nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: -logy Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy The English -logy suffix originates with loanwords from the Greek, usually via Latin and French, where the suffix -λογία (-logía) is an integral part of the word loaned. E.g. astrology from astrologia, since the 16th century. The French -logie is a continuation of Latin -logia, ultimately from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). Within Greek, the suffix is an -ία (-ía) abstract from λόγος (lógos, “account, explanation, narrative”), itself a verbal noun from λέγω (légō, “to say, speak, converse, tell a story”). Within English, the suffix becomes productive, especially to form names of sciences or departments of study, analogous to names of disciplines loaned from the Latin, such as astrology from astrologia or geology from geologia. Original compositions of terms with no precedent in Greek or Latin become common beginning in the later 18th century, sometimes imitating French or German templates (e.g. insectology, attested 1766, after French insectologie; terminology, attested 1801, after German Terminologie). In a third stage, from the 19th century, the suffix becomes productive enough to form nonce combinations with English terms with no Greek or Latin origin, such as undergroundology (1820), hatology (1837). Finally, from the second half of the 19th century, the suffix has also been used as a simplex as ology (plural ologies) and logy (plural logies), in parallel with and often alongside ism (plural isms). Pronunciation: /-lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. A branch of learning; a study of a particular subject. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually Example: Examples: biology, geology, genealogy 2. Speech, or a way of speaking, a narrative, logical discourse. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually Example: Examples: haplology, eulogy, trilogy, apology
Word: tractor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæktə/, /ˈtɹæktɚ/ 1. A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields. 2. A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging. 3. A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer. Labels: US 4. Any piece of machinery that pulls something. 5. An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage. 6. A British Rail Class 37 locomotive. Labels: UK Example: On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years. Example: With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor. 7. A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism. Labels: archaic
Word: tractor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæktə/, /ˈtɹæktɚ/ 1. To prepare (land) with a tractor. Labels: transitive 2. To drive a tractor. Labels: intransitive 3. To move with a tractor beam. Labels: transitive 4. To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: canal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al. Pronunciation: /kəˈnæl/, /kəˈnal/, /kəˈnɛl/, /kəˈnɔːl/ 1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. 2. A tubular channel within the body or within a plant. Example: The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception. 3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
Word: canal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al. Pronunciation: /kəˈnæl/, /kəˈnal/, /kəˈnɛl/, /kəˈnɔːl/ 1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage Example: In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded. 2. To travel along a canal by boat Example: Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.
Word: conductor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor. Pronunciation: /kənˈdʌktɚ/ 1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director. Example: […]Zeal, the blind conductor of the will; 2. A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting. 3. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers. Example: train conductor Example: tram conductor 4. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound. Example: Falling conductors may come in contact with grounded objects or puddles of water. Example: The failure of HIF detection leads to potential hazard to human beings and potential fire. HIFS are usually caused by falling conductors coming into contact with a surface having poor conductivity. 5. An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed Example: If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings. 6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director. 7. A leader.
Word: ology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the suffix -ology in the names of many sciences. Pronunciation: /ˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒɪ/, /ˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy”. Labels: colloquial Example: Dr Ehrhart protested no country under the sun equalled Portugal for curiosities in mineralogy, theology, and wineology – which ology he was convinced was the best of them all. Example: You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds, from morning to night. If there is an Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags...
Word: morphology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Morphologie. By surface analysis, morpho- + -logy. Pronunciation: /mɔːˈfɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/, /mɔɹˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /moːˈfɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/ 1. A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are many ways to show that word structure is different from phrase and sentence structure. We will mention two here. First, free constituent order in syntax is common cross-linguistically; many languages lack fixed order of the kind that one finds in English. In morphology, on the other hand, order is always fixed. There is no such thing as free morpheme order. Even languages with wildly free word order, such as the Pama-Nyungan (Australian) language Warlpiri (Simpson 1991), have a fixed order of morphemes within the word. Second, syntactic and morphological patterns can differ within the same language. For example, note the difference in English in the positioning of head and complement between syntax and morphology. Example: There are essentially two criteria: (1) adaptability to the derivational structures of the morphology and (2) consideration for what cognitive psychologists and cognitive linguists call “base-level categorization.” 2. A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The form and structure of something. Labels: countable 6. A description of the form and structure of something. Labels: countable
Word: trite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin trītus (“worn out”), perfect passive participle of terō (“to wear away, wear out”). Pronunciation: /tɹaɪt/, [tɹʌɪt], /tɹɑet/, [tɹɑe̯t] 1. used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed. Labels: often Example: It is a trite saying in a young country that anyone starting out in life with the determination to become wealthy will have his wish gratified. Example: It is trite history – and trite law – to say that the law of the sea since that time [World War II] reflects a history of coastal State expansion. 2. So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law. Example: It is trite to say that the mere fact that a decision does not favour the applicant or that the applicant disagrees with the decision does not establish that the decision is tainted with bias.
