nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: nō Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of noh. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The twenty-two kyōgen in this volume give a broad sampling of the delightful comic interludes which were traditionally performed between the more austere nō plays. Example: A major review of the sarugaku system took place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune (1684–1751), when the solemn style of nō theatre known today was largely established.
Word: apologue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue. Pronunciation: /ˈæpəlɒɡ/ 1. A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes. Example: […] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind. 2. The use of fable to persuade the audience. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: apiary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 17th century, from Latin apiārium, from apis (“bee”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pi.ə.ɹi/, /ˈeɪ.pi.ɛɹ.i/ 1. A place where bees and their hives are kept.
Word: development Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756. Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɛl.əp.mənt/, /ˈɖeʋᵊ.ləp.menʈ/, /ɖɪˈʋɛː.ləp.menʈ/ 1. The process of developing; growth, directed change. Labels: uncountable Example: The development of this story has been slow. Example: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found. 2. The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells. Labels: uncountable Example: The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development. Example: Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe. 3. Something which has developed. Labels: countable Example: Our news team brings you the latest developments. Example: up-to-date with new developments in IT 4. A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings. Labels: countable 5. The building of such a project. Labels: uncountable 6. The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research). Labels: uncountable Example: Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year. 7. The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it. Labels: uncountable Example: White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5. 8. The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The expression of a function in the form of a series. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I sent the film to a specialist lab for development.
Word: on sale Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Available for purchase. Labels: Australia, UK Example: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used. 2. Available for purchase at reduced prices. Labels: Australia, US
Word: cock-a-doodle-doo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˌkʰɒkəˌduːdɫ̩ˈduː/, /ˌkɑkəˌdudəlˈdu/ 1. The cry of a rooster. Example: Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe. Example: Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
Word: cock-a-doodle-doo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˌkʰɒkəˌduːdɫ̩ˈduː/, /ˌkɑkəˌdudəlˈdu/ 1. The cry of the rooster.
Word: moccasin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Powhatan makasin, mockasin, mawhcasuns (plural), from Proto-Algonquian *maxkeseni. The word is cognate with Massachusett mohkisson, mokussin, Mi'kmaq mksɨn, Munsee mahkusin, Ojibwe makizin. First appears c. 1612 in the writings of John Smith. It has been suggested that sense 4 (“North American snake”) may be derived from a different Native American word. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒkəsɪn/, /ˈmɑkəsɪn/ 1. A traditional Native North American shoe, usually without a heel or sole, made of a piece of deerskin or other soft leather turned up at the edges which are either stitched together at the top of the shoe, or sewn to a vamp (a piece covering the top of the foot). Example: The term Chippewa, which is generally applied to this nation, is derived from that of O̓ˊche̓pe̓ˊwa̓g, which they restrict to the Indians who reside near Fond du Lac, it signifies plaited shoes, from the fashion among those Indians of puckering their moccassins. Example: At length Chingachgook turned his eyes slowly towards his son, and demanded— / "Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?" / "I have been on their trail," replied the young Indian, "and know that they number as many as the fingers of my two hands; but they lie hid like cowards." 2. A modern shoe with either a low or no heel resembling a traditional Native American moccasin in that the leather forming the sides of the shoe is stitched at the top. Example: Walking moccasin of gray chrome tanned leather. Waterproof. Flexible elk sole. Example: The men's shoe, a classic, low-heeled moccasin, was called Model 175. A classier women's version soon followed. 3. A light beige colour, like that of a moccasin. Example: He came in a primitive, rickety buggy, drawn by an old, moccasin-colored horse, which, it is to be hoped, had seen better days. Example: I prefer the Culprit brand in the moccasin color, the red shad color and the black with blue tail. 4. Any of several North American snakes of the genus Agkistrodon, particularly the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) and the cottonmouth or water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Example: The moccaſin ſnake is a large and horrid ſerpent to all appearance, and there are very terrifying ſtories related of him by the inhabitants of the Southern ſtates, where they greatly abound, particularly in Eaſt Florida: that their bite is always incurable, the fleſh for a conſiderable ſpace about the wound rotting to the bone, which then becomes carious, and a general mortification enſues, which infallibly deſtroys the patient; […] Example: The excellence of alkaline salts, as antidotes to the venom of serpents, has long been established. The volatile alkali is a common remedy in India for the bite of the cobra copella and viper, &c. The poison of the moccasin and rattlesnake is immediately counteracted by the application of this remedy.
