nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: PHP Part of Speech: name Etymology: Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor. 1. A scripting language widely used to write Web applications. Example: Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones. Example: The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.
Word: PHP Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor. 1. A PHP script. Labels: informal Example: At first, I had the PHPs on the university host requesting the data from MySQL on my ISP's host. Example: Once I get this, I am not able to run a PHP that uses those include files again.
Word: SYSOP Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of sysop. Labels: alt-of
Word: PS Part of Speech: name Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: 2. Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: 3. Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: 4. Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: 5. Initialism of PlayStation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Photoshop. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Abbreviation of PostScript, a page description language. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 8. Abbreviation of South Papua: a province of Indonesia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: PS Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. Initialism of postal service. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: USPS 2. Initialism of public school. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of public service(s). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of PlayStation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of paddle steamer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of power supply. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries. Labels: Commonwealth, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 8. Abbreviation of polystyrene Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 9. Initialism of parallel slalom. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 10. Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, or postscript, initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: PS I love you. 11. Initialism of power steering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, dated, initialism, uncountable Example: PS, PB, PW, PDL, ice-cold A/C [power steering, power brakes, power windows, power door locks, ice-cold air conditioning] 12. Initialism of Perlman syndrome. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: PS Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. Abbreviation of packet-switched. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: PS Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German PS (“Pferdestärke”, literally “horsepower”). 1. Short for metric horsepower. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: The powertrain also produces 306 PS (225 kW), enough to propel the 1,858 kg Cross Coupé from zero to 62 mph in 6.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 137 mph. […] The four-seater i-oniq concept has a 1.0-litre, 3-cylinder petrol engine which is mated, via a generator, to a lithium ion electric motor which produces 109 PS.
Word: handbarrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English handbarow, handbarwe, equivalent to hand + barrow. 1. A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher. Example: […] they framed a thing like a hand barrow and carryed this selfe-helpelesse person on their bare shoulders twelve miles to his residence: Example: Here they went with a kind of Hand-Barrow, and lay’d the Dead Bodies on it, and carry’d them out to the Carts; 2. Any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand. Example: The next conveyance (which, indeed, is the most general) is the costermonger’s hand-barrow. These are very light in their make, with springs terminating at the axle. Example: She mentioned once that the car in which they were riding had been bought with the proceeds of her last novel. ‘With the proceeds of my last novel,’ said Henry [James] meditatively, ‘I purchased a small go-cart, or hand-barrow, on which my guests’ luggage is wheeled from the station to my house […]’
Word: handbill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + bill (“cutting instrument”). 1. A pruning hook. 2. A chopping instrument; billhook.
Word: handbill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + bill (“sheet of paper”). 1. A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand. Example: Messengers for Mankind.—By Wilfrid L. Randell. [...] Among the many illustrations is a reproduction of the historic handbill of the Great Western Railway announcing the introduction of the railway electric telegraph more than 100 years ago.
Word: hand bill Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of handbill. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: handbook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English handbok, from Old English handbōc (“handbook”), possibly reinforced as a calque of German Handbuch (“handbook”). By surface analysis, hand + book. Compare West Frisian hânboek (“handbook”), Dutch handboek (“handbook”), German Low German Handbook (“handbook”), Danish håndbog (“handbook”), Swedish handbok (“handbook”), Icelandic handbók (“handbook”). Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌbʊk/, /ˈhandˌbɵk/, [ˈhɛəndˌbʊk], [ˈheənd-], /ˈhɛndˌbʊk/ 1. A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, regardless of size, but archetypally one to be kept readily at hand. 2. A place where illicit bets can be placed. Labels: US Example: The extent of the business done in this line is not understood by those who have not looked into it. In New York there are 50 pool rooms and 500 handbooks; in East St. Louis, 20 handbooks; in Chicago, 5 pool rooms and 200 handbooks; […] Example: Persons subject to his rule can be found operating, in addition to the wire service, wire service relays, handbooks, gambling houses, prostitution establishments, coin-operated device companies, bars, restaurants, night clubs, motels, […]
Word: handbreadth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration (due to breadth) of Middle English handbrede, hondbrede (“handbreadth”); equivalent to hand + breadth. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Houndebratte (“handbreadth”), West Frisian hânbreedte (“handbreadth”), Dutch handbreedte (“handbreadth”), German Handbreite (“handbreadth”) and Handbreit, Swedish handsbredd (“handbreadth”), Norwegian håndsbredd (“handbreadth”), Icelandic handbreidd (“handbreadth”). 1. A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Example: Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: Example: […] I saw the library casement open a handbreadth; I knew I might be watched thence; so I went apart into the orchard.