Word: trite Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹaɪt/, [tɹʌɪt], /tɹɑet/, [tɹɑe̯t] 1. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
Word: trite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin tritē, from Ancient Greek τρίτη (trítē, literally “third [string]”). Pronunciation: /tɹaɪt/, [tɹʌɪt], /tɹɑet/, [tɹɑe̯t] 1. In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lower-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the paranete and higher than the paramese.
Word: legal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal. Pronunciation: /ˈliː.ɡəl/, /ˈli.ɡəl/ 1. Relating to the law or to lawyers. Example: legal profession 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. 2. Having its basis in the law. Example: legal precedent 3. Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law. Example: legal motion Example: In South Africa, it’s still legal to “trophy hunt” the white rhino, which [Anna] Merz and others find reprehensible. 4. Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language. Example: If you have no legal move, but are not in check the game is a draw. Example: Programming languages are designed so that each legal program has exactly one meaning 5. Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age. Labels: offensive, slang, sometimes Example: "Is she even legal? Shame on you, diddlin' a girl too young to buy beer. You being a church deacon and all." If looks could kill, Dale would be dead. Example: "Is she even legal? She looks like a minor." Elias whispers back, "Of course. I checked her passport. She's 20. What do you take me for? Be nice. I like her." I immediately smile at the girl behind Elias,[…] 6. Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful. Labels: US, colloquial Example: Whether you're interested in opening a retail marijuana store in a legal state or if you're interested in investing in someone or a company, which is operating in a legal state, there are[…] Example: [Because] marijuana is still a federally illegal drug, using the drug in a child's presence, even in a legal state, could thus be construed as child abuse.
Word: legal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal. Pronunciation: /ˈliː.ɡəl/, /ˈli.ɡəl/ 1. The legal department of a company or organization. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Legal wants this in writing. 2. A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc. Labels: countable 3. One who immigrated lawfully. Labels: US, countable, informal 4. Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm). Labels: Canada, US, uncountable 5. Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 13 inches (216 × 330 mm). Labels: Philippines, countable, uncountable
Word: legible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin legibilis (“that can be read”), from Latin legō. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd͡ʒəbl/ 1. Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting. Example: Despite hardly having any energy to lift a pen, she left a legible note on the paper. 2. Written or phrased so as to be easy to understand. Example: You can make this program code more legible by using meaningful variable names.
Word: lingo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡəʊ̯/, /ˈlɪŋ.ɡoʊ̯/ 1. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: [...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas. Example: "You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks. 2. An Aboriginal language. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The huntsman spoke Davey’s lingo. Example: Granny Ava was the link: the last heathen of the family to speak the lingo fluently, before the Church waltzed in and jammed the Lord's Prayer in Granny Ruth's twelve-year-old mouth instead.
Word: reactor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English react Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English reactor From react + -or. Pronunciation: /ɹiˈæktɚ/, /ɹiːˈæktə/ 1. A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence. Example: Altman seees his characters as total reactors; everything they do and say is in response to their environment. They do not seem to exist with lives or qualities of their own. Example: Here, humans are seen as active participants in all dimensions of their lives, throughout their life course, and not simply passive reactors to the world around them. 2. A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions. 3. A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat. Example: It limits the rights of nonweapon countries to develop an export business in civilian reactor technology. Example: It is hoped that a competition to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) will drive billions of pounds of investment into the technology, which the government hopes will be cheaper and quicker to build than traditional large nuclear power plants. 4. A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance. 5. An electrical component with reactance
Word: criminal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/, /ˈkɹɪm.ə.nəl/ 1. Against the law; forbidden by law. Example: Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. 2. Guilty of breaking the law. Example: The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. 3. Of or relating to crime or penal law. Example: His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man. Example: The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject […] in some cases, were liable to criminal process. 4. Abhorrent or very undesirable. Labels: figuratively Example: Printing such asinine opinions is criminal! Example: [...] I think it represents exceptional value for money and I think it would be criminal not to go ahead and build it."
