nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: scissors Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel. The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzəz/, /ˈsɪzɚz/, /ˈsəzəz/ 1. A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only, usually Example: Near-synonym: shears Example: Those scissors are sharp. 2. A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot. Labels: plural, plural-only, uncountable 3. An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only 4. An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only Example: They executed a perfect scissors. 5. A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only 6. An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only 7. A scissors hold. Labels: countable, plural, plural-only 8. A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: scissors Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel. The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzəz/, /ˈsɪzɚz/, /ˈsəzəz/ 1. plural of scissor Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: scissors Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel. The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzəz/, /ˈsɪzɚz/, /ˈsəzəz/ 1. Rare form of scissor (“to cut using, or as if using, scissors”). Labels: form-of, rare, transitive Example: She found her in the dining-room with Ann Foster, the little dressmaker, who was endeavouring to scissors through the right side of her underlip with her teeth as proof that the compiling of a list of requisites was no tax to her.
Word: scissors Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel. The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzəz/, /ˈsɪzɚz/, /ˈsəzəz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of scissor Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: scissors Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel. The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzəz/, /ˈsɪzɚz/, /ˈsəzəz/ 1. Cry of anguish or frustration. Labels: dated Example: Say, wouldn’t it put your eye out to get a letter from one of the kiddies with the thumb‐prints of that crest not doing a thing but snuggling down in the wax on the envelope? Oh, scissors! Example: “Scissors!” he shouted and stuck his finger in his mouth.
Word: separate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English separaten (“to separate”), from separat (“separated”) + -en, from Latin sēparātus, perfect passive participle of sēparō (“to separate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from sē- (“apart”) + parō (“prepare”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”). Displaced Middle English scheden, from Old English scēadan (whence English shed). Doublet of sever, also derived from the same Latin verb. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/, /ˈsɛpˌɹeɪt/, /ˈsɛp.ɚˌeɪt/, /ˈsɛp.əˌɹæɪt/ 1. To divide (a thing) into separate parts. Labels: transitive Example: Separate the articles from the headings. Example: Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable. 2. To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect. Labels: transitive Example: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Example: From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy]. 3. To cause (things or people) to be separate. Labels: transitive Example: If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes. Example: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment. 4. To divide itself into separate pieces or substances. Labels: intransitive Example: The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring. 5. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. Labels: obsolete Example: Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Word: separate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English separat, see -ate (“adjective-forming suffix”) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/, /ˈsɛpˌɹeɪt/, /ˈsɛp.ɚˌeɪt/, /ˈsɛp.əˌɹæɪt/ 1. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else). Labels: not-comparable Example: This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces. Example: Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects. 2. Not together (with); not united (to). Labels: not-comparable Example: I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
Word: separate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (“noun-forming suffix”) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/, /ˈsɛpˌɹeɪt/, /ˈsɛp.ɚˌeɪt/, /ˈsɛp.əˌɹæɪt/ 1. Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants. Labels: plural-normally Example: French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date. 2. A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
Word: yourselves Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Morphologically your + -selves. Pronunciation: /jəˈsɛlvz/, /jɔːˈsɛlvz/, /jʊəˈsɛlvz/, /jɚˈsɛlvz/, /jɔɹˈsɛlvz/ 1. Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed). Labels: form-of, pronoun, reflexive, second-person Example: You shouldn't blame yourselves. Example: Talk amongst yourselves. 2. You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed. Labels: emphatic, second-person Example: You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
Word: brush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís Proto-Germanic *burstiz Frankish *burstibor. Vulgar Latin *brustia Old French broissebor. Middle English brusshe English brush From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-. Pronunciation: /bɹʌʃ/, /bɹɐʃ/, /bɹʊʃ/, /bɹɛʃ/ 1. To clean with a brush. Labels: transitive Example: Brush your teeth. 2. To untangle or arrange with a brush. Labels: transitive Example: Brush your hair. 3. To apply with a brush. Labels: transitive Example: I am brushing the paint onto the walls. 4. To remove with a sweeping motion. Labels: transitive Example: She brushed the flour off my clothes. Example: Caliban: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen / Drop on you both![…] 5. To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Her scarf brushed his skin. Example: Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. 6. To clean one's teeth by brushing them. Labels: intransitive Example: Of course, Halloween does not have to be completely treatless. Plain chocolate candy is okay, provided you remember to brush afterwards.
