nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: boomerang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from Thurawal. Long regarded as from the Sydney language, but early evidence unclear. The form boo-mer-it is glossed, c.1790, as 'scimeter' (i.e., scimitar) and the word bumarang, bumarañ is not explicitly recorded in the Sydney Language until 1903. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/, /ˈbʉwməɹaŋ/, /ˈbuːməɹaŋɡ/, /ˈbumɚæŋ/, /ˈbumɚeɪŋ/ 1. Any of various traditional throwing sticks used for hunting or combat by Australian aborigines, including the symmetrical, crescent-shaped, type (the returning boomerang). Example: Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile. Example: With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles. 2. A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training. Example: Before long, however, these pike-like devices were mostly superseded by spring-operated guns of various types. Most of them shot spinning disks, crosses, or small boomerangs of thin steel. Example: 1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Won't Come Back, "Don't worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you I'm gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first you've got to... throw it." 3. A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground. 4. A boomerang kick. 5. A device for changing the color of a followspot. Example: Roll: A live action changing from one color to another. Typically requires dexterity to "crossfade" between two colors in the boomerang with one hand while following with the other. Example: If you are spot one you should push down on the first lever on the boomerang to load frame one. Spot two should do the same with frame five. On the go, both spot ops should run their dowser levers to bring the light up on the target specified by the cue caller. 6. The early return of an aircraft whose mission was aborted, often due to technical failures. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang. 7. A cocktail made with rye whiskey and Swedish punsch.
Word: boomerang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from Thurawal. Long regarded as from the Sydney language, but early evidence unclear. The form boo-mer-it is glossed, c.1790, as 'scimeter' (i.e., scimitar) and the word bumarang, bumarañ is not explicitly recorded in the Sydney Language until 1903. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/, /ˈbʉwməɹaŋ/, /ˈbuːməɹaŋɡ/, /ˈbumɚæŋ/, /ˈbumɚeɪŋ/ 1. To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire. Labels: intransitive Example: "Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you." Example: "Oh," they yelled, "you could, eh? Well, let's see you do it, then! Let's see you do it! Let's see you do it! Now!" In a moment the crew of little spectators were gibing at Horace. The blow that would make Jimmie's humiliation complete! Instead, it had boomeranged Horace into the mud. 2. To travel in a curved path. Labels: intransitive Example: He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub. 3. To abort a mission and return to base early. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.
Word: uey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From U(-turn) + -ey. Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.i/ 1. Synonym of U-turn. Labels: colloquial Example: “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey. Example: Barry musta figured Jamie′s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.
Word: U-turn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U. 1. A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction. Example: What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences. 2. A reversal of policy or opinion. Labels: figuratively Example: The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it. Example: Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, announced a major U-turn on the government’s climate commitments last month, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.
Word: U-turn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U. 1. To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)). 2. To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite. Labels: intransitive Example: She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.
Word: cooee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːʷiː/ 1. A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush. Labels: Australia, informal, onomatopoeic Example: Then they heard in the distance the "coo-ee" of a white man, which was instantly answered by another "coo-ee". Example: I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me cooee back. I listen. No cooee come back. 2. A short distance; hailing distance. Labels: Australia, also, figuratively, informal Example: That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent. Example: We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee.
Word: cooee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːʷiː/ 1. To make such a call. Labels: Australia, informal, intransitive Example: ‘Look out for snakes,’ said Long Charlie, flourishing his lantern. ‘And don′t all of us be coo-eeing all the time, or when the little chap sings out we shan't be able to hear him.’ Example: Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
Word: cooee Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːʷiː/ 1. Used to attract someone's attention. Labels: Australia, UK, informal Example: Cooee! I'm over here! Example: Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! " " Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
Word: handfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + fish. 1. Any of the anglerfishes of the family Brachionichthyidae, which can "walk" on the sea floor using their pectoral fins. Example: An astonishing exception, however, is a single fossil of a handfish, so-named because they ʻwalkʼ on fin-like hands.
