nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Ashkenazi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz). The biblical Ashkenaz was the son of Gomer, the grandson of Japheth, and the great-grandson of Noah. Ashkenaz's descendants were identified with the Germans by medieval Jewish tradition. Ashkenaz was also the name used for the Rhine river, which was the starting point of central and eastern European settlement by Jews, who are thought to have arrived in the region from Italy, and then spread east as they fled violent oppression and followed more favorable ownership laws. By surface analysis, Ashkenaz + -i. Pronunciation: /ˌæʃkɪˈnɑːzi/, /ˌæʃkɪnəˈziː/, /ˌɑːʃkɪˈnɑːzi/, /ˌɑːʃkɪnəˈziː/ 1. Of or relating to Jews of German origin, and their traditions, customs, and rituals. Their traditional vernacular is Yiddish, and they historically dominated Jewish life in Europe north of the Mediterranean, in contrast to the Sephardim. Example: The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.
Word: Ashkenazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz). The biblical Ashkenaz was the son of Gomer, the grandson of Japheth, and the great-grandson of Noah. Ashkenaz's descendants were identified with the Germans by medieval Jewish tradition. Ashkenaz was also the name used for the Rhine river, which was the starting point of central and eastern European settlement by Jews, who are thought to have arrived in the region from Italy, and then spread east as they fled violent oppression and followed more favorable ownership laws. By surface analysis, Ashkenaz + -i. Pronunciation: /ˌæʃkɪˈnɑːzi/, /ˌæʃkɪnəˈziː/, /ˌɑːʃkɪˈnɑːzi/, /ˌɑːʃkɪnəˈziː/ 1. An Ashkenazi Jew.
Word: Ashkenazi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz). The biblical Ashkenaz was the son of Gomer, the grandson of Japheth, and the great-grandson of Noah. Ashkenaz's descendants were identified with the Germans by medieval Jewish tradition. Ashkenaz was also the name used for the Rhine river, which was the starting point of central and eastern European settlement by Jews, who are thought to have arrived in the region from Italy, and then spread east as they fled violent oppression and followed more favorable ownership laws. By surface analysis, Ashkenaz + -i. Pronunciation: /ˌæʃkɪˈnɑːzi/, /ˌæʃkɪnəˈziː/, /ˌɑːʃkɪˈnɑːzi/, /ˌɑːʃkɪnəˈziː/ 1. A surname from Hebrew.
Word: Feder Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ Proto-Germanic *feþrō Proto-West Germanic *feþru Old High German fëdara Middle High German vëdere German Federbor. English Feder Borrowed from German Feder. 1. A surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.
Word: crazy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/, /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/ 1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented. Example: His ideas were both frightening and crazy. Example: Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection. 2. Out of control. Example: When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy. 3. Very excited or enthusiastic. Example: He went crazy when he won. Example: The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. 4. In love; experiencing romantic feelings. Example: Why is she so crazy about him? 5. Very unexpected; wildly surprising. Labels: informal Example: crazy work Example: The game had a crazy ending. 6. Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. Labels: obsolete Example: Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition. Example: Piles of mean and crazy houses. 7. Sickly, frail; diseased. Labels: obsolete Example: Over moist and crazy brains. Example: One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
Word: crazy Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/, /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/ 1. Very, extremely. Labels: slang Example: That trick was crazy good. Example: I'm crazy tired after today's shift at work.
Word: crazy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/, /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/ 1. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot. Labels: countable, slang Example: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you? 2. Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.
Word: corrupt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”). Pronunciation: /kəˈɹʌpt/ 1. Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes. 2. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals. Example: The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them. Example: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state. Example: The text of the manuscript is corrupt. Example: It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open. 4. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Example: with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them.
Word: corrupt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”). Pronunciation: /kəˈɹʌpt/ 1. To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. Labels: transitive Example: Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures! Example: And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 2. To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt Example: […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd." 3. To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state. Labels: transitive Example: Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive. 4. To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify. Example: to corrupt language, or a holy text Example: to corrupt a book 5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. Example: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Word: subway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + way. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbˌweɪ/, [ˈsʌbˌweɪ̯] 1. An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. Labels: Canada, Scotland, South-Africa, US Example: He is going to Westminster by subway. Example: In 1884 Greathead was part of a syndicate that obtained powers for another subway – 'The City of London & Southwark Subway'. The term 'subway' sounded more sophisticated than 'underground railway', which was associated with the sulphurous Metropolitan, and it would be adopted by New York for its own electric metro when work started on that in 1904. 2. A train that runs on such an underground railway. Labels: Canada, Scotland, South-Africa, US Example: Just before you leave, the subway comes. You get on. It stops at the next station. 3. A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system. Labels: Canada, US 4. An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US). Labels: UK Example: At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway. Example: Heading beneath the tracks via the subway to the immediate north of the station takes us to the Didcot Railway Centre. 5. An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc. 6. An underground route for creatures (e.g. bats).