Word: handcart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + cart. 1. A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.) Example: Vendors were selling sunglasses, bagged snacks, and sundry other items from handcarts in the square.
Word: handcart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hand + cart. 1. To transport in this kind of cart. Labels: transitive
Word: halleluiah Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of hallelujah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: halleluiah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hallelujah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hallelujatic Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs Labels: rare
Word: lullaby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lullen (“to lull”) + bye. First recorded c. 1560. Compare Old English bī, bī (“lullaby!”, interjection). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌləbaɪ/ 1. A cradlesong, a soothing song to calm children or lull them to sleep. Example: sing a lullaby
Word: lullaby Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lullen (“to lull”) + bye. First recorded c. 1560. Compare Old English bī, bī (“lullaby!”, interjection). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌləbaɪ/ 1. To sing a lullaby to. Labels: transitive
Word: Watson Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Wat Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *suHnús Proto-Germanic *sunuz Proto-West Germanic *sunu Old English sunu Middle English sone Middle English -son English -son English Watson From Wat + -son. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒtsn̩/, /ˈwɑts(ə)n/ 1. A northern English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic. Example: Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me." 2. Any character who acts as a catalyst for the detective protagonist's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that is privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 3. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 5. A town in the Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338, Saskatchewan, Canada. 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States:
Word: ruin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ruyne, ruine, from Old French ruine, from Latin ruīna (“overthrow, ruin”), from ruō (“to fall down, tumble, sink in ruin, rush”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː.ɪn/, [ˈɹuwɪn] 1. The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. Labels: countable, in-plural, sometimes Example: The Veian and the Gabian towirs shall fall, / And one promiscuous ruin cover all; / Nor, after length of years, a stone betray / The place where once the very ruins lay. Example: The labour of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character. 2. The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed. Labels: uncountable Example: The monastery has fallen into ruin. 3. Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction. Labels: uncountable Example: Gambling has been the ruin of many. Example: The errors of young men are the ruin of business. 4. The act of ruining something. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act of ruining something. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable 6. A fall or tumble. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: His ruin startled th’ other steeds. 7. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the ruin of a ship or an army Example: the ruin of a constitution or a government 8. Complete financial loss; bankruptcy. Labels: uncountable
Word: ruin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ruyne, ruine, from Old French ruine, from Latin ruīna (“overthrow, ruin”), from ruō (“to fall down, tumble, sink in ruin, rush”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː.ɪn/, [ˈɹuwɪn] 1. To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business. Labels: transitive Example: With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us! Example: In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us; for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted... 2. To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable. Example: He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them. 3. To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins. Example: By the fireside there are old men seated, / Seeing ruined cities in the ashes. 4. To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something. Example: My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation. 5. To make something less enjoyable or likeable. Example: I used to love that song, but being assaulted when that song was playing ruined the song for me. 6. To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm. 7. To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil. 8. To fall into a state of decay. Labels: obsolete Example: Though he his house of polisht marble build, / Yet shall it ruine like the Moth's fraile cell 9. To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of. Labels: historical, transitive Example: The young libertine was notorious for ruining local girls.
Word: university Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity. Pronunciation: /junɪˈvɜːsəti/, /ˌjunəˈvərsədi/, /junɪˈvɝsəti/, /junɪˈvɝsɪti/ 1. An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She's studying mathematics at university. Example: The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it. 2. The entirety of a group; all members of a class. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [I]t appears a pity to banish the women and children. But to this can be opposed that holy act of your Majesty which expelled the Moriscos, and the children of the Moriscos, for the reason given in the royal edict. Whenever any detestable crime is committed by any university, it is well to punish all.
Word: AKA Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /ˈækə/ 1. Initialism of also known as. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: That man by the bar is Frank, AKA "the lady killer". Example: Weed It and Reap is the evocative title of a film about the remarkable life of Paul Pulford, AKA Scruffy.