Word: work of fiction Part of Speech: noun 1. A fictional account; a story. 2. A fictitious account; an account of events that never took place. Example: Though originally thought to be genuine, the diaries are now generally considered a work of fiction.
Word: fictional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction English -al English fictional From fiction + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃənəl/ 1. Invented, as opposed to real. Example: Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters. Example: The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional. 2. Containing invented elements. Example: The Simpsons is a fictional television show. Example: Including both factual and fictional books would have reduced the value of the study; it would have made the content too heterogeneous for the drawing of significant conclusions. 3. Occurring in fiction. Example: Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."
Word: fiction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃən/, [ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩] 1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I am a great reader of fiction. Example: the fiction section of the library 2. A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions. Example: The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction. 3. A legal fiction. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: replevin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplɛvɪn/ 1. An action to recover personal property unlawfully taken, especially that seized by way of distraint; the writ or procedure of such action. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: replevin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplɛvɪn/ 1. To replevy. Labels: transitive Example: Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun. As if perhaps replevined from some desert grave.
Word: develope Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of develop. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: c. 1711, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope You see that I have said what has been said, on a supposition, that, however obscure theology may be, the Christian religion is extremely plain, and requires no great learning, nor deep meditation to develope it. Example: Perhaps it would now be impossible for you to have a national tragic theatre: it would be necessary for the existence of such a theatre, that great circumstances should develope in life those sentiments which are expressed upon the stage.
Word: encyclopedic fiction Part of Speech: noun 1. Fiction employing a variety of forms to explore its subject exhaustively. Labels: uncountable Example: While ostensibly a romantic novel, Moby Dick can also be viewed as encyclopedic fiction.
Word: wreak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wreken, from Old English wrecan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrekan, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“push, shove, drive, track down”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Dutch wreken, German rächen, Swedish vräka; cognate via PIE with Latin urgēre (English urge), and distantly cognate with English wreck. Pronunciation: /ɹiːk/, /ɹik/ 1. To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm. Labels: transitive Example: The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city. Example: She wreaked her anger on his car. 2. To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. Labels: archaic Example: The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent. Example: The criminal has been wreaked by the Judge to spend a year in prison. 3. To inflict or take vengeance on. Labels: archaic Example: their woe / Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak / Itself abroad; Example: So tho' I scarce can ask it thee for hate, / Grant me some knight to do the battle for me, / Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son. 4. To take vengeance for. Labels: archaic Example: Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. 5. Misspelling of reek. Labels: alt-of, intransitive, misspelling Example: She wreaked of liquor. She also wreaked of anger, despair and unsatisfied sexuality, all mixed together.
Word: wreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wreke, wrake, Northern Middle English variants of wreche, influenced later by Etymology 1, above. Compare Dutch wraak. Pronunciation: /ɹiːk/, /ɹik/ 1. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. Labels: archaic, literary Example: VVhat barbarous mindes for grieuance more than needs, Vnnaturallie ſeeks wreake vpon their Lord, Their true annointed Prince, their lawfull king: Example: Would that before my death I might but see my son The empery in my stead over the people hold And rush upon his foes and take on them his wreak, At push of sword and pike, in fury uncontrolled. 2. Punishment; retribution; payback. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment; for, an thou do not thus, I will require it of thee before Almighty Allah.