Word: criminal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/, /ˈkɹɪm.ə.nəl/ 1. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law. Example: ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
Word: actor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin āctus Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin āctorbor. Middle English actour English actor Inherited from Middle English actour, from Anglo-Norman actor, Middle French actor, and their source, Latin āctor (“doer”), from agō (“to do”). Equivalent to act + -or. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ (áktōr, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “lead, carry, convey, bring”). Pronunciation: /ˈæk.təː/, [ˈæk.tʰəː], /ˈæk.tɚ/, [ˈæk.tʰɚ] ~ [ˈæk.tʰɹ̩] 1. Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant. Labels: obsolete 2. Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian. Labels: obsolete 3. Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent. Example: A man may be principal in an offence in two degrees. A principal, in the first degree, is he that is the actor, or absolute perpetrator of the crime; and, in the second degree, he who is present, aiding, and abetting the fact to be done. Example: Never, my dear Bethel, did the most feverish dreams of fiction produce scenes more painful, or more terrific, than the real events to which I have been an actor, since the date of my last letter. 4. A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. Example: Seems like everyone's an actor / Or they're an actor's best friend / I wonder what was wrong to begin with / That they should all have to pretend Example: Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.” 5. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Labels: Ancient-Rome, obsolete 6. The subject performing the action of a verb. 7. The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
Word: factor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.təː/, [ˈfæk.tʰəː], /ˈfæk.tɚ/, [ˈfæk.tʰɚ] ~ [ˈfæk.tʰɹ̩] 1. A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. Labels: obsolete Example: The factor of the trading post bought the furs. 2. An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee. Example: My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Example: And let such as will number the Kings of Castile and Portugall amongst the warlike and magnanimous conquerors, seeke for some other adherent then my selfe, forsomuch as twelve hundred leagues from their idle residence they have made themselves masters of both Indias, onely by the conduct and direction of their factors, of whom it would be knowne whether they durst but goe and enjoy them in person. 3. A commission agent. 4. A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business. 5. A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable. 6. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result. Example: The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation. Example: The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures. 7. Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. Example: 3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6. Example: The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2. 8. Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. Example: The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster. Example: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies. 9. A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production. Example: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled. 10. A steward or bailiff of an estate. Labels: Scotland Example: the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain
Word: factor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.təː/, [ˈfæk.tʰəː], /ˈfæk.tɚ/, [ˈfæk.tʰɚ] ~ [ˈfæk.tʰɹ̩] 1. To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly). Labels: transitive 2. To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors. Labels: transitive 3. To be a product of other objects. Labels: intransitive 4. To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect. Labels: transitive
Word: cable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ.bəl/ 1. A long object used to make a physical connection. Labels: material 2. A long object used to make a physical connection. Labels: material 3. A long object used to make a physical connection. Labels: material 4. A long object used to make a physical connection. Labels: material Example: “And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea. 5. A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. Example: I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out. Example: If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry. 6. A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 7. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable. 8. A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile. 9. 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m. 10. The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar. 11. A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope. 12. A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
Word: cable Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ.bəl/ 1. To provide (something) with cable(s). Labels: transitive 2. To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s). Labels: transitive 3. To wrap (wires) to form a cable. Labels: transitive 4. To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable. Labels: transitive Example: Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world. Example: On 8th November Anthony cabled them, ‘Your great-grandson Randal Lewis Casson arrived to-day. Both well,’ and we sent, ‘Congratulations on becoming great-grandparents.’ 5. To communicate by cable. Labels: intransitive 6. To ornament (something) with cabling. Labels: transitive 7. To create cable stitches. Labels: intransitive Example: You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
Word: funeral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437. Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”). Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.nə.ɹəl/, /ˈfjuːn.ɹəl/, /ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/, [fjɪu̯.nɚəl] 1. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased. Example: Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage. Example: The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF Mʳⁱˢ ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire.[…]TO THE Exemplarily Vertuous Gentle-woman, his much honoured friend, Mʳˢ ANNE CHILD, Eldeſt daughter of THOMAS CHILD of Northwicke Eſquire. AS I mean not an exerciſe for your modeſty by a flattering Epiſtle, ſo neither doe I intend the renewing of your ſorrows, by preſenting you with the plaine Sermon preach’t at the funerals of your bleſſed Mother. 2. A funeral sermon. Labels: dated, in-plural
Word: funeral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437. Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”). Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.nə.ɹəl/, /ˈfjuːn.ɹəl/, /ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/, [fjɪu̯.nɚəl] 1. Alternative spelling of funereal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, uncommon, usually Example: All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there. Example: Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.