Word: AKA Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈækə/ 1. Used to introduce an explanation or clarification: in other words, i.e. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: “The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official. Example: “This color is golden blonde in color and tone, with ‘10k gold lights’ that have a cool reflect for the perfect sparkle,” says celebrity hairstylist Matt Rez, who claims this will be the biggest hair color trend this fall (aka take notes).
Word: abomasus Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæ.boʊˌmeɪ.səs/ 1. Alternative form of abomasum. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: impassible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French impassible. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpasɪbəl/ 1. Unable to feel emotion; impassive. 2. Incapable of suffering detriment or injury. Example: [W]e say it is unreasonable, that this [the bread or host of the Eucharist] should be changed into flesh, […] into that body of Christ, which is in heaven; he remaining there, and being whole and impassible, and unfrangible, this, we say, is unreasonable and impossible: […] 3. Unable to suffer, or feel pain. 4. Misspelling of impassable. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: spider Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term. Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *mězgyrь (whence Russian мизги́рь (mizgírʹ)) (akin to Latvian mežģīt), Turkish örümcek (akin to örmek). Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪ̯də/, /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/, [ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)] 1. To move like a spider. Labels: intransitive Example: A year later she returned to El Cap and spidered up the wall again — this time in 23 hours. Example: They saved the hall though the facing and part of the roof had to be torn out and replaced, men spidered over the building to repair it before Coaker's arrival. 2. To cover a surface like a cobweb. Labels: intransitive Example: High walls surrounded it on all sides, each one covered with the skeletal stems of climbing plants that spidered across the stones, and the ground was cobbled between patches of frozen grass. Example: Large cracks spidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit. 3. To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. Labels: Internet Example: The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.
Word: damp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmp/, [ˈdæmp], /ˈdeə̯mp/, [ˈdeə̯mp], /ˈdɛə̯mp/ 1. In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. Example: 25 January 2017, Leena Camadoo writing in The Guardian, Dominican banana producers at sharp end of climate change Once the farms have been drained and the dead plants have been cut down and cleared, farmers then have to be alert for signs of black sigatoka, a devastating fungus which flourishes in damp conditions and can destroy banana farms. Example: She said no more. The trembling Trojans hear, O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear. 2. Despondent; dispirited, downcast. Labels: figuratively Example: 27 July 2016, Jane O’Faherty in The Irish Independent, Monarchs and prison officers win big on second race day Though Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were few damp spirits in Galway on day two of the races. Example: All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp. 3. Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale. Example: The Roadhouse was twenty-seve miles down the road from Niniltna, nine feet and three inches outside the Niniltna Native Association's tribal jurisdiction, and therefore not subject to the dry law currently in effect. Or was it damp? Kate thought it might have changed, yet again, at the last election, from dry to damp, or maybe it was from wet to damp.
Word: damp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmp/, [ˈdæmp], /ˈdeə̯mp/, [ˈdeə̯mp], /ˈdɛə̯mp/ 1. Moisture; humidity; dampness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ere twice in murk and occidental damp / Moist Hesperus hath quench’d his sleepy lamp, Example: What means this chilling damp that clings around me! / Why do I tremble thus! 2. Fog; fogginess; vapor. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Night […] with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. Example: Her chilling finger on my head, With coldest touch congealed my soul— Cold as the finger of the dead, Or damps which round a tombstone roll— 3. Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Ev’n now, while thus I stand blest in thy Presence, / A secret Damp of Grief comes o’er my Thoughts, Example: 1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 72, But though the War was proclaim’d, and Preparations accordingly made for it, the Expectations from all receiv’d a sudden Damp, by the as sudden Death of King William. 4. A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc. Labels: archaic, countable, historical, uncountable Example: There are sulphurous Vapours which infect the Vegetables, and render the Grass unwholsom to the Cattle that feed upon it: Miners are often hurt by these Steams. Observations made in some of the Mines in Derbyshire, describe four sorts of those Damps.
Word: damp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmp/, [ˈdæmp], /ˈdeə̯mp/, [ˈdeə̯mp], /ˈdɛə̯mp/ 1. To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). Labels: transitive Example: Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations. 2. To dampen; to make moderately wet. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: to damp cloth Example: It just damps a bit, but it een't not to sey reen. 3. To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Example: My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance of its people.