Word: subway Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + way. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbˌweɪ/, [ˈsʌbˌweɪ̯] 1. To travel by underground railway. Labels: US, informal, intransitive Example: I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops.
Word: nerven Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nerve + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈnɜː(ɹ)vən/ 1. To innerve. Labels: rare, transitive Example: […] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt^([sic]) all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up. Example: Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.
Word: ADA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of adenosine deaminase, the enzyme that specifically affects RNA. See ADAR. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of assistant district attorney. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Acronym of anti-doping agency. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable 4. Abbreviation of azodicarbonamide. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 5. Initialism of autodestructive art. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: ADA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of American Dental Association. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Americans for Democratic Action. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Americans with Disabilities Act. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of American Diabetes Association. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of Air Defense Artillery. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Association of Drainage Authorities. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of Antideficiency Act. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: This information supplements (and should be read with) general guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for administering an agency shutdown of operations due to a lapse in appropriations, consistent with the Antideficiency Act (ADA) (31 U.S.C. 1341-1342) and the pay, leave, and other relevant statutory authorities that apply to lapse-affected employees. […] “Excepted employees” may perform activities legally permitted as an exception to the ADA’s prohibitions on performing work during a lapse in appropriations, but may not be paid for that work until after the lapse is over.
Word: CDA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Canadian Dental Association. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Copper Development Association. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Capital Development Authority. Labels: Pakistan, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Coeur d'Alene. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of Cooperative Development Authority. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Communications Decency Act. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The Communications Decency Act (CDA) came into being as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and was intended to address "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent" materials. […] Under the CDA, telecommunications facilities could face criminal charges if they failed to take "good faith, reasonable, effective, and appropriate actions" to stop minors from seeing indecent content. The law faced a First Amendment challenge, and the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1997 struck down many of the decency provisions entirely.
Word: CDA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of clean, dry air. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of compact disk audio. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of criminal defense attorney. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of Continuous Descent Approach. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of critical discourse analysis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: WB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Warner Bros.: U.S. motion picture producer, television producer, and recording company. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of West Bengal: a state of India. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: WB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of whole blood. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of world's best. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: WB Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of westbound. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: WB Part of Speech: adv 1. Initialism of westbound. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: WB Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of welcome back. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TM Part of Speech: symbol 1. trademark Example: SuperAcme™ is a trademark of Acme Incorporated.
Word: TM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of trans man or trans male. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of transcendental meditation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: I communicate at MD-level these days. Prolonged sobriety and TM have given me a direct line to Pat. Example: Like many people, I was drawn to TM by David Lynch, the filmmaker and artist who would have turned 80 on 15 January (the one-year anniversary of his death is five days after that). Lynch practised TM for more than 50 years and devoted much of the last two decades of his life to promoting it, setting up his own foundation in 2005 to fund its teaching in schools and to at-risk populations around the world. 3. Initialism of translation memory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of Turing machine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of telephone manager. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of transverse myelitis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: TM Part of Speech: pron 1. Initialism of Their Majesties. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SM Part of Speech: symbol 1. service mark
Word: SM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of service module. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of short meter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of space marine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of stage manager. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Obtain contact information for the people you will be working with directly: director, production manager, stage manager (SM), soundboard operator (SO), and dance and fight choreographers. […] Early in the process is the time to ask the stage manager their preference for labeling music cues (numerically or alphabetically). The SM will have a system for calling cues: […]. 5. Initialism of sexual minority (“non-heterosexual”) (Also used attributively.) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Transmission of HPV between female partners is possible and has been documented. There exists a higher proportion of current or former smokers among sexual minority (SM) women, a known risk factor for cervical cancer. 6. Alternative form of S&M (“sadomasochism”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: SM is not the sharing of power, it is merely a depressing replay of the old and destructive dominant/subordinate mode of human relating and one-sided power. 7. Abbreviation of standard missile. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 8. Initialism of standoff missile. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of senior management. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of social media. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 11. Initialism of selective mutism Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: SM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Standard Model. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Pokémon Sun and Moon. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang 3. SM Supermalls (a chain of shopping malls) Labels: Philippines
Word: ave. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ave: avenue Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rd Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of road. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Symbol for rad (unit of measure for absorbed dose of radiation). Labels: alt-of, symbol Example: Near-synonym: cGy (same physical quantity) 3. Abbreviation of round. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: st. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of St., abbreviation of street. Labels: alt-of Example: N. E. and N. W. cors. of Hinsdale and Newport sts. Lawrence ave. from Gravesend ave. to 47th st.