Word: feet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”). Pronunciation: /ˈfiːt/, [ˈfɪi̯t] 1. plural of foot Labels: form-of, plural 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. Example: Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
Word: feet Part of Speech: noun 1. Fact; performance; feat. Labels: obsolete
Word: feat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact. Pronunciation: /fiːt/ 1. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. Example: I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life. Example: Raising six children who all went on to be doctors was a tough feat for us.
Word: feat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact. Pronunciation: /fiːt/ 1. Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty. Labels: archaic Example: […] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest. Example: Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte, That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch, Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte, Able to make the coyest eare to itch: Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well, These little loues, new crept from out the shell.
Word: feat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact. Pronunciation: /fiːt/ 1. To form; to fashion. Labels: obsolete Example: […] most praised, most loved, A sample to the youngest, to the more mature A glass that feated them, and to the graver A child that guided dotards;
Word: feat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat. Pronunciation: /fiːt/ 1. To feature. Labels: informal, transitive Example: A new team suite will also be added feating new team locker rooms, a nutrition station, team meeting room, a team lounge and coaches’ offices and conference room. Example: Two films by John and Yoko, ‘Imagine’ and ‘Gimme Some Truth’ will also be re-released on October 5 feating new footage, “raw” studio mixes and a new insight into a photo shoot the couple did with iconic British photographer David Bailey.
Word: feat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat. Pronunciation: /fiːt/ 1. Clipping of feature. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: feat: Add undo button
Word: to Part of Speech: particle Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *doh₁ Proto-Germanic *tō Proto-West Germanic *tō Old English tō Middle English to English to From Middle English to, from Old English tō, from Proto-Germanic *tō ~ *ta, from Proto-Indo-European *de ~ *do (“to”). Cognate with Scots tae, to (“to”), North Frisian to, tö, tu (“to”), Saterland Frisian tou (“to”), Low German to (“to”), Dutch toe, te (“to”), German zu (“to”), West Frisian ta (“to”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ndaj (“towards”), Irish do (“to, for”), Breton da (“to, for”), Welsh i (“to, for”), Russian до (do, “to”). Doublet of too. Pronunciation: /tuː/, [tu̟ː], [tʰʊw], /tiː/, [tʰʉw] 1. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. Example: I want to leave. Example: He asked me what to do. 2. As above, with the verb implied. Example: "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed." Example: If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. 3. Used to indicate an obligation on the part of, or a directive given to, the subject. Example: You are to go to the store and buy a bottle of milk.
Word: to Part of Speech: conj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *doh₁ Proto-Germanic *tō Proto-West Germanic *tō Old English tō Middle English to English to From Middle English to, from Old English tō, from Proto-Germanic *tō ~ *ta, from Proto-Indo-European *de ~ *do (“to”). Cognate with Scots tae, to (“to”), North Frisian to, tö, tu (“to”), Saterland Frisian tou (“to”), Low German to (“to”), Dutch toe, te (“to”), German zu (“to”), West Frisian ta (“to”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ndaj (“towards”), Irish do (“to, for”), Breton da (“to, for”), Welsh i (“to, for”), Russian до (do, “to”). Doublet of too. Pronunciation: /tuː/, [tu̟ː], [tʰʊw], /tiː/, [tʰʉw] 1. In order to. Example: I went to the shops to buy some bread.
Word: to Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *doh₁ Proto-Germanic *tō Proto-West Germanic *tō Old English tō Middle English to English to From Middle English to, from Old English tō, from Proto-Germanic *tō ~ *ta, from Proto-Indo-European *de ~ *do (“to”). Cognate with Scots tae, to (“to”), North Frisian to, tö, tu (“to”), Saterland Frisian tou (“to”), Low German to (“to”), Dutch toe, te (“to”), German zu (“to”), West Frisian ta (“to”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ndaj (“towards”), Irish do (“to, for”), Breton da (“to, for”), Welsh i (“to, for”), Russian до (do, “to”). Doublet of too. Pronunciation: /tuː/, [tu̟ː], [tʰʊw], /tiː/, [tʰʉw] 1. Toward a closed, touching, or engaging position. Labels: UK, US, not-comparable, regional Example: Please push the door to. Example: He went in his room, pushed the door to, without fastening the latch. 2. Into the wind. Labels: not-comparable 3. Misspelling of too. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable
Word: to Part of Speech: particle Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तो (to). Pronunciation: /t̪oː/, [t̪oː] 1. A filler word common amongst urban Indians. Labels: India, North, colloquial Example: I am to so bored right now.