Word: Australian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Australia + -an. Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/ 1. A person from the Commonwealth of Australia. Example: An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much. Example: It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say. 2. A person aboriginal to Australia. 3. A person from the continent of Australia. Labels: uncommon 4. Australian English.
Word: Australian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Australia + -an. Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages. Labels: not-comparable Example: The deaths of two Australian teenagers, a British woman, an American man and two Danish women – and reports of others taken ill – prompted warnings last week from several Western nations about the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. 2. Upside down. Labels: US, humorous, not-comparable Example: Australian scrolling
Word: Australian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Australia + -an. Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/ 1. The Australian, an Australian newspaper.
Word: dampen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From damp + -en. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmpən/ 1. To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet. Labels: transitive 2. To become damp or moist. Labels: intransitive 3. To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things). Labels: transitive Example: We won't let the bad news dampen our spirits. Example: He was dreadfully familiar with everything, and talked about some places we were longing to see in a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm. 4. To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). Labels: proscribed, transitive 5. To become damped or deadened. Labels: intransitive
Word: damper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From damp (verb) + -er. The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmpɚ/ 1. Something that damps or checks: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something that damps or checks: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Something that damps or checks: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities. 4. Something that damps or checks: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Figure 7.13 shows stability diagrams that illustrate the effect of the magnitude of the damping coefficient of the damper on the flutter of the pipe. 5. Something that damps or checks: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out. Example: However, complaints quickly surfaced about the ride quality of the SIG BT41 bogies, which was only cured by the fitting of additional dampers to the bogies and couplers. 6. Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable Example: 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN, The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes. Example: The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making. 7. A shop till. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: A certain class of 'City Arabs' do nothing but steal provisions from shop doors and sell them for one-tenth of their value, or less, […] while a fourth again do nothing but "draw the dampers," i. e. steal from shop-tills.
Word: damper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English damp Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English damper From damp (adjective) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmpɚ/ 1. comparative form of damp: more damp Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: dampish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English damp Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English dampish From damp + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmpɪʃ/ 1. Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky. Labels: obsolete Example: All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...]. Example: c. 1600, author unknown, once attributed to William Shakespeare, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, London: J.M. Dent, 1897, Act I, Scene 3 https://archive.org/details/merrydevilofedmo00fabe We'll first hang Enfield in such rings of mist / As never rose from any dampish fen: / I'll make the brinèd sea to rise at Ware, / And drown the marshes unto Stratford Bridge; 2. Moderately damp or moist. Example: Miles of long, dark-brown, dampish-looking galleries stretch away to the right and left, and though devoid of the picturesque festoons of fungi which decorate the London Dock vaults, exhibit a sufficient degree of mouldiness to give them an air of respectable antiquity. Example: I remember very clearly the feeling of sitting there reading it; the dampish clay of the trench bottom underneath me, the constant shifting of my legs out of the way as men hurried stopping down the trench, the crack-crack-crack of bullets a foot or two overhead.
Word: dampishly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English dampish Middle English -ly English -ly English dampishly From dampish + -ly. 1. In a moderately damp or moist manner.
Word: dampishness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English dampish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dampishness From dampish + -ness. 1. The quality of being moderately damp or moist. Labels: uncountable
Word: dampne Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of damn. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: But lete them be ware least they dampne not their owne wretched sowles. Example: But when he wayeth the fault, and recompence, / He dampneth this hys dede and fyndeth playne / Atwene them two no whytt equiualence: […]
Word: dampness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English damp Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dampness From damp + -ness. 1. Moderate humidity; moisture; moistness; the state or quality of being damp. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails. Example: They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease. 2. The degree to which something is damp or moist. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The dampness in the writing paper caused the ink to spread and smudge.
Word: damp off Part of Speech: verb 1. Of plants: to decay and perish through excessive moisture. Labels: intransitive Example: Sweet alyssum seedlings are particularly prone to damping off, so do not overmoisten the soil.
Word: Austrian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Austria Middle English -n English -n English Austrian From Austria + -n. Pronunciation: /ˈɒs.tɹi.ən/, /ˈɔs.tɹi.ən/, /ˈɑ.stɹi.ən/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Austria. Example: Austrian borders 2. Of or pertaining to its people or their cultures. Example: Austrian cuisines 3. Of or relating to a school of economic thought based on the concept of methodological individualism: that social phenomena result from the motivations and actions of individuals.