Word: cough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to bluster; to riot; to cough (?)”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin. Cognates * Middle Dutch cuchen (“to cough”) (modern Dutch kuchen (“to cough”); German Low German kuchen (“to cough”)) * Middle High German kûchen (“to breathe (on); to exhale”), kîchen (“to breathe with difficulty”) (modern German keichen, keuchen (“to breathe with difficulty; to gasp, pant”)) * Spanish cof (“coughing sound”) * West Frisian kiche (“to cough”), kochelje (“to cough persistently”) Pronunciation: /kɒf/, /kɔːf/, /kɔf/, /kɑʔf/, /kɑf/ 1. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth. Labels: transitive Example: Sometimes she coughed up blood. Example: Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat, and then stood gazing serenely at the landscape. 2. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1. Labels: transitive Example: He almost coughed himself into a fit. 3. To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1. Labels: transitive Example: No ſtationary ſteeds / Cough their ovvn knell, vvhile heedleſs of the ſound / The ſilent circle fan themſelves, and quake. 4. To surrender (information); to confess. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money). Labels: figuratively, slang, transitive Example: By the time you get back the men will all be striking out for the fire, and we'll break for the house and collar the dollars. Everybody cough up what matches he's got. Example: Thanks to Jeeves I was not going to be called on to cough up several thousand quid. 6. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway. Labels: intransitive Example: I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough. Example: Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly. 7. To make a noise like a cough. Labels: intransitive Example: The engine coughed and sputtered. Example: Wake up, by-and-by, and look to see what done it, and maybe see a steamboat, coughing along up stream, so far off towards the other side you couldn't tell nothing about her only whether she was stern-wheel or side-wheel; then for about an hour there wouldn't be nothing to hear nor nothing to see—just solid lonesomeness. 8. To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: cough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1. The interjection is probably derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /kɒf/, /kɔːf/, /kɔf/, /kɑʔf/, /kɑf/ 1. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth. Example: Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough. Example: [I]t conduceth helpe to the crudities, humidities, and vvindineſſe of the ſtomacke and belly, and to helpe the ſhortneſſe of breath and coughes: […] 2. A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough. Example: whooping cough Example: Sorry, I can’t come to work today—I’ve got a nasty cough. 3. A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2, noun sense 1). Labels: figuratively 4. A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
Word: cough Part of Speech: intj Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1. The interjection is probably derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /kɒf/, /kɔːf/, /kɔf/, /kɑʔf/, /kɑf/ 1. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem. Example: He was—cough—indisposed.
Word: building Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English byldynge, buyldyng, byldyng, buldynge, buldyng, boldyng, equivalent to build + -ing. Compare also related Middle English bold (“edifice, castle, mansion”), from Old English bold (“building, dwelling, house”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/ 1. The act or process by which something is built; construction. Labels: uncountable Example: The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks. 2. A closed structure with walls and a roof. Labels: countable Example: My sister lives in that apartment building. Example: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. 3. Synonym of Tits building. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: building Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beeldynge, equivalent to build + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of build Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: belief Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *laubō Proto-West Germanic *laubu Old English lēafa Middle English bileve English belief From Middle English bileve, from Old English lēafa, from Proto-West Germanic *laubu from Proto-Germanic *laubō. Compare German Glaube (“faith, belief”). The replacement of final /v/ with /f/ is due to the analogy of noun-verb pairs with /f/ in the noun but /v/ in the verb, creating a pair belief : believe on the model of e.g. grief : grieve or proof : prove. Pronunciation: /bɪˈliːf/, [bɪˈlɪi̯f], /bəˈliːf/, [bəˈlɪi̯f] 1. Mental acceptance of a claim as true. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It's my belief that the thief is somebody known to us. Example: The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water. 2. Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My belief is that there is a bear in the woods. Bill said he saw one. Example: Based on this data, it is our belief that X does not occur. 3. Something believed. Labels: countable Example: The ancient people have a belief in many deities. 4. The quality or state of believing. Labels: uncountable Example: My belief that it will rain tomorrow is strong. 5. Religious faith. Labels: uncountable Example: She often said it was her belief that carried her through the hard times. 6. One's religious or moral convictions. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: I can't do that. It's against my beliefs. Example: The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management. […] Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employers from discriminating based on religion. They are required to make reasonable accommodations for their employees’ religious practices and beliefs unless it would be an “undue hardship” to do so.