Word: tree Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree PIE word *dóru From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true. Cognates Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv (“oak”), Cornish dar (“oak”), Irish dair (“oak”), Manx darragh (“oak; oaken”), Scottish Gaelic darach (“oak”), Welsh dâr (“oak”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree; wood; spear”) (whence Greek δόρυ (dóry, “pike, spear”)), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Latvian darva (“tar”), Lithuanian derva (“tar; resin”), Belarusian дзе́рава (dzjérava, “tree”), дрэ́ва (dréva, “tree; wood”), Czech drvo, dřevo (“wood”), Polish drzewo (“tree; wood”), Russian де́рево (dérevo), дре́во (drévo, “tree; wood”), Serbo-Croatian др̏во, drȇvo, drijȇvo, drȋvo, dȑvo (“tree; wood”), Slovak and Slovene drevo (“tree; wood”), Ukrainian де́рево (dérevo, “tree; wood”), Armenian տարր (tarr, “element; component”), Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬎𐬭𐬎 (dāᵘru, “wood”), Central Kurdish and Persian دار (dâr, “tree; wood”), Northern Kurdish dar (“tree”), Zazaki dare (“tree”), Hittite 𒋫𒊒 (taru), 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (táru, “tree; wood”), Luwian 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (tāru, “wood”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B or (“wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “timber, wood”). Replaced alternative Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and eclipsed non-native Middle English arbre, borrowed from Old French arbre. Pronunciation: /tɹiː/, [t̠ʰɹʷiː], [t͡ʃʰɹʷiː], [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷiː], /t͡ʃɹɪj/ 1. To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. Labels: transitive Example: The dog treed the cat. Example: When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. 2. To place in a tree. Labels: transitive Example: Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot. 3. To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree. Labels: transitive Example: to tree a boot Example: Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes. 4. To take refuge in a tree. Labels: intransitive
Word: tree Part of Speech: num 1. Pronunciation spelling of three Labels: alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling
Word: ate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a remodelling of earlier eat by analogy with other strong verbs such as break:†brake, give:gave, speak:†spake; compare the same process in rare Middle English at (“ate”) besides more usual et. However, the pronunciation /ɛt/ likely continues Middle English et, from Old English ǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ēt, with shortening as in e.g. thread. Pronunciation: /eɪt/, [eːt], /ɛt/ 1. simple past of eat Labels: form-of, past 2. past participle of eat Labels: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Example: I have a very good appetite, have ate some excellent melons, and they have served me up some quails, the fattest and tenderest I have ever ate. Example: As soon as all had ate, and the elder ones paid, the carriage was ordered; […]
Word: ate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”). Pronunciation: /ˈʔɐ.te/ 1. An elder sister Labels: Philippines 2. A respectful title or form of address for an older woman. Labels: Philippines
Word: Arabian oryx Part of Speech: noun 1. An oryx of species Oryx leucoryx.
Word: Asian lion Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪʒən ˈlaɪən/ 1. Panthera leo persica, a subspecies of lion that inhabited Asia.
Word: scimitar-horned oryx Part of Speech: noun 1. A critically endangered antelope, Oryx dammah, living in the arid plains and deserts of North Africa.
Word: grey wolf Part of Speech: noun 1. A large canid, Canis lupus, once found throughout forested areas of northern Europe, Asia and America; it shares a common ancestry with the domestic dog.
Word: bongo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish bongo. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/ 1. A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
Word: bongo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/ 1. Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. Example: He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee.