Word: mt. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of mount. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of metre. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: pt. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pt. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of part. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: ft. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ft (“foot (unit of length)”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ft. Part of Speech: verb 1. Abbreviation of featuring; used to introduce guest performer(s) on a musical recording. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Track 1: "A Song Title" by Johnny Vocalist ft. Rick Singer & the Other Performers
Word: ft. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of fort. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: ln Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of lane. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: NYC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of New York City: a city in New York, United States. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Co-owner Peter Ryan learned his craft in the bagelries of NYC, and most of his bosses weren't Jewish either, so he has no qualms about offering such un[-]kosher concoctions as ham and Swiss with mayo and sprouts on a whole-wheat bagel. Example: For some DSA grandees, like NYC chapter co-chair Bianca Cunningham, socialism means a planned economy that replaces market capitalism. 2. Initialism of National Youth Commission. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: métro Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of metro, used for a system in a French-speaking city. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “Where are we going, Jean-Michel?” He answered jokingly, “To the métro. It’s often much better to take the métro than it is to drive, but we need to hurry. After 7:00 p.m. there are fewer métros that come through the Pont Marie station.” Example: On a crisp fall day, traveling by your lonesome during rush hour, the métro is surely your best option. Inflexibly refusing to take the métro because of social cachet or personal inconvenience is just bad policy, when you will have to spend ten times as much at triple the time to get to a specific destination in a taxi.
Word: hwy. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of highway. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: CC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Creative Commons. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CC Part of Speech: verb 1. Initialism of carbon copy. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, transitive Example: Please email the file to me and CC it to my manager. Example: Please email me a summary and CC my manager too.
Word: CC Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of cement-coated. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 2. Initialism of client-centered. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: EFT was found to be more effective in reducing interpersonal problems than either Client-Centered (CC) or Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), in promoting more change in symptoms than the CC treatment, and […]
Word: megameter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mégamètre. Pronunciation: /mɛˈɡɐˌmɪtə/, /mɛˈɡɐˌmɪtəɹ/, [mɛˈɡɐˌmɪɾɚ] 1. An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars. 2. A micrometer.
Word: megameter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English meter English megameter From mega- (“one million”) + meter. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɡəˌmiːtəɹ/ 1. US spelling of megametre. Labels: US, alt-of Example: Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.
Word: megametre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English metre English megametre From mega- + metre. 1. A distance of 1,000 km. Example: Holonyms: gigametre < terametre < petametre Example: Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre
Word: gigameter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From giga- + meter. 1. US spelling of gigametre. Labels: US, alt-of
Word: gigametre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From giga- + metre. 1. A distance of 1,000,000 kilometres. Labels: UK Example: Holonyms: terametre < petametre Example: Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre
Word: hecato- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”). Doublet of hecto- and centi-. 1. One hundred; one hundred times. Labels: morpheme
Word: kilo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkiːləʊ/, /ˈkiloʊ/, /ˈkɪləʊ/, /ˈkɪloʊ/, /kɪˈloː/ 1. Clipping of kilogram. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet. Labels: alt-of
Word: gr Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of grain, a unit of mass. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of gram; the standard symbol for gram since the International System of Units was introduced in 1960 is g. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, rare 3. Abbreviation of group. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: mg Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of meaning. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: The Ger. zurück-weisen has just the same mgs.
Word: cg Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of center of gravity. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 2. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. Example: To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe. Example: 1859-1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Word: dag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. Example: Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed. Example: After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money. 2. To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags Labels: transitive 3. To sully; to make dirty; to bemire. Labels: dialectal, obsolete Example: Vexing the baths with his dagg'd rout.
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. A skewer. 2. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 3. A dagger; a poniard. Labels: obsolete Example: Even when my dag was levelled at his heart Example: Soon after this, however, there were brought into the country these old-time dags, useful weapons which rendered far easier the labors of men and of women. These were employed for many years, but later the company sent in an improved knife, more useful for skinning and for the other purposes of camp life, but not nearly so good for war. 4. A kind of large pistol. Labels: obsolete Example: The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some. Example: Powder! No, Sir; my dag shall be my dagger. 5. The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Word: dag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. To skewer food, for roasting over a fire. Labels: transitive
Word: dag Part of Speech: intj Etymology: N-less (or nonnasal) variant of dang, a euphemism for damn. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. Labels: US, informal Example: Dag, yo.
