fire. Figurative usage from late 14ᵗʰc. Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪɚ/ 1. On fire (often metaphorically). Example: Zuleika blushed. “Yet,” she said more gently, “be sure they would all be not a little envious of YOU! Not one of them ever touched the surface of my heart. You stirred my heart to its very depths. Yes, you made me love you madly. The pearls told you no lie. You were my idol—the one thing in the wide world to me. You were so different from any man I had ever seen except in dreams. You did not make a fool of yourself. I admired you. I respected you. I was all afire with adoration of you. And now,” she passed her hand across her eyes, “now it is all over. The idol has come sliding down its pedestal to fawn and grovel with all the other infatuates in the dust about my feet.”
Word: afire Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 13ᵗʰc., from Middle English afire, equivalent to a- (“on”) + fire. Figurative usage from late 14ᵗʰc. Pronunciation: /əˈfaɪɚ/ 1. On fire (often metaphorically).
Word: agave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ, “Agave”), from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”). Pronunciation: /əˈɡɑːveɪ/, /əˈɡeɪviː/ 1. Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave of succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles, flowering at maturity after several years, and generally dying thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila. Example: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns. Example: 1893 Charles Richards Dodge, A Report on the Leaf Fibers of the United States. Pub: Govt. print. office Washington The work of cutting the leaves, even from these isolated plants, was in the nature of an ordeal. Every member of the party took a knife and attacked the thicket, no one escaping the experience of bleeding hands and arms and of more or less injured clothing. If there is any place where strong language is halfway excusable it is in a thicket of Agave' decipiens.
Word: alamo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish álamo. Doublet of elm. 1. A poplar tree of Southwestern U.S.; a cottonwood (Populus spp.).
Word: alan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of alaunt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aland Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- + land. Pronunciation: /əˈland/ 1. On dry land, as opposed to in the water. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land. 2. To the land; ashore. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, poetic Example: Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]