Word: bongo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/ 1. To play the bongo drums. Labels: intransitive 2. Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm. Labels: intransitive 3. To hit something rhythmically with the hands. Labels: transitive
Word: brindled gnu Part of Speech: noun 1. The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
Word: impala Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mpàdá Zulu ímpalabor. English impala Borrowed from Zulu ímpala, from Proto-Bantu *mpàdá. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑːlə/ 1. An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.
Word: cockroach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, by means of folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑkɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /ˈkɑkəɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /ˈkɒkɹəʊt͡ʃ/ 1. Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite. Example: Then there were cockroach hunts; we chased them out of their haunts, where at night they busily devoured currants, jam, and sugar; in fact their diet was far more varied than ours, for they made plentiful meals off our boots, the coverings of our books, and any stray pieces of flannel that came in their way. 2. Term of abuse. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: I want a divorce, you cockroach! 3. A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang Example: During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu genocidaires labelled Tutsis as cockroaches and called for their extermination. 4. A person from New South Wales. Labels: Australia, derogatory, especially, humorous, slang 5. A hard lump of brown sugar. Labels: Australia, obsolete, slang
Word: millipede Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mīllipeda (“wood louse”), from mīlle (“thousand”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”), equivalent to milli- + -pede. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪləpid/ 1. Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments. Example: The ſaid leaves alſo ſtamped with honey and brought to the forme of a cataplaſme, cure the bloudie-falls or night-blains: but tempered with wine, they heale the bitings of dogs, as alſo of the Millepeed, which the Greeks call Seps, a long worm with hairie feet, doing much harme to cattaile eſpecially; for looke where it biteth, the place preſently ſwelleth and putrifieth. Example: With one or two exceptions, male millipedes make direct contact with the female and transfer sperm via a pair of modified front legs (gonopods) which have been charged with semen from the genitalia situated towards the rear of the body.
Word: predator bug Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several species of African assassin bugs, especially Platymeris rhadamanthus.
Word: snow leopard Part of Speech: noun 1. A large feline mammal, Panthera uncia (syn. Uncia uncia), native to mountain ranges of central Asia.
Word: slender-horned gazelle Part of Speech: noun 1. A gazelle with slender horns adapted to desert life (Gazella leptoceros).
Word: VB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Victoria Bitter (an Australian brand of beer). Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Virginia Beach (independent coastal city in Virginia). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Visual Basic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: VB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of valence bond. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, physical 2. Initialism of vinylbenzene. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of volleyball. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: example Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English example, exaumple, from Old French example, essaumple, from Latin exemplum (“sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out”); see exempt. Doublet of exemplum and sample. Displaced native Middle English forebisne, from Old English forebȳsn; and Middle English bisne, from Old English bȳsn (modern English bizen). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɑːm.pəl/, /ɪɡˈzam.pəl/, /ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/, [ɪɡˈzɛəmpəɫ], /əɡˈzæm.pəl/ 1. Something that is representative of all such things in a group. Example: If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999. Example: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use. 2. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. Example: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe. 3. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). Example: Nelson Mandela was an example for many to follow. Example: For I haue giuen you an example, that yee ſhould doe, as I haue done to you. 4. A person punished as a warning to others. Example: […]hang him, hee'le be made an example. Example: Now theſe things were our examples, to the intent wee ſhould not luſt after euil things, as they alſo luſted. 5. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. Example: Such temperate order in ſo fierce a cauſe, / Doth want example:[…] 6. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
Word: example Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English example, exaumple, from Old French example, essaumple, from Latin exemplum (“sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out”); see exempt. Doublet of exemplum and sample. Displaced native Middle English forebisne, from Old English forebȳsn; and Middle English bisne, from Old English bȳsn (modern English bizen). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɑːm.pəl/, /ɪɡˈzam.pəl/, /ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/, [ɪɡˈzɛəmpəɫ], /əɡˈzæm.pəl/ 1. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
Word: indicative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus. By surface analysis, indicate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɪk.ə.tɪv/ 1. Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something. Example: He had pains indicative of a heart attack. Example: Although it may be convenient within the case study publication format to cover the topic of pseudopathology in the discussion of differential diagnosis, this is not indicative of how this stage of work slots into the diagnostic process in the laboratory. 2. Of, or relating to the indicative mood.