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. Labels: Australia, derogatory, slang Example: 2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage, Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse. Example: What did you think about Mark calling you a dag? To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across. 2. An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, obsolete, slang
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. A misty shower; dew. Example: I write in a part of England where the vulgar invariably use shew for the preterite showed, &c. &c. "This morning, before the dag was off, I sew seed enow for this week, and then wed two beds", was the reply returned to me by my gardener, a few days ago.
Word: dag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. To be misty; to drizzle. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of directed acyclic graph. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of dog. Labels: Ireland, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags? Example: There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced 'scriss,' that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been 'D'ya wanna buy a dag?' it was all the same.
Word: dag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of dagwood. Pronunciation: /dæɡ/ 1. Ellipsis of dag sandwich. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: mm Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of month, in two-digit numeric format, as in: dd/mm/yyyy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: mm Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of mmm. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/, [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam], /ˈdam/, [ˈdam], [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] 1. A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding. Example: A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country. Example: Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins[…] 2. The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure. Example: Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam. 3. A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band. 4. A reservoir. Labels: Australia, South-Africa 5. A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Word: dam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/, [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam], /ˈdam/, [ˈdam], [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] 1. To block the flow of water. Labels: transitive Example: Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
Word: dam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/, [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam], /ˈdam/, [ˈdam], [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] 1. Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals. Example: More dear […] than younglings to their dam. Example: The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went. 2. A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Word: dam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi दाम (dām), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (drammá), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of drachm, drachma, and dram. Alternatively said to be possibly coined from the English phrase "I don't give a dam(n)," referring to its small worth. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/, [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam], /ˈdam/, [ˈdam], [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] 1. An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee. Labels: India, historical Example: […] A small Indian coin; whence comes the saying "I don't care a dam for you," that is I don't value you a farthing, and not as generally given, "I don't care a damn" or a "curse for you." [Possibly a folk etymology.] 2. A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar. Labels: historical
Word: dam Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of damn. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/, [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam], /ˈdam/, [ˈdam], [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] 1. Damn. Labels: historical, pronunciation-spelling, slang
Word: dam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of damn. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/, [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam], /ˈdam/, [ˈdam], [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] 1. Damn. Labels: historical, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling, slang Example: Do not get too caught up in individual campism. The Most-High sent your spirits back on earth to fix yourselves, come together and wake up our people, so do your dam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you.
Word: hm Part of Speech: intj 1. A shorter variant of hmm.
Word: hm Part of Speech: det 1. Initialism of how much. Labels: Internet, Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, initialism Example: I am selling this shirt. Hm? ₱50 only.
Word: xi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî). Pronunciation: /zaɪ/, /saɪ/, /ksaɪ/, /ksiː/, /ʃiː/ 1. The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek. 2. Either of a pair of hyperons having spin 1/2, which decay into a lambda particle and a pion. Labels: particle
Word: Modern French Part of Speech: name 1. French spoken after the fifteenth century.
Word: ml Part of Speech: noun 1. Symbol for millilitre, an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10⁻³ litres. Labels: alt-of, symbol Example: For the pastry (pate brisée): […] 45 mls water […] Redcurrant and Dijon mustard sauce […] 500 mls lamb or beef stock (the ready made kind is perfect) […] Brown a teaspoon of flour in the oil on the hob and then pour in 250 mls of stock. […] Lemon Mascarpone cream […] 150 mls single cream Example: A roadside breathalyser found she had 50 mgs alcohol in 100 mls of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.
Word: dl Part of Speech: noun 1. Download; Alternative form of DL.
Word: dl Part of Speech: verb 1. Download; Alternative form of DL.
Word: dal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl) or Bengali ডাল (ḍal). Pronunciation: /dɑːl/ 1. Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins. 3. A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: SWAK Part of Speech: phrase 1. Sealed with a kiss. Example: Even after Bernard returned to school, Jessica's letters kept coming. The perfume and the "SWAK" inscription attracted a lot of attention, and a lot of teasing.