Word: whenever Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English whan evere, whanne ever, whanne evere, whener, when ever; equivalent to when + ever. Pronunciation: /wəˈnɛvə/, /wɛnˈɛvə/, /wəˈnɛvɚ/, /hwəˈnɛvɚ/, /wɛnˈɛvɚ/ 1. At any time that. Example: Visit whenever you want to. Example: I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show. As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner! 2. At the (single) time that, no matter when. Example: Tomorrow I'll get up whenever the sun rises. 3. Every time that. Example: Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch. Example: Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations. 4. Regardless of the time that. Example: Income must be reported in the period in which it is earned, whenever payment is actually received. 5. When. Labels: Ireland, US, nonstandard, regional Example: Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.
Word: whenever Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English whan evere, whanne ever, whanne evere, whener, when ever; equivalent to when + ever. Pronunciation: /wəˈnɛvə/, /wɛnˈɛvə/, /wəˈnɛvɚ/, /hwəˈnɛvɚ/, /wɛnˈɛvɚ/ 1. When ever: emphatic form of when. Labels: dated, interrogative Example: Whenever will I find time to finish that jigsaw? 2. At any time. Labels: colloquial Example: Feel free to visit whenever.
Word: selenology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English selen- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English selenology From selen- (“moon”) + -o- + -logy (“study”). Pronunciation: /sɛliːˈnɒləd͡ʒɪ/ 1. The scientific study of the Moon. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The scientific study of the Moon. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: selenologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English selenology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English selenologist From selenology + -ist. 1. A person skilled or involved in selenology.
Word: trilogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes Learned borrowing from Latin trilogia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τριλογία (trilogía, “trilogy”). Morphologically from tri- + -logy. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/ 1. A set of three connected works—usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions—all related by theme, characters, or setting. Example: That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations. Example: Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.
Word: white coffee Part of Speech: noun 1. Coffee (the drink) with milk added. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A serving of such. Labels: countable, usually
Word: fabricate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fabricaten (“to fashion, make”), from Latin fabricātus, perfect active participle of fabricor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fabrica (“a fabric, building”) + -or (verb-forming suffix); see fabric and forge. Cognate with French fabriquer. Pronunciation: /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/, /ˈfæb.ɹəˌkeɪt/, /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.kæɪt/, /ˈfɛb.ɹə.kæɪt/ 1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build. Labels: transitive Example: to fabricate a bridge or ship Example: The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. Labels: transitive Example: to fabricate computer chips Example: The omni-tool itself is a combination computer and general-purpose engineering device that fabricates tools and equipment as needed. It acts as a translator, computer, holographic recorder and player, full translation software, and can create lockpicks and any other equipment needed to use a character's skills. An omni-tool can be upgraded with a number of options. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. Labels: transitive Example: to fabricate a lie or story Example: Both sites, with their ad-laden interfaces emphasizing information about pregnancy, baby names, celebrity moms, and family fun, reflect pervasive concerns about the roles that adults, particularly women, play in creating the conditions of childhood. These concerns are illustrated by the desire of the aforementioned mom-bloggers to curate extraordinary adult memories for their children by fabricating a mythical period of wide-eyed wonder and magical moments. 4. To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl. Labels: transitive
Word: kid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪd/, [ˈkʰɪd] 1. To dupe or deceive. Labels: colloquial, participle, present, transitive, usually Example: Are you kidding me? Example: I kid you not! 2. To dupe or deceive. Labels: colloquial, participle, present, transitive, usually Example: Stop kidding me! It's not funny. 3. To dupe or deceive. Labels: colloquial, participle, present, reflexive, transitive, usually Example: You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar. 4. To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way. Labels: colloquial, participle, present, transitive, usually Example: They were always kidding her for her stutter. 5. To joke. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, participle, present, usually Example: You must be kidding! Example: I'm only kidding! 6. Of a goat: to give birth. Labels: intransitive Example: That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years. Example: "They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."