Word: indicative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus. By surface analysis, indicate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɪk.ə.tɪv/ 1. The indicative mood. Labels: uncountable 2. A term in the indicative mood. Labels: countable Example: The fact that imperative forms were taken into English as indicatives suggests that the English speakers using the Hindustani verbs were most familiar (in some cases perhaps only familiar) with the imperative form.
Word: subjunctive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join. Pronunciation: /səbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/ 1. Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. Labels: not-comparable
Word: subjunctive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join. Pronunciation: /səbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/ 1. Ellipsis of subjunctive mood. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable 2. A form in the subjunctive mood. Labels: countable
Word: demonstrative pronoun Part of Speech: noun 1. A pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context and indicates whether the noun is singular or plural and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer. Example: In the sentence I like this, the word this is a demonstrative pronoun.
Word: boy Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō- Proto-West Germanic *bōjō Old English *bōia Middle English boye English boy From Middle English boy /boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”). Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”), Lombard bagaj. See also bully. Pronunciation: /bɔɪ/, /boj/, /boɪ/, /bɔːə/, /bɒj/ 1. Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing. Example: Boy, that was close! Example: Boy, that tastes good!
Word: boy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō- Proto-West Germanic *bōjō Old English *bōia Middle English boye English boy From Middle English boy /boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”). Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”), Lombard bagaj. See also bully. Pronunciation: /bɔɪ/, /boj/, /boɪ/, /bɔːə/, /bɒj/ 1. To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage). Labels: transitive Example: I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.
Word: girl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru. Cognates Cognate with Yola gurl (“child, girl”), German Gör, Göre (“brat, cheeky young child”), Low German Gör (“child”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜːl/, /ˈɡɛəl/, /ˈɡɪəl/, /ˈɡɜɹl/, [ˈɡɝəɫ] 1. To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls. Labels: transitive Example: Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke. Example: One can argue that the genre “yuppified” the popular romance novel or perhaps “girled” the not especially gender-specific concept of the young urban professional. 2. To staff with or as a girl or girls. Labels: informal Example: Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...] Example: Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ...
Word: centipede Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- + -pede. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.tɪ.pid/ 1. Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total. Example: Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment. Example: The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers. 2. A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat. Labels: obsolete
Word: antecedent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”). Pronunciation: /ˌæntɪˈsiːdənt/ 1. Earlier, either in time or in order. Labels: not-comparable Example: an antecedent cause Example: an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood 2. Presumptive. Labels: not-comparable Example: an antecedent improbability
Word: antecedent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”). Pronunciation: /ˌæntɪˈsiːdənt/ 1. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing. 2. An ancestor. Example: The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company. 3. A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form. Example: [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal Example: One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below: (16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent 4. The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent. 5. The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true. 6. The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent. 7. Previous principles, conduct, history, etc. Labels: in-plural
Word: definite article Part of Speech: noun 1. An article that introduces a noun and specifies it as the particular noun that is being considered; in English, the only definite article is the and its variations.
Word: adjunct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/ 1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. Example: Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine. Example: Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is. 2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague. Example: [H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […] 3. Ellipsis of adjunct professor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts. 4. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient. 5. A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind. Labels: dated 6. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. 7. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning. Example: When a female enters the profession, she is generally not referred to as doctor but as a lady doctor or woman doctor. The use of "feminizing" adjuncts designates a deviation from the norm, doctor, and does not carry the weight of the term unmodified. 8. A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram). 9. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar. Example: We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Complements are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts resemble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar. 10. Symploce. Labels: rhetoric 11. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Word: adjunct Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/ 1. Connected in a subordinate function. Example: Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it. 2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Word: adjunct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/ 1. To work as an adjunct professor. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together. Example: A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.