Word: STID Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of still true if destroyed. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
Word: premier Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/, /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/, /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/, /ˈpɹɛm.jə/, /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/ 1. Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree. Labels: not-comparable Example: 2004, Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport, Anthropologica, Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40, This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous. Example: 2011, Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia, Read How You Want, page 70, If they′d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia′s premier independent media company. 2. Most ancient; first to hold a specified status. Labels: not-comparable Example: PREMIER, a. This French word, which signifies first, is used by English Heralds to signify the most ancient Peer of any Degree by Creation; as Premier Baron, &c. Example: […]dau. of Lord Forbes, Premier Baron of Scotland (the Cumine family were of very ancient date[…])
Word: premier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/, /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/, /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/, /ˈpɹɛm.jə/, /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/ 1. The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet. Labels: UK, Westminster-system Example: 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910, Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do. 2. The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet. Labels: Australia, Canada, South-Africa, UK, Westminster-system Example: More surprising than the company′s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn. Example: The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860. 3. The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government. Example: 1983, Guo Zhou, China & the World, Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13, This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa. Example: Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state′s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier. 4. The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship. Labels: slang 5. The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football). Labels: Australia
Word: premier Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/, /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/, /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/, /ˈpɹɛm.jə/, /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/ 1. To perform, display or exhibit for the first time. Example: The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew. Example: Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh′s Quartet, had also received Beethoven′s permission to premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself. 2. To govern in the role of premier.
Word: moral panic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modern usage appears to originate with Jock Young in 1971 and Stanley Cohen in 1972. Cohen states that "[they] both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media". 1. A semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society; a public outcry. Example: The psychotherapist Marty Klein likens the current moral panic around online porn to the epidemics of fear and suspicion that sprung up around satanic cults in the 1980s, and even around comic books in the 1950s. Example: But maybe the very obscurity of this genuine critical race theory is the point: before it became the object of the American right’s latest moral panic, few people had heard of critical race theory, and even fewer understood what it really was.
Word: salty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian soaltig (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“salty”). (coarse; irritated, annoyed): Referencing the sharp, 'spicy' flavor of salt. (indignant): Perhaps implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears, or derived from the preceding. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒlti/, /ˈsɔːlti/, /ˈsɔlti/, /sɑlti/, /ˈsɔlte/ 1. Tasting of salt. Example: A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades. 2. Containing salt. Example: At Zipaquirá, the salty ore is taken from the mine in chunks, then thrown into large tanks of water, where the salt is dissolved out. The resulting brine is drawn off into pipelines, containers, or tank trucks and sold […] Example: My job was to couple the dumpers, full or empty, then uncouple them at the main shaft, and to open and close the weather door on the trip to the roof galleries, where the salty ore was dynamited and broken down. 3. Coarse; provocative; earthy. Labels: figuratively Example: In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet. Example: (In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.) 4. Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea). Labels: figuratively Example: There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now. Example: Plus bits of business involving a salty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes. 5. Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter. Labels: slang Example: Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers. Example: I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night. 6. Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).
Word: micrometre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor. English micro- English metre English micrometre From micro- + metre. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌmiːtə/, /ˈmaɪkɹəˌmitəɹ/ 1. An SI and mks unit of measure, the length of one-millionth of a metre. Symbol: μm, um, μ. Example: Holonyms: millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre Example: Meronyms: picometre < nanometre
Word: decametre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- + metre. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkəmiːtə(ɹ)/ 1. An SI unit of length equal to 10¹ metres. Symbol: dam 2. A line in a poem having ten metrical feet. 3. A poetic metre in which each line has ten feet.
Word: kilometre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰesliyoy Proto-Hellenic *kʰehliyoi Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi)der. French kilo- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der. Latin metrumbor. French mètre French kilomètrebor. English kilometre From French kilomètre, from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”); equivalent to kilo- + metre. Pronunciation: /kɪˈlɒm.ɪ.tə/, /ˈkɪl.əˌmiː.tə/, /kɪˈlɑ.mɪ.təɹ/, /ˈkɪl.əˌmi.təɹ/, [-ɾɚ] 1. An SI unit of length equal to 10³ metres. Symbol: km Example: Holonyms: megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre Example: Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre
Word: cigarette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/, /sɪɡəˈɹɛt/, /ˈsɪɡəɹet/, /sɪɡəˈɹet/, /ˈsəɡəɹet/ 1. A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking. Example: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait. Example: He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
Word: cigarette Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/, /sɪɡəˈɹɛt/, /ˈsɪɡəɹet/, /sɪɡəˈɹet/, /ˈsəɡəɹet/ 1. To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them. Labels: rare, slang, transitive Example: Could someone cigarette me?
Word: event horizon Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈvɛnt həˈɹaɪ.zən/, /-zɪn/, [əˈvɛɾ̃ həˈɹaɪ.zən], [əˈvɛn -], [-zɪn] 1. The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. 2. The furthest distance in the past of the universe from which light signals from an event can reach an observer at later times. 3. A point of no return. Labels: broadly, figuratively
Word: atomic number Part of Speech: noun 1. The number of protons in an atom. Symbol: Z