Word: kid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *kidde, from Old English *cydde (“pouch, belly”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddijā, derived from or related to Proto-Germanic *kuddô (“bag, sack, pod, shell, husk”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪd/, [ˈkʰɪd] 1. A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: kid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Welsh cidysen. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪd/, [ˈkʰɪd] 1. Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”). Labels: dated Example: Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]
Word: wanker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English wank 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 wanker From wank + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈwæŋkə/, /ˈwæŋkɚ/ 1. Someone who wanks; masturbates. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar 2. A term of abuse. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar 3. A term of abuse. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar 4. A term of abuse. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar 5. A term of abuse. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar 6. A penis. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar Example: He walked closer to the trees and then pulled out his wanker and took a piss. While he was watering a clump of grass he called out calmly to the men in the trees, "We've come in peace to recruit men for our companies of dragoons." 7. A very informal term of address used between friends. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, humorous, slang, vulgar
Word: wanker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: UK 1890s. From stwanker, from stinker. Used at Felsted School, Essex. 1. A salted and lightly smoked herring or mackerel; a bloater. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, obsolete, slang, vulgar Example: My name it is "wanker"; a leaner or lanker, Salter or ranker, fish never swam. Example: He sniffs. "'Eugh, wankers again."
Word: Sophie's choice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the title of the book Sophie's Choice (1979), by William Styron, in which a mother is forced to decide which of her children will die. 1. A choice where every alternative has significant negative consequences. Example: As things turned out, all the enemy missiles were destroyed in flight -- two were hit very early after launch by an airborne laser system -- and a Sophie's choice was averted." Example: We've been given a Sophie's Choice,' said Senate Minority Leader Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton. 'We can improperly care for some children vs. improperly care for other children.'
Word: headphones Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head English phones English headphones From head + phones. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdfəʊnz/, /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/, /ˈhedfəʉnz/, /ˈhedfɐʉnz/, /ˈhɛdfonz/ 1. A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear. Example: My headphones / They saved my life / Your tape / It lulled me to sleep 2. A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound. Labels: plural, plural-normally, specifically
Word: ocean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ὠκεᾰνός (Ōkeănós)der. Latin Ōceanusder. Old French occeanbor. Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan English ocean From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ. Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”). Doublet of Oceanus/Okeanos. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.ʃən/, /ˈoʊ.ʃən/, /ˈəʉ.ʃən/, /ˈɐʉ.ʃən/, /ˈo.ʃən/ 1. One of the large bodies of water separating the continents. Labels: countable 2. Water belonging to an ocean. Labels: uncountable Example: The island is surrounded by ocean 3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: the boundless ocean of eternity Example: an ocean of difference 4. A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: passport Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːspɔːt/, /ˈpæspɔɹt/ 1. An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued. Example: You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are. Example: Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed. 2. Any document that allows entry or passage. Labels: broadly, informal 3. Something which enables someone to do or achieve something. Labels: figuratively Example: The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit. Example: Thus like the ſad preſaging Rauen that tolls / The ſick mans paſſeport in her hollovv beake, / And in the ſhadovv of the ſilent night / Doth ſhake contagion from her ſable vvings; / Vex'd and tormented runnes poore Barabas / VVith fatall curſes tovvards theſe Chriſtians. 4. An identification document used by firefighters, collected when they enter a dangerous area and returned when they leave, to keep track of who is still in the area.
Word: passport Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port. Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːspɔːt/, /ˈpæspɔɹt/ 1. To regulate how money given to a local authority must be spent. Example: Did we not pass an Act last year which passported the money directly through to the schools and gave local authorities very little discretion? Example: They are talking about whether the money that goes into district councils ends up getting passported through to the operators through concessionary fares. 2. Providing the legal requirements to enable or legitimize cross-border economic activity. Example: Apart from the condition in (ii), which may easily be overcome via an agreement between the depositor and the bank, European legislation does not preclude the entry of Islamic financial undertakings on the internal market at EU-based credit institutions because banking directives allow European credit institutions to perform not only the core banking business, but also passported activities according to the principle of mutual recognition and home country control. Example: Also, in this context, rules are different in relation to passporting the asset managers' activities, or the product […] 3. To enable eligibility for a benefit automatically based on eligibility for a different benefit. Example: At present, recipients of Working Tax Credit who are not also in receipt of Child Tax Credit are automatically passported to a full fee remission in some courts and tribunals, and those in receipt of Working Tax Credit and in receipt of child tax credit are passported in others (see annex B).