Word: circle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin circulus Old French cerclebor. Middle English circle English circle From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ċircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source. By surface analysis, Latin circ(us) + -(u)le. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜɹkəl/, /ˈsɜːkəl/, /ˈsɪɹkəl/ 1. To travel around along a curved path. Labels: transitive Example: The wolves circled the herd of deer. Example: Other planets circle other suns. 2. To surround. Labels: transitive Example: A high fence circles the enclosure. Example: Their heads are circled with a short turban. 3. To place or mark a circle around. Labels: transitive Example: Circle the jobs that you are interested in applying for. 4. To travel in circles. Labels: intransitive Example: Vultures circled overhead. 5. To take part in a magic circle. Labels: intransitive Example: I circled with that group for three years. 6. To participate in a game of circling.
Word: camera Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): An ellipsis of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room. Pronunciation: /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/, /ˈkaməɹə/, /ˈkamɹə/, /ˈkaməɾə/ 1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs. Example: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement. Example: Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets. And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities. 2. The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation. Example: If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process. Example: I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before. 3. A vaulted room. 4. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Word: cheese Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċīese, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/ 1. To prepare curds for making cheese. 2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. 3. To smile excessively, as for a camera. Labels: slang Example: Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off Example: It's been a long time since you fell in love / You ain't coming out your shell, you ain't really been yourself / Tell me, what must I do? (Do tell, my love) / 'Cause luckily I'm good at reading / I wouldn't bug him, but he won't stop cheesin'
Word: cheese Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of cheers. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/ 1. Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. Example: Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
Word: cheese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards". Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/ 1. Wealth, fame, excellence, importance. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket. Labels: British, India, dated, slang, uncountable Example: These cheroots are the real cheese.
Word: cheese Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/ 1. To stop; to refrain from. Labels: slang Example: Cheese it! The cops! Example: Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up) 2. To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". Labels: slang Example: All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
Word: cheese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cheesy. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/ 1. The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic. Labels: uncountable
Word: cheese Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cheesy. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/ 1. To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.) Labels: Internet, ambitransitive Example: You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits. Example: The term cheesing is also pretty common. However, at least originally, ticking had a more specific meaning, ie hitting someone and then throwing after they block, whereas cheesing would be anything "cheap", and thereore depended on the user [...] 2. To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games). Labels: slang
Word: bright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The adjective is from Middle English bright, from Old English berht, beorht, bryht, byrht, from Proto-West Germanic *berht, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (“bright”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam, shine, whiten”). The noun is derived from Middle English bright (“brightness, brilliance; daylight; light”), from bright (adjective): see above. Cognates Cognate with Scots bricht (“bright”), Danish bjært (“bright”), Faroese and Icelandic bjartur (“bright”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjart (“bright”), Swedish bjärt (“bright”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 (bairhts, “bright, clear; evident”); also Welsh berth (“beautiful, fair, fine”), Albanian bardhë (“white”), Lithuanian brėkšti (“to dawn”), Polish brzeżdżyć (“to dawn”), Russian бре́зжить (brézžitʹ, “to dawn”), Persian برازیدن (barâzidan, “to beautify; to befit”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪ̯t/, [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯t], /ˈbɹɐɪ̯t/, [ˈbɹʷɐɪ̯t], /ˈbɹʌɪ̯t/ 1. Brightness, glow. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Thee Father firſt they ſung Omnipotent, / […] when thou ſhad'ſt / The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud / Drawn round about thee like a radiant Shrine, / Dark with exceſſive bright thy ſkirts appeer, / Yet dazle Heav'n, […] 2. Glory, splendour. Labels: archaic, figuratively, literary 3. Something (especially a product intended for sale) that has vivid colours or a lustrous appearance. Labels: in-plural 4. A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements. Example: Brights constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are brights. Example: Many of us brights have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory. But not I. 5. An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