Word: rhetoric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῥητορῐκή τέχνη (rhētorĭkḗ tékhnē)ellip. Ancient Greek ῥητορικὴ (rhētorikḕ)bor. Latin rhētoricabor. Old French rhetoriquebor. Middle English rhetorik, rhetoric English rhetoric Inherited from Middle English rhetorik, rhetoric, borrowed from Old French rhetorique, borrowed from Latin rhētorica, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητορικὴ (rhētorikḕ), ellipsis of ῥητορῐκή τέχνη (rhētorĭkḗ tékhnē). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtəɹɪk/, /ɹɪˈtɒɹɪk/ 1. The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known. Example: “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign. 2. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress. Labels: countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable Example: It’s only so much rhetoric.
Word: rhetoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek εἴρω (eírō) Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós)bor. Latin rhētoricusbor. Old French rhetoriquebor. Middle English rhetorik English rhetoric Inherited from Middle English rhetorik, borrowed from Old French rhetorique, borrowed from Latin rhētoricus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós), from ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr, “public speaker”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós). By surface analysis, rhetor + -ic. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɒɹɪk/ 1. Synonym of rhetorical.
Word: intermarriage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English marriage English intermarriage From inter- + marriage. 1. Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: During the 1960s, some Georgians opposed the intermarriage of blacks and whites. Example: Because whites are by far the nation’s largest racial group, marriage between whites and minorities were the most common type of intermarriage, even though the intermarriage rate for whites is relatively low compared to other races or ethnicities, the study said. The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.
Word: intertwine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English twine English intertwine From inter- + twine. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈtwaɪn/, /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/, [-ɾəɹ-] 1. To twine (things) together. Labels: transitive Example: You see, no doubt, that yet again, thanks to this intertwining, our many-headed sophist has forced us against our will to admit that what is not is in a way. 2. To connect (things) closely. Labels: transitive 3. To become twined together. Labels: intransitive 4. To become mutually involved. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Iris changes in PXF closely intertwine with lenticular findings.
Word: internal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, intern + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɜː.nəl/, /ɪnˈtɜɹ.nəl/, /ɪnˈʈəʳ.nəl/, /ˈɪn.ʈə.nəl/, [ɪɳ.ʈɜ(ː)(ɾ).nəl] 1. Of or situated on the inside. Example: We saw the internal compartments of the machine. 2. Of or situated on the inside. Example: Her bleeding was internal. 3. Of or situated on the inside. Example: The nation suffered from internal conflicts. Example: the minister of internal affairs 4. Of or situated on the inside. Example: An internal investigation was conducted. 5. Of or situated on the inside. Example: an internal stimulus 6. Of or situated on the inside. Example: an internal remedy 7. Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed. Example: internal feelings 8. Of the inner nature of a thing. 9. Attending a university as well as taking its examinations. Labels: UK
Word: rhetorical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English rethorycal, rethoricalle, rethorycall, from rethorik, rhetoric (noun) or Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speaking”). By surface analysis, rhetoric + -al. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/, /ɹəˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/, /ɹɪˈtɔɹɪkəl/, /ɹəˈtɔɹɪkəl/ 1. Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument. Labels: not-comparable Example: Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls. 3. Asked for dramatic or persuasive effect, rather than to get an answer. Labels: not-comparable Example: '"Are you an idiot? Actually, don't answer that, it was rhetorical."
Word: rhetorical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rethorycal, rethoricalle, rethorycall, from rethorik, rhetoric (noun) or Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speaking”). By surface analysis, rhetoric + -al. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/, /ɹəˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/, /ɹɪˈtɔɹɪkəl/, /ɹəˈtɔɹɪkəl/ 1. A study or exercise in rhetoric. Labels: dated
Word: interior Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin interior (“inner, interior”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/, /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/ 1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner. Labels: not-comparable Example: the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland. Labels: not-comparable Example: the interior parts of a region or country
Word: interior Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interior (“inner, interior”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/, /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/ 1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure. Example: The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid. 2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts. Example: Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland Example: Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior. 3. The set of all interior points of a set.
Word: exterior Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exterior. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/, /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/, /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/, /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/ 1. Relating to the outside parts or surface of something. Labels: not-comparable Example: the exterior part of a sphere Example: Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was. 2. Being from outside a country; foreign. Labels: not-comparable Example: the exterior relations of a state or kingdom 3. Outdoor. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exterior Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin exterior. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/, /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/, /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/, /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/ 1. The outside part, parts or surface of something. Example: The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package Example: Before dissecting a shark to see how it manages to function so effectively, let us first examine its exterior. 2. Foreign lands. Example: She is our new minister of the exterior 3. A recording taken outside to be used in film-making, often including establishing shots. Example: We'll get the last of the exteriors done tomorrow.