Word: Austrian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Austria Middle English -n English -n English Austrian From Austria + -n. Pronunciation: /ˈɒs.tɹi.ən/, /ˈɔs.tɹi.ən/, /ˈɑ.stɹi.ən/ 1. A person from Austria or of Austrian descent. 2. An economist supporting the ideals of the Austrian School of Economics.
Word: dampy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From damp + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdæmpi/ 1. Somewhat damp. Labels: obsolete 2. Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. Labels: obsolete Example: Dispel dampy thoughts. Example: For, in the easy Vale if she be set below, no What is she but obscure ? and her more dampy shade And covert, but a den for beasts of ravin made
Word: successism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From success + -ism, probably after the Japanese 成功主義. 1. The ideology of striving for competition; achievement-orientation. Labels: uncountable 2. The worship or idealization of success. Labels: uncountable
Word: photography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) French photographiebor. English photography From French photographie. By surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φῶς (phôs, “of light”), and γράφω (gráphō, “write, draw”). Pronunciation: /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, /fəˈtɔɡ.ɹə.fi/, [fəˈtɔ̟ɡ.ɹə.fi] 1. The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: go on a photography course 2. The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Gambel's quail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After William Gambel, American naturalist. 1. A quail of North America (of the US-American southwest and the Mexican northwest), Callipepla gambelii.
Word: covey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English covei, covey (“brood of partridges, covey; volley of shot; kind of gun”) [and other forms], from Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”) (modern French couvée), a noun use of the feminine past participle of cover (“to brood (an egg)”) (modern French couver), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates French couvée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), couver (“to brood (an egg)”) Italian covata (“brood, clutch, covey, hatch”), covare (“to brood or incubate (an egg)”) Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvi/ 1. A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus). Example: But, loa, with a ſuddeyn fluſhing thee galligut Harpeys / From mountayns flitter, with gaggling whirlerye flapping / Their wings: […] This coouie rauenouſe, and ſwift with a deſperat onſet, / They gripte in tallants the meat, and foorth ſpourged a ſtincking / Foule carrayne fauoure: […] Example: [S]o leacherous they [female partridges] are, that ſetting aſide the naturall affection and love to their young covie, vvhen they are broodie, […] yet if they hear once the Foulers chanterell comming tovvard the male, and that he doth call, preſently they vvill leave the neſt and ſuffer the egs to chill, and for very jealouſie crie again and call back the males, and offer themſelves to be troden, for feare they vvould goe to others. […] And all this doth ſhe to amuſe the Fouler after her, untill ſhe have trained him a contrarie vvay from the covey. Novv by that time that ſhee is paſt that feare, and freed of the motherly care ſhe had of her young ones, than vvill ſhee get into the furrovv of ſome land, lie along her backe, catch a clot of earth up vvith her feet, and therevvith hide her vvhole bodie, and ſo have both her ſelfe and her couvey. 2. A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea). Labels: broadly Example: Like when you quail huntin' and it's getting dark and you can hear the boss bird whistlin' tryin' to get the covey together again, and he's coming toward you slow and whistlin' soft, cause he knows you somewhere around with your gun. Example: No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods. […] Just the slamming of a car door, too much talking, or a fast-moving dog will cause a covey to flush well out of gun range. 3. A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: [T]here is not a better Spanniell in England to spring a couie of queanes than Martin. Example: VVho are they in the corner? As I live, / A covey of Fidlers; I ſhall have ſome muſicke yet […]
Word: covey Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English covei, covey (“brood of partridges, covey; volley of shot; kind of gun”) [and other forms], from Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”) (modern French couvée), a noun use of the feminine past participle of cover (“to brood (an egg)”) (modern French couver), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates French couvée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), couver (“to brood (an egg)”) Italian covata (“brood, clutch, covey, hatch”), covare (“to brood or incubate (an egg)”) Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvi/ 1. To gather into a group. Labels: intransitive Example: Our fortunes and our ſelves, are things ſo cloſely linked, that vve knovv not vvhich is the cauſe of the love that vve finde, vvhen theſe tvvo ſhall part, vve may then diſcover to vvhich of them affection vvill make vvinge; vvhen they are covied together vve knovv not vvhich is in purſuit; vvhen they riſe and breake, vve ſhall then ſee vvhich is aimed at. Example: O'er many a vvinding dale and painful ſteep, / Th' abodes of coveyed grouſe and timid ſheep, / My ſavage journey, curious, I purſue, / Till fam'd Breadalbaine opens on my view.— […]
Word: covey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cove + -y (diminutive suffix). Cove is derived from Romani kodo (“this one; him”) or kova (“that person”). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊvi/, /ˈkoʊvi/ 1. A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie. Labels: UK, dated, familiar, slang Example: I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are— […] Example: Hullo! my covey, what's the row?