Word: bright Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English brighte (“brightly; (figuratively) brilliantly, lustrously; of colour: boldly, vividly; clearly, distinctly; of voice: loudly”) [and other forms], from Old English breohte, beorhte (West Saxon) [and other forms], ultimately from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (“bright, shining”); see further at etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪ̯t/, [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯t], /ˈbɹɐɪ̯t/, [ˈbɹʷɐɪ̯t], /ˈbɹʌɪ̯t/ 1. In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously. Labels: literary, often 2. Referring to colour: with bold or vivid colours; brightly, boldly, vividly. Labels: figuratively 3. Referring to sight, sound, understanding, etc.: clearly, distinctly; brightly. Labels: archaic, figuratively
Word: bright Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English brighten (“to illuminate; to become light, dawn; (figuratively) to cleanse, purify; to clarify, explain”) [and other forms], from Old English beorhtian (“to brighten, shine; to sound clearly or loudly”) [and other forms], probably from beorht (“bright, clear”, adjective) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns). Later uses of the word are probably also derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪ̯t/, [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯t], /ˈbɹɐɪ̯t/, [ˈbɹʷɐɪ̯t], /ˈbɹʌɪ̯t/ 1. Often followed by up: to cast light on (someone or something); to brighten, to illuminate. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 2. Often followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to make (someone or something) energetic, or happy and optimistic. Labels: UK, dialectal, figuratively, transitive Example: Toward Mid-day he [the Sun] brighteth the Air into a chearful Saphir, and guildeth the Borders of the very Clouds with a coſtly limbus. 3. Often followed by up: to become bright (in various senses); to brighten. Labels: UK, also, dialectal, figuratively, intransitive Example: Day brighteth at the smile o' her and yea, He hath aplanted full o' seed for harvesting by thy loving.
Word: business Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *bisīg Old English bisiġ Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną 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 Old English bisiġnes Middle English bisynes English business From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness. Sense 17 (something very good, top quality), possibly derives from "the bee's knees" Pronunciation: /ˈbɪz.nɪs/, /ˈbɪz.nɪz/, /ˈbɪz.nəs/, /ˈbɪz.nəz/, /ˈbɪd.nɪs/ 1. Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes. Example: Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone. Example: They are solely business instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use. 2. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice. Example: He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner. Example: […] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner. 3. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business. Example: Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works. Example: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
Word: attention Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin attendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attentiōbor. Middle English attencioun English attention From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion. Pronunciation: /əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/ 1. Mental focus. Labels: uncountable Example: Please direct your attention to the following words. Example: Most of the pictures of common life that we meet with in books are drawn in the shape of novels, with the view of attracting the attention of indolent readers; the question with authors being, not of what can I inform my neighbour by which he may be improved in head or heart, mind or morals? but what is the fashion of public taste? that by pandering to it I may secure sale and applause! Hence the present jumble of brains, the rack of invention to excite, supply, and cram the public appetite, all so agape after tales of the marvellous, till the picture of life is overwrought, and the image of nature bedaubed to disgust. 2. An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest. Labels: countable Example: She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper. Example: For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady. 3. A state of alertness in the standing position. Labels: uncountable Example: The company will now come to attention. 4. A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output. Labels: uncountable Example: The attention mechanism is an important part of these models and plays a very crucial role. Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.
Word: attention Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin attendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attentiōbor. Middle English attencioun English attention From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion. Pronunciation: /əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/ 1. Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position. 2. A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.