Word: explorer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin plōrō Latin explōrōder. Middle French explorerder. English explore Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English explorer From explore + -er. Pronunciation: /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/ 1. One who explores something Example: Sachs tries to remember how it felt not to walk around with this knot in his gut. He longs for his old lab in Connecticut, where the world was made of mathematics, energy, and atomic cascades, and he was its explorer. He has no business in these political orders of magnitude, where erroneous loyalties can get your brain spattered over hotel bedrooms. 2. A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information. Example: Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence. 3. Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry. 4. A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate. Example: For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.
Word: central Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der. Latin centrum Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin centrālisbor. English central Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l/, [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩], /ˈsɪntɹ(ə)l/, [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩] 1. Being in the centre. Example: Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised. Example: The plantoid[…]will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure. 2. Having or containing the centre of something. 3. Being very important, or key to something. Example: Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion. Example: Passengers crowd in the main concourse at London Euston on January 28 2017, before boarding West Coast Main Line services. The urgent need to relieve congestion and improve reliability on the WCML remains central in the recently published Full Business Case for HS2. 4. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs. 5. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure. 6. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
Word: central Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der. Latin centrum Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin centrālisbor. English central Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l/, [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩], /ˈsɪntɹ(ə)l/, [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩] 1. center Labels: US, especially
Word: comic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪk/, /ˈkɑmɪk/ 1. Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre. Example: comic genius Example: a comic stereotype 2. Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining. Example: There is a quartet of comic musicians, who perform on instruments of an inconceivable bassness […] 3. Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous. Example: As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it. 4. Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
Word: comic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪk/, /ˈkɑmɪk/ 1. A comedian. Example: She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30. 2. A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book. 3. A children's magazine. Labels: UK
Word: comical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English comicalle, from Latin cōmicus + Middle English -alle (modern -al). By surface analysis, comic + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪkəl/, /ˈkɑmɪkəl/ 1. Originally, relating to comedy. Labels: archaic Example: It was a comical performance. 2. Funny, whimsically amusing. Example: The tutor excelled in comical scoldings. 3. Laughable; ridiculous. Example: He's just put salt in his tea instead of sugar. What a comical error! Example: Mr. Sanders has scored some rhetorical points against Mrs. Clinton for her longstanding ties to Wall Street, but she has responded well, and it would be comical to watch any of the Republican candidates try to make that case, given that they are all virtually tied to, or actually part of, the business establishment.
Word: ablen Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ablet (freshwater fish) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ideal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French idéal, from Late Latin ideālis (“existing in idea”), by surface analysis, idea + -al, from Latin idea (“idea”); see idea. In mathematics, the noun ring theory sense was first introduced by German mathematician Richard Dedekind in his 1871 edition of a text on number theory. The concept was quickly expanded to ring theory and later generalised to order theory. The set theory and Lie theory senses can be regarded as applications of the order theory sense. Pronunciation: /aɪˈdɪəl/, /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ 1. Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea. 2. Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary. Example: The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors — Example: Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. 3. Optimal; being the best possibility. 4. Perfect, flawless, having no defects. Example: 1751 April 13, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, Number 112, reprinted in 1825, The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 1, Jones & Company, page 194, There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence; […] . 5. Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism. Example: the ideal theory or philosophy 6. Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included. Example: ideal point Example: An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.
Word: benzyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic لُبَان (lubān) Proto-Indo-European *yew- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *yéwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.? Proto-Austronesian *zawa Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.? Old Javanese jawa Old Javanese -i Old Javanese Jawi Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der. Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy) Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor. Catalan benjuíder. Middle French benjoinder. English benzoin English benzo- English benz- Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English benzyl From benz- + -yl. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛnzɪl/, /ˈbɛnzaɪl/ 1. The univalent radical C₆H₅-CH₂- related to toluene and benzoic acid Labels: especially, in-compounds
Word: bepaint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English paint English bepaint From be- + paint. 1. To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Labels: transitive Example: Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.
Word: inflection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/ 1. The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. Labels: uncountable Example: In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin. 2. The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. Labels: countable Example: The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages. 3. The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. Labels: countable Example: English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s. 4. The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. Labels: countable Example: Recite every inflection for each of these words. 5. A change in pitch or tone of voice. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A turning away from a straight course. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: inflection from the rules 8. Diffraction. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inflected Part of Speech: adj 1. Deviating from a straight line. 2. Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). 3. Having inflected word forms; fusional. Example: (An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.) 4. bent or curved inward or downward
Word: inflected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of inflect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”). Pronunciation: /spɛl/ 1. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. Example: He cast a spell to cure warts. 2. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. Example: under a spell Example: Skies are not so black / Mary took me back / Mary has broken your spell 3. Speech, discourse. Labels: obsolete