Word: host Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Old French ostebor. Middle English hoste English host From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century. Pronunciation: /həʊst/, /hoʊst/ 1. One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially. Example: A good host is always considerate of the guest’s needs. Example: Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. 2. One that provides a facility for an event. 3. A person or organization responsible for running an event. Example: Our company is host of the annual conference this year. 4. A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance. Example: The host was terrible, but the acts themselves were good. 5. The primary member of a system, typically the member who fronts most often. 6. Any computer attached to a network. Labels: Internet 7. A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite. Example: Viruses depend on the host that they infect in order to be able to reproduce. Example: A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents. 8. An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells. Example: The so-called junk DNA is known, so far, to provide no apparent benefit to its host. 9. A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
Word: host Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Old French ostebor. Middle English hoste English host From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century. Pronunciation: /həʊst/, /hoʊst/ 1. To perform the role of a host. Example: Our company will host the annual conference this year. Example: I was terrible at hosting that show. 2. To lodge at an inn. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Where you shall host. 3. To run software made available to a remote user or process. Labels: Internet Example: Kremvax hosts a variety of services. Example: CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.
Word: host Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English oost, borrowed from Old French ost, oste, hoste, from Latin hostis (“foreign enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (as opposed to inimicus (“personal enemy”)). Doublet of guest. Pronunciation: /həʊst/, /hoʊst/ 1. A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels) Example: Why, Plugson, even thy own host is all in mutiny: Cotton is conquered; but the ‘bare backs’ — are worse covered than ever! Example: All about the hosts of Mordor raged. 2. A large number of items; a large inventory. Example: The dealer stocks a host of parts for my Model A. Example: There are a host of reasons for this decision.
Word: host Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English host, oist, ost, from Old French hoiste, from Latin hostia (“sacrificial victim”). Doublet of hostie. Pronunciation: /həʊst/, /hoʊst/ 1. The consecrated bread of the Eucharist. Example: Do you pray to the Holy Ghost when you suck your host? / Do you read who's dead in the Irish Post?
Word: flock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk. Pronunciation: /flɒk/, /flɑk/ 1. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration. 2. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals. Example: He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill. Example: Into the trees / Past meadow grounds / And further away from my home / Baying behind me / I hear the hounds / Flock's chasing to find me alone / A trail of sickness / Leading to me / If I am haunted / Then you will see 3. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd. Example: But lapsed into so long a pause again / As half amazed, half frighted all his flock: [...] Example: I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd. 4. A large number of people. Example: The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks. 5. A religious congregation.
Word: flock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk. Pronunciation: /flɒk/, /flɑk/ 1. To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers. Labels: intransitive Example: People flocked to the cinema to see the new film. Example: What place the gods for our repose assigned. Friends daily flock; and scarce the kindly spring Began to clothe the ground 2. To flock to; to crowd. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
Word: flock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flok (“hair”). Pronunciation: /flɒk/, /flɑk/ 1. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A lock of wool or hair. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point. 3. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Word: flock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flok (“hair”). Pronunciation: /flɒk/, /flɑk/ 1. To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap. Labels: transitive Example: the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs 2. To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow. Labels: transitive 3. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles. Labels: transitive
Word: waterfowl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English waterfoul, water-foul, equivalent to water + fowl. Compare Old English dopfugel (“waterfowl, moorhen”, literally “dipping-fowl”). 1. Any of the birds, such as ducks, geese and swans, that spend most of their non-flying time on water; especially those of the family Anatidae.
Word: odiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English odious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English odiousness From odious + -ness. 1. The condition of being odious Labels: uncountable 2. An odious thing Labels: countable