Word: relative pronoun Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv ˈpɹəʊ.naʊn/, /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv ˈpɹoʊ.naʊn/ 1. A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: which, who, whose, whom and (non-standard) what. The other English relative pronouns are whoever, whomever, whatever, and that.
Word: affirmative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”). Pronunciation: /əˈfɜːmətɪv/, /əˈfɝməɾɪv/ 1. pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming Example: an affirmative answer 2. pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result 3. positive Example: an affirmative vote 4. Confirmative; ratifying. Example: an act affirmative of common law 5. Dogmatic. Example: Lyſicles vvas a little diſconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito; but after a ſhort pauſe replied briskly, […] 6. Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition. 7. positive; not negative
Word: affirmative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”). Pronunciation: /əˈfɜːmətɪv/, /əˈfɝməɾɪv/ 1. Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance. Example: That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters. Example: 10-4 good buddy. That’s an affirmative—the tractor trailer is in the ditch at the side of the highway. 2. An answer that shows agreement or acceptance. 3. An assertion. Labels: obsolete Example: that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.
Word: affirmative Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”). Pronunciation: /əˈfɜːmətɪv/, /əˈfɝməɾɪv/ 1. Yes. 2. Yes; true; correct. Labels: especially
Word: possessive pronoun Part of Speech: noun 1. A pronoun which expresses possession. Example: The possessive pronouns are, my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their, own.
Word: my Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”). Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”), Swedish min (“my”). More at me. Pronunciation: /maɪ/, /mʌɪ/, [məi̯], /mə/, /mɪ/ 1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English. Example: I can't find my book. Example: Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art. 2. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English. Example: My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable. Example: Don't you know my name? 3. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English. Example: My parents won't let me go out tonight. Example: From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son, 4. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English. Example: I have to take my books back to the library soon.
Word: my Part of Speech: intj Etymology: An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my God. Pronunciation: /maɪ/, /mʌɪ/, [məi̯], /mə/, /mɪ/ 1. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement. Example: My, what big teeth you have! Example: My, you’re a pretty one!
Word: his Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its. Pronunciation: /ɪz/ [ɪ̈z], /əz/, /hɪz/, /ˈhɘz/ 1. Belonging to him. Example: With that he put his ſpurres vnto his ſteed, With ſpeare in reſt, and toward him did fare, Like ſhaft out of a bow preuenting ſpeed. 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. 2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. Labels: dated, sometimes Example: On the contrary, those other passions, commonly denominated selfish, both produce different sentiments in each individual, according to his particular situation […] Example: It is our conviction that piecemeal critiques of nontheisms will not suffice. The theist must enter the arena with a positive and comprehensive case of his own. 3. Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) Labels: obsolete Example: In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] Example: My ſtomacke could not well reach ſo farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his neede. 4. Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. Labels: archaic Example: Ahab his mark Example: Sejanus his Fall
Word: his Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its. Pronunciation: /ɪz/ [ɪ̈z], /əz/, /hɪz/, /ˈhɘz/ 1. That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. Example: This pen is his. These books are also his. Example: The decision was his to live with. 2. His house or home. Labels: informal Example: After our night out, I went back to his. 3. Alternative spelling of His. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: his Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hi Labels: form-of, plural Example: The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down.
Word: her Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː/, /ɜː/, /hə/, /ə/, /hɛː/ 1. Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc). Example: This is her book Example: Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in [...] 2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense). Example: Begin by having students choose a short poem to memorize; they will enjoy searching the library for a poem that appeals to them. If a student wishes to memorize her poem and share it aloud with the rest of the class, suggest a buddy system.
Word: her Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː/, /ɜː/, /hə/, /ə/, /hɛː/ 1. The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction. Example: Give it to her (after preposition) Example: He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
Word: her Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː/, /ɜː/, /hə/, /ə/, /hɛː/ 1. A female person or animal. Labels: informal Example: I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. Example: […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]