Word: bell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *bellǭ Proto-West Germanic *bellā Old English belle Middle English belle English bell Inherited from Middle English belle, from Old English belle, from Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel (“bell”), Dutch bel (“bell”), Low German Belle, Bel (“bell”), Danish bjælde (“bell”), Faroese bjølla (“bell”), Icelandic bjalla (“bell”), Norwegian bjelle (“bell”), Swedish bjällra (“bell”). Pronunciation: /bɛl/, /bel/ 1. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck. Example: HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! Example: The bell which called the pupils to their lessons can still be seen on the roof. 2. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence. 3. The sounding of a bell as a signal. Example: Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth. 4. A telephone call. Labels: UK, informal Example: I’ll give you a bell later. 5. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending. 6. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument. 7. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch) 8. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot. 9. The bell character. 10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower. Example: In a cowslip's bell I lie. 11. The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. 12. The rounded upper part of a jellyfish. 13. A bubble. Labels: Scotland, archaic Example: He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk. 14. Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”). Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, vulgar
Word: bell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *bellǭ Proto-West Germanic *bellā Old English belle Middle English belle English bell Inherited from Middle English belle, from Old English belle, from Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel (“bell”), Dutch bel (“bell”), Low German Belle, Bel (“bell”), Danish bjælde (“bell”), Faroese bjølla (“bell”), Icelandic bjalla (“bell”), Norwegian bjelle (“bell”), Swedish bjällra (“bell”). Pronunciation: /bɛl/, /bel/ 1. To attach a bell to. Labels: transitive Example: Who will bell the cat? 2. To shape so that it flares out like a bell. Labels: transitive Example: to bell a tube 3. To telephone. Labels: slang, transitive Example: "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile. 4. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom. Labels: intransitive Example: Hops bell. 5. To ring a bell. Example: So that the Euston signalman may be advised of approaching trains as soon as possible, the Camden signalman sets up and transmits the description of each train immediately after it is belled to him.
Word: bell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”). Pronunciation: /bɛl/, /bel/ 1. To bellow or roar. Labels: intransitive Example: This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...]. Example: As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again! 2. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth. Labels: transitive Example: Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.
Word: bell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to ring”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”). Pronunciation: /bɛl/, /bel/ 1. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
Word: card Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart. Pronunciation: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], /kaːd/ 1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. Labels: US, transitive Example: They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger. Example: I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store. 2. To play cards. Labels: dated Example: For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund. 3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card. Labels: transitive Example: McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.
Word: card Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Pronunciation: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], /kaːd/ 1. Material with embedded short wire bristles. Labels: dated, uncountable 2. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 3. A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: card Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more. Pronunciation: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], /kaːd/ 1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning. Example: "Isn't that true, Bertha? " asked the smith. "Yes, every word of it, my lad," said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth carding. 2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture. 3. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding. Labels: transitive Example: to card a horse Example: the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders 4. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things. 5. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong
Word: card Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], /kaːd/ 1. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: card Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], /kaːd/ 1. Obsolete form of chard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: comparison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/, /kəmˈpɛɹ.ɪ.sən/, /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.ʃən/, /kəmˈpɛɹ.ə.sən/ 1. The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to bring a thing into comparison with another Example: there is no comparison between them 2. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything. Example: As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them. 3. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago. 4. A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest". 5. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it? 6. A simile. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 7. The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: conscious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, /ˈkɒn.ʃəs/, /ˈkɒntʃəs/ 1. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. Example: The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious. 2. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness. Example: The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. Example: Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious. 3. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about. Example: I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis Example: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. 4. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing. Example: He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind. Example: Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person. 5. Known or felt personally, internally by a person. Example: conscious guilt 6. Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty. Labels: rare Example: He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, “Yes; it is my sister’s hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know.” Elinor had met his eye, and looked conscious likewise.. Example: They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.
Word: conscious Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, /ˈkɒn.ʃəs/, /ˈkɒntʃəs/ 1. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
Word: crime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen. Pronunciation: /kɹaɪm/ 1. A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law. Labels: countable Example: the commission of a crime Example: The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found. 2. Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. Labels: countable Example: Those methods of saving money should be a crime. Example: No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. 3. That which occasions crime. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall 4. Criminal acts collectively. Labels: uncountable Example: an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city Example: The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics. 5. The habit or practice of committing crimes. Labels: uncountable Example: Crime doesn’t pay.