Word: telescope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + -scope. From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”). Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/, /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/ 1. A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy. Example: It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun. Example: It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope. 2. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope). 3. A retractable tubular support for lights. Example: In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […] 4. A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China. Example: Chinese Telescopes are sold by some dealers for young Japanese Fringetails. For this reason it is well to select a reliable dealer when purchasing choice stock.
Word: telescope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tele- + -scope. From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”). Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/, /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/ 1. To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped. 2. To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass. Labels: ambitransitive 3. To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another. Labels: intransitive 4. To collapse, via cancellation. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: headache Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hevedeche, from Old English hēafodeċe. By surface analysis, head + ache. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdeɪk/ 1. A pain or ache in the head. Example: I have a splitting headache after that party last night. Example: I advise you to take some painkillers for the headache, it's probably nothing serious. 2. A nuisance or unpleasant problem. Labels: figuratively Example: The clumsy filing system has been a huge headache. Example: Bogland now dominates the scene and the construction engineers must have suffered many a headache in seeking to secure a firm foundation.
Word: location Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/, /loʊˈkeɪʃən/ 1. A particular point or place in physical space. Example: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled. 2. An act of locating. Example: The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim. 3. An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township. Labels: South-Africa Example: It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…] 4. A leasing on rent. 5. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Labels: Scotland 6. The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc Labels: US 7. An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations. Labels: Kenya
Word: locational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From location + -al. Pronunciation: /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃənəl/, /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃnəl/, /loʊˈkeɪʃənəl/, /loʊˈkeɪʃnəl/ 1. Having to do with location. Labels: not-comparable Example: Locational periphery is used to describe places physically distant from the heart of the city. -- Wikipedia article on social distance Example: Geography is the study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. -- Wikipedia article on geography
Word: volantes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of volante Labels: form-of, plural
Word: batsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bat + -s- + -man. Pronunciation: /ˈbætsmən/ 1. A player of the batting side now on the field. 2. The player now receiving strike; the striker. Example: The batsman, Kathryn Leng, (who has played for quite a few years for England) asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on. 3. Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler. 4. A hitter. Labels: archaic 5. An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck. Labels: historical
Word: miniscule Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Likely a conflation between miniature and minuscule. 1. Alternative form of minuscule. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, usually Example: I remember the whirl and whine of her black Singer... Threading the levers, eyepieces, winding the turquoise string through hooks, and miniscule wheels, up and down...
Word: cricket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin. Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/, /ˈkɾɪkɪt/, /ˈkɹək.kət/, /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/, /krɪˈkeʈ/ 1. An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 2. An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. Labels: US, humorous, in-plural, slang 3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 4. An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. Labels: slang
Word: cricket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/, /ˈkɾɪkɪt/, /ˈkɹək.kət/, /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/, /krɪˈkeʈ/ 1. A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. Labels: uncountable Example: Look, that's a lovely sound, isn't it? The bat against the ball. Very English. Oh, yes, long summer afternoons spent in peace and harmony. I always say that, if Jesus had played a sport, I'm sure it would have been cricket. 2. An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […] 3. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). Labels: uncountable
Word: cricket Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/, /ˈkɾɪkɪt/, /ˈkɹək.kət/, /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/, /krɪˈkeʈ/ 1. To play the game of cricket. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
Word: cricket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/, /ˈkɾɪkɪt/, /ˈkɹək.kət/, /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/, /krɪˈkeʈ/ 1. A wooden footstool. Labels: dialectal Example: Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob 2. A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
Word: alot Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of allot. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: alot Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of a lot (compare to awhile). Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, not-comparable, proscribed
Word: alot Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of a lot. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, proscribed, uncountable Example: There was alot of sex discrimination in the 60’s. For one thing there was no sports for girls and in alot of schools the female teachers were not allowed to get married or they could be fired. http://print.google.com/print?id=ejtdcf-taQkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&sig=t0Sp87KqxsH-UGYklzl72NMUz1Q Example: It was alot of lumber, alot of condos, and Joe did not know alot about either of them, only that it was alot of money; he hated to throw his money into something he did not know alot about.
Word: stove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”). Cognates Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)). Doublet of stufa. Pronunciation: /stəʊv/, /stoʊv/, /sʈəʋ/ 1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. Example: 1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers. Example: We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove. 2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. 3. A stovetop, with hotplates. 4. A hothouse (heated greenhouse). Labels: UK Example: There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors. Example: Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […] 5. A house or room artificially warmed or heated. Labels: dated Example: April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers. Example: How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
Word: stove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”). Cognates Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)). Doublet of stufa. Pronunciation: /stəʊv/, /stoʊv/, /sʈəʋ/ 1. To heat or dry, as in a stove. Labels: transitive Example: to stove feathers Example: The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system. 2. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat. Labels: transitive Example: to stove orange trees Example: orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved 3. To jam; to sprain. Labels: transitive Example: to stove a finger
Word: stove Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /stəʊv/, /stoʊv/, /sʈəʋ/ 1. simple past and past participle of stave Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet. Example: "A dead whale or a stove boat!"
Word: I'll Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of I will/shall. Pronunciation: /aɪ̯l/, /ɑːl/, /əl/, /ʌl/ 1. I will. Labels: contraction 2. I shall. Labels: contraction Example: These fragments I have shored against my ruins / Why then Ile fit you.
Word: callipygian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”). Pronunciation: /ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/, /ˌkælɪˈpɪdʒi.ən/, /ˌkæliˈpɪdʒjən/, /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒi.ən/, /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒjən/ 1. Having beautifully shaped buttocks. Example: […]we soon once more were in a state to renew our delicious combat; and a second course was run in the delightful callipygian recesses of Venus’s second temple of lubricity. Example: Suddenly the music grew fainter, as if drawing away, and the dancers, their feet together and limbs half opened, descended in a slow spiral, with gentle undulations, until they touched the floor; the instant their callipygian charms grazed the mosaic, they recoiled like suddenly awakened serpents, […] 2. Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.
Word: ter Part of Speech: particle 1. Eye dialect spelling of to. Labels: alt-of, dialectal, pronunciation-spelling Example: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang." Example: ‘Do you mean ter tell me,’ he growled at the Dursleys, ‘that this boy – this boy! – knows nothin’ abou’ – about ANYTHING?’
Word: ter Part of Speech: prep 1. Eye dialect spelling of to. Labels: alt-of, dialectal, pronunciation-spelling Example: "But he never speaks ter anybody, child—he hain't for years, I guess, except when he just has to, for business, and all that." Example: ‘What about that tea then, eh?’ he said, rubbing his hands together. ‘I’d not say no ter summat stronger if yeh’ve got it, mind.’
Word: ter Part of Speech: adv 1. Eye dialect spelling of to. Labels: alt-of, dialectal, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Word: vender Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of vendor. Example: 1773, Stanfield Parkinson, preface to the Journal of his brother Sydney Parkinson's Endeavour voyage, page 18, Can it be supposed, that a man of Dr. Hawkes-worth’s discretion and abilities would enter into an engagement of this nature, and make a purchase of such moment, without enquiring into the title of the vender? Example: […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
Word: moor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere. Pronunciation: /mʊə/, /mɔː/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/, /moɹ/, /moː/ 1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.) Example: A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step. Example: In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. 2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Word: moor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”). Pronunciation: /mʊə/, /mɔː/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/, /moɹ/, /moː/ 1. To cast anchor or become fastened. Labels: intransitive Example: The vessel moored in the stream. 2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like. Labels: transitive Example: They moored the boat to the wharf. Example: His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock. 3. To secure or fix firmly. Labels: transitive